Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1913-12-02
NURSE GETS DIPLOMA
EMERGENCY HOSPITAL
raining School for Nurses Sends
Forth One Graduate.
DR.. MURPHY PRESENTS DIPLOMA.
address To Graduate and Future
Graduates By Hon. James NJ.
Manroe-Dauce Follows Ex-
ercises.


Exercises attendant upon the grad
lation of the first and only nurse who
has completed the course of traiuing
at the Emergency Hospital Training
| School for Nurses. were held las {
night at s s,o'clock in the hospital Sun
Parlor
Every chair was occupied when
the exercises were opened promptly
at o'cl l7ck, ION time" with invo-
cation by the Rev. DR.. Alexandt 7
Rielsski, pastor of Maryland Avenue
Methodist Episcopal Church, Of
which church the graduate is a mem
Der.
This room, as all the ther rooms,
corridors and apartD ents at the hos
pital, open for the occasion, was at
tractively decorated in holly and red
berries with all the lights shaded
with red. The effect was pleasing
and presaged Christmas. The real
Yuletide spirit prevailed, not only in
the decorations, but in the gathering
# people present. The beautiful
Emergency Hospital needs but few
decorations, but the handsome build
ing was made more attractive with
these Christmas decorations in red
and green, with Christmas bells and
tiny United States flags to give it a
patriotic air.
To enliven the occasion an orches-
ira of the Naval Academy band, with
the assistant bar dmaster, Profes ssor
Torovsky, cellist, and Professor
Schreyer, violinist, furnished beauti-
full selections of music, scre ened by
a bower of palms. Flowers sent the
graduate nurse, Miss Rose White, of
Annapolis, were banked on table in
front of the audience, and conspicuous
was large bouquet of several doze n
beautiful red roses sent one of the
nurses, Miss Dorsey, by Mrs. Rudolph
Kaiser.
The clergy were all represented in
the audience, also Mayor Strange
and other prominent people. All Of
the physicians of the hospital were
present, and with the Board of Man
ayers, occupied front seats. The
nurses in training, in their trim, neat
uniforms, sat to the right, the grad
uate nurse, in her spick and span
white uniform, being seated directly
in front of the undergraduate nurses.
Dr.. j. j. Murphy, Chief of the
Medical Staff of the Emergency Hos
pitsl, in presenting the graduate her
diploma, made splendid speech. In
deed, DR.. Murphy proved himself
quite an orator, to the surprise OF his
many friends. His address was we'll
chosen, beautifully expressed in the
choicest English, and the good doctor
showed himself to be a son Of De-
mosthenes as well as OF Esculapius.
DR.. Murphy spoke of the founding
of the Nurses Training School three
years ago, when six of the Medical
Staff and six of the Board of Mana
gers took out papers of incorpora.
tion, and the Nurses Training School
was duly and formally established.
The first class, of which the graduate
was the only member to finish the
course, started with FIVE members,
but one by one, for some cause, drop
ped out, and last night Miss Rose
White, was the only one to have
| finished the course and to graduate.
DIR. Murphy said Miss White had
reached the pinnacle of her ambition,
the goal desired and aimed for by ali
students, and this point, when reach.
ed, is the happiest in the life of q
student. For a nurse it means the
severance of home ties, hard work ir
three years training in a hospital,
| submission to the most rigid disci.
| pline. He referred TO the nJble.
self-sacrificing profession of the
nurse, now open to women. DR..
Murphy com plimented the capable
and efficient supervision of the super
intendent, Miss Bel, under whose care
ful instruction and wise supervision
the graduate had been in training.
DR.. Murphy said every school j,
known by its graduates, and th,
acts of the graduate of the Annapo
lis Emergency Hospital will refiec
credit on her Alma Mater. In pre-
senting Miss White her diploma, h,
| said it was a magic wand to opsr
| the portals of life. That the grad
II
uate might minister to the sick
care for the afflicted with success
ful results and would have tn,
knowledge of duty well performed
was the wish of the Chief of Staff
in closing his address TO the grad
uate and the undergraduates, aite
which he presented Miss White he
diploma.
At the close Of Dr. Murphy's ad
dress the Board of Managers of tn
hospital, through the vice resident
Miss Kate Andrews, presented tn
graduate with y large snd handsom
bouquet Of white chrysanthemums
DR.. Murphy then introduced the Hon
James III. Mdnroe, a member of tn
Advisory Board Of the hospital, wh
made few telling and happy re
marks.
Mr. Mdnroe said be was dsputize
10 speak in the absence of Governo
Goljsborough, who had been asked
but who was unable 10 be present
and he would held Governor Colds
borough responsible for all he (Mr