Image of the Week
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This image, from Special Collections and Archives at Tompkins-McCaw Library, shows registered nurses who enrolled in the public health nursing program at St. Philip School of Nursing in the fall of 1945. From 1920 until 1962, the Medical College of Virginia (MCV) operated a separate school of nursing for African-American women known as the St. Philip School of Nursing. With funding provided from the Social Security Act MCV initiated a public health nursing program at the St. Philip School of Nursing in 1936. A year later the program was accredited by the National Organization for Public Health Nursing and it attracted students from all across the southeastern United States. Standing left to right outside the Egyptian Building are: (first row) Rachael Henry, Cornie Mahome, Dorothy Woodson, Susie Peters, Inez Boldew, and Virginia Arnold; (second row) Willie MacGree, Katie Stinson, and Credella Finney.
--Jodi Koste, Archivist - MCV Campus