News: Colby/Abbotsford (St. Joseph's Nursing Graduates – 1969)

Transcriber: Pam Harders
Email: posted4u@charter.net

Surnames: Meyer, Sauer, Schaefer, Jaye, Agnew, River

----Source: Tribune/Phonograph (Abbotsford, Clark Co., Wis.) 12 Jun 1969

Miss Mary Meyer, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ervin Meyer, Colby, and Miss Eunice Sauer, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Sauer, also of Colby, and Miss Maxine Schaefer, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Werner Schaefer of Abbotsford, received their diplomas from St. Joseph's Hospital School of Nursing, Friday May 30, 1969.

Commencement exercises were held in the Senior high school auditorium at 1 p.m. The nursing graduates, along with the graduates of the schools of medical and radiological technology and histologic technique, formed a procession which entered to the music of the march "Pomp and Circumstance." Following the invocation, given by Father Agnew, David H. Jaye Jr., Hospital Administrator, extended greetings to the graduates.

George L. River, M.D, Chief of the Medical Staff at St. Joseph Hospital, introduced the speakers and acted as master of ceremonies for the conferring of diplomas.