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

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' Pxa iccmccf ' Plua I was the smartest student They ever had at Grace For the proficiency Award I should ' ve won the race I was so fast and skillful It almost was a sin I simply cannot understand Why I didn ' t win. When I was a probie Miss Seeman ' s pet was I I scrubbed and oiled my patients Till I thought I ' d die My backrubs were in great demand The patients thought them keen Until I rubbed one by mistake With oil of wintergreen. So for six months I worked and slaved With such efficiency But since I ' m not quite perfect I made a mistake-or-two-or-three It really wasn ' t my fault That those false teeth got mixed up The head nurse said Clean all false teeth So I gathered them all up I put them in a basin And scrubbed them till they gleamed Then I showed them to the head nurse I wonder why she screamed? My patients just adore me They thought I was divine For I ' d give them drinks of water And overlook the fasting sign I was so conscientious Of my patients and their ills That in the night I ' d wake them Just to give them sleeping pills. I next attacked the O. R. Which will never be the same But for the things that went amiss Myself I cannot blame I fainted at the sight of blood But it wasn ' t my decision To fall across the patient ' s laparotomy I didn ' t mean to lose that sponge But I lost count you see The fuss over one little sponge Oh all right--so it was three. During operations the doctor I ' d never wheedle. But as soon as he sewed up the skin Then I ' d ask for my missing needle When the doctors saw that I was scrubbed To help them with their work They either fainted dead away Or else they went berserk I helped one doc so well up there That he offered to operate free He said I was in drastic need of a Cranilithotomy. But the Case Room ' s where I really shone Mid cord clamps, beads, and suctions But somehow during all the rush I ' d forget Miss Rusk ' s instructions Was that--tie, then clamp then cut the cord Or clamp then cut then tie? Now what comes first--the baby ' s beads? Or the drops for his eye? Episiotomy? What ' s that? Oh yes--oh yes the suture. The doctors glared while I unwound And unbright looked my future You can have it in a second. Just be patient for a bit. I just have to untangle these eight knots out of it. I did so well at Children ' s But my work I ' d just begun When they put me as a patient On a ward they call West 1 I did just fine in Public Health Till on a nursing call I went I got lost and my two weeks In Kildonan Park were spent. So back to the wards I trotted As efficient as could be I knew that I could do no wrong The blame ' s not mine you see That the P. P. care on Mat floor With mouthwash once was done Or the waking of the patients at 5 a. m. was begun. incision So you see dear friends I ' m quite a gal The head nurse ' s buddy, the doctor ' s pal Now don ' t you think I deserve congratulating Not for winning an award--just for graduating ? P. Egan - taken from the 1960 Yearbook - 72

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rffrfviecCat6a t la 7 Kjo k Gad Dad This the day your father ' s looked for; Day your mother ' s sewed and cooked for. This their dream and this their mission; Since your birth their one ambition. This is the day for which they ' ve waited; Day when you have graduated. In that cap and uniform you ' re wearing At you now with pride they ' re staring. Theirs the joy while they are living You alone have power of giving. Days of days! On you depending. Your commencement; theirs the ending. As you stand there, and are hearing Friends and loved ones gladly cheering From the way you ' ve toiled and striven Came to them the pride you ' ve given. Should you fail them some tomorrow Just as deep would be their sorrow. Even in your cradle sleeping. You had this day in your keeping. Now from school as you ' re departing And the tasks of life are starting Give them joy and fail them never. Keep their pride in you forever. Edgar A. Guest 71

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