Grady Memorial Hospital School of Nursing - White Caps Yearbook (Atlanta, GA)

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CHARTER To the Superior Court of said County: The petition of los. Hirsch, R. I. Lowry, W. A. Hemphill, W. L. Moore Geo. S. Lowndes E. W. Mar tin, H. L. Culberson, R. D. Spalding, I. W. English, Ir., and C. A. Collier, Mayor: composing the Bdard of Trus- tees ofthe Grady Hospital, and las. E. Baird, A. W. Calhoun, H. P. Cooper, W. S. Elkin, W. S. Kendrick, V. O. Hardon, C. C. Giddings, I. G. Ernest, W. P. Nicholson, Geo. H. Noble, C. D. Hurt, F. W. McRae and Dunbar Roy, the members of the Medical Board of the Grady Hospital, respectfully shows: 1. That they desire to be incorporated under the statues and laws of said State for such cases made and provided for a period of twenty years with the privilege of renewal under the name of THE CRADY HOSPITAL TRAINING SCHOOL FOR NURSES. 2. That a school by that name is about to be established in said County for the purpose of instructing and training persons in the art of nursing and caring for the sick and afflicted. 3. Petitioners pray that they and their legal successors be granted corporate authority to enforce good order in said school, to receive donations, make purchases and effect all alienations of realty and personality, not for the purpose of trade and profit but for promoting the general design of such institution, and to look after the general interest of such establishment, to grant diplomas to such as the faculty think deserve them, testifying to the qualifications of the persons to whom they may be issued, and to charge such fees for matri- culation, instruction, training, diplomas and other services as may be deemed proper. 4. Petitioners also pray that the Board of Trustees of said Grady Hospital as above constituted and their legal successors, and the medical Board of said Hospital as above constituted and their legal successors shall

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She has the self control of an army general, the efficiency of a business executive . . . She likes: Prim white uniforms. . . patients getting well . . . healthy babies. . .new mothers, . . doctors . . . penicillin . . . the smell of antiseptic . . .well made beds . . . the aroma of fresh linen . . . and just being a nurse. A Nurse is made up of one part gentleness, two parts sympathy, three parts knowledge . . . with additional dashes of compassion, self-confidence and enthusiasm. She starts out each day with a heart full of hope and sprinkles it up and down the corridors of her own private world. f Her warm smile can fill a cold room . . . She can be found everywhereg holding babies, turning over patients, patting pillows, sticking arms, raising beds, measuring serums, holding hands, taking temperatures - and just standing someplace being pleasant to someone. She's a companion to the lonely . . . Heroine to the troubled . . . She's a member of the wor1d's most humane sorority . . . She's one of America's most cherished citizens. X A woman in white, with God in her hands. A She's a nurse, X AUTHOR UNKNOWN N .

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CHARTER constitute the Trustees or Directors of said School with full power to determine by a bylaw upon any number not less than seven as a quorum for the transaction of business and to State of Georgia, County of Fulton. I, G. H. Tanner, Clerk of the Superior Court of said County do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true copy from the flies and records of said Court of the application for Charter and Order of Court granting same to THE GRADY HOSPITAL TRAINING SCHOOL FOR NURSES. Witness my hand and seal of said Court, this the 25th day of March 1898. ..,,ulllll.'q,,..' - DY '- ta'-J O ' , . ug ' x C ur no 1 a i 2 3. ix g .3 Clerk Superior Court, h , ' 0,- ' ,' Fulton, Ga. 's'., T' ' 'u.s ll fi . .'. V9-TL S Qi