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

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Statuette of Florence Nightingale Made by Hilary Bonham-Carter, cousin of Miss Nightingale and was given to Mrs. Vaughn ' s mother, Mrs. Samuel Parkman, when she visited Miss Nightingale in 1872. Presented to the Training School in 1929. “A lady with a lamp shall stand In the great history of the land. A noble type of good. Heroic womanhood.” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Page Eight

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Foreword In this volume, we the class of 1944, have set forth a permanent record of our three years in the Massachusetts General Hospital School of Nursing; our experiences, our friends, a chronicle of our training, our discoveries about ourselves and our chosen profession, a report of the newest program, the Cadet Nurse Corps, our memories of the minute things about our School, and the big things we have learned that will make us better able to serve those people needing nursing care and health guidance. Now we are going forth to teach, to nurse the sick, to our response bilities in civilian and military health. We are fully aware of the challenge that the present world upheaval and chaos is placing before us. Military service for some of us will provide adventurous service while others of us must accept the responsibility of helping to maintain high standards of civilian nursing on the diminished staffs of hospitals, public health agencies and schools of nursing. These vital civilian fields are less spectacular than the military one but none the less challenging to our training and our abilities. Looking forward to the readvent of peace among nations, we, the mem- bers of the class of 1944, are preparing to take our places in the reconstruc- tion program throughout the world. We are fortunate in having chosen a profession which is the product of all nations and all peoples. A profession undeterred by barriers of national- ism or racial and religious intolerance. When the nations of the globe to-day emerge from this dark era on the pages of civilized history, nursing will be ready to carry the torch of healing to all parts of the world that its light may shine on all peoples. We, the class of 1944, hope to share in spreading the healing light, not only that, in the glow of the torch, war weary peoples may find a new high in physical, emotional and mental health, but also that nurs- ing may stand by while people again take up duties laid down in war and health services in war torn countries become again self sustaining and effec- tive. Our model and guide, Florence Nightingale, was a nurse in war but she did not cease her efforts to bring health to the ill and maintain health in the well when the military conflict ceased. We, the class of 1944, shall endeavor to carry on the work she initiated, beyond the end of this war. Page Seven

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I solemnly ylebye myself before (Sob in the yresettre of this assembly to yass my life in yurity anb to yrartire my yrofession faithfully. I mill abstain from mhateuer is beleterious anb misrhieuious anb mill not take or kttominyly abminister any harmful bruy. i mill bn all in my yomer to eleuate the stanbarb of my yrofession anb mill holb in rnufibeure all yersnttal matters rommitteb to my keeyiny. anb all family affairs mutiny to my kuomlebye in the yrartire of my ralliny. E3itl| loyalty mill I ettheaunr to aib the yhysiriau in his mork anb beuote myself to the melfare of those rommitteb to my rare. ' Page Nine