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

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the l oad (With apologies to Tennyson) From cities, farms and country towns, We came with expectation; A bright-eyed, healthy looking lot. To start on our probation. Our first days here we’ll ne’er forget— New sights, new sounds, new faces; And lots of regulations, too— To keep us in our places. A little at a time we learned. Things nurses all must know: How to shake thermometers And keep our beds just so. We learned of all the ills of men From heart attacks to scabies. The technique for contagious cases And how to care for babies. Three years have passed, and now, at last. Our long sought goal is won; We take a bow—we’re nurses now Until our days are done. To cities, farms and country towns We shall go back again. And take with us all we’ve learned In our service to men. General Proficiency Presented by St. Boniface Nurses’ Alumnae Awarded to ELLA COLLISTER Bedside Nursing Presented by Dr. C. R. Rice Awarded to AGNES Le blond Obstetrical Nursing Presented by Dr. S. Kobrinsky and Dr. H. Guyot Awarded to JULIA MOROZ Charting Presented by Dr. M. Rady Awarded to CHARMIAN KINSEY Highest Standing in Theory Presented by Dr. J. D. Adamson Awarded to MARY GRAYSTON Executive Ability Presented by Birks-Dingwall Ltd. Awarded to MARGARET GIBSON Highest Standard in Theory Intermediate Class Presented by Dr. D. S. McEwen Awarded to ADELE GILMAN Junior Class Presented by Dr. A. Hollenberg Awarded to NOELLIE TUCKER 12

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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

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Ou i Cnje i We have a Standard—a perfection toward which we strive. In this, our crest, are the tokens to remind us of our pledge. The Angel’s Wing of Mercy The Gavel representing Strength and Fortitude The Cross of Sacrifice The Lamp of Service The Three Stripes representing Three Years’ Prepa¬ ration jor our Profession And with it our fervent hope; may we always “hitch our wagon to this star” of perfection and never sever any of the links that make up this chain that binds us to nursing. 13