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Morris Community High School graduating senior Anja Huettemann was the winner of the 40 & 8 Voiture 1195 Nurse Scholarship Award.
She participated in band and choir and in both capacities performed at Veterans Day and Memorial Day services. Huettemann will attend St. Francis University in Joliet, pursuing a bachelor’s degree in nursing.
Her mother, Lisa, is a nurse at Morris Hospital. She was raised a Navy brat, her father retiring as a master chief after 31 years of service. Huettemann’s father, Steve, is a Morris police sergeant who served in the Army and as military police in Desert Storm. He is a member of Voiture 1195, the American Legion and VFW and is the bugler for the Morris Color Guard.
La Societe des 40 Hommes et 8 Chevaux (The Society of 40 Men and 8 Horses) was organized in 1920 by WWI veterans who rode the small, narrow gauge French rail cars that could transport 40 men or eight horses to the front lines. These veterans remembered the care and kindness of the nurses serving there. The Nurse Scholarship is one of the society’s primary programs.