St. Luke’s Hospital School of Nursing

Alumnae Association Records

1890-2006

Students gather around the jukebox in the student lounge for a yearbook picture in 1968.

One of the more unusual artifacts included in the St. Luke's collection is the jukebox, a gift of the class of 1958 for the school's student lounge.  The jukebox is still working today, and is on display at the Veronica M. Driscoll Center for Nursing.

The jukebox has found an appreciative new home at the Foundation!

 

 

 

 

Volume: 27 cubic feet (including 8 boxes of textiles)

 

Access:  This collection is open to the public by appointment.

 

Copyright: Please consult the repository for information about duplication or publishing of any materials from this collection

 

Finding aid created by Amalia Beisler, 2003

Last updated by Gertrude Hutchinson, June 2007

Administrative history

 

The St. Luke’s Hospital Training School for Nurses opened in 1888, with an entering class of six students enrolled for the two-year training program. The history of the school goes back even further, to the Sisterhood of the Holy Communion, which was created in 1845 by the Rev. William Augustus Muhlenberg, D.D. (1796-1877). This was a voluntary order affiliated with the Episcopal Church of the Holy Communion whose members stayed in a nurses’ residence and cared for the poor and sick. When Father Muhlenberg founded St. Luke’s Hospital in 1850, (54th St. at Fifth Avenue), the Sisters took charge of the nursing in the hospital. The Sisterhood was independent of the Hospital, although the Sisters were responsible for the nursing in the Hospital once it was built. They supervised hired nurses and oversaw nursing care in the Hospital. A shortage of adequately trained nurses available for hire led to the creation of the nursing school in 1888. 

 

In its first decade of existence, the School underwent some substantial changes. In 1896 the training period increased from 2 to 3 years. In that same year, the School moved with the Hospital to its new location at Amsterdam and 113th St. A new residence for the nurses, Vanderbilt Pavilion, was completed and would continue to be the nurses’ residence until 1938. As the number of graduates from the school grew, the School established a registry of graduates for private duty nursing to help meet the needs of both patients and nurses. The Registry began in 1893 and in 1904 the recently created Alumnae Association of the St. Luke’s Hospital Training School for Nurses took over the management of the Registry. The Alumnae Association was organized in 1897, and was incorporated on November 9, 1898. As stated in one of the Association’s pamphlets, the object of the organization was

 

to promote the interests of St. Luke’s Hospital Training School for Nurses., to raise the standards of nursing generally, to cultivate social intercourse among the Alumnae of said school, to assist the members of such corporation obtaining professional employment, to aid them in promoting and protecting their rights and interests, and to provide a fund for the benefit of sick, infirm or disabled graduates of said school.”  (Alumnae funds, p. 5)

 

The Training School for Nurses registered with State authorities in 1905, and thereafter operated under State supervision.  When the National League for Nursing Education began nation-wide accreditation of nursing schools in the late 1930s, the school was accredited by that organization, too.

 

The program evolved over time. In 1921, the course of study was shortened to 2 ½ years, but was increased again to three years in 1934 with the introduction of affiliations away from St. Luke’s Hospital.  Students could do affiliations in Neurological or Psychiatric Nursing, Communicable Disease, or Public Health Nursing. During World War II, enrollment increased due to the Cadet Nurse Corps program and many graduates served in the Army Nurse Corps.  The next major changes in the school came in 1954, when the curriculum was revised and the School’s relationship with the Hospital shifted.  In that year the nursing department of the Hospital and the school was reorganized into two departments—the Nursing School and Nursing Service—under one Director of Nursing. This division was solidified in 1959, when each department received its own director and, for the first time, students were no longer on the staffing roster of the hospital.

 

In 1957, the School launched the Muhlenberg School of Practical Nursing, an 18-month program to train licensed practical nurses. The program was not a success, and the Muhlenberg School closed in 1959.

 

The St. Luke’s Hospital and the School of Nursing administration made the decision to close the School of Nursing in 1972, and last class was accepted. This class graduated in 1974.  The Alumnae Association remains active today.

 

 

School Administrators
 

“House Mothers”   (supervised nursing and house-keeping)

 

to 1877 

Sister Anne Ayres (d. 1896)

 

1877-1888

Mrs. Baker (wife of the Rev. George Stuart Baker, D.D., Dr. Muhlenberg’s immediate successor as Pastor and Superintendent of the Hospital) 

 

 

Head of Nursing Department

 

 

1888-1889

“House Mother” position split into Head of the Nursing Department—Jessie Read (graduate of the Boston City Hospital School of Nursing)—and Head of the Housekeeping Department—Jennie L. Roberts (later to graduate in 1890)

 

 

Superintendent of Nurses

 

 

1889 –1892

Anna C. Maxwell succeeds Jessie Read

 

1892-1894  

Walstein M. Tompkins (Class of 1890)

 

1894-1895  

First Supervising Nurse – Miss Florence C. Cottle

Second Supervising Nurse – Annie E. Jarvis

 

 

Directress of Nursing

 

 

1896- Mar. 1, 1900  

Mrs. Lily W. Quintard  

[There was a 4-month gap before she started; Charlotte Edith Thompson was “Supervising Nurse” in the interim, and then became Mrs. Quintard’s assistant.] In 1898 she was “called by the Government” to organize and direct nursing for the Red Cross for the Spanish American War; Assistant Directress Mary A. Mitchell supervised in her absence.

 

Mar. 1, 1900 – Apr 30, 1900

Miss Mary D. Barnes was Acting Directress

 

May 1, 1900-1902

Annie W. Goodrich

 

1902-1909 

 

Miss Mabel Wilson

1909-1924 

Mrs. Carrie E. Bath

 

1924-1938 

Miss F. Evelyn Carling

 

 

Director of Nursing

 

 

Feb 1, 1938-July 31, 1946

Helene Olandt  (Bellevue grad)

 

Aug 1, 1946-Feb 20, 1954

 

Ruth K. Moser 

Feb 21, 1954-Mar 31, 1959

 

Kathryn Helm 

 

Director of the School of Nursing

 

 

Apr 1959 - June 1967

 

Evelyn Peck

June 1967 - Aug 1968

 

Frances Avella

Sept 1968 - Apr 1974

 

Ruth Elizabeth Dittmar

 

Director of Nursing Service

 

Apr 1959 - Feb 1964

 

Josephine Person Wittemore

Feb 1964 - June 1967

 

Helen Van Auken Ymano

June 1967-June 1970

 

Evelyn M. Peck

(moved to position as associate director in hospital; later became vice president for hospital administration)

 

June 1970 - 1974

 

Ruth Dietz Hill
     

 

Scope and content note

 

The historical materials of the St. Luke’s Hospital School of Nursing Alumnae Association include administrative records from the closed School of Nursing,[1] photographs, student uniforms, alumnae memorabilia (including the jukebox donated to the Nurses’ Residence by the Class of 1958), and newspaper clippings on the history of the school.  There are a few scrapbooks from nurses in WWI and other service abroad, and a fair amount of material documenting the history and content of the nursing curriculum at St. Luke’s, especially in the 1960s and early 1970s.  The materials preserved by the Alumnae Association are largely all that remain from the close to nine decades of nursing education at St. Luke’s Hospital. There are also records from the Alumnae Association itself, including records of its incorporation, newsletters, photographs, and records of the organization’s activities since the closing of the school.

 

The collection is divided into five series: Series 1, History and Administration; Series 2, Student Life; Series 3, Alumnae; Series 4,Alumnae Association; Series 5, Books.

Series Descriptions

Box and Folder List

Series 1: History and Administration

Box 1

  1. 50th Anniversary Program, 1958
  2. Accounting - Clinical hours of Student Nurses 1967-1974
    Administrators: Bath, Carrie E. (photograph) SEE ALSO Oversize Box 4
  3. Administrators: Carling, Florence Evelyn, c.1909 (photograph)
  4. Administrators: Dahlem, Anne, 1961 (photograph)
  5. Administrators: Administrators, directress, assistant directress, staff (photograph)
    Left to right: Mabel Clarke 1909, Anne Louise Morse 1910, Elsie L. Burks 1910, Cora A. Wheeland 1906, Mrs. Carrie E. Bath 1900, Florence Evelyn Carling 1909
  6. Administrators: Dittmar, Ruth E., c.1970 (photograph)
  7. Administrators: Goodrich, Annie W., 1946, 1955 (photograph in Oversize Box 4)
    Administrators: Helm, Kathryn (photograph) SEE ALSO Series 3: Alumnae ; photograph in Oversize Box 4
  8. Administrators: Maxwell, Anna C., c.1892, 1912, 1957 (incl. photograph)
    Administrators: Moser, Ruth K. (photograph) SEE ALSO Oversize Box 4
  9. Administrators: Olandt, Helene, c.1940 (photograph)
  10. Administrators: Peck, Evelyn M., 1946, 1978-1980 (incl. photograph) (A2005-23) SEE ALSO portrait in Artifact Box 12
  11. Administrators: Quintard, Lily W., c.1900 (photograph)
  12. Administrators: Read, Jessie, 1889 (photograph)
    Administrators: Tompkins, Walstein M. (photograph) SEE Oversize Box 4
  13. Administrators: Wilson, Mabel, c.1905 (photograph)
  14. Admission statistics for college planning 1971
  15. Announcements (for School of Nursing) 1941-42, 1955-57, 1958-60, 1967, undated
  16. Annual and Monthly Reports, 1950-1952
  17. Annual and Monthly Reports, 1953-1954
  18. Annual and Monthly Reports, 1955-1956
  19. Annual and Monthly Reports, 1957
  20. Annual and Monthly Reports, 1958
  21. Annual and Monthly Reports, 1959-1961
  22. Annual and Monthly Reports, 1962-1964
  23. Annual and Monthly Reports, 1965-1967
  24. Annual and Monthly Reports, 1968-1970
  25. Annual and Monthly Reports, 1971-1974
  26. Baccalaureate Program Development, 1966-1971
  27. Budget, 1974
  28. Closing of school - Correspondence, 1972-1974
  29. Cost analysis project, 1961-1962
  30. Cost study (New York State Education Department), 1969
  31. Dedication of the Susan Dwight Bliss Room and the Margaret Rouillon Conference Room Order of Service, June 10, 1969
  32. Eli White Memorial Building: Exterior, 1962-1963 (photographs)
  33. Eli White Memorial Building: Interior, 1952, 1958, undated (photographs)
  34. Eli White Memorial Building: Interior, 1972, 1974, undated (photographs)
    Eli White Memorial Building: Mailbox doors SEE ALSO Artifact Box 5
  35. Eli White Memorial Building: Program from opening, December 16, 1937
  36. Faculty Handbook, 1972
  37. Faculty Handbook, 1972
  38. Grading Study of Nursing Schools, First, 1930
  39. Grading Study of Nursing Schools, Second, 1932
  40. Historical Room: Records and Correspondence, 1957-1968
  41. History of the hospital and school, c.1965
    (part of the course, "Fundamentals of Nursing," materials used by Vivian J. Ahl)
  42. History of the hospital and school, c.1965
  43. History - Photographs documenting Hospital and School of Nursing history (copies of photographs from the St. Luke's Hospital Historical Collection)
  44. Hoffman, Katherine. "A Model Hospital." Munsey's Magazine, 1900 (A2005-34)
  45. Muhlenberg School of Practical Nursing, 1957-1959
  46. Muhlenberg School of Practical Nursing, 1957-1959 (photographs)
  47. Whitridge, Dr. Arnold, History and photograph with Evelyn Peck, 1976

Box 2

  1. National League for Nursing—Criteria for the Evaluation of Education Programs in Nursing Leading to a Diploma, 1958
  2. National League for Nursing—Accreditation Report, 1938-1945
  3. National League for Nursing—Accreditation Report, 1946-1950
  4. National League for Nursing—Accreditation Report, 1951-1952
  5. National League for Nursing—Accreditation Report, 1953
  6. National League for Nursing—Accreditation Report, 1953
  7. National League for Nursing—Accreditation Report, 1956
  8. National League for Nursing—Accreditation Report, 1959
  9. National League for Nursing—Accreditation Report, 1961
  10. National League for Nursing—Accreditation Report, 1961
  11. National League for Nursing—Accreditation Report, 1963
  12. National League for Nursing—Accreditation Report, 1968
  13. National League for Nursing—Accreditation Visit, 1968
  14. National League for Nursing—Certificate of Membership, 1962-1974
  15. National League for Nursing—Research and Development Questionnaires, 1954-1974
  16. National Nursing Accrediting Service—Manual of Accrediting Educational Programs in Nursing, 1949 National League for Nursing Education
    SEE National League for Nursing [2]
  17. New York State Board of Education Examination Results, 1915-1950
  18. New York State Board of Education Examination Results, 1951-1957
  19. New York State Board of Education Examination Results, 1958-1960
  20. New York State Board of Education Examination Results, 1961-1966
  21. New York State Board of Education Examination Results, 1967-1970
  22. New York State Board of Education Examination Results, 1971-1974
  23. New York State Board of Education Examination Results: Listings, 1951-1974

Box 3

  1. New York State Department of Education – Guide for Evaluating Basic Professional Nursing Programs, 1943, 1948, 1960, 1961
  2. New York State Board of Education Examination Results – Charts for Curriculum Evaluation, 1953-1972
  3. New York State Board of Education Examination Results: Standard score means, 1958-1974
  4. New York State Department of Education Reports, 1912-1934
  5. New York State Department of Education Reports, 1935-1941
  6. New York State Department of Education Reports, 1942-1945
  7. New York State Department of Education Reports, 1946-1948
  8. New York State Department of Education Reports, 1949-1951
  9. New York State Department of Education Reports, 1952-1953
  10. New York State Department of Education Reports, 1954-1957
  11. New York State Department of Education Reports, 1958-1959
  12. New York State Department of Education Reports, 1960-1965
  13. New York State Department of Education Reports, 1966-1969
  14. New York State Department of Education Reports, 1970-1974
  15. New York State Department of Education Visits, 1940, 1946, 1953
  16. New York State Department of Education Visits, 1956
  17. New York State Department of Education Visits, 1960
  18. New York State Department of Education Visits, 1963-1965
  19. New York State Department of Education Visits, 1970
  20. "News of St. Luke's," 1953
  21. Nursing Committee of the Board of Trustees, Meeting Minutes, 1958-1962
  22. Nursing Committee of the Board of Trustees, Meeting Minutes, 1963-1973
  23. Philosophy and objectives of the School of Nursing, 1964, 1966, 1968
  24. Policies, 1965-1969
  25. Postcards, 1907-1909, 1911, 1914, 1919, 1929
  26. Procedure Book, c.1949
  27. Procedure Book, c.1964 (Lee Keppel Carr)
  28. Science Laboratory – Hazardous Chemicals, 1970, 1974
  29. Service in Memory of Florence Nightingale and the Nurses Who Have Died in Service, May 14, 1939
  30. St. Luke’s Hospital – Miscellaneous items, 1943, 1966, 1989
  31. Survey of Facilities for Nursing Education, 1969
  32. Summary of instruction worksheets, Classes of 1968-1974
    “The Young Doctors,” VHS video tape SEE ALSO Artifact Box 9

Faculty Committees

Box 4

  1. Ad Hoc Committee & Joint Sub-Committee Minutes, 1963-1965
  2. Admissions Committee Minutes, 1971-1972
  3. Coordinating Committee, Nursing Services Minutes, 1961-1969
  4. Curriculum Committee: Sub-Committee Minutes
    Nursing Service and Education, 1963-1964
    Maternal and Child Health, Psychiatry, 1963-1964
    Social Sciences and Non-Clinical Nursing, 1963-1965
  5. Curriculum Committee: Sub-Committee Minutes
    Natural Sciences and Nutrition, 1963-1965
    Nursing Fundamentals and Medical- Surgical I, II, III, 1963-1964
  6. Curriculum Committee and Sub-Committee Minutes, 1961-1962
  7. Curriculum Committee Minutes, 1962-1963
  8. Curriculum Committee Minutes, 1963-1964
  9. Curriculum Committee Minutes, 1964-1965
  10. Curriculum Committee Minutes, 1965-1966
  11. Curriculum Committee Minutes, 1966-1967
  12. Curriculum Committee Minutes, 1968-1969
  13. Curriculum Committee Minutes, 1968-1969
  14. Curriculum Committee Minutes, 1969-1970
  15. Curriculum Committee Minutes, 1971
  16. Curriculum Committee Minutes, 1971-1973
  17. Evaluation Meeting of Educational Program, 1966
  18. Faculty In-Service Education Committee, 1962-1967
  19. Faculty In-Service Education Committee, 1967-1974
  20. Faculty Job Description, 1961-1972
    Freshman, Junior and Senior Nursing Program
    Maternal and Child Health Nursing Program
  21. Faculty Job Description, 1961-1972
    Clinical Psychologist, Director, Associate Director,
    Instructor, Non-Clinical Nursing Coordinator, Librarian,
    Nutrition Instructor, Registrar, Science Instructors
  22. Faculty Organization Minutes, 1960-1961
  23. Faculty Organization Minutes, 1961-1962
  24. Faculty Organization Minutes, 1962-1963

Box 5

  1. Faculty Organization Minutes, 1963-1964
  2. Faculty Organization Minutes, 1964-1965
  3. Faculty Organization Minutes, 1965-1966
  4. Faculty Organization Minutes, 1966-1967
  5. Faculty Organization Minutes, 1967-1968
  6. Faculty Organization Minutes, 1968-1969
  7. Faculty Organization Minutes, 1969-1970
  8. Faculty Organization Minutes, 1970-1972
  9. Faculty Organization Minutes, 1972-1974
  10. Faculty Organization Rules, 1948, 1955, 1957, 1960-1964
  11. Faculty Organization: Standing Committees, 1959-1974
  12. Faculty Personnel Committee Minutes, 1960-1961
  13. Organization Charts, 1953-1967
  14. Program Evaluation Conference, 1966, 1970, 1972
  15. Steering Committee Minutes, 1960-1965

Course outlines:

Box 6

  1. Affiliation: Communicable Disease, Willard Parker Hospital, 1949-1955
  2. Affiliation: Home Care Department, 1967-1973
  3. Affiliation: Industrial Nursing, 1956-1961
  4. Affiliation: Maternal and Child Health Program, Children’s Health Service, 1962-1970
  5. Affiliation: Neurological Institute, 1934
  6. Affiliation: Obstetrical Nursing, Sloane Maternity Hospital, 1939-1953 [affiliation began 1891]
  7. Affiliation: Obstetrical Nursing, Woman’s Hospital, 1952-1954
  8. Affiliation: Psychiatric Nursing Program, 1962, 1965, undated, 1969
  9. Affiliation: Psychiatric Nursing Program, Meyer Manhattan, 1972-1973
  10. Affiliation: Psychiatric Nursing Program, Westchester Division, 1951-1968
    [Westchester Division of the New York Hospital-[Cornell Medical Center] Affiliation relationship terminated 1968]
  11. Affiliation: Psychiatric Nursing Program, Westchester Division – Contracts, 1934-1968
  12. Affiliation: Psychiatric Nursing Program, Westchester Division – Accreditation Kit, 1959
  13. Affiliation: Psychiatric Nursing Program, Westchester Division – Nursing Advisory Council, 1934-1968
  14. Affiliation: Visiting Nurse Service of New York, 1934-1966
  15. Basic Techniques in Management – Seniors, 1962-1965
  16. Clinical Instruction Program, 1955-1959
  17. Communication Skills – Freshmen, 1963
  18. Conference Program – Juniors, 1961-1964
  19. Contemporary Social World – Freshmen, 1952, 1955-1966
  20. Contemporary Social World – Freshmen, 1967-1971
  21. Courses and hours of instruction, 1968-1969
  22. Diet Therapy I – Freshmen, 1964, 1967-1972
  23. Diet Therapy II – Freshmen, 1967-1971
  24. Epidemiology – Freshmen, 1962-1969
  25. Epidemiology – Freshmen, 1970-1972
  26. Fundamentals of Nursing – Freshmen, 1961-1967
  27. Fundamentals of Nursing – Freshmen, 1968-1971
  28. Geriatric Nursing – Freshmen, 1965-1966
  29. Historical Foundations of Nursing – Seniors, 1971-1973
  30. History of Nursing -- Seniors, 1956-1960
  31. Introduction to Unit Management – Seniors, 1962, 1965-1967
  32. Leadership in Nursing – Seniors, 1969
  33. Maternal and Child Health Nursing – Juniors, 1961-1965
  34. Maternal and Child Health Nursing – Juniors, 1966-1967
  35. Maternal and Child Health Nursing – Juniors, 1968-1969
  36. Maternal and Child Health Nursing – Juniors, 1970-1971

Box 7

  1. Maternal and Child Health Nursing – Juniors, 1972
  2. Medical-Surgical Nursing I – Freshmen, 1961-1964
  3. Medical-Surgical Nursing I – Freshmen, 1965-1968
  4. Medical-Surgical Nursing I – Freshmen, 1969-1972
  5. Medical-Surgical Nursing II – Freshmen, 1969-1972
  6. Medical-Surgical Nursing II – Seniors, 1963-1968
  7. Medical-Surgical Nursing III– Juniors, 1967-1971
  8. Medical-Surgical Nursing IV – Seniors, 1968-1971
  9. Medical-Surgical Nursing IV – Seniors, 1972-1973
  10. Medical-Surgical Nursing V – Senior, 1970-1974
  11. Microbial Ecology – Freshmen, 1967-1972
  12. Microbiology – Freshmen, 1962-1971
  13. Microbiology and Epidemiology – Freshmen, 1959-1961
  14. Microbiology and Sanitation – Freshmen, 1955-1958
  15. The Nurse in the Community (Sociology III and Community Nursing) – Seniors, 1950-1967
  16. Nursing I – Freshmen, 1954-1959
  17. Nursing II, 1957 -1960
  18. Nursing III, 1956-1959
  19. Nursing IV, 1956-1969
  20. Nursing in Emergency – Seniors, 1964-1967
  21. Nutrition – Freshmen, 1957-1971
  22. Obstetric Nursing, 1957-1960
  23. Orientation – Freshmen, 1961-1965
  24. Orientation to Professional Nursing – Seniors, 1961-1968, 1970-1973
  25. Pediatric Nursing, 1956-1961

Box 8

  1. Pharmacology – Freshmen, 1967-1972
  2. Pharmacology I (Fundamentals of Pharmacology) – Freshmen, 1957-1965
  3. Pharmacology II (Pharmacology) – Freshmen, 1956-1966
  4. Physical Education, 1963-1968
  5. Professional Adjustment I - Freshmen, 1958
  6. Psychiatric Nursing (Affiliation) – Juniors, 1955-1956, 1958, 1961-1962, 1965-1967
  7. Psychiatric Nursing (Affiliation) – Juniors, 1968-1972
  8. Psychology – Freshmen, 1958, 1960, 1963-1964
  9. Science I – Freshmen, 1957-1965
  10. Science I – Freshmen, 1966-1969
  11. Science I – Freshmen, 1870-1971
  12. Science II – Freshmen, 1957-1963, 1965-1966
  13. Science II – Freshmen, 1967-1970
  14. Science II – Freshmen, 1971-1972
  15. Science III – Freshmen, 1967-1972
  16. Social Problem Solving (Sociology II and Community Nursing) – Juniors, 1955-1960
  17. Special Surgery – Operating Room Nursing – Juniors, 1964-1967
  18. Special Surgery – Operating Room Nursing – Seniors, 1961-1965

Series 2: Student Life

Box 9

  1. Activities: Events, 1908, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s (photographs)
  2. Activities: Glee Club, 1943-1958 (photographs)
  3. Activities: Glee Club, Concert programs, 1950-1971
  4. Activities: “La-Dee-Da,” A Review in Two Acts, The Class of 1940, Jan. 12, 1940 (program)
  5. Activities: The Microbe (student newsletter), 1955-1959
  6. Alma Mater, undated
  7. Application questionnaires, ca. 1890
  8. Application letters, 1917-1920
  9. Application letters of recommendation, 1916-1922
  10. Applications for “Extension Work” – Olive A. Skitch and Mabel A. Seaman, 1923-1924
  11. Arrival of new students, 1953, 1956, 1958, 1963, 1970 (photographs)
  12. Capping, Classes of 1971-1974 (photographs)
  13. Capping: Letter from Kathryn Helm to Miss W. M. Harris, July 26, 1956
  14. Capping: Memorandum from Vivian Ahl to Paquita Erdell, July 14, 1970
  15. Capping Programs, Class of 1958, Class of 1959, Class of 1974 (1956-1972)
  16. Capping: Speeches and Invitations, 1966-1972
  17. “Cheer Up Song” (Class of 1959)
  18. Classes, field trips: Industrial nursing field trips and work experience, 1950s
  19. Classes, field trips: Obstetrical Nursing, 1953 (photographs)
  20. Dietary and formulary of St. Luke’s Hospital, 1924, 1929
  21. Evaluations, 1919-1924, 1966
  22. Examinations, 1890-1891
  23. Examination for Registered Nurses,” 1931, 1932
  24. Graduation: Invitations, 1913-1970 (incomplete)
  25. Graduation: Letter to new graduates from M. Louise Beaty (by R. Pace) Feb. 1, 1940
  26. Graduation: Lists of graduates, 1890-1974
  27. Graduation: Pins from Lambert Brothers, 1971-1974
  28. Graduation: Programs, 1910, 1921, 1924, 1928, 1930, 1932, 1936-1954 (includes married names written in for the later years)
  29. Graduation: Programs, 1955-1974
  30. Graduation: Speeches, 1939-1973 (incomplete)
  31. Graduation: Speeches - Address given by the Rt. Rev. Moore, Jr., Bishop of New York, April 19, 1974
  32. Graduation: 1945-1946, 1948-1953 (photographs)
  33. Graduation: 1954-1974 (photographs)
  34. Home Nursing, c.1940
  35. Letters from parents to Mrs. Carrie E. Bath, 1913, 1918, 1922
  36. Mabel Detmold Memorial Prize in nursing (est’d 1966)
  37. Nurses Laboratory, c.1956 (photograph)
  38. Probationers: Instructions and duties, 1922, 1932, 1952
  39. Recruitment Brochures, 1959, 1963, undated
  40. Recruitment posters, c.1970
  41. Scholarships and aid: James Talcott Fund, 1955-1973
  42. Scholarships and aid: Switzer Foundation, 1964-1974
  43. School Hymn, 1967
  44. School Regulations, 1951
  45. Scrapbook, “Memories” by Mary Edith Wightman, 1924-1927
  46. Student Handbook, 1936, c.1950
  47. Student Handbook, 1958-1961
  48. Student Handbook, 1963, 1966
  49. Student Handbook, 1968-1973
  50. Student Nurse Progress Record, 1964
  51. Student Organization: Constitution and Bylaws, 1950, 1973
  52. Student Organization: Letters to incoming students, 1957-1959
  53. Student Organization: Minutes, 1943-1946
  54. Student Organization: Records, 1949, 1954
  55. Students: Group with Anna Maxwell at first hospital location, c.1890 (photograph)
  56. Students: Individuals, 1890-1919 (photographs)
  57. Study Guides, 1947-1952
  58. Tea Service, 1963 (photographs)
  59. Triennium, 1946 (created in 1991)
    Triennium (student yearbook), 1947-1974 (missing 1967, 1970) ON SHELF
    Uniforms SEE ALSO Textile Boxes
    Uniforms: Blue ribbons from caps SEE Artifact Box 2
    Uniforms: Caps SEE ALSO Textile Box 9
  60. Uniforms: Caps – Model/sculpture of St. Luke’s graduate cap SEE ALSO Artifact Box 1
  61. Uniforms: Caps from White Crown Company, 1956-1974
  62. Uniforms: Correspondence about history of uniform, 1951-1956
    Uniforms: Dolls dressed in St. Luke’s uniforms SEE ALSO Textile box 8; Artifact Boxes 6 and 7
  63. Uniforms: Memorandum from Vivian Ahl to new students about uniforms, 1962, 1968
  64. “Young Doctors,” videotape and article, 1961 SEE ALSO Artifact Box 9
  65. “Young Moderns: an invitation to become a St. Luke’s Nurse,” 1967

Series 3: Alumnae

Box 10

Individuals
  1. Adams, Louise, 1940 (Class of 1911)
  2. Ahl, Vivian- including the book Nurse Todd’s Strange Summer, 1940, 1953, 1958, 1960, 1963, 1982, 1991, 1996 (photographs) (Class of 1932)
    SEE ALSO Oversize Box 3, Textile Box 9
  3. Bamford, Pauline (Polly B. Worcester), 1945, 1946, 2002 (Class of 1932)
  4. Barney, Adele Bolton, china artifactsSEE ALSO Artifact Box 13(Class of 1930)
  5. Benz, Margaret C. photograph, c.1894 (Class of 1894)
  6. Biache, Alice Story, 1998
  7. Birdall, Barbara Ann Wescott, 1998 (Class of 1953)
  8. Breckinridge, Mary: Photographs, c.1930, 1952 (Class of 1910)
  9. Breckinridge, Mary: Correspondence, 1951-1964
  10. Breckinridge, Mary: Organdie and Mull and background information, 1939, 1948, 1995, 1996
  11. Breckinridge, Mary: Wide Neighborhoods, 1953
  12. Breckinridge, Mary: Clem, Alfred and Harry Hardenbrook Edge of Dark Land, Abbottempo, 1964
  13. Brewer, Frances H., 1966 (Class of 1930)
  14. Cahn, Marie photograph, c.1967 (Class of 1960)
  15. Camp, Karen, 2006 (Class of 1964)
  16. Chetwood, Virginia M. photographs, 1951, 1956 (Class of 1892)
  17. Clarke, Eveline A., 1966 (Class of 1913)
  18. Cordes, Joan Henn, undated (Class of 1948)
  19. Detmold, Mabel, 1964, 1966 (Class of 1912) SEE ALSO Series 5, Books: The Brownstones of Turtlebay
  20. Devine, Marion (Mary Ann) Phillips, 1925 (Class of 1925) SEE ALSO Oversize Box class photograph, 1925
  21. Edman, Frances G. photograph, c.1891 (Class of 1891)
  22. Ernst, Sophie E. photograph, 1896 (Class of 1896)
  23. Farr, Maria photograph, 1904 (Class of 1904) SEE ALSO Oversize Box 3
  24. Flegenheimer, Lois Savage, 1954, 1961, 1963, 1967, 1969, undated (photographs) (Class of 1954)
  25. France, Beniah, undated
    Fullerton, Jack SEE ALSO Carved wooden plate in Artifact Box 9
    Geitz, Ellen SEE ALSO Artifact box 2
  26. Graf, Mary E. photograph, 1892 (Class of 1892)
    Guion, Ferebe E. 1891, 1892 (Class of 1891) SEE ALSO Oversize Box 3
  27. Hammond, Randi Longum, 2001 (Class of 1960) Helm, Kathryn SEE Uniforms in Textiles Boxes; photograph in OS Box 4; photograph in Series 1, Muhlenberg School of Practical Nursing Hoskins, Margaret (Class of 1956) SEE ALSO mouse doll in Artifact Box 6
  28. Keith, Emma J. photograph, 1893 (Class of 1892)
  29. Kiel, Sophia V.: Letters and orders, 1918-1924; Special passport form the Secretary of State, Aug 31, 1914; Certificate of Identification from the Secretary of the Navy, Nov 30, 1918 (Class of 1908) SEE ALSO scrapbooks and albums in Boxes 11-13
  30. Kippax, Ruth, 1966
    Laurine, Audrey Smith SEE ALSO cape in Textile Box 4
    Lee, Beverly. SEE ALSO Series 5, Books: The Easy Way to Chinese Cooking
  31. Lewis, Annie, 1894, 1918, 1922 (photographs) (Class of 1894)
  32. Mason, Edith Huxley, 1961 (Class of 1923)
  33. Mcllvane, Amy Booth, 2003 (Class of 1946)
  34. McMillen, Clara B. photograph, 1900 (Class of 1899)
  35. McVean, Mary, Document, 1997 (Class of 1895) SEE ALSOgraduate pin in Artifact Box 2
  36. McVeify, Catherine, 1954 (Class of 1901) SEE ALSO blue ribbon in Artifact Box 1
  37. Mignerey, Celina Catherine photograph, 1896 (Class of 1896)
  38. Naglia, Josephine, 2003 (Class of 1934)
  39. Nattarelli, Carol: Scrapbook, 1953 (Class of 1956)
  40. Nattarelli, Carol: Class list, 1959
  41. Nattarelli, Carol: Scrapbook, 1953-1984 (1 of 2)
  42. Nattarelli, Carol: Scrapbook, 1953-1984 (2 of 2) SEE ALSO books in Boxes 20 and 21
  43. Nichols, Bernice M., 1926, 1928, 1929, 1953, 1955, undated (Class of 1929) SEE ALSO uniform in Textile Box 3, pin and ring in Artifact Box 2, diploma in Oversize Box 3
  44. Page, Dorothy R. photograph, 1914 (Class of 1914)
  45. Pease, Pamela, SEE ALSO Textile Box 10
  46. Peck, Evelyn: Honorary Recognition, NYSNA, 1984 and oral history interview CDs, 2005 (Class of 1946)
  47. Peck, Evelyn, 1939, 1943, 1946, 1947, 1949, 1953, 1956, 1957, 1963, 1967, 1978, 1979, 1998, 2007, undated (photographs)
  48. Peck, Evelyn: diplomas, 1939, 1943, 1946
    SEE ALSO Honorary Recognition Plaque in Artifact Box 3, framed nursing stamps, Friday afternoon tea plate, doll in St. Luke’s uniform, St. Luke’s pin, NYSNA pendant, fabric wall hanging “Rules for Nurses” from St. Thomas Hospital, England in Artifact Box 10 and diplomas in Oversize Box 3
  49. Pise, Eleanor, 1988 (photograph) SEE Portrait in Artifact Box 12
  50. Post, Barbara SEE ALSO binders in Artifact Box 11
  51. Ramsay, Annie D. photograph, 1933 (Class of 1944)
  52. Rectenwall, Carol Hammond, 2005 (Class of 1959)
  53. Remington, Claire Shay photograph, undated (Class of 1953)
  54. Renneker, Caroline E. 1906, 1907, 1913 SEE ALSO Oversize Box 3
  55. Robinson, Jean Mather, 1944-1946, 2001 (photographs) (Class of 1945) SEE ALSO Cadet Corps summer uniform blouse and skirt in Textile Box 3 (A2006-18)
  56. Runnerstrom, Lillian, 1968 (Class of 1941)
  57. Ryan, Maureen photograph, undated (Class of 1962)
  58. Schaefer, Lois Perrett, 2000, 2003, undated (photographs) (Class of 1927)
  59. Schneider, Florence Whitty, 2006 (Class of 1951)
  60. Schollenberger, Ellen Osborne, 2003 (Class of 1955)
  61. Smith, Josephine, 1996 (Class of 1924)
  62. Spillane, Janice, 2004 (Class of 1971)
  63. Steinmetz, Sybille, 1968 (Class of 1967)
  64. Stone, Marian L., 1978, 2002 (Class of 1936)
  65. Tereshinski, Gertrude Manelski, 2007, St. Luke's Bulletin, Volume VIII, No. 2 April 1946, Volume XII, No. 2 April 1950 "Centenniel Celebration" (Class of 1940) SEE ALSO Oversize Box 2: Photographs of Junior-Senior Dinner St. Luke's School of Nursing at Hotel Bristol 1940, Dinner Dance honoring Senior Class 1940 at Hotel Pierre, and Alumnae Dinner honoring Graduating Class of 1944 at Olney Inn.
  66. Torrance, Rachel, 1950, 1973, 1974, undated (Class of 1911)
  67. Utz, Susan Vail Park, 2005
    Warner, Margaret Prietzel SEE ALSO Artifact Boxes 1 and 2, Oversize Box 3

    Collected items
  68. Letters from nurses in WWII, 1944-1945
  69. Letters, Christmas cards from nurses in WWII, 1944-1945
    Military service, WWII SEE ALSO Wooden box with record cards in Artifact Box 3
    Military service pins SEE ALSO Artifact Boxes 2, 9
    Pins: St. Luke’s School of Nursing pin SEE ALSO Artifact Box 2
  70. Pins: Correspondence with alumnae concerning replacement of School of Nursing pins, 1974-1989

Box 11

Box 12

Box 13

Box 14

Box 15

Series 4: Alumnae Association

Box 16

  1. 100th Anniversary Celebration & Homecoming – Speech by Gary Ross, Thank You letters, 1988
    Alumnae Association meeting, Oct. 16-17, 1998 (videotape) SEE ALSO Artifact Box 3
  2. Alumnae Association Seal, 1957
    Alumnae Bulletin, 1911-1953 ON SHELF
  3. Alumnae Bulletin, Spring-1964 – Fall-Winter-1965-66
  4. Alumnae Bulletin, Spring-1966 – Fall-Winter-1967-68
  5. Alumnae Bulletin, Spring-1968 – Fall-Winter-1968
  6. Alumnae Bulletin, Spring-1969 – Spring-1972
  7. Alumnae Bulletin, Spring-1973 – Fall-1975
  8. Alumnae Bulletin, Spring-1976 – Fall-1982

Box 17

  1. Alumnae Bulletin, Winter-1983 – Winter-1988
  2. Alumnae Bulletin, Winter-1989 – Fall-1993
  3. Alumnae Bulletin, Winter-1994 – Fall-1996
  4. Alumnae Bulletin, Winter-1999 – Winter-2005 (includes original photographs for Fall 2004 Bulletin)
  5. Alumnae Bulletin Research Materials, Winter-1996

Box 18

  1. Alumnae Luncheon, 1985
    Alumnae Registry: Coaster/ashtray sold as fundraiser for the Registry, 1951 SEE Artifact Box 12
  2. Alumnae Roster/History – Draft Introduction to Third Volume, May 1974 (never published)
  3. Annual meeting, 2005 (photograph)
  4. Annual Memorial Service & Commemoration, 2006
  5. Annual Report and Membership List, 1940-1943, 1945
  6. Annual Report and Membership List, 1946-1950
  7. Annual Report and Membership List, 1951-1955
  8. Annual Report and Membership List, 1956-1960
    NOTE: Earlier Annual Reports and Membership lists are bound and on shelf
  9. Building Fund, Nurses Campaign for St. Luke’s Hospital, early 1950s (photograph)
  10. Building Fund, Campaign for St. Luke’s Hospital – Victor Borge benefit performance, 1953 (photographs)
  11. Calendars, 1953, 1954
  12. Calendars, 1955 and “Perpetual Occasion” (c. 2004)
  13. Carling Portrait Appeal for the 50th Anniversary, 1938

Box 19

  1. Certificate of Incorporation and By-Laws, 1941-1962
  2. Christmas cards, 1968, 1969 (A2005-23)
  3. Christmas party, 2004 (photographs)
  4. Class of 1940, 20th Reunion Dinner, 1960
  5. Class of 1950, 45th Reunion, 1995
  6. Class of 1955, 50th Reunion, 2005 (includes photographs)
  7. Class of 1964, 40th Reunion, 2004 (photograph)
  8. Constitution and By-Laws, 1897
  9. Dinner menus, 1935, 1942, 1950, 1968, 1972
  10. Directories, 1976, 1984, 1996
  11. Fundraising – Coaster, 1951
  12. “An Historical Sketch of the Funds of the Alumnae Association of the St. Luke’s Hospital School of Nursing,” 1942, 1968
    Homecoming 1961: Demi-tasse cup SEE ALSO Artifact Box 1
  13. Homecoming 1965: Program
  14. Homecoming 1970: Guestbook
    Homecoming 1970: Jewel box with School of Nursing seal on lid SEE ALSO Artifact Box 1
    Homecoming 1970: Commemorative tile SEE ALSO Artifact Box 1
  15. Homecoming 1974: Address Book
    Homecoming 1974: St. Luke’s paperweight SEE ALSO Artifact Box 2
  16. Homecoming Photographs, 1961, 1965, 1974, 1998
  17. Honor Pin Award, 1936, 1947, 1952
  18. Registry, 1934-1950
  19. Reunion, 1988 (A2005-20), 2002 (photographs)
  20. St. Luke’s Alumnae Cookbook, 1976
  21. Student Loan Fund, 1956-1974
  22. War Service Record of Alumnae of the St. Luke’s Hospital School of Nursing, World War II, 1941-1945
  23. Note Cards and Calendar, 2003

Series 5: Books

Box 20

Box 21



Odd size boxes and materials

Oversize Boxes

Oversize Box 1

Oversize Box 2

Oversize Box 3

Oversize Box 4


Textiles

Textile Box 1

Textile Box 2

Textile Box 3

Textile Box 4

Textile Box 5

Textile Box 6

Textile Box 7

Textile Box 8

Textile Box 9

Textile Box 10



[1] St. Luke’s Hospital still maintains official student records and transcripts.

[2] In 1952 The National League for Nursing Education merged with the National Organization for Public Health Nursing and the Association for Collegiate Schools of Nursing and changed its name to the National League for Nursing



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