The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-05-22
MEMORIAL HOSPITAL
NURSES TO GRADUATE
Large Class to Receive Diplomas
After Successful Compile
ton OF Course.
HAVE WORKED IN TWO HOSPITALS
Plans Are being Laid for Social Ser
vice Work on a Much digger Scale
THIN Heretofore.

commencement at tho Memorial
Hospital Training School for Nurses
begins on Sunday with the baccalau-
reate sermon and concludes four days
later with the delivery or diplomas
and badges TO twenty four new grad
three-year course OF preparation.
Tho sermon will DO delivered at the
Seventh Street Christian Church Mt the
evening service by tho pastor. Rev.
III. D. G. Maclachlan, u. D. Tho nurses
VIII attend In body. and special seats
will be reserved for their friends and
for members OF the faculty of the
Medical College of Virginia, with
which the hospital is affiliated. The
final exercises will be held on Thurs
day. May IS. at the John Marshall High
School building. Tho program IL
| somewhat more elaborate than usual,
but one of the pretty features OF the
commencement will be lacking this
year. The class of II has incxorably
dccrecd that there shall be no flowers.
and accompanying each invitation is
an engraved card bearing an an
nounccmcnt to this effect. The chief
address will DC delivered by DR.. AL
len w. Freeman, Of the State Health
Department. DR.. George Ben John
ston will describe the new extension
work being undertaken by the hospi-
tai. The diplomas will be awarded by
DR.. S. G. Mitchell. president Of the col
lege. and the badges presented by DR..
Kosher w. Miller. Tho prayer and
bencdiction Will DO pronounced BY
Rev. J. Y. Fair. ID. D., OF Wcstmin-
stcr Presbyterian Church. Following
the exercises reception TO the new
graduate nurses Will be given at the
nurses home. 1929 East Marshall
Street.
LIST OF NURSES WHO
WILL RECEIVE DIPLOMAS
Tho following will receive diplomas:
Josephine Copenhaver. Marion. Va;
Eugenia Doyle. Valley Center. Va;
Cora Ella Beam, Fallston, N c.:
Ellie Brace Risg, Anderson. w. Va:
Lu'cy Anne oliver. Turkeyville. Va;
Elizabeth Wyllia Allen. Glover, Va;
Sallie Lee Coleman. Schuyler. Va:
| Ruby Virginia Parrish. Richmond.
Va: Nora Spencer Hammer. Schuyler.
Va: Mary Lillian Hudgins, Romeo
vcrte. w Va: Evelyn Elizabeth Cook,
Brunswick. Ga; Inez Alexander, Fred
! ericksburg. Va; Jessie Roberta Mac
Lean. Greensboro. y. c.: Mary Thomas
Brand. Buchanan. Va: Isabelle Marie
Schoheld. Newport News. Va: Virginia
Leo Mullins. Ferrum. Va; Claudia Lu-
ellie Moore. Roanoke, Va; Annie
Rooney Chopper. Stormont. Va; Ro-
berta Walker Flanagan. Charlottes-
willie. Va; Virginia i. Henkcl. Croft
toes. Va: NJ. 3oudc Fletcher. Rich
| mond. Va: Lillian Florence Anderson.
| Newport News. Va: Olivia Montague
Driscoll. Richmond, Va: Marie Cath
crime DAILY. richmond. Va.
The Memorial commencement this
year is Of particular interest. When
I ha dot tod
a year ago hospital consolidation
simultaneously occurred. with the re-
| suit that the Virginia was closed and
, all clinical work concentrated at tho
Memorial. The class of IA. therefore.
contains graduates of the training
schools of both the old hospitals, just
as the Medical College of Virginia
student class of IL is made up OF the
! one time rivals of both the old schools
This rivalry has given way TO a
| whole hearted enthusiasm for tho new
dispensation, and no less among the
nurses than among the students has
the year marked a spirit OF co-opera-
ton absolutely without reference to
the old dividing lines. The class has
done excellent work in all the courses.
and Is in every way ono of the best
ever graduated in Richmond.
GREAT EXTENSION OF
TRAINING SCHOOL WORK
Furthermore. the past hear has rep
resented n notable extension OF the
training school work. Not only is the
Memorial Hospital. under the leader
Ship OF its capable superintendent,
Miss Agnes Randolph, beginning TO
| reach forth into the field of social SER
vice. but with the assistance and guild
ance OF the college faculty the sphere
of influence of the institution is being
| definitely enlarged in the sense that
It is becoming n sort of centre of hos
IA, INT
teaching courses have been greatly
elaborated Additions have been made
20 the teaching stafr. and, with the
privilege OF using Mt Will all the facil-
tiles offered by the big college. the
| work has been pur upon n sounder
basis than ever before. To these
courses Undergraduate nurses from
every hospital in the city have been
invited with the idea of ultimately de-
VclopinS a great central training school
| revolving around the college. Such
nurses. other than those at the Me-
mortal. as attend tho courses regular
~ and stand the prescribed exami-
nations will receive certificates lust
as do those for whom the school Is
primarily intended. Already the in
vitation has been accepted in several
Instances. and at the commencement
| on Thursday evening the hospital, In
addition to awarding diplomas to its
own graduates. will present certificates
for special work to the graduates of
two other institutions-the Sheltering
Arms Hospital and the Virginia Hos
pital. now conducted by the city. The
nurses who will receive these certi-
fcates are: Misses Annie Lee Wood
ruff. Elizabeth Winborne and Montana
X. Pedigo, Of the Virginia, and Misses
Matte Elizabeth Campbell, Halle Gar
nett Thomasson, Julia Stockton Ran
dolph and Elizabeth Ann Gregory, of
the Sheltering Arms.