Commencement Exercises

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · May 17, 1906

Commencement Exercises

FROM the Kalamazoo (Mich.) Gazette of May 3 we take this report:—

“The fourth annual commencement exercises of the Michigan Sanitarium Training-school for Nurses were held in the parlor and living-room of the sanitarium, at 125 East South Street, Wednesday evening at 7:30. The decorations, which were pretty and effective, included the class colors of lavender and white, and a bank of flowers and plants. The program was as follows:—

“ March.

“ Invocation — B. F. Kneeland.

“ Solo — W. H. Heckman.

“ Salutatory — Florence J. Currier.

“ ‘Art and Science of Nursing’— Effie S. Branham.

“ ‘Medical Work in Armenia’— Elizabeth Dombourajian.

“ Piano Duet — Mrs. Midgley, Nina Parkhurst.

“ Class History — Clarie L. Farman.

“ Class Prophecy — Yula B. Leech.

“ Valedictory — Nina M. Parkhurst.

“ Solo — B. F. Kneeland.

“ Address — A. G. Haughey.

“ Presentation of Diplomas — T. H. Midgley.

“ Class Song.

“ Benediction — M. N. Campbell.

“ Miss Dombourajian, of Armenia, furnished a special feature of interest by singing in her native tongue the selection, “There is sunshine in my soul.”

“ The class has completed a three years’ standard nurses’ course, comprising fourteen different studies.

“ The members of the class are Clarie L. Farman, of Washington, D. C.; Nina M. Parkhurst, of Grand Rapids; Yula B. Leech, of Pleasant Hill, Mich.; Florence J. Currier, of Cedar Lake, Mich.; Elizabeth Dombourajian, of Armenia; Effie Branham, of Neosho, Mo.”