The Savannah morning news., 1904-05-18
DIPLOMAS GIVEN
To YOUNG WOMEN
THREE TRAINED NURSES
GRADUATED FROM TELFAIR HOS
PITAL TRAINING SCHOOL.

Presentation of the Diplomas.
Miss Daisy Bethea, Miss Grace
Morris Bethea and Miss Margaret
McCnw, All of Florence, :. c., Were
the Graduates-Dr. e. II. COrson
Delivered the Address.
An interesting programme was car
ried out at the graduation exercises of
the training school of the Telfair Hos
pital, at the hospital yesterday after
noon.
There were three graduates, Miss
Daisy Bethea. Miss Grace Morris Be-
thea and Miss Margaret McCaw, all of
| Florence. S. c. Mrs. Ella Harvey of
Hampton, :. c., who took years spe-
cial course, was awarded a certificate
| made.
1t was announced that the three
graduates will remain at the hospital
during the summer months and later
will secure employment for themselves.
The officials 0: ths hospital who were
present were: Mrs. !. F. Minis. presi-
dent; Mrs. L. NJ. Warfeld. secretary;
Dr. T. p, Warning. medical superintend-
ent; DR.. Jabez Jones and DR.. Louis
Warfield, assistants. The address to
the graduates was delivered by DR.. E.
R. Corson. He was introduced by DR..
Waring.
Advice to Graduates.
1T is a time honored custom with
cur institutions of learning, when
the students have finished their
course to send them forth to their
LIES work with congratulations and
| expressions of good will" said DR.. Cor
son.
And this seems especially appropri-
ate on an occasion like this, when the
students in question are young women
who are going out into the world as
trained nurses. The board of mana
gers and instructors in this institution
who have had your training and the
| responsibility of your preparation rec
ogniZe how serious is the task you
| have chosen, how manifold its duties
| and how necessary is a stout heart
and cheerful look towards the future.
They realize what very humane
work you have undertaken to come
into such close touch with the indi-
Vidual life: that there will be much
more for you to do than to watch
| symptoms and minister to the physical
comforts of your patients If you are to
succeed in your work; that you will
have to enter that larger sphere of
human sympathy and moral support
which demands greater qualities than
intelligence and skillful handling. l
| mean courage and cheerfulness and
self-sacrihce, qualities which we find
pre- eminent in the superior woman,
and which the world has long recog-
| niZed as so necessary when sickness
and suffering come upon US, and even
death stares us in the face.
Woman has always been the nurse,
| and yet, strange to say, it is only with
| In a comparatively few years that she
| has been especially set aside for that
/ purpose, has been especially trained
and fostered for that great work. Let
US rejoice that at last this work has
| received an official seal and that nurs-
| ing to-day has become very much of
a science and an art and a great pro-
fession for women. 1t is for these rea-
sons that your instructors have felt
| the responsibility of their task in pre-
pairing you for this work. and that in
| parting with you they would remind
| you. and ever remind you, what
great work you have undertaken, and
send you forth with their congratula-
| lions and best wishes"
The report of the training school was
| made by Miss Eleanor Wimbush, the
superintendent. She said that the
school was founded in 1901 and had
graduated a total of seven pupils. A
short but pleasant address was deliv-
| cred by Miss Whnbush, in which she
congratulated the graduates on their
work while under her training.
Mrs Minis gave the graduates
short but helpful talk and presented
the diplomas.
Cure in Selections.
THE training you have received was
kind of bargain between us and
when ! hand you this paper it is a
sign we have done our part" said Mrs.
Minis. II think l can say that the aim
and hope of every woman on our board
| is to make our hospital thoroughly up
to date, not only scientifically, but
morally; to provide beside our clever
lectures) a superintendent, a matron,
head nurse of the most unimpeach-
| able character, conduct and discretion;
to seek to accept only women of a high
| type to your classes, and to sternly
| insist during your two years service
! on a department up to the highest
standGGd.
my handing you this diplomats 1
| said before-proves that as far as we
know we have done this. This is first
| ly, remember; but what will you do?
| Will you continue to live by these
| rules? these hard rules of self-control,
unselfishnes, silence concerning your
work. VIII you take them, like the
| science also taught you, for your flu
| ture guides?
Your profession is an honorable
one, and brings you great respect ev-
| erywhere in this world. You are con-
sidered worthy to be trusted with mat
tiers of life and death. You superin-
tend the beginning and the ending of
| life, existence. Pray do it WE'LL
During the exercises there was in
strumental music by Mr., Bonnelly and
vocal selections by Mr.. John Banks.
| After the presentation OF the diplomas
| there was a garden party on the lawn.
Refreshments were served and a pleas
| ant half hour was spent.
| The graduates were presented with
bouquets from the Board of Managers
| of the Hospital. DR.. Craig Barrow,
| Miss Wimbush, the superintendent, the
nurses at St, Joseph's Hospital and