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Arlene Jens papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0499
Abstract

Nurse, abortion rights activist and educator from Fairfield, Iowa.

Dates: 1962-2006

Barbara Fassbinder papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0410
Abstract

Rural nurse who contracted AIDS on the job and became a national spokeswoman for occupational safety.

Dates: 1958-1998

Barbara M. Calderon papers

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0247
Abstract

Nursing administrator and first African-American public health nurse in Iowa.



Arrangement

Two folders, shelved in SCVF.

Dates: 1945-1968

Cheryl Britton papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0873
Abstract

Career nurse and avid traveler who grew up in Dedham, Iowa and Des Moines.

Dates: 1890-2003

Donna Schmidt papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0856
Abstract

University of Iowa nurse who farmed with her husband in Johnson County, Iowa

Dates: 1938-2010

Evelyn Crary Bacon papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0012
Abstract

Teacher, decorated veteran nurse and pioneer in the field of nursing education, Bacon served as a captain in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps during World War II and participated in the invasion of Normandy.

Dates: 1917-2000

Florence Vallejo Terronez papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0577
Abstract

The family came to Horton, Kansas, from Mexico in 1910 and moved to West Des Moines in 1941.

Dates: 1913-2006

Geraldene Felton papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0330
Abstract

Professor and former dean of the University of Iowa College of Nursing.



Arrangement

Two books that mention Felton and her achievements in nursing are filed in the printed work collection of the Iowa Women's Archives: Complete in All Its Parts: Nursing Education at the University of Iowa, 1898-1998 by Lee Anderson and Kathy Penningroth (1998) and The Path We Tread: Blacks in Nursing Worldwide, 1864-1994 by M. Elizabeth Carnegie (1995).

Dates: 1951-2004

Harriet E. Johnson Palmer papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0839
Abstract

Scrapbook featuring the professional and social life of an Iowa nurse in the 1920's.

Dates: 1912-1926

Her Own Story: Ten Benton County Women

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0134
Abstract

Project of the Vinton, Iowa, American Association of University Women.

Dates: 1984-1992

Jean Shoots papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0308
Abstract

Writer, performer, volunteer, and nurse in Iowa City.

Dates: 1990-1998

Jeanne Jones Cook papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0795
Abstract

Nurse Jeanne Jones Cook grew up in Iowa and Colorado. She completed her training with the U.S. Cadet Nurse Corps in 1945.

Dates: 1939-1949

Jo Ann Zimmerman papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0351
Abstract

Elected to the Iowa House of Representatives in 1982 and in 1986, she became the first woman Lieutenant Governor of Iowa.

Dates: 1958-1995

Louise Liers papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0570
Abstract

World War I Army nurse from Clayton, Iowa.

Dates: 1911-1983

Lucille Ketchum Carter papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0131
Abstract

1936 graduate of the School of Nursing at the State University of Iowa who was active in Democratic politics and whose correspondence includes round robin letters.

Dates: 1936-2008

Margaret Langland Johnson papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0816
Abstract

Nurse who served in the Army Nurse Corps during World War II.

Dates: 1925-1972

Marie Schultz Meyer papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0121
Abstract

Postville, Iowa, native who graduated from the University of Iowa School of Nursing in 1940.

Dates: 1901-1993

Marie Tener Havel papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0336
Abstract

Nurse who worked in Missouri in the 1930s and at the University of Iowa Hospitals from 1948 to 1965.

Dates: 1931-1997

Marjorie Elizabeth Lyford papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0051
Abstract

Public health and visiting nurse who later taught at the University of Iowa College of Nursing.

Dates: 1865-2002

Marjorie Jean Bertalot Block papers

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0385
Abstract

My Story describes Block's training as a nurse, family life, her employment off and on the farm, and her activities in Benton County, Iowa.



Arrangement

One folder, shelved in SCVF.

Dates: 1942-1998

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State University of Iowa. School of Nursing 4
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United States. Cadet Nurse Corps 2
Veterans Administration Hospital (Iowa City, Iowa) 2
American Association of University Women 1
American National Red Cross. Nursing Service 1
Andrews, Neta 1
Aydelotte, Myrtle K. (Myrtle Kitchell) 1
Bacon, Evelyn Crary, 1916-1997 1
Beck, Jennie, 1903- 1
Becker, Ruth Salzmann, 1922-2007 (1922-2007) 1
Block, Marjorie Bertalot, 1923-2007 1
Branstad, Terry E. 1
Britton family 1
Britton, Cheryl, 1910-2003 1
Britton, Chester, 1904 - 1968 1
Burrows, Bess, 1895- 1
Calderon, Barbara McDonald, 1915- 1
Carter, Lucille Ketchum, 1913- 1
Christy, Teresa E. 1
Congressional Club (Washington, D.C.) 1
Cook, Jeanne Jones, 1927-1993 1
Cousin, Ruth Hager, 1895-1994 1
Crary, Julia 1
Donahue, M. Patricia (1939-2023) 1
Ehrhardt, Louis 1
Eimen, Martha, 1912-1997 1
Fassbinder, Barbara, 1951-1994 1
Felton, Geraldene, 1926- 1
Geiger, Nira, 1901- 1
Geiken, Freida, 1895- 1
German Lutheran Hospital (Sioux City, Iowa). Nursing School 1
Goad family 1
Grinnell College 1
Grinnell Historical Museum (Grinnell, Iowa) 1
Grinnell Tuesday Club (Grinnell, Iowa) 1
Hager, Thora 1
Harris, Coral Rose Johnson, 1891-1982 1
Hauth, Mary Ungerer, 1890-1963 1
Havel, George, -1983 1
Havel, Marie Tener, 1910-2002 1
Illinois Training School for Nurses 1
Iowa Association of Colleges of Nursing 1
Iowa Commission on the Status of Women 1
Iowa Health Systems Agency 1
Iowa Lutheran Hospital (Des Moines, Iowa). School of Nursing 1
Jens, Arlene (1926-2014) 1
Johnson, Effie 1
Johnson, Margaret Langland, 1912-1972 1
Kahler School of Nursing 1
Liers, Louise, 1887-1983 1
Lyford family 1
Lyford, Marjorie Elizabeth, 1910- 1
McKenzie, Bettie 1
Mercy Hospital (Burlington, Iowa). School of Nursing 1
Mercy School of Nursing (Iowa City, Iowa) 1
Meyer, Marie Schultz, 1918-1993 1
Morado family 1
Mount Sinai Hospital (New York, N.Y.). School of Nursing 1
Mumford, Ruth, 1908- 1
O'Dea, Suzanne, 1950- 1
Order of the Eastern Star 1
Palmer, Harriet E., 1904-1999 1
Sallee, Dorothy, 1906- 1
Salzmann family 1
Schmidt, Donna, 1921-2011 1
Schroeder, Alvena, 1899-1989 1
Schueler, Allegra, 1904- 1
Shoots, Jean, 1926- 1
Smith, Gertrude, 1899-1989 1
State University of Iowa 1
Stoner, Mavis, 1931- 1
Stoops, John Dashiell, 1873-1973 1
Stoops, Rose, 1895-2001 1
Ten Benton County Women Oral History Project (Vinton, Iowa) 1
Tener family 1
Terronez, Florence Vallejo, 1924- 1
Trenton High School (Trenton, Ill.) 1
United Nations 1
United States. Army School of Nursing 1
University of Iowa 1
University of Iowa. Hospitals and Clinics 1
University of Minnesota. School of Nursing 1
University of Virginia. School of Nursing 1
Vallejo family 1
Vallejo, Julio R. 1
Vallejo, Martina Morado 1
White family 1
Williams, Esther, 1902- 1
Wing, Adrien Katherine 1
Zimmerman, Jo Ann (1936-2019) 1
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