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1911 Breaking ground for Crouse-Irving Hospital
1912 Buildings erected on the blocks spanning Crouse & Irving Avenues Crouse Avenue view Irving Avenue view
1913 Training School established August 18, 1913 First class of Pupil Nurses
1913 One year of high school was required for admission. The course was 3 years. Students were on duty from 7am-7pm Three months probation is now complete and our first class is at present discarding the probationers and donning the beautiful pupil uniform of clear white with wide blue turn-down collars and blue turn-over cuffs.
1913 Founder of Crouse-Irving Hospital William L. Wallace, MD. His wife Harriett Blakeslee Wallace is credited with managing much of the daily functions of the hospital and training school.
1913 Tuition - There was no tuition; pupils were paid $5/month to work in the hospital Enrollment: 21 Students
1914 A High School Diploma is now a requirement. One of the first training schools in the US to require this.
1914 Mary Shanahan, first Superintendent of Nurses and Director of the Crouse-Irving Training School 1913-1916. Under her administration, the school was established and registered by the New York State Board of Regents February 26, 1914.
1914 Student Fire Drill Demonstration First Student Housing, 716 Irving Avenue
1915 Typical for the day, Crouse s training program was based on an apprenticeship model. Assuming roles as clinical instructors in the diploma program were the hospital s house staff. Pictured here Mary Connie, dietician; Jessie Dick, night supervisor; Mary Shanahan, superintendent; Marion Jones, OR supervisor and Elsie Hillen, graduate nurse.
1916 A.S. Downing, Director of Professional Education, New York State was the first commencement speaker First Graduating Class Dorothy Wise 16 went on to become a public health nurse and secretary of NYSNA in 1928
1916 Alumni Association founded Ruby Miles, 1 st president Ruby Miles Graduation Photo Alma Mater To our Crouse-Irving, Homage we bring With joy and with gratitude, let music ring Fount of our knowledge, Home our youth Help us through the coming years Guide us in truth Life s clouds and sunshine, shall come to all Sorrow and happiness, to each will fall Whatever comes to us this be our song Honor to Crouse-Irving, which made us strong.
1916 These positions demand high qualifications for nursing is an art, and the true nurse, like the artist, has natural as well as acquired qualifications -Mary Shanahan, Superintendent, Crouse-Irving Hospital
1917 She (the nurse) must have high ideals and strive to attain them - Marion Jones Marion Jones appointed interim superintendent
1918 The real purpose of education is to achieve maturity. Not just physical maturity but intellectual, emotional, moral and spiritual maturity. Without maturity there can be no wisdom, no insight, not judgment, no compassion, nor can there be any real understanding of oneself, of other human beings, or of the great issues of our times. - Elsie Hillen Elsie Hillen becomes director of the School, a post she holds for the next 38 years.
1918 8-Hour day established, one of the first in the country Students worked 8 hours, 6 days per week "This is not an extravagant step, although it will be expensive for the hospital. It is for the benefit of the nurses who will now have definite study hours, assisted by proper instructors. It will materially improve the health of the nurses by giving needed time for rest and recreation, and freedom from overwork." -Dr. William Wallace
1918 Spanish Influenza ~ A half-million people died between August 1918 and January 1919. In Syracuse alone an estimated 900 people died in the span of a few weeks. The training school suspended classes so students could help take care of patients. One of the first fatalities at Crouse- Irving was an instructor Miss Myrtle Carpenter.
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1919 First Tuition charged - $40 Enrollment: 75 Students
1921 Many social forces not least amongst them, the women s rights movement and the increasing respectability and demand for nurses after WWI, created more opportunities for young women outside of the home.
1922 Students relaxing together and listening to music in their free time
1922 Tuition - $40 Enrollment: 111 Students
1930s Class photo in front of Crouse-Irving Hospital
1930 Regents diploma required for admission Maternity Ward instruction Class in cooking, which took place at Madison High School - Madison St., Syracuse
1937 4 Residential homes available for student housing
1938 Tuition - $75 Enrollment: 84 Students
1938 Curriculum requirements: 3 months of psychiatric nursing and communicable disease practicum Elsie Hillen earns BS from Syracuse University
1940s For your country s defense be a nurse - Elsie Hillen 1942 33 Graduates entered the Armed Forces New Educational Building completed Formalized education becoming mainstream More classroom hours required
1943 Enrollment: Increased for War Effort to 125 Students
1943 Nurses living quarters Honors Tea
1943 Chemistry, Science & Pharmacology added to Curriculum Students worked one month of night duty, 7 hours a night for 7 nights. Ruby Miles (G 1916), Supervisor of the Obstetrics Unit
1945 Code of Conduct: No smoking, drinking, strict hours for study, lights out at 11 pm. No makeup allowed, hair could not touch collar.
1950s Learning how to prepare special diets School Post Office
1950s Starting salary for a Graduate Nurse at Crouse-Irving Hospital was $2600 per year Capping Ceremony
1950s A Class in Nursing Arts, 1952
1950 Tuition - $100 Enrollment: 120 Students
1950 SON received full accreditation from the NLN All instructors were required to obtain BS degrees 12 Faculty on staff Crouse-Irving Hospital
1950 Two blue stripes signified a Freshman student One small blue stripe on each side signified the Intermediate student A plain white cap was worn by a Senior student The plain white cap with velvet band was worn by the Graduate nurse. The school diploma and pin awarded upon completion of course.
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1957 Barbara Riorden (G 1915), C-I staff nurse since 1924 becomes acting superintendent Received BSN in 1945
1955 Some of our supervisors and instructors lived in the same homes as the students; most of them being single. I remember having a house with a kitchen, living rooms and pianos. It was a nice arrangement, even when we did laundry in the kitchen sink. Our uniforms were washed and starched at the hospital laundry. Housemothers put up with a lot from us and we them. -1955 50 Year Reunion Memory Book
1960s Beatrice Palen, Director 1958-1968 Class of 1961
1960 Tuition - $600 Enrollment: 113 Students
1960 If a sweater is worn on duty it must be blue. The cap is never worn on the street. Students may marry in the last 6 months of their senior year but must not live in the nurses home. Students were required to get a triple typhoid vaccine From the Student Handbook
1965 Tuition - $600 Enrollment: 99 Students
1965 I remember Helen Parker telling us these would be the best days of our lives. It seemed hard to believe at the time but I ve thought about her many times over the years and she was absolutely right. Cindy Laley Emerson, Class of 1968 Incoming freshman students wear beanies
1968 Students could get married in the last 6 months of program with permission if in good standing Pediatric class Public health added to curriculum. Instructor, Miss Irene Cregg
1968 Crouse-Irving and Syracuse Memorial Hospitals merged, school becomes Crouse- Irving Memorial Hospital School of Nursing (officially 1969)
1970s 1978- Leadership added to curriculum First male student Robert Schweitzer (1971)
1970s 1972 Irving Unit construction begins Technology begins to impact healthcare
1970 Anatomy and Physiology class, freshman year, 1970. The class was held in the grey house on the east side of Irving Ave, next to the hospital, a room filled with folding chairs equipped with those not quite big enough, pull up and fold down, desks attached. The professor was Mr. Dyminski. He came into the room of beaniedonned nursing students you re not going to get out of my class without knowing this material! Donna Parks, RN, 72 Currently Education Coordinator, Crouse Hospital
1976 Ann Wiles joins the faculty; retiring in 2009 Betty Coe, Instructor 1950-1974, Director and Vice President 1976-1986
1977 Students used to sunbathe on the rooftop of Memorial off the 9 th floor. Pranksters working in the Labor & Delivery Unit would throw water-filled balloons at the students from that unit s windows! Student nurse dormitories located in the West Tower of the Memorial Unit
1977 Tuition - $1594 Enrollment: 212 Students
1980s Dorms for freshmen only Day and Evening programs began in 1985 75 th anniversary of Crouse- Irving Hospital marked in 1987; 3-story addition to Irving Unit dedicated
1980s Helen Parker (G 1948), taught Public Health from 1957-1987 Wanda VanArsdale (G 1951) taught medical-surgical nursing from 1951-1986
1985 Tuition - $7400 Enrollment: in 233 Students largest in the region
1988 Nursing skills now incorporate the use of new computer technology in daily routine
1990s Marley Education Center built in 1991 and lauded as a state of the art facility 1992 program becomes Associate Degree Offers a Tuition On Us Program Harry and Lillian Marley Education Center, corner of Irving and Waverly Avenues
1990s Contracted liberal arts classes from OCC SAT scores required for Admission Hands-on Medical Arts Lab in Marley Education Center Suzanne Spaulding, Director, 1987-1992 First Director with PhD
1990s Nursing cap is phased out Cap & Gown Graduation begins 1992
1991 Site of School in old Crouse-Irving Hospital on Irving Avenue, demolished in 1991
1996 Tuition - $11,000 Enrollment: 220 Students
2000s Articulation agreements with Keuka, Lemoyne, SUNY IT, Russell Sage Joint admission agreement with SUNY Upstate Manikin simulation becomes more sophisticated Scrub uniform adopted
2006 Associate Degree program accredited by the National League of Nursing Ann Sedore, PhD, Director 2006 2013
2008 Rebecca Patton, President of the American Nurses Association spoke at commencement
2010 Crouse Hospital School of Nursing Becomes a College
2011 Simulation Center and Library Learning Commons Open
2011 Mock Operating Room is used to simulate childbirth with Manikin Mother Noelle and Baby Hal
2012 Founded in 2005, The Center for Academic Success (CAS) aims to aid students in successfully meeting the rigors of the Crouse Hospital College of Nursing program.
2012 To date 70 Crouse graduates have returned to teach 9 current faculty are graduates of Crouse Currently there are almost 5,000 graduates
2012 Students and Faculty volunteered health services in Guatemala through the Global Health Initiative
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