FRONTLINES KEY DATES
1935 Loyola’s School of Nursing becomes the first baccalaureate nursing program in Illinois through the union of five hospital- based schools.
1937 Loyola creates the first public health nursing program.
1948 Loyola assumes full responsibility for the School of Nursing and develops a four-year curriculum.
1950–53 Loyola nurses serve in the Korean War.
1952 The school begins offering classes at the Lake Shore Campus.
A yearbook photo from the early ‘60s shows Loyola nurses caring for a couple of young patients. 75 years—and counting
program in Illinois. At the time, the school was set up in five unit hospitals. It reorganized in 1949 to the four-year Bachelor of Science in Nursing pro- gram that remains today. The history of the school is not one without turmoil. The early leaders of
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the school had to fight to convince academic officials that nurses should be educated in a university environment and should earn a four-year college degree, and nursing students were the
first to take classes at the Lake Shore Campus. Today, top-rated programs are offered at all levels. Under the direction
of Dean Vicki Keough (MSN ‘91, PhD ‘98), RN-BC, ACNP, the school will focus on increasing endowed scholarship aid so that all students, regardless of their ability to pay, are able to study at the school. Dean Keough also plans to expand the nursing program to have a major presence on both the Lake Shore and the Maywood campuses. Undergraduates will obtain their first two years of education at the Lake Shore Campus and the final two years at Maywood, where all master’s and doctoral programs will be held. There are also plans for a new school of nursing building on the Maywood campus.
HE MARCELLA NIEHOFF SCHOOL OF NURSING CELEBRATES its 75th anniversary this year, which culminated in a gala on October 1, 2010, at The Drake Hotel. The School of Nurs- ing was founded in 1935 as the first baccalaureate nursing
WHAT’S IN A NAME? • In 1923, Marcella Niehoff and her husband, Conrad, founded their auto parts company, C.E. Niehoff & Co. Long active on behalf of Loyola, Niehoff was a member of the Board of Lay Trustees for 20 years, the second woman ever appointed to that board. Niehoff endowed the School of Nursing with a $3 million gift and the establishment of a professorship in nursing, which was announced at the 1979 Stritch Dinner. She died a month later, but her name lives on through the School of Nursing.
1963 The graduate program is established, and the first students are admitted in 1964.
1966 Federal funding supports the completion of Damen Hall, which is intended to attract nursing students in order to assuage a nursing shortage.
1969 Nursing students begin clinical experiences at the new Foster G. McGaw teaching hospital in Maywood.
1979 Marcella Niehoff gives $1M and pledges $2M through her estate to name the school and establish the Marcella Niehoff Endowed Chair.
1981 The Loyola University Chicago Nursing Center is founded for students to serve community health needs.
1988 The PhD program is established.
2006 The undergraduate Health Systems Management Program is established.
2009 The Doctor of Nursing Practice is established.
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