The Ocala evening star., 1915-02-09
EXERCISES
AT THE HOSPITAL

Ocala aItenQeu Jne graduation eXef-
cises at the Marion County Hospital
last night, when Miss Lola Pope grad
uated. Among the guests was nearly
the entire medical fraternity of the
city and most of the officers of the
hospital. A great many ladies at
tended and every one enjoyed the ex-
ercises. Several patients VINO were on
the floor where the exercises took
place, the doors of their rooms being
opened, they, too, enjoyed the evening.
The woman's ward, very large
room on the first floor, had been va
Gated for the occasion and the exer-
cises were held there. Seats had been
provided and the piano moved in.
Large asSthe room was, it would not
seat all of the guests, a number of
whom remained outside the room in
the corridor.
Before the exercises took place all
the nurses filed in and were seated at
the front. They wore their neat and
tastful uniforms, except the graduate,
who wore the pure white nurses cos
tune.
Mr.. I. T. Munroe, president of the
hospital association, acted as master
of ceremonies, delivered the diploma
at the proper time and took occasion
to make a short talk on the achieve
ments of the hospital, which has
grown from such modest beginning
to one of the states best equipped
institutions and of which Ocala is es-
pecially proud.
Miss Mary Marshall, the capable
and well loved superintendent, intro
duced Miss Lola Pope, the graduate,
and gave bright little eulogy of her
excellent work and the high grade
she has made in her different studies,
her personal conduct at the hospital,
which had endeared her to all, her CO.
workers as we'll as the physicians and
patients, and bespoke for her success
in her chosen field and the good opin-
ion and esteem of the public with
whom she will come in contact during
her life's work.
Mr.. Munroe, with few words of
encouragement and congratulation,
then delivered the diploma to Miss
Pope. The diploma issued by the Ma
rion County Hospital and Nurses
Training School is a handsome docu-
ment, printed on sheepskin, and its
possession entities the holder to the
full rights and privileges of any hos
pital or nurses work in the land, and
it's grade is as high and its require
ments as exacting as any hospital
or training school in the country.
Miss Pope's grade averages were very
high in each branch and the physi-
clans and her fellow nurses are very
proud of her record there.
Several musical features were in
troduced into the program, Miss Mar
guerite Porter, Miss Ellen ClarksoA
and Mrs. H. M. Hampton contributing
exquisite vocal and instrumental
numbers.
Mr.. Munroe called on Rev. Bunyan
Stephens to say few words as the
ministers of the city had always aided
the hospital Loyalty in both moral and
material measures.
DR.. Walter Hood was called on to
| speak for the medical fraternity and
made short talk in his happy, off
hand way that raised laugh.
\ Following the literary program, the
nurses served a delicious course of
refreshments, passing the pretty
trays to the guests as they sat or
Istood about the room and hall. Coffee,
crackers, sandwiches and fruit salad
was served.
| Miss Marshall and her corps of as
sistants were paid many sincere COM
pliments by their guests during the
evening, on the appearance of the hos
pital, it's excellent system, attract
iveness and the words of praise that
came from satisfied patients over the
country.
A The comparatively few men and wo-
men of the city, who have labored un-
tiringly in the past to make the hos
pital a success and to keep it going,
are now reaping the reward of their
labor and money in the satisfaction
of noble work we'll done and see be-
/ fore them lasting monument to their
efforts, in one of the best hospital
buildings and equipments and most
beautiful locations in the whole
/ South. The hospital was organized