Holy Cross School of Nursing - Lamplighter Yearbook (Calgary, Alberta Canada)

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AWARDS AND BURSARIES GENERAL PROFICIENCY: Sister Superior and Sisters of Holy Cross Hospital. MISS E. RIMMER BEDSIDE NURSING: Sr. Superior and Sisters of Holy Cross Hospital. MISS L. THOMAS BURSARY OF $100: Offered by Mr. and Mrs. Briscoe. MISS M. BESTIANICK HIGHEST STANDING IN THEORY: Alumnae Association of Holy Cross Hospital. MISS M. MICHEL PROFICIENCY IN OPERATING ROOM TECHNIQUE: Calgary Associate Clinic, in honor of Dr. D. S. Macnab. MISS D. MacDONALD PROFICIENCY IN PEDIATRIC NURSING: Ladies ' Auxiliary of the Holy Cross Hospital. MISS S. FREE PROFICIENCY IN ASEPTIC TECHNIQUE: The Stevens Company. MISS M. INGALLS PROFICIENCY IN OBSTETRICAL NURSING: Calgary Associate Clinic. MISS E. CRAWFORD PROFESSIONAL ETHICS: Knights of Columbus. MISS M. THOMPSON HIGH IDEALS OF SERVICE: The members of the Faculty of Holy Cross Hospital School of Nursing. MISS J. KONDO SCHOLASTIC ACHIEVEMENT: (Second Year Award) Fisher Burpe. MISS M. PHILLIPS BURSARY OF $200.00: Medical Staff of Holy Cross Hospital. TWO BURSARIES OF $200.00 EACH: Mr. M. D Shyba.

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B. WILSON Vermillion, Alberta She does her work with extreme care. And is never too busy, her time to share. GRADUATION PRAYER Oh give us Lord a greater understanding, And knowledge of the task we are to do. That we may gain a greater satisfaction, As we begin a life of service true. Please help us to be gentle with our patients, Though weary we ourselves may often feel. Inspire us in our daily occupation, To spread a little cheer to those who’re ill. Lord, if along the road we often stumble, Forgetful of our neighbor’s suffering there. Forgive us, please, and help us to remember, God guides the one who lifts her heart in prayer. How noble is this life we are pursuing, As we complete this step along the way! For ’tis the Father’s work we will be doing, And may we do it well we humbly pray. —Jo Ann Border

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ADDRESS TO THE GRADUATING NURSES H.C.H. 1960 Greeting: Mr. Chairman, Graduating Class of 1960, Right Reverend Monsignor Anderson, and Reverend Sisters of Charity. I accepted the honor created by the invitation to address you, the Graduating Class of 1960, with considerable misgivings as to my ability to perform this office in a manner suitable and equal to this great occasion. However, I am a mere mortal such as Shakespeare described when he wrote in Henry the Fifth - “but if it be a sin to covet honor I am the most offending soul alive.” Thus I accepted the invitation. Along with this flattery to my ego I considered my admiration and respect for your training school which has grown through the years of association with it and felt it my duty to face this task and bring to you some of my thoughts and obser¬ vations acquired through this period. I realized I had another unusual qualification for acceptance. I have lived a large part of my life in the home environment of nursing influence. Born and raised by a graduate nurse, my mother’s professional philosophy was later supplemented by my elder sister’s interpretation of your profession so that this particular home influence continued from infancy throughout the formative years until graduation from the University and later becoming established in medical practice followed subsequently by marriage. Some years later, a thi rd generation of nurses in our home added her personal volumes to my education of under-graduate thinking. Truly I have been exposed to the influence of the nursing profession allmylife. By virtue of this personal exper¬ ience, I feel compelled to present your view point and extend my remarks to include a word of admonition to my fellow practitioners. We the medical profession, ar»e studied, respected and admired: and at time honestly criticized in fact on occasion brilliantly lampooned and realistically caricatured by the observations of our nursing confreres. We should never forget that our hospital work is astutely assessed by an observant audience at all times. We are in the position where we must be pre¬ pared to have our work and our behaviour pattern examined by many keen eyes studying us for individual points of strength, weaknesses, quirks and personal idiosyncracies. In the last quarter of a century the advancing strides in the science of medicine have thrown a great increase in responsibility on your profession. Today, your train¬ ing includes many phases of treatment which you accept as common place, whereas a few years ago, some of these tasks were considered only in the realm of the pract¬ icing doctor. Your sphere of influence has thus widened, not only in the area of patient care, but also on the medical profession and the public at large. Now that you have attained your full academic stature of Registered Nurse, you cannot personally remain insular in your thinking or nondescript in your appearance be¬ cause of the elevated position of your profession and its ever widening sphere of influence which emanated from your daily life. This position of influence will be maintained and grow still further as a result of your excellent training applied in your work. You recent graduates have enjoyed the benefits of training with m any previously undreamed of ancillary services working behind you in our ultra-modern hospitals with facilities far beyond the comprehension of our predecessors. You have an armamentatarium of drugs vaccines, blood banks, antibiotics and chemother¬ apeutic agents, but, most important of all, you are trained in their scientific use and application. You have also inherited a tradition of dedicated service to mankind created in somewhat different surroundings. In our mind’s eye, we can see Florence Night¬ ingale, following her great Crimean adventure, by lantern light in the rat infested workhouses of her day. This spirit of Dedication has been carried down through the years to you, by such individuals as the late Miss Gertrude Hall, whose whole life has been a symbol of Dedication. Truly the environment has changed but the dedi¬ cation of your profession remains constant. The tradition of service is your birth¬ right in the nursing profession, its perpetuation is your responsibility of the future. The sincerity of your dedication combined with your success in the course of your training are assurance to us all that you will make your personal contribution to further increase this prestige of your chosen profession. Great strides of medical progress have been made in the hundred and forty five years this spirit of dedicated service was created. Probably the greatest of these strides have been made in the last thirty years. As a result, my contempor¬ aries in medicine and the nursing profession have been exposed to and benefited more by scientific medical advance in our day than in any other era of medicine. We are privileged to have seen modern medicine by the addition of many discoveries of the last quarter of a century, built its glorious superstructure on the solid foundation of