US Army School of Nursing - Taps Yearbook (Washington, DC)

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(04 EssagE front the (Eiass restbnit -jkc) Vale! After three years of happiness and sorrow, joy and pain, we bid you farewell. Our work accomplished, we are prepared to leave your walls and embark upon the voyage for which we have been fitted. Originally fortj-seven, we are now but forty-two, our companions having given up the struggle. Vale ! Ours is the satisfaction of work well done and of prepared- ness for the performance of any duty within the scope of the pro- fession we have chosen. That is our present reward. What the future may bring to us depends upon our own efforts. The ability and opportunity to aid a suffering world have been and will continue to be given us. What greater pleasure can there be than that derived from helping others ? Vale! To the four corners of the earth we go in pursuit of duty. Mingled with our smiles and laughter are tears of sadness, for it is not easy to sever ties formed in three years of constant and close asso- ciation. But no matter how many miles may separate us, we shall always be as one in our striving to maintain the principles so deeply inculcated within us. As one shall we be in our endeavor ever to reflect credit upon the great institution we are privileged to call our Alma Mater. VALE! LiLA J. Olson, President of the Class of 1929, Army School of Nursinff. e€ [5] :}D