Kings Daughters Hospital Nursing School - Pledge Yearbook (Greenville, MS)

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IF (with apologies to Rudyard Kipling) If you can keep your head when those about you Are griping and complaining by the score; If you can listen to their many wailings, And not put in your two-cents worth or more; If you can learn your lesson for tomorrow While your roommate raves about her date last night; But when she wants to rest, or sleep, or study Not speak aloud, lest it will start a fight; If you can take it in and not get angry Wh en the seniors calmly tell you who’s the boss; If you can scrape the dishes when the maid’s off And not give up, or let yourself get cross; If you can wash your clothes in fifteen minutes And get to bed before they say, “lights out,” And rise on time and always go to chapel And always be polite and never shout; If you can be both accurate and thorough And do your work precisely by the clock; If you can keep your shoes clean and your shoestrings, And wear a hairnet covering every lock; If you can take a rough and rowdy patient And treat him gently and be always kind To those who on you are dependent And if they show dislike try not to mind; If you can stay awake in all your classes Even if you’ve worked the night before; If you can sit for months and study “state board” And learn it well, and make a passing score; If you can do these things and still be human Yet make your pledge with conscience clear, well then They’ll give to you a card of registration And let you add behind your name “R. N.”

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ANNIE RUTH BERRY Gamden, N. C. “ And the night shall be filled with music. DOROTHY KATHLEEN BARNES Petersburg, Va. ‘ Living and helping my neighbor to live.” EVELYN PRICE COOKE Blacksburg, Va. “The reason firm, the temperate will , Endurance , foresight , strength , and skill.”