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

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Dear Alumnae: How differently it sounds to address you this way. Only a little over three short years ago you were new applicants in a very strange new world. Now the transformation is complete — from applicant to student to alumna. We shall all miss you in the School even as we welcome you to the new relationship. Have you given thought yet to the meaning of your new role as an alumna of the School? Just what does that title imply? Of course, you will be expected to fulfill the responsibilities of a graduate nurse. This is your primary role. But you will also now be in a new relationship to the public. This is your secondary role, a representative of the School and of Nursing. By your actions the School will be judged. By your readiness to accept professional responsibilities, Nursing will be judged. You will not be alone as you take this step. Or, I might say, you need not be alone, for both Alumnae Association and Professional Nursing Organizations wait your member- ship and stand ready to share your problems as you share in the purposes for which these organizations were founded. Should you join? Or, should you let others work out the future while you sit by? No one can make this decision for you. But the School needs you, as does Nursing. How can you really represent the School if you do not keep a contact with it? How can you communicate needed changes if you never hear about the School ' s programs? How can you interpret nursing education at your School if you lose touch with its evolving purpose? How can you grasp the accomplishments in nursing if you are not active in the organizations which are working to produce the changes needed? From all of the Faculty and members of the Nursing Service with whom you have studied and worked, congratulations and best wishes for success in whatever you do! Shall we be seeing you at Alumnae meetings or hearing about you in the Quarterly, or meeting you at a convention? Here ' s hoping! Director of the School of Nursing and Nursing Service

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EVA HICKS HELEN SHERWIN ANNA VIDEN JOSEPHINE HURLEY HELEN CHURCH