Z_017_St. Benedict's

Title Z_017_St. Benedict's
Creator Stewart Library - Weber State University
Contributors Mount Benedict Monestary; Photographs taken by Hope Welch, Betty Nichols, Pat Erickson, Evelyn Brunson, Judy Binkley, Janice Hassell, and Josephine Hibbeln
Image Captions We would have to get up right around six. If you were Catholic you had to go to Mass. Then we would have breakfast. We would have classes starting around eight. An hour of chemistry, an hour of nursing fundamentals, including a lab where we would go to learn the routine, how to give a bed bath and how to take blood pressures, and eventually how to draw blood and we drew blood on each other.-Frances Greigo Duncan, Class of 1960
Description The St. Benedicts School of Nursing was founded in 1947 by the Sisters of Mount Benedict. The school operated from April 1947 to 1968. Over that forty-one year period, the school had 605 students and 357 graduates. In 1966, the program became the basis for Weber State Colleges Practical Nurse Program and eventually merged into Webers Nursing Program. This oral history project was created to capture the memories of the graduates and to add to the history of nursing education in Ogden. The interviews focus on their training, religion, and experiences working with doctors, nurses, nuns, and patients at St. Benedicts Hospital. This project received funding from the Utah Humanities Council and the Utah State History.
Subject Nursing--United States; Ogden (Utah); St. Benedict's Hospital; Catholic Church--Utah
Digital Publisher Stewart Library, Weber State University, Ogden, Utah, USA
Date 1947; 1948; 1949; 1950; 1951; 1952; 1953; 1954; 1955; 1956; 1957; 1958; 1959; 1960; 1961; 1962; 1963; 1964; 1965; 1966; 1967; 1968
Date Digital 2011
Medium Oral History
Spatial Coverage Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States, http://sws.geonames.org/5779206, 41.223, -111.97383
Type Text; Image/StillImage; Image/MovingImage
Conversion Specifications Archived TIFF images were scanned by Sarah Langsdon at 400 dpi with an Epson Expression 10000XL scanner. JPG and PDF files were then created for general use.
Language eng
Relation http://librarydigitalcollections.weber.edu/
Rights Materials may be used for non-profit and educational purposes; please credit Special Collections Department, Stewart Library, Weber State University.
Source MS 378
Format image/jpeg
ARK ark:/87278/s64bvfjy
Setname wsu_stben_oh
ID 96964
Reference URL https://digital.weber.edu/ark:/87278/s64bvfjy
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