CERTIFICATE

Description: CERTIFICATE, GRADUATION. BLACK PLASTIC AND GOLD FABRIC FOLDER WITH SNAP CLOSURE, GREEN AND GOLD RIBBON WRAPPED AROUND BOTTOM, FOLDER MARKED “LETHBRIDGE MUNICIPAL… ALBERTA.” CERTIFICATE INSIDE PLASTIC FOLDER YELLOWED AND WRINKLING MARKED, “LETHBRIDGE MUNICIPAL… PATRICIA YURIKO OKUTAKE… MEDICAL STAFF.”

History: ACCORDING TO THE DONOR PATRICIA SASSA (NEE OKUTAKE), THE GRADUATION CERTIFICATE WAS PRESENTED TO HER ALONG WITH HER GRADUATION PIN, FLORENCE NIGHTENGALE PLEDGE AND BOUQUET OF RED ROSES AT HER GRADUATION CEREMONY. SHE GRADUATED ON OCTOBER 14, 1959. OF HER GRADUATION, SASSA SAID, "THE GRADUATION UNIFORMS WERE CAREFULLY STARCHED AND IRONED BY THE LAUNDRY STAFF. WE WERE DRIVEN BY THE CITY OF LETHBRIDGE BUS SO WE COULD ALL STAND AND NOT GET OUR UNIFORMS WRINKLED ON OUR WAY TO SOUTHMINISTER UNITED CHURCH WHERE THE CEREMONY WOULD TAKE PLACE... IT WAS SUCH A HAPPY AND EMOTIONAL OCCASION. INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP PHOTOS WERE TAKEN BY PROFESSIONAL PHOTOGRAPHER, MR. JOHN DEJOURDAN. WE LATER RETURNED TO THE NURSES' RESIDENCE WHERE TEA WAS SERVED FOR OUR FAMILY AND FRIENDS." SASSA ALSO SAID, "DURING THE MORNING OF GRADUATION, SIX OF US CLASSMATES RECEIVED AWARDS IN THE SPECIALTY AREAS OF MEDICAL, SURGICAL, PEDIATRIC, OBSTETRIC, OPERATING ROOM AND GENERAL PROFICIENCY. I WAS THE HAPPY RECIPIENT OF THE OPERATING ROOM AWARD. IT SEEMS COINCIDENTAL THAT FOUR OF THE SIX RECIPIENTS CONTINUED FURTHER INTO THEIR CAREER TO PURSUE THEIR BACHELOR OF NURSING AND ONE RECIEVED HER PHD. " SEE P20090023001 FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THE GALT SCHOOL OF NURSING. SEE PERMANENT FILE FOR MORE INFORMATION.