Wake Forest School of Medicine - Gray Matter Yearbook (Winston Salem, NC)

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Un Graduation This is a time we have long awaited lt signiiies a dream almost come true. There is sadness in knowing our training days are over But there is gladness for horizons lifted. Because we most blest have been in ways XYe owe a life-long giving of our best. True joy will come to us if we but find Tasks that are worthy even of our all. Our training days have given us treasures That priceless are and surely imperishable. VVe would not leave though mere bearers of these treasures But we would multiply them in free sharing Make life for countless others fairer, richer. Now our training days become near sacred They echo clear to us a clarion call: To use always the best that experience has taught us ln everything worthwhile that life may offer. Our quest will not be like the knightly exploits Told in Arthurian legend of war and battle But ours must be the quests that seek and find The better ways of building this our world- A world in which all lives grow nobler, purer. Thus may we as we don our uniforms of white Follow the gleam that doth immortal shine Seek ever to fullil our quest divine. Hazel Cox Page T wenty-Six

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,,-',mh'. .,, IE. . . ,M IM CLASS HISTORY In the year 1940 on September 2nd, twenty-nine girls took the greatest step in their lives when they arrived at the North Carolina Baptist Hospital to spend three years administering to humani- Leaves only on Saturday and Sunday nights until 10 P.lVI. Oh-h-h just a confusion of many misunderstood descriptions and explanations. Classes day in and day out grew monotonous for some. Many a probie went to bed with her trunks packed to awaken the next morning to a brighter and happier day with new aspects on life. ty. Rules were the foremost thought in our mind- Always stand for a capped nurse or doctor , Then October 13 Claire Wloodward decided that she would end the monotony of classes and thoughts of serving humanity as a group, and administer to the object of her affections . So- Mr. and Mrs. jimmy Bone are now living Somewhere in South Carolina . As time went on and we strived harder day by day to become Freshmen rather than Preclinicals, we found that we were to have personal interviews November 26, 1940, with Miss Bohelerfnow Mrs. Smithdeal-who was then Acting Director of Nurses, and Miss Henley, Instructor. The interview was to determine who would receive caps and who would not on january 1941-an occasion looked forward to by each of us. As each probie returned from the interview there was either happiness or sorrow written on her face. At the close of the day we experienced a very unhappy moment when we found that Kathleen Camden, Maxine Banner, Virginia Lee and Alma Cree were to say so-long to a nursing career. Onward liver strived the twenty-four. Alasel-'rances Blackwell became homesick for Georgia, this leaving twenty three. Then came Thanksgiving Holidays and again we were deprived of others-Mary Smith, due to sickness. and Mary Fishel who decided to devote all her attention to the one and only -and may I add that Mr. and Mrs. Alvin XYikle and son Richard is the name. Then on to December and Martha Skambato said goodby. january 30, 1941! Happy day!! lYhite caps were placed on each individual's headeno longer probies - Freshmen if you please! More responsibility was given us and cooperation was at its height and glory. Here comes Cupid again! Lorie lYright became the bride of Gray Holcolm and Ann Clapp and Harry Hanes sailed the seas of matrimony. Time swiftly passed and during the second year of our famous careers we began to become more adjusted to our surroundings. Un came new classes of nurses, and with each a pang of pain for we knew that it is a long and narrow path. YYith june came a new addition to our class-Mary Frances Harrison. As our third year rolled around, Averil Robertson became the bride of Pvt. Jimmy Hales-much to everyones surprise. Soon we found added to our little white caps a black band which meant Senior Nurses . Yes, we still fussed about many trivial items, just couldn't stay awake on class and as most mischevious girls, we tried to break or ignore every rule only to find new ones piled upon us. Little by little the news seeped out that Zona Tysinger was no longer Miss Tysinger,.b-ut Mrs. Cummings. She later made her exit from our little group and went to California to Join THE Lieutenant. Could it be wedding bells we hear in a distance? Must be 'cause the engagement of Hazel Cox and Elmer Stelter has been announced, Dancy is wearing a diamond on third finger, left hand, and Catherine jones is planning to be a June Bride. Cjerry Shingleton is the lucky guyj. Then followed graduation and Pittsburgh and all the excitements of each. VVell, as we glimpse behind us, we find, no matter what we did, it was done whole-heartedly and full of fun, and each member of the graduating class of 1943 can only say, It was a tedious and tremendous responsibility, yet we would not exchange it for the largest treasure in all the world. To those who have guided our footsteps, we offer our sincere thanks and gratitude, and in the years to come may they say 'NVe are proud of them. They are honoured in our realm '. Marie Parker Page Twenty-Eight wmnwwwmmwswmfihwnifgiiiv-' , Q , n iiguim-wa-zmam Hmm6namWJbMQiQufmymmmimwwugimwiweswrr--am in