Trinity Hospital School of Nursing - Trin I Views Yearbook (Minot, ND)

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LlNES OF A PATTtRN Midst the lines of a life, A girl crossed unawares a line and greeted with shy boldness and eager bewilderment A new pattern, strange, compelling, to be explored . . . experienced. There is warmth, reached for, quietly intense, necessary, binding in the anticipatitn of the Tomorrow Warmth unknown in laughing gladness, in achievement shared, in unspoken lines called friendship. Authority from other patterns, white uniformed, speaks knowledge, wisdom, and challenge, and lives entering with quiet assuredness a strong line Into the new pattern. And midst the new pattern a girl faces fellow man - familiar line, but new pattern writes his name patient . . And his pattern, shadowed. A girl knows lines of fear written with courage, of peace written with hope, of hope written with God, and from the new pattern she constructs lines saying, I care. Shadowed pattern breaks with light exultant. Somewhere midst the lines in a pattern of a life, A girl crossed unawares a line . . . She is a woman, and it is written with a line called Nurse. Judith M. Prentice, N.Y.