The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1913-07-03
DR.. ". r. WITTE As SPEAKER
DR.. G.. Windesheim, Dean of the Faculty
of the School, Pays High Tribute to
Work Done by Faculty and Graduates
Large Crowd Greets Graduates.

class or nine young women recelV-
ID certificates of graduation from the
Kenosha Hospital Training School at
the annual commencement exercises
held at the Guild Hall on Thursday
evening and Notwithstanding the fact
that the mercury was lowering about
the ninety mark one of the largest
crowds ever seen at a closing exercise
of the school was in attendance. In
honor Of the graduates the big hall
was tastefully decorated with plants
and aowers.
The program opened with musical
selection played by Miss Aileen Shep-
herd after which there was prayer
by the Rev. Peter Stair, pastor Of Park
Avenue M. G. Church. Following two
charming solos by Miss Dorothy Can
dee, DR.. G. Windesheim, dean of the
faculty Of the training school, made a
few remarks in which he congratulated
the nine young women on their com
pletion Of their course. He urged
them to be "real nurses and to carry
through life with them the desire to
be of real service to humanity. DR..
Windesheim spoke especially Of the
work Of the training school and de-
declared that he had closely followed
the careers Of graduates in other years
and from physicians in Kenosha and
other cities he had learned that every
one Of the graduates had made good
in her profession. DR.. Windesheim
stated that the work of the school and
the devotion to duty shown by the
members Of the class had been es-
pecially pleasing to the members of
the faculty and that it had been a
real pleasure to work with the young
women who showed a real interest IN
adopting the profession of nursing as
a life work.
In closing Dr. Windeheim introduce
ed DR.. w. E. Witte Of Milwaukee, who
gave the annual commencement ad-
dress. DIR. Wittee spoke of the great
profession Of the trained nurses dis
cussing the subject from historical
standpoint He declared that there
was no more honorable profession for
man or woman and that it offered a
chance to give real service to humanity.
He declared that the moral response
bility upon the nurse was as great as
that upon the practicing physician and
the measure of success must be her
fidelity to her life work. He spoke
of the smiling face and the willing
hand as being the great tribute that
go to make the work of nurse
successful.
In granting the diplomas Dr.. Winde-
sheim again addressed the graduates
and he stated that the hospital asso-,
citation and the members Of the facul-
ty were proud to confer DEGREES on a
class whose members had made such ex-
cellent records.
The program closed with benedic-
ton by the Rev. Mr.. Stair
Before the commencement exercises
at the Guild Hall the annual class din
ner was held at the dining room of the
hospital The large room was beauti-
fully decorated for the occasion and at
the dinner covers were laid for more
than twenty of the nurses and other
officials of the hospital.
The list of graduates receiving
diplomas follows: Emma A. Wight,
frankie E. Walker, Sylvia I. Riley,
Wallie T. Krebbs, Nellie Iverson, Al
berthe Johnson, Marie Anderson,
Grace Morris, Elizabeth Bend5.