Medical College of Virginia - X Ray Yearbook (Richmond, VA)

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Senior Class m Niarsiing Officers EsTELLE McNaughtox President QuEENiE Jones J ' ice-President Blan ' che Stephenson Sccrrtary-Trcasurcr Margaret Anderson Honor Council Hattie Hopkins Honor Council Mary Bolling Honor Council Dorothy Grum .... S ' nill and Bones Represrniativc JuLE Sinclair Historian HISTORY State: Virginia Date: November 19, 1930 Toii-ns iip: Richmond Last IFitl and Testament: We, the Senior students of the Nursing School of the Medical College of ' irgini a, of wide renown for our scintillating wit, brilliant intellect and ribald laughter, who are now on the verge of emerging from our protective shell to bestow forever to suffering humanity that art and aid, the practice of nursing, in whose cause we have been harbored for three eventful years. Section I .Article I. To our Alma Mater we do leave our love and gratitude for the protection and knowledge we have gained from her. Article 2. To the faculty we bequeath our puzzled and astonished physiognomies and the echoes of the verbal utterances and the actual compution of the editions of wit and skill that have issued out of the mouths of babes. Section II Article I. To the Class of ' 33 we leave the care of Cabaniss Hall, that masterpiece of protective architecture which was first invaded and defaced by us. And to the members of the willing servile race we leave the mopping of the debris which we cast behind us, e. i., certain black cotton hose, one anatomy book and a copy of Drugs and Solutions, well worn. Section III Article I. To the general public we leave our good will and co-operation that the Daugh- ters of Aescalapius be not without representation in the courts of the Great Phvsician. For of what we sought we have found a part and what we found we give unto their service. Section IV Article I. And to those who may join our ranks hereafter we leave council and a brief record of our life. We staggered into the clinician folds early one September morn with Miss Geraldine Mew as shepherdess and we are told that the curses and misgivings of our potential instructors made the welkin ring. But e ' er a year had passed we entered into the custody of Miss Dorothy Sutton, from whom we learned much of wariness and economy and actual nursing. In our senior year we have grown more intimate with and learned to love our dean. Miss Helen Zeigler, who entered with us as freshmen and has upheld our interests lovallv. We ask that you carry on with gratitude the nature of our fearless hearts as we looked with reverence at Dr. LaRoque ' s spectacles over an open abdomen, or at Bill Porter ' s stethescope, or at the ring on Dr. Ware ' s right hand. Section V Article I. To the Senior Classes in Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmacy, our co-sufferers in hardship and disappointment and our brothers in success and realization, we do will cur sincere wishes for a most prosperous future. To others who may follow in our stead we leave the isolated loneliness of the epidemic mumps which laid low many of our members, and many of those who offered pickles to the afflicted. And may we council them that with all its virtues, the practice of initiating freshmen nurses is an unhealthy and unwise habit of which they had better steer clear. In witness whereof we set our sign and seal, this the 19th day of November, nineteen hundred and thirty. (Signed) J. Sinclair, Scribe. Ill

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