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Mary Eilers placing a nursing cap on nursing student Mary Mayes at Good Samaritan Hospital in Los Angeles. This capping ceremony also known as the "Nightingale Lamp" ceremony marks the promotion of fifteen students to an advanced training program. Santa Solomonian and Janet Horsh await their caps behind Mayes. This photograph appears with the article "Student Nurses Receive Caps," Los Angeles Times, 10 Jul. 1952: pg. 22. Text from newspaper caption: Nurses Capped--Mary Mayes, 18, receives student cap at Good Samaritan Hospital's impressive "Nightingale Lamp" ceremony as 15 are promoted to advanced training. From let, Mary Eilers, director of Bishop Johnson College of Nursing; Miss Mayes, Santa Solomonian, 21, student nurse, and Janet Horsh, 18, also student nurse.
Nursing students--California--Los Angeles County Nurses--Training of--California--Los Angeles County Good Samaritan Hospital (Los Angeles, Calif.) Solomonian, Santa Horsh, Janet Mayes, Mary Eilers, Mary
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