Looking Back

"Student nurses here found themselves going to school one day—and to college the next."

So began an article in the February 1959 issue of CPC News, a publication for the professional colleges— Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmacy—at the University of Illinois in Chicago. The article was reporting on the Jan. 20 Board of Trustees meeting, during which a unanimous vote changed the name of the university’s School of Nursing to College of Nursing. Administrators wasted no time making it official. Within days of the trustees’ Dean Emily C. Cardew meeting, the office door of Emily C. Cardew—program director for 10 years—was relettered to indicate the new status of the college, and her new role as the first dean of the University of Illinois College of Nursing.

1959: Henry Tesch, physical plant painter, modifies the door signage as student Patricia Blaser, BSN ’60, a junior, looks on.

1955: Director Emily C. Cardew’s door was the backdrop when student Penelope Carson modeled a new uniform design in February of '55.