Fifty-two nurses from Saint Joseph’s Infirmary School of Nursing will participate in the capping ceremony at Sacred Heart Church on Sunday, March 8 at 4 p.m.

Rev. Thomas J. Roshetko, S.M., Pastor of Sacred Heart Church will officiate during the ceremony. Assisting Father Roshetko will be Rev. James T. Murray, S.M., and Rev. George J. Meiluto, S.M., Father Murray and Father Meiluto are chaplains at the Infirmary.

Sister Mary Melanie, R.S.M., hospital administrator, and Sister M. Kristen, R.S.M., director of nursing, will confer the caps to the students who have successfully completed their course in theory and practice for the last six months. These students will continue their studies in the nursing field and will perform nursing procedures on the hospital units until they have completed the three year course of study required to graduate from the School of Nursing. Benediction of the Most Blessed Sacrament will follow the exercises.

After the ceremony a reception in the honor of the newly capped nurses will be held in the hospital cafeteria. Families and friends of the students are invited.

Mr. William Whitehead will receive the SJI insignia and the following will receive their Caps: Misses Judith Babcock, Valdosta; Sally Ann Bactold, Fort Lauderdale, Florida; Sharon Bearden, Bostwick; Harriet Burke, College Park; Bettejean Casey, Myrtle Beach, S.C.; Maureen Conion, Valdosta, Jeanne Cornwall, Atlanta; Joanne Curwood, Venice, Florida; Sandra Daubenspeck, Fort Pierce, Florida; Eunice Ann Dorsett, Atlanta; Mary Droughton, Decatur; Anne Duffy, Atlanta; Shirley Duke, Albany; Maureen Evans, Dalton; Donna Fern, Atlanta; Judith Ferraro, Decatur; Mary Kay Fowler, Marietta; Gayle Gajdostik, Albany; Mary Louise Gensheimer, Signal Mountain, Tennessee; Wanda Godlewski, Decatur; Kay Anne Gravitt, Calhoun; Gayle Grevemberg, Savannah; Marcella Hadarits, Macon; Delores Haney, Oxford; Viola Haverly, El Paso, Texas; Linda Hopping, Atlanta; Judith Kearney, Morrow; Denise Kelly, Chevy Chase, Maryland; Glenda Kurtnacher, Sarasota, Florida; Suzanne Lawrence, Augusta; Jane Maher, Charlotte, North Carolina; Jo Ann Mathieu, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina; Patricia McOsker, Waycross; Emily Mize, Silver Creek; Margaret Nerney, Atlanta; Kathleen O’Neill, Titusville, Florida; Marion Powell, Augusta; Sarah Lane Pryor, Atlanta; Patricia Ralph, Marietta; Kathleen Reilly, Colbert; Eileen Schuler, Allentown, Pennsylvania; Frances Shuba, East Point; Patricia Sineath, Albany; Donna Smith, Sumter, South Carolina; Del Teague, Cartersville; Gloria Tidwell, Fairfax, Virginia; Ann Wallmeyer, Hanover, Virginia; Constance Ward, Warner Robins; Cathleen Watts, Decatur; Elizabeth Whilden, Augusta; Helen Worley, Marietta.