| Title |
Z_043_Nurses |
| Creator |
McKay Dee Foundation |
| Contributors |
Photographers: Delpha Allen; Edna Stratford; Faye Ball; Karla Tripp; Grace Walling; Olive Madsen; Regina Turner |
| Description |
On December 31, 1910, fifteen patients were transferred to the Dee Memorial Hospital accompanied by five graduate nurses and three student nurses. These women formed the first faculty and student body of the Dee School of Nursing. The student nurses lived in the basement of the Hospital and classes were held there. Nurses were required to register in and out of quarters and could not remain out after 10 p.m., with the privilege extended to a midnight curfew once a month. Night duty was handled by students with one in charge of each nursing floor. Nurses were also expected to do special private duty nursing in the Hospital and in homes for practical training without additional compensation.The Dee School of Nursing operated with few changes until World War II when a section of the U.S. Cadet Nurses Corps was organized to help with the shortage of nurses. The scholarships paid the tuition and issued a small stipend. The only requirement was that the students remain active in nursing during the war. The last class graduated in 1955 when the school merged into the nursing program at Weber College. In its forty-five years of existence, the school graduated more than 700 nurses, many of whom continued working in Northern Utah.With the last graduating class in 1955, the alumni are disappearing fast and we wanted to capture their stories before they were lost like the Dee Hospital. Through this oral history project, we learned about the women behind the grades and photographs. They talked about their experiences with the doctors, patients, and each other. They expressed the hard work they put in on a daily basis but also the fun times such as sliding down the hills during the winter on the steel bed pans. This oral history project put faces and stories to the static student records and expanded on what became of them after they graduated from the Dee School of Nursing. |
| Image Captions |
What got me started thinking about being a nurse was when my mother was ill in the Thomas D. Dee Memorial Hospital. I can remember going up to the fourth floor a big medical floor, fifteen or so patients to a room. I walked over across the hall into what may have been the kitchen. I looked down and saw nurses walking from the hospital up to the nursing home. They had on their blue capes and I thought, Wouldnt that be wonderful to be a nurse. Dorothy Mills Bird, Class of 1947 |
| Subject |
Nursing--United States; Ogden (Utah); Thomas D. Dee Memorial Hospital; Nursing students--United States |
| Digital Publisher |
Stewart Library, Weber State University, Ogden, Utah, USA |
| Date |
1910; 1911; 1912; 1913; 1914; 1915; 1916; 1917; 1918; 1919; 1920; 1921; 1922; 1923; 1924; 1925; 1926; 1927; 1928; 1929; 1930; 1931; 1932; 1933; 1934; 1935; 1936; 1937; 1938; 1939; 1940; 1941; 1942; 1943; 1944; 1945; 1946; 1947; 1948; 1949; 1950; 1951; 1952; 1953; 1954; 1955 |
| Date Digital |
2011 |
| Temporal Coverage |
1910; 1911; 1912; 1913; 1914; 1915; 1916; 1917; 1918; 1919; 1920; 1921; 1922; 1923; 1924; 1925; 1926; 1927; 1928; 1929; 1930; 1931; 1932; 1933; 1934; 1935; 1936; 1937; 1938; 1939; 1940; 1941; 1942; 1943; 1944; 1945; 1946; 1947; 1948; 1949; 1950; 1951; 1952; 1953; 1954; 1955 |
| Item Size |
5"x7"; 8"x10"; 3"x4" |
| Medium |
Photography |
| Item Description |
Black and White Photographs; Color Photographs |
| Spatial Coverage |
Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States, http://sws.geonames.org/5779206, 41.223, -111.97383 |
| Type |
Image/StillImage |
| Conversion Specifications |
Archived TIFF images were scanned with an Epson Expression 10000XL scanner. OCR created by using ABBYY Fine Reader. JPG and PDF files were then created for general use. |
| Language |
eng |
| Rights |
Materials may be used for non-profit and educational purposes; please credit Special Collections Department, Stewart Library, Weber State University. |
| Source |
MS 147; MS 355; MS 41 Special Collections Department, Stewart Library, Weber State University |
| Format |
image/jpeg |
| ARK |
ark:/87278/s6nfft34 |
| Setname |
wsu_dsn_oh |
| ID |
38931 |
| Reference URL |
https://digital.weber.edu/ark:/87278/s6nfft34 |
