The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1916-06-01
MISS EDNA FOLEY TALKS
Makes Address to Graduates - DR..
Windesheiln Confers Degrees Mrs.
Northway Administers Hip
pocratic Oath.

In church decorated with sweet
peas, the flower of Kenosha hospital,
ana American beauties, the flower of
the graduating class, and many ported
plants, the Misses Edna NJ. Coughlin,
Chicago; Belle Rouse, Kenosha; Bessie
E. Christianson, Racine;. Anna M.
Weiss, Milwaukee; Myrtle Schpelling,
Kenosha; Bessie Children, Kenosha;
Agnes Larsen, Kenosha, were gradual
ed Thursday night from the Kenosha
Hospital Training School for Nurses.
The ceremony was held in the Park
Avenue Methodist Episcopal church,
which was especially lighted and
charmingly decorated for the occasion.
The graduates wore their under
graduate uniforms of striped seersuck-
er with big white aprons and white
caps and little bows of red and white,
the hospital colors. They were seated
in the organ loft which was mass of
flowers, and with them were the speak
er, Miss Edna R. Foley, head of the
Visiting Nurses association of Chica-
go, and Mrs. Millicent Northway, head
Of the training school and administer
of the Hippocratic oath. DIR. g. Win
desheim, who presented the diplomas
and the Rev. Peter F. Stair, who made
the invocatory prayer.
In the first rows Of seats were group
ed the alumni Of the school in their
full white regalia. Back o. them were
such Of the pupil nurses as could be
spared from sheir duties at the hospi-
tai to attend, These were in seer
sucker costumes.
Miss Foley in her address, made a
plea to the graduates to be faithful
to their alma mater. She said that
wherever they might go for post grad
uate work that a tie, never to be brok-
en-, would connect them with Keno
sha hospital.
She said they owed much to the facul-
ty and board of directors who had
spared no possible means to make their
course valuable and prepare them for
life of service.
She warned them that the reputa-
tion Of the Kenosha Training school
depended upon them as individuals, for
upon their records would the school be
judged. She warned them that any I'M
professional act Of theirs would reflect
upon the institution to which they had
every cause to feel deep gratitude for
its careful training Of them.
She went into a history of profess
sional nursing, giving loving tribute to
Florence Nightingale, the first great
nurse of history who established a
school for standardized training of
women for the profession.
She asked her hearers to feel that
when they entered their work that it
was not for the money they could get
from it, but rather for the purpose of
giving full hearted, loving, unselfsh
service to humanity She said it was
a dignified profession and one to which
only those Of high ideals should be
admitted.
The music was q feature of the even
ing. Miss Harriet Lewis, who has
splendislly trained voice, rendered two
solo numbers artistically and was ac-
companied by W. Wesley LaCoilette of
Evanston on the piano. Miss Marion
Hale played a professional and recess
sional on the pipe organ and the vio-
lin quartette provided several delight
full numbers.
The impressive administration of the
Hippocratic oath when the graduates
promised to uphold the dignity of their
profession and remain true to its de-
mands, was taken with dignity and
administered by the superintendent of
the hospital, Mrs. Northway.
After the exercises the alumni en-
tertained its newest class at a banquet
IN the Hotel Kenosha.
Many members of the families of
the graduates were present from out
of the city.
The church was practically filed
with the audience.
This is the seventh annual commence
ment of the school.