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Historical Nursing School Dedication Ceremony
Methodist Hospitals is proud to co-host the Dedication ceremony for the plaque commemorating the 728 graduates of the Methodist Hospital School of Nursing. The Methodist Hospital School of Nursing opened on June 19, 1923, with eight students. The school was open for 44 years and graduated 728 students. Approximately 400 of the alumni are alive today; many still reside in the Lake County area.
The Dedication ceremony is scheduled for Friday, October 6 at 10 a.m. at the Southlake campus. This event could not have taken place without the diligence of Hazel Witte, RN, President of the Historical Group of the Nurses Alumni Association.
Remarks will be provided by Joanne Birdzell, RN, the Director of Nursing for the last class in 1967 and John Skulley, M.D. a retired physician with deep-rooted ties to the school and the community.
Dr. Marks and his wife Lucille Marks will receive special recognition at the ceremony. Ms. Marks is the oldest living graduate. She is an alumnus from the class of 1928.
Important Dates in the Methodist School of Nursing History
- June 1923 - School opens with eight students. The students are housed in the hospital patient rooms.
- 1926 - The construction of a Nurses Home began as the hospitals first major expansion project. The nurses' home is the current Administration Center, located at 550 Grant St.
- 1934 to 1939 - The nursing school closes due to financial hardships during the Great Depression
- 1951 - University classes are added to the nursing program to address the nursing shortage
- 1952 - Irachelle Pulliam enrolled as the first African-American nursing student
- 1953 - Methodist Hospital School of Nursing became one of only a few co-ed using schools in the United States with the enrollment of its first male students, Curtis Benson, Gordon Rowan and Fred Segura
- 1967 - Methodist Hospital School of Nursing graduates its last class in June
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