Calgary General Hospital - In Cap and Uniform Yearbook (Calgary, Alberta Canada)

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And These Memories We Wish To Keep • • • Do you remember our initiation? or CAN you forget . . . A SONNET TO THE PROS We would like all the Probies to meet Please come in pyjamas so neat. Next Monday the 24th that’s the date We’ll be seeing you all sharp at eight. Our own B Block Lounge is the place Bring a cup—and a blind fold in case?? Custom demands you be there With no curlers but curls in your hair. We assure you there’ll be lots of fun You’ll be fed and kept on the run. Now this is the end of our ditty. Come now—Don’t you think we are witty? (Signed) The Juniors. OUR ANNIVERSARIES: 1946— Hazel and Myrtle—our “Junior Jo’s ”. 1947— Sarah and Mary—our “Silent Part¬ ners aiding the witches boil the mem¬ ories of Year II.’’ 1948 Stopping the press for Graduation. Forty-two

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A DAY WITH A “PRO” At 6.00 o’clock the bell is rung We rise and shine and bustle! To breakfast then with wagging tongue” And then to wards we hustle! “Temps” and pans, baths and prep”, And stop some fierce infection. Is it dip”, or Staph”, or Strep”, And what kind of injection? Then to class and demonstration Who is next, we fear? “No, not that, the crescent basin Is what’s needed here!” Classes, dinner, classes, sleep— Ah, what pleasant slumber! Then at 4.00 work-wards we creep To trays of gruesome number!! Patients and the cleaning done Work at last is finished. Night staff on and rounds are run Day staff now diminished. Off we go and run around— How’s the street car doing? Some of us are homeward bound— Others bed-ward going! —R. Ragg. It Depends On The Point of View As a Probationer Oh, for a cap! Oh, for a bib! Oh, to know why there’s a floating rib! Oh, to be out of civilian clothes! Oh, for a uniform, if only a Pro ' s ” We’ve started our lectures, we’ve learned how to clean— We’re trying so very hard not to look green! And when we start ward work, the feeling we get In doing for others just small things, and yet It adds to their comfort; ingratitude’s rare— And the smile that rewards us, we’re glad we could spare That little lost moment, but a moment well spent For we re fully repaid for the joy that we lent. —R. Ragg. Forty-one

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Our Christmas: 1945— Dr. Wool Bloomers (on consultation of Dr. MacCatchit). GUARANTEED to cure: picturemania and luvuvjeans after ranchec- tomy. DIRECTIONS: Mi.x a small quantity of powder (not more than 1 10 11 scoop shovels) with enough liquid to make a smooth paste (not less than 33 2 drops). Place 1 3 of mixture on a laporotomy pad and poultice the small finger of right hand. Use 1 3 of remainder (which is 2 9 of original amount) as shampoo for the hair. (This should be done first in case the laparotomy pad should become wet). To the remainder add enough vanilla to make a liniment which is rubbed into the elbow and wrist joints. (This should be done before the shampoo that the arms may be supple and hence the hair well washed). This is to be done at bedtime—the poultice to be removed sharp at midnight, the liniment to be reapplied every 23 ' j mins, throughout the night. No curlers or bobby pins must be used in the hair before 7:27 next evening. ANTIDOTE: In case a baby, a child, an adolescent or an adult (that is a baby girl or a baby boy or a little boy or a little girl or a teen-age girl or a teen-age boy or a man or a woman) takes some of this internally by mistake (it is not supposed to be taken internally) give the following antidote immediately: Whiskers of three grizzly bears chopped finely and dissolved in the vitreous humour of ten fish eyes. Note: If there is none of the above antidote available in your nearest town—salt and water will do. —The Laffalot Drug Co.—Ponoka. 1946— Hazel’s hay fever. 1947— The balloon barrage. These are only extras but should bring back memories: - -leaving Laura on 3rd West -who could forget the horseback ride— —our invitation to the Colonel Belcher. —carolling three Xmas morns. —Alumnae Valentine party. —as Intermediates at 1947 Graduation. —the parade for the Cancer Drive. Forty-three