1968 Fredericton Encaenia
Mussallem, Helen Kathleen
Doctor of Laws (LL.D.)
Orator: Cattley, Robert E.D.
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L to R: Colin B. Mackay, C.L. Mahan, Helen Kathleen Mussallem, Lt.-Gov. Wallace Samuel Bird
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Source: Joe Stone fonds-UA RG340, 1968 (#7577A)
Citation:
ENCAENIA, MAY, 1968
HELEN KATHLEEN MUSSALLEM
to be Doctor of Laws
This degree is a three-fold tribute: to the recipient herself, to the profession of which she is a dynamic leader, and to U.N.B.'s School of Nursing. With two deceased colleagues of ours, Kaspar Naegele and Katherine MacLaggan, she had been a close collaborator, and was the latter's intimate friend.
Helen Mussallem was born in Rupert's Land and trained in Vancouver. Two diplomas, a Bachelor's, a Master's, and a Doctor's degree, are evidence of those forceful talents which the Crimean War brought to light in the pioneer of nursing education. Attached to St. Thomas's Hospital, the Nightingale School remains an institution in its own right.
With the strength of ten men, the "Lady with the Lamp" battled to establish nursing as a skilled and honourable avocation. With the same verve (and documentation) Helen Mussallem is battling to establish Canadian schools of nursing independent of hospital control. She has stormed one citadel. Last year the Canadian Medical Association capitulated, and invited her to address them, the first nurse they have so honoured in their hundred year history.
To produce her now historic report, Spotlight on Nursing Education, her committee visited 25 carefully selected centres, interviewed 1,759 persons, and covered 55,557 miles "from Cape Race to Nootka Sound". She extols the enthusiastic response that greeted what she describes as "an exciting professional journey". The truth is that all
research is to her an exciting journey, and that her enthusiasm and transparent sincerity are contagious.
Her duties have taken her far beyond Canada -- to Geneva, Edinburgh, Lebanon and the Caribbean. But of all her journeys the most dramatic was when the two nursing services engendered by the Crimean War met in Moscow, and the disciple of Florence Nightingale shook hands with the disciples of Pirogov.
Next year, as the Executive Director of the Canadian Nurses' Association, she will be responsible for the International Congress of Nurses in Montreal. Her guests will find that the busy administrator can be a relaxed hostess, and that a witty nurse can also be a superb cook.
From:
Cattley, Robert E.D. Honoris causa: the effervescences of a university orator. Fredericton: UNB Associated Alumnae, 1968.
HELEN KATHLEEN MUSSALLEM
to be Doctor of Laws
This degree is a three-fold tribute: to the recipient herself, to the profession of which she is a dynamic leader, and to U.N.B.'s School of Nursing. With two deceased colleagues of ours, Kaspar Naegele and Katherine MacLaggan, she had been a close collaborator, and was the latter's intimate friend.
Helen Mussallem was born in Rupert's Land and trained in Vancouver. Two diplomas, a Bachelor's, a Master's, and a Doctor's degree, are evidence of those forceful talents which the Crimean War brought to light in the pioneer of nursing education. Attached to St. Thomas's Hospital, the Nightingale School remains an institution in its own right.
With the strength of ten men, the "Lady with the Lamp" battled to establish nursing as a skilled and honourable avocation. With the same verve (and documentation) Helen Mussallem is battling to establish Canadian schools of nursing independent of hospital control. She has stormed one citadel. Last year the Canadian Medical Association capitulated, and invited her to address them, the first nurse they have so honoured in their hundred year history.
To produce her now historic report, Spotlight on Nursing Education, her committee visited 25 carefully selected centres, interviewed 1,759 persons, and covered 55,557 miles "from Cape Race to Nootka Sound". She extols the enthusiastic response that greeted what she describes as "an exciting professional journey". The truth is that all
research is to her an exciting journey, and that her enthusiasm and transparent sincerity are contagious.
Her duties have taken her far beyond Canada -- to Geneva, Edinburgh, Lebanon and the Caribbean. But of all her journeys the most dramatic was when the two nursing services engendered by the Crimean War met in Moscow, and the disciple of Florence Nightingale shook hands with the disciples of Pirogov.
Next year, as the Executive Director of the Canadian Nurses' Association, she will be responsible for the International Congress of Nurses in Montreal. Her guests will find that the busy administrator can be a relaxed hostess, and that a witty nurse can also be a superb cook.
From:
Cattley, Robert E.D. Honoris causa: the effervescences of a university orator. Fredericton: UNB Associated Alumnae, 1968.
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