Spring 1997 by PennNursing

Spring 1997 Vol9 N02

rSSN 1049-2259

GRANTS AND AWARDS Karen Buhler-Wil kerson, Direc tor

of the CenterjiJr the SluJy ol' the His

tor oj' Nursing h a~ be n awarded a

National Institu te f Healt h, Natio nal

Lib rar of Med ic ine Grant. He r study

is ti tlee! "End l ss Ob i igation : Home

Care in America, J880-1 930."Grant

support is be ing provided to c m

pl ete a boo" that. will furn ish a COIll pr hens ive analys is of lhc history o f

home ca e . Focusi ng on the sic"

rooms the: ri h, middle class, and

poor. the buok will eXll mi.ne if and

how rac . income, type of illness, an

local condi tio ns and pattern. of prac

ti c det.ermi ne access t care and IHt

lure of care prov ided . T he ndle"

obl igation of caring for the sick at

home w ill be studied fro m th pe r . p cti ve of nurse. , phys ic ians. and

Karen Huhta-Wilkerson. Directo r oFlhe e enler. has received several honors and \ViII hI! gu ing 10 .lapan/or (1/1 Invitational fami ly care ", ivers . F in,lUy, thi s book

F·e!lu\\,ship./i·o//lih e Jnp({11 (lc iefy ./i!r the Pro/llotio/l ojScildllcc con s id er~ th impact ()f cia.l aUi

tud , medical ad an es, d mo gra phic chan",e " ane! econo mic fac tors in sh i fti ng the loc us of care fro m home to hospi tal and mo ·t rece nt ly. back to the home. I

Add itional support for this study is being provided by a g rant tilled, " H me Care for th e Eld erly: Re membering the P ast W hile A nti cipating the Future. " This grant is bt! in pro vid d by the Fran k JoneslFolkways Fund . D r. Buh ler-Wi lkerson has also been se lected to rece ive an Invita tional Fello wsh ip from the Ja pan Societ for the Promotion of ~ c i e nc e . She will be com pleting her fe llowsh ip in the Fat! of 1997. Her host w il l be C hiba U nive rsity School of Nu rsing (Japan ). <Uld the foc us of he r reo earth will be home car in Japa n.

Center for The Study of The History afNu lng UNIVI~R $UiO(

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NN YLVANIA

Dr. Ju lie Fairman recen tly recei ed funding fro 111 the Unive rsity Re earch F oun da tion for a study entitled "Sile nt a nd Hidden : Ge nd r, Power, and the History of ul'se-Physician R lationsb ips." This histo rical in esti gati on, a pre liminary study fo r a larg r resera h in itiati ve, ex ami nes nurse-physician relation shi ps using gende r as an ana lytica l fra me work. Since the tLi rn of the century. doctors and nurses have had a long tradition of adversarial re lati onships be S d on geoder and fueled by pa t e rna l i~ti c con trol and powe r structu res in hospi tals. The hi . tory of relationships b twee n nurse practitioners and ph . icians in th s tate of Pe nnsylvania . 19 70- 198 0, as to ld by the public and leg isl' ti e batt le to cr ate nu r:e prac ti tio ner ree ul:ltions epitomizes both hi storical and contemporary ·trugglc s betwe n the medica l an d nu rsi ng profess ional s over ge nde r. power, and control.

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CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF THE HrSTORY OF

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PROC ~SI G OF N RSE REFUGEE FILES COMPLETED!

NURSING

---------- ---The enter!;,,' The Stully Ii/The History IifNursi ng was c~tab li shed lll 1':)85 t ) .:;I11: 0llrllge anll Lll:il llute histori cal scholarship on health care history anll nursing in till' Lnited tatc . o\>, in its eleve nth year of eX istence. the Center conti nues to create anu maintain a re source for ~u ch res!:arch; ttl improve the 4ua lit and scope of historical scholar ,hip on n llr~ in g : and to dIssemi nate new knowledge on nursing his to ry through education. con ference" publications. and iJl te r-di~c i p li naryc )llahormiu lJ . CUITent rrl)ject~ at the Center mnge from . tlluies ll f inll.:mat ioniLt nursi n ~ ..no home-hascu nursing to rese;trch on care 01 the criucally ill. We uh o continue to co llect, proces~_ anc.l cata logue al1 OUI standing collection of primary historical materials. Ft:el free tel visit the Cen t r Ml)JI J;ty-rriday. I.J:()()-S:OO p.m. chul ars planni ng to conuuct re~'arc h at the C l: J1 {t:r should (;ontactthe ('enter's CUfOJt If oH 2 I 5-S,:)8-4S02. OL lr cu rnt r ..... ill re ~pl) nc.l vith il ue c ipt ion of the scope and content or relevnnt m<JteriHb in the collecti ons. L

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Cenler Ad\'i!lory Board

A nn P. Kn ight. Cllo ir

M. L() Lm ~ Fit LpatricJ.•. I' iel' Cll air I. illi an Sholt is Bru nne r

Es th er C av ana ugh

Will ia lll H. Ilelrand

I lannah He ntl cr, on

Jea n n~ Kierner Eleanor ' . Lambert

This collection contai ns the con'cspomlence between UNRRAJIRO/I N Illi indi vidual nurses seck.ing credentials req ui red to become practicing nurses in their n w homes, moslly in the United States and Canada. The collection would b of intere. t for anyone exam ining di splaced persons of the po. t-World War n era. The cOUlJlrics these nurses fled indude Boli via, Bulgaria, China. Cubu. zechos lovukia.. Egypt, Estonia. Ger many, Hungary. Inoia, Indone ia. Lc;rael,ltaly, Jnpan. Korea. Latvia, Liberi a, Li thuarLia. MuuriLius, Netherl' n d~. orway, Palestinel Arab. Pem . Poland, Romania, RU .·.ia (. lal.e less ). Sierra Le ne, Singapore. Spain. Syria, Tha il.md, U,S.S .R,. and Yugo!>lav ia. A de sc riptive fi.nding aid of the collection i . avail a Ie at the Center. For more infornl <llion please (;onta(;t the Center Cu rator.

C harie ; E. Rose nberg

Stepha ni e A. lachniewicL nn P t'rl") StfO uu T ina We intraub 'eDt~r Staff Ka rt'll Buhler-Wil ke rson . PhD. FA Oin(/m'

E llen D. BaeL

UNRRA, begun in 1942. undertook the responsibil ity or establishi llg Qnd verifying cred ntiuls for refugee nurses who. in most cases, were neeing th ir w' r-stricken home land:;, Any d cumentati on these nurses mie:ht have posse. sed was 0 ten left behind Many of the edu(;uLional institutions they attenLled were either destroyed or their records lost amid the upheaval<. of World War II. After 1947, the Internationa l Refugee Organization (IRO) assumed re~ponsibiJity for this ta k of credentialing. IRO continued lhi~ operation unti l' 950 when the leN. then headq uartered in London . Eng.l and. LOok over the Displaced P rsolls (Nurs~s ) Professional Regi:ler and uJlassociated corre ·pondence. The mil' o f ICN was extcnded to verify credentials and to aid refugees In communicate with their horne . chools. Th is work wnLinued after the ICN moved ils headquarters to Geneva, wiLZerhUld, but requests for help dwindled rapidly a:; the f feelS of World War Il L1im inished and the riles were tinally closed in 1983 .1

I. Dame Sheil a Quinn . lCN: Pa I and Present (London : Scutm Press. 1989 ) p. 16,

Nad ine Landi s Mark l·ra/.ier Lloyd

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The Center is pleased to annoum:c the comp1cti n of the Nursc Refugee Files Pro cessing Project. The collectIOn, 16.5 lineru- fect in all. has been plac d in acid- neutral containers, arranged and deseribeLl. and catal gueLl in RLIN, a nat ional hi bliographic databa. c. This project ha.\ been made pOSSIble by funding rrom the Pcnn'iy lvania His toricaJ anLl Museum Comm ission. Acquired by the Center in 1995, the. e fil es L10cument the professional palhs of more than three thousand nurses who ned their homeland and were sis teLl by the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Adm inistrl1l ion (UNRRA) and, Imer, the International ouncil of NW'ses (lC ). The majority of these refugee nurs . eventually setll'd in the United States 3./ld Canada.

PhD. ~·

E TLYAcQUlRED T ITLE

Fro/ll {he Beg iflflil!~ : th ~ History ()F/h ? Alll erinlll Fer/ili!y Society. 194-1- /994 by W, HerE. DukaanLl Ian H. DcCherney. Birmingham, AL: American Ferti lity Sod 'y. 1994. 275 pages with ilIusu·at ions. incl udes bibliograph ical refercn es and inLle . Gi ft of Joan Lynaugh.

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DireClor

Joan E. Lynallf!h. PhD . F "\ SS ()C ·iCl f" Dirc(' /()r

Mil r)!n S/.abunia. MA . C C urnfor

The Hi.I"lOI), (If the Pennsylvan ia Hospital. J 751 - 1895 by Tho mas G. Morton: as sisted b Fra k Woodbuf . Philade lphia: Times Pri nt ing House, 1897. 59 1 page. wit h plates. Gi ft of Nadine Landis.

Be t" We i" ,1dllllnis/ulli l'l' Ass i sl(l l//

Rila Ii all Y \la/IIIIINr

Ke ll y 1\ . Smith Edi lo r. T he C hroni lJc

III and Ow of Harm '.1 Woy : A HistO/~Y orfhe Navy Nurse Corps by CaplaJJ1 Doris M. Ste mer, NC USN (ret.). Seattle: Peanut Burter Publishing. 1996. 390 page~ with i1lus lration .. Using collec led stories. re. ean:h. interviews. and corresp ndence. the author C(}lItillll1: d Olllll'x/lmgl')

NEWS FROM THE

THELIlLlAN

CENTER

SHOLTIS BRUNNER

weaves a portr;. it of the women work ing it!> nu rse. fo r the Na y on shi ps and in Na y !lo. pi tals . Gift of K. Sue Roper. ./0 A nn Ashle y: Se leCled Readillgs,

edit d byKarenWolf. ew York : L Press. 1997. 266 pagt:s \ ith in dex. From book cover: "10 Ann As hl ey, nurse edu cator, criti c, and ~ min· st. was a powerfu l voi ce 1')1" ~ oci a l change and nurs in g ac tivi sm. H r courag tll . peak out aga in ~t many ronns o f d mination was fed b { her lucidit and by her passi on to hcalt hc Ameri can healthcare system. As a source of inspirati on today, Ithis hook I prese nts nota ble ' peeches '-lnd arti cles from one of nursing's besl.·' Gift of Edith A. Shin bach. Sr. Jos eph Ho.lpi(u/ School of Nurs ing, 1902- 1996. Lanca tcr, PA: SI. Jo

seph Ho ~pital School of Nursi ng, 19lJ6 . 40 pages wi th illustrat ions . This COIll memorati ve booklet traces the history of ul is Lancaster schoo l which closed its donr. in June J9 t 6. Gi ft of the Sc hool.

WOlllen in White: th e De l'e lop menr th e American NlI rses' UniForm, 1860 19 15 by Mar .Iuszynski Curran, Thesis ( M . S . ) - - U ll ive r~ it 0 Massachu setts at Amherst. 1994. 128 pages with illu stra tion s. Includes bihli ograp hi cal refer ences . Gi n of the Autho r.

CALL

FOR PAPERS

SUM1v1ER

AMERICA ASSOCLATION OR THb

FELLOWSHIP

H ISTORY OF MEDTCINE,

The Lill ian holt is Brunner Summcr Fe llowship fo r Hi to ric a I Researc h in Nursing will again be olTered in 19l)X by Ihe Cent r/cl/'The Study of T he History of" Nursi ng at the U n i ve r~ it or Pennsylvania. Mat and Lil li an Bru nner' . generosity mak ~ it po si ble for the Cenler to offer th i..s re earch fellowship supporting 6 to 8 week. or res iden tial study and u. e of the Center' , coll ection . Selection of Brunner fe ll ow.' will b hased n ev i dence o f pr paration and/or produc ti vity in his torical research re lated to nursing. Bru nner scholars will work under the general direction of nurse hi storians , ssoci ateJ with the Cen ter. Research comp leted by the 1" 1 lo w~ will hel p insure the growth of sc h lar'ly work in nursing hi story . App licant. for the $2,500 Bn mner Fello wship sho uld contact Center Director Kare n Buh l r-Wilker. on at th Ce nter fo r The Study olT he Hi. tory oj Nursing, niv er. ity t)f P no sy lvania, School of Nursi ng. 307 Nursi ng Education Bu ild ing, Phila del phi a. PA 19 104-6906, orcall 2 15 898-4502. The application deadli ne is D cember 1, 1997.

1997 A LICE F ISHER AWARD

ANNuALMBETING The 1998 meding ill be held May 7 10, 1998 , in Toronto. Ontario. Canllda . Any person interested in presenti ng a paper al th is meeting is invited to. ubmit an abslra ' t (l origi nal and 7 copies) Lo the Chair of the Program Committee: J hn Harley Warner, Sec ti on of the Hi tOI) of Medicine. Yal . Uni rsity School of Mediein . LI 32SHM.P,O. Box20815. New Haven. Conne ticlll 06520-80 15. Any suhject in the hi story of medi cine is suitable for presentation, but the paper must represen t original work nOI alread publ ished r in press. Pre. cnta ti()n ~ are Ii mited 10 20 minut , Becau, e the Bulleti n of the History of Medicine is th e offici al journal of the AAHM. the A.· sociati n encou rages ~peaker. to make their manuscripts available ror consider ati on by the Bullctin upon reque. t. Ab !\trac ts must b typed si ngle spaced 111 one sheetllf paper and must n I xceed 350 word s in length. Ab tracts :;hould incl ude n (merely a ·tatement of a re search question . hut findings and con clu sions suffic ient to al low assessm nt by the com n:ullee. The followi ng bio graphical in fo rmation i.' also req ui reu : name. li t! (occ upat ion) , academic ue gree&, preferred mai ling add.r s . work and home te leph one nu mbers, alld present insti tu tional affi liation. Abstrac ts must be r ceived by September 30, 1997. Please nOle that ab.- traets subm itted by e-m ail or fax \ ill not be accepted. A.- in the past.

RECIPIENT

Thi s year" recipient or th Alice Fi her Summer Fellowship is Professor Jane Farrell Beck. Dr. Farrell- Beck is a m mber M the faculty at rh C li ege of Fa mil and Con sumer Sc i n 'es, l owa Slate Un iversity. Her stuuy is ltlled "Nurses as Dise mi nators of Hy gienic inno ations for Women in the Uni ted States, I 890s - I 940 . ." Dr. Farrell-Beck wil l be completing research ror th is study at the Center during the . um mer of 1997. We look fo rward to the findi ngs of this un iq ue project. Thi~ particul ar stud bu il ds on Iwenty-one years of reo earch and lilerat ure eonc rning the hi ' tory of dress and ap pearance and wi ll b part or a book length [mUl ll ·cIi pt.

1998

th ~

1998 program wil l

indud lunch-l ime ro undtable workshops and may inc lu de poster 'ess ion . Pro posals for s ss ions of 3 papers Ill ay be sub mitted, but each abotrac t will b j udged and accepled on it 0 n merits. T hose ishin g 10 submit, b, tracts for ci th r of the. e sess ion formals s hould follow the afar .ment ioncd in ·!ruction)..

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COMPUTERS AND NURSING HISTORY

During th is . pri ng semeSl r. a grou p of ten u nJerg rau u a t e~ fro m the University o f P nn . ylvan ia is constructin g u Wo rlu W ide Web site bllSed on arch iv al materials in the Centerfu r the LUdy o[ the l-btory ()jNurs ing. T hese sImIen " primarily senior history maj rs, are enro lled in a History de partment sem inar on Co mputers and Histor r taught by Mary Mc onaghy. A~ th se st uuents pOUl over the d c uments and pbotograph-; in the pre-World W ar 1 records o f the V isit ing Nu r~e Soc i e~ of Phil adelphia and of the Starr Centre A~-;ociatio n Phi ladelphia, they are xploring the potentia l re latIonship between comp uter tech no logy and the 1110 1 fundul1leJ tal ork of historians. i .. , re ferring to primary docume nts to answer q uestions about the pa.'It and Lhe n maki ng their fi nd ing known t the worlu at large.

In class and in the i readings, ~t ud nts learn both the his tO rical backgrou nd )f the Gild 'd Ag and Lh Prog res~ive E nl and 3.L~o tb comp ut ing ski lls needed to construct a We b Sileo T hey then bri ng thi s kno ..... ledge to th ir exa mination of the archi val material s. The end product wi ll be a Web site incorporati ng images of ~electe d archival photographs and doc uments wi th student commn tary , short stude nt researc h papers, a.nd lin ks to related Web mate rials. A few r the stude nts came to the class with substantial co mputing skill s, bm most kn w on ly thl! basics of readi ng t!-mai l and surfing the World W ide Web. [n das<; they have now learned the basics of htm l (h per tex t murk-u p langunge ) so they can obtain fl ies and images to app ar on a W b ite . They al. 0 hav learned to sc in images an d to transfer imuge and text files from one COIll pute r en vironm nt to anothe r. We b search s for sites re lat d lo the time pe riod under investigation have produ ed some wonderful fi nds -sites on very thi ng fro m the ma nsion o f the robber baro Jl~ to the tenement of New Yo rk. from rep rin t:- of "Godey ' s Lady's Book" to the fu ll text o r Jac b Rii s "How the Other H " Lives." T hese Web sit S, as w ll . s sites devoted to the Cllicag Fire. Jan Adda ms of Hull Hou<;e, anarc hist Emma Goldma n, and a vast archives on Temperance I )cated in an O hio library, have pro ided a fa. .:i naling look at Americ an li fe in the late ni ne teenth an d earl y twe ntietb ce nturies . Student. have learned to I o k at these Web sites wi th a c ritical eye. e a lual ing not ju. t the content hut al~o each Web site's presen tation and organizutjon of inf Imati on. Th y b,l ve det rmined that slick Web t chno logy is no t a s ubstitute for carefu l sek cti oll f materials. ror an organ iz.a.tional framework that helps rather than hinders us rs from fi nding information , and Lor careful docume nt ation o f sources. Th y have iden Li fi ed Web . iLes th al appealed to them in terms of an introd uctory page, organizat io n of materi , Is arO ll nd spec ific concepts. the halance 0 images and tex t, rc!t:vant li n s to other sites, methods o f noti ng citat ions and b ibliography, and sud tec hn ical matters a~ choices C)L a VJ sual bac kground and f type. Before lhe c lass came to the archi ves (h 'y acquired u b' ' ic knowledge o f m rica's G ild d Age and Progressive Era fr m the 'e Web ile and from c1 ::l~S lectures. They also did backgrC) ulld read ings on how ind ustria lism. urban ization, and im migration affected Philadelphia during th is lime period . Th -ir as. ignlllen t has b ' 11 to look at the Visiting Nurse Soc iety and Starr Centre records for e idence how these two or (Ja ni zati() n ~ re ll cted the e hi. torical trends .

The Web site that emerges fro m their work will operate at th ree di ffe rent level . th individual. group, and class I vels. Each stu dent will write a paper on some aspect of the pre-World War I activities o f b th the Visiting Nurse So i ty and the Starr Centre that interests them m S1. These topics include everything fr m analysis of the diseases treated and the i n ~Lru ments used, to the role of Afric n-American nurses and hospitals, to housing conditions, to biographies of th founders. At the group level. the students are approaching the materials from two different angl s: fro m the perspective of Lhose delivering health care th rough the Visiting urse Society and Lhose receiving this care. inall , the enti re cl ass i. involved in bringing the site together to foml a conceptual and technical wh Ie. Thi is the fir st time any of these studen ts has worked in an archives . The CenLer'~ archives are an excellenL place for them lo begin their archi al experience--the materials ill the archi ves are interesting and wel l-organized without being 0 erwhelming. Ccn(l:r Curator Margo Szabunia pro vided an intT(lcluclory pre entati n and lour. lL is also important that !hi . arc hi v s has already made an impressive ommitmenl to rhe lise of computers and the Web to incre acce s to its mat rials. After the first visit, studenls were a bit aweSLruck and a bit unsure of how to make their way through the materials . But now that they are started, they are excited ab ul seeing and readi ng 'real" his torical ouree material . . History is coming alive for them in a way it did not before ! One studen t has already made a trip to South Philadelphia t tind the site of the original Starr Centre, and there is talk of including photographs of this site as well as of the Cli nton Street hom" of {he fow1der, Mrs. Jenks and orne of the home ' visited by the nurses. It m ans a grc( t d . I to Lhese tude nt. lhat thei r finished work will actually be viewed by othe Hnd be con idered a real contribution to historical research. 3

Thi. n ws lette r is re oularl y fea tured on the Cente r's homepag on the World Wide We b.

ur URL i . th fo ll owing;

http://ww w .upenn. du/nllfsin gifacrcs_ hi story/hLml O ther featu re. of our website incl ude a photo gallery. a list of our ho ld ing. with lin k. to. elected fin d mg . ids, and links to other r lated website ' in the United. , tate and abroad.

CENTER RESEARCHERS OF PAST AND PRESENT

In I99(), wi th ge nerous supporl lrom Lillian and Mat Brun ner, the Center estab lished the Ltll iall S Brunner Fe llow ship to support indlvidu.tl research in re, iuence Ul the Center for a periou of wecb during the . ummer. In 1993, the Alice Pi. her Scholarship was stabli!olheci b fundi ng from the Alumni A!\~oc i ati on of the Philauelphia Gcnem l Hospital School of Nursing to provide a si Lance to nurse); al the master's or uoc torulleveL with research and wri ting as part o ' their study of' history . The Ccntcr has been graced with talented anti creat ive individual. each yearince 1990, except the summerof 1996 when no fell wh ip ' were awarded uue U) exte nsive ren va tions 01 the Center's fac ilities. Other ind lviduul\ affi liateu with the Center ha e included postdoctoral scholars and graduate fc l low~ (who spend a year in rc~ i uence) from Canada, Great Brit ain, Israel, and United Stutes. Last but not least are the Univer sity of Pennsylvania . chool of Nursing's graduate students unll Ph.D. graduate!; whose focu'i has been the h i~t()ry f nurs ing undo as arc. ult, the~e student. have spt:nt considerable amounts or reseal' h lime:: althe Center. All f tbese indiv idual s ha e brought to [he Center k en hi lurical interesL enthusia. m, and stwl) ill U. We are pleased to see from rhe follov ing update!. thut lhey have conti.nued along succes. ful academic paths. Nira Bm1al, GmduateFellow, 1995-1996 Si nce her return to Israeilasl summer, Nira has been writing on the development of theoretica l courses at the irst Jewish Nursi ng , chool in Jerusalem . Tllis ~choo l was establl~hed in 19 j R by the lIada. sa Jewish Women's OrganiLation as pm'l of Lhe Hadassa Ho."pital. Thi. h )spital became the lir"t Univer<;ilY Hospital in Palestine. Nira presented a paper. 'The American School for Jewish Nurses in JerusaJem. 1918-1928," at the an nua l symposi um of the Israel Associatiou for the History of Medicine and cience on November 2 -, 1990. In January 1997. a grant from the Hadassa Nurse ' Organizuti n in tJ)e U.S. l1 a~ rrtadc po. sible the tr. nsfer of part of lhe abo\ e-mentioned sch )\'s arcbive to the Central Zionist Archives in Jerusalem. Nira ha ' been s Iccled to <UTange this VU:,L culleclion 00 <I part lime basis. he continues 10 work at Ihe Oncology Department of the Hadassa Hebrew University in Jerusalem, where Nira give~ her share in the effort to re lieve human suffering and wnr"-s f~}r Jew i ~h-Arab .:oe~i'iLence in U,e Holy City.

Barbara Brush. Ph.D. Graduate. 1994 and Fisher cholar. 1995 Afler completing a PhD program. Barbaro was appointed un AssisLant Professor and Program Coordinator for Adu lt Nurse Practitioner Program at Tcmple University Department or . urs tng. She is currently an A.. i 'Lant Professor, Family Nur. c Prac t.i.lioner Program at the Boston College chool of Nursing. Since 1995, her puhl ications include: lin prl:ss) American Nursing. From HospiwLs' [ 0 Heal[h SvstelllS, Co-authored with lE. Lynaugh (Camhridge. MA. Blackwcll Pre~s ) ; a book review of Marcos ueto's Missionaries ofScience: The Rockefeller Foulldation UlU/ U llin America (B loomington: Indiana Univcr ity Pr ss. 1994),111 Nursing Hi!oltory Review. 5, 224-5: The Rockefeller Agenda for AmcricanlPhilippines ursmg Rela oon. , Chapter 3, pp.45-63 in A.M. Rafferty und J Ruhinson (ed ) NursinR Hil'{()ry wuJ the i'olilics of Welfare (London: Routledge Limited). Barhara was also recently nominated to the Student Re. earth Award Commiltcc of the Amen an Asso ciation for the Hi5tOry of Nu 'ing for the 1996-1998 penod. Cynlhia Anne Connolly. Ph.D. Candidate Cindy successfully defended her dis. erlation pwpo. al on Luberculosi prevention in children. 1890- 1945. in Decemberllt' 1996.Herqualifyinge aminali npaperwason"Cbild- a ing and Nur ing in Ule Progressive :;ra." She IS now aClivelj pur~u ing primary s()urce material for her lhe~is . She and Jmm Lynaugh co-wrote a history of thl: Dlvilon of NlIr~ing of the . . Public Health Service which will be published UHS spnng as a monograph. She ala teaches pan-time at The Johns H~)pk i ns Univel. ity choal of ur~ing. Plllricia 0' monin. PhD. Graduate, 1992 Patricia reports sbe has been on the "mommy track" mel.' compleling her Ph.D. in 1992 She is an djunct As ·i. tant Pro fes~or at lhe LJniver.uy llf Penn~ylvania School of Nursing where ~ h e teache~ tin Introduction LQ ursing (; ur e for [re:,h man and a hblOry elective for graduate students. Patricia is th.: current Assuciate Editor uf the urslUg Hlstu Rc, iew. Her most recent publicallon is 'Towards a History of Research in Nurt>illg:' Nursing Research, March/April 1997

Geertjc Bo<;chma, Ph.D. Graduale. 1996 GeertJe just omplctcd her Ph.D. research on lhe hisLOry of mental health nursing in the Netherlands. For Lhat purpo:e .,he worked and Jived in the Netherlands for the lasl 2.5 years. On December 2, 1996 ~he succe .. fu ll y defenueu her ui ~ertuLi n "Creating ursing Care forthe Men Lally ilL MenLai HeL Ilh ursing in Dutch Asyillms 1X90-1920," ::I t the Center for the Study of the History of Nursing. Her dissertation committee ind uded Dr. Joan Lynuligh (chair). Dr. Ellen Baer. and Dr. Henrika Kukl ic"-. In January 1997. GcerLjl' "tnrted a new position iL~ assistant profe sor ( f nursing aL the Univer~ity uf Alberta. Edmonton, Canuda, where ~he willteu~'h men al health nursing and continue her historical research.

Janna Dieckmann, Brunner ' ell ow. 1993 and Ph.D. Canui uatc Janna DIl!ckmann leaches Puhli Health ut LaSalle Unlver sit) School or ursing. Phi ladelphia. Ponllsyl vania. She i.~ lin i~hing herdi,,:ertalion "Caring to the Ch ronicall) Ill' Philadel phia 1945-1%5. Karen Egcncs. Fi ... her Scholar, 1993 Karen \pent seven weeks at the Center for the , tud) of the of ursing in Lht: slimmer of L993, which laun hed her prngrnm of rc~earch into nursing history. lIer research at the Center evolved into a study (.11' the Stllucnt Government Assu Hi~tory

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CENTER RESEARCHERS OF PAST AND PRESENT ciation at the Tra ining Schoo l of Phil adelph ia Gene ral Hospita l (PGH) fro m 11,)20- 1930. Since her fe llowship, Karen has pre , entcJ h r re ~e a rc h at an annual meetin g o f the American As soci ation l' r the Hi:tory of Nursi ng, and at research sympo sium at lhe schools of nu rs ing of Loy la Univ r. ity Chicago an d the Universit of Virgi nia. She al sl was able t present at a meeting of the Alu mnae Association of the Trai ning Schllolof Philade lphia General Hos pital. the grou p that ge nero u!)1 fund d the Alice Fi. her Fellowship , and whose members par ticipated in th Student Governmen t As. 0 iat ion descri bed in her researc h. The researc h ha'> al so evolved into an article ac cepted fo r pu blication in a futu re volume or NUL ing History Review . The Stl.ldcn t Gove mrnent Association at PGH has also become the lopic of her master's thesis in her grad uate program in histor . In 1995, Kare n researched Alice ' isher's life in En gland th rough an exam inat ion 01 archival materi al at the Ni ght ingal e Museum , tll Britii>h Lihrary . ami the Greater London Re ord Office. She pr ~e n ted th is reoearch at a rece nt AHN conference. and sht: wi ll present it in May at th Annual March to the Wood land~ Ce metery, !>poll sorcd by the Center. Julie Fairman, Ph.D. Grad uate, 1992 and Postdoctoral SchOlar, 1994-1 995 AfLcr graduati ng from the doctoral program, J ul ie com pl eted 11 one-year p )stdoc toral I'cIJ owship lit the enter, wh icb allowed her to b gin work on her book (coauthored wilh Joan Lynaugh) /ll ft'll sih 'illg Care: A H isrol)· oF fhe American Cri l i cal Care Mo vcm ent, / 945 -J980, whi ch will he pub lished this year Univc r. ity of Pennsylvania Press. That sli mmer. Julie trav eled to Tianj in, China as .. vi iting lecturer at the First Cenrral Hosp ital. She took a posit ioll as a lecturer at the Uni versity of Pennsylvania tho l of ursing in 1993 ~Lt1 d began teachi ng the sophomore level fundarne ntahi cour e. In 1995. she was ap pointed to her current position on the : tanding fac ulty at the Schoo l of Nursing as an as~ista nt professor. She has bcen in vited to pre ent her work at the Na li~lI1 H I Teachi ng Inst ilute of t.he American Crit ical Care lIfses Associati on. the annual con fe rences or the American Association of the Hi ·tory of Nu rsing and the American As. ociUli [] on the History o f Medicine, The Counci l o r Nurse Researchers, Sigma Thela Tau Internationa.l. and the American Nurses Association . Be!\i de~ her book , .I uli e·s wo rk has been publi shed in Nursing Research, Nursi ng History Rev iew. aod the International Journal of Nurs ing In quiry. She is current ly worki.ng on several inten'elateu ami runde I projects: inv sligati ng the relat i o ll ~hi p hctween nurses and technology (American Nephrology Nurses As.'\Uciation ), an ora l hi story ()f Dr. FI rence Dow ns (Sigma Theta Tau, X i Chapter). an d an exami nation o f nurse-phy ' ician rel ation. hips from a I!end r perspcctive ( ni versi ty Research fou ndatiu n) . .I ulie also re ports that she has two children ,UllJ two dog. . Diane B . Ham il ton. Bru nnerFell ow, 199 1 Diane re ports that a fter her fello wlihi p at th Center, she taught ::ll lhe Uni versit y of Rochester (New York) and in 1994 she came ho me to the Midwest to Westcrn M ichi !!an Univer

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silY. She was no minated to Phi Kappa Phi, Nation al Honor oci ety in 1996: received the Best of Image Award from Sigma Theta Tau In ternational in 1994; and the Pr mising New Investigator Award fro m the Uni vers it of Rochest r in IlJ93. Dian has bee n awarded a gran t for the peri od 1997 -1 999 fro m the Mid west All ia nce for ursi ng Res a rch. Sh has authored articl es, book!;. book chapters, monographs. and book r view ·. Som nf Diane' s most re en! publicat io ns include The I lIwge Edilo r.l: Mind. Voil.'l! and Spiril, Indianapolis: STYI Press (in press) and Cornm un Emotiona l Respon se · to Il lness , in Beare P (ed). Practice of Ad ult Health Nu rsing, SI. Lou i ~: Mo~ b y . Tom Olson, Brunner Fe llow, 1994 Tom writl.! . that the most important res ul t of" his work as a Brunner Fellow was the publ i ation of the findings from his re search in an anic le entitl ed. '·Fundum nlal and Special ; The Di lemma or Psychiatric- Me ntal Health Nursing" ( 1996. Archives ( f Psych iatric Nurs ing, 10111 .3-10). The article was accompa ni ed by over four page. of commentary from Clai re M. Fagin and Hi ldegard E. Pep lau. Tom ·: research at U1C Center, which focllsed on the conceptuali/aLi on \If p"ychiat ric nun.ing re search , was also the basis fo r papers presented al the ixth N'I tional Conference on Theory an d Research- based P~ ychosoc ial Nurs ing (Seuttl . Washington . J uly 1995) and an international conference, Re. earc h-Ba 'eo Pract ice for the 21 st Century (Ho nolu lli. Hawaii. Fe bruary 19(6). T he Brunner Fellowsllip and Tom's experience atlh Center were also helpful in securing severa l more recent award, incl uding <l Minne~ota Historical Soc iety Research Grant ( 1995), iI Fmncis A. Matsuda Trave l Award (1996 ). and the T ranscultural Nursing S de ty Career Dev lopment Award ( 1996 J. At present., Tom ill completing a study rocused on the evolution of concepts anJ practices re lated to m ntu l health and illness in twentieth-ce ntury Hawaii. Annc Mari . Rafferty. Postdoctoral Fellow (Harkl1ess Fel low), 1994- 1995 Since I aving Penn. Anne Marie has changed jobs to be come Dir ctor ()f the Centre for Policy in Nurs ing Research ( PNR ) and the Lond n School of Hygiene and Tropical Medi cine (LSHTM). CPNR was set up in ctob r 1995 a~ a join t ini ti ative b 'tween the L HThl and the Royal nllege )f Nursing (RC N) t prov ide a coordinalcd strategy for research in nursing. midwi fery a.nd healt h vi~ i ting, and to di ssem inate ' good ' re searc h practice. Kee n to conti nue her interc. t in hi story. Anne Mari was co-organizer of Lh . econd Nursing. Wo men's Hist ry and the Poli tics of WeJrare conferenl:e in September 1996 at the Univers ity of Notti ngham wilh Pro f ssor Jane RobinS,)J1 and Sarah Sm itb . Anne Marie was uwarded a brant-i n-a.id by th Roc kefell r Foundation to con tinue research 'Ex.poning cul tur : the Americani. <lt ion o f nu r ·ing education in interwar Bri tain,' exploring tbe influe nc of Lhe Foundat ion in st imulat ing devel opment in public hea lth education f r ll urse. in inter-war Brit aill . Thi s recent grant wi ll cons ider tbe po litics or patronag , and examines the role of the Rockefeller Foundation in pro mot (coll/illlled oll lmge 8 )

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Top rlJlvfiwll lefi: D. Humilwn; A.M . Raffe rty ; .J. Dieckmall, K. Egen l's; 1. Fairmall. M iddle rowlrulIllefi: S. Re verhy wi th K. Wilk erson ; B. B rush, M. Swan, A. M. Ralle' I'IY, N. Torn es, C. B()schm(/, .I. Lynaug h. BOllol1l row/i'om left: P. D 'A ntonio; T. Olsoll .

CENTER RESEARCHERS OF PAST AI'ID ing an ini"raslru lure for publi(; heath nur'ing dUl:allOn in Cen lral and Eastern Europe during the intl:r-war period. Shortly after her return fr m Penn, Anne Marie \ as ap pointed Chair orthe Executive Commillee of the ociely for th Social History of Medicine and ontin ucs eilitorial com mitmen ts on a number of journa l. : Social History f Mcdic im:. Interna tional Journal of the Hi , tory of ursing, and Nursing Inqu iry. Anne Marie's doctoral thc.:si. underwent a 'conver"ion ' experi ence intu h ok form and Till:' Po fitiCl' (?j' NurI'ing Kllml'letiRe. was pub lished by Routledge at the end of 1996. Other boo" . of a hi. torical nature include A. M. Rafferty, J. Robinson and R. Elkan (eds) Nllr.·in g Historv and The POliTics o{Welfare , LOLl don, Routledge, 1997, with Hil.ary Marland (ed!',) Midw ivc and SocIety : Debates and Controversies in lhe Modem Peri d. Lon don. Routledge. in pres Susan M. Reverby. Fi~h r Scholar, 1994 Susan il, deligJ led to report that after u d cade of good hehavior . he has reLUrned to "normal" academic life and is no IOl1 cr er l:hai r of the Women' s SLUdies Department at Wellesl y. ~ . 1: In [995. she became a full professor of Women's Sluw t! at Wellesley and was deeply honored to have bt.:en inducted into honorary memhership in Sigma Theta TJ1J . Sbe bn.s writte n the preface t a new colle lion of JoAnn Ashley's work (just ~u b lished from Teachers' allege Press) and several short revIews and em:yclopeilia pieces. She conl i nue~ to work on. give pa pen; anti talk. on tWI) related project·; a I!llilection of the sec ondary work on the so-called Tuskegee yphil is tudy that has appeared. ince James jones' Bad Blood hook in 19X I and her nwn b ok on the multiple representations of the Tuskegee 'LUdy, esp\.:ci wly ~ C:Llsing on ur. e Eunll:e River . . She has served a. the consumer representative on the Obstelric<; and Gynecology Devices Parl lor the U.S. ood a d Drug Adminis tration. Sharon Richlu'd ·on. Posldoctoral Scholar, 1991-1994 ince her ~ojourn at tlle Cel1ler, Sharon. an ASSOCIate Pro lhsor at the niversil of Alberta. has received a tolal of ap proximutely $75,000 i ~ funding lor lhrel! separate historical re search project. . and she has compleled Ule foliowillg tllree project. ; cre<lti n and publication of ilrc'hil'o! Resollrcesfor His/orka! Nllrsil1X Re.lellrdl in Alhel'/(I (Wilh Alberta Associa lion of Registered Urses archivl~t colleague L rraine Mychajlunow): the relationship \If nur~ing work and nursing education in Alberta from 1880 to 19~; and the relation:-.hip of nursinu work and nurslng educmion in A Iherta ffll m 11.)05 to 191 ii . She hus pre, entcd numerous papers at VurWWi nursing COl cr~nces. 'uch a "Alh~rta'$ District ursing ervice: A FeministSolullon to Frontier Health Cure, 1919- 1925:'which ,he gavt: at the 1996 Annual on lcrence of the American s ( 1 dation of the Hi~lory of ursin!,! (Cleveland, Ohio) and the Nillth Annua l Conference of tht! anaJian As. ociati n for the Ilistory of Nursing (Halifax. Nova cotla) . he is clllTentlyrc searchmg Alberta Di<;tnct and Public Ht:ahh ur. ing from 1918

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to 1996 and writing a hi e·tory from J9 1g to 19')8 of nur. ing uu cat ion at the Uni versit of Alberta in preparation for their HOtb anniversary in 1998. Mery n luart, Ph.D. Graduate, 198 7 Since graduating in 1987, Meryn returned to teaching at tht! Un i cr. itv of Ottawa in Ontario. In 1990, she was award d their Ad junct Hannah PI' f ~s rship in the Hi tory (If Medicine De partment, which she he ld unt il 1996. This Professorship pf{~ vided salary . upport to teach ,md wrile the history of nurslllg and he,tllh core. She has been ab le to develop an undergraduate , nd gradullle e ur';c in lhese area. he is working on a b ok and other large project.. ince ther is very lill ie Canadian nur'i ing hi story in b ok f ml. ~hc fee ls Ul i. is an essential task. Mervn is a member orthe fntemalional Council of Nur;e ' ffis tory 'Project Team. She has also taken on admil11slrative dutie. as head of the Ottawa's Graduate Program for the last two year: . She feel ery lucky LO have been al P nn and to have received the hi ghest l/uality Ph.D. education in nursing. Mary Tarbox, Brunner Fellow, 1992 During the summer of 1993, Mary presented a paper bru;ed on her work al the enLer for lhe Study f the History or Nur.; ing. The paper war gIven atlhe University of NOllingham. Notlinl!ham Enuland f r a conference entiLled, ·'Women. Nul'. /:' ing. and the Politics of Welfare ," In the fall of 1993, ~he re-eived th; ereSll Cbristy Award from the rowa NlIres Association [or scholarly and professional activity ill nursiug in Iowa. rn the summer of ' 995, . he presented another paper on leadership eh racteri~tics of women re llg.ious in nlll"iing at the conference on the Hi. tory of Women Religi us at Cardinal 'tritch C liege in Milwauh.ee. Wiscon in . Although Mary continues L1 he a member of the Association for ur ' ing Hist ry. and she works a little here and t lere on her tOpiC of women rel igious III nun; mg. her career has been 'onsumoo by the responsibilines of be ing t:hair 0 the uepartment of nursing. at Mounl Mercy Col lege, where she is in her tenth year. ~

Beth Ann Wllbh, Ph.D. Candidat ' Beth Ann successfu lly dl!rend~d her Disseltalion proposal, "Premature Infant Care in the U. , b forI! 1950," m December 1996. Herqllul ifyingexamination paper (October 1995) wa<; on tht.: topic of PremaLUr it) in the 1950'.,. Presently Beth Ann is look ing for pnmary sources und working on her related field papers. She is Teaching Assistant at the nivers ity of Penn sy lvan ia. chool (1 1 Nur-;lng and work~ al Children' s Seashore J[ use and the transitional nursery at TIt ma~ Jeffe rson Univer sity Ho.~pi t al.

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Eile n M. Jacobi (nee Ahearn), a psychiatric nurse and forcefu l leader in nursi ng. during rhl! 1970s. passed away on December 26. 1996, at age orn ye;trs, after severa I montbs ri ll ness . D ['. JJ obi was born in Ireland and was broLlf!ht to the United Statc. as a ch il d. Sh a7 tended nurs ing sch()ol in N w Y rk and obta ined her Ph.D. fro m Teach r Col lege (Col umbi a University) . She was Dean of the School o f Nurs ing at Ade lph i nivcrsity in. ewYork in th 1960s.ln 1970, she becan)' Exe utive Director r the Am ri<.:an Nurses Asso ciation. a po: ili n she he ld unt il 1974. She was then appuinted Dean of the School of ursing at the Uni versi t of Texas at EI Paso. From 1977 to 198 1. she ser d on the Bard of Directors of th Internationa l Council of Nurses (fCN ) in Geneva, und 'rom 198 I to 1985, she served as the lCN 's th ird Vic Pres ident. Wife of the late Frank Jacob i, she is sur vived by her son Frank and dauQ"hter b Gin ny and two grandsons .

UPCOMING EVENTS American Association ror the History of Nursing 14th Annual Conference September26-28, 1997, Hartford, COIl nectic ut. The AAHN, nive rsi ty of nne tieu! School f Nursing, and Mu Chapter of Sigma Theta Tau, are co sponsoring thi s annua l c nfer nce that pr vides a fo rum for sharing hi storical research on nursing . The co nfer nee will include paper and poster pre~en t a ti ons as well ,L " a th 'r oppo rlu n itie~ f r learn ing and sharing hi storical intere. ts. Please plan on j ining us for this eX<.:i ting annucLi event! Topics and pr gram sc hedul e will be placed on the foliowi nQ"Co Web site in June: http://n 'ghistoryl conf. htm ll

Marietta Madden passed aw, y on January 27, 1997. in Abi ngton Mcm Oli al Hospital in Abington. Penn ylvania, and was buried with full mil itary hon ors at Arlingtl n ational Cemetery in Arl ing ton. Vir"in ia, onJ anuary29. 1997. Her long and distinguished career beg.an at Long Island College Hospita l, fo ll owed by a :,rin t in th Army Nurse orps. which included acti ve dULY ill France during Worl el War U. After the war, :-he remained in th Arm Reserves whi le work ing al various hospi tal s, mainly in the Phi lade lphia are a. She held a position as a , ch 01 nur. e and an ther a. in s pcl~ tor of nu r.- ing ho mes for the Pennsylva nja State Department of Hea lth. Her last offici al position was Di rector of Nurses at Gradu ate Hospital. where she greatly Im proved the nursing depart ment in less than a year. After retiring in 197 1. she bccamc aCli e in volunteer cli ities such as RSVP, friend ly visi tor at the Wynco! Home, a mi as a consultant to the Mon tgomer f County Office on Ag ing. She is su rv ived by her nephews, Joseph and C urti ~, and her niece, Lo i.. f

Canadian Association for the

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Nursing CODferenc~

June 12 - 15. 1997, VancoLi ver. Brit ish Colu mhia. The theme f the COllference is Sharing Nursillg HistolY . It will fea tW'e papers, poster di 'plays, am.! histori cal ex hibits. Th key note addre s wil l be given by the Honorable Mon ique Begi n, Dean of F a ully ofIlealth Sciences, Uni versity of Ottawa, on th subject of tbe Canadian He lt h Car Sy te~ . Dean Be"in was the Minister of Nation, I Health and Welfare whe n the Canada Heal th Act was enacted in 1984. The Hannah Lec ture wU I be given by Joan Lynaugh, RN, PhD, FAAN. who wi ll . peak on the International Counc il of Nur!)es History Project. Dr. Lyna ugh i. Profe sor and Term Chair, History r Nur.ing and Hea lth Care, ni versityof Penn. ylvania. The project investigators include Barbara Bus h, Geerlje Bos: hma, Anne Marie Raffeny. Meryn Stua rt, and Nancy Tomes, For more information, con tact Sh il a R. nkin Zerr, Chair of the Planning Comm illee, 5333 Upland: Dri c, Delta. British Columbiu, Canada V4M 2G3. or visit the followi n" Web site: http://www.thenerve2.com/silkl cahnl Mid-AUantic Regional Archives Conference 1997

May 1-3, Charlot! sviU . Virgi nia. The progra m Traditions and Trends will ex

plme recem developments in tradi tio nal arcas 01 ar hiva l admlnistnti on, such ill ace S: , climat control , ge nealogy, records manag ment, anu security . Th Wor!d Wide We b and new technology thal lmpa ·ts archiving. such as reformat ting photographs digitally ancl the pros and COil S fd ig itizing and microfilmi ng, will be addres ed. Plenar Speaker, Ed ward Ayers. Prot"e. sor of History althe Universi ty or Virgin ia. will di scuss a cur r nl re earch project, The Valley of the Shudow: Living the Civ il Wa r in Penll sy lvan ia and Virg in ia . For local urrun l1 e

menls cal l Marsha Trimbleat 804-924 3023, or cmail mt9c rov irgi nia.edu: web address is http://www. itd .umd.eduJ MARAC/maraccon.html

American Association for the Hi toryorMedicine April 2-6. 1997, Wi ll iam sburg, Virginia. Th is large meeting is an umbrella for many different organization in the medi cal history ~ph re, such as L.b American Osler Society and the Mt:dical Museums Association. The mun sessions focus on sLlch the mes as Race and EthnicilY, Teaching Med ical Hjstory in the Medical Cent r, Epidem ic' and Public Hea.lth. Karen Bu hler-Wi l k er~on will chair a ses sion on Medi ine and Society, and Bar bara Brodie, Dir ctor of the Center for Nurs ing Historical Inquiry, is chair of the Women. Children. and Public Ilealth . e ion . Patricia D' Antoini Hno Julie Fairman, of the Uni v rs ity of Pennsy lvcl nia, are pr senting Nego tiated Ca re: P{I[iellfs and Stc~ff'lI r [he Friends Asv· lum, 1817-! 85<) and Calnoufla ged alities: Patient Ow comes alld ICUI' re spec tiv ly. TI) regi. ter t: ntact R.B . Dav i" MD,LA C -Chair, 103Wo dhal l pa, Williamsburg, Virgi nia23 188-91 38. or ca1l 757-25 -0 33 ; websiteishttp:// aahm/meetings.ht ml

Archivists and Libra rians in the History ofthe Health Sciences J 997 Annual Meeting April 2-3, Wi ll iamsburg. Virginia. This meering beg in ith the trad itional Wednesday night di nner. and features prel':e ntations, workshops, and tour., such tl~ r the Public Hospital. which (colllilllled

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Al unul i Association of the Hospital of the Universit of Pennsy lvania S hool ofNursing

Al umni Association of the Tra ining School for Nurses,

P h iladel ph ia General Ho.'pi ta l Ellen Davidso n Baer E lsa M . Baer Mr. and Mrs . J. Mark Baiada Ann , M . Banas Nira Bartal Jeanne Quint Benol iel Lela Ricks Bethel R ut h M . Bleakley G ertje B()sc hma Barbara Brodie Fra nces Brouse Li ll ianS ho ltL Bru nner Mathias J. Brunner Barbara L. Brush Karen B uhl r-Wilke rson Caroline Camu nas E lizabeth A. Cap zliti Isabel M . Carso n Esther M. C a an augh Alice Lee Chun Marle ne H. Ci anci P amela F. C iprian o Beryl B. Cleary Joyce C. CoJUns Audrey Corson Grace K. Cou lson E lean or L. C rowder

Patricia D' Antonio Ramona E. De Laney Harry B. D issinger Jr. Helen B. Dopsov ic F lorence S. Downs Karen Egenes Lois K. Ev ans J ulie Schauer Fainnan Suzanne L. Fe th m M aril yn E. Flood Stuan A. Fox Cath rine C. Fr e man F lorence R. Gartland Carol P . Germain Janel F. G latfelter Lam a Lucia Hayman Patrica A. Hefit er W ill iam H. Helfand Caw I . HelmstadLer

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Hannah L. Henderson W anda C . Hiestand C o nstance L. Hill Wi lliam L. Holzemer Christy Nye Hoo ver Dorothy G. K apen.te in Erica L. Kathry n El izabeth A . Ka tona I da H . Kaufm an Jane D. Keeler Aida E. Kerschn er Marilyn G. Ki ng G. Lloyd K irk Chamlaine L. Kissin ger A nn P. Kn ight Kare n F la ncg in Kra mer E leanor . La mb rtsen Jan L. Lee Dorothy Harve Leonard Charles E. Letoc ha Mary Ann Lew is Constance L. Litwill r Barbara Vrabel Lund Joan E. Lynaugh M ary B. MacBride E lizabe th Madeira Marguerite L. Manfreda E. An n Matter Margaret L. McC lure Gloria J. McNeal Kath ryn M. Mer. han Ma thy Mezey Arlene B. Mi ller Lois A. M Il te iro Ei le nR. M ulhern Mary Alie M usser Wi ll iam H. Nace Beatrice R. Nelson Veronica C. O ' Day T ho mas C raig O lson Maral P lanjian

Clara Park Marjorie Pascale

Leven J. Peitzman Robert V. Piemon te Laura M . Randar Frances B. Rauch Idabe Uc Re am

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Sylvia Rinker Alice Savaslio Roze lla M. ScWotfeldl Thelma M. Schorr Edilh A. Sili nbac h onn a Jean Shue Mary Jane E. Siekerl uzan ne . Smeltzer Dorothy M. _milh Nancy T. Snyder Ther sa R. Snyder Chri 'line H. Spagna Jean Martin Spangler Annette C. SqLJiJe Beverly Peril Stern Lucy E. tetter Ro 'emary Stevens Barbara H. Stratton Mr. and Mrs. H. Strumpf Neville E. trumpf Beth An n Swan CW'ole Torok Marion Burns Tuck Lorraine Tulman o lores K. Van Name Elizabeth D. Vickers Emma S. WeigLey Tina Weintraub Mary Jessica G. Welfare Bill ie Jane Wiest Pauline Davis W jciak Alma S. Woolley Hilda Wright

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THEJOANLYNAUGH FOUNDERS

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TIlls fund , begun in 1996 as an endowment t upport the Center' educational, scholarly and archival activities, has easily met its initial target of$3 ,000. It now stands at more than $75,0001 Th C nt r is grateful to the fund's contribut rand look' for continued , upport to achieve the fund's ultimate goal of one million doHars.

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