Grady Memorial Hospital School of Nursing - White Caps Yearbook (Atlanta, GA)

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HMBMi2 'H 'A'-1' HU- BETTY C. BLAKE Director of Nursing Service 8 In . W. PINKSTUN Executive Director X.-. I

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the first fulltime faculty member, Miss Lillian Gumbee, was appointed. Today, the curricu- lum follows the standards set by the National League for Nursing and the requirements of the Georgia State Board of Nurse Examiners. The students are afforded broad clinical experience in all phases of nursing at Grady Memorial Hospital except psychiatric, which is obtained through affiliation with the Georgia State Mental Hospital. In her report to the Medical Board for the month of March 1898, Miss Patterson gave the student enrollment as 14. This figure, however, included seven students enrolled under the two-year certificate program. The last of these students completed training on October 27, 1899. Miss Patterson's staff consisted of four graduate nurses. Miss Leila Parker was the first graduate of the school. She completed the prescribed course on Ianuary 7, 1900. She returned to the hospital for the first graduation exercises on May 16, 1900, at which time she and her five classmates received diplomas and pins. Miss Parker received the highest honor. When Miss Annie Bess Feebeck, who was to serve in the dual role as Director of Nurs- ing Service and Nursing Education for thirty-two and one-half years, assumed her duties on April 16, 1910, her staff consisted of three nurses, thirty-two students, and two proba- tioners. Miss Feebeck's tenure of service was interrupted by military service during World War I. She entered the Army Nurse Corps in October, 1918, and returned to Grady Memorial Hospital on August 1, 1921. During her years of outstanding service, Miss Feebeck proba- bly trained more nurses than any other educator in Georgia. When she retired on Iuly 1, 1944, the school enrollment had grown to 279 and her faculty numbered fourteen. In 1929, the Education Department was established as a separate, but integrated, unit of the Nursing Service. It was at that time that the position of Director of Nursing Education was created. During World War I, thirty-one Grady Memorial Hospital trained nurses volunteered their services to their country and served with distinction wherever assigned. There were no fatalities among the group. During World War II, two hundred Grady Memorial Hospital graduates entered the Army Nurse Corps and served in all theaters of operation. Miss Louella White, Class of 1943, lost her life on Saipan. Lieutenants Frances Nash and Mildred Dalton were captured by the Iapanese and interned at Santo Tomas for three years. The Alumnae Association of the Grady Memorial Hospital School of Nursing was origi- nally organized in 1908 and reorganized in 1917. The objectives of the association are to stimulate improvements in professional work and good fellowship among the graduates of the School: to advance the interests of the hospital and to promote the professional and educational advancement of the School of Nursing. Every graduate of the School is eligi- ble for membership in the Association.

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