The commencement exercises from the golden jubilee of the Kingston General Hospital School of Nursing; printed on hard paper; has information on the events, and the names of the 1923 graduating class; has the Florence Nightingale Pledge on the back.
The commencement exercises from the golden jubilee of the Kingston General Hospital School of Nursing; printed on hard paper; has information on the events, and the names of the 1923 graduating class; has the Florence Nightingale Pledge on the back.
Number Of Parts
1
Provenance
From the 1923 Kingston General Hospital School of Nursing Graduation Ceremony at Grant Hall in Kingston, Ontario; the card was acquired by Cora Burnside when she graduated in 1923 and was later given to her great niece Susan Muer-Simpson.
Written at the top of the page in pen: "Dost thou remember?"; printed on front: "Eighteenth Annual // Commencement Exercises // Kingston General Hospital // Training School for Nurses // Friday Evening, May 11th, 1923 // Grant Hall 8 o'clock // Graduates, 1923 // Miss Elizabeth Gwendolen Austin, Kingston. // Armorel Louise Beach, Iroquois. // Violet Margaret Black, Forrest Falls. // Cora Frances Burnside, Iroquois. // Elizabeth Cullen, Kingston. // Willa Jean Dusty, Kingston. // Lillian Fairfull, Walkerton. // Gertrude Mabel Fitzsimmons, Russell. // Nina Gibson, Kingston. // Verna Mearle Hamilton (nee Mal- // lory), Mallorytown. // Hazel Hawley, Bath. // Genevieve Helen Horton, Bellamy. // Dorothy Isabelle Howard, Kingston. // Margaret Lindsay Johncox, Arnprior. // Letitia Dora Macdonald, Mallorytown. // Ruth Filson Marshall, Stella. // Gladys Coralene Quail, Newburgh. // Jean Mae Redden, Oshawa. // Gladys Beryl Rogers, Smithfield. // Ethel Margaret Sloan, Peterboro. // Della Maud Steacy, Iroquois. // Vema Maude Strader, Iroquois. // Mary Taft, Kingston. // Bessie Florence Thomas, Shawville. // Edith Maude Walker, Perth. // Elizabeth Gillespie Waller, Napanee. // Rhoda Elizabeth Wesley, Maberly. // Mary Ann Willis, Smith's Falls. // Gladys Ellen Willis, Portland."
Permanent Location
Storage Room 2005
2005-2-2 Box 8
Length
20.2 cm
Width
12.1 cm
Unit Of Measure
centimeters
Dimension Notes
Length 20.2 cm x Width 12.1 cm
Condition Remarks
The paper is creased in several places.
Copy Type
Original
Reference Types
Person
Website
Reference Comments
Susan Muer-Simpson
Kingston Health Sciences Centre website, "KGH School of Nursing," (https://kingstonhsc.ca/kgh-school-nursing)
Research Facts
Cora Frances Burnside was a graduate of Kingston General Hospital School of Nursing's class of 1923; she worked in New York until 1971 and died in 1996.
The first official graduating class of the Kingston General Hospital School of Nursing was in 1888; the school was created in order to educate nurses as the demand for them increased, as well as providing a labour force to the hospital. When the first nurses graduated, they were given a certificate of completion, twenty five dollars, and a nursing medal. Over the years, nurses were sometimes given pins and/or rings or other memorabilia to commemorate their graduation from the school.