Philadelphia Osteopathic Hospital School of Nursing - Cranium Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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Edgar O. Holden, A.B., D O GREETinGS nno FELICITfiTIOnS HAVE observed with a great deal of interest and with an inordinate amount of satisfaction the rise and development of the School of Nursing connected with our Hospital. Indeed it is not at all difficult, in retrospection, to visualize the small institution that we were pleased to call The Osteopathic Hospital at 410 S. 9th Street, with the College located just around the corner at 832 Pine Street. That pioneer effort in the capable hands of Miss Carrie Fischer, R.N., so far as the administration of nursing was concerned, was destined to expand and to be developed into the efficient organization that exists today. The removal of the Hospital to 1725 Spring Garden Street in 1916, followed by transfer to the new Hospital Building associated with the College at 19th and Spring Garden Streets, gave evidence of the demands for increased osteopathic, surgical, specialty and. nursing services and it is to be understood at once that the nursing aspects and particularly the School for Nursing as an integral part of the picture, made strides in keeping with the progress noted, on all the professional and technical fronts. The service of Miss Simms, R.N., in the post-war days, in the capacity of Directress of Nurses, at the 19th and Spring Garden Street institution, springs pleas- antly to memory. THE CRANIUM, 1937 Page Six

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mflRGflRET PEELER, B.B., R.fl. Directress o£ Nursing THE CRANIUM, 1937 Page Five

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No small tribute and all due respect may well be recorded next to Miss Selina M. Johnson, R.N., who assumed the captaincy of the Training School in 1924 and rendered a monumental service for a span of years. To her belongs grateful recogni- tion for a loyalty and devotion to a cause that undoubtedly paved the way for better things. With the projection of the magnificent unit at 48th and Spruce Streets made possible by a public campaign for funds, the responsibility of organizing and direct- ing a Training School for Nurses that would meet the reguirements of the Department of Public Instruction at Harrisburg, went to Miss E. Dinkelacher, R.N., and then sub- seguently to Mrs. H. B. Hardcastle, R.N. Their efforts in assembling and putting into effect the talents and the capacities at hand toward the realization of a substantial, standardized School of Nursing, fully aware of its duties and trusts, were fully appre- ciated. The School of Nursing of the Osteopathic Hospital of Philadelphia has come to assume a place in the front rank of institutions of its kind .It is registered with the De- partment at Harrisburg as a first-class School of Nursing. Not so many years ago it was a source of speculative interest as to whether, inasmuch as we were an unortho- dox group, we could make the grade of recognition under the registration reguirements for the degree R.N. Respect for standard and conscious observance of detail in connection with curriculum were not without their reward. All in all, there is a tribute over and above that which it is possible for us to accord those who have been in charge of the nursing division of the Institution. It is to be paid to that tireless group of workers styled the Supervisors, the General Duty Workers and the Pupil Nurses of the School. It has been forcibly brought to attention that the measure of service in a hospital is gauged in terms of the Nursing Service. Most fortunately and appreciatively we are pleased to say that hundreds, nay, even thousands of testimonial letters received in the past decade bear silent testimony to the very splendid service rendered by our nurses in the Osteopathic Hospital of Philadelphia. I am glad of this opportunity to express openly our deep regard for the work of our Nurses in all their various categories in our Institution. I am certain, too, that while it has not been amply said, nor could it justly be, the place of these young women in general in the affairs of the world is consciously understood. Edgar O. Holden, Superintendent . THE CRANIUM, 1937 Page Seven