New York Medical College - Fleuroscope Yearbook (Valhalla, NY)

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sci-roots or NURSING One hundred sixty PROBABLY it was the aura of glamour and romance that surrounds the pro- fessions of nursing, that induced many of us to enter this field of medical endeavor. Emotionally, we were beguiled by the thought of aiding the dis- tressed, of becoming integral parts of the noble field of Medicine, of being a professional woman-a Registered Nurse. Curiously, three years of terrible drudgery-mixed with actual nursing of patients, always with strict super- vision and almost army discipline, has left our early illusions unimpaired. Rather, the very things which at first seemed so undignifying became the bulwark of effective nursing care, and thereby embellished the idea that as nurses we were carrying on a noble profession. Surrounded by suffering and disease, we are supposedly cyncial and hard boiled, but personal observation of the pain and despair of the sick has somehow left us with the thought that there is nothing so terrible as death, nothing so grand as being able to help forestall the Grim Reaper. Patients may be considered impersonally, but each patient is a personal problem, and we are never allowed to forget that our greatest task is to give comfort, both spiritually and physically. Medical students find ready sympathy from nurses, since we are sub- jected to the same lectures by the same doctors. Of couse, some allowance is made for the fact that our studying time is limited by nursing care, and we are not so vigorously held accountable for small details, and unimportant generalities. However, we do feel that our theoretical work is beautifully har- monized with our practical work, and we sympathize, somewhat, with the medical students who cannot combine the two, but first has one and then the other. WOMEN IN WHITE

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CLASS OF 19110 LEIS, HENRY P. LITRENTO, FRANCIS I. LODICO, VINCENT MARSH, CHARLES W. MASIELLO, SERAFINO MCOUADE, IOHN I. MERWIN, THOMAS K. MOORE, SAMUEL B., IR. MOSIG, HENRY MURPHY, MRS. E. C. NARDI, PETER IOHN PELLEGRINO, MISS R. T. PINTAURO, F. L. L. POTTER, LEMAN W. RUBEN, MORTIMER RYACK, LEON SCARANO, SIMONE I. SCHAFFER, FRANK I. SCHLECTER, IOHN F., IR. SHERMAN, ROVER D. SHIPMAN, ROBERT T. B. S. Fordham UniversitY B. S. Fordham University B. S. Columbia University A. B. Adelbert College B. S. Fordham University B. S. Notre Dame A. B. Wesleyan A. B. Georgetown University A. B. Columbia University Hunter College B. S. Manhattan B. S. Marymount College B. S. Manhattan B. S. Alfred B. S. Maryland University A. B. Harvard University B. S. Columbia University B. S. Villanova B. S. St. Iohns A. B. Union University B. S. Lafayette SLATER, DANIEL A. B., M. S. New York University SOMBERG, HAROLD SORRENTINO, IOSEPH STRAX, MISS ANNA TAGLIAGAMBE, MARIO TEDESCO, LOUIS I. THOMS, CHARLES H. TICHENOR, CLIFFORD I. TYBURCZY, IOSEPH A. VESPIC-N ANI, PASOUALE A. B. New York University B. S. Brooklyn College A. B. Hunter College B. S. Columbia University B. S. New York University B. S. Wagner A. B. Wesleyan B. S. Long Island University B. S. Fordham University WECHSELBLATT, ISIDOR B. S. City College of New York WELLS, PAUL L. Adrian College WHALEN, THOMAS F., IR. B. S. Fordham University WIXTED, FRANCIS I . B. S. Villanova One hundred titty nine

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CLASS CF 19 37 We have gained, through the merger of the Flower and the Fifth Avenue Hospitals, a wide variety of activities and traditions. Seniority is a tradition which ranks first. Seniority is important: it imparts dignity to the Senior class, and creates respect from the lower classes. Seniority means the front table in the dining hall, it means seniors get on and off elevators first: it means three, instead of one or two late leaves per week. Besides seniority and all its rites, there are many other traditions which are part of our esprit de corps, such as, the welcome extended to the probies on the first night, the Carols the night before Christmas, and the annual Florence Nightingale services. As strangers and students in a large city we are forced to provide some means of relaxation. Dances, parties and teas formed the nucleus of our social life. We have had formal and informal dances, but the latter are the more popular. Paradoxically, for a female, is the lack of interest we demon- strate in getting dolled up. But the vigors of the days activities lead us to prefer the ease and comfort of informality. Lesser activities such as swimming at Hecksher Foundation, tennis on the courts behind the hospital, and pic- nics in Long Island help to make group living more enjoyable. Personal hobbies among the girls, such as knitting, painting, designing, and reading are in great evidence. The students have a self-governing organization which is supplemented by a faculty advisory council. A Student Council, consisting of eight selected members, attempts to solve the perplexing problems so numerously created by the girls. Their decision is then presented to the students for approval. However, the importance of the Council lies in its constant effort to help the girls to acclimate themselves to the regime of the nurse's curriculum. We are about to clothe ourselves in the whiteness of the graduate nurse, with the reminescent thoughts of the bedraggled lot who first entered still in our minds. We hope that these memories, these traditions, and these activ- ities that we leave with you-our Iuniors, Intermediates, and Probationers- FRANCES PHILLIPS. will be carried on, and embellished. President Frances Phillips Vice-President Emma l-lenn Treasurer Edna Maynard Secretary Evelyn Sandbeig Class Representatives Grace Biddle Lucia Hamilton Elizabeth Keifer CLASS OFFICERS One hundred sixty-one