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

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To the Class of 1974: ' ' The trick, Fletcher, is that we are trying to overcome our limitations in order, patiently. We don ' t tackle flying through rock until a little later in the program. Richard Bach in Jonathan Livingston Seagull DAWN A. HOPKINS Class Advisor You know you were quite different when I first met you. You were learning and discovering, but only with your eyes - superficially. I saw fear, anger, boredom and above all, frustration in response to your limitations. A month went by, or something that felt just about like a month, and your level of consciousness changed. You began to see with understanding, evaluate what you already knew, and then become free to discover yourself and your profession. As for myself, you know you are my first class. I tried to give you something of the truth that I have seen and a chance to see truth for yourself. In return I felt you showed me the flexibility of your minds, your receptivity to new ideas — or at least to different ones than those with which you were familiar. I am privileged to thank you for all that you have taught me and helped me to understand. Whatever you do, either in your personal or professional life, may you do it with excellence and to your satisfaction. May you also find love, joy, freedom and success in realizing your ambitions. One final thought - you can only begin by knowing you have already arrived. {jaunu U A —

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Dear Graduates, I wish that I were so endowed as to be able to bestow upon you ten gifts which you could take with you as you begin your careers as nurses. My first gift to you would be REMEMBRANCE. Without a rememberable past the present is meaningless and one cannot anticipate the future. Man is unique in that he can plan and order his future which would be impossible without a memorable past. Do you remember what it was like to take up roots and leave the security of a family and friends to take up life with some ninety nine not-so-perfect strangers? And do you also remember that the concern of these others helped ease you into adjusting to the role of student nurse. That brings me to my gift; CONCERN. I know that most of you already possess this in abundance or you would have not chosen nursing as a profession. May your supply of concern never run out. My third gift to you would be FORTITUDE. Here again, Graduate, you have already demonstrated your fortitude by persevering through uprooting, hard study, difficult courses and evaluations, good and bad experiences both in the hospital and in the classroom. In the future, as nurses, there will be days in which the only thing that will keep you going is fortitude. Now I give HOPE. I hope that you will reap all that you desire and desire all that you reap. I would next bestow upon you PRIDE. For with- out pride you are nothing. I would wish upon you pride in your profession for you have chosen a profession of which you may be justly proud. I would hope that you would be proud enough to be dissatisfied with any performance less than per- fection. LOVE, the greatest med- icine in the world. If labora- tories could bottle and dis- pense love we nurses might well find ourselves out of a job. However, you cannot give something which you do not have. Love your- selves and then and only then can you give love to others. PHYLLIS KARMELS Class Advisor I would now give you WISDOM. The wisdom of an anonymous author who said, May you change the things of this world that can be changed and tolerate the things that cannot be changed and may you have the wisdom to know the difference. INSIGHT! The most successful nurse has keen insight. This is a two-sided gift for with this gift all of your future patients will reap the benefits as well as you, for insight is the precursor of compassion and they work synergisticly to enhance skill. PATIENCE is the gift which will stand by you in all aspects of your life. With this gift you will be able to accomplish that which the most ambitious and energetic efforts cannot achieve unless coupled with patience. Unless you have patience success will escape you. My most precious gift, the one which I value above all others is a sense of HUMOR. History is full of instances where disaster has been avoided because someone had a good sense of humor. It will keep you from taking yourselves too seriously and will keep your life at an even keel. Humor will be your salvation. Take these gifts and spend them freely for they do not impoverish the spender and they enrich the recipient. Affectionately vours.

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