La Junta Mennonite School of Nursing - Nightingale Yearbook (La Junta, CO)

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IW Nl JU IQRS N ill W CLeft to rightj-S. Zook, E. Zook, Hotfer, Lechti, Brenneman, Kauhcman, Martin, Stutzman, Swartzendruber, Shenk, Detwiler, I. Miller, M. Miller, Lehman, Yoder, Loucks. Prfavident .........., ........... E STHER SHENK Vire-President ...... .......... R IARGARET MILLER Sm-remry ..,,,.,,,,, ,,..., E STHER BRENNENIAN 'CLASS NIOTTO-Cfilllfi tho the rorkx be rugged. CI,ASS SPONSOR-NIEA NIILLER, R.N. Thirty N the fall of 1929 seventeen eager girls, full of youth- ful hopes and dreams, entered the hlennonite School of Nursing. VVe represent eleven states and have the honor of be- ing the largest Class that has yet entered. Our motto, Climb tho the rocks be ruggedfl should help us in our youth, as we look into the future with those tremendous and eternal mysteries which seem just ahead. As the years march on, We'll go with them, hoping to be better prepared for the tasks of life by having gone through this School of Nursing.

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N WW - X19-13 1 .mg-ale,-:: 'Q 1 W g C? 'eil 2532: 5.3 Q .g CD :TF 3 C? Hug QT' S 'S N: CD ,gg 253' 5 Q 2.5 CID vis.: ! l' Ei BOUT twenty-six years ago a young man afllicted with tuberculosis was advised by his physician to seek relief in a higher altitude. Following the doctor's advice, and with a determination to regain his health, he left his eastern home and traveled west, taking his family with him. Climatic conditions proved of great benefit, and as time passed, other like sufferers sought the same treatment. The majority of these tuberculous victims were obliged to leave their home folks and go into a new unsettled country, finding when they arrived only a few individuals to welcome them. No doubt to them it seemed as if there was no one to whom they could look for comfort and care. It was known that a sister in Ohio had bequeathed to the General lvlission Board of the lllennonite Church 510,000 for the purpose of establishing in some future day an institution where the sick and afflicted could be treated and cared for. Knowing the prevalency of tuberculosis, it seemed as if the opportunity of using the 310,000 for those in ill health had arrived. Nlany felt the need of such an institution, and yet someone had to kindle the flame. So it proved! Among the earliest advocates were M. S. Steiner, D. S. Brunk, Al. NI. Hershey, J. M. Nunamaker, bl. F. Brunk and D. S. Weaver. The question of building a sanitarium was first discussed in the church coun- cils in 1905. Finally, after careful consideration and thought, it was decided there should be a sanitarium at La Junta, Colorado. Ten thousand dollars was an insufficient amount to build and equip a sanitariumg funds had to be raised. Brethren D. S. Brunk and J. F. Brunk Went out to solicit the remainder of money needed, soliciting among our people in the various states. They returned greatly encouraged over the interest manifested through the sum contributed to the cause. In the year 1907 the foundation for the Sanitarium was laid, on a farm purchased for the purpose, which was about five miles west of La Junta. Slowly but surely the building came into existence, and finally on the twenty-fifth day of October of 1908 it was dedicated. From l 'i 1 W 'W the very beginning to the pres- 1 1 ent conditions the aim of the in- i ' A , stitution has been the same. l . , i ..,..,. ... - i iiuminiififom the 'mitiiulletiil l A ra i iii 1 -s if thd iilitittlfididlrhadlmelilgemiifi iili 0 X i fi 'eiff ,.. pleasant to all who may find ii E fihfj he I I Hl!f!l! !l! shelter under its roof, to give 2. I- V as ,Q 3 Al 5 5 l ll,g,g.4.! , the very best treatment known ' if to medical scienceg to make this . .... 1- .ff place spiritually edifying to all 'A I 1 the believers and that will make ' ' ' ii'ii' L l 3 the unsaved meditate along the The Old Sanizarium way. To make the institution Thirty-tfwo