Fifty years spent preparing the girls of the Arab East for a profession which the civilized world has exalted with honor. May it, in the years to come, redouble its growth and fulfill its mission through the efforts of its members and its friends. As Florence Nightingale, the mother of modern nursing, said: "Professions, like peoples, do not flourish unless those who carry them on feel the responsibility of cooperation and mutual support."

Miss Grace Adjemian - Miss Yevnigue Ajemian - Miss Mary Bezirguenian - Miss Sonia Boghossian - Mrs. Winifred [...] - Mrs. Alice Donabedian - Miss Angele Hasserjian - Miss Susan Kalemkiarian - Miss Vera Kassis - Miss Sirwart Kes[...] - Miss Sion Kevork - Miss Mary Kevorkian - Miss Elizabeth Moser Director School of Nursing and Nursing Service - Miss Clarik Khatchadourian - Miss Lydia [...] - Miss Hiyam Kuaybini - Miss Adrine Manoushakian - SCHOOL OF NURSING AUB CLASS OF 1955 - Miss Evieny Merdjanian - Miss Salwa N[...] - Miss Never Ortchanian - Miss Angele Sarkis - Miss Costa Schtakleff - Miss Nadya Sihwayl - Miss Ashkhen Ya[...]

Graduates of the School of Nursing of the American University of Beirut, 1955 — twenty-three in number.

You Are with Me
Talk of the Heart
You Are with Me
You are with me, in the light's drowsing, and in its spreading forth,
I carry you as an offering... fragrant with orange-blossom water!
What do I care if the distance stretches long, if coldness casts me off —
perhaps you have an excuse, my beloved!
You are with me, in the beating of my blood, and in my stillness!
What storm is this that dares against you,
when your roots run through the ravines of my heart, across the years?..
I loved you before you came to be,
and your absence — I lived with it an age, and companioned it an age,
and in my mind, of you — how wondrous they are! — visions surge with tender remembrance!
Has not longing, when it mounts, a tremor of blazing fire?
And what is love worth, if it is all alike?
As though all mankind were equal in loftiness??
Have I forgotten you? Have I truly forgotten you?
You are with me, my beloved,
and I shall carry you, as long as I live, an offering,
... fragrant with orange-blossom water!
Aphrodite
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