New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-01-20
TWENTY-FITE WOMEN GRADUATED.
ANNUAL EXERCISES OF THE NETWORK
TRAINING SCHOOL FOR NURSES


TRAINING SCHOOL FOR NURSES.
The annual meeting of the Society OF the New
York Training School for Nurses attached 10 Belle
vue Hospital was held at the school building. No.
4S East Twenty -sixth-st., last night The gradu'
ating class. twenty-five bright-looking youn3
women. neatly attred In the uniform OF their call
ing. who received their diplomas. We're the chief
centres OF attraction After the meeting they cele'
brated the occasion by dancing with their friends
Professor Fl. Fairfield Osborn presided at taole
where his brother. William &. Osborn. and Dr W.
GIL Wylie and Corporation Counsel Scott were also
seated. The young graduates sat in two rows OF
chairs. on Professor Osborn's right. W. e. Osborn
read the report OF the managers for the last year.
which shows that since the school nurses TOOK
charge Of the Bellevue alcoholic ward the mortahV
had greatly decreased More than 100 candidates
have applied for admittance TO the school IN tho
course Of the year. The treasurers report wn'e"
was then read showed that the receipts Tor tne
year had been $500. and that balance %
S4,S55 - on hand.
The nurses received their diplomas from the HAND
of Mrs Griffin. the president. and Dr. Wyiie tnep
rosa TO make the graduating address. lie SAID "
part: 81 am not ashamed to say that was guioeo
and directed by the corps OF women VINO ior"e.
this association and aided to reform our system o.
public charities. To have seen the untlrng ee'0
tion Of the women who built up this school pss
made me a wiser and better man. Since y wss
established everything In Bellevue has been cream nd
and better especially the moral atmosphere antt
the surgical work. The effect OF the presence a.
these young women on the thirty or iorN .0ID Or
doctors of the staff has been splendid one. Nv ~
Wylic then referred to the competitive systsat an
which the class had been chosen and rensihee -
the Improvement that would take place II ~ ~. I'd.
extended to the Bellevue staff. In ending ms I'D
dress he urged the members OF the class 70 s e%s
vate higher ambitions than the earning OF - ,hs
week The Rev. j. LeB. johnson pronouhIeo .nd
benedicton. and sextet then sang '6fe"'H'
n! TSe list of officers Tor 1897 is President MS
William Preston Griffin: vice,presidWen'i M' Osborn;
treasurer. Charles =. Fosdick Managers ames II
w Pinchot Mrs. H. A. &. Taylor: Mrs Jam" Cot
BENEDICT Mrs Whitelaw Reid. Mrs j. ~.
chus Mrs Theodore H. Bronson MIs' Ia Miss
Scott Miss Fellows. Miss Eizsoesn ,,.srnieudent
Dner and Miss Angelica Church: super,m,endsnt
Miss Agnes s. Brennan; assistant sup ern.'eWome
M Mis Snsan West: Committee on Examinau00n
c,anhen smith DR. Edward q. Janewv Dtsusf:
GIN Wylie DR.. F. > psnm,s enJ r
g.he sraduates are follows Miss Iiiie nYcrk:
., ponnsxlvania: Miss Emma Albers New aau
Wiss Imo Belts Maryland Miss Repec sS Mss
Viryir,s. Miss Alberta Choate. New orarninR
Nellie Cassidy New York Miss Eiixaps' WorI. Miss
Minnesota Miss Lillian Farnham. New ".raves vIr-
yinia. Miss Mary A. Harrison: Nr Ns,nns Ketch-
v"rvarat Ilerries. New-York; Miss Minne rTorids;
~" eNsw-York: Miss Mary. Macdona'1u Msrtcr.
Miss Adda Mccain. Ohio; Miss Toe hos york: Mss
Warcaret Magurk Connecticut; MISS aa a,d, New.
Wasbnrton D. G.: Miss Elizabeth kea ss,ss E,ura.
icrscv: Miss Sarah Shaw. New o.n' scott New
hsh sweet Ncw-York: Mrs. lzetta oeva Nse
Vary. Mas Marie Weede. New-io'A'
Catherine Yeakel. Pennsylvania 49,