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

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Graduating Glass 1963 It is always a pleasant honor for doctors to participate in the activities of the sister profession of nursing. To contribute to this Yearbook is one such honor. Sometimes, not always, this function should be on a serious level as perhaps a message addressed to you of the senior class of our nursing school. No doubt as time hurries you to the customary annual ceremonies of graduation you feel some relief at the prospect beyond. You will find, however, that the past, no matter what difficulties and hard applications you have recently experienced, is always with you. You will often find occasion to recall your Alma Mater and look to the olden days with a thrill of appreciation. Thus, as Sir William Osier once said to such as you, it cannot be imagined all of you reaching the plain of Forgetfulness and bathing in the water of its river without a thought for the journey just completed. Certainly there will remain affection for your teachers and classmates who have been your guides and travelling companions. Undoubtedly there should persist some tender thoughts for the medical students and residents met in the daily rounds, clothed in white samite, mystic and wonderful, often lean and pale and leaden-eyed after the night’s work. Indeed it is hoped especially you may retain a fond memory of the older doctors. They always had their eyes on you even if you weren’t aware of it. In your professional training yours has been a vast experience for women so young. You have participated and assisted in the great progress medical science is making. Some of the innermost secrets of nature have been revealed and their meaning understood. In addition to being specialists in the technique of nursing, you have watched, as relatively few can do, the drama of humanity. You have beheld its disturbances and the trials and misfortunes of our friends. Equal¬ ly so you have observed their restoration and new hopes and the beginnings of life. By training and instinct you have given comfort and support to many in your care who came to the hospital in pain or despair. You have come to recognize the foibles and weaknesses of your fellow humans. You have learned understanding and sympathy as well as the practical role of the nurse. As you separate in all manner of directions, may you maintain your loyalty to your school and the best interests in one of the highest of callings. However difficult a problem be, if ap¬ proached in the right spirit, the profession of nursing provides opportunity for the exerciseof the best faculties of the mind. For those who do not for some reason pursue their profession their training, association and experiences will not be wasted. Such a background will find a valued place in the family and society. Whatever be your choice in the life after graduation may you have much pleasure and suc¬ cess with it. It should be so. You have become important people. 11 K.R. Trueman, M.D.

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j tudcnt (Council 1963 FRONT ROW: L. Sloan, M. Wolodarsky, E. Peterson, V. Mack, A. Pele. SECOND ROW: C. Worboys, P. Anderson, D. Storey, J. Wilson, S. Lundstrom, J. McLarty, J. Hamilton, L. Forbes, D. Palmer. THIRD ROW: M. Badger, S. Nielson, D. Posner, E. Snodgrass. Yearbook ji»taff 1963 FRONT ROW: D. Storey, M. Badger, A. Pele, G. Orchard, D. Posner. BACK ROW: P. Brown, C. Milne, L. Sloan, J. Taylor, J. Wilson, G. Saunders, L. Lindsay. 10

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IJaledtttorian’s Message Three short years have passed so quickly since we first walked through the doors of the School of Nursing, and yet we can hardly remember when we weren ' t a part of the Winnipeg General Hospital. On behalf of the graduating class of 1963 A and B, I would like to express our profound thanks to Miss Cameron and her Faculty, for having taught us with patience and understanding the knowledge that we require to attain the high goals and ideals set for us. To members of the graduating class I say that our friendships have left us a wealth of memories; memories that we shall cherish always. Keeping in mind that we have our School and ourselves to honor, may we give only our best to whatever the future holds for us. Respectfully submitted, Linda G. Judd 12