Portrait of Harriet Cook Carter. Carter was a nurse a cofounder of the Duke Hospital Axuiliary. She was married to Dr. Bayard Carter, who served as chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology.
Major Julia White, 65th General Hospital chief nurse. The idea for a Duke hospital army unit was born in October 1940, the brainchild of Wilburt C. Davison, then dean of the Duke University School of Medicine. The Army reserve unit's original core,...