Winnipeg General Hospital School of Nursing - Blue and White Yearbook (Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada)

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€nii of a oab Three years have gone by, three years filled with many moments of laughter, and many moments of tears. We have worked harder in this time than we will perhaps in our lives, and yet looking back, it hasn ' t really seemed like work at all. We have learned much during our basic education, but now we realize it is only the basis for knowledge still to be absorbed. As we work at our profession we see that each day is q textbook and each new patient a lesson to be studied and understood. How many times during these past years have we asked ourselves one minute Why did I ever come in? and in the next moment experience something which made us thank God many times over that we did come in. There have been high spots, and low spots for all of us. We have shared joy with parents at the birth of their first child, and we have stood by a family as they watched the life of a loved one slowly ebb away. Yes, there has been happiness and there has been heartbreak. We have lived together in harmony for the most part of three years sharing everything from hair curlers to clothes. Where else but in a nurses residence would you find four girls playing cards at five a.m., and who but the student nurses would pool their sparse funds to enable a classmate from out of town to spend her days off at home? Who else could make so much noise when someone gets her diamond or consume so much coffee the night before an exam? Yes we have shared everything, our successes and failures, joys and griefs, romances and philosophies, in fact our lives. Thirty-six months looked like a long road that first day we came to this hospital. We were excited but frightened teenagers, stepping from the security of high school into a strange new world. Now, three years later, we look back on that day which seemed like only yesterday and, as we prepare to follow our careers, we experience somewhat the same emo¬ tions, for we are leaving security once again, facing a new larger world outside our own residence and hospital. But this time we leave as young women equipped with confidence and knowledge our education has given. We leave the residence slowly, hearing the echoes of days gone forever and as the door of the school closes behind us we see a group of Pre-clinicals coming toward us. We wish we could tell them of the adventure they have to look forward to but they must find out for themselves. We can only say thank you, to our Mothers and Fathers, to our instruc¬ tors and thank God for helping us to become nurses. Compliments of DALZELL AND POTTS 44 Princess Street, Winnipeg, Manitoba. 63

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