Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-30
DR.. NEVIS GIVES
NURSES DIPLOMAS
Joint Commencement Held
for Providence and George
town Hospitals Graduates.

Fifty-two graduate nurses of Provl-
dence and Georgetown Hospitals, In
Guiding IL from the District OF Column
bia, received their diplomas from DR..
W. Coleman Nevils, S. j., president OF
Georgetown University at joint COM
mencement exercises yesterday after
noon in CASTOR Hall.
In addressing the young women, DR.
Nevis urged upon them full reallza-
ton of the responsibility lodged with
nurses to serve other people and re-
minded them that the completion OF
their course in the training school is
merely the beginning of their work and
experience.
Friends Crowd CASTOR Hall.
CASTOR Hall was crowded with friends
and the graduates, those from ProVl-
dence in white and those from George
town in blue and white uniforms, were
presented by DR.. John A. Foote, newly
appointed dean of the Georgetown
Medical School. Vocal solos were given
by Dorothy Noel of Providence Hospital
accompanied by Elmira Normandin, and
Mary Cross of Georgetown, who was
The exercises were opened by DR..
George Tully Vaughan of Georgetown
Hospital and DR.. C. C. Marbury on be-
half of Providence. DR.. James A. Ca
hill of Providence also was on the plat
form and the following from the
Georgetown staff: DR.. Leon Martel,
DR.. Frank Ready. DR.. Thomas F. Lowe,
! DR.. Prentiss Wilson and Rev. Walter
G.. Summers, S. j., regent Of the medical
| school.
Dr. FoOte Presents Graduates.
DR.. Foote presented 81 graduates
| from the Providence Training School,
who included three nuns who had COM
pleted the nursing course, while %
! graduates were presented from George
| town.
The list Of graduates follows:
Georgetown Hospital-Alexandrine M
Brault, District of Columbia Evans c
Budd, Maryland; Dorothy F. Carr
Mary C. Cornelius, Virginia; Kathleen
L Cross, District of Columbia; Bernice
c. Dalton, Massachusetts,; Edith P
Friedrichs, Pennsylvania; II. Eleanor
Friedrichs, Pennsylvania; Jewel A. Hag
gerty, Pennsylvania; Margaret c. Haran
Maryland: Elsie r. Hess, District of Co.
lumbia l. Virginia Lidie, Maryland
Catherine A. Mccain, Ireland; Philo
mena Mcneil, Canada; Mary M. Muir
ply, Pennsylvania; Ann M. Opray, New
York; Helen M. Payne, Virginia: Vir
ginia L. Ryan, Virginia; Ann E. Watts
Ohio; Catherine M. Walsh, Ireland
Mary T. WEIGH, Maryland; Ann Z
Wells, District Of Columbia; Nellie G
williams, Virginia, and Margaret M
Wray, Vermont.
Providence Hospital-Isabel Mary Al
len. Canada; Anna Letitia Croghar
District Of Columbia; Sara Merri
Cross, South Carolina; Florence Cath
crime Daley, District ef Columbia
Agnes Resell Donnelly, Maryland: lisa
bell Genevieve brass. Pennsylvania
Marie Berniece Dunford, Virginia
Eleanor Maria Dutton, Maryland
Olinda Rose Facchina, District of Co
lumbia: Dorothy Frances Farrin, We:
Virginia; Katherine Martha johnson
District of Columbia; Lois West Jone
! North Carolina; Rita Mary K1iro
Maryland Frances Oster King, Mary
land: Helen Pauline Kline. Maryland
Ann Eliza Mattingly Maryland; MINI
z McBain, Maryland: Elmira Loretta MOI
= mandin, Pennsylvania; Anna Veronic
Quill, District Of Columbia; Sister MAI
Angelica o. p New York; Sister MAJ
Bridgettine, o. P, New York; Slst.
r Mary Redempta. o. p, New Yorl
Prudis Alberta Snyder, Virginia; MAJ
De Sales Sturm, Virginia.; Ethel Bern;
dine Tolker. District Of Columbia; He'll
Elizabeth Wright. District OF Columol
. and Ruth Martina Weamer, Pennsy
yania