Lane Hospital Training School for Nurses and Stanford University School of Nursing
1895 – 1974
S1J1

Lane Medical Archives
Stanford University Medical Center
Contact Information
 Lane Medical Archives
Stanford University Medical Center
Stanford, California 94035
Phone: (650) 725-8045
Email: lanearchives@lists.stanford.edu


See also: Stanford University Hospital Reports, Stanford University School of Nursing Announcements, the 1951 Stanford Alumni Association Directory volume 2, which lists Stanford and Lane Hospital School of Nursing graduates. In this directory, the graduates are listed under their maiden name, with reference to their married name for current information, when appropriate. Stanford University School of Medicine and the predecessor schools: an historical perspective by John L. Wilson.

The class pictures were donated to Archives/Special Collections when the Nursing School closed.

From 1912 to the time when Nursing School announcements were published separately, the information can be found in either the Annual Report of the Hospital or the Stanford Register. The 8th Annual Report of the Hospital suggests that anyone interested in information about the Nursing Department send for the circular issued by the Stanford School of Nursing, which would be sent on application to Lane Hospital.

Archival sources for other materials on the operation of these two schools:

C Box 11, Cooper Medical College, Lane Hospital, Board of Hospital Managers
Minutes Book… Lane Hospital Board of Managers. Oct. 3, 1894 – June 14, 1896.
Minutes…Committee for the Management of Lane Hospital, Sept 4, 1907– Sept. 28, 1911.

S1CB Box 1, Stanford University School of Medicine, Clinical Committee Minutes
May 5, 1911-June 7, 1945. These minutes are indexed.

S1CB Box 2, Stanford University School of Medicine, Clinical Committee Minutes
Sept. 6, 1945 – Nov. 12. 1965.

Materials were assembled from archives by Dr. John L. Wilson, who in 1971, as assistant Dean and later as acting Dean presided over the study of the structure, curriculum, and future of the School of Nursing, shelved as S1J1, Box 1.

S1J1
Box 1


Box no. Contents
1.1 Advisory Committee of the School of Nursing, Meetings October 25, 1933 – Mar 26, 1937, indexed.
1.2 Curriculum Committee, School of Nursing, minutes, January 7, 1943 – October 23, 1952. Dean Loren Roscoe Chandler of the School of Medicine conducted all of these meetings. Included are war years (1942–45) innovations, reduction of working hours, proposed curriculum changes, and the Public Health Nursing Program.
1.3 Committee on Nursing Education, 1963, Andrew D. Hunt, Jr. M.D., Chairman, proposal to study goals, objectives, curriculum, and administrative structure of the Stanford University School of Nursing with a view to guiding future development.
1.4 Stanford University School of Nursing Self Evaluation Report, December 1969, to Dr. John L. Wilson, M.D. from Grace E. Ringressy. Submitted December 1969.
1.5 Kathryn M. Smith, A report to the Executive Committee of the Stanford Medical School. Planning for the Future of Nursing Education , 1971 – 1981, a Ten Year Plan.
1.6 William B. Rowland to John L. Wilson, background information on impact of Smith proposal.
1.7 Kathryn M. Smith, Planning for the Future of Nursing Education at Stanford University, 1972 – 1982.
1.8 Susan J. Brueckner, Recommendations, Taskforce on Nursing Education at Stanford University.
1.9 Office of Communications – Nursing school closure.
1.10 Stanford University School of Nursing: Miscellanea (red bound book)
Invitation to the Class of 97 Graduation
Constitution and by-laws of the Lane Hospital Nurses’ Alumnae (1903, 1918)
Invitation to commencement exercises 1909 and program
Invitation to commencement exercises 1910 and program
Invitation to commencement exercises 1911 and program
Invitation to commencement exercises 1912 and program
Thirtieth (30th) anniversary of the Stanford School of Nursing reunion & commencement program, 1924 (invitation and program)
Invitation to commencement exercises 1925 and program
Invitation to commencement exercises 1927 and program
Invitation to commencement exercises 1928 and program
Invitation to commencement exercises 1929 and program
Invitation to commencement exercises 1932 and program
Invitation to commencement exercises 1933 and program
Invitation to commencement exercises 1933
Article about the new building, 1921
Residence rules for the Stanford School of Nursing
Smoking rules
Library rules
Florence Nightingale, a play in three acts, 1923
Oh, what a lemon, a musical comedy in three acts, 1927
A dramatic evening, presented by the preparatory class, 1928
Probationers in pageant and play, 1927
Invitation to The Stanford School of Nursing “The folly of ‘27”, 1924
Song: Hail, Stanford, Hail!
Article: Concerning Stanford, the School of Nursing, 1930
Stanford University Hospitals – School of Nursing, The Critic
The Cardinal, v. 1 (1-1, 4-12, 15-16, 18-24), 1925-1926
1.11 Stanford University School of Nursing, History (one of the nurses at the time the school was applying for accreditation did this summary in the 1950s)
These materials were excerpted from C3 box 11: Minute Book Lane Hospital, 1894-June 14, 1896, Committee to Manage Lane Hospital, Sept. 4, 1907-Oct 4, 1911, and S1CB (boxes 1 & 2) Stanford University School of Medicine Clinical Committee Minutes, and S1J1 (box 1, files 1.1 & 1.2).

S1J1
Box 2
Materials assembled in the preparation of "A report to the Executive Committee of the Stanford Medical School,
Planning for the Future of Nursing Education, 1971 – 1981."

Box no. Contents
2.1 Nursing Project Budgets
2.2 Nursing Project Correspondence – Consultations
2.3 Nursing Project Correspondence Legislation
2.4 Nursing Project Correspondence – Planning
2.5 Nursing Project Correspondence – Resource Data
2.6 Nursing Project Curriculum Design
2.7 Nursing Project Questionnaire Data B.S. Degree Holders
2.8 Nursing Project Data on Private Foundations
2.9 Nursing Project Interview Data
2.10 Nursing Project Letters of Support
2.11 Nursing Project Literature Search
2.12 Nursing Project Meetings and Conferences
2.13 Nursing Project Monthly Activity Reports
2.14 Nursing Project NIH Grant
2.15 Nursing Project Panel of Nursing Leaders
2.16 Nursing Project Potential Faculty
2.17 Nursing Project Preliminary Report – Feb. 19, 1971
2.18 Nursing Project Report – May 14, 1971
2.19 Nursing Project Report – July 30, 1971
2.20 Nursing Project Final Report – Dec. 1971
2.20a Nursing Project Rationale for a New School
2.21 Nursing Project Site Visits
2.22 Nursing Project San Francisco Foundation Grant
2.23 Nursing Project Staff
2.24 Nursing Project Survey Reports
2.25 Abstract for Action
2.26 Stanford: School of Medicine: Nursing Education Committee
2.27 Stanford: School of Nursing: Accreditation
2.28 Stanford: School of Medicine
2.29 Stanford School of Nursing – Students & Faculty
2.30 Stanford School of Nursing – Studies
2.30a Examinations
2.31 Legislation: California Nursing
2.32 Legislation: Nurse Training Act
2.33 N.L.N. Accreditation
2.34 N.L.N. Accredited Schools of Nursing
2.35 Stanford University: Education of Women
2.36 Stanford University: Mission
2.37 Stanford Nurses Club
2.38 Stanford Nursing Demonstration Project
2.39 Stanford Medical Center
2.40 Health Manpower

S1J1
Box 3

Lane Hospital first class of graduating nurses, March 17, 1897, souvenir.

Box no. Contents
3.1 Ward Manual, 1934, pages 1-47
3.2 Ward Manual, 1934, pages 48-57
3.3 3.3 Ward Manual, 1934
Ward Practice Rating form
3.3a Procedure Book for Nurses (given by Caroline Zlotnick)
3.4 Gertrude Fleischmann Gibbs (1940-41) gift – handbook and procedures, photo of Gertrude and Heidi Heilemann taken at the luncheon 2006.
3.5 3.5 Residents instruction for nurses, 1943
3.6 Nursing procedures, 1959-62, index and pages 1-98
3.7 Nursing procedures, 1959-62, pages 99-176
3.8 Dr. Somers (a good friend of the School of Nursing) – Occidental Medical Times 18(2), Feb. 1904 article “Some points on nursing ethics”.
3.9 Class of 1968 photos – Visited the Hospital Ship “Sanctuary” which was at the SF Naval shipyard in the fall of 1965. Sue Russell Armstrong stationed on it.
1948 Section 2 graduation picture.
3.10 Stites (Abrahams), Ida May (great grandmother to Carol Linder 801-272-1047, Saltlake City, Utah) Class of 1887. See also: C1K3 -1887 O-Y Bound with: Interstitial nephritis / by F.H. Ottmer Title: Scarlatina.
3.11 Nursing School – Notes and Speeches
Nursing at Stanford, from the old Lane to the fast lane, speech given by Betty Vadeboncoeur to Stanford Nurse Alumni, April 27, 1991
Nursing School nostalgia, 1998
3.12 Meacham (Paulsen), Sara, class of 1915
Information about her (served in WWI), photos, correspondence
3.13 School of Nursing Social Service
First Annual Report, Lane Hospital, 1912
Fifth Annual Report, Lane Hospital, 1916
Sixth Annual Report, Lane Hospital, 1917
Seventh Annual Report, Lane Hospital, 1918
Eighth Annual Report, Lane Hospital, 1919
Talk given at Grand Rounds, 1992, “Background Stanford University Hospital & Medical School
Stanford Medical Bulletin “Recollections of the Lane Hospital Operating Room: 1900-1903”
3.14 Handouts, 1920’s-1940’s
Education of nursing
Class listings for 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938
Stanford School of Nursing, San Francisco, 1927
Leland Stanford Junior University, Stanford School of Nursing, San Francisco, 1920?
Nita Nocerino (class of 1946) – student cumulative record of experience

updated March 1, 2007