St Boniface School of Nursing - Estole Fideles Yearbook (St Boniface, Manitoba Canada)

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Ja the. of tUe. f9 3 Q uui4UitUt QlaA4 Dear Graduates, Now that you have reached your goal, may you ever remember your graduation day; for this year, far more than in previous years, is vested a trust that you will serve your nursing profession faithfully in war and in peace. Suffering humanity needs you! Your Alma Mater is with you to say “God bless you!” General Superintendent and Superior of St. Boniface Hospital. Dear Graduates: It is an honor and a privilege to have the opportunity of sharing with you one of the proudest and happiest occasions of your life: an event so important in your career and so happy in its presentation that it will always remain a treasured and prized memory. After an intensive preparation of three years, your school confers upon you the privileges and responsibilities of a very noble profession. The immense panorama of the nursing field lies before you from which you may choose your particular service. It is with mingled feelings of pride and regret that we bid you farewell and God-speed. May you by your steadfast loyalty to your school and its ideals increase the prestige which those who have gone before you have striven to maintain. “Henceforth the School and you are one. And what You are, the race shall be.” Superintendent of Nurses. 10

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Va tlte. Cla44 After three years of difficult work and strict discipline you have reached the goal which seemed so far and distant at the beginning of your career. During these years you have gained much knowledge and experience in the treatment of pain and disease, you have seen the effect of suffering on the human mind, and you have to be kind to the sick. As graduate nurses, you now truly embark on your life’s work. During these trying times, every Canadian must strive to give his best for his coimtry, at home, as well as abroad. Now, more than ever, there is work to be done, and, it must be done efficiently. The sense of duty and devotion to suffering humanity will make you realize your responsibilities. I congratulate you sincerely on your graduation and wish you great success and happiness in your future. Obstetrical Staff. a l te Memiten4, the. f9 3 QnaAuaiUu My most sincere congratulations on your Graduation! You are bidding adieu to your Alma Mater, to face a changing world. You shall live through trying years, now and after the war. There will be much unrest and readjustments of all sorts to be made. At this time of your entrance on to the world’s scene, “for all the world’s a stage,” I know you will play your part well, walking in dignity and “in virtue and white linen,” as Hugo has said. Go out in this world which needs you badly. Give it the best you have, ever mindful of your responsibilities to your fellowmen, your country, and your God. I know you will not fail, and may God bless you. May He inspire your work, and be your “Protector and Reward exceeding great.” 0 ' h 9

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eoA Qn sAuatlnt Qla i6, T FEEL highly honored in being asked by you to publicly congratulate you on this occasion of your graduation. It seems such a very short time since I welcomed you, in the classroom, to the beginning of a new phase in your lives, and it makes one proud to have been instrumental in assisting you, at least in part, along the road towards your goal—Graduation. This is the day when you have fulfilled the requirements demanded by your associates and the state, the day when you publicly take your Nightingale pledge and receive your diploma. You have succeeded. To have succeeded is only a small measure of success and this success is not complete with your graduation, because success at best is forever first—beyond reach and therefore this day is but a beginning of another phase in your career. A phase in which you will be given op¬ portunities to put into practice the con¬ crete knowledge for which you have been given this diploma. There are, however, many other things which you have learned, not from other books, not from teachers, but from contacts with human nature and suffering; things for which no diploma is given, things which you could take to your heart or ignore, whichever you wished. You have all learned about tolerance, many of you to a degree which probably surprises you. Tolerance in yourselves and tolerance of others. You have, by actual contact and ex¬ perience, learned the value and the good of faith; the comfort it has given to those in physical and mental anquish, and to the dying. I have never seen a human with faith afraid to die. Hope. “Hope springs eternal in the human heart.” Those with little of it are doomed in the face of adversity, and hope has sustained many over a crisis which seemed unsurmountable. Cultivate it in yourselves. Teach it to others. How good it feels to give charitably, not necessarily the concrete things, but such priceless things as a smile, a kind word, a kind gesture, a little encourage¬ ment. What a difference these things make not only to the sick but to all of us. In no other profession are these things more useful, more necessary I should say, than in your profession, and nowhere are they met with more frequently or needed more direly. These are only a few of the little things that you have learned, but acquired. Cultivate them. Make good use of them. They will carry you so much closer to success. In closing I would urge you not to be satisfied to succeed but rather to continue to strive for success. I congratulate you one and all, though privately I think of each one of you separately and personally. 9 ’ Past Practical Instructress. 11