The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-05-02


nurses at the Scranton Private hospi-
tai were held last evening ut the build
ing corner OF Wyoming avenue and
Mulberry street. DR.. Whelau presid-
ed, and the diplomas were presented by
DR. Kay The address of the evening
was delivered by DR.. Charles L. Thom-
son.
The graduates are Misses Lulu Nell
son, of Knoxville, Tenn; Edith Cur
ven, of Maryland; Nellie Early, of
Green Ridge; Gertrude Maloney, OF
Dunmore; Gertrude Smith, of Sterling;
Carrie Greasy, OF Bloomsbury, and
Catherine Guilfoyle, of Barrie, Ont.
DR.. Charles e. Thomson made the ad-
dress to the graduates. He spoke in
part as follows:
Respected brothers of the staff and
profession, invited gentlemen and lad
les, graduates of the training school
of the Scranton Private hospital:
Having successfully completed the pre-
scribed course of the school, and hav-
ing been declared capable and prof.
| cient to begin the full responsibilities
| of the vocation to which you have de-
| voted talents and dedicated your future
| efforts, you stand yet upon the thres-
| hold of the abode of that science to
which your labors lend auxiliary force.
None but the bravest deserve the
| fair none but the earnest, stout
hearted and faithful deserve or can
secure the rewards of medical labors,
for their rewards are the outbursts of
warm hearts, passionate, thankful, low
ing and grateful, whether they give
life to noble or depraved beings, and
they are the reverence and esteem of
Il large profession, which welcomes
with recognition rather than rejects
the successes and discoveries of it's
brethren.
THE ONLY METHOD.
Discipline and constant attention to
details is the only method of instruc-
tion considered valuable in the educa-
tional world. 1t is also the only means
of regulating harmoniously the af-
fairs Of private and public Institut-
tions from whatever standpoint the
matter may be viewed. You have
been obliged to undergo many embar-
easements and to suffer many, many
disagreeable occasions to pass without
any compensating, self-satisfactory or
deserving redress. And all for what
purpose?
measure it may seem perhaps to some
Of you, return for your disappoint-
ments, because you become today "a
trained nurse with a mission in the
world, with capacity for your work,
with disciplined faculties for future
self-advancement. Your diploma, as
every diploma which shall issue from
this institution under it's present di-
| rpptncata shall N addition n he
words inscribed upon it, that you have
testimonial to the satisfactory COM
pletion in our midst of two years
course marked by honor, fidelity to
duty, application to appointed and as
signed works, and conscientious dis
charge of the many incidental and inn
piled obligations imposed upon you.
"As graduates of this school, you are
prepared to enter when called, the
dwellings of the wealthy, the homes
of the poor, the hospitals of the city
and the camps of war. The trained
nurse entering the private family is
like a modern man of war forcing its
entrance irresistibly into fort strong
ly fortified and garrisoned.
FINED PRINCIPLES.
''No locality, no time, no occasion
no circumstance of race, creed or con-
dition should ever chlage the fixed
immovable and permanent principles
which should dominate in your pro.
fessional character. If you do, youl
career, as sure as black is black and
not white, will be Insignificant OBJ
, scure and, above all, of trifing salts
faction to yourself. These principles
, broadly stated, of which sI,eaK ap
! pear to be: First, implicit obedienc,
to the instructions Of the physician
in charge. whether to you the issu,
appears fraught with disaster, as tC
, the best interest Of the patient. Sec
4 ond, conscientious treatment OF tn
patient, combined with all the charity
) natural love of humanity, or prncept o
church prompt and urge you to give
! Third. desire to improve your recorC
: by continual observation of the case
, which fall under your care, enabling
I you TO give, careful, successful an,
! reputation bringing attention to futuy
D similar cases.
= IF noble impulse strs your heart
Q every day can be employed in DOM
good and the record of unselfish deed
can shed with every passing hour a
: increased lustre."
After the graduation exercises tn
e doctors, nurses and guests were serve
with luncheon, and period of dancin
y followed.
> MAY BE FROM SCRANTON.