Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-06-13
GRADUATION OF NURSES
DIPLOMAS ny aEoRaETowH UNI
vERs1TY TRAINING SCHOOL.

The graduation exercises OF the Sisters OF
st. Francis and the nurse class OF the
Georgetown University Hospital Training
School were held this morning at CASTOR
Hall. Georgetown University. Seated on the
stage. which was banked with palms. were
the eight graduates and Rev. David Hill
house Buel. s. j.. president Of the univer-
sity; Prof Joseph Taber johnson and DR..
George NJ. Kober. the latter dean Of the
training school.
The exercises opened with an overture,
Raymond" which was rendered by the
Schroeder Orchestra. A selection, Wood
land" was then rendered. The orchestra
played "Waldmere'' as the graduates
marched into the hall and upon the stage.
Rev. David Hillhouse Buel. s. j.. conferred
the diplomas. The orchestra rendered
serenade. Moonlight"
Prof Joseph Taber Johnson then deliver
ed an address to the graduates. He said,
in part: I'm October, 1879, had the pleas
ure to deliver the Introductory address to
the first nurses training school ever estab-
lished In our city DIR. J. e. Toner. who
was a steadfast friend of our university,
was the president of the school, and M 8.
Jane c. Hitz was its originator and moving
spirit. The object Of the school was new
In Washington, and there were many who
prophesied failure of the enterprise. Alter
several years of work the Washington Di-
to supply the ever-increasing demand. was
organized
This is supposed to be, and Is, an occa-
sion for congratulation and advice, and In
the name Of your instructors, who have lee
tured to you for three years. and OF the
Sisters, who have trained you, and of your
many friends. I take pleasure In extending
to you their heartiest congratulations upon
your graduation, and their best wishes for
your future success. Perhaps the best ad-
vice I could give you would be to be true
to all the good advice you have already re-
ceved from your lectures and from Sisters
Pauline, Geraldine and Edward. 'Remember
and be true and your success will be GER
tain, especially keeping In mind your lee
ture on the ethics Of nursing.
Dreams Not Realized.
"The sentimental dream of fair women
or brave men has seldom materialized in
this active and very practical age, and the
dreamers have mostly tainted by the way
sde or have been weeded out by the
business-like superintendent Of the training
schools as impractical Representatives,. Sen
timent has largely given place to hard
work and hard study. None OF these young
women could have passed our examinations
and received their diplomas from the hands
of the president of the university here to-
day If they had been sentiment dreamers.
They have done much hard work and richly
deserve the recognition which they have
just now received.
Something more is expected of a nurse
than her skilled labor, There is a certain
amount of tact, sympathy and kindness
that comes from the heart which money
cannot buy or even pay for. Some of the
most successful nurses and those who
held IN most loving and grateful remem-
brance by their patrons are not those who
stood the highest in their classes or were
the most proficient in their technical hos
pital duties, but were those who added to
q fair degree of these qualifications that
patience, long-suffering, tenderness, loving
kindness, gentleness and charity so en-
phasized and commended in the Good Book
Physician. These very valuable qualities
are not discovered by the nurses training
teachers, either at the entrance or the final
examinations, but the nurse who enters
into this life without them and a certain
amount of love for humanity had better
into the depths of the sea than continue
her drudgery just for the sake of the
money there is in 1t.
"a nurses life, then, Is not to be all senti-
ment or all business, but humane and
gentle blending of the two opposing forces
into character"
Mr.. Ernest Lent followed with cello
solo, "Song-to the Evening Star Each o.
the graduates was presented with a gold
medal by DR.. George M. Kober, the dean.
The exercises closed with selection and
march. 1.-The Fortune Teller" and MY
Own United States" by the orchestra.
The graduates were: Misses Edith Merry,
Virginia. Elizabeth Hemler. Pennsylvania;
Lille NJ Crumbaugh, Virginia; Lillian N
Welker. Indiana; Grace S. Mccarthy
Pennsylvania; Leila NJ Montgomery, Vir-
ginia; Sister Mary Jane O. s. F., Ireland;
Sister Mary Baptista, o. S. F., Rhode Is
land