Augustana Hospital School of Nursing - Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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9 I L-L.'lTH4IILfQ5!Q 5555! 3rd, WE give and bequeath to our best beloved and cherished sister, '26, all the wealth of love and blessing she may, want. She seems able to get everything else unaided. May our mantle fall on her shoulders. -We will waste no time on one so capable of providing for herself. 4th, WE give to the Class of '27, the following advice, accepting which, will lead them to glory: Copy '25'. Learn to work if not to Win. Development comes sooner thru bearing failures than successes. It isn't fun, but still, look at '25 and be encouraged. Sth. The subjoined list will be recognized as entailed estates to which we do declare the Class of '26 the real and rightful successors: 1. The Senior seats in chapel, to which as Juniors '26 has not been unknown. May you be as fond of the front row next year as you have this. 2. The privilege of carrying on the Senior activities with their consequent hard work, worry and ultimate glory is now yours. 3. Senior privileges, too well understood to be detailed. 4. Senior dignity is always handed over to the new made Seniors. We are afraid this will be a strain upon the nerves and muscles of the gay and debonair Juniors, but ALL hope they will rise to the occasion as they sometime can. 5. Last-comes the one thing hard for us to part with, to our successors we must leave our course in SENIOR ETHICS-and let us say, ETHICS is a study where you learn that lots of things that you once knew, are not so. Our notebooks are packed, or we could tell you many interesting facts about moral law-the conf sensus of our moral nature and conscience, that makes cowards of us all when we are quizzed about it. But we must not tell you all we learned from the course in the next five minutes. We will leave it a sealed book until next year. If '26 gains half the pront and inspiration we have found in the class-room with Miss Ehman, this will be their most precious possession, as it has been ours, therefore, the one we are most loath to leave. SPECIAL LEGACIES Illivessie Kubec, will my ability to settle any argument to Eleanor Berg. I--Irene Friskopp, will to Dagmar Mathisoia, all my superfluous ambitions. I--Muriel Hanson, bequeath my youthful enthusiasm to Norma Peterson, and Ruth Stohl. I-Ethel Jones, will to Della Hanson, my power to be a regular League of Nations or Peace Treaty all in one. WE-Eva, Naomi and Kathryn Nelson, bequeath to Gladys and Edith Nelson, the responsibility of upholding the family name. I-Lula Alberts, will to Elizabeth Algominowicz, the privilege of occupying my chair in the classfroom, and to Alice Holtan, my industrious nature. I-Dorothy Hanway, give to Wanda Mead, and Ma1'ie Erickson, my ability to keep a straight face and eyes to the front when everyone else is convulsed with laughter. I-lHelen Kolstad, bequeath to Gladys Anderson, and Lila Winquist, my position in the Jenny Lind Chorus. Page forty-two

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LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT CF '25 Superintendent, Supervisor and Classmates: '25 about to die, salutes you. Contrary to the custom in such cases, and loath as are all members of our conf servative profession to establish precedents, only by request have we called you together, to hear our Will and receive our gifts. We dread to tell you, but be calm: Here is our secret. Guard it well. A consultation of doctors, never known to fail in their prognostications, have announced that on Thursday, April 30th, '25 must die- Had We known what a commotion you would raise, and how badly you would feel, the President himself could not have dragged this secret from us. We wish to state that, owing to a lightness in the head, caused by its gradual swelling during the last three years, and a heaviness in the heart and other organs caused by thots of parting and overffeasting respectively, we may have been mis' taken in our inventory, but such as we think we have, we give to you, praying that you may not believe that it is only because we cannot keep our goods that we are so generous. THE WILL We the Class of '25 being about to leave this sphere, in full possession of a sound mind, memory and understanding, do make and publish this, our last will and testament, hereby revoking and making void all former wills by us at anytime here' tufore made. And first, we do direct that our services shall be conducted by our friends and wellfwishers the Faculty, only enjoining that they be carried on with all the dignity and pomp, our situation in the Training School has merited. And to such estate as it has pleased the fates and our own strong arms to give us, we do dispose of the same as follows, viz: lst. WE give and bequeath to Miss Ehman, restful nights and peaceful dreams. YVe promise her a rest from '25's petitions. No more will we be called upon to supplicate. No more will she be pained to refuse. It has been hard to have our fondest wishes denied. It must have been hard for her to refuse such fair pleaders. She has done her duty tho, and has her reward, but OH! how much easier it would have been for her and for us, if she had said YES-especially when we wanted to invite our beaux to Senior Parties. 2nd. WE give and bequeath to the JENNY LIND CHORUS as a whole, the two songs entitled: MY TASK and FAREWELL. These songs to become the pos' session of the chorus, on condition, that she hold them as a nucleus to which each year shall be added others, until she has a collection to be proud of. May Alma Mater be the theme of far better songs in the future. Page forty one Til-UEQQQQ 5555!

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-... - . . . 'TMEQQQQ 5553, N I?Gunhild Crown, will my tranquil nature to Elna Johnson. I--Eleanor Wivagg, bequeath my ability to HLAFF IT OFF to Esther Eckstrom, and Evelyn Peterson. I--Signe Swanson, leave my artistic ability to Gaynelle Hudson. I-Edna Kittleson, leave my executive ability to Clara Megahan. I-Wilmina Moran, will the arduous duties of a class President to Kathryn Johnson. llEdna Larson, will my ability to execute all orders in the least possible time without any gnashing of teeth or nails, to Marie Jacobson, and Marie Jahn. I-Lillie Olson, leave to Luella Cmark, and Florence Beck, the hours that I dream away thinking of when I will be a full fledged R. N. l-Lillian Radzom, leave to Ruth Hanson, and Ellen Gunderson, my wonderful head of curls, and the envy it always creates in all who behold them. I-Evangeline Isaacson, bequeath my business ability and cultivated voice to Ellen Latunen, and Lulu Kennedy. I-Grace Cooper, will to Margaret Chapin, the task of keeping our letterfbox filled by faithfully answering her correspondence. VJE-Harriet Carter, and Alma Rothkath, bequeath to Bertha Walstrom, and Flor' ence Strom, the privilege of answering second floor phone. I-Olga Carlson, will to Eda Ringstrom, my solemn dignity. I--Esther Hooglund, bequeath my exuberant spirits and abounding energy to Edith Carlson and Mildred Peterson. llMatilda Westbe1'g, leave my love of exercise, swims, and long walks thru the park to Katherine Potteiger, and Nora Smith. I--Catherine Jensen, will my studious nature and consequent good grades to Carrie Twitchell. I--Sophie Lund, will my ability to trip the light fantastic so gracefully, that an offer has yet to come from Zieg6eld's Follies, to Velma Ross, and Minnie Jensen. .lEHazel Cttoson, will to Florence Burk, the privilege of going home on hours o uty. Besides these enforced gifts we leave, not of necessity, but of our own free will, our blessing and a pledge of loyalty from henceforth. A11 the rest and residue of our property whatfsofever and wherefsofever, of what nature, kind and quality sofever it may be and not herefin before disposed of, fafter paying our debtsj we give and bequeath to our Superintendent and Supervisors for their use and benefit absolutely. If they see fit, they may use the knowledge and startling information we have given them at whatfsofever times we may have written quizzes and exams, in the education of our younger sisters. This latter matter however is entirely at their discretion. AND we do hereby constitute and appoint the said Superintendent and Super' visors, sole executrices of this, our last will and testament. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, VJE, the Class of '25, the testators, have to this our WILL, written on one sheet of parchment, set our HAND and SEAL, this 16th day of March, A. D., Nineteen Hundred and Twenty-Five. Page forty ill: ec' El'