Stanford University Nursing Education and Practice collection MS116

Emily Zinn

Medical History Center

Stanford Medical History Center

300 Pasteur Drive

Room L109

Stanford, CA 94305-5123

dbourn@stanford.edu

URL: http://lane.stanford.edu/med-history/index.html

Contributing Institution: Medical History Center

Title: Nursing Education and Practice at Stanford University collection

Identifier/Call Number: MS116

Physical Description: 17.6 Linear Feet 11 short archives boxes, 1 long archives box, 6 small flat boxes, 4 medium flat boxes, and 3 large flat boxes. 5W x 12 1/2L x 10 1/2"H (Short archives box), 5W x 15 1/2L x 12 1/2"H (Long archives box), 10W x 13L x 3"H (Small flat box), 12W x 15 1/2L x 3"H (Medium flat box), 14 1/2W x 19L x 3"H (Large flat box).

Date (inclusive): 1895-1981

Date (bulk): 1912-1974

Abstract: This collection is comprised of records generated by Stanford nurses and Stanford nursing programs over the course of the Stanford School of Nursing's 79 years of existence, from its establishment as the Lane Hospital Training School for Nurses in 1895 to its closure in 1974. The bulk of this material is from the School of Nursing and includes records related to curriculum development and student life, but the records and artifacts generated and used by Stanford nurses not trained at the School are also represented, as are articles on nursing and nursing-related topics from around the United States.

Material Specific Details: [Class of 1948 Scrapbook (Disassembled)] includes a cutout of Stanford's former school mascot, a caricature of a Native American (Box 13 Folder 4), as well as a photo of a student nurse dressed like a stereotypical Native American (Box 13 Folder 5). [Class of 1953 Reunion Book] (Box 15 Folder 1) also contains imagery of stereotypical Native Americans, as does ["Big Game" Edition of the California Gridiron with Attached Ticket, 1936] (Box 15 Folder 11). ["Old Faces from the Class of '56" Book of Drawings and Jokes] (Box 15 Folder 4) mentions a student "willing my [derogatory term for a worker of Chinese descent]" to someone else. The Stanford Medical History Center collects and makes these materials available to facilitate scholarly research and education, and does not endorse the viewpoints within.

Language of Material: English .

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Most of the reunion books and scrapbooks were donated by School of Nursing Alumna Eleanor Hedenkamp. Everything else was transferred from the School of Medicine's Office of Communications and Public Affairs.

Biographical / Historical

Stanford University School of Nursing, like the rest of the School of Medicine, had its roots in San Francisco's Cooper Medical College. Lane Hospital Training School for Nurses opened there in 1895 to serve the adjoining Lane Hospital, both of which were established by Dr. Levi Cooper Lane during his tenure as College President, though the former was controlled more by his wife Pauline Lane.(1) The first class of nurses to receive their training here graduated in 1897, having spent the previous two years working twelve to eighteen hour shifts at Lane Hospital and attending classes taught by senior students (the 3-year program that would define the school until its closing was not implemented until 1902, perhaps in part because of this extreme personnel shortage).(2) Mrs. Lane presided over their commencement personally, awarding each of the eight graduates a pin she designed herself.(3) Following cohorts endured similarly rigorous training programs, and received similar accolades. They all went on to give their alma mater a reputation for producing excellent nurses.(4)

Stanford University acquired Lane Hospital Training School for Nurses in 1912 after Cooper Medical College became the Stanford School of Medicine. Renamed the Stanford School for Nursing (then Stanford School of Nursing, then Stanford University School of Nursing), by 1920 its students enjoyed much more sustainable schedules.(5) It was around this time that higher standards for admittance---a character reference, two years of high school experience, healthy teeth, and the like---were established, as was a more formal course of instruction.(6) Student nurses were finally able to learn in a traditional classroom setting from traditional classroom instructors.

Change was also afoot in a more physical sense. From the Nursing School's founding to 1899, students lived inside Lane Hospital itself, in rooms that would later house linen and clothes.(7) They were moved then into a "Nurses Home," a somewhat dilapidated building right near the hospital, on Clay Street.(8) By 1916, this building was razed and the nurses lived instead in homes near the hospital, but this arrangement was too inconvenient to sustain.(9) Dr. George Somers, Physician Superintendent of Lane Hospital and Secretary of the Clinical Committee of the Medical Department of Stanford University, thought it was wrong to make such devoted future nurses live and learn in such an inadequate space. His was among the voices that pushed Stanford to open "The Stanford School of Nursing" in 1922.(10)

This new building, located on the site of the old one, was a great improvement, featuring classrooms and laboratories as well as residential space.(11) Stanford's future nurses would live, work, and learn here until 1959, when the School of Medicine as a whole left San Francisco to join the rest of the University on its main campus in Palo Alto. It was absorbed there quite readily, trading in its status as a "school" proper to become one of Stanford's academic majors. Prospective nurses arriving as early as 1960 were admitted as regular students and had to take general education courses before they could apply for the program itself in their sophomore year. However, program remained high-quality, and its alumnae continued to look back on it fondly.(12)

The 1970s brought financial trouble for the School of Medicine, as well as a need to reevaluate its priorities, leading Stanford to form a committee to examine the nursing program. This committee, headed by Kathryn Smith, presented the University in 1971 with Planning for the Future of Nursing Education at Stanford, known colloquially as the Smith Plan. The plan suggested replacing the nursing undergraduate program with one for a master's degree, the hope being that this would lead to fewer students and better-trained graduates.(13) Unfortunately, the funds to implement this plan never materialized, and in 1974, Stanford University School of Nursing closed for good.(14)

Today, the Stanford Nurse Alumnae group keeps the memory of their alma mater alive, preserving and sharing its history among themselves and with the public at large.

(1) John L. Wilson, University School of Medicine and the Predecessor Schools: An Historical Perspective(Stanford, CA: Lane Medical Library, 1999), 364.

(2) Wilson, University School of Medicine and the Predecessor Schools, 365.

(3) Wilson, Stanford University School of Medicine and the Predecessor Schools, 365.

(4) Wilson, Stanford University School of Medicine and the Predecessor Schools, 364.

(5) Wilson, Stanford University School of Medicine and the Predecessor Schools, 366.

(6) ["Stanford University School of Nursing History 1895-1953," c.1950s], Box 5, Folder 5, Nursing Education and Practice at Stanford Collection, Medical History Center, Stanford University Lane Medical Library.

(7) Clara DeForest, History of Stanford University School of Nursing, Volume 1 (Stanford, CA: Stanford Nurse Alumnae, 1987?): 9.

(8) Wilson, Stanford University School of Medicine and the Predecessor Schools, 365.

(9) Wilson, Stanford University School of Medicine and the Predecessor Schools, 477.

(10) Wilson, Stanford University School of Medicine and the Predecessor Schools, 366.

(11) Wilson, Stanford University School of Medicine and the Predecessor Schools, 477.

(12) Kali Shiloh, "The End of the Nursing Education Era," Stanford Magazine, September 2023, https://stanfordmag.org/contents/the-end-of-the-nursing-education-era.

(13) Smith, Kathryn M. "A Report to the Executive Committee of the Stanford Medical School: Planning for the Future of Nursing Education - 1971-1981 - A Ten-Year Plan." Stanford University, July 30, 1971 [with Supplemental Reports], Box 4, Folder 8, Nursing Education and Practice at Stanford University Collection, Medical History Center, Stanford University Lane Medical Library.

(14) Amioka, Ann. "Lack Of Funds To Close Down Nursing School." Stanford Daily, May 21, 1974, Box 1, Folder 17, Nursing Education and Practice at Stanford University Collection, Medical History Center, Stanford University Lane Medical Library.

Arrangement

The records are arranged in four series and twelve subseries:

Stanford University School of Nursing

- Announcements, Newsletters, Press Releases, and Promotional Materials - Friends of Nursing Materials - History and Program Development - Students and Student Life - Post-Closure Press Releases and Publications

Nursing at Stanford

- Equipment and Uniforms - Guides and Manuals - Hospital Management - Stanford Nurses Newsletter - Picture Story of Chyoko's Open Heart Surgery by Claudia and Tess - [Photograph of Nurses in the University Hospital's Refurbished West Nursery, 1979] - Publications

Nursing Beyond Stanford

Legacy Finding Aids

"Stanford Unviersity School of Nursing" is comprised of materials produced and used by the School's administration and students over the course of its existence, including newsletters, promotional materials, correspondence, records relating to the development and evolution of its curriculum, newspaper and journal articles on its history, minutes of meetings of its faculty, photographs and scrapbooks collected by its students, biographical materials on its alumnae, and items from the alumnae and Friends of Nursing groups.

"Nursing at Stanford" is comprised of materials produced and used by all nurses working at Stanford hospitals regardless of where they were trained, as well as materials generated by hospital administration. These include uniforms, procedure handbooks, and publications released by Stanford hospitals.

"Nursing Beyond Stanford" is comprised mainly of articles about nursing and nursing-related topics from around California and the United States.

"Legacy Finding Aids" is comprised of the finding aids which described the collections that were merged into this collection.

Processing Information

This collection represents the merging of Eleanor Hedenkamp's donation of class reunion books and scrapbooks wih existing collections S1J1, S1JA, UODJ3, Office of Communications and Public Affairs Box 56, and "Photo File Box 21," all of which already belonged to the School of Medicine's Office of Communications and Public Affairs.

Scope and Contents

This collection is comprised mostly of records generated by Stanford nurses and Stanford nursing programs over the course of the Stanford School of Nursing's 79 years of existence, from its establishment as the Lane Hospital Training School for Nurses in 1895 to its closure in 1974. The bulk of this material is from the School of Nursing and includes records related to curriculum development and student life, but the records and artifacts generated and used by Stanford nurses not trained at the School are also represented, as are articles on nursing and nursing-related topics from around the United States.

School of nursing administrative and student/alumna-made materials represent the bulk of the collection. These cover a range of subjects including the development and evolution of its curriculum, newspaper and journal articles on its history, minutes of meetings of its faculty, photographs and scrapbooks collected by its students, biographical materials on its alumnae, and items from the alumnae and Friends of Nursing groups. Particular items of interest may include a collection of class photographs dating back to 1908, notes taken by students during class lectures, Kathryn M. Smith's "Ten-Year Plan" for the nursing program's future and materials relating to it, minutes of curriculum committee meetings held by Dean Chander between 1943 and 1952 which discuss wartime innovations, and biographical materials on alumna Linda Collins, who inspired the creation of the MedicAlert Foundation medical information database and identification tag system.

Also represented are materials and artifacts created and used by Stanford-employed nurses as they performed their day-to-day activities. These inlude uniforms, medical equipment, and handbooks which explain how to perform procedures like making a patient's bed and preparing coccidiodin for a skin test. Materials generated by Stanford hospital administration, such as discussions about limiting patient numbers and meetings of the "Pediatric ICU Patient Rooming and Postoperative Care Task Force," are also included.

The handful of articles discussing topics like declining numbers of new nurses across the United States make up their own series, as do the finding aids created for the series which were merged to create this collection.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Education, Nursing

Nursing -- Study and teaching

Nursing schools

Nursing Students

Nursing -- Practice -- United States

Nursing

Stanford University. School of Medicine

Medicine, School of

Hospitals, University.

Ringressy, Grace.

Chandler, Loren Roscoe ("Yank")

Atwood, Ruth Spande.

Collins, Linda (1939-2004)

Garner, Agnes Gearhart (1912-2005)

Series I. Stanford University School of Nursing

Announcements, Newsletters, Press Releases, and Promotional Materials

Box 1, folder 1

[Annual Reports, 1912-1930]

Scope and Contents

Only years 1912, 1916-1919, 1924, 1927, and 1930.

Box 1, folder 2

Booklets and Pamphlets

["Education for Nursing at Stanford University" Booklet]

["Lecture Series for Nurses" Pamphlet, December 1950 - January 1951]

["Leland Stanford Junior University - Stanford School for Nurses" Booklet, c. 1920]

["Nursing at Stanford" Pamphlet]

["Stanford School of Nursing" Booklet, 1927]

["What Two High School Girls Learned About the Stanford School of Nursing" Booklet, c. 1926]

Box 1, folder 3

Concerning Stanford Volume II, Number 7, April 1926

Box 2

[Photographs, Photo Negatives, and Other Materials Used in School of Medicine Press Releases]

Box 1, folder 4

Stanford University Bulletins

School of Nursing Annual Announcement, 1944-45

School of Nursing 1964-65

School of Nursing 1968-69

School of Nursing 1970-71

School of Nursing 1971-72

Box 1, folder 5

Stanford University Press Releases

["Hospital to Conduct Tours for Expectant Mothers," January 27, 1960]

[Release on Appointment of Committee to Review School Nursing Programs, May 9, 1972, with Correspondence]

[Release on Children Now Allowed to Take Pre-Admission Hospital Tour, November 10, 1969]

[Release on Delay of Nursing School Expansion, March 30, 1972]

[Release on Establishment of Stanford Women's Club School of Nursing Scholarship, 1949, with Correspondence]

[Release on Faculty Members and Students Honored, June 12, 1972]

[Release on Faculty Members Honored, June 19, 1973]

[Release on Dr. Kathryn Smith to Draft Nursing School Future Plans, December 10, 1970, with Correspondence and Photograph]

[Release on Last Commencement with Related Correspondence and Article, April 29,1974]

[Release on Marijuana Study on Nurses, December 20, 1971]

[Release on New School of Nursing Curriculum, December 2, 1954]

[Release on Nurse Caps]

[Release on Nursing School Closure, April 29, 1974]

[Release on Plan for Nursing Graduate Program, January 30, 1973]

[Release on Special Mid-February Class for Coeds]

[Release on Stanford Coronary Care Facilities Donation, June 2, 1969]

["Stanford Student Nurses Will Donate a Day of Hospital Service," May 31, 1960]

Box 1, folder 6

[ STAT 1953-55]

Box 1, folder 7

The Healing Arts: A Report from Stanford Medical Center, Autumn 1962

Box 1, folder 8

Friends of Nursing Materials

History and Program Development

Box 1, folder 9

Addresses and Speeches

["Background Stanford University Hospital and Medical School," 1992]

["Nursing at Stanford, From the Old Lane to the Fast Lane," April 27, 1991]

Box 3

[Binder of Faculty Meeting Minutes, Agendas, Presentations, Outside Correspondence, Inter-Department Notices, Study Reports, and Related Materials]

Committee and Faculty Meeting Minutes

Box 1, folder 10

[Advisory Committee for School of Nursing Meetings October 1933 - March 26, 1937]

Box 1, folder 11

[Curriculum Committee Meetings January 7, 1943 - October 23, 1952, with Proposed Syllabi]

Box 1, folder 12

[Committee on Nursing Education Member List]

Box 1, folder 13

Correspondence

[Brief Biographies for Publication, Grace Ringressy to S.J. Moffat, Dec. 8, 1959]

[Correspondence About Dr. Somers's 1904 Speech on Nursing (with Article), Betty Vadeboncoeur to Alice Denhart, December 3, 1996]

[Correspondence Acknowledging Receipt of Nursing Student Loan Funds, Robert M. Rosenzewig to Elmer L. Hill, M.D., November 4, 1965]

[Correspondence Admitting Nursing School May Soon be Phased Out, Spyros Andreopoulos to H.H. Everett, November 26, 1969]

[Correspondence Asking About Alumnae Group Membership and Society Bulletins, H.H. Everett to Sam Moffat, November 30, 1964]

[Correspondence Asking to Release Summary of Report on Nursing School's Future, Spyros Andreopoulos to Dean Clayton Rich, January 19, 1973]

[Correspondence Asking Recipients to Join the Task Force on Nursing Education at Stanford, Clayton Rich, M.D. to Multiple Recipients, April 18, 1972]

[Correspondence Calling School of Nursing Future "Under Consideration," Spyros Andreopoulos to Mrs. William Pollock, February 6, 1973]

[Correspondence Declining Invitation to Graduation Tea (with Invitation), Peter C. Allen to grace E. Ringressy, June 6, 1953]

[Correspondence Declining Invitation to Graduation Tea, Peter C. Allen to Grace E. Ringressy, May 31, 1954]

[Correspondence Discussing Formation of Committees to Study School Nursing Program, Spyros Andreopoulos to Clayton Rich, M.D., March 31, 1972]

[Correspondence Discussing Need for Change in Nursing Education, Robert H. Alway, M.D. to F. E. Termen, November 21, 1963]

[Correspondence on Approval of Application for Nursing Student Loan Program, Robert M. Rosenzweig to Elmer L. Hill, June 30, 1965]

[Correspondence on Publicizing End of Admissions to Nursing School (with Article), Spyros Anderopolous to Clayton Rich, M.D., May 22, 1972]

[Correspondence on Scheduling Meeting with new Pre-Nursing Advisor Elva Fay Brown, Anthony J. J. Rourke, M.D. to Grace E. Ringressy, October 12, 1950]

[Correspondence on Scheduling Meeting with Grace Ringressy, Anthony J. J. Rourke M.D. to Fred O. Glover, October 12, 1950]

[Correspondence on School of Nursing Absence from Proposed Federal Budget, Spyros Andreopoulos to Dean Clayton Rich, M.D., February 13, 1973]

[Correspondence on School of Nursing Material Request, Peter C. Allen to Carlos U. Benedetti, November 2, 1953]

[Correspondence on Upcoming Medical Center Memo Article on Future Nurses Clubs Visits, Grace E. Ringressy to Samuel Moffat, February 12, 1960]

[Correspondence on Visit by Joyce Smith and Potential New Nursing School, Bob Tapia to Spyros Andreopoulos, March 17, 1975]

[Correspondence Suggesting Acknowledgement of Grace Ringressy in Stanford Observer, Clayton Rich, M.D. to Spyros Andreopoulos, March 15, 1974]

[Correspondence to Committee on Nursing Education About New Committee, Robert J. Glaser, July 19, 1968]

[Telegram on Commission's Call for Changes in Nursing Practice and Education, March 23 1970]

Box 1, folder 14

Current and Suggested Course Outlines

Community Organizations for the Promotion of Health Course Outline 182 [September 1943]

Community Organizations for the Promotion of Health Course Outline [Suggested]

Nursing 105 - 106 Professional Adjustments II and III Topical Outline [September 1943]

Nursing 105 - 106 Professional Adjustments [Suggested]

Principles and Methods of Public Health Nursing (Course 184 A and B) [c. 1943]

Principles and Methods of Public Health Nursing (Public Health 184) [Suggested]

Principles and Methods of Public Health Nursing - Maternal and Infant Welfare (184 C) [c. 1943]

Principles and Methods of Teaching as applied in Schools of Nursing - Elective for Senior Students

Box 1, folder 15

History of the Stanford University School of Nursing Volume 2: 1930-1974

Box 1, folder 16

Journal Articles

[American Nurses' Association Committee on Education Statement.] American Journal of Nursing 65, Number 12 (December 1965): 106-111.

DeForest, Clara. "Recollections of the Lane Hospital Operating Room: 1900 to 1903." Stanford Medical Bulletin 7, Number 3 (August 1949): 112-115.

DeForest, Clara. "Reminiscing in the Attic of the Lane Medical Library: Organization and Early Work at Lane Hospital." Stanford Medical Bulletin 2, Number 1 (February 1944): 15-19.

Pellegrino, Edmund D. "Rationale for Nursing Education." American Journal of Nursing 68, Number 5 (May 1968): 1006-1009.

"San Francisco Hospitals After the Earthquake and Fire." Nurses' Journal of the Pacific Coast 2, Number 3 (June 1906): 157-164.

Somers, George B. "Some Points on Nursing Ethics." Occidental Medical Times 18, Number 2 (February 1904): 37-43.

Box 1, folder 17

Newspaper and Newsletter Articles

"4 Nursing Schools Get U.S. Government Grants." San Jose News, July 7, 1965.

Amioka, Ann. "Lack Of Funds To Close Down Nursing School." Stanford Daily, May 21, 1974.

Buel, Ronald A. "More Hospitals Close Their Nursing Schools In Face of Bad Shortage." March 24, 1967.

"Committee Appointed to Evaluate Nursing School Programs." Medical Center Memo, May 1972.

Dalgliesh, Marg. "Farm's Student Nurses Are Real Part of Stanford's Family Tree." Stanford Daily, November 11, 1954 [Includes other Articles on Open Houses, Campus Visits, and Association of Women Students Tea].

Derby, Virginia. "Nurses Meet Patient Needs." Stanford Daily, May 27, 1969.

[Dolls Display Evolution of Nurse Uniform.] Campus Report, September 8, 1982.

"Dr. Lindstrom named to head nursing group." Palo Alto Times, December 12, 1961.

"Dr. Tresidder Dies in N.Y." Stanford Daily, January 29, 1948.

Faulder, Sara and Joan Thomas. "Research in nursing vital." Palo Alto Times, April 10, 1972.

"Five Nurses Receive Degrees with Honors." Medical Center Memo.

Freeman, Elizabeth. "Occupation: Nursing." Stanford Daily, January 10, 1963.

"Grace Ringressy, retiring, notes changes in nursing education." Campus Report, May 1, 1974.

Hogan, June. "Nurses Will Converge on S.F." San Francisco Chronicle, November 9, 1953 [Includes Article on Association of Women Students Tea].

Jessen, Diane. "Sun Tanned Stanford Nurses are Hardest-Working Coeds." Stanford Daily, October 6, 1949.

Mauney, Marcia. "Nursing school department to institute numerous changes." Palo Alto Times, September 15, 1959.

Naughton, James M. "Two Health Bills Signed By Nixon: Measures Are Intended to Help Train Personnel." New York Times, November 19, 1971.

"New Grants From S.F. Foundation."

"Nursing faces uncertain future as 18 undergrads obtain degrees." Campus Report, May 1, 1974.

"New Nightingales Contribute Time To Patients In Hospital Pavilions." Medical Center Memo, June 25, 1964.

"Nursing Education Program Studied." Medical Center Memo, December 1969

"Nursing School Ends 77-Year History." Stanford, M.D. 13, Number 3 (Summer 1974): 30.

"Nursing School Expansion Delayed." Medical Center Memo.

"Nursing School Future Uncertain." Medical Center Memo, May 1974.

"Nursing School Is Subject of Study." Campus Report, May 10, 1972.

"Nursing School program under review." Stanford Observer, May 1972.

"Nursing Students Receive Caps." Medical Center Memo.

"Nursing Students Win Top Honors." Medical Center Memo, July 15, 1963.

"Psychiatric Training Needed, Physicians Tell Nursing Meeting." San Francisco Examiner, May 28, 1958.

"School of Nursing's last class (maybe) graduates in June." Stanford Observer, May 1974.

Seff, Marsha Kay. "Hospital Programs Closing." San Jose News, May 19, 1975.

"Stanford nurse school to close." Palo Alto Times, May 21, 1974.

"Stanford Nurses Club to award first scholarship." Palo Alto Times, April 12, 1963.

"Stanford Nursing School coeds will move to university campus."

"Stanford Nurses Volunteer Day of Service in Hospital." Medical Center Memo, June 1960.

"Task Force Recommends Grad Nursing Program." Medical Center Memo, March 1973.

"VA Chief Backs Nurse Recruitment Drive." San Francisco Chronicle, May 11, 1947.

"Visiting Professor Conducts Study of Our Nursing School Program." Medical Center Memo, January 1971.

Study Proposals and Results

Box 4, folder 1

"A Survey of Graduates of the Stanford University School of Nursing Classes 1939-1959 inclusive."

Box 4, folder 2

Brueckner, Susan J. "Recommendations Task Force on Nursing Education at Stanford University." Task Force on Nursing Education, Stanford University School of Medicine, January 1973.

Box 4, folder 3

["Follow-Up Study of Classes of 1960 through 1964" Summary]

Scope and Contents

Potentially related to Box 4 Folder 5 "Self-Evaluation Report: Stanford University School of Nursing, Submitted December, 1969 to National League for Nursing for continuing accreditation" [Includes Correspondence].

Box 4, folder 4

"Proposal to Study Goals, Objectives, Curriculum and Administrative Structure of the Stanford University School of Nursing with a View to Guiding Future Development." [May 22, 1963]

Box 4, folder 5

"Self-Evaluation Report: Stanford University School of Nursing, Submitted December, 1969 to National League for Nursing for continuing accreditation." [Includes Correspondence]

Smith Plan

Box 4, folder 6

[Correspondence Discussing History of Smith Plan, Pam Washburn to Larry Crowley, October 15, 1982]

Box 4, folder 7

[Correspondence Discussing Potential Financial Impact of Smith Plan (Includes Financial Statements), William B. Rowland to John L. Wilson, M.D., June 24, 1971]

Box 4, folder 8

Smith, Kathryn M. "A Report to the Executive Committee of the Stanford Medical School: Planning for the Future of Nursing Education - 1971-1981 - A Ten-Year Plan." Stanford University, July 30, 1971 [with Supplemental Reports].

Box 4, folder 9

Smith, Kathryn M. "Planning for the Future of Nursing Education at Stanford University 1972-1982." Stanford University, 1972.

Box 4, folder 10

["Suggested Changes of Regulations of Students"]

Scope and Contents

Potentially related to Box 1 Folder 11 "Curriculum Committee Meetings January 7, 1943 - October 23, 1952 with Proposed Syllabi"

Unpublished Materials

Box 5, folder 1

[Clara DeForest Writings on School of Nursing History, August 7, 1959]

Scope and Contents

Includes "DeForest, Clara, Stanford School of Nursing Historical Data" and "Mrs. Clara DeForest, Manuscript Material Copied From Her Notes about 1949."

Box 5, folder 2

[Dr. Windsor Cutting's "Lane Hospital in 1900" and "Nursing"]

Box 5, folder 3

[Gertrude Fleischman Gibbs's Paper on Changing School's Nursing Hat, with Picture (of Gibbs?)]

Box 5, folder 4

["Nursing School Nostalgia" Paper Discussing Dr. Somers's 1904 "Some Points on Nursing Ethics"]

Box 5, folder 5

["Stanford University School of Nursing History 1895-1953," c.1950s]

Scope and Contents

Cover note reads "(I think this was written by one of the nurses at the time the school was applying for accreditation in the 1950's (sic)) cm."

Box 5, folder 6

["Suggested Reading Related to Nursing Education"]

Box 5, folder 7

[Tina Luskey's "What Do Stanford Nurses Think of Their School?" Article, November 30, 1972 (with Descriptive Note)]

Students and Student Life

Box 5, folder 8

Admission

[Correspondence on Acceptance, Further Instructions, and Receipt of Vaccination Records, Dora C. Saunby, R.N. to Agnes Gearhart, June 27, 1933]

["First Term Students' Schedule" and Guidebook, Fall 1933]

Box 5, folder 9

Alumnae Association Materials

[Agnes Gearhart Membership Papers, 1937]

["Constitution and By-Laws of Lane Hospital Nurses Alumni," c. 1903]

Box 5, folder 10

Alumnae Lists

[Alumnae Whose Addresses Could Not Be Found]

[Class of 1935-1938 Names]

["Names and Addresses of S.U.S.N. Graduates 1896-1972"]

Scope and Contents

Two copies

Box 5, folder 11

Board, Supply, and Tuition Receipts, Guides, and References

[1933 Book and Uniform Supplies Receipt from Agnes Gearhart]

[1933 Tuition Fee Receipt from Agnes Gearhart]

[1943 Receipts with Pre-Clinical Student Books and Supply List from Nita Nocerino]

[1945 "Elective in Medical and Surgical Nursing" References and Periodicals List]

["Residence Instructions for Student and Graduate Nurses"]

Tuition and Room and Board Fees Per Year [1954-1969]

Box 6

[Class of 1956 Decorative Plate Gifted to "Mrs. Grunigan"]

General

"Mrs. Grunigan" may be Mary Lou Grunigan.

Class, Reunion, and Other Photographs

Box 7

[Book of Class Photographs from 1908 to 1974]

Scope and Contents

Includes list of alumnae from classes of 1905-07, whose photographs are not present.

Box 8, folder 1

[Class of 1948 Class Photograph]

Scope and Contents

Written on back: "Graduation Picture - Stanford University School of Nursing 2341 Caly St., S.F. Madiline (Ritter Poe) - class advisor - This class is 1948 section 2."

Box 8, folder 2

[Class of 1968 Class Photograph]

Scope and Contents

Note on back reads: "This was the entering class. We visited the hospital ship Sanctuary which was at the S.F. naval ship yard. This was the Fall of '65." A second note reads" Fall of '65 would mean this is Class of '68." A third note reads "Sue Russell 116 24 armstrong (sic) stationed on it."

Box 8, folder 3

[Class Photograph, Possibly c.1910s-1920s (Photocopy)]

Processing Information

Found with donation of c.1920s materials.

Box 8, folder 4

[Gertrude Fleischman Gibbs Personal Photographs]

Box 8, folder 5

[Photograph of Lucy Thompson, Lily Robinson, and Frances Clark (Class of 1897), with Photocopies]

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Gifted June 1966.

Commencement Materials

Box 9

[1929 Framed Handwritten Regret from the White House – President and Mrs. Hoover Cannot Attend the Graduating Exercises of the Stanford School of Nursing]

Box 8, folder 6

[Class of 1935 Commencement Exercises]

Box 8, folder 7

[Class of 1936 Commencement Exercises]

Box 8, folder 8

[Class of 1897 Commencement Invitation]

Box 8, folder 9

[Class of 1936 Commencement Invitations]

Box 8, folder 10

["Lane Hospital First Class of Graduating Nurses March 17th, 1897 Souvenir" Booklet, Original and Photocopy]

Box 8, folder 11

["Constitution of the Student Body of the Stanford School of Nursing," June 1940]

Course Materials

Box 8, folder 12

[Assorted Medical Lecture Notes by Agnes Gearhart c. 1936]

Box 8, folder 13

["Case Studies" Materials and Lecture Notes by Agnes Gearhart c. 1935]

Box 8, folder 14

[Class Program Cards from Nita Nocerino, c. 1940s]

Box 8, folder 15

["Communicable Disease Nursing" Materials and Lecture Notes by Agnes Gearhart c. 1935]

Box 8, folder 16

[Conference with "Mrs. Atwood" Notes by Agnes Gearhart]

Scope and Contents

"Mrs. Atwood" may be Ruth Spande Atwood, the administrator and first superintendent of the Stanford Convalescent Home.

Box 8, folder 17

["Bacteriology" Materials and Lecture Notes by Agnes Gearhart]

Box 8, folder 18

["Introduction to Nursing" Materials and Lecture Notes (Part 1), c. 1933]

General

May belong with materials in Box 8 Folder 19.

Box 8, folder 19

["Introduction to Nursing" Materials and Lecture Notes by Agnes Gearhart (Part 2)]

Scope and Contents

May belong with materials in Box 8 Folder 18.

Box 10, folder 1

["Massage and Posture" Materials and Lecture Notes by Agnes Gearhart, November 1933]

Box 10, folder 2

["Maternity Service – Childcare" Materials and Lecture Notes by Agnes Gearhart]

Box 10, folder 3

["Maternity Service – Prenatal Care" Materials and Lecture Notes]

Box 10, folder 4

["Medical Nursing" Materials and Lecture Notes by Agnes Gearhart]

Box 10, folder 5

[Notice for Students Taking Elective in Medical and Surgical Nursing, March 7, 1946]

Box 10, folder 6

["Nursing 108-109" Notebook]

Box 11

["Nursing Notes" and Materials Book, c. 1960]

Box 10, folder 7

["Nutrition 1 and 2" Materials and Lecture Notes by Agnes Gearhart]

Box 10, folder 8

["Nutrition 3" Materials and Lecture Notes by Agnes Gearhart c. 1934-35]

Box 10, folder 9

["Obstetrics" Materials and Lecture Notes by Agnes Gearhart c. 1934]

Box 10, folder 10

["Orthopedics" Materials and Lecture Notes]

Box 12, folder 1

["Pediatric Nursing" Materials and Lecture Notes by Agnes Geahart]

Box 12, folder 2

[Pediatrics Notebook, c. 1965]

Box 12, folder 3

["Psychiatric Nursing" Materials and Lecture Notes]

Box 12, folder 4

["Social Service" Materials and Lecture Notes, c. 1935]

Box 12, folder 5

["Operating Room - Student Cumulative Record of Experience," c. 1944]

Box 12, folder 6

["Surgical Nursing, Child Development" Materials and Lecture Notes, c. 1936]

Scope and Contents

Includes receipts for Lane Medical Library books checked out.

Individual Alumna Biographical Materials and Interviews

Box 12, folder 7

[Anderson, Lisa, Class of 1974, Article on Receipt of 1973 Julie B. Rodgers Scholarship, Medical Center Memo, November 1973]

Box 12, folder 8

[Atwood, Ruth Spande, Class of 1920, Press Release on Retirement, April 28, 1961]

Box 12, folder 9

Carpenter, Karon Kay, Class of 1964

"Palisades Girl Wins Honor as Nurse of Year," Los Angeles Times, May 24, 1964

[Stanford Medical Center News Bureau Press Release on Kay Carpenter' "Nurse of the Year" Award, April 21, 1964.]

Box 12, folder 10

Collins, Linda, Class of 1961

"Accident Led to Lifesaving Foundation and Career." Medical Center Memo, May 25, 1961.

"Accident Led to Lifesaving Foundation -- and Stanford Nurse's Career." Stanford Medical Center News Bureau Press Release, June 12, 1961.

"City Champ Collins Serious Young Miss." San Francisco Chronicle, March 10, 1960.

["Don't Ignore This Emblem!" Medic-Alert Advertisement]

"Graduation Day's Brightest Bracelet." San Francisco Chronicle, June 14, 1961

"Medical Identity Bracelet System Use Pushed by Area Club Women." San Jose News, April 15, 1961

Norman, Phil. "Women's Crown for Stanfordite." San Francisco Examiner, March 6, 1960.

["The Message of Medic-Alert" Pamphlet]

"The Tender Words on Bracelet Say: "I Am a Diabetic." Medical Tribune, November 14, 1960

"Wrist Wrappers Can be Lifesavers." Contra Costa Medical Association Bulletin, March 1961

Box 12, folder 11

[Gulley, Carolyn V., Unknown Class, Obituary, Oakland Tribune, August 22, 1978]

Box 12, folder 12

Hawes, Josephine, Class of 1928

"Faculty Members Become Emeriti." Medical Center Memo, January 1970.

[Santa Cruz Health Services Agency Oral History Project Interview, August 9, 1985]

"Twelve Professors Appointed to Status of University Emeriti." Campus Report, February 4, 1970.

Box 12, folder 13

[Hawley, Mary Ann (Gundershaug), Class of 1965, Article "BS Degree Awarded Former Lodi Matron," Lodi News-Sentinel, June 11, 1965]

Box 12, folder 14

[Howard, Mildred Dye and Wallingford, Janice Lee, Class of 1948, April 30, 1988 Interview]

Box 12, folder 15

[Johnson, Melba Beard, Class of 1934, April 30, 1988 Interview]

Box 12, folder 16

[Lemon, Charlotte, Class of 1926, Don Mack Article "Squaring off with crime: One of its chief foes is a woman of only 76," Eugene Register-Guard, April 22, 1980]

Box 12, folder 17

[Meacham, Sara Elsie (Paulsen), Class of 1915, Biographical Material]

Scope and Contents

Includes Medical History Center's correspondence with descendents.

Box 12, folder 18

[Meyer, Virginia (Biddle), Class of 1948, John F. Allen Article "Young Nurse Typifies Spirit of Hospital Week," San Francisco Examiner, May 19, 1947]

Box 12, folder 19

[Okarma, Betsy, Class of 1969, Press Release on Husband's Luce Scholarship, May 28, 1974]

Box 12, folder 20

Parks, Patricia "Patty" Evans, Class of 1966

"Stanford Nurses Celebrate." San Jose News, May 16, 1966.

"Stanford Nurses Set Scholarship Luncheon." San Jose Mercury, May 14, 1966.

Box 12, folder 21

Ritchie, Jeanette, Unknown Class

Drewes, Caroline. "Reagan Sent Her to School." San Francisco Sunday Examiner and Chronicle, February 22, 1970.

Scope and Contents

Includes other articles about Ritchie's school board service.

Carroll, Jerry. "State School Board Re-elects Moderate Chief." San Francisco Chronicle, February 1970.

Box 12, folder 22

[Stites, Ida May (Abrahams), Class of 1887 Biographical Material]

Personal Items of Alumnae

Box 12, folder 23

[Dole, Rachel, Class of 1948's Drawings of Fellow Students and Self, 1948]

Box 12, folder 24

Gearhart, Agnes, Class of 1936

[Bureau of Registration of Nurses Examination Paperwork, 1936]

[Card Catalog Entry for "International Symposium on the Clinical Value of the Anaerobic Threshold in Heart and Lung Diseases"]

Scope and Contents

Has "Mrs. Alvin Willian Garner" written on the back, with "Nursing 1936" and her name.

["Diabetic Diets" Reference Card]

[Measurement Reference Card]

[Church Service for Nurses Commemorating the Birth of Florence Nightingale, May 10th, 1936]

["Visiting Nurses Association" Pamphlet, 1937]

Box 12, folder 25

Gibbs, Gertrude Fleishman, Unknown Class

["Alois Alzheimer, The Man" Paper]

[Correspondence, Gertrude Fleischman Gibbs to Eli Lilly and Company on Replacing Words in "User Manual Forteo," April 6, 2006]

[Correspondence, Gertrude Fleischman Gibbs from John L. Hennessy on her time at Stanford, Nov. 12, 2001]

"Helping the Hypertensive Patient to Help Himself." The Journal of Family Practice 3, no. 7 (1976): 377-379.

"Perineal Care of the Incapacitated Patient." American Journal of Nursing (January 1969): 124-125.

Scope and Contents

Includes pages from other issues of the same jounal.

["Gertrude's Market Guide - Foods High in Sodium / Foods High in Potassium"]

[Nebraska Nurses Association and American Heart Association Nebraska Affiliate "Hypertension Update 1980" Pamphlet, April 12, 1980]

["Safety for Peg Board Hooks" Guide]

Box 12, folder 26

[Vogel, Lena, Unknown Class's School of Nursing Regular Course for Preparatory Students Completion Certificate, 1922]

Box 12, folder 27

[Weber, Susan M., Class of 1922's Bureau of Registration of Nurses Examination Results, c. 1922]

Pins

Box 13, folder 1

["Brave and True" April 18, 1906 Earthquake Pin and Description]

Scope and Contents

Description reads "Given to all students in the school who remained after the 1906 earthquake."

Box 13, folder 2

[Koza Hospital School of Nursing Pin]

Scope and Contents

The Koza school (in Okinawa, Japan) asked to base their pin off of Stanford's.

Box 13, folder 3

["Stanford Staff" Pin and Description]

Scope and Contents

Description reads "At one time, students wore this pin during the last six months of the program."

Reunion Books and Scrapbooks

Box 13, folder 4-9

[Class of 1948 Scrapbook (Disassembled)]

Material Specific Details: The first folder (Folder 4) contains a cutout of Stanford's former mascot, a caricature of a Native American.

Scope and Contents

Includes photographs from their time at the school and after.

Box 14

Scrapbook VIII 1988 Plus Memories

Box 13, folder 10

Stanford University School of Nursing and Memories of Student Nurse Days [1945]

Box 13, folder 11

["Class of 1948 II" 50th Anniversary Booklet, June 1998]

Box 15, folder 1

[Class of 1953 Reunion Book]

Material Specific Details: Contains stereotypical depictions of Native Americans.

Box 15, folder 2

["In Training," by Minna Hertel, 1953-1956 Scrapbook Photocopy]

Box 15, folder 3

["In Training" Class of 1956 by Minna Hertel Scrapbook Photocopy]

Material Specific Details: Contains a caricature of a tribal person and describes someone as "Our 'Medicine Woman'."

Box 15, folder 4

["Old Faces from the Class of '56" Book of Drawings and Jokes]

Material Specific Details: Mentions a student "willing my [derogatory term for a worker of Chinese descent]" to someone else.

Box 15, folder 5

[Class of 1956 50th Reunion Book]

Box 16

[Class of 1956 Reunion Scrapbook Volume I]

Box 16

[Class of 1956 Reunion Scrapbook Volume II]

Box 15, folder 6

[Class of 1958 50th Reunion Book]

Box 15, folder 7

["Stanford 1960" Reunion Book]

Box 17

[Class of 1962 Reunion Scrapbook Volume I]

Box 17

[Class of 1962 Reunion Scrapbook Volume II]

Box 15, folder 8

["Thirty Years Later: the Class of 1966" Reunion Book]

Box 18

Stanford University School of Nurses: Miscellanea

Scope and Contents

Scrapbook containing material on commencements, school plays, school newsletters, school history, and residence rules.

Box 15, folder 9

[Class of 1967 "Fifty Years Later" Reunion Book]

Box 15, folder 10

[Class of 1974 25th Reunion Book]

Box 15, folder 11

Social Events

["Big Game" Edition of the California Gridiron with Attached Ticket, 1936]

Material Specific Details: Contains depictions of Native American caricatures.

["Bum Party" Invitation to Agnes Gearhart, September 1933]

"Nurses Entertain at Annual Tea Today." Stanford Daily, November 11, 1953.

["Old Maid's Party" Class of 1937 Welcome Invitation]

Box 15, folder 12

[Student Personnel List, January 1, 1963]

Box 15, folder 13

["Ward Practice Rating" Sheet (Blank)]

Box 19, Box 20

Post-Closure Press Releases and Publications

Series II. Nursing at Stanford

Equipment and Uniforms

Box 21

[Account book, c. 1915]

General

Originally from the estate of Minnie McDonald Dorwin, class of 1915 (donated June 28, 1991).

Box 21

[Blue Nurse's Uniform]

Box 22

[Dress]

Box 21

[Handkerchief]

Box 21

[Nurse's Caps]

Immediate Source of Acquisition

One is a "gift from Agness Gearhart Garner, class of 1936."

Box 21

[Nurse's Uniform with Pin]

Box 21

[Set of Medical Instruments for Private Duty Nurse, c. 1915]

Scope and Contents

Includes scissors, needles, and other instruments.

Box 21

[Undated set of Medical Instruments for Private Duty Nurse, c.1910s]

Scope and Contents

Includes a 1 1/2 glass syringe and needle, a 2cc glass syringe and needle, a TB glass syringe, assorted needles in test tubes, a specific gravity urinometer, and a glass pipette.

Box 22

[Uniform Apron]

Box 23

[White Nurse's Uniform with Cap]

Guides and Manuals

Box 24, folder 1

[Gertrude Fleischann Gibbs Nursing Handbook]

Scope and Contents

Also includes guides for isolation, nursing care of the patient, thoracentesis, assisting with abdominal paracentesis, assisting with lumbar puncture, and other procedures, as well as a 2006 photo of "Gertrude and Heidi H."

Box 24, folder 2

["Isolation Technique" Guidelines]

Box 24, folder 3

Procedure Book for Nurses [c. 1959]

Box 24, folder 4

["Administration of Antibiotic Solutions," c. 1959]

Box 24, folder 5

["Documents Which Authorize the Practice of Professional Nursing in California as Applied at Palo Alto-Stanford Hospital Center," May 27, 1960]

Box 24, folder 6

["Drugs Affecting the Heart and Coronary Arteries," May 25, 1960]

Box 24, folder 7

["Guide for the New Employee," May 30,1960]

Box 24, folder 8

["Nursing Service Orientation Guide – Nursing Assistants 'A'," June 7, 1960]

Box 24, folder 9

["Patients' Activity Scale"]

Box 24, folder 10

["Time Keeping Data," July 9, 1959]

Box 24, folder 11

["Recommended Procedures for the Routine Collection of Specimens for Bacteriological Diagnosis"]

Box 24, folder 12

["Stanford University Hospital Ward Manual," April 3, 1934]

Scope and Contents

Also known as the "Green Book."

Box 24, folder 13

["Stanford University Hospital Ward Manual" (Incomplete), 1934]

Box 24, folder 14

["Stanford University Hospital Nursing Procedures," 1959-1962]

Box 25, folder 1

["Stanford University Hospitals Nursing Procedures," Joan Bagott]

Box 25, folder 2

Hospital Management

[Correspondence on Temporary Closure of "N2A," Lois Williams to Hospital Administration, October 19, 1977]

[Correspondence Thanking Clifford Heinbucher for Donation Towards Oakes Laboratories for Radiology and Biophysics, K. S. Pitzer, June 5, 1969]

"Federal mediator joins day-long bargaining of union, University." Campus Report, May 1, 1974.

"Franklin in new nursing post at Hoover Pavilion." Medical Center Memo, 1977.

[Memo on Limiting Patient Numbers, August 30, 1974]

[Memo on Richard Johnson Promotion to Assistant to the Provost, May 31, 1977]

[Minutes of "Pediatric ICU Patient Rooming and Postoperative Care Task Force" Meeting, October 2, 1975]

["Nursing Restructured, 1970-1972" Report]

[Palo Alto-Stanford Hospital Center Staff List, May 19, 1960]

"Temporaries A, B and C Provide Needed Space." Medical Center Memo, December 1968

"Training and Development Helps Broaden Opportunities." Medical Center Memo, April 1974.

Box 25, folder 3

Stanford Nurses Newsletter

Scope and Contents

The February 1978, April 1978, and April 1979 issues.

Box 25, folder 4

["Picture Story of Chyoko's Open Heart Surgery by Claudia and Tess"]

Box 25, folder 5

[Photograph of Nurses in the University Hospital's Refurbished West Nursery, 1979]

Scope and Contents

Note on back reads "Stanford University Hospital's completely refurbished West Nursery has been re-opened. Meanwhile, work has begun on remodeling the hospital's Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (East Nursery). SUMC 1979."

Box 25, folder 6

Publications

Development of a Nursing Research Program in an Acute Care Setting

Scope and Contents

From the "Stanford Nursing Monograph Series."

["Friends of Nursing" Newsletter]

Meeting the Challenges: The Year in Review, 1988-1989

["Men in Nursing" Booklet]

Nursing at Stanford University Hospital

["Nursing Research at Stanford" Pamphlet]

Stanford Nurses: Committed to Care - Stanford Hospital and Clinics Nursing Annual Report 2012

["Stanford Nursing" Pamphlet]

Box 25, folder 7

Series III. Nursing Beyond Stanford

Bates, Barbara. "New Nursing Roles: Implications for Medicine." Hospital Practice, April 1974.

Berg, Roland H. "Where Did All The Nurses Go?" Look, January 23, 1968.

Jacobson, Robert L. "Nursing Educators in Texas Protest Loss of Autonomy." Chronicle of Higher Education, October 4, 1976.

Moore, Kelton. "Nursing Shortage Seen as a Challenge." Healthcare Horizon, October 1980.

Nelson, Harry. "Medical Schools Asked to Halt Advanced Training for Nurses." Los Angeles Times, November 24, 1973 [with Correspondence].

["Nursing at UCLA" Article Draft, June 21, 1968]

["Nursing Education Programs in California" Pamphlet, 1966]

Romero, Patricia E. "Professional Articles." Redwood City Tribune, June 20, 1979.

[Series of Articles by Grace Voss on Nursing Refresher Course Offered at Stanford Hospital, Palo Alto Times, December 28, 1965, in Envelope]

"UC Nursing School to Raise Costs." San Francisco Chronicle, March 26, 1958.

Vacheresse, Diane. "'Women in white' prove to be fashion conscious." Palo Alto Times, May 6, 1965.

Box 25, folder 8

Series IV. Legacy Finding Aids

[S1J1 Correspondence on Acceptance of Agnes Gearhart Garner's Offer to Donate School of Nursing Memorabilia to Stanford Nurses Club, Caroline Zlotnick to "Mrs. Garner," August 17, 1976]

Scope and Contents

Comes with note on Ms. Gearhart's address, alumnae association leadership voting ballot, and list of materials donated.

[S1J1 Box 1 Oversize Materials List]

[S1J1 Description of Minnie McDonald (MacDonald) Dorwin Donation of Nursing Equipment, June 28, 1991]

[S1J1 Email Records of Minnie MacDonald Dorwin Donation of Nursing Equipment, 2003]

[S1J1 "Listing of Materials" with Correspondence, Debruary 12, 2004.]

[S1J1 Offer to Donate Mary Bagnatori's "Stanford Univeristy - Official Examination Sheet," October 25, 1990]

[S1JA Materials by Box and Folder List]