New-York tribune., 1907-01-23
NURSES GET DIPLOMAS
GRADUATE At BELLEVUE.
Mayor addresses Glass of Thirty
four at the Home.

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Thirtyfour young women. the graduating class
Of 1906 Of the Bellevue Training School for Nurses.
received their diplomas and gold pins last night at
the Nurses Home, No. 426 East 26th street. Mrs.
William Church Osborne. president OF the school.
presented the diplomas. and Mrs. Robert Hunting
ton. the vicepresdent. presented the pms, which
were in circular form having a blue enamel
scroll the words. Bellevue Training School for
Nurses and in the centre a s:or5 holding a pill
in its beak. On the diverse engraved the
name of the and the date OF graduation.
Justice Francis n. Scott the presiding off,
Ger, and beside him the platform sat Mayor
Mcclellan. the Rev II. c. Dyer, William Church
Osborne. u. .. Mills, DR.. John Winters Brannan
and +. Delano Weeks Among others present were
Mrs Francis NJ. Scott Mrs Mcclellan. Mrs. White
law Reid, Miss Kean and Mrs Grant Lafarge.
Mayor Mcclellan made the graduating address,
which followed the presentation of the diplomas
ana in introducing him Justice Scott said in part:
None here has lent more sympathetic aid 10 this
Institution than Mayor Mcclellan. and whatever
happens in the future. there Is one thing that we
me- Ih rt q srmaIIy Iae7,n and it is also true
that TO him belongs the credit of having aided in
the planning and perfecung of the new belleVae o
housed and equipped to do the best work OF any
training school
Mayor Mcclellan said in part:
Every public spirited New Yorker, feels Justly
proud Of the Bellevue Training School for Nurses;
Every public spirited New Yorker feels Justly
gra Ceeul TO those who founded Ito the laIe Mts
Griffin and the late Mrs. Osborne; 10 your present
executive committee. and to your board or man IAN
atty. l need tell you that share in this prize
and gratitude, hut as Mayor OF NeW aorK Su b a
has been broad and excellent, il may be still fur
ther broadened and increased Your managrs ought
not to be further asked to bear the responsibility
An asreement was entered into by your president
and by nc as representing the city; by which your
managers will give their care 10 tho nanaGement
and the city will assume. it should have done
long ago the financial obligation The site for the
new home Is the block between 2oth ana zO'h
streets facing the East River IL will give them
a plant second to in the world. When ! say
that the plans are IN the hands or Dr. brannan.
shall be surprised II the school is not housed and
IN use before the expiration Of my term OF office
To the members OF the graduating class will
say that on account of the close relation OF the
Won are TecavinP sornetSing mors tbe3
certificate that you competent to nurse: you
are receiving into your care the good name and the
fair name of the CITY Of New York.
You diner from in this respect that finish
my work for the city when my term ends: you
Bellevue Training School. You viii md you are
Judged and rightly BY different f tS STANDARD ne fTG@
something remarkable viii come from you as
militant post quite much If YOU were on tho
field OF battle or among those who go down ="
try leaves behind death and diseases and suffer
ing Inc army 10 "hlGh you osi1ng Sn% \, goT
record Of disease cured and distress relieved
earth. where some believe the white mans burden
is to be taken up there IS your field OF 6attls'
So tonight. ~ the outset Of llfes Journey. wish
s X9u hfh @ ana @ 66 S lie or snort 10 the
pleasant places or no. wish You more than that
been great or small let II have been done with a
right good VIII for the right satisfied that It has
have striyen hard 20 serve. the city we love so
well-New York
The report Of the secretary. Mrs. Harriet Rogers.
which was read by DIR. Brannan. recited the work
oP ha
plans OF the managers for the near future. six
thousand visits had been paid It stated during the
year. To make more room for the school work
the registry bureau has been moved uptown 10 No
Il East 42d street whore there is an assembly
room and alumni ciubrooms for the nurses and
visitors
In speaking OF the plans for the new hosptal
and training school, President Brannan sa'd tha'
the building would ONo the contract for lis
erection having been awarded few DAYS ago 20
James Parker who is building the hospital The
mention Of the awarding OF the contract came as
a surprise 10 the The president said that
seventeen firms had bid for the work
II was announced that change OF organization
-,a ba made in the near future. that the schools
~ the Harlem Ciouverneur and New York hospitals
were probably to be united in one. and that MISS
Anna Goodrich who IS at present superintendent
Of the nurses in the Post Graduate Hospital wou'd
be superintendent Of the new school
Those who were graduated last night were the
Misses FLORENCE Ball. Sarah Corrigan, Elizabeth
Dunn Helen Egginton. Hattie Frost. Nora Hanley'
sadye Hayes Edith Morgan. Elizabeth Hynes'
Sarah Swaney and Alice Townsend. OF New York;
Norah Phillips and Lottie Argabrite OF West VIZ
ainia; Pauline Eberhart. OF Tennessee; Lauretta
Hanllin OF Dakota: Carrie Hoskins, OF North Car
olina; Bertha Hastings, of Massachusetts; Dorothy
Ross Of Canada: Marie Louis and Mary Peterson.
OF Ohio; Annie Wilcox and Catherine OConnen. Of
Rhode Island: Rosa BOlyen, Martha Halliday. Rosa
Iackhove. Anna Mclaughlin. May Melvin. Anna
Webster. Lou Smith and Clara Williams, OF Penn
sylvania; Myrtle Rose, OF California; Margaret
Byrne. Elizabeth Kennedy and Elizabeth Nelson
OF New Jersey.