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

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GRADUATION

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One could go on citing many other responsibilities which are routinely accepted by your profession that were unheard of a matter of a few years ago. You, the Graduating Class of 1960, have accepted this increase in nursing responsibility as a matter of course. You have been trained to a high degree of perfection in applying your advanced technical knowledge. I might say that you have also been exposed to the living examples of the highest idealism and dedication to your profession in the environment of your Training School. I would like to suggest that you humbly recognize the contribution of your predecessors in building up the profession to its present stature. In acknowledging the work you in your turn have done to attain your degree, I would remind you of the statement by Bacom - “I hold every man a debtor to his profession.” Thus your diploma creates a debt and demands a continuing contri¬ bution on the part of each one of you for an individual effort to build your profession still higher and greater in line with the progress of the times, further adding to the inheritance you have received tonight, for your successors of the next generation. Your attainment in graduation has created a debt from you to your profession and demands a dedication of inspired service in your future professional life. Thus, in conclusion, I want to sincerely thank your predecessors in nursing for building securely the structure of the nursing profession that you are inheriting today and in congratulating you on your success, to quote to you the admonition of one of the world’s greatest medical men. Sir William Osier, ‘‘that we are here to add what we can to--not to get what we can from - Life . Dr. H. V. Morgan’s Address Delivered to Graduating Class of Nurses Holy Cross Hospital, October 1960.

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