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

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DEDICATION FIRST INKLING of a student nurse’s life in the Massachusetts General Hospital was impressed upon us through the militant, yet warm greeting given us by Miss Nancy Fraser on our first day in training. Perpetual motion personified, she is active all day in the pursuit of recal- citrant nurses, persuading, threatening, cajoling, and whirling her cane to keep the students healthy. We forgetful procrastinators who have lost that little green slip’’ are verbally annihilated, probie and senior alike. Yet let one of us become sick, and she is. by the same token, a most thoughtful, understanding and loyal friend. It is with all our hearts that we affectionately dedicate this book to her. Page Four

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To the Class of 1946: A change or a transition from one situation or condition to another is often interesting and exciting but it also can be upsetting. Furthermore, the disturbing results of change are usually in direct ratio to the rapidity with which it takes place. You of the Class of 1946 have had to adjust yourselves within the space of a few years to a double change: the transition from a peacetime life and economy to war conditions, and now from the activities of war back to peacetime life. For a long time you will feel the effects of the ebb and flow of those powerful currents which the war has set in motion. The program of the Cadet Nurse Corps is probably the outstanding single factor affecting your Class life and you as indi- viduals. It has influenced your studies, your thoughts, your social life and it will influence for some time to come your nursing activities. Truly we live in a changing world but even though we are affected by these changes and play our part in them there stand out in this turbulent stream certain islands of security. These are notably institutions that have predominantly a spiritual component, as for instance, the great Religions, the Universities, a nd the Ffospitals. Thus, through the turmoil of war years, the Massachusetts General Hospital — your hospital — has carried on just as it carried on through four preceding wars. It has had to adjust itself to changing conditions just as you have had to but its spiritual, humanitarian work has gone on as usual. The Bulfinch still stands serene and inspiring. Wherever you go in years to come may you look back and receive strength and encouragement and comfort from the thought of the steadfastness of purpose, the nobility of aims, and the usefulness of action which this great institution exemplifies and which is given tangible expression in its first building. Truly it is founded upon the rocks of humanity and science, and the teaching and training you received here should give intelligent, scientific direction to your innate humanity when, as graduates of the Massachusetts General Hospital School of Nursing, you enter into your chosen profession. Nathaniel W. Faxon, M.D., Director.

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Sally Johnson, R.N., B.S. Sally Johnson, R.N., B.S., Superintendent of Nurses and Principal, School of Nursing, graduated from the Massachusetts General Hospital T raining School for Nurses in 1910, and received her Bachelor of Science degree from Teacher’s College, Columbia Univer- sity, in 1932. Before taking her present posi- tion in 1 920, she held teaching positions at St. Luke’s Hospital, New Bedford, Mass., and at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Boston, Mass. She has been Assistant Supervisor of Nurses at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Superintendent of Nurses at the Albany Hos- pital, N. Y., and was Director of the Army School of Nursing at the Walter Reed General Hospital, Washington, D. C., in 1918. Miss Johnson is also, at present, member of the Board of Directors of the American Nurses’ Association.