South Highland Infirmary School of Nursing - Nightingale Yearbook (Birmingham, AL)

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xl f X 1 bi And still they gazed. and ingly limitless, as her tongue seldom gets a quently becomes twisted. She is one of our 4 l fl ' ,T 1 l l I I 1 .lOSIil'lIINli YQXNIDIYIQR. lllRKllNtill.'XN, .-Xl..'X. :XNGlCl,-l:.XLl still the wonder grew. That one small head could carry all she knew. A bright, enthusiastic girl, who does not worry about the present, because she thinks so much of the future. lrler talents are various. and her vocabulary seem- for that M. D.-but that brings on more talk. DAISY DARIANG, XVYLAM, ALA. 1 'tHoNEY. wa .Q I pray thee, look with favor on my curly locks. A bright-eyed, curly-headed girl, whose mild and gentle disposition cause one to think her affectionate surname very appropriate. She makes many friends, so we predict a very successful career for her. XVhen sent to the doctors' lectures it was not the hard benches that she objected to mostly, but the f7l'l'lICI'f7fc' of the H141-ll-Q. rest, in spite of the fact that it fre- most popular girls, and if it were not f I 17 C. SM if

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Senior Class History The opening of the South I lighlands Infirmary in October, 1910, found seven young ladies prepared to take up senior class work in the Training School. -W'e had already passed through the ordeal of entering a hospital, where one soon finds that nature or super- nature, has ordained that this world should not be brought to per- fection save through much suffering. XYe we1'e taught that clean- liness was next to godlinessf' that hospital etiquette was the culmi- nation of all the fine arts: and that grit and 'endurance were virtues not to be despised. Probation days being ended, the honor of donning the junior nurse's cap and uniform was conferred by the Superintendent, with many admonitions and instructions, and then we felt that our work had begun in earnest. There was no time for idle repining or tender musings on the splendor of the moon, but our days were filled to the brim with exacting and interesting duties., The jumor year dc- manded our very best efforts, both in class and practical work, but the course was arranged with such variety that our determination to come out more than conquerors never wavered. And now the black bands on our caps have given us the dignity of seniorhood, and woe be unto us if we thoughtlessly acknowledge that there is something we don't know. ln all the intricate ramifications of the human anatomy, in all of the endless remedies for the endless ailments of suffering humanity there must be nothing, absolutely nothing, beyond the ready reach of our immediate knowledge! Responsibility and hospital etiquette have become virtues of no mean importance. In them there is a discipline which makes for development. V Wye have received valuable training in the operating room, where skilled surgeons have cut into the delicate tissues and vitals of the physical and nervous organism, and have taken many suffer- ing ones who were under sentence of death and given them a new lease on life. XYe have learned much in the diet kitchen, where the best of all tonics for organic life is prepared, and without which all other remedies would not avail. XVe have served our alloted time on general duty, on special duty, and have kept vigil in the dim corridors through the long, tiresome nights when gaunt Death often hovered near, watching to catch us off guard that he might claim our patients for his victims. And now that the day of graduation is near, all of our mental struggles with books and instructors, all of our misgivings and anxieties over suffering ones committed to our care, shall become pleasant memories which, no doubt, in years to come, will often prove an inspiration when we are called upon to measure arms with disease and death alone. XVe believe our profession to be the noblest, the most womanly, the most benehcial, to mankind-and with these sentiments abiding in our hearts let us resolve to fight the battles of the coming years with an earnestness, with a fearlessness, with a consecration to duty that will make this, the first class of graduate fnurses from the South Highland Training School, worthy of all emulation by those who are to come after. CLASS lrllS,TORfAN 'll. Q!-ga...