Medical College Hospital School of Nursing - Cap and Candle Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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TO THE CLASS UF 1931 VVe who in passing bid awhile To aid some struggling mortal in distress VVho from our seat secure reach down 7 To succor those who Life has favored less. Seeking no recompense, nor payment of reward, Save that which comes to mind brought from within. That satisfaction grand, which comes from knowing VVe have not failed to ease the pain of kin, But working, helping, nursing, always try To do our best according to the Creed. Find on reflection in a quiet hour, That life is good. XVe have reward indeed. 26 ANONYMOUS

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CLASS PRUPHECY T was in a crowd of wounded officers from many regiments, that I lay waiting to be transported to the hospital at Angers. I had been on the front line since September of ,42 and now I was going back, an invalid. The pain in my foot seemed almost unbearable, but had within the last few minutes been somewhat relieved by the Morphine and Atropine given to me at the base hospital. As the minutes, which seemed like hours, passed, the officers spoke of lands familiar to them and mentioned small wooded streams by remote farmhouses with beautiful names, pronouncing them in Hat American accents. I was longing to see someone fresh from our own American soil, when to my surprise, two officers picked up the stretcher on which I had been placed, and carried me toward the ambulance. Vtfe passed a young American girl, the first I had seen in months. She wore a dark blue corded uniform and carried heavy driving gloves. As the two soldiers lifted me into the ambulance, which was going to transport nie, they called to Miss Abbott for some help. It had been the same girl we had passed a few minutes before, whom I later determined was the driver of the ambulance. The drive to the hospital was a long one, and would have been more so had it not been for the cheery songs and laughter of the driver. XYe had to drive very slowly, because of the wounded, and did not arrive at the hospital at Angers until late that night. The place intoiwhich we were carried was obscured from our vision by the darkness of the night. As we entered the build- ing, the nurse in charge, who was Miss Milnor, came to the soldiers' assistance and directed them to the proper cots. Her kindness and tender care meant much to me through the long dreary nights that followed. The sun had risen high when I awakened. Two nurses were busy on the opposite side of the ward giving the wounded their morning care. This was the first time I had been able to collect my thoughts. XYhy were so many American nurses in Z8