The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1919-05-15
Kenosha Hospital Training
School Is One of Two
Badger Schools to Re-
ceiye Federal Aid.
ANNOUNCED AT GRADUATION
DR.. Windesheim Tells of New Honor in
Presenting Diplomas to Graduates
at commencement Exercises at
Congregational Church.

TO the Kenosha Hospital Training
School, IN recognition of its splendid
work was the announcement made Mon
day evening by Dr.. G. A. Windesheim,
president of the Board Of Directors
IN presenting diplomas to the Glass of
1919 at the regular commencement ex-
ercises at the Congregational Church.
This new aid which will be brought to
the Kenosha school through the medium
of the Vocational School, marks the
Kenosha Hospital School as one of the
two best of such institutions in Wiscon-
sin as aid could be granted to only that
many schools in the state.
The announcement came as a fitting
climax to the commencement exercises
of the 1919 class. The large number
OF people who thronged the church to
attend the ceremonies found the large
nave of the church enlivened with
banner of blue golden letters emblaz-
oning the motto Of the class. Keep
Tryst. This was hung above the
altar of the church just beneath the
8 Stars and Stripes AS the process
sional, the March Pontifcalle'1 was
played by Miss Margaret Becker, the
alumni of the school, led by four who
had served overseas, entered the church
auditorium and made the way for the
seven graduates, who with the instruc-
tors of the school held the place Of
honor.
The commencement address was made
by Miss Dolly Twitchell, the assistant
to Miss Minnie Ahrens, Divisional Di-
rector Of the Central Division Of Nurs-
es, who was scheduled to speak in Ke-
nosha but who found it impossible to
be present Miss Twitchell, in very
interesting way, told the class of the
wonderful opportunities offered to them
as nurses. She paid high compliments
to the work of the Kenosha Training
School and urged the graduates to be
ever true to their alma mater.
Miss TWitchell brought to Kenosha
the first word as to the plans which
have been formulated for the American
Red Cross to carry the lessons they have
learned into the homes as a part Of the
favorable aftermath Of the war. .To-
day has an opportunity for service for
the nurses greater than the world has
ever known said the speaker as she
told of the plan, which Miss Jane De-
lano, the director Of American Red
Cross activities overseas, whose recent
death had brought sorrow to this coun-
try, had outlined to the Home Com
mittee. Under this plan after the
Home Chapter of the Red Cross has
organized classes, competent nurses will
be sent into each community to teach
the mothers the way to care for the
sick and help make the terrors Of a
second epidemic like the influenza of
last year an impossibility in the years
to come. These courses are to last six
weeks and at the end of them every
attendant will know the rudiments of
nursing. The work has already been
in many Of the eastern
states and will soon be started in sew
eral counties in Wisconsin.
Following the commencement address
the graduates solemnly took the pledge
of Florence Nightingale which bound
them to the sacred traditions of their
life OF ministering to the sick. In the
interludes the Elks quartette and the
High School orchestra furnished excel 4
lent musical numbers. Miss Edna Cam
eron also gave two entertaining vocal
numbers Sunset by Korling and
g Love Note' by Rogers both of
them exceptionally well rendered and
well worth the applause which they
received.
In presenting the diplomas, DR..
Windesheim recalled the excellent
record made by the Kenosha Training
School since it was started sixteen years
ago. He reminded the audience that
the Hospital was an institution where
every citizen would be made welcome
and that any plan for more hospital
room IN Kenosha should only center
around this Institution which has
proved itself worthy Of support and
entirely democratic in its operation.
You may well be proud Of this
diploma said DR.. Windesheim. " for
it is the record that You have com
pleted the course Of training in one of
the best schools in the United States.
The federal government has asked
every state to designate two schools
which are to receive federal aid and
I am glad to say that among the schools
selected was this one at Kenosha. ],
DR.. Wlndesheim declared that this hon
or had come largely through the eff
Gent work of Mrs. Northway as sup