Lakeview Hospital School of Nursing - Annual Yearbook (Danville, IL)

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TI-IE ANNUAL sg A N' fp Y' fi Q4 O wi 4 HOMAGE LOYALTY claims our hearts beat true In the years that shall come and go, And mem'ries of our dear Lake View Shall be bright in the afterglow. VISION brings to us all again The world outside, without a ban, We'll happy be to see it when Our Alma Mater says we can. HOMAGE is due to those just now, Whose guidance we eagerly sought, Today, with thanks, our heads we bow, Tomorrow, our freedom we've bought. -J. M. G. I

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TI-IE ANNUAL M. Higby answered cupid's call, While chiropractic enticed our Thal. To study music Flo Whiting Went, But M. Rylander stayed, on nursing bent. Zoe Marsh resigned when her health she lost, Hazel Pont remained at any cost. Kirkpatrick too, with grit and glee, Is still with us for her degree. Miss Lesch, the President of our clas '. R. Beaver next but not the last. For sweet little Gardner leads the rear, And we are glad because she's here. With this brief ske'ch my st0ry's told, Which covers a history three years old. Page Eighteen E. E. OLTJENBRUNS, Historian

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THE ANNUAL CLASS OF 1921 To those, who, in the love of training, hold Communion with t is training school, there comes a vast experience. For the Class of '21, Page Twenty There also comes a vision, and a hope To make this world a better place to live. Undaunted by those first three months Cf loneliness, and fear, and making beds, And long hours of dusting, and weary night, When everything seemed naught, except The hope, nourished in every heart, that soon The day would come to wear our caps. The probation period passed and with its passing Came the uniform, and Junior nurses' responsibility. That had been waiting long in dark, dark ways, And Supervisors' minds, lest in those first few days We'd lose ourselves in joy and proud possession So when tho'ts of each last squelching would come Like a blight over our spirits Cand sad images Of tears, and pain, and hatch we'd take ouselves Into the wards and list to patients troublesg Forget our trials and carry drinks of water, milk and tea And think it was a blessing, not a curse! A few days it seemed, and we were Called Intermediates, content to let The Supervisors scold and sometimes Take away our half days. All that train Shall share our suffering. Our seniors Suffered here before us-the J uniors-each Shall follow in our footsteps. Yet a few months and the Class of '21 Shall be seen no more, either along the corridors Orin the wards, at the Home or out on Logan Avenue, Upon the tennis courts or in the playroom Singing songs of Love and of Democracy Then shall they be found where duty calls, Whether it be in green or desert land, Beside still waters, or near trenches over there, Doing the work that only they can do. S0 we shall live that when our invitation comes To go upon the stage and get the pin and parchment, We'll go not with deep regrets land doubts? That sometime in the unclouded past We followed in the footsteps of that man, Who could not be convinced of his one crown, The crown of faith to man. But With our hearts and souls as clean As uniform, because of faith that we Have given unto the world the best we can, We may approach the beginning of our career Like they who know they're going forth to win.-Anon.