Rockefeller Foundation Nursing Fellows, 1946
These fellows participated in a program sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation to learn to build nursing schools and training programs in their home countries.
Mary Lou Donaldson Photograph Collection, Vanderbilt University History of Medicine Collections
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VUMC History, Nursing, Vanderbilt Alumni
Graduate nursing student Carmela Camacho of La-Paz, Bolivia (left), poses with librarian Eileen Cunningham (second from left), medical student Irwin Eskind (far right) and others while looking at a rare volume from the medical library's collection.
Dean Helen Zeigler and participants in a Rockefeller Foundation program pose on the lawn in front of the nursing school.
Nursing Students Practice Taking Blood Pressure, 1944
Laurene Sadler Gilmore and other students crom the class of 1946 practice taking blood pressure readings from patients (each other).
Tommy S. Gibson, Vanderbilt University Hospital
These students participated in a program sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation
Graduate nursing fellows from other countries
Nursing students of the class of 1938 participating in an anatomy lab.
Mildred Taylor Stoll, of the graduating class of 1934.
Mildred Taylor Stoll, the first BSN graduate from Vanderbilt in 1934.
The living room in the School of Nursing Building. This building was named the "School of Nursing Building├óÔé¼┬Ø until 1934, when it was renamed to ├óÔé¼┼ôMary Kirkland Hall.├óÔé¼┬Ø In 1958, the building was renamed to ├óÔé¼┼ôMary Henderson Hall,├óÔé¼┬Ø and the name changed once again in 1971 to ├óÔé¼┼ôMary Ragland Godchaux Hall.├óÔé¼┬Ø