Chronicle Fall 2000 by PennNursing

ISSN 1049-2259

Spring/Fall 2000 Vo!. 12 No. 2IVo!. 13 No. 1

NURSING IS THE SUBJECT OF T HE N IGHTINGALE'S SONG, AN E XHIBITION OF WORKS ON P APER AT THE PmLADELPfllA M USEUM OF

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The Nightingale's Song, a diverting and in structive exhi bition exploring the subject of nurses and nursing, will be on view in the Bemlan Gallery of the Philadelphia M cum of Art from August 26 through October 29, 2000. Drawn entirely from the Museum's remarkabl Ars Medica Collection, the 80 prints , drawings, and photogra phs in the show span six cen luries and four cont.inents: from late 15th-century Europe (the treatment of a German plague victim) to mid- 19th-century Asia (Florence Nightingale ' s military hospital in Turkey during the Crimean W ar) to 20th-centur f Africa (a Red Cross tent in Zaire in the 1920s) and the United S tates (the back-roads r unds of Maude Callen. an African American mid- ife in North Carolina in the 1950s). The tone and m ssages conveyed by the works on view are equally broad, ranging from th inspi ri ng and cautionary to the satirical. the charming, and the downright fu nny. TIlis is the first ti me that nursing has been the foc us of an ex hibit in a major American museum. Th e Nightingale's Song is third in a recent series of topical exhibitions of works on paper selected from the Museum's rs Medica Collec tion. The Collection is curated by William H . Helfand, a noted auth rity on the history of art and medicine, and aUlhor of the fully-illustrated catalogues complementing the series. The prints, drawings and photographs in the exhibi tion have been chosen from a much larger group in support of the activities of the Center for the Study of the History of Nursing. Mr. Helfand is a member of the Center 's Advisory Board. F und ing for the publicati on accompanying The Nightingale 's Song was made possib le by Bayada N urses . OCTOBER

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In concert with the museum 's artistic tribute to nurs ing, the Center for The Study of The H istory of Nursing will host a gala event in celebration of nursing on October 4, 2000. The eve nt will al so celebrate indi Song sheet cover for "The Nig h!ingale' s SOllg to the vi dua l nurses with "Nursin g Sick and Wr)l.mded" c. 18 75 , Philadelphia Museum Legacy A wards" for their signiJi

of Art, The William H. Heljill1d Colfection cant contri butions to cli nical

ca re. Thus, the exhibit and gala reception will draw public attention and recognition

to the crucial role of nurses in healthcare throughout history and in the present day.

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I CENTER FOR THE

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STUDY OF THE

CURRENT RESEARCH AT THE CENTER

HISTORY OF NURSING

Mary Ann Krisman-ScoU'sTravel

The Ce nter for The Study of T he His tory of Nursing was established in 1985 to cncourage and fa cilitate historical scholarship on h a ith care his tory an d nUJs ing in the United States. Now in its sixteenth year of e xistence the Ce nter continues to create an d main tain a re source fo r suc h research; to im pr ve the quality and scope of hi storical ~c ho lars hip on nursing; and to di ssemi nat n w kn o wl edge on nu r. ing h istory through education, conferences, publication , an d inter-di sci pl inary collaboration. C urrent projects at th Ce ntcr range fro m studies of inte rnational nursing. home-based nursing. and rcsearc h on care of the critically ill to the twentieth-cen tury relat ionsh ip bet ween nurs ing and American philanthrop y. We al. 0 continue to collect, praces.', and cata logue an out standin g collection of primary hi storical material s. Feel free to visit the C enter Monday through Friday, 9:00 a.m . t 5:00 p.m. Scholars planning to conduct resea rch at thc Center shoul d contact the Ce nter 's curator at 21 5-898-45 02. O ur cumtor will respond with a de scription of the scope and content of relevant materia ls in the various collec tion s.

Center Advisory Board Ann P. Kn ight , C hair M . Lo ui se FitzpatriCk, Vice Chair Li llian Sholti s Bru nner William A. He lfand Hannah Hende r 'on Jeanne Kie fner Eleanor C. Larnbertsen Nadine Land is Mar Frazier Ll oyd C harles E. Rosenberg Stephanie A . Stachniewicz Ann Percy Stroud

Center StaIf Karen Buhler-W ilkerso n, PhD, FAAN Directur Ellen D. Bacr. PhD, FAAN Asoociate Direc/or Joan E. Lyna ugh. PhD, F AN A 'sociate Direc/or Betsy Weiss

Adminis/rativf: Assis/ant Rita Beatty \Ioliln/eer lI illary is enstc in EdilOr, The C hroni c le

Care of the dying from the e nd of World War 0 to the beg inning of hospice in America in 1975 is the subject of my d i,sertation research. TIle dissertation foc u es on te rminal palient w ith cancer, as they were the only patients ad mitted to the first ho pi ces . Uncoveri ng the story behind hospice has heen in terest ing, challe nging an d somet imes emotiona lly disq uieting. Examining h w te rm ina l patien ts were cared for in ho pitals in thi ti me peri od through the written words of som of the patient, as well as the obs rv ations of socia l gists. phys icians and nurses. revealcd some trul y caring professionals and sadly many cold and d istant professionals who we re truly at a loss about what to do fo r pat ie nts who we re dyi ng. Looki ng or ev idenc led me to Eng land and Dr. Cicely Saunders who fo unded St. Chrislopher's, lhe fi t mod m h spice, in a uburb of London in 1967.1 made my lirst tri p 10 England in August 1999 to examine Dr. Sawlders ' papers which had been archi ved at S he ffi eld University in Sheffiel d, England. Dr. Saunde rs wrote prolifically and aved everyth ing she wrote. 1 exami n d her papers that dealt with hosp ice in the United Sta tes. I spent fiv d ay~ fro m 8:30 in the morning unti l 6:30 at nigh t at a mall desk re view ing mate rials, Ilot even i.nterrupti ng the work to eat. I was afraid thalthe five day I had budget d wo uld n t b enoug h lime to completely review a ll of the pa pers. I would have stayed longer in the d ay but !.hey insisted on closi ng . By the end of the week I was somew hat nu m b. Dr. Saunde rs was not available to be inte rviewed at that visit. Actually, it was belp ful lO have exam ined and reviewed her papers before interviewi.ng her. She graciously agreed to have me inte rvi w her and in November, 1999 I spent about an hour and ha lf with her. This time I traveled 1 Sydcnilam , a sub urb of Lond n where SI, Christopher's Hos picc is 10 ated. ( a lso had q uick lOllr of the hospice and got some sen e of the atmos phere found there . There were also fOllf more boxes of archi ved mat rial stored th re and I had the opport un ity to rev iew that material during this somewhat shorter vi it. Dr. Saunders was orig inaily educated as a nurse, then became a social worker and then finall y a phy ician, She is quite an impres sive, no n nsense woman. T he fLfst hospice here in the United States was fou nded in New Haven, Connecti c ut. Flor n e WaJd was ins trumental in the initiat ion of that hospice and th ho pice movement. F lor nce Wald was the Dean of Yale School of Nur ing when 'he heard C icely Saunde rs talk about her wor with dyi ng patients . She was so inspired by her that she eventua ll y resigned from her po iti n traveled to London to work with D r. Saunder at SI. Christopher' s and then returned to work wi th dying patients here. I t was a pleasure La trave l to Connecticut t interview M . Wald and access the archives at Yale University. Fortunntely Ms. Wold also kept copies of her correspondence and a variety of doc uments fro m that first hospice and they have been arChi ved at Yale Uni versity L ibrary. I pent three ays reviewing the materials there and ne d [0 return to complete thc review of thes pap rs. Included in these docum ents are the d iaries of termi nal patients that Ms . Wald and ano ther nurse cared for at the end of the ir lives. A pari o f a research study the patients, Florence Wald, and another nurse kept diaries of what the e xperie nce was like to be caring fo r terminal patients and the patients dc scrib d their il lness experience. I can onl imagine how rich thos d iaries will be. D ur ing my trip to the archives I had the opportunity to interview M·. Wald at he r home and h couldn ' t have been more graci us. On my ret urn visit to Connecticut I plan to travel to a s mall town not far from Yale Uni ver ity to interview Rev . Dobiha l who was also in. lrumentRI in the fo unding of the Connecticut hospice.

MruENNIAL C ONFERENCE IN SCOTLAND T h His tory o f Nursing Society of the Roya l Co llege of Nursing spon sored a Mil lennium Confe rence on nursing hi tory to eel brale the launc h o f the new United King dom Centre for the History of Nursing on Ju ly 6 and 7. 2000. Joan E . Lynaugh gave one (com in lled on page 3 )

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of two plenary addresses. Her paper is Lit led, "H igher Education in Nursi ng: An His torical View From th United States." Mary An n Krisman-Scott 's paper, "The Room at the End of the Hall: C re of the Dying 1945- 1975" was accepted in the competitive in ternational rcview of abstracts. So, both traveled LO Edinburgh, Scotland Lo celebrate sti.!1 another step forward in developing scholar hi p ill the history of nursing! HISTORICAL S CHOLARSHIP Now, AND IN THE F UTURE Teach ing hi story and preparing new hi storians to study historical questions in nursing are among our main objectives here at the Center fo r the Study of thc His! ry of Nursing. As of June, 2000, a total of I ven scholars completed d ctoral sludie' under the auspices of Penn 's School of Nursing nd its history center facul ty. We are happy to rep rt on three of these new sc hol ars who completed their di. sertations tbis past acadcmi ..: year. In Septembe r, 1999, ynthia A. Connoll successfull y defe nded her dissertation, "Prevenhon Through Det ntion: The Pediatric Tuberculosis Preventorium Movement in the United States. 190 -1 951 ," This unique and important hi story ex plores the so ci al, scicntific and health prafes ional fact rs in the early twent ieth century hea.llh strategy of instilll tionaJizing children thought to be at risk of tll erc ulosis. [t i' a

HrSTORICAL SCHOLARSHIPS

The Center for The History of Nursi ng ann unces the availabi li ty of both the Alice Fisher Society Hist ri cal Scholarsh ip and the Li ll ian S. Brunn r Fellowship. Th genera ' ity of the Alu mni Association of the Ph iladelphia General Hospital T raining School fo r ur es and Lillian S. Brunner make it possible for th Cen ter to offer Ulese research cholar ships. The $2,500 aw ards will be open to nurses at the rn a ter's or doctoral level who are seeki ng assistance with research and writi ng as part of their study of history. Each scholar will be expected to spend 4 to 6 week in resi dence at the Center. Application for the either hi tori

cal . eh larship may be obtained by wril in g Center Director Karen Buhler Wilkerson at the Center for TIle Study oj' The Hi to ry o/ Nurs ing, University of Pennsylvani a. School of Nursing. 307 Nur. ing Education Buildi ng, Phi la d Iphia,PA 19104-6096,orcal1215 89 -4502. Theapplication dead line is December3 l, 2000. Thi form is ava.ilable on-lin at htt p://www. nursing.upenn.edulh is tory/fe llow.htm.

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Ne w gradualcs with thefaculty. Le/i tu right: Karen Buhler-Wilkerson , Cindy onnolly. Beth Ann Reedy , .lean Whelan , .Ioall £. LYl1allgh

"cautionary talc " revealing how complex, ontrad ictory and ambiguou s doing the "right thing" by our ch ildren can turn out to be. In January , 2000, l ean C. Whelan sucl:essfully defended her dissertat ion . "Too Many, Too Few: The Supp ly, Demand, and Distribution of Pri vate Duty Nu rses, 191 0 1965." This is an in-depth study of the mana oement and re laLionships governing what was, for eight years, nur 'ing' s large t f rm of practil:e , fee fo r serv ice private duty nursing. Dr. Whelan show ' that demand fo r private duty nurses p rsisted longer than generall ' b lieved. She places their foml of practice and its eclipse in the larger con text of the changing American health care sy 'tem.

In April. 2000. Elizabeth Ann Reedy succe sfully defended her di sertation, "Ripe Too Early: The Expansion of Hospital Based Premature Infant Care in the United States, 1922- 1950." Th is study explores changing concepts in what we now call prema turity, changes in public and heallb profess ional percept ions of the fut ure of prema ture infants, and resu lt ing new resp nses in ca re and investment in thes childre n. This study li nks <; cial beli fs in lhe vallie or childr n, technological change and the rioe of sp cialization in the car ofthese tiny infants. (continued on page 4)

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N IGHT AT THE ART M USEUM A ' part of th Museum 's Wednesday ieht Program, the th me of October 11, 2000 (5-9 PM ) wi ll be the experience of nursing in the I 920s, 1930s. and I 940s. The eveni ng will fea ture gallery talks by our own Pal D' Antonio and the feature film So Proudly We Hail - the story of nurses on Balaan an d Corregidor duri ng World War II. The dance band will be the Black Birds pLaying swing music from the period. This is an evening you don ' I want to miss - t ur the exhibit, The Nightingale's Song, see the feature fi lm, and practice your swing dancing (lessons provided)! (continued on page 8)

RECENT

ACQmSITIONS MargreLla Madden Styles is well known as a past p resident of the American Nurses Assoc iation and of the Interna tional Council of Nurses. She had a distinguished caree r as an acade mic administrato r and educator at Duke Universi ty, University of Texas at Sru1 Antonio, Wayne Slate Uni versity and Universi ty of Cali for nia, San F rancisco. Her professional activities have panned more than four decades and crossed all conti nents. A proli fi c writer and public speake r, Styles abl represe nted the profess ion before legislator , hcalth adm inistrators, and other profession als. The extent of her intl uence on numerous health care projects over the years is less widely known but of great significance. Styles consis tently advocated collaborative ac tion, standards that uni fy the profes sion , educationa l models that facili tate career growth. and equitable compensation fo r pro fessio nal work. Papers that doc ument many of Gretta S ty les' contrib utions to nurs ing arrived at the University of Penn syl vania in earl y March. Styles, a native of Pennsy l ania, selected T he Ccnter for the Study of the History of Nursing to recci ve personal and pro fessional papers from the mid 1960s toherr tire ment fro m UCSF in 1992. The papers include official and per sonal correspondence, spceches, notes , syllabi, confere nce proceed ing , working papers calend rs, and pictures of individuals and grou ps. The collection will be invaluable to those investigating national and in ternational regulation of nursing; nurse credential ling; labor iss ues; Pan- American nursi ng organization; W.K. Kellogg , Jos iah Macy, and Kai

ser Family F oundation activities in

nursing; sp cialty organ izations and

issues; educational ad min i. tI·ation;

and many nu rscs educated,

mentored and inspired by Styles.

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We are very proud of the accomplishments of these three new graduates. More over, we look forward to the coming year or two when we e xpect three more new schol ars to join Ci ndy , Jean and Be th Ann in assuring the future of historical scholarship in nursing.

RECENT ACTIVITIES

Jean Whelan During the past year, J gave a paper and finally published some of my work. J pre sented a pape r "Nursing By the Hour: The Chicago Hou rl y Nursing Service, 1926 1957" at the Eighth Annual Philad Ipma Area Sigma Theta Tau, International Research Conference on Apri l, 28. I also published "The Nurse Labor Market and the Rockefeller Foundation, 1923- 1963" in the Spring , 2000 issue of the Research Reports from the Rockefeller Archive Center.

KalyDawley This spring, I presented a paper in Alaska based on the research for a paper to be published in Nu rsing Hislory Review . Even though 1 was assigned to the last slot in the conference, on the last day, the room had over 250 attendees with slandi n", room only! The paper was very well received and afterwards a nurse-midwife offered to send me some photos of Verda Hickcox , th fi rst nurse to have her mi d w i ~ ry education paid for by Rockefeller Foundation. She was educated in England in the lat 1920's and practiced in Siam, [now T hailand] for several years before returning to the U. S. I men tion her in the NHR papeT because she was a member of Ule second Board of DirecLor ' of the American College of Nurse-Midwives.

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r have been accepted for postdoctoral study at Columbia Uni vers ity' Program in the Hi. tory of Publ ic Health and M edicine and have applied fo r NlNR support to at tend this progrrun. I was also named this year's recipient of the Universi ty of Virgi nia's C nler fo r Nursing Historical [nquiry research fe llowshi p. Finally . (won the Marion Gregory graduation priz which is awarded to til students whose dissertation promises significant contributions to nursi ng kn wledge. Kathy Burke I Presented a paper titled "Diffusion of Heatth Care tec hnology: A Soc ial Histori cal Case Study" as part of th Sym posium on Gender and Te hllology: Methodologi cal Perspectives prescnted at the S igma Theta Tau fnte rnaLional 3 -Ih Bienni al Conven tion November 8, 19 9. 1 alsoco authored an article with Julie Fairman ~ ~. ~ titled " More than J ., .. Plug and Play: P ictur -' ,: ... - ..~... ~ . ing Nursing and Technology through out the 20th Century " tentatively scheduled to be published in the 1,: . \ \ ~.,' ..." October 100th Anni , ~-::-~:.:. ..;r; versary lssue of .-;;;- ~ American Journal of ---.. Nursing. Other than that I have been very Kathy Burke enlightens colleagues on th e history of th e Swa n bu sy writi ng my dis Ganz Catheter. sertation and hope to be done in the Fall of

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CALL FOR

CENTER F ELLOW Our Center's Summer Fellow, Sarah Lawrence, started her research here on May 31, and will organize a seminar during her stay. Her research examines Birth Control Mobilization Among African Americans during the 1930s in rural Virginia .

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CENTER HOSTING POST-DoCTORAL FELLOW TO STUDY THE HISTORY OF

The American Association for the I istory of Medicine welcomes papers on topics related to the his tory of health and healing; of medical ideas , practices and insti tutions; the hi story of illness , disease, and public health-from all eras and rcgion of the world . The program committee welcomes session proposals and proposals for luncheon workshop ; the papers for such sessions will be judged on their individ ual merits.

CCUNURSING Over a three year period, Arlene W. Keeling , PhD, RN will be working with Joan Lynaugh, PhD, FAAN and other colleagues at Penn to investigate the his tory of Coro nary Care nursing in the United States, from 1962 to 1985. This historica l investigation is being funded by the National Institute for Nursing Research as a mentored research scientist development award (KO 1). Dr. Keeling is currently an Associate Professor at the University of Virginia School of Nursing where she directs the Acute Care Nurse Practitioner Program and is Associate Director of the Center for Nursing Historical In quiry. During the course of this project, she will be working closcly with Barbara Brodie, PhD, RN, FAAN, her mentor for the project at the University of Virginia, and also consulting with Joel Howell , MD at the University of Michigan. As a post-doc toral fellow at the Center, she will be taking part in the graduate history seminars, and di cussing her work with her colleagues here . Dr. Keeling is interested in conducting this study to gain perspective on the current clinical situation of adv anced practice nursing , particularly the role of the Acute Care Nurse Practitioner.

NO PLACE LIKE HOME: CARING FOR SICK , 1880-1965 Center Director, Karen Buhler-Wilkerson, RN, PhD, FAAN. has just completed her latest book , No Place Like Home: Caring for the Sick. 1880-1965 . The l ohns Hopkins University Press expects the book will be available spring 2001. The book offers an historical overview and analysis of the history of home care from the 1880s to the enactment of Medicare legisl ation in 1965. Like the hospital, the evolution of home care replicates fundamental social relationships and values. But, as the antithesis of institutional care, its clear and consistently understood vision is that there is no place like home. The central theme of this book is why, despite home care ' s potentia l as a preferred, rational and perhaps cost-e ffective aIt mative to institutional care, it remains a marginali zed experiment in caregiving. Focusing on sickrooms of the rich , middle class, and poor, this book examines how race, ethnicity, income, gender, type of illness. local conditions , and patterns of prac tice influenced access to and quality of care. It elucidates from a new perspective evolv ing views on family, home, disease, dependency , science and technology. Local ideas about the formation and function of home-based services are placed within a framework linking them to national events and heal th care agenda~. Spec ial attention is given to care of the "dangerous" sick, partic ul arly poor immigrants with infectious dis eases and the "uninteresting" sick, those with chronic illnesses. Interactions between phil anthropic and entrepreneurial home care are explored . The endless obligation of caring for the sick at home is examined from the perspective of nurse s, physicians, and family caregivers. Recalling home care ' s reformulation over the past one hundred years, this is also a study of American ambiguity over individual versus community responsi bility for the social, as well as, health needs of the sick. Finally, this hook evaluates the impact of soci al attitudes, medical advances, demographic change, and economic factors in shifting the locus of care first from home to hospita l and now , more recently, back to the home.

American Association for the His tory of Medicine. April 18-22, 2001.

All papers must r present origi nal work not alread y pub lished or in press. Because the Bulletin of the History of Medicine is the officia l journal of the AAHM, the As ocia tion encourages speaker!) to mak their manuscripts available for con siderat ion by the Bulletin.

P I ' ase send si x copies of a one page abstract (350 words max imum) to Janet Gold n, History Department, Rutgers Universi ty, Camden, NJ 08 102. Ab 'tracts should not merely state a research ques tion. but de scri be fi ndings and conclusions. Plea e al '0 pr vide the follo w ing: Name, preferred mailing address, work and home teJephonl: numbers, preseot insti tutional affi li ation, and academic degrees. Ahstracts must be received hy 15 Seplem er2000.E mai l or faxed propo als will not he acce pted .

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UPCOMING EVENTS The American Association for the History of Nursing Seventeenth Annual Confer ence Septem ber 22-24, 2000, Villanova PA , The American Association f r the History o f Nursing nd the Villanova University CoUeg of Nur ing are co-sponso ring this ann ual conference that provide"' a forum for sharing hi storical resean;h in nursing. The conference will incl ude paper and p ter pr entations as well as other opportun ities for learning and sharing hi storical interests. The key note speake r wi ll be the 1999 Lav ini a L. D ck Award rec ipient for We Band afAngels , Dr. Elizabelh orman. Pre conference ac ti vi ties will incl ude an opportunity to visil The Nightingale's Song, a special exhibit on the art of nursing at the Phi ladelphia Museum of Art. The pre-con ference workshop on Thursday September 21 wi lt be "Doing H istory" conducted by Barbara Brodie, RN, PhD, FAAN and .l oan L . Ly nuugh, RN , PhD, FAAN . Thi s wiH be interactive; bring your ideas for research tJla( you wish to pursue. The conference wilt be he ld at the Villanov a Conference Center. On 32 acres of grou nds it is convenienUy located n ar the University, 1-476, f-76 and Philadelphi a. The Center's man ion wa ' built in 19 14 with estate's stables and walled acr s of flo wer. vegetable an rock gar den s, manic ured lawn, wooded hills and spring fed lake; the epitome f Main Line wealth of the early and mid-20th Centu ry. For more infonnation contact: ViIlanova Uni versity College of Nursing, 6 10-5 19-4930 or mail: louisa.zullo@v iUanova.edu More in fonnation abou t the program i ' foun d on th wonderful AAHN website: hU p:// Olahn.org. American Association for the History ofMedicine 74rd Annual Meeting, April 19-22 , 200! , Cbarleston, SC. The AAHM Local Arrangements Committee con. i ts of: C urtis Wo rth ington, MD, Waring Historical L ibrary, Medical University of South Carolina, 17! As hley Ave, Charleston, SC 29425, 803-792-2290, worthiwc@ musc.edu;Peter McCand less, PhD, Department of History, College of Chariest n, Charleston, SC 29424, 803-95 3-8032, mccandlessp@cofc.ed u. Program Committee Co-Chairs are: Rima Appl ,PhD, Department of Cons um r Science, University of Wisconsin-Mad ison, 130U Linden Dr., Mad ison , W153706 , 60 8-263 -9354. rdapple@consci.w isc.edu and Janet G olden, PhD, History Department, Rutge rs Univer ity, Camden, NJ 08 102,609-225 6080, jgolden@ ra b.ru tgers.ed u. The AAHM We b address is http: //www.histmed .org.

DoNORS Neville Strumpf Meryn Elisabeth S tuart Beth Ann Swan Carol Torok Lorraine Tul man Dor thy E. Urda M r. and Mrs. D. W . Van Dusen Eli zabeth D. Vickers T ina Weinl raub Marjorie H. We ise! Mary J ssiea G. We lfare Jane Wiest Su an W ilmerd ing Zane Ro binson Wolf Alma Woolley

NURSE The estate of Dr. Thomas H. G ra inger, Jr. has named the Center for The Study of The History of ursing as the recipient of a generous gift honoring his wife, Mary Louise (Silverling) Grainger. Mrs . Grainger was a graduate ofPhi ladelphia Genera l Hospital (PGR) School of Nursing. c1- of 1939 and did graduate work at University of Permsyl vania fro m 1940- 194 J. Her husband re p rted that she was lh ught to be the first dea f woman to become a graduate nurse. Prior to her acceptance 10 PGR, Mrs. Grainger had applied to over 100 school of nursing throughout the north enst. Despite her exceptional ability to read lips and her graduating with hon or • her hearing loss was considered too severe to allow her to practice nursiog. Only after her hearing was urgically re stored was she able to find employment as a nu rse. Du ring ber career, he worked as a starr nurse at the Visitin" llrse As 0 eiation of Phi ladelph ia, Pre byterian Ho pitat ofPhiJadelphia. Philadelphia General Hospitlll, and St. Luke's Ho ' pital in Bethlehem, PA. Her last position was with the Vis iti ng Nurse Assoc iation or Monroe Coun ty wher she worked until 1978 when she retired because of Alzheimer ' . disease . in his book chron.i cl ing his wife's life. J'm Fine, Dr. Grainger described her as a very remark able woman who overcame tremendous odds to lead a productive JiJc. Mary Loui:-e Grainger died at th . age of 76 in

1994. Dr. Grainger's thoughtfu l beque I stand a a la ting tribute to the li fe and career f his wife while it provides vital upp rt to the Center for the Study of the History of Nursing - a mo t befi tting legacy fo r Mary Louise Grainger' many ac co m p li sh m ent~. ror more information 0 11 how you can make Ihe Centerj( r the Study of the History of ursing a part of your estate planning. please call Mary Burke in the Office of Develupment and Alumni Relations at2 15-898-484 1. Mary Louise Siverling Grainger . RN

SONG GAlA RECEPTION AND AWARDS CEREMONY

OCTOBER 4, 2000

6:00PM - 7:30PM

THE MURIEL AND PHILIP BERMAN GALLERY

PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART

In recognition of the many contributions of nurses throughout our history and today , please join us for an evening of celÂ ebration. See a very special exhibition, enjoy the gala reception, and celebrate excellence in nursing.

We invite you to participate and support this event which honors nurses and the nursing profession. The proceeds from

this gala evening will help support the Center for the Study of the History of Nursing' s mission of preserving, studying, and

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