Bertea (Aukje K.) Papers, 1928-1997

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Summary

Title:
Papers of Aukje Kapteyn Bertea
Dates:
1928-1997
Creators:
Bertea, Aukje Kapteyn and Bertea, Christine
Abstract:
This collection comprises 6 cartons and 1 legal-size document box documenting the life and career of Aukje Kapteyn Bertea, a UCSF School of Nursing alumna, class of 1939. It includes materials related to her nursing work, such as public health pamphlets, school notes, family correspondence, and personal writings, spanning from 1928 to 1997.
Extent:
7.04 Linear Feet (6 cartons, 1 legal-size document box, 1 flat file)
Language:
English .
Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Papers of Aukje Kapteyn Bertea, MSS 2024-33. Archives and Special Collections, University of California, San Francisco.

Background

Scope and content:

This collection includes 6 cartons and 1 legal-size document box documenting the life and career of Aukje Kapteyn Bertea, a UCSF School of Nursing alumna from the class of 1939. It features materials related to her work as a nurse, including pamphlets and resources on public health nursing, her nursing school notes, correspondence with her family during her time in school, resources on child development and education and personal writings. The materials date from 1928 to 1997.

Biographical / historical:

Aukje Kapteyn Bertea (1916-2001) was born in East Northfield, Massachusetts, U.S.A. From ages one to four, her family lived in West Africa as her parents were Presbyterian missionaries. They returned to the states when Aukje was five. Her early education took place in California, including Los Gatos, Mayfield, Victorville and finally Los Angeles.

Aukje majored in Chemistry at UCLA before switching to pre-nursing, she completed her nurses training at the UC Training School for Nurses in San Francisco and received her BS in Nursing and California RN Certificate from UCSF. Aukje worked as a hospital nurse until she saved enough to do what she really wanted to do, Public Health Nursing. She took a PHN course at UC Berkeley and completed PHN fieldwork at the San Luis Obispo County Health Department, earning herself a Public Health Nursing Certificate. She worked for the California State Health Department as a Public Health Nursing under the Maternal and Child Hygiene Program in San Diego; the Los Angeles County Health Department in Whittier in a generalized Public Health Nursing program.

Aukje was married in 1942 and had three children, her first died during childbirth. She was a very active parent in Virginia Swanson Kei's Nursery School Group under the Montebello Adult Education Department. Aukje devoted a lot of work to the Montebello Adult School Parent-Child Study Group, she believed that healthy parenting led to the development of children into psychologically balanced adults. Mental health was important to Aukje, it was something her mother and later herself struggled with. She was also active in her children's cub scout and camp groups, writing news articles for local publications, putting together events and composing campfire sings for the groups. Aukje kept her PHN credentials active until age 65, much of her PHN work was done as a volunteer.

Acquisition information:
These papers were donated to the UCSF Archives and Special Collections by Christina Bertea in 2022.
Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

About this collection guide

Date Encoded:
This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2024-09-16 12:41:00 -0700 .

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Restrictions:

Collection is open for research.

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Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Papers of Aukje Kapteyn Bertea, MSS 2024-33. Archives and Special Collections, University of California, San Francisco.

Location of this collection:
UCSF Library & CKM Archives and Special Collections, 530 Parnassus Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94143-0840, US