RED CROSS APPEAL

Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 110, 11 May 1935, Page 15

RED CROSS APPEAL

NURSING SCHOLARSHIP

NIGHTINGALE MEMORIAL

(By Major J. Abel, V.D., Dominion Chairman of the N.Z. Red Cross Society.) Fellow New Zealanders, you have Jthe well-won reputation that an appeal to you in the cause of humanity jis not made in vain. Therefore, in the full confidence that the request will have your support the Red Gross Society asks yoj to provide a scholarship fund to enable a well-qualified nurse to be sent each year to London . for a post-graduate course at the Bedford College for .Women (University of London) which is associated with the College of Nursing. The courses in which the holders of scholarships will have intensive training during a year comprise public health, administration, and teaching in schools of nursing and social work. At the conclusion of this special training the graduates will be under agreement to | return to New where their j knowledge and experience will be' beneficial to the community ._ ' INTERNATIONAL TENtE&tRISfe. This project is in accordance with ■a resolutSon of "the International Coiin!cil of Nurses and the League-of Red C^oss Societies (which have been established In sixty-one countries) to i promote the Florence Nightingale International Foundation, of which the objects are to-establish and maintain a permanent International Memorial to Florence Nightingale in the form of an endowed trust for post-graduate nursing education and to provide for; the maintenance and development of facilities for post-graduate education for selected nurses from all countries. The facilities for this education are now available, but, of course, the various countries which are to have the benefit of the education are expected to subscribe funds sufficient ■ for the special training of nurses. A LIGHT THAT FAILS NOT. Shakespeare made one of his char alters say in a pessimistic mood: "The evil that men do lives after them. The good is 6ft interred with their bones." . Happily for humanity, the' reverse has often occurred. One brilliant example' is ;in the life and work of Florence Nightingale. The light from her lamp is destined to reach for ever along the aisles of time. That marvellous, lady's splendid service is a perpetual inspiration for nursing,' which is one of the most honourable professions in the world. What a worthy remembrance of Florence Nightingale is seen in' this scholarship enterprise, which fosters an intensive and extensive study of her principles in the cause of humanity, with no barriers of race or creed.. Here is an international movement which makes for enduring good will, fo"r nurses from many countries study and work together in London, and return to their people with the Nightingale spirit of self-sacrificing service. MANY HONORARY WORKERS. Fellow New Zealanders, many men and women in your Red Cross Society and its branches gladly give time and energy free in this far-ranging work, and many also add subscriptions to their service. Whatever they can do; they do cheerfully. Their only reward is in the sense of a publicspirited duty, done as well as they,;t:an| •do it. Theyvare working for you/all; .the year round;;year; after .year: "Will you help.then&ho'yjr.-with' the; Florence Nf^litingalerKMemorial. Scholarship? Sfajn you,iserffefia, subscription. to .Miss C^ ; R. Clark,r: sectary of the N.Z^ Memorial Scholarship Committee (N.Z.; Registered Nurses' :i Association, Wellington) or to Mrs. I. L. Andrews, Dominion , secretary, Headquarters, N.Z. Red Cross Society, Wellington. The New Zealand Committee comprises. Miss M. Lambie (Director :of the? Nursing Division, i of-the Public Health Department), seven representatives of the Registered Nurses' Association, and seven representatives of the Red Cross Society. The committee is hoping to raise a scholarship endowment fund, but .meanwhile the call is for at least money enough to send the first selected. nurse to London.'