Allentown Nurses College - ANC Yearbook (Allentown, PA)

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fi Tie A QVC C5 ENITITIBEE in Entering 0115155 uf Nurses' 011111252 fDelivered September, 1921, by John Lear, A. B., A. M., M. D., Pathologist, at the opening of the college yearl I O conform to custom it is my peculiar privilege to greet the incoming class tonight, who are admitted for a course of training in the Allentown College of Nurses. I have been present before at formal openings of school and college, but the traditional barrel of sermons did not seem to contain any that was suitable for the occasion, so that I will endeavor to say something useful in language, without elegance or eloquence. In the name of the faculty, I greet you as juniors in the Allentown College of Nurses, and congratulate you that your preparation and other credentials have been found satisfactory for pursuing a professional course of training. Individually, each one should thank her parents for such an opportunity and, gratefully and with the utmost zeal for the next three years, make the most of every privilege, to improve and develop every faculty. Young ladies of the class of 1924, I don't propose to preach to you-I might be justified to moralize, but theexcercise of your innate sense of right and wrong and the precious esteem of father and mother, and a moral conscience, will control any wayward tendency that sometimes lurks in human nature. I hope that a few abstract thoughts may point a concrete lesson for your guidance. Having been matriculated as members of the Allentown College of Nurses, some responsibility rests on you to maintain and uphold the tradi- tions and ,the prestige of the College. The standard of the curriculum is approved and -endorsed by the Carnegie Foundation, and receives national recognition, and in addition the College is in aiiiliation with the Allentown Hospital. Every member of the faculty, every student, is bound and obligated by reason of this college association to do the utmost, not only to maintain this recognized prestige, but to add to it by conscientious and scientinc work, or at least not by any act or word, to blemish it. . Furthermore, the institution you enter has been the life work of an ideal, the evolution of an ideal that required sleepless nights and weary hours of anxiety to realize. For this, you, and I, and the rest of the faculty, can recompense the chief, Dr. C. D. Schaeffer, in a small degree by pledging 1 Page Eleven

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fieofqf C' EEP us, O Lord, from pettinehss: let us be large in thought, in word, 4 in deed. ' , . Let us be done with fault finding, and leave off self-seeking. May we put away all pretense and meet each other face to face- without self-pity. and without prejudice. May we never be hasty in judgment and always generous. L-et us take time for all things: make us to grow calm, serene, gentle. Teach us to put into action our better impulses, straightforward and unafraid. H a ' Grant that we may realize it is the little things that create differences: that in the big things of life we are at one. .And may we strive to to uch and to know the great, common woman's heart of us all, and O Lord God, let us forget not to be kind. MARY STUART. Page Ten

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fic, 04, WW C5 T d b tter work or endeavor to do constructive Work, and thus Ourselves to 0 e ' i ' ' t institution. Each one . th ansion of th1S gfea , C0'0Pera'te Wm? Ellie fain egljdidlen his heart by earnest devotion to your Of YOU Young a les ment day arrives, the Whole class, as at present studies, and When commeI1C6 constituted, must be there. eiiltl aiiliiziliarfszisiiieceiilitiriletzrilfgss Viehdorfer, your principal, can verify, and Eli? various fields of nursing activity have become so broad that each member of your class might easily adopt a different line of nursing. Today the relation of the nurse to the private Patient 15 ,Only 0116 phase of the work. The field has broadened .to such an extent that nursing has become a social and public function. Trained nurses are in the offices of physicians and dentists, in private and hospital duty, and in laboratories as techn1c1ans, fPersonally I prefer them as technicia.ns to all others.D Trained nurses are in the public schools, in public health Work Cnational and interna- tionalj, and inthe Red Cross service. They are also found in hospitals as superintendents, in the service stations and health centers of the large cities, in the Army and Navy, in Welfare work, in schools and colleges, and in industrial plants. Wherever conservation of health and constructive Work is required, there youuwill find a gradua.te nurse. he demand for nurses has become increasingly To meet these many phases of a nurse's work the college curricula have been advanced and standardized to the extent that they are equivalent of a one or two year medical course of former years. The requirements cannot be evaded and the intelligence of .the average candidate Welcomes the advanc-ed demands. The training of the nurse today is intellectual and, to a large degree, must exceed the practical. Some of the positions demand the highest type of an educated nurse, the highest culture and the most refined and charming personality which result from an education. Some Of You have already acquired various degrees of culture and refinement, but you have entered the training school to continue their d9V91fJD1T1e11f- IH th1S 1'-SSIJect, a few have a handicap-but it'-s the purpose of th1S faCU1'CY f0'present the subjects of the curriculum in such a manner that all ma c h - . . Y Ompre end and acquire both th th t l d h t ' most important, the cultural result of the stu e eore lea an , W a IS dy. Manual Workfintellectual Work d d' an iversions might be recognized as three phases of a nurse's training. The Ward is the laborator f chology of ethics, of all the theosrecticifrggal and medical nursing, of psy. . 0 ' . ere lt is all Work+scrubbin the of exhausting. The intellectu lc? day-S W.Ork,iS done' All this iS physically 3 wer S1011 IS given in this room. I believe the P096 Twelve l