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

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Valedictory At last the time has come for the class of 1947 to join the profession of nursing, a profession which holds opportunities unequaled in most fields of public service open to women. For you, years of preparation and the beginning of a new and satisfying life. Entrance into professional life, like entrance into a new country, requires both passport and visa. The passport is required to secure formal admission into the profession; the visa is an additional endorsement of acceptability as a broadly trained, and capable practitioner. The it. The visa will be yours, a precious heritage, because you chose to enter a school whose parent and outstanding achievements of men and women from all Hospital Services. Now, you, who have studied and worked in the same wards where these great men and women worked, have inherited the benefits of the reputation they have built. This reputation is the endorsement, a you as one ready to give the newest and best in nursing care, it bespeaks for you opportunities for service and study, it paves the way for a satisfying personal life. It may, by its inherent values, also challenge you in return to contribute your measure to the greatness of the Hospital eminence in education, or the result of every day conscientious effort to do well that work which needs to be done, every graduate is privileged to do her share. Preparation and recommendation you now possess! Opportunities of all kinds lie before you; nursing at home and abroad, institutional and public health positions, the chance to earn, and the chance to learn. All these are yours, and more. For there is too the opportunity of citizenship in a world which needs the understanding of women, the knowledge of the health worker, the strength of youth. Your School stands behind you, your career lies before you. What you make of it depends now upon you. the members of the class, this year is an ending and a commencement. It is the end to three diploma will be your passport. It will be yours because you have studied and worked to achieve hospital is known and respected throughout this country and in many countries throughout the world. Over the years, the reputation of “M.G.H.” has been built by the high standards visa on your diploma. It verifies your clinical preparation as sound and broad, it recommends and School of Nursing. As this contribution may be the result of unusual ability in research or [21]