The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1902-12-29
EXERCISES
At Graduation of Trained Nurses
We're Pleasing.
Ministers Participate and lmpart
knowledge.
Address by DR.. peters Helpful to
the Class.

Graduation exercises of trained
nurses in Clarksburg is something new
as suggested by the speaker of the
evening but 1T is a matter of gratiica.
tion that this city since the event OF
Friday night can boast of having that
commendable and progressive feature
added to its history. Another modern
step has been taken and our progress
is more advanced. All of the many
representative citizens who attended
the graduation exercises of the pioneer
class Of the school for trained nurses
of the Kessler Hospital readily agree
with the sentiment and opinion voiced
above.
The opera house was well filled with
an a%ppreciat.ye audience and the ex-
%ercises of the evening we're both elab-
crate and pleasing. The program was
appropriate and most cleverly ex-
ecnted.
Dr.. o. W. showalter of the institu
tion introduced the speakers in a
modest and becoming way.
The exercises opened with an inyo-
cation prayer by Rev. R. B. Mcdaniel
pastor of the Baptist church, in which
he paid glowing tribute to the calling
the class had chosen, and he earnestly
and eloquently prayed the richest
blessings from on High to rest upon
the good works of both the hospital
and its first graduation class. Touch
ing reference was made to the similar
ity of the profession of nurse to the
mission of the Great Physician.
Mayor Grille followed in a brief
speech OF welcome and in a few we'll
chosen remarks praised the good this
and its sister Institution are doing in
this community in ministering to the
sick. He was especially gratlied to
know that it was good fortune to
have such helpful institutions in our
midst and found it a source OF great
pleasure that the people of this COM
munity are to have the advantages of
well regulated, modern training
schools for nurses. He spoke of the
helpfulness nurses are to physicians
and the absolute necessity for them in
the proper care OF the sick. He was
proud to know that the present class
would go forth into the world and by
their efficient work attract attention
to Clarksburg and modern civiliza-
tion and advancement.
Rev. L. E. Peters, the speaker OF
the evening, and the one whose duty
it was to deliver the address to the
cl4ss, was then introduced. The
speaker talked for three quarters of
an hour in a most interesting and en-
pertaining manner He began by call
ing attention to the fact that it was
an unique occasion, the first OF its kind
ever held in the old, historic and
classic city Of Clarksburg, where there
had been social, political, religious
and other notable gatherings. He
then spoke Of trained nurses as a
necessity Of the advanced age in
which we live. In this connection he
interestingly reviewed The progress of
medicine and the treatment Of the
sick. He paid high tribute to the
hospitals and termed them valuable
adiuncts to the church in the admins
tration Of mercy and kindness to the
sick and afflicted.
The address was both humorous and
pathetic, and highly instructive not
only to the class but also to the audi
ence.
DR.. A. X. Kessler in a few well
chosen remarks presented the mem
bers OF the class diplomas, after which
Rev. S X. Arbuthnot, pastor of Goff
NJ. E. church, offered an appropriate
prayer and pronounced the benedic
tion.
The class was composed of Misses
Anna Smith, Clara MoSeley, May
Cofield, Bessie Swisher, Inez Dent,
Margaret Peterson, Mamie Bonnell,
Mary Lamb and Mr.. W. B. Darling.