Massachusetts General Hospital School of Nursing - Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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ANNETTE LOUISE EVELETH “Ann 493 Stevens Avenue, POR TLAND. MAINE “She has nc time for men or fame — A mere diploma is her aim.” The duties wished upon Annette not being strenuous enough, she asked for affiliation at Boston City. While she considered herself quite a martyr to the cause with her nights and days on female wards, she was so enthusiastic about B. C. H. that she was tempted to stay there. The most individual thing about Ann is her gait, which has been likened to that of a giraffe; her most prominent trait is her delightful stolidity; her most pleasing characteristic is that she takes things as they come with an unfailing sense of humor. Assuredly, her spectacles (they’re very professional) must be the fabled rose-colored glasses. No matter how tragic the news of a dreaded duty, she immediately laughs it off and continues on her way. Sometimes, beset by the trials of physical ills, she rushes to Dr. Bauer, only to find that her last patient so influenced her imagination that she developed all the symptoms herself. Contagion was the exception, we believe, as she came back to us as jolly as ever. Page twenty-nine 1 9 2 8

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HELEN CORNELIA EPLER ‘ Everyone likes her. for everything strikes her as humorous “To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to have found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live, according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity and trust.”— Thoreau. Thus we have little Helen, who looks on all life’s problems as merely amus- ing. A life to be lived for God, Country and Yale. Yea, even to utter disgust for Harvard and Mencken! Many and varied are her accomplishments. achting is not the least of these fields of endeavor. Singing, carefree and happy — to her life is laughter and song. When you hear the notes of ' ' Brighten the Corner Where You Are” (she has a lovely voice) drifting through the transoms, you can prepare to welcome Epler. A fac-simile of Ichabod Crane, apparently reserved, but with an irresistible charm of personality and firmness of purpose that makes her do well whatever she does, presages for her success in her profession. Page twenty-eight 1 9 2 8

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H ALINA ALFREDA FILIPAK A - “Filibuckel 564 Chicopee Street, WILLIMANSETT, MASS. ‘Work and I are such good friends- Bb-x-y-zz-zz-zz — it might be the wind, it might be the sea. it might be a hur- ricane over the lea, — but no, it is only Filipak inquiring why she should do it rather than any other one of the four hundred. Bb-x-y-zz-zz-zz— this time “it is junior work in the amphitheatre. The end of an apron disappears through a door, and Filipak is off for supper. But this is not Halina at her best. To fully appreciate her, one must see her indulging in one of her three hobbies — music, dancing or sailing. How grateful we are to Halina for the many pleasant hours she has helped us spend with her at the piano. One doesn’t have to sit and listen politely to first one piece and then another, but one is inspired to sit and dream from past to future and back again as she slips through one piece into another and out again. Whereas her music stirs us, as much I think does dancing stir her. When Halina dances, she becomes wrapt, enthralled, and as if in another world, her expression nearly deserving the adjective sublime, and her motions gliding and willowy, rather than her usual erratic rush through life. Since Epler has acquired her “Pluto,” Halina might vie with any of the “No- L.asterners” one might mention. The remarkable way in which she has become acclimated to the Charles and all its wilds can be testified to by any number of her friends. Zz-i-pp-bang ! — Filipak is back from supper. Junior work is done, so she is stuck with catgut and brushes! Page thirty 1 9 2 8