Sacred Heart Hospital School of Nursing - Carmen Sylva Yearbook (Allentown, PA)

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.-7 ........ I .- .. ........... .... ...... The Class Motto Dear Graduates : HE CLASS motto is, as a rule, indicative of the distinctive feature, the outstanding trait which characterizes a group of students. At the very beginning of your new life, ere you were scarcely acquainted with one ' another, you met, and after long deliberation and much consultation, you chose a motto as your star for your three years' training - Courage in difficulties. This maxim has already guided you with security. With it con- stantly in mind, you have already surmounted innumerable difficulties-dif ficulties which, though inseparable from the career you have chosen to pursue, :seemed mountain high at the outset, and now, having followed the light of that star, you stand at the summit of your training career, prepared to be sent forth into the world as graduate nurses. It is when you thus launch out into the deep -of the unknown Future, when you will no longer have about you those who so unselfishly and faithfully piloted you through your training, when you will be at the helm alone, that you will need a beaconlight to keep your frail vessel from being shattered by the waves of the briny deep. There lies in the path of every individual enough to contend with and so in the path of the graduate nurse also. It may be difficulties of a physical nature, or of a moral character, or both. In the course of your training you have learned -considerably well how to face these difficulties g but none of us will ever know the lesson of right courage and proper confidence too well. There may come times when in spite of the best will to help your suffering neighbor, things will go wrong and disappointment will follow disappointment. The graiyjest mistake you 1 1 v - QRGDTD ear TQOSQ ' 5' l! f1 l f ' ' ' JT if i V ig ,. ,., ,, .,A, , , . , . j ..,. I 14 llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll nnuuun..-sian-: 1 I '

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that whatever she does for the least of His children, God rewards as done to Himself, feels herself encouraged to bear every suffering and overcome every difficulty. She is independent of human approval, gratitude or praise, because she looks for her consolation, her gratitude and reward, to Him Who sees all things and Who never forgets. As you sow, you shall reap. The gratitude and appreciation of the patient depend, in great measure, on the nurse's devotedness. Cold, calculating natures, that never give themselves whole heartedly to their work, never receive that fine, spontaneous gratitude which is the tribute to true devotion. But finer still than human gratitude is the inward joy and peace which comes with the realization that our duty has been done well and from a noble motive. The confidence of others and the success which the nurse achieves in her profession by being truly devoted are also real and precious fruits of her self- sacrifice. But it is likewise true that virtue is, to a certain extent, its own reward. The good that a nurse sees resulting from her devoted, patient ministrations, the gratitude which follows her, these rewards sometimes fail. If they fail, bear even this with a constant heart. Experience shows that the happiest people on earth are those who love mankind with such a devotion that they forget them- selves in the service of others. Therefore, dear graduates, With hearts within and God o'erhead go forth upon your errand of mercy and love among your fellowmen, ever faithful to the performance of your duties. Whenever trials and hardships come, and come they will, look up and remember: Virtus in Arduisn .- Courage in Difficulties. -'Sl.Jf6l'J of flze Sacred H earf ........ .......