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

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I, MARILYN SOMERS, bequeath my love of flowers and plants to: brighten up a room, collect dust, and drive your roommate wild. I, RUTH SPRUNG, bequeath credit to anyone who can run a Miller-Abbot apparatus without having difficulty. I, RUTH SUDERMAN, bequeath my numerous bottles of Fergon and Tolifer to anyone fighting a similar losing battle with a low hemo globin. I, ANNA SUITTERS, bequeath my alarm clock to anyone who dreams of waking up to the beautful sound of chimes” in the morning. I, TRUDENE SYKES, bequeath my dreams of graduation to the undergraduates!

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ODE TO A NIGHTINGALE VC har do you want to be when you finish high school?” The answer came to fifty girls on September 6, 1961 as we entered the Grace Hospital School of Nursing to fulfill our dreams of being The Lady with the Lamp.” The title holds true in a sense but more commonly is this Lady seen with needles, medications, bedpans, and drawsheets. Our first feelings were those of joy mingled with anxiety and excitement. Our label was Probationers and how true. To describe our first six months here was our class song: P — is for the problems we’ve created. R — is for the rules we must obey. O — is for the orders we are taking. B — is for the boring times they say. I — is for the intellects that teach us. E — is for those everlasting days. Put them all together and they spell Probie. We wonder if they’re going to let us stay. Page 70