Uniformed School of Nursing students on front steps of building. 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.
School of Nursing, class of 1957. A four-year professional program in nursing leading to the Bachelor of Nursing degree was established in 1953 under the direction of School of Nursing Dean Florence K. Wilson. This group was the first class to...
The first class of the School of Nursing in uniform. The class entered on January 1931 and graduated in June 1933. They were the only class to wear black stockings.
(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...
Thelma Ingles came to Duke university in 1944 supported by a United States Public Health Service grant to study the role of the nurse in the clinic. She returned to Duke in 1949 as professor and chair of the Department of Medical-Surgical Nursing at...
Portrait of Wilma Minniear, who joined Duke as an Assistant Professor in 1964. She became Executive Director of Nursing Services in 1970 and remained in this position until her retirement in 1984.
Wilma Minnier (L) talk with two nursing students in the hospital. Minniear joined Duke as an assistant professor in 1964. She became executive director of nursing services in 1970 and remained in this position until her retirement in 1984.