Mack School of Nursing - Yearbook (St Catherines, Ontario Canada)

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Dear students, It is my pleasure, on behalf of the nursing staff of Port Colborne General Hospital, to extend congratulations to the 1973 graduating class of the Mack School of Nursing. Your efforts, past, present and future wiU be an inspiration to those with whon:i you come in contact, and to those who follow you. The future role of nursing may well rest with you, Yours very truly, (Mrs.) Livia Payne, Director of Nursing. Education in a School of Nursing or any school of comparable train- ing is not an exercise in cramming, but a flexing of mental muscles to develop their ability to discern and absorb. You do not study to be a nurse, but to know what a nurse has to be. These two years at Mack have been spent with many like yourself who want to be a nurse and with a few faculty friends who know what a nurse has to be It is in this environment of ideas that you have developed your own interpretation of nursing. After Graduation, knowing what a nurse has to be, will be taken for granted, how you will be a nurse is then a personal thing, Florence Nightingale, whose abilities ran the list of public service, is remem bered most of all for the two outstanding qualities — her steadfast- ness of purpose and her compassion for her soldier patients. This above all I leave with you: be a patient nurse and nurse your patient; look upon the sick with compassion and they will heap gra- titude on your name. Be unfailing in your practice and it will re- ward you in many ways. Yours is an honourable profession but only you can bring it honour. Mr. Donald P. Shaw, Chairman of the Mack School of Nursing Committee

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On behalf of the Nursing staff of The St. Catharines General Hospital it is my pleasure to extend congratulations and good wishes to the 1973 graduating class of the Mack School of Nursing. We know that you will continue to seek knowledge and understanding, remember- ing the words of Samuel Johnson, What we hope ever to do with ease, we must leam first to do with diligence . We sincerely hope you will find fulfillment in your career. (Mrs.) L. R. Flight, Director of Nursing Service The St. Catharines General Hospital. On behalf of the Hospital and Nursing Department personnel, 1 wish to convey to each member of the 1973 Graduating Class my personal and sincerest congratula- tions on this important achievement. It was indeed a privilege for each one of us to have shared in your learning during your varied experiences in our hospital. We have certainly derived mutual en- richment through this educational encounter in our clinical areas . May you continue to find self-fulfillment and success in your lives as you enter the nursing profession where the health of people is your prime concern. Miss Agnes Fleury, Director of Nursing Welland County General Hospital.

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The making of Dedications.