A Pleasant Occasion

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jul 16, 1902

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 28, No. 29.

A Pleasant Occasion.

The writer had the pleasure of attending the commencement exercises of the School for Christian Nurses in the Medical and Surgical Sanitarium Chapel, at St. Helena, Cal., June 18. There were nine graduates, three young men, of whom one was a Japanese, and six young women. The exercises were very simple, and approvingly brief. The address was given by the president of the board, A. T. Jones. It was an intensely practical address, in which reference was made to the principles taught the class, and they were strongly exhorted to be true to these principles; not to the institution, not to their church, but to the principles of light, and truth, and healing they had been taught, and which the great sick world needed. The diplomas were presented by A. N. Loper, M.D., the medical superintendent of the Sanitarium. The names of those who compose the class are as follows: Beatrice Ellingsen, Bertha Speare, Lillie Masters, Martha Warne, Ida Rodman, Lillie Whitbeck, H. W. Crane, C. E. Boger, T. Kawano. As was befitting, there was no special effort put forth for show, no extra expense indulged in graduating dresses. The class were arrayed in the simple, modest nurse uniform, no different from their companions about them. The songs and music were sweet and appropriate. May God bless these Christian nurses as they go forth in their work of love and oft-times arduous duty; and may His blessing rest upon the training-school that is sending out such workers.