Medical College Hospital School of Nursing - Cap and Candle Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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CAN YCDU IMAGINE Miss McCormick not having a kind word for everyone. Going to breakfast and not finding eggs. Maternity not owning an enema can. Finding a patient's bed in good condition in the A. M. Childrens' W'ard without colonic irrigations. Clinic without students. Maternity night nurse having enough safety pins. Miss Musselman ieing on time for a date. Miss Abbott not calling for mayoni ise. Miss McConnell not going to the shore. Miss Meals without earrings. Miss Milnor not being hungry. Niss Findler without a date. I' Liss Ahlstrom with bobbed hair. lXfiss Seif without a pencil in her hair. Miss VVeisman not taking a shower before breakfast. Miss Barton finding all the girls in their rooms at ten o'clock.. Fourth Hoor not being busy. Private floor without a nurses' infirmary. Childrens' NVard without Cod Liver Dil. Gperating Room without Catgut. A specially padded room for shaking down thermometers in case one drops. 50

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LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT E, the Graduating Class of 1931, being of sound minds at this To To tireless To To To time, do bequeath the following: the Training School, our loyalty. the Faculty, we extend our most sincere appreciation for its efforts in our behalf. Miss McCormick, we extend our deepest love and admiration. Miss Phinney, our heartfelt thanks for her teaching and guidance. Miss Barton, we extend our appreciation for her companinship. her ever ready and ever sought advice and counsel. To our Successors: VVe bequeath our dignity, fright of the operating room, our obedience to all rules, all the good things we have had, and hoping will be To they will be spared many sorrows, and that their three years happy and as fruitful as ours. the Juniors: Who long to be Seniors, we bequeath our co-oper- ation, respect for the Seniors, our technique in obstetrics, and remem- brance of the daily diet slip. To the Intermediate: Gur efficiency in giving medicines, etc. Prompt- ness in getting prescriptions filled, to keep wards and their equipage dustless. Our fear and dread of the first night duty and our desire to learn everything. To the Probies: Gur art in packing and unpacking trunks. Deter- mination to be a graduate nurse. We do also bequeath and give our personal possessions as follows: Miss Musselman leaves her ability to sleep in class to Miss Cay- ford. Miss Abbott's love for the operating room for Miss Bitner. Miss McConnell leaves her ability to mix barium enemas to Miss Dugan. Miss Meals leaves her permanent use of the vestibule to Betty Stiles. Miss Milner leaves her love for pickles to anyone who does not like them. Miss Findler leaves her passion for figuring out deabetic diets to Miss Ruble. Miss Ahlstrom leaves her ability to be unprofessional to Miss Roberts. Miss Seif leaves her numerous hair nets to Miss Bentley. Miss XVeisman leaves her love for Epsom Salts to Miss McNabb. VVC, the Graduating Class, having set hand and sealed the will in the year of Marvel Graduates, do gladly bequeath all within mentioned. VVitness . . ... . . This Day of 3 f THE SENIOR CLASS. 49

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WIT AND HUMCDR Superzfisor fo funior: Send a sterile specimen to the lab immediately. Junior: Yes, ma'am, do I boil it twenty or thirty minutes F Doctor fo probie while doing a dressing: May I have a probe ? Probie: Sorry doctor, but I am the only one on the floor. Probie to Senior: I wonder if a suppository tastes bad? Senior: XVhat made you think of that? They are not given by mouth. Probie: Heavens, the patient just swallowed it. A patient to nurse who just slicwed him: You should have been a barber, you did a very good job. Nurse: K'Thanks, that is the first job I have done.' Patient peacefully faints away. It takes a lot of patience Cpatientsj to run a hospital. Yes, remarked a young doctor to a colleague, the oper- ation was just in the nick of time. In another twenty-four hours the patient would have recovered without. Junior: Did you hear about Nicholas Longworth's death ? Senior: Oh! liVas he on your Hoor?', Patient: I rang and rang and rang, but no answer. NVell, I'll try again tomorrowf, Supervisor to Probie: VVill you please get a tray for Dr. Rodman ? Probie proceeds to call Diet Kitchen. jr? f+: Seifie. ' 1 i ' 2 be j 1-I -If K X ti .NN I , 51