Massachusetts General Hospital School of Nursing - Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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FACULTY RUTH Sleeper, R.N., M.A., Assistant Superintenden t of Nurses and Assistant Principal of the School of Nursing, received her di- ploma from the Massachusetts General Hospital Training School for Nurses in 1922. She received her Bachelor of Science degree and Diploma in Teaching from Teacher’s College, Columbia University in 1925 and her Master of Arts degree in 1935. She has held teach- ing positions at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, the Western Re- serve University School of Nursing, and at the summer session of Teacher ' s College. She is a member of several government and Red Cross nursing advisory committees, and is the present President of the National League of Nursing Education. SYLVIA Perkins, R.N., M.A., Supervisor of Instruction in Nursing and Assistant Principal of the School of Nursing, graduated from the Massachusetts General Training School for Nurses in 1928. She received her Bachelor of Science and Master of Arts degrees from Teacher’s College, Columbia University. She has held teaching positions at Flushing Hospital, Flushing, N. Y., and at the Morris- town Memorial Hospital Post-Graduate School, Morristown, N. J. Previous to her present position, she was Assistant Professor of Nursing and Assistant Director of Clinical Nursing Education at the Russell Sage College School of Nursing. EDNA LEPPER, R.N., B.S., Assistant Superintendent of Nurses, graduated from the Massachusetts General Hospital School of Nurs- ing in 1926. She attended Teacher’s College, Columbia University, where she received her Bachelor of Science degree in 1938. She has been Night Supervisor at the Massachusetts General Hospital, and has held positions as Assistant Superintendent at the New York Skin and Cancer Hospital, N. Y., and at the Springfield Hospital, Springfield, Mass. Before returning to M.G.H. in her present posi- tion, she was Superintendent of Nurses and Principal, School of Nursing at the Cooley-Dickinson Hospital, Northampton, Mass. Page Six

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Sally Johnson, R.N., B.S. Sally Johnson, R.N., B.S., Superintendent of Nurses and Principal, School of Nursing, graduated from the Massachusetts General Hospital T raining School for Nurses in 1910, and received her Bachelor of Science degree from Teacher’s College, Columbia Univer- sity, in 1932. Before taking her present posi- tion in 1 920, she held teaching positions at St. Luke’s Hospital, New Bedford, Mass., and at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Boston, Mass. She has been Assistant Supervisor of Nurses at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Superintendent of Nurses at the Albany Hos- pital, N. Y., and was Director of the Army School of Nursing at the Walter Reed General Hospital, Washington, D. C., in 1918. Miss Johnson is also, at present, member of the Board of Directors of the American Nurses’ Association.

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Marie S. Andrews, R.N., B.S., Supervisor of Surgical and Ortho- pedic Wards and Instructor of Surgical and Orthopedic Nursing, graduated from the Massachusetts General Hospital Training School for Nurses in 19 36, and received her Bachelor of Science degree from the Boston University School of Education in 1941. She has held positions as Supervisor and Instructor in Post Graduate and Affiliate courses at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Boston, and as Instructor in Orthopedic Nursing at Boston Univer- sity. Mrs. Andrews has also had experience in private duty nursing, and in public health nursing through work with the Boston Visit- ing Nurses Association. HELEN French, R.N., Supervisor of Surgical Wards, and Instruc- tor of Nursing in Surgical Diseases, received her diploma from the Massachusetts General Hospital Training School for Nurses in 1928. She took a post-graduate course at the Butler Hospital in Providence, R. I., and has also attended sessions at Emerson College and at Boston University. She has been head nurse and Instructor in Practical Nursing at the Waterbury Hospital, Waterbury, Conn., and was head nurse at the Massachusetts General Hospital from 1932 until assuming her present position in 1938. Page Seven