Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-05-04
NURSES GRADUATE.
Exercises of the Training School,
Freedmen's Hospital.

The graduating exercises Of the Training
School for Nurses Of the Freedmen's Hos
pital were held last evening at the Anore"
Rankin Memorial Chapel. DR.. A NJ Cur
It's surgeon-in-chief of the institution, pre-
sided and made an address, in the course OF
which he said, in part:
November Is, 1904 the Freedmen's Hos
pital Training School for Nurses was Or
ganized. Although an experiment at tha'
time, we can today cheerfully announce
the fact that the services of the training
school, both to the general public ana tne
hospital equipment, have been confrnieo
by the most acceptable proofs, and 1t gives
me pleasure to state that our graduates
have maintained with becoming dignity tne
vigor of its strength and purpose to the
cause of humanity, and have adorned their
profession.
To-day they occupy positions of RESPONSE
bilty in cities of the north, south, east
and west and in our recently acquired ter
ritory. They are rejecting credit on the
institution which they represent and are
bringing honor to the race with which they
are identified.
The public no doubt will be interested
in some statistical data pertaining TO the
training school, The institution has had
an average of over 100 applications per
year from those desiring to become nurses
This year, from present indications, the
number of applications Will exceed that
graduated forty-1ive trained nurses. They
are all actively engaged in the profession,
with the possible exception of six, who
have married. 1t is a notable fact that
several have charge of hospital work IN va
rious cities-kansas City, Charlotte, N. C.,
Jacksonville, Fla Battle Creek, Mich, 81.
Louis Mo.-while in the general hospital
of Santiago de Cuba one Of our graduates
has charge of ward. Thus our nurses are
simplifying and practiCing those principles
upon which their noble profession is found
ed. In the art galleries, on canvas and
marble, men have printed and chiseled tfe
highest conceptions of the mind. In our
hospitals, administering to the sick, allie
Waiting pain the nurses have a diviner
work. Not the Venus of beauty but benee-
olence stands in their galleries to be adj
mired forever"
Previous to the delivery of the address
by DR.. Curtis Rev. DR.. Rankin, president
of Howard University, offered an Invoca-
ton. The diplomas were handed to the
members of the graduating class by Mr..
John w Ross of the board of Commits
sioners of the District of Columbia. Solos
were rendered by Miss Lola Johnson, Mr..
Mauricis Flores and Mr.. Winston Payne,
and the University Glee Club contributed
a selection. Remarks appropriate to the
occasion were made by Mr.. Binger Herman,
commissioner Of the general land offlce ana
Rev. DR.. Walter H. Brooks, pastor of the
Nineteenth Street Baptist Church.
The graduates were: Eftie Pauline Banks,
lHuldildpollS, lHu., aSHeS MdtHuf1 ID o"iie'
Meyersdale, Pa; Georgia Anna Coleman.
Columbus, Ga: s Matthew DESMOND,
Lynchburg, Va; Bertha A Francis, Cincin-
natl. Ohio Lulu c. Hairston, Winston. n.
c.; Lillian NJ. Henry, Lynchburg, Va;
Carrie Eva, Hodge. Danville, Va; Eliza
Roberta Hendrck, Warrenton, N. c.: Min
tina Carolyn, Cleve' and. Ohio: Jessie E.
Keemer. Springfield, Ohio: Irene o. Nc
Even, Mobile, Ala; Anna Rich, New York
city; Helen Viola Scott. Rock HILL S. c.;
Isabella Thompson Mobile, Ala. Emma
c. Wilson, Montgomery. Ala, and Almira
Elizabeth Williams. Lansngburg, NY
Mrs. Mckinley. through DIR. Curtis, pre-
scented magnificent bouquet of roses to
the graduating class.