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

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Army School of Nursing V ' = ■ ■ ■ -■ ■ - ■- : ( ? OFFICERS OF THE SENIOK CIAS; President Mary Page Wilder Vice-President Elizabeth Evenson Secretary Alice C. Waggoner Treasurer Elizabeth Baker Social Chairman Eleanor Smith Twenty-four

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TAPS 1930 Vfl = - - ■ ■ -■ — - ■ ■ -■ I =»? TO THE CLASS OF 1930 You have demonstrated by Taps that you believe in a shifting and changing social organization. This youthful spirit of reaching out is most apparent now, but, because I know you, I venture to say that there is not one of you who does not hold sacred the older ideals and traditions of your profession. Because you are alert to present-day movements, I select one for your thought, and it is that of character building. We are now told that character education is being taken seriously. This thought is not new, but brought before us with a different view- point, and with the suggestion that we dress it up differently. Character education has always and will continue to demand a creative adjustment in this changing civilization. Will you think of the whole life of an individual incorporating spiritual values which dominate, and not as a small spiritual compartment which functions on isolated occasions? If I thought you could accept Roback practically as well as theoretically, with his concept of character as a disposition to inhibit instinctive impulse in accordance with a regulation principle, I would indeed be happy in the thought that you would have an effective professional life, and a reasonably happy one. Now this is my real message: Blessed are those who are so concerned with what is going on in the world and in other people that they have no time to check off a virtue score-card for themselves. Faithfully yours, Mary W. Tobin. Twenty-three

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RACHEL B. ABRAHAM 182 Park Street Canandaigua, New York TO ay is a good scout, quite versatile too; she ' ll talk about the newest book or go out and play tennis with you. She ' ll even learn to swim — . By the way, Ray, isn ' t it time to reveal the fate of the murdered goldfish; What became of the magic box over in Quart- ers Seven that held everything from soup to nuts? (She could make herself anything from a bathing suit to an evening gown out of its contents.) Ray doesn ' t miss anything, if possible. Re- member the time she heard someone say Fleet ' s In and she immediately wanted to know if it were at the Navy Yard or the Seventh Street Wharves, and was quite disillusioned to find it was at the Earle! DELLA A. AUSTIN 215 Thirty-fifth Street Newport News, Virginia T asses from Newport News! I can see her with J a crate of oranges, a big knife, an electric orange squeezer and five empty quart bottles. Pain, ain ' t it? She will be quite an asset to this apartment we ' re going to have, for what would we do with- out Paul around occasionally to move the piano, etc.? Lasses likes purple, or does she? Just what does one do when one gets two rub- ber gloves apparently for the same hand, and the caduces is worn on the left side, really! Strangest of all, she ' s finishing up with six good uniforms! Girls, imagine it! If the rest of us had one decent one we would hoard it and wear it on Class Day. Twenty-five