p. 21 | Nurses' Reception by H. N. Sisco

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Tacoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jan 10, 1907

Nurses' Reception

By H. N. Sisco

ON the evening of December 29, Dr. Bourdeau-Sisco gave a reception at her home in honor of Miss Emma Runck and Miss Althera Craft, who are just finishing their nurses' course at the Washington Branch Sanitarium. About fifty persons were present, including Drs. G. T. Harding, J. H. Neall, G. H. Heald, W. A. Ruble, and S. P. S. Edwards, the sanitarium family, medical students, and friends of the graduating class, from Washington Training College.

Remarks were made relative to our work by the doctors present, by the members of the graduating class, by medical students, representatives of the Sanitarium, and by under-graduate nurses. We are ever to remember that our nurses are going out into all the world, not to heal the body only, but rather to bind up the bruised soul.

The musical part of the program consisted of piano selections, violin solos, vocal music, and selections by Takoma Park Orchestra. An original poem was read in honor of the graduating class, followed by congratulations and a social hour. The evening will be pleasantly remembered, not only because of the occasion itself, but because it was the first of a series, we trust, of many such occasions, on which we may bid many nurses' classes Godspeed in their work for the world. H. N. Sisco.