{"id":26261,"date":"2023-09-13T15:49:34","date_gmt":"2023-09-13T19:49:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/?p=26261"},"modified":"2023-09-26T14:24:56","modified_gmt":"2023-09-26T18:24:56","slug":"nursing-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/nursing-school\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Passion in the Profession\u2019: The Cornell School of Nursing\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Nearly a half century since the program\u2019s closure, alumni still share strong bonds\u2014and a legacy<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Joe Wilensky<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

For several decades in the mid-20th century, a distinct cadre of Cornell women undergraduates lived together in an elegant 16-story residence on the far east side of Manhattan. Befitting the era, the building included a formal dining room and shared sitting rooms. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It also had its own infirmary and was located near the University\u2019s medical college and its affiliated teaching hospital\u2014for this was the student residence of the Cornell School of Nursing, then one of the top such programs in the country. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A postcard view of the nurses\u2019 residence on York Avenue.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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In operation from 1942\u201379, the school combined three years of education, hospital training, and hands-on experience at\u00a0NewYork\u2013Presbyterian Hospital and Weill Cornell Medicine (as the institutions are now known) on top of two years of prior academic study, granting a bachelor\u2019s degree in nursing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe had wonderful instructors and clinical experiences,\u201d says program alum Stasi Lubansky \u201978. \u201cAnd we were exposed to a lot of things nurses could do, from public health to primary care to sports medicine.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In total, the school granted more than 2,600 bachelor\u2019s degrees, with the final class of 98 nurses receiving their diplomas more than 40 years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Its graduates include many who had long and varied careers, including pursuing advanced degrees, conducting research, and taking leading roles in nursing education nationwide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The school\u2019s alumni remain a passionate and dedicated group\u2014staying connected, publishing newsletters, and holding an annual Alumni Day. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Though the youngest alums are now in their late 60s, many remain active in their fields, and hundreds are involved in their alumni association<\/a>, which holds reunions, hosts speakers, and gives out awards to recognize their members\u2019 achievements.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Commencement, Class of 1961.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe had a desire to stay together as Cornell graduates,\u201d recalls Grace Allman Burke \u201964, \u201cso that we could reflect together on our days in New York City, which were wonderful, as well as to learn about how our experience impacted and informed our lives today.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Burke\u2019s alma mater traces its roots to one of the oldest such programs in the country: the New York Hospital Training School for Nurses, established in the 19th century. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Its distinguished early graduates include Lillian Wald, founder of the Henry Street Settlement and the Visiting Nurse Service, and Clara Weeks-Shaw, who wrote the first textbook by an American nurse.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Working at a hospital nurses’ station in 1970.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The school became an official University unit in 1942; admission required two years of previous college credit, either from Cornell or another institution. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a three-year, industry-leading program, tied both to a major university and to an esteemed teaching hospital. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Graduates received a BS in nursing from Cornell (and, at least through the \u201940s and \u201950s, a nursing diploma from New York Hospital was also awarded).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cThe instructors were very forward-looking,\u201d Burke says. \u201cThey told us, \u2018There are so many avenues you can explore. Look around; see what you love and what your passion in the profession is.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Burke went on to earn a master\u2019s degree in nursing and nurse-midwifery from Columbia, delivering more than 4,000 babies over a 38-year career. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Grace Allman Burke \u201964 in the yearbook. (Provided)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe got excellent experience,\u201d she says of her Cornell years. \u201cWe rotated through all of the different services\u2014medicine, surgery, obstetrics, pediatrics, psychiatry, and public health\u2014to get that solid base of training. The nursing and medical staffs incorporated us into whatever was going on.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The nursing graduates remain a unique group among Big Red alumni. For one thing, their population is overwhelmingly female: just 47 men earned degrees, all in the school\u2019s final decade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The nurses\u2019 residence library and lounge.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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And only a small number of nursing alums spent their first two years of college on the Ithaca campus\u2014meaning that most earned bachelor\u2019s degrees from Cornell without ever studying on the Hill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Their unique educational path gave the nursing students a solid academic background before launching them into clinical training at a renowned hospital that was part of the University\u2019s growing medical campus.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Doris Glick \u201966 in her room. (Provided)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>
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\u201cYou go through certain rites of passage,\u201d observes Mary Belmont \u201971, who has begun a planned series of nonfiction books<\/a> for young readers highlighting some of the school\u2019s early alumni. \u201cMaybe it\u2019s witnessing the birth of a baby, or it\u2019s the first time you\u2019ve seen someone die. I think those experiences bind us together as nurses.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition to sharing a course of study, most students lived together in the residence on York Avenue.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The building also housed working nurses\u2014and, for a time, even the school\u2019s dean.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For many years, the students wore classic nursing caps and uniforms, though hemlines rose over the decades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Per longstanding tradition, seniors would mark the completion of their studies by tossing their uniform shoes into the East River.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cYou graduated with the PhDs and the medical students, and the ceremony was on the front lawn of the hospital,\u201d recalls Lubansky, who went on to earn a doctorate in nursing from SUNY and is now both an advanced practice nurse in primary care and an assistant professor at Weill Cornell Medicine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt was quite grand and wonderful.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Community outreach comprised a significant part of the training.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition to their hospital rounds, students traveled to underserved communities in all five boroughs for public health rotations.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Stasi Lubansky \u201978 (left) and Eleanor Lannen Koo \u201978 in their apartment. (Provided)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

They made home visits, assessed patients, reported diagnoses to clinicians, and educated families at neighborhood health centers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ina Goldberg \u201976 vividly remembers receiving enthusiastic welcomes from residents, with calls of \u201cThe nurses are coming!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe were students,\u201d she says, \u201cbut we represented healthcare for them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We rotated through all of the different services to get that solid base of training.<\/p>\nGrace Allman Burke \u201964<\/strong><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Goldberg\u2019s class was among the last to earn degrees from the school, which endured financial struggles, especially in its final decade. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lacking a large endowment, it faced numerous challenges including new federal insurance regulations that severely curtailed hospital reimbursements for nursing education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Taking pulses, 1969.<\/figcaption><\/figure>
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Students outside their dorm, 1949.<\/figcaption><\/figure>
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Student nurses\u2014including a then-rare male one\u2014in 1971. (Provided)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>
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Heading out after class in the 1970s.<\/figcaption><\/figure>
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In the diet therapy lab, 1937.<\/figcaption><\/figure>
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Updating uniform hemlines in 1968.<\/figcaption><\/figure>
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A candlelight service in the nurses\u2019 residence, 1960. <\/figcaption><\/figure>
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Visitors in the school library, 1961.<\/figcaption><\/figure>
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Training to move a patient, 1968.<\/figcaption><\/figure>
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Commencement for the Class of 1975.<\/figcaption><\/figure>
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A maternity welfare class.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>
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In recent decades, nursing alumni have come together to share the school\u2019s legacy and impact, as well as their own stories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2007, an alumni group published a book it commissioned, Go, And Do Thou Likewise: A History of Cornell University\u2013New York Hospital School of Nursing, 1877\u20131979<\/em><\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It offers an overview of the institution\u2019s century-long impact, some of its notable graduates, and the evolution of nursing education in New York State.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In anatomy class.<\/figcaption><\/figure>
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\u201cAs trailblazers at the beginning of modern nursing, the [school\u2019s] graduates spread their mission around the world to raise education standards and improve the quality of patient-care services,\u201d the book notes. \u201cThroughout the years, nursing students were exposed to a rich laboratory in an institution that evolved into a famous academic medical center, dedicated to innovation and scientific discovery.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Linda Vecchiotti Saal \u201971, the alumni association\u2019s president, long worked at NewYork-Presbyterian\u2019s Department of Nursing as program director for continuing education and affiliations.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

She notes that many classmates went on to pursue careers not just in healthcare, but in law and other fields, with their nursing education as a foundation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe school had a proud history of preparing excellent clinicians and influential nurse leaders,\u201d Saal says. \u201cI will never forget the professors, great role models, and amazing learning opportunities I had.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I will never forget the professors, great role models, and amazing learning opportunities I had.<\/p>\nLinda Vecchiotti Saal \u201971<\/strong><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Doris Glick \u201966 also rose to a prominent position at Cornell\u2019s own teaching hospital, becoming vice president of patient care services and chief nursing officer at NewYork-Presbyterian\/Weill Cornell. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Saal, she notes that the school nurtured lifelong leadership skills that served alumni well, across fields and careers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cWherever I went, I\u2019d always come across someone in leadership\u2014whether it was in education or they were directors or vice presidents\u2014who had gone to the Cornell School of Nursing,\u201d says Glick. \u201cThat was the kind of graduate the school produced.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Top: Demonstrating blood pressure measurement in a nursing arts class, circa the 1930s. All photos courtesy of the Medical Center Archives<\/a> of NewYork-Presbyterian\/Weill Cornell, unless otherwise indicated.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Published September 12, 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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