Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-05-26
DIPLOMAS PRESENTED
CLASS OF TwENTY-EIaHT NURSES
AND DEAcoNEssEs.
Commencement Exercises Held in Rust
Hall-Address to Graduates by
DIR. w. F. Sheridan.


Twenty-eight young women who. in the
future, will minister to the spiritual and
physical ailments of the needy poor in the
great cities of the country, last evening re-
ceived diplomas as graduates from the
Lucy Webb Hayes National Training School
for Nurses and Deaconesses. The conf
mencement exercises of this institution
were held n Rust Hall, before large
assembly of friends of the graduates and of
the school. The hall was prettily decorated
with bunting, and about the platform nu-
merous bouquets of cut flowers. tributes to
the graduates from friends, were arranged
in pleasing display.
The address to the graduates was deliy-
cred by Rev. DR.. w. F. Sheridan, pastor of
Mount Vernon Place Church., Baltimore.
who spoke on the subject. The Struggle
for Life and for the Life Of Others" Other
addresses were made by Miss Janet e.
Kemp, a teacher In the school, and by Rev
DR.. Charles w. Gallagher, president of the
institution, who presented the diplomas to
the graduates.
Following an organ prelude, by Miss Lila
M. Thayer. and vocal trio. by Mrs. Rey-
nolds, Miss Fisher and Miss Dobbs, the au-
dience Joined in brief religious exercise,
Rev. Dr. A. H. Ames reading the Scripture
lesson and Rev. DR.. George E. Maydwell Of
fering prayer. Miss Florence l.. Frost sang
a selection from 1.-THE Messiah" and Miss
Kemp then spoke briefly Of the practical
work of the school.
Miss Kemp told of the work done by the
students In connection with their school
toned that in a number of the Methodist
Episcopal Churches in the city students
during the year have been regularly en-
gagged In Sunday school and Junior League
work. and in making parish calls under the
direction of the pastors The Bladensburg
mission has been entirely in their hands
The Struggle for Life.
DIR. Sheridan among other things men,
toned the struggle fo- life as seen in ma
ture 1t is found in the life of man, even
in the savage state. and in the industrial
strife OF civilized society by which many a
life Is sadly embittered. This 1t Is which
leads men to believe so firmly in the self
ishness of other men and to be willing to
sacrifice the interests of community and OF
country father than their own.
But there is an altruistic impulse as well
as a selfish impulse. There Is also an I'M
selfish struggle. This too, is illustrated in
nature, as the mineral feeds vegetation
the vegetable animal life and animals man
himself.
The struggle for life is to certain extent
a spur to progress But it ends in disaster
and death unless it becomes struggle for
the life of others. Self-sacrifcing service
has been at the bottom of every enterprise
that has uplifted the race. In religious
lir,es this has been illustrated by the work
of Cromwell. of Gustavus Adolphus, OF
Luther of Wesley of Knox, of Spurgeon
and others like him in modern times. Re-
demption means always self-sacrifice. The
possibilities in such a service were never
greater than now, and its rewards were
never greater nor more secure.
Presentation of Diplomas.
In presenting the diplomas to the grad
ting class Dr. Gallagher called attention
to the lines of preparation which during
the two years course had made appropriate
the diplomas given The work OF the pro-
fessional nurse is well known, and yet her
months and years of hard service ana
study during the period of her training are
not by all realized. The deaconess IS not
so we'll known as is the nurse. Already IN
the time Of Paul she had her place IN the
church. but later passed into obscurity. In
modern times she has reappeared and to-
day Thousand or more deaconeSSeS are
working in the M. E. Church.
Diplomas were then given to twenty-eight
graduates, including eleven nurses who
have been trained in Sibley Hospital
The graduates were as follows:
Deaconess course-Mary Margaret Crab
tree, Cleveland, Ohio; Alma Alythea Dooos'
Steubenville Ohio Florence Faye Frost,
wooster Ohio; Maud Elisabeth Hanson
Barre. vt; Genevieve Louise HertzIer'
Hartford, Conn; Emily Knollin judd, New
Woodstock. N. Y; Alice Maua NIB
Fredericktown Ohio; Clara Adeifa Mills,
Middleport. N Y; Helen Ann Smell, west
Pittston Pa; Irma Lucetta StinchneIu'
aanasyiile Ohio: nellie Mercer Stright,
Wawaka. Ind; Martha Romaine Willough-
by, Huntingdon, Pa.
Nurse deaconess eourse-Mable Adelade
Graves, Detroit, Mich; Fora Huddiestone'
6nhiir md Clara Bell Keyhoe, Ottumwa,
iowa; Bertha Sanford, Mount Vernon, n Y.
Nurse training course-Mary Elizabeth
Bradley, washington. D; c.; Gertrude rude l..
FoItz. Walcott Ind; Lilly Sarah FoWler'
Washington, D. c.; Ethel Alexander era
ham, Danviile, Va; Florence English Let
tbs, Albion, N. Y; Mamie jayne Merritt.
NV Vienna. Ohio; Carrie Emma Metzger
- NaIIia RIanche Metzger, Youngstown,
ead Bertha Sanford. Mount Vernon, n.
v: Mary Elizabeth Whitehead Troy, n.
Y: Anna Caroline Zimmer . Marle ; D Ohlo
Kindergarten course" Hheiii'"
erson, South Atlanta, Ga.