Milwaukee Hospital School of Nursing - Gleanings Yearbook (Milwaukee, WI)

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: Moderate tasks and moderate leisure, 5 Quiet living, strict-kept measure x Both in suffering and in pleasure a 'Tis for this thy nature yearns. l l Matthew Arnold.

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I spied a fair pavilion which diffused Its Heating umbrage 'mid the silvery shade of osiers.

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OUR QUARTO-CENTENN IAL The School of Nursing of Milwaukee Hospital this year looks back upon twenty-five years of existence and this publication by the Seniors of the School is intended to be a jubilee Number. As we let these years pass in review before our mind we have all reason to be grateful and to rejoice. The small group of six student nurses who first enrolled in 1903 were the vanguard of a long procession numbering now over 450 young women who came in ever-increasing numbers to Milwaukee Hospital. to be trained for the noble profession of a nurse. After having completed the training they went out into this community and into this and many other states to occupy influential positions as leaders of others, to become executives in institutions, to minister individually to the sick, or to found their own homes, always carrying with them into their environment the spirit of the ideals in which they were trained in their Alma Mater. Looking upon the service the School has rendered these aspiring young women in training them for a useful life, as well as the communities in which they settled, gives our School of Nursing a great deal of pleasure and satisfaction. As we look forward to the future, may we renew the pledge of keeping the ideals and standards of our School ever clear before its eyes. The ideals upon which the School was built were first of all, a thorough knowledge gained by a thorough instruction. And not only gaining knowledge was the purpose, but also to acquire professional skill by training, for nursing is science and art combined. Persons dealing with human life must be carefully instructed and trained for their vocation. , In the second place, that this profession is eminently a profession of service. It should be chosen, not for commercial purposes, but from higher ideals of consecrating one's life to the service of those in need of special care in times of sickness and affiiction. To render service in life gives value to the individual life. And last, but not least, this service should be rendered in a Christian spirit by Christian young women in whose life the spirit of the Master is refiected. Such service is dignified, honorable, and well pleasing to God. May these' ideals ever stand out clearly as a guiding star to our School in the years to come as they have in the years past. To these ideals let us dedicate the School with renewed devotion.