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

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PROLOGUE Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road, Healthy, free, the world before me. The long brown path before me leading wherever I choose. — Walt Whitman; Song of the Open Road The theme of our yearbook is Freedom Trail — an institution peculiar to Boston as well as being descriptive of our educational endeavors here at the Massachusetts General Hospital School of Nursing. While only a portion of us may have tread along beside the red footprints and red brick line to see the historical sights in Boston, all of us have plodded in black shoes through the three years at MGH, to reach a common goal — that of being a graduate nurse. If those black shoes had left a mark for each step taken in them, surely there would be few places in the hospital where the floors would be uncovered by black footprints. But now the Freedom Trail has come to an end for us at the MGH School of Nursing and we must split up and venture forth alone on a new Trail. And our steps will no longer be tread in black. Our shoes will be white ones, a tribute to the three years of struggle that it has taken us to achieve our goal.

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IN DEDICATION I It seems quite appropriate that we should dedicate our yearbook to Miss Petzold because our advent as student nurses at the Massachusetts General Hospital School of Nursing was also her advent as director of this same institution. So simultaneously we, as a class, and Miss Petzold became oriented to our new roles as student nurses and director of the school of nursing, respectively. And so as we prepare to leave the Massachusetts General Hospital, we take a moment to thank you. Miss Petzold, for your leadership and for sharing with us what we, as professional nurses, will be. We, thank you for being a friend to us, too, by participating in our social events and being available to talk with us. It was your hands that placed our senior caps upon our heads, as you shared with us and our families the thrill of our promotion. Yes, and. Miss Petzold, it ' s with your guidance that we have progressed to the point where we can prepare to go forth as graduate nurses. I I ! I I I I I I 4