Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-05-04 | Page 11 | County Hospital Nurses are Graduated Replaced those who Answered Call

COUNTY HOSPITAL NURSES ARE GRADUATED 0 Cf CS fJ , fi REPLACED THOSE WHO ANSWERED WAR CALL LEFT TO EIGHT, TOP Miss Rut.il Nolson, Mira Sarah Cordon and Klas Ethel Latham. Eolow, loft to rlK'H Miss Kutli Dunlinm. Miss Lucille Eorsoson and Miss Lititla Stewart. 1 r- vx 1 ill 1 - qcaHi r ' yyh ' - ,f 0 : lj' v ., t, ' I pgp .... j I v i I oi -... M - 1 ! N V U - j ft vj i , " ' ' : 1 ; . i I ' S A I- t' . ' ..-'A - : : : '." J 1 . -.' - ffv-W'Vv - -y. :. 4 t . - I Training Class Demonstrated Demonstrat-ed Ability in Rush Days of 'Flu' Epidemic. SIX young women, who, as nurses in training, stepped into the breach occasioned at the county hospital by demand for nures when tho United States entered the war, have won recognition. They have been awarded diplomas of graduation from the training school maintained at the hospital, and the pins that constitute consti-tute the credentials of graduate nurses everywhere were pinned to their uniforms. uni-forms. Life at the county hospital has been doubly strenuous during the past half year for both nurses and student nurses in the training school. Added to the drain on the supply of graduate nurses occasioned by the war and felt by all hospitals, tho influenza epidemic heaped a mountain of work in trout of tho force of the county hospital. Many indigent patients were added to the already crowded institution because of affliction with the disorder The graduation exercises of Wednesday Wednes-day night were marked by the sort of enthusiasm that corhos of victory hard won. All of the training school girls and the officials of the institution joined into the spirit of the occasion, while guests were present to swell tho number of celebratora to approximately 200. Following the formal graduation exercises everyone repaired to the reception re-ception room and joined hands with terpsichore to the music of an orchestra. The exercises that preceded the dancing danc-ing began with a inarch of the graduates gradu-ates and students of the training school to tho hospital chapel. There the exercises exer-cises were begun with an invocation by County Commissioner C. F. Stilman. The graduation address, given by Stephen Ste-phen L. Richards, was preceded by a violin solo bjr Miss May Anderson and followed by a vocal solo by Miss Evelyn Buehler. A short address was made by County Commissioner Joseph S. Lindsay, Lind-say, in whose department the hospital has its berth. The diplomas were presented to tho 6ix graduates by Dr. T. J. Howells, county physician, and Miss Daphne Dal-ton, Dal-ton, superintendent, decorated the young women with the pins that distinguish dis-tinguish them as having been mustered into the ranks of professionals. Guests present for the first time spoke of the occasion as an agreeable surprise sur-prise ;n tho matter of a pervading congeniality.