Z_046_St. Benedict's

Title Z_046_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 My aunt and uncle went to California and on the way back they stopped to see Sister Mary Margaret in Ogden at the hospital. She told me what a beautiful place this was and everything. So I wrote to Sister Mary Margaret that summer and asked if they were going to have a school of nursing. She said yes but it wouldnt be open for a year because the hospital had to be open for one year in order for them to get accreditation for a school of nursing. I waited that year and they sent me all the things that needed to fill out. Then she wrote back and said yes they would accept me. I didnt need to come for a personal interview.-Clara Mann Sorensen, Class of 1950
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/s64y4ahf
Setname wsu_stben_oh
ID 96983
Reference URL https://digital.weber.edu/ark:/87278/s64y4ahf
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