Edmundson Memorial School of Nursing - Bluff Yearbook (Council Bluffs, IA)

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THE BLUFF Junior Class 1 . X. . ' 1 ,,.' ...of First Row-Johnson, Connell, Gavers, Stephenson, Turner, Gaskill, McLain, Decker, Sherman, Hensley, Henry. Second Row-Hammerand, Nims, Gibson, Williams. Third Row-McDonald, Siebels, Briggs, Olsen, Tollefson. 125..

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THE BLUFF Intermediate Class First RowA'I'olson, Hoff, Ivers, Nelson, Grier, Hartwell, Stoker Still, Langworthy. 5 Second Row-Hoegh, Erickson, Ranney, Chambers, Koch, Oster. Third Row-Beymer, Baker, Focht- s -Z4-- W

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THE BLUFF A MMI . at S c l it ' . N l ,itz K' Q lllnacanzessngh . V Lg gfggjii nitmmxauumw X Xxiixxk Mattie Gibson Franies Hutchinson Miss Mattie Gibson wus the first nurse graduated from the W. U. A. hospital in 1595. She was engaged in private duty nursing until the call for nurses overseas in 1917. She .with fourteen other Edmundson graduates served fourleen months with Unit K i11 France. At present she is superintendent of tl1e Children's Hospital in Washing- ton, D. C. In the seven years that she has been there the hospital has grown and advanced until now it is one of the leading children's hospitals of the country. Miss Frances Hutchinson was graduated from the Edmnndson Memorial Hospital in 1913. She was elected President of District No. 9 of Iowa in 1924 and served 'two years. In 1925 she was appointed Chairman of the publication and press committee ot the Iowa State Nurse's Association. Governor Hammill of Iowa appointed her as a member of the Board of Nurse Examiners of which she is president at the present time. For three months she Hlled the vacancy in the Division of Nursing of the State Board of Health. Miss Hutchinson is a native of Council Bluffs. She received her cdnfation in the city schools and spent most of her life hcrc. -..gg-