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

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Training School Office We, the Graduating Class of 1949, wish to express our thanks to the members of the Nursing School Office for their patience and guidance during our three years here. And to Miss Connal, whose outstanding ability and kindly interest led us so skillfully through our initial term, we wish to express our special thanks. To her we cannot express in words our deep appreciation.

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Admitting Office The first to see them enter— The last to see them go— They’re the people who admit them And discharge them you know. take this opportunity to say that— Although at times we grumble— And make a lot of fuss We really are grateful For all you do for us And when you phone us to report “The duplicates’’ we’ve forgotten to bring We may be hurried but we are sorry We necessitated the ring And when we bring a patient down We—just take him for the ride— It’s you who figure out the bill From columns broad and wide And maybe some day in the future When our span on earth is done And we approach the “Pearly Gates” We’ll find that you’re the ones St. Peter has chosen to calculate If he should or should not admit one.

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MEDICAL SUPERINTENDENT TO THE GRADUATING CLASS OF 1949— You are now members of a noble profession. A profession which has for its prime object “the service it can render humanity”. That service is further interpreted in your case as the maintenance of health and the post¬ ponement of death. It is the dedication of your knowledge, your powers, and your gifts to the services of others, rather than to the acquisition of material wealth. You must believe in the greatness of your profession, its dignity, its sta¬ bility, its real importance and its essential strength. I know you will reflect honour and credit to your profession and I hope you will derive from it the happiness that makes life worthwhile, and that you will be held in grateful remembrance by those whom you have served, and in respect and esteem by the Confrere’s with whom you have lived and worked. Sincerely, J. D. HEASLIP, M.D.