Grace General Hospital - Our Days of Grace Yearbook (Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada)

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BARBARA ANDERSON—Winnipeg, Manitoba Music is the universal language of mankind.” Longfellow BETTY ALMAS—Birch River, Manitoba True happiness consists of making happy.” Keraturjuniza of Bharair MARGARET ARENDT—Clear Brook, B.C. The great use of life is to spend it for something that outlasts it.” William James Page 18

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To Miss Seeman, our Educational Director and the nursing school staff, thank you for your patience and perseuerance in educating us in the ways of nursing. Our expres¬ sions of gratitude will continue to be felt through the years to come. A special thank-you to our doctors, supervisors and head nurses for your time, knowledge and counsel so willingly given. We have reserved a special place in our hearts for two people who have given us cheer, courage and guidance when it was so needed. They know of our sorrows and successes. Without your assistance, Mom and Dad, we never would have reached this goal. There is yet another group of people who helped us. They also listened to our worries and problems and gave us support by phone calls and dates. As well they waited so patiently until the end of an evening duty term. I am, of course, referring to our boy¬ friends. — Thanks a million! Undergraduates, our experiences throughout training will be well remembered because you shared them with us. Chapter three of our book is devoted to Residence life. Here we found a home away from home where the h ouse-mothers and residence staff did so much to make us comfortable. Remember the jam sessions” in the T.V. room? Remember, too, the tobogganing and roller skating parties and the car wash? As new graduates, while we hesitate to give advice, we would ask you to remember that our three years experience has taught us to give rather than to receive. By giving of ourselves, we receive peace of mind and satisfaction from helping others to help them¬ selves. Soon you too will leave Grace as your graduation day arrives. May I take this opportunity on behalf of our class to extend good wishes to all of you. Fellow classmates, thank you for choosing me to give the valedictory on behalf of our class this evening. Tonight we look back sadly and yet happily on our three years together. Sadly, as we will soon be saying farewell to our School of Nursing, and yet happily, as we have reached our goal — Graduation. Our friendships during our three years together have been more than sharing food packages from home. We rejoice to¬ gether on happy occasions and comforted one another on sad occasions. These contacts will never be forgotten by any of us. Now we enter into many different fields of nursing. Each of us will have problems that must be faced alone. All that we have learned in the past three years will help us feel better prepared to face the future. The future—which holds a challenge in public health nursing, in post graduate study, or in general duty nursing. As long as we have dreams and ambitions as well as a desire to fulfill them, we will have opportunities to serve our fellowman. Thus we have completed our first book, but we do know that the days which lie ahead hold opportunities for us to add many more volumes as our hopes as new graduates are realized. In closing, may I leave with you this thought: Finally brethren, farewell, Be perfect, be of good comfort, Be of one mind, live in peace, And the God of love and peace shall be with you.” —II Corinthians 13:11 Page 17

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SHIRLEY BELEY—Stonewall, Manitoba A tongue for truth, a mind for reason, and a heart that loves.” Anon JUDITH BARRON— Barwick, Ontario Do not let grass grow on the path of friendship. American Indian Proverb ANN BERGEN—Crystal City, Manitoba While hope like a seraph still whispers above us, Look upward and onward and never despair.” Anon Page 19