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

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The Gmee Cathedral HE whole nursing profession in San Francisco Will be interested to know that a great effort is now being made to complete Grace Cathedral on the top of Nob Hill. VV hen completed this is to be a cathedral for the community, built by the gifts of citizens of all classes and creeds, just as are the great cathedrals now being completed in New York and lVashington, D. C. It is a curious fact that while our beautiful city has been rebuilt since the disaster of 1906, and wonderful temples to commerce and industry have been erected and our city has commanded the wonder of the whole world. we have failed to build an outstanding spiritual gathering place where the whole community may be represented on great spiritual occasions. Grace Cathedral has a special interest for the nursing profession as every year our Florence Nightingale service has been held in the Crypt. To this service, women of all faiths have come in memory of the patron saint of our profession. There is no more splendid example of community worship than the Florence Nightingale ser- vice each year, where we find Roman Catholics, Protestants of all denominations and our Jewish sisters united in praising the Great Physician for his mercies. A VV hen the great Cathedral on the top of Nob Hill is completed it will seat 3200 people and accommodate with standing room filled, 4500. This will enable the hospitality of the Cathedral to be offered and on an even larger scale than has been possible hitherto. The completion of Grace Cathedral will lend itself to memorial gifts of all kinds. W'ould it not be possible for the nurses of the city to offer as a group their tribute? The corner-stone of Grace Cathedral was laid in 19105 the present Crypt, quite inadequate for great occasions, was opened in 1914. VVhen the sum of 33,600,000 necessary for its completion is in hand. this beautiful and inspiring feature of our civil life can be completed in three years. EDVVARD L. PARSONS, Bishop of California.

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4ll LASS of nineteen twenty-eight, your schooltime is over. Your days of student nursing are completed. You go into a world which welcomes you because you are needed. But do not be deceivedg this same world can be unappreciative, and sometimes you will feel it in moments of loneliness or defeat. Like every human being who contributes to life, you will experi- ence acceptance and rejection, success and failure. But unlike most professions yours is marked with a rare symbol 3 we, at Saint Luke's, use it for our school pin. Each of you, class of nineteen twenty-eight, will wear it. It is just that symbol-the cross-which can hold you true to your calling. And it is most appropriate that the cross is the symbol for nursing. For back in the early ages, the cross was the aboriginal possession of many races. Many and different were the reasons for venerating it. In Egypt, it was the emblem of eternityg in China, it symbolized immortality. In America-aboriginal Amer- ica-it was the sign of renewal of life, as well as the symbol of relief from suffering. So you today, and in America, wear it with those religious, and for you, professional meanings implied in it. You step forth now with that cross-formed pin of the School of Nursing of Saint Luke's Hospital, the very possession of which dedicates you to the freeing of your fellow man from suffering! Cherish then your cross as the symbol of your profession, G Class of nineteen twenty- eight. TIIE CHAPLAJN.