kanemono Posted November 10, 2016 Share #1 Posted November 10, 2016 Mary Sanders Price was born in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, on January 5, 1905. She was a 1926 graduate of Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania and taught high school for four years before attending the Johns Hopkins Hospital School of Nursing. After graduating from nursing school she worked at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland, from 1934 until 1939 when she became the director of instruction at Rhode Island General Hospital, provenance, Rhode Island. Sanders returned to the Johns Hopkins Hospital in 1941. She was appointed chief nurse of the Johns Hopkins 118th General Hospital Unit on April 20, 1942 and was commissioned as a Lieutenant in the United States Army Nurse Corps. The 118th General Hospital was a U.S. Military Hospital formed by doctors and nurses from the Johns Hopkins University Hospital. The hospital staff arrived in Sidney Australia during June of 1942 and ran a 400-bed hospital with a building for U.S. troops on the grounds the Hydro Majestic Hotel. Eleonore Roosevelt, wife of President Franklin D. Roosevelt visited the Hospital on September 8, 1943. Major Mary Sanders, the chief nurse of 118th General Hospital, was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel, one of the first American women to earn that status. The Johns Hopkins 118th General Hospital Unit then served in New Guinea and in Leyte, Philippine Islands which would be the last major assignment for the Johns Hopkins Hospital doctors and nurses. On September 25, 1945 Lieutenant Colonel Mary Sanders married Army Chaplain, Captain Harry Price, in the chapel of the 118th General Hospital in Leyte. Mary Sanders Price was Honorably Discharged from the United States Army Nurse Corps on March 25, 1946. After the war she served on the faculty of the University of Pittsburgh’s School of Nursing and in 1948 earned a Masters of Arts degree from the Teachers' College at Columbia University. In 1952 Price became director of the School of Nursing and Nursing Service at the Johns Hopkins Hospital and served at that post until she retired in 1970. Mary Sanders Price died at Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania, on January 20, 1985. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teamski Posted November 10, 2016 Share #2 Posted November 10, 2016 Neat story! Thanks for sharing. -Ski Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kanemono Posted November 10, 2016 Author Share #3 Posted November 10, 2016 Here is the Nurses area at the 118th. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cutiger83 Posted November 10, 2016 Share #4 Posted November 10, 2016 VERY nice grouping! Thanks so much for posting....Kat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kanemono Posted November 10, 2016 Author Share #5 Posted November 10, 2016 Photo of Doctors and Nurses on the beach at the 118th in the Philippines. The portrait of Mary Sanders Price was painted when she was the Director of the School of Nursing and Nursing Service at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gijoeou812 Posted November 10, 2016 Share #6 Posted November 10, 2016 WOW! What a wonderful grouping!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hirsca Posted November 11, 2016 Share #7 Posted November 11, 2016 WOW again! Al Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BagmanL6 Posted November 11, 2016 Share #8 Posted November 11, 2016 Great grouping. Thanks for posting it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catfish774 Posted November 25, 2018 Share #9 Posted November 25, 2018 A couple of years late, but OUTSTANDING!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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