St Lukes Hospital School of Nursing - Blu Chambray Yearbook (San Francisco, CA)

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ACH one of you, O Class of Nineteen Twenty-seven, has completed a certain period of your life. , In this time you have learned, along with your nursing procedure and your professional ethics, many things. For instance, you have learned that no one can put into you ideas which were not in you already. You came to the School of Nursing with all sorts of good ideas. These did not break forth into Hame until some spark from outside yourself had touched them. Much that you did so well, while at school, you did because you were influenced by the very best of those who inlluenced you. Hence. it is that you have found that spiritually you live by what others have given you. Unperceivecl, unexpected, unannounced have been most of these influences and impressions. Even now you have not yet completely recognized them. But rest assured they will come to you later on when you begin to look back on your life here at School. .lust as a bit of landscape frequently strikes us first in our recollection of it-so also much that has now become your own, of quietness, kindliness, thoroughness, loyalty, you will owe to Miss Kennedy and her staff of head nurses. In them you have seen, you have experienced all those nurses' virtues at work. NV hat they have taught you by precept and example, what you need to make of yourselves pro- fessionally most proficient is summed up in the phrases of this short Prayer for Nurses: Almighty God, grant unto all Nurses deeper reverence for the mystery of pain. Give us greater sympathy for all suffering, skill in relieving it, gentleness in minis- tering to it, patience in healing it, courage in overcoming it. Grant us strength in all our difficulties. Guard our lips from indiscretion and irritation, our hands from harshness and negligence, our hearts from indifference. May we bring comfort to the suffering, rest to the disquieted, peace to the dying. Inspire us with zeal for the lowliest task. Remember all nurses whose strength has failed or who have been stricken in service, grant them health again and a speedy restoration to their career of usefulness. Amen. Rizv. J. H. Onnuorif. l 35 .I

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I Our Chaplain REVEREND HENRY OHLHOFF U41

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C- -, To zfze Supef vz's0r.v, Faculty ana' Staff Two years and four months ago, the class of '27 was horn into this hospital. You tended us in our helplessness, clothed us, fed us and taught the young idea how to shoot. Through tons of soap and water, gallons of antiseptic, miles of gauze and mazes of bandage, you have led us safely, marking the miles with thermometers and the turns with safety pins. Today we stand at the end of the trail you have blazed for us. Now it is our turn to venture forth into the new country, working and making safe the paths for those who follow us. VVe hope we carry with us your love and your kind reineinbrance. XV e leave with you our gratitude and a fond farewell. Cmss or 1927. l 20 l