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Miss Petzold, director Dear Seniors: Tennyson has written that “knowledge comes— but wisdom lingers”. There are many tests to which our knowledge is put as we care for patients, take examinations, strive to cope with problems of every day living in a com- plex society. After some of the details of what we have learned elude us, or when new discoveries have made our knowledge obsolete, perhaps the most important test is; Have we gained wisdom? Wisdom, insight, under- standing are what will guide us when we are faced with decisions of a moral nature as well as a technical nature, and guide us as responsible members of the nursing and health team, as well as in our roles within our family and community life. Along with our very best wishes to you for a . life that is purposeful and rewarding professionally and personally, we wish you well as you go forth as Alumnae of the M.G.H. School of Nursing. May your wisdom grow apace with your knowledge and skills; may you continue to enjoy the marvelous sense of discovery that can come with learning. 6
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“One of the most important lessons of life is that success must continually be won and is never finally achieved. Every day is one of test. Every day puts at risk all that has been gained. The greater the apparent achievement, the more seri- ous is the risk of loss. The farther you have climbed, the more disastrous the fall. As has well been said. It is not worthwhile to talk of the end of a period, for you are always at the beginning of a new one.” Charles Evans Hughes In September of 1964, a wave of choice and circumstance— contain- ing a homogenous mixture of varied hopes and dreams, aspira- tions and anticipations— swept one hundred and twenty-three of us onto the shore of 20 Charles. Washing back to the sea, it left us standing bewildered in a lobby surrounded by nearly every- thing we owned, yet still very much alone. Emptiness vanished soon, and relationships began to form spontaneously. Now— three years later— we are forced to answer questions which previously had been lightly considered. How did we get here? Where are we going? What are we and What do we have to offer? Although each of us will undoubtedly respond differently, common to all is the fact that we have gained— and grown. We expect this yearbook will bring pleasure, insight, and perhaps a “tear-to-the-eye”, as it relives the infinitesimal experiences which contributed to our growth: the familiar places, some de- spised, most loved; the people who may already be a shadow of a memory, but who added some unique twinge in passing. We wish also to remember “Our Towne”, and the classmates from whom, with whom and because of whom we have learned. Sentimentality is not one of the evils of this edition. The past is significant only in that it is the precursor to the future. M.G.H. has offered a profession built on the foundations of giving. To ac- cept this challenge we need courage; and having accepted it, we need even more courage to fulfill the debt we have pledged to humanity. Let us stand and be proud— not only that we are M.G.H. nurses, but also that we are people needed in a world that is grasping for some type of caring. The scope of our future is suddenly vast, and does not lie entirely within the walls of M.G.H. This yearbook hopes to communicate not only the remembrance of what you were, nor solely the reali- ty of what you are; Thusly illuminating what you are to be. The edition and all it represents, wishes you to ponder this; even though you turn the last page and close the cover, the journey has not ended. The unwritten future lies beyond that page. You are at the beginning of a new period . . . and now, the same wave of choice and circumstance which brought us all together is carrying us apart into that future. The scope of our lives has broadened, and from here we grow no longer with one another, but with the world.
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