Stimson's Daughter Chooses Nursing Career In Military Service
Miss Stimson, daughter of Rev Henry H Stimson, rises from Vassar graduate to superintendent in the Army Nurse Corps and dean of the Army School of Nursing. She states women can serve in many noncombat roles in future wars, freeing men for other tasks. Her vivid account traces her path from unsure college graduate to a leading military nurse.
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Nurse Stimson Led Army Nurses in WWI Service
The article recalls Miss Stimson enlisting with sixty five nurses to serve with British troops in Rouen before American soldiers arrived. She received the Distinguished Service Medal and the British Red Cross Medal, was praised by General Pershing, and became director of the Army Nurse Corps of the AEF. She helped push for commissioned status for nurses, becoming the first major in the U.S. Army in 1920, and now worked on establishing a modern Paris-area nursing school with Mile. Jean de Joannis directing the school.
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