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FROM LAST TIME


Open wide and say Ahh? This photo was a stumper—no alumni hazarded a guess about the menacing silver tube being used in what appears to be a nursing exercise. We do know that the photo was taken by a New York City photographer, and Skidmore historian Mary C. Lynn pegs the hairstyles to the late 1940s or early 1950s. Indeed, medical needs during World War II had inspired Skidmore to expand its nursing program, and in 1942 the program’s clinical home moved from the small Mary McClellan Hospital in Cambridge, N.Y., to the New York Post-Graduate Hospital. In the following years, according to Lynn’s Make No Small Plans: A History of Skid- more College, “the program grew exponentially” and director Ann Gelinas worked with Margaret Bridgman, the college dean, to revise the nursing curriculum and compress the program from five years to four. While most nurses in the US had two-year certificates, Skidmore’s nurses were baccalaureate grads and, writes Lynn, “were dispropor- tionately represented among the higher administrators and lead- ers in the field.” Skidmore’s pro-


gram enjoyed a strong national reputation for many years. Nursing students typically spent their first year on the Skid- more campus, then two years in study and clinical experience in New York City—at the Post-Graduate Hospital, New York In- firmary, Veterans Hospital, Visiting Nurse Service, or other placements. They lived in a residence hall at 550 First Avenue, then in Fahnestock Hall at 304 East 20th Street in the late 1960s, and then at 325 East 38th Street. Students returned to Skidmore for their fourth year of study. A past-and-present sidebar: In 1948 the Post-Graduate Hos-


pital was taken over by New York University. In 2005 Terry Thomas Fulmer ’76, one of Skidmore’s very successful nurs- ing alumni, became the found- ing dean of NYU’s School of Nursing. In 2009 Fulmer spear- headed an arrangement to fast- track the admission of Skid- more graduates into the NYU nursing program.


This photo, perhaps for a Skidmore nursing brochure, was probably shot to depict clinical training at one of the New York City hospitals.


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JOE ALPER PHOTO COLLECTION


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