Hahnemann Hospital School of Nursing - Hahnoscope Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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Dedication

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Lines of a Pattern Midst the lines in a pattern of a life, A girl crossed unawares a line and greeted with shy boldness and eager bewilderment A new pattern, strange, compelling, to be explored . . . experienced. There is warmth, reached for, quietly intense, necessary, binding in the anticipation of the Tomorrow. Warmth known in laughing gladness, in achievement shared, in unspoken lines called friendship. Authority from other patterns, white uniformed, speaks knowledge, wisdom, and challenge, and lives entering with quiet assuredness a strong line Into the new pattern. And midst the new pattern a girl faces fellow man — familiar line, but new pattern writes his name patient . . . And his pattern, shadowed. A girl knows lines of fear written with courage, of peace written with hope, of hope written with God, and from the new pattern she constructs lines saying, I care. Shadowed pattern breaks with light exultant. Somewhere, midst the lines in a pattern of a life, A girl crossed unawares a line . . . She is a woman, and it is written with a line called Nurse. Judith M. Prentice, N. Y.

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The family, our basic social institution, is among other things the first teacher, the prime conditioner and molder of l ehavior and atti- tudes. It provides the setting in which adjustive patterns are established and it is the source and determinant of the quality of future genera- tions. In this period of turmoil and fluidity, families, regardless of Class and origin, are moving toward an industrialized, urbanized civilization. Yet, our parents, during this transitory period, have still been able to maintain the traditional support, security and stability for us, their children. We see the family with two vital functions: the rearing of children and stabilization of the adult. We also see an alteration in the i - ole of women — that of equality. Parents are the basis of our families, our thoughts, our morals and mores. Without them, without this strong foundation we would never be able to accept the responsibilities that are ever present and ever increasing in the nursing profession. For these reasons we say thank you Mother and Father. Thank you for the support, sacrifice and faith you have given us. Thank you for the pride and interest you have taken in us. Most of all thank you for allowing us enough individuality and independence to accomplish a most difficult task — maturity.