Columbia University School of Nursing - Yearbook (New York, NY)

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WHAT CAN YOU SAY ABOUT A TWENTY-THREE YEAR OLD GUY WHO LIVED IN MAXWELL HALL? THAT HE WAS ONE OF OUR FIRST MALE NURSING STUDENTS. AND PRESIDENT OF THE STUDENT ASSOCIATION IN HIS SENIOR YEAR. THAT HE LOVED MOZART AND BACH. AND THE BEATLES. AND A RUBBER DUCK. RAY LAVANDERO PRESIDENT STUDENT ASSOCIATION

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PROCLAMATIONS FOUND IN YEARBOOKS TEND TO BE SO OVER-POSITIVE ONE WONDERS IF THE WRITER IS AWARE OF REALITY. BUT WHEN THE WRITER IS NEGATIVE, THE PRO- CLAMATIONS APPEAR AS HATE LETTERS. I WRITE W POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE. THESE CONSTITUTE REALITY FOR ME. IMPROBABLE DREAMS AND OTHER PIETUDES ARE RELE- VANT, BUT THEY ARE ENDS TO BE STRIVEN TOWARDS. WHILE STRIVING, AND THIS IS THE PROTRACTED PART OF THE PROCESS, A PERSON MUST ENCOUNTER REALITY. NURSING, AND COLUMBIA'S DEPARTMENT OF NURSING, ARE REALITY FOR ME. NURSING IS REPLETE WITH IDEALISM. YET, NO MATTER THE SETTING, THE NURSE'S CARE OF HU- MANS IS INESCAPABLE. THE DEPARTMENT IS ALSO REPLETE WITH IDEALISM. YET, THE STARKNESS OF REALITY ENCOUN- TERED IN THE DAILY DEALING WITH ITS MEMBERS IS IN- ESCAPABLE. PERHAPS THESE ARE NOT RECOGNIZED INSTRUCTIONAL METHODS OF THE DEPARTMENT'S EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM, BUT THROUGH ITS INTRICATE BUREAUCRACIES AND ANTICS, THROUGH ITS INABILITY OR UNWILLINGNESS TO RISK DARING MOVES ONWARD, THE DEPARTMENT TAUGHT ME OF NURSING. IT TAUGHT ME THAT NURSING IS NOW A VAST FIELD OF UNENDING OPPORTUNITIES. IT TAUGHT ME THAT NURSING IS ONLY FINDING OUT THAT IT DOES NOT KNOW WHAT IT IS. IT TAUGHT ME THAT NURSING IS NOW A PROFESSION FOR ONE WHO IS ASSERTIVE AND MOVES ONWARD TO DARING NEW HORIZONS. IT TAUGHT ME THAT NURSING IS NOT A PLACE FOR HANGERS-ON . . . IF IT IS GOING TO SURVIVE, IT TAUGHT ME THAT NURSING MUST REALIZE ALL THESE THINGS NOW, NOT SOON, BUT NOW, IF IT IS GOING TO SURVIVE, LET ALONE GROW. I HOPE YOU WERE TAUGHT SOME OF THIS TOO. X672-v-s...d:.J-o

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