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10 Rememberances M. Elizabeth Carnegie 1916-2008 Dr. M. Elizabeth Carnegie was quoted as saying, “In nursing, you can be anything you want to be – practitioner, educator, administrator, executive, researcher, journalist, consultant, congressional leader, policymaker, health advocate.” In her over 70 year career, Dr. Carnegie managed to fill all of those positions, plus more. Born in Baltimore, MD and raised in Washington, DC, Dr. Carnegie received her initial nursing education at the Lincoln Hospital School of Nursing in New York City in 1936. Continuing her education, she received a Bachelor’s degree from West Virginia State College, a Master’s degree from Syracuse University, and a Doctorate in Public Administration from New York University. Well known as a nurse educator, Dr. Carnegie established the baccalaureate nursing program at Hampton University in Virginia, served as the Dean of School of Nursing at Florida A&M University, and held distinguished endowed professorships at numerous colleges and universities. Dr. Carnegie also served on the editorial board of the American Journal of Nursing, was past Editor of the journal Nursing Research, was President of the American Academy of Nursing, and chaired a number of critical professional committees. She received countless awards and honors throughout her impressive career. Dr. Carnegie’s untiring work as a force for desegregation in nursing was one of her greatest accomplishments. As a young nurse she learned of African American nurses’ struggles for education, employment, and professional recognition from Mabel Staupers, Executive Secretary of the National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses. Deeply impressed by the inequalities that existed for African American nurses, Dr. Carnegie vowed to “do all within my power to help change the system and break down the barriers that were keeping Black nurses out of the mainstream of professional nursing.” In this task she was eminently successful. She was the first African American nurse appointed to the Board of the Florida Nurses Association, refusing to serve until she was accorded the full privileges of Board membership available to her white colleagues. Dr. Carnegie also rejected conforming to demeaning customs prevalent during the nation’s segregated era, such as requiring African American nurses to ride in freight elevators at professional meetings. She expected and received nothing less than the dignity afforded white nurses, saying many times “Before I would sit where they wanted me to sit, I would stand.” A prolific author, Dr Carnegie is familiar for those interested in nursing and health care history for her acclaimed book, The Path We Tread: Blacks in Nursing 1854 -1984, which remains a definitive resource for the history of African American nurses. She was a devoted and active member of the American Association for the History of Nursing (AAHN) and attended the 2007 research conference of the AAHN in White Plains, NY shortly before her death. Dr. Carnegie was a beloved mentor and meteoric trail blazer and will be remembered for her work, her scholarship, and her leadership. Edna LaPorte Strumpf 1915-2008 A longtime friend of the Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History of Nursing, and mother of Penn nursing faculty member, Neville Strumpf, died on May 7. Edna Strumpf was born in a log cabin in Spring Hill, VA, on August 22, 1915. Despite humble origins and the hardships of the Depression, education and personal betterment were encouraged, and at an early age, Edna decided to be a nurse. This was the ticket to an independent life and an opportunity to discover a much larger world, which she did by choosing the Mount Sinai Hospital School of Nursing in Philadelphia. Edna excelled and thrived, graduating at the head of her class in 1937. She was one of only two graduates hired to work by the hospital, which she did for several years, and then, ever the adventurer, she moved to New York City to take a better paying position at the Bronx Veterans Administration Hospital. It was at the Bronx VA that she met her future husband of 63 years, Herbert, who was also a nurse. The outbreak of World War II interrupted their courtship and Edna, who saw service to her country as a moral obligation, joined the Army Nurse Corps in 1943; Herbert also served in the military in the European Theatre. Before they shipped out for overseas duty they managed to squeeze in a wedding; marrying on October 3, 1944. Edna was one of 16,000 who crossed the Atlantic on each voyage made by the Queen Elizabeth in the transport of troops to Europe in preparation for the bloody Battle of the Bulge. With her unit, the 126th Evacuation Hospital, Edna cared for the sick Edna LaPorte Strumpf and wounded in Belgium and Germany, many of whom had severe frostbite, the result of one of the worst winters in memory. Edna was honorably discharged in January of 1946, and returned to New York City, where she and Herbert started, like nearly everyone else, their baby boomer family.
The Strumpf family settled in Selkirk, NY. Edna raised three children, volunteered for her church and for many community organizations, among them the Red Cross, Bethlehem Ambulance Association, the Bethlehem Historical Society, and the Board of Directors for a resident home for the mentally and physically disabled. Over the years, her service amounted to thousands of hours freely given. In 1987, Edna and her class from Mt. Sinai held their 50th reunion in Philadelphia, which included a tour of the newly formed Center for the Study of the History of Nursing at Penn, inspiring the later gift of her papers to the School. Her collected papers in the Center provide snapshots of a young woman of the 1930s seeking information about nursing, selecting a training school, and recalling student life at the Mt. Sinai Training School for Nurses in Philadelphia from 1934-1937. The collection also includes lecture notes and examinations, a map of the original hospital site and photographs of the building, a procedure manual specifically for student nurses, and the commencement program. Undergraduate nursing students use this and other Center Collections for projects in courses on the history of health care. One such student, working recently with Dr. Patricia D’Antonio, learned that Edna “draped her cape over the transom door of her room, so that the house mother would not know she was studying late at night.” Additionally, several of Edna’s uniforms were displayed in the RN exhibit, co-sponsored by the Center and the Fabric Workshop in 2003. Personal effects related to her service in World War II, along with a videotaped interview describing her experiences as an army nurse, are housed at the Museum of Military History in Saratoga, NY. Edna LaPorte Strumpf offered a lifetime of service to her family, her community, her patients, her church and her country. Joan Lynaugh has written aptly that “nursing reflects the human experience; history helps us comprehend and deal with both the beauty and the tragedy of life on earth.” That captures Edna LaPorte Strumpf well, a nurse who lived history, knew life fully, understood tragedy, and left beauty in its many forms. (Dissertations, continued) with the American Nursing Association’s Social Policy Statement, the Classification of Nursing Diagnosis, and the Nursing Minimum Data Set prioritized, organized, and promoted certain aspects of these systems. Through the course of her analysis Dr. Hobbs was able to illuminate the very local and idiosyncratic nature of CIS. Moreover, she explicated how tools like classification schemes, data sets, care plans, or a description of practice, designed for use within CIS, promoted a particular take on nursing practice that reflected the ideas and issues of concern to those who created them. Congratulations to all our graduates who have completed very impressive studies and added much to nursing history scholarship. American Association for the History of Nursing 25 th Annual Research Conference September 25-28, 2008 Philadelphia, PA The Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History of Nursing is coordinating and planning the 25 th Annual Research Conference of the American Association for the History of Nursing (AAHN). Co-sponsors for this event are the AAHN and the School of Nursing at the University of Pennsylvania. The conference will be held at the Hyatt Regency Philadelphia at Penn’s Landing from September 25-28, 2008. The Keynote Speaker is Barbara Brodie, PhD, RN, FAAN, the Madge M. Jones Professor of Nursing Emerita and Associate Director, Center for Nursing Historical Inquiry, School of Nursing at the University of Virginia. Her keynote title is From Nursery Maids to Professional Pediatric Nurse Clinicians, Practitioners, and Researchers. The 25 th Annual Conference promises opportunities for scholarly 11 exchanges of knowledge about the development of nursing and healthcare in the United States and across the globe. This year, the Conference also celebrates the wisdom, the insights, and the critical importance of 25 years of historical scholarship. Our program and celebration include paper and poster presentations, exhibits, networking opportunities, our traditional banquet, and, of course, our live auction. The Local Arrangements Committee is working diligently at making the 25 th Research Conference an event to remember. The Conference features an exciting and informative pre-conference program entitled Crossing the Digital Divide that will focus on demonstrating new digital media and technology for historical research and teaching. Faculty for the preconference are from the Center for History and New Technology at George Mason University in Virginia. As those who have attended past conferences know, a major highlight of the conference is the Annual Auction at which objects of historical interest and other treasures, such as dinners at excellent restaurants, weekend stays at country and seashore homes, and other items are auctioned off to the highest bidder. All funds raised benefit the AAHN’s research award program, a major funding source for historical research on nursing.
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