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. The Canadian nurse . ster has adifficult role to fill, for in a surprisinglyshort time she becomes a father con-fessor, teacher, advisor and friend, bind-ing up the bruises and bumps, and oftensending a dismayed and discouragedLittle Sister more resolutely and cheer-fully on her way. The arduous duties of the Big Sis-ter are not unrelieved, however. Thereis ample compensation in having a LittleSister who looks to you for help andsympathy, and whose attitude reflectsyour interest and friendliness. It re-quires little imagination to appreciatethe possibilities for happy friendshipswhich such a
. The Canadian nurse . ster has adifficult role to fill, for in a surprisinglyshort time she becomes a father con-fessor, teacher, advisor and friend, bind-ing up the bruises and bumps, and oftensending a dismayed and discouragedLittle Sister more resolutely and cheer-fully on her way. The arduous duties of the Big Sis-ter are not unrelieved, however. Thereis ample compensation in having a LittleSister who looks to you for help andsympathy, and whose attitude reflectsyour interest and friendliness. It re-quires little imagination to appreciatethe possibilities for happy friendshipswhich such an arrangement offers. I have tried to picture what appealsto me as the ideal state of a Big Sister—Little Sister relationship. It is an unfor-tunate fact that all too often we BigSisters have been found wanting by ourlonely, bewildered Little Sisters. Wecan only hope that each succeedingclass, profiting by the mistakes and in-adequacies of the last, will raise the sis-terly standard nearer and yet nearer tothe VOL. XXXV, No. 4 Notes From the National Office ContribuUd by JEAN 8. WILSON,Ex»cutiv« Secretary, Th« Canadian Nurtvs Aiaociation The Florence NightingaleScholarship The Executive Committee of the Ca-nadian Nurses Association announces itsapproval to the selection of a candidateby the Scholarship Aw^ard year the Florence NightingaleScholarship goes to Miss Mary Eliza-beth Henderson of Vancouver. MissHenderson as a graduate of the five-yearcourse in nursing, The University ofBritish Columbia and the School ofNursing of The Vancouver GeneralHospital, received the degree of Bache-lor of Applied Science in Nursing in1929. Since graduation Miss Hendersonhas had experience in public health andschool nursing and latterly she has beenan acting supervisor for the SchoolNursing Service of the MetropolitanHealth Committee for Greater Vancou-ver, British Columbia. The Scholarship provides for tuitionand maintenance for a year as a studentat the Internation
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