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

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A, 1- Q..-i .sf - , . , . Q U' p ' J, 3 ' Q JF , ,. Y pi pp I J 4' ' . x ui of 7 M X' W M QXWW E The Hospital of the WOI11ElI1,S Mediczil College of Pennsylvania is conducted by the Corporation under the professional direction of the College faculty. It was first founded, in 1861, through the efforts of Dr. Ann Preston, the first woman dean of the College, then :alled the VJonian's Hospital of Philadelphia. Wheii, in 1903, the increasingly high standards required by the American Medical As' sociation made it necessary to become a general hospital, the charter of the hospital was changed, including a change in the hospital name. In 1907 a hospital building was erected on North College - , ge Avenue and 21st St if so ' ' i we rect serving until tht present College and Hosf pital building on Henry Avenue and Abbottsford Road was opened in 1930. This hospital, at present, contains 206 beds, including 36 bassinets and has an Out Patient Department conducted at Barton Dispensary, located at Zoth and Bark' St 'S 5, Phl t s reets, 1 adelphia. This Hospital is approved by the American Medical Association and the American College of Surgeons, It is a member of the Amerif can Hospital Association and the Hospital Association of Pennsylvania. HCSPITAL SCI-100 URSINC3 'Three

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ji Y 1 CAP and CANDLE p7'L'.YC7ZfLYll 1947 CLASS OF WOMAN'S MEDICAL COLLEGE Two

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DEDICATIGN Y. .JAITIQS A. Lilimdn I swear by Apollo Physician, by Aselepius, by Health, by Heal-All, and by all the gods and goddesses, that according to my ability and judgment, I will keep this oath and stipulationg to reekon him who taught me this art equally dear to me as my parents, and share my substanees with him and relieve his neeessities if required. To regard his offspring as on the same footing with my own brothers and teaeh them this art if they should wish to learn it, without fee or stipulation, and that by preeept, leeture and every other mode of instruc- tion, I will impart a lrnozelerlge of the art to my own sons and to those of my teachers and to diseiples bound by stipulation and oath, aeeording to the law of mellieiue, but to none others. If it is possible for the many principles and virtues embraced by the Hippocratic oath to be embodied in a single individual, the graduating class of September 1947, has selected as the fulfillment of those ideals one whom we, through the course of our training, have come to know and appreciate. At the conclusion of three years, we have had thc opportunity to observe many, but there remains one, high in ideals and outstanding in practice, who has fostered in us the desire to excel and renewed in us muchfnceded courage. Now, we have come to the parting of the ways where each one must pursue alone her own conception of attainment and ultimate happiness. Wheii the path be' comes steep and dim, difficulties loom up insurmountable and courage falters, may the beacon of hope that guided us through our student days, penetrate the mist of doubt and fear and restore in us the courage of our own convictions that we may continue with renewed faith. At such a time as this, words fail to convey the true feelings that were wont to be expressed in deep appreciation. With these thoughts in mind, we entrust our book in humble dedication. Four