Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania - Record Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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Is for Thompson, whose hair is quite blonde, Of talking of Harry she seems very fond. -Stands for University-we all standfor it, Where we got our training and for life made us fit. Stands for both VVarner and West, They are notvery large but they are two of the best. -Means exams, which we all passed, Next comes state board and it is the last. -Stands for you, and you stands for right, Be very good nurses, and always do right. -Stands for zeal, which always inspired us, , We have finished our course, and our instructors admire us. 97

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Stands for Greenfield, called f'Greenie by some, You may say she is talkative if you're sure you can run Also for Gussie, who came down from Reading, If reports are true, her popularity is still spreading -Is for Jonesie, she's a very good scout, We'd back her most anywhere-shels sure to win out -Is for Kievits-the girl of ideals, To whom study is a pleasure and dreams are all real -Is for Lydia. Many hearts she has touched, But Dick informs me she is fond of the 'Dutch. -Stands for lN1cAlevage, who is next in line, We hope she will lose her giggle some time. Also for May, who a sly fox has been, But I've found her out, there are really two men. For Della Miller, too, who many people beguile, With her laughing brown eyes and her very smile. Stands for Anna Noel, with red hair so bright, While in the darkness she needs not a light. -Means Olive Keebler, a girl who is ambitious, Whose manner and bearing are quite oflicious. -Stand for Ridall, who feels sad at heart, For with her soldier boy it was hard to part. -Is for Schragen-by no means at all slow, When Murphy went away she worried for him Next is Stambaugh, of whom we are proud, She'll make a good show in any old crowd. Also for-Stiner, who about the neck did swell, And over to Isolation she went to get well. 96 pleasing S

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I i 1 S Social Service Department In February, 1917, Social Service became a part of the course of training for the nurses of the University Hospital. The pioneer band to blaze the trail into the new field comprised four senior nurses: Miss Hurd, Miss Dinsmore, Miss Stratton and Miss MacDonough. No doubt they will all establish fur- ther claim to men-tion in the pages of history, but however this may be, their place in the annals of the Social Service Depart- ment is assured for all time. The promise of this hrst group of nurses has been well fulfilled by their successors, the plan may be said to have passed the experimental stage and to be in a fair way to become an immemorial tradition. There are good results already discernible from the pres- ence of the nurses in the Social Service Department. Through the first-hand knowledge they obtain of the work and their resulting interest in it, the Department is more closely linked with the wards than heretofore, and there is better co-ordina- tion between medical and social treatment. This is of course greatly to the advantage both of the Hospital and of the Social Service Department. Usually the nurses Hnd their interest in the patients deep- ened and broadened by the experience of going into their homes. Thissame experience arouses or intensifies their in- terest in public health, now so important a section of the Held of nursing. More and more niurses are going into public health Work, and medical social service should offer nurses still in training gO0d opportunity to judge its value and possibilities, and so help them in choosing their special line of nursing after grad- uation. Several of the 'Social Service Nursesn have already decided upon some form of public-health nursing as their future work. 93