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Descriptive Summary
Title:
Collection of items pertaining to the Training Camp for
Nurses at Vassar College, 1918, 1918-1921
Collection number:
**AC 8
V3 A191m Rare
Creator:
Adair, Birdie
May
Extent:
1 box
(0.5 linear ft.)
Abstract:
Miss Birdie May Adair graduated from the University
of North Dakota in 1913 and attended the Training Camp for Nurses at Vassar
College in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., during the summer (July 24 to September 13) of
1918. The training camp was organized under the auspices of the National Council
of Defense with funding from the American Red Cross. The camp's intent was to
draw female college graduates into the critically understaffed ranks of wartime
nurses, and it included 430 young women from 117 different colleges. After the
summer, trainees went on to regular hospital training programs throughout the
country. The collection consists of: Miss Adair's certificate of completion of
the training course; announcement booklet outlining camp guidelines; several
contemporary photographs; and a nearly complete run (one issue lacking) of the
camp newspaper, "The Thermometer", published weekly during the camp's duration
and occasionally thereafter for 6 more issues.
Physical location:
History and Special Collections Division,
Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library, University of California, Los
Angeles.
Collection materials in English
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