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NAN ROWENA EWING
Since 1933 NAN ROWENA EWING has been principal of the Toledo Hospital School of Nursing and has given almost all of her adult life to the profession. She is a daughter of William and Mary (Mason) Hamlett, the former a native of Tennessee and the latter of Virginia, while Mrs. Ewing was born in Mayfield. Kentucky. She attended private schools and continued her education in the University of Chicago, where she majored in sociology in 1930. In the meantime she had married Osman Ewing of Los Angeles, California, where he was engaged in the brokerage business.
In 1915 Mrs. Ewing took up nursing in the St. Louis City Hospital, with which she was connected for three years and then went to Camp Gordon in Georgia, for the World War was then in progress and she aided in nursing the soldiers in that camp. She was next in charge of a ward in the City Hospital of St. Louis for about a year, after which she was in charge of nursing and served as superintendent until 1919, when she accepted a position in the Rockford City Hospital at Rockford, Illinois. From there she went to the Lying-In Hospital in Chicago and did postgraduate work in obstetrics, after which she engaged in private nursing duty in Chicago for several months. On the expiration of that period she came to Ohio and in Cleveland was obstetrical supervisor in Mt. Sinai Hospital until 1923, when she took charge of the nursing school of the Ravenswood Hospital, there remaining until 1931, after which she was assistant to the dean of that institution for a year.
In 1933 Mrs. Ewing came to Toledo to accept the position of principal of the Toledo Hospital School for Nursing and has since remained here, covering a period of six years. Her previous experience and training have well qualified her for this position, her work proving highly satisfactory to the governing board of the institution and to the general public.
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MARY ELIZABETH GLADWIN
When MARY ELIZABETH GLADWIN, of Akron, O., shows her medals, which it is difficult to persuade her to do, the part that one woman can play in the alleviation of human suffering is eloquently though mutely told. She is English by birth, received her Ph.D. at Buchtel College and her R.N., cum laude, at the Boston City Hospital School of Nursing in 1903. As lecturer and writer on nursing education, Mary Gladwin is said to have definitely advanced the art and science to which she has devoted her life. On the actual service side, her work is regarded as unexcelled. This service was given in widely separated parts of the world and her medals testify to war work equally extensive. There is the Florence Nightengale Medal of the Red Cross, the Royal Red Cross from Serbia, the St. Anne Medal from Russia, the Port Arthur Medal from Japan. Miss Gladwin was given the honorary degree of L.L. D. by Akron University. She is a member of the Overseas Nurses League, a trustee of the American Nurses Association, past president of the Ohio Nurses Association. Her home has been at Akron for what this city regards as a long enough time to claim Mary Gladwin as one of its most notable and most honored citizens.
MRS. F. J. GOSSER
MRS. F. J. GOSSER was one of the two women responsible for building Crestline Emergency Hospital. The other was MRS. GENEVA CRAIG MARTIN, who, with Mrs. Gosser signed a note for $4,500.00 to build the institution.
The only hospital previously in existence was maintained by the rail- roads to care for the injured and consisted of two second-story rooms.
Mrs. Gosser and Mrs. Martin served as volunteer nurses whenever there was a railroad injury to be treated. They heated water at home, provided other facilities sadly lacking. Other women also assisted in this volunteer work. The present Crestline Emergency Hospital has 15 beds and is well equipped.
Mrs. Gosser was graduated from the Chicago School of Nursing. For 10 years she was secretary of the Crestline Emergency Hospital and was a charter member of the organization.
She organized the Junior Women's Club, whose object was welfare work, in 1933 and the Red Cross Chapter in 1934. She was president of the Crest- line Woman's Club for four years.
This active and interested Ohio woman is a member of the Current Events, St. Francis DeSales Catholic Study Club of Crestline and of the Mansfield Woman's Club and of the Ohioana Library committee.
She served on the Crawford County Relief Committee; was chairman of the Crawford County Christmas Seal sale, 1938; a member of the Hospital
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Auxiliary and a member of the Presbyterian Church and belongs to executive board, Jared Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, Mansfield, Ohio.
MARION GERTRUDE HOWELL
MARION GERTRUDE HOWELL has been dean of the School of Nursing of Western Reserve University, Cleveland, since 1932 and has been con- nected with public health movements and activities for eighteen years. Hers has been an orderly progression, resulting from her constantly developing powers and continually broadening knowledge in this field and in the pro- fessional circles with which she is connected her name and fame are now widely known.
Miss Howell was born in Freeport, Ohio, September 26, 1887, a daughter of John G. and Mary Jane (Knox) Howell, her father a practicing physician. Her paternal great-grandfather came to Ohio from Virginia and cleared land for the family homestead in Belmont County. He married Eliza Kirk, a daughter of Elinore Mercer Kirk, who was descended from Quaker ancestry. The grandparents of Miss Howell had but two sons, Dr. Howell and his brother, who was killed in the Civil War. Mary Jane Knox was of English, Scotch and Irish descent and her mother was a Quakeress who had three brothers in the Civil War. The Knox family came from eastern Pennsylvania to Ohio.
After the completion of her preliminary studies, Miss Howell attended the College of Wooster, in Wooster, Ohio, where she won her Bachelor of Philosophy degree in 1912 and from the Lakeside Hospital of Nursing in Cleveland she received a diploma in nursing in 1920. She also attended the School of Applied Social Sciences of the Western Reserve University and received her Master of Science degree in social administration and a certi- ficate in public health nursing in 1921. She made her first contact with the business world when she became instructor in English at the high school of Minerva, Ohio, where she remained from 1912 to 1918. She then devoted several years to study and was school nurse in the public schools of Fairmont, West Virginia in 1921-22. In the following years he was instructor in public health nursing in the University nursing district in Cleveland, after which she was made assistant professor of public health nursing in the School of Applied Social Sciences of Western Reserve University and acting director of University public health nursing district, so continuing for 1923-24. She was next associate professor of public health nursing and director of the University public health nursing district from 1924 to 1927, and from 1927 to 1932 was professor of public health nursing and director of the University public health nursing district. In the latter year she was made director of nursing service, University Hospitals and professor of public health nursing of the School of Applied Social Sciences of Western Reserve, so serving
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until 1938, while since 1932 she has been dean of the School of Nursing at Western Reserve.
Miss Howell is widely known through her professional connections and has been honored by election to the vice presidency of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Nursing and is also the vice president of the National Organization for Public Health Nursing.
Politically Miss Howell is a Republican and her religious connection is with the Congregational Church. She belongs to the Delta Delta Delta sorority and to Kappa Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, College of Wooster. The breadth of her interests and her high professional standing are both indicated in her membership in the following: National Organization for Public Health Nursing, the Association of Collegiate Schools of Nursing, American Nurses Association, National League of Nursing Education, American Association of University Women, American Association of Social Workers, American Public Health Association, American Congress on Obstetrics and Gynecology, Ohio State Nurses Association, Ohio State League of Nursing Education, Cleveland League of Nursing Education, Advisory Council of University Public Health Nursing District, Health Advisory Board of the Cleveland Humane Society, Nursing Committee of University Hospitals of Cleveland, Nursing Council of University Hospitals of Cleveland, Prenatal Committee of Maternity Hospital and Joint Committee on Community Nursing of the three National Nursing Organizations.
Into the field of charitable associations Miss Howell has extended her efforts by becoming a member of the Cleveland Health Council, the Cleveland Child Health Association, the American Red Cross, Maternal Health Asso- ciation, Consumers League of Ohio and the Guild of St. Barnabas for Nurses. Miss Howell is identified also with civic organizations, being a member of the Cleveland Museum of Art, League of Women Voters and the Musical Art Association (Severance Hall). She also belongs to the Women's City Club of Cleveland and to the Women's Faculty Club of Western Reserve Uni- versity. Step by step she has gone forward in her chosen field of activity and the world has profited thereby.
CARLOTTA E. LINDSAY
CARLOTTA E. LINDSAY has had broad and valuable experience in connection with hospital work and at the present writing is active in another field, being chief deputy of the probate court of Shelby County and a resident of Sidney. Born in Fayette, Iowa, she is a daughter of William H. and Agnes E. (Miller) Robertson, the former a native of Ohio and the latter of Illinois. While spending her girlhood days under the parental roof, Mrs. Lindsay attended the grade schools of her native city and in due time was graduated from high school there, while later she spent two years in study in the Upper Iowa University, working for the necessary credits which would
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enable her to become a teacher. She then engaged in teaching school for three years, subsequent to which time she attended the nurses training school of the Iowa State Hospital, an institution for mental patients. On completing the three years' course she was graduated and for a time remained in the institution, acting as special attendant for about a year and then serving as matron of the hospital for five years. During the World War period in her department she had to do with the food. She had previously been in the office and had charge of all of the papers and clinical histories of each case, writing and recording these.
Prior to this time Carlotta E. Robertson had become the wife of Dr. H. A. Lindsay, who was a second assistant superintendent there and was so serving when he joined the army for service in the World War. He had taken a course in the Psychopathic Hospital in Boston and after his return from the war he was advanced to the position of first assistant in the Iowa State Hospital, where he remained until the fall of 1920 when he was ap- pointed assistant superintendent of the State Hospital at Topeka, Kansas, while Mrs. Lindsay was appointed to a position in connection with the board of health in child hygiene, in which capacity she served for more than two years.
Dr. Lindsay remained at the Topeka State Hospital for two and a half years and then became medical superintendent of the Puritan Sanitarium, a private institution of Kansas City, Missouri, where he continued until the death of Dr. Owsley. Dr. and Mrs. Lindsay then came to Sidney, where he engaged in the private practice of medicine until he passed away in Sep- tember, 1935.
Mrs. Lindsay has continued to make her home in Sidney and in 1937 she was appointed to the position of first deputy in the office of the probate court. She belongs to the First Presbyterian Church and is a member of the Louis Beyer Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, which she joined on its organization and of which she is the present registrar. At the time of the George Washington Bi-centennial, she wrote a three-act play called, "Toby, the Peddler." There were more than three hundred entrants in the contest and her play won fourth place. At the awarding of prizes for the plays at the convention in Washington, D. C., Mrs. Delia Amos Holbrook Smith was present and was asked to present to Mrs. Lindsay the medal. which she did.
Aside from her public duties, Mrs. Lindsay is widely known for sho belongs to the Tourist Club, of which she was president in 1937-38 and in 1938 she was organist for the Eastern Star. She also had charge of the Baptist choir for a year and is well known in musical circles. Politically she is a Democrat and has served as president of the Democratic Woman's Club of Shelby County. Her interests have always been wide and varied, leading to a well rounded development and to higher intellectual attainments.
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LUCILLE BROWN LINDSEY
For more than twenty years LUCILLE BROWN LINDSEY has been engaged in public health work in Mansfield, in which city she was born Febru- ary 13, 1887, a daughter of Eugene D. and Nellie (Brown) Lindsey. Her father, a native of Marion, Ohio, born in 1849, was for thirty-six years engaged in the drug business in Mansfield, where he died in 1935. Her mother, who was born in Wadsworth, Ohio, in 1859 and died in 1928 came of Revolutionary war ancestry. She was a daughter of Jacob R. Brown, an early Pennsylvanian who in the opening years of the nineteenth century became the first match manufacturer in the section of the country surrounding Wadsworth and as the result of his efforts the Wadsworth Match Company was developed. He also had his profile engraved on a United States postage stamp in use at one time. In the family of Eugene D. and Nellie (Brown) Lindsey were three daughters, of whom Lillie is now a religious education teacher, and Margaret is the wife of Jack Beattie, both being still residents of Mansfield.
Lucille B. Lindsey is one of the members of the Visiting Nurses Asso- ciation of Mansfield. She took her training in the Cleveland City Hospital and has attended, for special study, Child Health Demonstration Classes in Mansfield. She has always lived in her native city and has devoted her life to the physical welfare of the people, especially the children. With Miss Mary Hill she took over the responsibility of the Visiting Nurses Association soon after it was organized in 1915 by Miss Helen Hayden, and her connec- tion with public health work has covered more than two decades. It is her duty to daily visit the schools, with a definite purpose to conserve the vision of children, to promote the welfare of crippled children and to watch for and prevent the spread of any contagious disease, and along these lines she em- ploys the most modern scientific knowledge. She also conducts the baby clinic in the city department of health, and at all times she keeps abreast with modern thought, research and methods bearing upon her chosen life work.
Miss Lindsey belongs to the Ohio Nurses Association, the Red Cross and the Evangelical church. At the time of the World war she volunteered for overseas service but Mansfield felt that she was needed at home, so she remained here. Her work in the influenza epidemic during the war won her a special citation from the Red Cross.
SUE Z. MCCRACKEN
SUE Z. MCCRACKEN, head of the Visiting Nurses Association of Cleve- land, has devoted the major part of her life to work of this character, although in her earlier womanhood she engaged in teaching for a time. She is a daughter of Elmer G. and Electa (Zeller) McCracken, both of whom were natives of Pennsylvania and came to Ohio in 1901, settling in Grafton, where the father was an engineer of the Standard Oil Company. In 1904 they removed to
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Berea, this state, and Mr. MeCracken was there with the Ohio Nut & Bolt Company to the time of his death in 1935. The mother survives and still makes her home in Berea. Their family numbered five children. two of whom died in infancy, while H. Zeller, a veteran of the World war, died after being gassed in one of the major engagements. He was a member of the One Hun- dred and Forty-fourth Infantry and served for eighteen months. The surviv- ing members of the family are Sue Z. and Mabel C., the latter a teacher in the public schools of Cleveland.
After attending the grade schools in Leeper, Clarion County, Pennsylvania, Sue Z. McCracken continued her studies in the high school of Grafton, Ohio, where she was graduated in 1904. She was next a student in Baldwin Uni- versity, where she majored in psychology and won the Bachelor of Philosophy degree in 1909. She then taught in the grade schools of Hudson, Ohio, for a year. after which she entered Lakeside Hospital School of Nursing and was graduated in 1914, while subsequently she engaged in private nursing and later in surgical nursing. She next took a course in public health nursing at the Western Reserve University and after a year received a certificate in 1915. She organized school nursing work at Oberlin College, after which she went to Elyria, Ohio, organized public nursing there and established a school of nursing in Lorain County, continuing her labors there for three years. On the expiration of that period she became nurse examiner for the blind and when two years had passed in that connection she returned to Elyria, where she was with the Elyria Memorial and Gates Hospital for Crippled Children for two years.
From Elyria Miss MeCracken came to Cleveland and has been with the Visiting Nurses Association since 1921 as supervisor with the exception of one year spent at the Western Reserve University, where she took a course in psychology and social work in the School of Applied Science, and since her return to Cleveland she has continued as the incumbent in the position she formerly occupied. Her seventeen years connection with the work cer- tainly indicates her capability and her loyalty to the duties which devolve upon her. She was consultant in the field of mental hygiene for five years and she has also been field instructor in a course of public health nursing. which was a joint appointment with her position in the Visiting Nurses Asso- ciation. She acted in that capacity for four years.
Miss McCracken's life has been an extremely busy and useful one and has been characterized by steady advancement in the field of her chosen pro- fession. She is widely known through various membership connections, which include the Baldwin-Wallace Alumni Association, the American Association of University Women, the American Association of Psychology and Social Workers, the Alumni Association of the School of Applied Social Science at Western Reserve, the Cleveland Automobile Club and the Federation of Woman's Clubs.
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NORMA N. SELBERT
NORMA N. SELBERT, professor in the College of Medicine of Ohio State University, was born in Cincinnati and received her diploma from Christ Hospital School of Nursing.
Her M.A. was from the same college and she did post graduate work at Yale University. For several years Mrs. Selbert was instructor at Stephens College for Women, Columbia, Mo., and later Director of West Virginia Health Camp.
She has been identified with the American Red Cross Nursing Service and was a national organizer of American Girl Scouts. Among her published articles were "Home Care of the Sick" and "Child Health."
SARAH SIMS
SARAH SIMS, like her sister, Mrs. Fred M. Orr, has been a figure in the social service development of Mahoning County for 25 years. She was superintendent of the Florence Crittenden Home for 17 years and retired in 1938 only when she had seen built and financed a fine model home for her beloved girls.
When directors of the home heard her final resignation read, they wept at her passing from active service. Nobody could believe that "Sadie" Sims had given up the leadership of an institution which she had made and de- veloped in Youngstown.
She was a daughter of John D. Sims, long time prominent Youngstown citizen and was born and reared in Youngstown. She was educated in the public schools and graduated among the earliest classes of the nurses' train- ing school of the Youngstown Hospital Association. Early in life she mani- fested good judgment and executive ability and was picked to head her hospital as superintendent. Under her direction the training school was re-organized until it became one of the most important in the country.
Miss Sims organized public school nursing in Youngstown and served for some years with that group. Since her retirement she has spent her time visiting friends throughout the country, in travel and leisurely pursuit of music, reading, all the things that she has never had time to do.
MARY J. TAYLOR
In 1937 MARY J. TAYLOR became superintendent of the Wilson Mc- morial Hospital of Sidney, bringing to the work thorough training, long experience and a sympathetic understanding of people, coupled with a most earnest desire to be of real assistance to her fellowmen.
Mrs. Taylor was born in Lebanon County, Pennsylvania, a daughter of James and Ella (Reinhart) Johnston, the former dying during the early
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childhood of Mrs. Taylor. The mother, who survived until 1928, became a teacher in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, and it was there that the daughter attended school until she had completed her preliminary work in the grades. Later she attended the Normal School of Westchester, in her native state and when but fifteen years of age she began teaching, which profession she followed for nine years. Feeling that she might direct her efforts into a field of greater usefulness, she entered the Alliance City Hospital and Deaconess Home of the Reformed Church, at Alliance, Ohio, where she took a course of training in nursing and was graduated with the class of 1909, thus gaining the initial experience which prepared her for the professional and humanitarian work she is now doing.
In 1910 Mary J. Johnston was married to Edward W. Taylor, who was engaged in the automobile business at the time of his death in 1927. After their marriage they established their home in Alliance, Ohio and Mrs. Taylor took up nursing in connection with the schools and the Associated Charities Nursing organization, also under the auspices of the United Missionary Societies. This was the beginning of her public nursing. Later the schools took over the nursing when Mrs. Taylor removed to Norwalk. Ohio, where she did not engage in public work. However, while there she was a member of the Presbyterian Church and its missionary society, and was the teacher of the Loyalty class in the Sunday school.
Following the death of her husband she returned to Alliance and took the position of secretary of the Woman's Club, serving in that capacity for six years. She finally accepted the proffered position of superintendent of nurses in the Alliance City Hospital, and the six years of her connection with that institution was a period of unusual success, in which she was largely instrumental in building up an excellent hospital, rendering a splendid service to the community. She then resigned in 1937 to become superintendent of the Wilson Memorial Hospital in Sidney, where she is still located as the head of the institution. Her aims are high, her methods are practical and her labors are beneficially resultant.
While in Alliance Mrs. Taylor was a member of the Alliance Woman's Club, the Quota Club and the Sorosis and in Sidney she belongs to the Woman's Club, the Business Woman's Club and to the Evangelical Reformed Church.
MARTHA FLEETA THOMAS
MARTHA FLEETA THOMAS, president of the Florence Crittenden Home of Columbus, O., and assistant secretary of the Ohio Public Health Association, was born at East Liberty, O., the daughter of Rolla and Nettie Thomas. She attended the Inskeep Music School at Marion, O., and later the Office Training School of Columbus.
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She became a skilled musician and for a time was a teacher of music. also a professional accompanist and organist. In 1933 she was made president of the Florence Crittenden League and a leader in the Women's Committee on Public Welfare of Ohio. She has done outstanding work in the health field, co-operating actively with anti-tuberculosis groups, with the Ohio Federation of Public Health Officials and similar organizations. Her home is at 72 South Fourth St., Columbus.
MARY ELIZABETH YAGER
MARY ELIZABETH YAGER, superintendent of the Women's and Chil- dren's Hospital of Toledo, has devoted her entire life to nursing service in which she had made continuous advancement until she has reached a high point of efficiency. A native of New York, she was born in Dellwood, near Buffalo, a daughter of John and Elizabeth Yager, the former a native of New York City, while the mother was born in Germany. Mary E. Yager attended the public schools of Buffalo, passing through consecutive grades to the high school, and later entered the Genessee School of Nursing at Rochester, New York. After completing her training there she became oper- ating room supervisor and next went to Worcester, Massachusetts, where she was made assistant superintendent of nursing in the Worcester Memorial Hospital. She spent several years there and then became assistant superin- tendent of the Niagara Falls Memorial Hospital at Niagara Falls, New York. Her next assignment placed her in the position of teaching supervisor of the City Hospital of Indianapolis, Indiana, her salary being paid by the Uni- versity of Indiana. When leaving that position several years later she went to Latrobe, Pennsylvania, where she was superintendent of the Latrobe Hospital.
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