This occupational therapy student in the School of Nursing gets ready to make a home visit in the 1940s. What had started as a nurse's training school evolved into a full-fledged School of Nursing under Chancellor Herbert S. Hadley (1923-27). In 1954, following several prosperous post-World War II years, the School of Nursing's three-year certificate program, in which three-fourths of the student nurses enrolled, was transferred to Barnes Hospital. In 1957, the school virtually abandoned undergraduate work to focus on the graduate programs, but with a decreasing student body it restarted the undergraduate program with limited success. Unable to arouse the interest of the School of Medicine or affiliated hospitals in supporting a collegiate program for nursing, the Board of Trustees closed the School of Nursing on June 30, 1969.
Washington University is celebrating its 150th anniversary in 2003-04.
