"Tea with Trailblazers" was held on February 9, 2007 in the History of Medicine room at the Duke University Medical Center Library. It featured Dr. Evelyn Wicker and Donna Allen Harris as the primary speakers. This event was planned and moderated by...
In the interview, Pugh-Myers discusses her experiences as a member of the first class of practical nurses at Duke Hospital and her subsequent career working as a practical nurse in both public and private sectors.
Donna Allen Harris speaks about her background, primarily in Elizabeth City, North Carolina; the impetus for integrating the local high school being unknown to her; her being a part of the group that was going to integrate the local schools at various...
"Tea with Trailblazers" was held on February 27, 2006 in the History of Medicine room at the Duke University Medical Center Library. It featured Clydie Pugh-Myers and Joyce Nichols as the primary speakers. This event was planned and moderated by...
School of Nursing students during capping exercises. Bessie Baker was the first dean of the School of Nursing (1930-1938). The first class was admitted on January 2, 1931 and graduated on June 7, 1933.
(Three groups from left to right) Staff, including Bessie Baker (dean) at the front of the line, and administrators; first class of the School of Nursing students (in black tights); nurses of Duke Hospital. The first class entered on January 1931 and...