The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-06-03
Eighth Annual EXer-
CiSeS at the SCran-
ton Private Hos
pital School.

The eighth annual commencement ex-
ercises Of the Scranton Private Hos
pital Training School for Nurses took
place last night in the lecture room OF
the hospital, in the presence Of the hos
pital staff and large assemblage OF
the friends of the graduates and the in
stitutton.
| The graduating class numbered four.
| They were: Miss Margaret Walsh, of
| Port Huron, Mich; Miss Teresa Mac
Intosh, Of 1ngersoll, Canada; Mrs.
Elizabeth Conlon, of Blossburg, Pa,
| and Miss Ada Hendershot of st.
| Thomas, Canada.
The diplomas were presented by DR..
c. z. Thomson, chief of the hospital
staff, and the address to the graduates
was made by Attorney John M. Gunster.
In the course of a very appropriate
and thoughtful address, Mr.. Gunster
said:
The domesticity and the household of
today exists Under different and other
conditions than that which prevailed
throughout all the centuries preceding the
one in which we live.
Woman, at a single bound. In brief
span of history, has sprung into the ranks
of the wage-earner. and become an active
doer in the real affairs of life, as distin-
guished and separated from the home and
the duties Of caring for its order and
management.
She has invaded the office, the mill, the
courts of Justice. the galleries of art, the
laboratories Of science and the halls Of
learning.
You, graduates of this training school,
receive today diploma which brings you
into a profession made respectable and
illustrious by the lives and works of
Florence Nightingale, Sister Dora and
Clara Barton.
In the realms of creation, each thinking
being holds an allotted niche, and must
take Its position at an assigned station.
there to work out the peculiar destiny
which Providence has for 1t in store.
You wisely, or if unwisely, time will
tell, have chosen the vocation of the pro-
fessional nurse, and will henceforth be
mans best ally in combating sickness
and disease; and, being at his side in
the many, many days to come, let us
speak the dead Laureate's prophecy that
''In the long years liker must they grow:
The man be more of woman. she of man;
He gain in sweetness and in moral height.
She. mental breadth, nor fail In child
ward care"
You have looked perhaps upon copies of
Rembrandt's famous picture, 1.-The Les
son IN Anatomy you Will feCall tnat
in this picture you We're strongly and
solely attracted by the figures of the
professor and the students grouped
around him, and that the corpse lying
on the dissecting table had in it little of
interest for the eye-nor was it repulsive
to behold. So in all your future work
observe as far as you can the things
that ennoble and make successful your ef-
forts. and proceed needless of the un
pleasant circumstances that may impede.
Remember that woman is esteemed and
reverenced by man on account of the pos
sibiities of the great virtues natural only
to woman.
Be not disturbed by vague theories of
female suffrage. OF equal rights, of div
ided skirts. of emancipation and complete
independence, but faithfully, with intelli-
gence and modesty, respecting and re-
spected, take up the duties of your pro-
fession and await in confidence the rich
and unerring rewards of your self-sacri-
ficing toll.
A contralto solo by Miss Kathryne de
Sales Gibbons added immeasurably to
the pleasure Of the evening.
The graduates received large num-
ber of floral and other gifts and warm
congratulations and we'll wishes from
the assemblage. At the conclusion of
the exercises the graduates and their
friends proceeded to the Catholic Choral
societies concert at the Lyceum.