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As the Annie Taylor Dee School of Nursing celebrates 70 years of nursing education (read our feature story about the school’s past and future), an early graduate reminded us of how far we’ve come.

WSU Nursing Pioneer

We didn’t hike up to Mount Ogden, but we did hike back and forth to the old campus and to the Dee Hospital the first year. I’ll never forget taking samples out of the swimming pool and finding all the bacteria and bugs in the water under our microscopes. I was also a member of the Otyokwa Social Club. Our professor was Mrs. Stewart. She kept us all in line with white aprons, white shoes and white hose. I remember the clunky white shoes that were supposed to save our feet and especially the price, $25. It was a big deal in those days. I remember I dumped the dirty laundry down the chute at the hospital, but it went to the kitchen because it was the food dumbwaiter, but we all graduated, so we must have done something right.

— Jill Heiner Garrison Davis, ADN ’55

Jill was one of five students representing six decades of nursing education at WSU on the fall 2013 Wildcat cover featured on this page. She is the student on the far left.

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