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Official Organ of the Diocese of San Die o, Cahf~~' Friday, January 21, 194 . MERCY COLLEGE OF

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GRADUATES LARGEST CLASS From Page 1 Those who are accepted in the students of which the major part U. S. Cadet Nurse Corps promise will come under the U. S. Cadet to engage in essential nursing Nurse Corps. throughout the war, choosing Course of Instruction either civilian or military ser• The basic professional three- vice. They receive f11ll training year curriculum is given, leading which meets the requirements for to a diploma of Graduate Nurse graduation in an accredited nurs- issued by the College of Nursing ing school approved under the and qualifying the graduate for Bolton Act. Complete tuition and the usual State Board examina- fees will be paid with a monthly tion as a registered nurse. allowance of $15 during the first The course comprises a six nine months as pre-cadet; $20 a months' pre-clinical period and months until graduation as Sen• two and one-half years' instruc- months as a Junior Cadet; at least tion involving both theory and $30 a month for the remaining practice. Teaching of theory and months until graduatio nas Sen• practice in nursing is assigned to ior Cadet. On graduation, tha I specially qualified instructors. nurse is eligible to become • Lecturers are selected from the Registered Nurse. members of the active staff of l\IERCY HOSPITAL LARGEST the Hospital. IN SOUTHLAND Nursing practice during the Mercy Hospital of San Diego, preliminary period is restricted conducted by the Sisters of within a maximum of 24 hours Mercy, is the leading hospital of per week in the wards, enabling Southern California, the only the student to become familiar Catholic Hospital in the South• with the hospital routine and dis- land and one of the outstanding cipline and to demonstrate her hospitals of the country. The en• fitness for the nursing profession. tire management of the Hospital Full maintenance is provided. and College of Nursing is in the No tuition charge is made. A hands of the Sisters. Each de- monthly allowance of five dollars partment is headed by one of the is given after the preliminary Sisters of the Order, which num- period. A day off is allowed each bers 44 Sisters now residing in week. A vacation is granted each San Diego. year to be arranged for her by There are four major and five the Director of the Nurses. Ab· minor operating rooms in the ence is permitted only in ex- modern Surgery Department be• I ·eme cases and time lost through \sides the Emergency Surgery ,llness or any other cause must Room and casualty station. The be made up at the end of the Hospital administration has been course. \highly commended by the O.C.D. \ Students receive the diploma on the organized medical, emer• of Mercy College of Nursing on gency defense staff, casualty and the satisfactory completion of the decontamination station. basic three-year curriculum. There are at present 325 doc• Graduates who receive certific- tors of San Diego County on the ates as registered nurses from the staff, of which more than 100 are State Board of Nurse Examiners on the Nation's honor roll serv- are given the College pin. ing the armed forces. At the request of the Govern- Hospital facilities are able to ment, Mercy College of Nursing, care for 325 adults and 100 new- being an approved College of born babies. In 1943, there were Nursing by the State and recog- 119,056 patients admitted as com- nized by 'the Government as an pared with 17,926 for 1942. Dur• outstanding school of Nursing is ing the past year 4,447 babies preparing an accelerated course were born in Mercy Hospital in keeping with the U. S. Cadet while 3,924 were born there dur• Nurse Corps. This new arrange- ing 1942. $90,946.53 was expend• ment in no way changes the high ed in full and part pay charity. To an echo you owe the pleasure ernment support of S tu dent of hearing yourself talk.-William nurses. l Congreve. standards set by the College but affords an opportunity for Gov-

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The ;.:.,_st ;Reverend Charles £. Bu~ ~y, D.D., Bishr-p of San Diego, presided at the graduation of forty-three student n:irses 1 • Mercy College of Nursing in St. Joseph's Cathedral, Sunday, !January 16th,

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His Excellercy delivered Bettie Glaab lauder the nursing profession and paid a lasting tribute to the Margaret Mary Kelly :i,arent~ of the graduates. Th mother ' <: the first a'1.d best nurse a Helen Kennedy child has, His Excellency stated, Melba Love and we will never know the Carita McIntyre headaches, heartaches and back- Mildred McKinnon aches, our mothers endured to V.iola Maris make our existence possible. Lois Marsh The Very Reverend Franklin Jo Ann Petersen Victoria Pineyro the commencement address ,vhich

F. Hurd, Rector, of the Cathedral, assisted the Bishop in the presen- Margaret Small tation of diplomas and Solemn Margery Snider Benedictionof the Most Blessed Virginia Stewart Helen Sutliff Sacrament was given by Rev. Ed- ward A. Johnson, Chaplain of Mary Talamantes Mary Jane Trefzger Mercy Hospital, assisted by the Muriel Underdown Revs. George Booth, S. P. M. and June Van Natter

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James Pruzinski, C.R. The Very Rev. Wilbur Kirk, O. S. A. and the Rev. Joseph Luther were Chaplains to the Bishop.

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Established 9, The 1944 class is the largest 1905, the present Mercy College 1 class ever to be graduated from Mercy College of Nursing. Those of Nursing was originally known 1 1 receiving diplomas were: as St. Joseph's Hospital Training School for Nurses. I Anne Brown The school offered a three- Ruth Dent f year course. The first class gradu- Catherine Feehan . ated in 1906. This school of nurs- Margaret Foust 9 ing was accredited to the Cali• Anna Lee Gorini f fornia State Board of Health on Evelyn Gould • February 3, 1917. on February

Katherine Holm Eulalia Johnson Violet Kekina Donna Riddell Maxine Stutzman

With the building of the new Mercy Hospital, a new nurses' home and school of nursing was erected. The name of the train- • ing school was changed to read Mercy College of Nursing of San \ Diego on January 28, 1932. Mercy College of Nursing is affiliated with Mount St. Mary's College, I Westwood, Calif. Classes are ad- 1 mitted twice a year, in January and September. The new class which will enter training next Monday, January 24, number 25 (Continued on Page 3.)