The School of Nursing Ceremony at the American University of Beirut

At the end of last March the School of Nursing at the American University held, following its custom every year, the ceremony of placing nurses' caps on the heads of the School's students, marking the passage of six months since the beginning of their studies and the firm sealing of their resolve to enter the nursing profession, with all the responsibility and honor it carries. Thereafter the students go on — the caps never leaving their heads — with their theoretical and practical studies until they complete the prescribed course in three years.

The speaker at this year's ceremony was Dr. Jamal Karam Harfush, who delivered a valuable address which she opened by saying that to this University belongs the first credit for opening the profession of nursing to our girls, fifty-four years ago... and by telling how the School of Nursing has developed and grown until today it has reached a level of which we may boast before the world — and that only thanks to the mighty efforts expended, in fidelity and devotion, by the women who have served this institute through all these years.

After touching on the importance of the nursing profession as a human mission that completes woman's mission as wife and as mother, Dr. Harfush paid tribute to working together in common effort, and to the necessity of sacrifice and giving, so that this mission may be served to the fullest.

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