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752-23
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- 1937-01 (Creation)
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On Friday evening, January 8, 1937, twenty five students in the Tacoma General Hospital nursing program took their first step toward graduating as nurses. The women received their caps, signifying that they had completed the preliminary four month basic course in theory and practice. The students will receive their full graduation honors when they complete their studies in May of 1939. Photograph of nurses congratulating one another. Left to right, Miss Sutherling congratulates Miss Baskerville, Miss Gibson and Miss Rembert, Miss Timmerman and Miss Phillips, Miss Harvey and Miss Barton, and Miss Pederson is congratulated by Clarence Cummings, superintendent of Tacoma General. (T.Times 1/7/1937, pg.. 4- picture; TNT 1/8/1937, pg. 2) (filed with Argentum)
Hospitals--Tacoma--1930-1940; Tacoma General Hospital (Tacoma); Nurses--Tacoma--1930-1940;