Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-09-28
MEMORY OF SISTER BEATRICE.
Eulogy Pronounced by Medical STAFF
of Providence Hospital.

of Providence Hospital.
A tribute to the memory of Sister
Beatrice. whose recent death has been
noted in The Star, was recently adopted by
the medical staff Of Providence Hospital.
and is as follows:
ITO each member of the medical staff of
Providence Hospital the death of Sister
Beatrice comes with the sense of a dis
tnctly personal loss. With some of us the
association has been of many years stand
ing, -. the passing time has only served
to envelOp her more closely in our alice
lions and more firmly root our appreciation
of her wonderful qualities the head of
an institution with which her name must be
linked for all time. BY the younger men
she Will be ever gratefully remembered as
a wise and helpful counsellor and friend,
who held their best interests always near
her heart.
Viewed from any standpoint. Sister
Beatrice must be regarded a woman of
unusual power in her day and gene alton.
In the control of the affairs of the great
hospital committed to her care she dis
played, during the thirty-seven years she
was responsible for it's management, an ex-
ecutive ability rarely found in man or wo-
man. In conciliating conflicting factions,
adjusting differences in opinion and, when
need was. exercising with firmness the ar
btrary lower she was possessed of, she
displayed a mental grasp and strength far
beyond the ordinary, and calm courage
which could have its basis in nothing but
a righteous conviction.
But behind all this strength there was
yet that gentlenesS OF her womans heart
which caused her deep compassion to flow
out abundantly to all needy and suffering
humanity that came within her reach. She
was in truth sister to the poor and dis
treSSed among her fellow men and women,
and in her ministrations there was no dis
tinction Of sect or creed. Her wards were
never SO crowded that room could not be
found somewhere for still one more of the
afflicted who appealed for aid.
In all her daily walk and conversation
she followed in the footsteps of her Lord,
and what her hand found to do she did with
all the might of the spirit that possessed
her. Her first thought necessarily was al
ways for the sick Immediately under her
care, but her breadth of mind did not allow
her to ignore the great benefit that would
accrue to suffering humanity from a proper
use Of the immense material her institution
afforded for the study and teaching of
clinical medicine. With this end in view
phitheater, which was fitted up with every
appliance and convenience modern ad-
vanced science demands, and 1t stands
today unsurpassed by any in its adaptation
to the purposes intended. But in this as in
everything else she did, she only showed
how the highest efficiency of hospital ser
vice was her dominating thought. 1t was
her only thought There was no separation
of her personality from her work. When
ever we think Of Sister Beatrice we think
of Providence Hospftal-they were one.
and now, that full of years and with an
overlooking measure of good work, she has
gone to lay her sheaves at the feet of her
beloved Master, the deep grief at our in
dividual loss is softened by a sweet remem-
brance of one life nobly and unsparingly
given to the service Of her fellow-crea-
tures.'
The foregoing embodied in a report
submitted by a committee. appointed at
meeting of the faculty. held the Goth in
slant. The committee was composed of
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Thos F. Mallan, NJ. D.; ]. Wesley Bovee
NJ. D.