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

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Miss Ruth Sleeper To you who helped to guide us through three of the most eventful and cherished years of our lives we say, “Thank you.” Not only for the many little things that added to our comfort and peace of mind, but for your confidence in us as nurses and everything for which the profession stands. Most of all, Miss Sleeper, we thank you for your ever- increasing belief, faith and trust in us as women. To you we dedicate this edition of Ivy Columns. The Class of 1948 2) i iectoA. — ]e icUe?i — ' uend

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CO-EDITORS Mary Gainey Ardis Murray BUSINESS MANAGERS Anna Towhill Marjorie Webb PHOTOGRAPHY Editor: Marianne Foster Ass ' t: Pauline Roy ART Editor: Patricia Northridge Ass’t: Margaret Murphy ADVERTISING Alanager: Barbara Gray Ass’ts: Thelma Roberts Jacqueline Fishel REPORTORIAL BOARD Shirley Atwood Joyce Campion Avis Cartwright Katherine Collins Eunice Cooley Jean Currier Frances Dillard Mary Geiser Barbara Hunter Ruth Johnson Rita Krasinskas Muriel Larose Marion Martell Irene Niedospal Constance Palmer Eloise Smith Patricia Sullivan Ethel Todd Patricia Webber Constance Ward Arline Wink CIRCULATION Alanager: Lois Bloomquist Ass’ts: Virginia Goodwin Katherine Shea Eileen Sheehan Ethel Wetherbee [ 6 ]

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Dear Seniors: “Today is Weight Day.’ ' Do you remember that familiar sign which greeted you at frequent intervals during your student days? Do you remember how we charted your weight month after month because we felt a great reposnsibility for your well- being? This year of your graduation you will join a long and distinguished line of nurses who have gone forth from the School for three-quarters of a century. These women have gone to work in every state of this Country and in almost every other country in the world. They have practiced in hospitals, homes, schools, industries. They have nursed the young, the aged. They have worked in large city hospitals and in the lonely countryside. They have taught nursing to pupils in distant lands in many languages. Have you ever stopped to think of the place you will hold in the family of the M.G.H. School of Nursing? Have you ever considered the difference between your preparation and that of your predecessors of ten, fifteen, or twenty-five years ago? Have you ever weighed your obligations and responsibilities against the broader preparation you have been privileged to receive? Today is your commencement; today is weight day. This time you will do the weighing. The record will read not in pounds but in responsibilities. The weight will not be for your physical well-being. Today you will weigh your future. There will be purpose and achievement to balance against purpose- less wandering; service to others to balance against personal gain; judgment, determin- ation, courage, against ease and indulgence; open-mindedness, cooperation and under- standing against intolerance and selfishness. It will not be a simple matter to record this type of growt h on charts. Mere dots and squares cannot show mental and spiritual development. Lines cannot indicate the sense of obligation or personal and social responsibility well met. But, nonetheless, the growth will be evident for there will be for you the faith of patients, the trust of co- workers, the belief of friends, and respect for self. From the School, congratulations on your past achievement. From the Faculty, best wishes to you. From your sister alumnae, a welcome into your chosen profession. From us all, a promise of a helping hand. Today is commencement. Have you weighed in yet, senior? [ 8 ]