Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-05-21
Hospital Recipient Of Foun-
tain and Two Statues.
TO DONORS
INTERESTING EXERCISES AT IN
STITUTION YESTERDAY.
Public Expression of Appreciation
Graduation Of Glass Of Sixteen
Nurses.

Memorial Hospital Hospital School for
Nurses. which took place yesterday after
noon at the hospital, was the formal &C
acknowledgement of handsome and appropriate
gifts to the hospital from Mr.. and Mrs.
Henry A. Willard. These gifts consisted OF
fountain and two life-size statues in mar
BILE. The expressions of appreciation for
this additional evidence of the interest man.
ifested by Mr.. and Mrs. Willard in this in
stitution, with which they have been iden-
titled since it's foundation, were genuine and
hearty.
The scene in the hall when the exercises
took place was made memorable by the
grouping of so many of those who are &C
lively identified with the work of the in
stitution. About Mr.. Henry A. Willard. who
presided vice president of the board of
trustees, in the absence of the president,
Mr.. Justice Harlan. We're seated Mrs. John
A. Logan, president of the Ladies Aid AS
ISOLATION of Garfield Memorial Hospital;
Mrs. Harlan, first vice president of the La
dies Aid Associations Mrs. Miranda Tulloch
treasurer Mrs Henry A. Willard. chair
man of the furnishing committee; Rev. R.
FL. Mckim D.. Mr.. Joseph *. Mccain
mon and DR.. Henry D. Fry.
The members of the graduating class. six
teen in number occupied seats in front of
the platform.
Prayer was offered by Rev. DR.. R. H
Mckim. and then Mr.. Josepr X. McCammon
made an address in behalf of the board and
subsequently presented the diplomas to the
members of the graduating class.
An address was also delivered by Dr.
Henry ID. Fry of the medical staff.
Expression of Appreciation.
On behalf Of the board of lady managers
Mrs. John A. Logan then made a graceful
acknowledgment of the generosity of Mr.
and Mrs. Willard as manifested by the
gift to the institution Of two statues and
a fountain. She said
The board of lady managers of the Aid
Society to the Garfield Hospital decided to
take advantage of this assemblage of a
goodly number of friends of this nstitu-
ton to make a public acknowledgment of
the three ma gnificent gifts and many other
Denefact1ons bestowed upon the Garfield
Memorial Hospital by Mr.. and Mrs Henry
Willard, who have always given in such
an unostentatious manner that few outside
or the management have known of their
pounteous charity. l would that some one
more capable than myself had been chosen
to more fittngly express the appreciation
OF every one connected with the hospital of
the unfailing interest of Mr. and Mrs Will
lard ever since the incipiency of the move
ment to establish this lasting memorial to
a martyred President, and of their graft
tude for these superb art treasures, con-
sisting of a grand fountain and two life
sized statues.
THE purity of the spotless marble of the
statues appropriately typifies the stainless
character and pure lives of the donors
whose noble natures have ever inspired
them to innumerable deeds of kindness that
the world knows not of. Their ears have
never been deaf to the cries of the unfor-
tunate for help, and did time permit. I
would be glad to speak of their potent help
IN the hours of struggle for the establish
ment and maintenance of the Garfield Me-
moral Hospital, when the skies above the
uhdertaklng were dark and threatening
Mr.. willard always knew how to stay the
storm and helped to do it,
May their own lives be prolonged far he
SoHu the 1our-score and ten, and all the
richest blessings of heaven attend them
ana the reflex of their good deeds brighten
all OF their declining years and fill them
with good cheer and happiness is the earn
est wish Of every member of the official
boards ana management of the Garfield Me-
mortal Hospital"
Mr.. Wizards Response.
These words Of Mrs. Logan elected a re-
spouse from Mr.. Willard. during which he
gave an account Of the experiences of the
hospital since the date of it's foundation in
the year 1881. He traced the early begin
nings. the selection of a site the collec-
ton of the funds and the erection of the
buildings. He paused to give a need
of praise to those who were active in this
work. some Of whom have passed away
he spoke of Justice Miller Justice Harlan
the Ladies Aid Society, with Mrs Logan at
It's head; the late William G. MetZerott
the late Reginald Fendall Mrs Gen. Rick
etts' SIMON wolf. Baroness Clara de Hrsch,
secretary j. Ormond Wilson. j. X Mccain
mon. Mrs. r. G. Rutherford Mrs Miranda
Iulloch, Mrs. Harlan, the late Miss Cole
man and others
In referring to his latest gift to the hos
pital, Mr. Willard said: 1T has given me
very great pleasure to be able to present
the two statues to the Garfield Memorial
Hospltal. Your deep appre citation of the gift.
so eloquently and gracefully expressed nv
my good friend. Mrs. John A. Logan has
given ne still greater pleasure, and | beg
to thank you.
The statues. as you will see. are chaste
ana beautiful, both III design and execution
and are of most finished workmanship in
every detail. L believe they will add to the
pleasure of convalescents, who need diver
sion from the ills to which all flesh is heir
They were ordered abroad by wealthy
gentleman. and said to be likenesses Of
ms daughters After reverses came to him
there was sale at public auction of his
me collection of statuary. paintings and
articies OF brlc-a-brac. and l became the
purchaser of these. There could I am sure
be no more fitting donee Of these art treas
ures than the Garfield Memorial Hospital.
1t has been one of the great pleasures
of my life that my wife and myself have
been able for more than twenty years to
nave been associated with you all in the
good work OF this grand institution The
history of the evolution of Garfield Hog
pital from it's small beginning up to the
present time may be summed up in three
words. Love. unity and humanity 1t was
born Of love. and it has been nurtured and
grown In unity of purpose for the wei
fare of humanity. In the words of Rip Van
Wrinkle, May she live long and prosper"
List Of the Graduates.
The names of those who graduated as
nurses. each Of whom received a diploma
are as follows: Josephine de Saussure
Trenholm, South Carolina: Josephine Burks
Mosley. Virginia; Agnes Darrell HAYES.
Maryland; Mary Elizabeth Cox, Virginia
Lucy Tennent Robinson. Maryland; Edna
Rogers Gottlier. Kentucky: Lucy Laura
Fox. New York: Rosalind Herancourt
Langworthy. Iowa: Selma A. Kennedy Nc
Lean. Canada: Mary Agnes Waldron, Penn
syivania; Helen Niernsee; South Carolina;
Dew. Virginia; Nelly Eugenia GrunweH,
Maryland: Edith Mandaville. Maryland, and
Celia E. Brian. Massachusetts.