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

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ur hiefs War has brought many changes in the lifelong habits of mankind in general. Physically we have learned to adjust ourselves to simpler modes of life, intellectually we have been stimulated in the pursuit of warring against war, morally we have learned anew the lesson of kindness and consideration for our fellow beings. These are some of the readjustments that war has wrought and which must endure for the beneht of mankind during peace times. These virtues, which the average man and woman have consciously cultivated during the past four years, are the very ones which the nurse by the very choice of her profession has consciously made her own. Simple living she owes to herselfg well-trained habits of mind she must have in her battle against disease, in which she represents the olhcers and privates indispensable to the medical general staff in the fight to end disease, kindness and consideration are the most essential adjuncts to her success in her calling. If I may be permitted to offer a word of advice to the noble band of women who are today more than ever the forces that make for constructive service, I should say: Let not the professional overshadow the personal element in your ministrations. The sick want all you have to offer in the way of knowledge and skill, but they also want your cheerful sympathy, in a word, your mothering, with all that expressive term implies. Surely the poet must have had a nurse in mind when he described 'fthe perfect woman, nobly planned, to warn, to comfort, and to command, and yet a Spirit, still and bright, with something of angelic lightf, fsignazy JOHN B. DEAVER. To the Illembers of the Class of 1919: I am very glad of the opportunity of congratulating you upon your choice of a profession, and also upon successfully completing the course in a school whose diploma I know you will always take pride in possessing. I You surely deserve the best the world has to offer, for you have earned it in preparing yourselves, by unremitting application for the most useful vocation open to you. ' , Please accept my very best wishes. ' fSignedj ALFRED C. Wooo. 20 , - ' ., , v g , . . Iv W I' ' t H- v W , . V, -. ' ,,,,,,i NI, -,,-.-, -...,..r..A-..,-.,-.U .-'f Af- -- - A ff f f- - --P -'

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To the Class of 1919: In the work which is to follow the discipline and drudgery of your training-school days, it is my Wish that you may never h21V6 occasion to regret them. KSignedj T. TURNER THOMAS. Dear Friends: The last two years have been strenuous ones for both nurses and physicians, Whether under the urgency of war service, or under the stress of hospital or civil practice. Your Class, like the Medical Class of 1918 and 1919, have Worked under the handicap of a greatly decreased corps of instructors, hence your scholastic life has been more difficult, but in the face of all of these difficulties those of us who have Watched your work in the clinic and in Ward service feel that you have come through most creditably. Added to this increased burden came the tragic epidemic of influenza, which claimed its victims with the virulence of the plagues of a century ago. ln this crisis, you shirked not, even though some of your members bravely fell at their posts. Through this splendid service to the great number of stricken ones, you have an especial claim for our highest admiration and regard. lt is, therefore, a great pleasure to congratulate your Class upon the completion of aniunusually trying year, full of difficulties to each member, and, therefore, especially replete with honor. With such a satisfactory record behind you, I am sure your future Will be a bright and happy one. ' Gordiezlly yours, Y fSign-edj JOHN G. CLARK. Best wishes for the Class of 1919, on entering a profession Without whose aid our profession would be helpless. KSignedj BARTON CooKE HIRST. 22 1w+:::2vw1sa4'-1. .--2 f . .. . . Y 1' TT T .p'vq.- 1,1 11- . - , .