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Title
[Valley
Forge
General
Hospital
staff
,
1945]
Date
1945
Subject headings
World War, 1939-1945
United States. Army--Women
Era
World War II era (1940-1946)
Service branch
Army--Army Nurse Corps
Item description
Hospital
staff
at
Valley
Forge
General
Hospital
pose
for a
formal
photo
in
front
of the
hospital
building
.
Veteran's name
Lewis, Eloise Patricia Rallings
Veteran's biography
Eloise
Patricia
Rallings
Lewis
(1920-1999)
of
Pageland
,
South
Carolina
,
served
on the
faculty
of
Johns
Hopkins
School
of
Nursing
and as an
assistant
director
of the
Cadet
Nurse
Corps
with the
Army
Nurse
Corps
during
World
War
II
.
Lewis
served
as
dean
of the
School
of
Nursing
at the
University
of
North
Carolina
at
Greensboro
(UNCG)
from
1966
to
1985
.
Eloise
Patricia
Rallings
Lewis
was
born
on
22
April
1920
in
Pageland
,
South
Carolina
, the
fourth
daughter
of
Dr
. and
Mrs
.
J
.
Monroe
Rallings
, a
country
medical
practitioner
and a
college
speech
teacher
. She
graduated
from
Pageland
High
School
in
1936
.
Lewis
attended
Winthrop
College
in
Rock
Hill
,
South
Carolina
, for
two
years
, and then
transferred
in
1938
to
Vanderbilt
University
in
Nashville
,
Tennessee
. She
graduated
in
1941
from their
hospital
school
program.
"
Lewis
served
on the
faculty
of the
Women's
Medical
College
School
of
Nursing
in
Philadelphia
from
1941
to
1943
. From
1943
to
1945
she was an
instructor
at
Johns
Hopkins
University
in
Baltimore
,
Maryland
.
Dr
.
Lewis
joined
the
Army
Nurse
Corps
in the
spring
of
1945
.
After
attending
basic
training
at
Fort
Lee
in
Virginia
, she
became
the
assistant
director
of the
Cadet
Nurse
Corps
at the
Valley
Forge
General
Hospital
in
Phoenixville
,
Pennsylvania
,
which
was a
primary
burn
and
blind
center
. She was
discharged
in
December
1945
as a
first
lieutenant
.
Lewis
received
her
master's
degree
in
education
in
1951
from the
University
of
Pennsylvania
,
where
she was also on the
faculty
from
1946
to
1952
. She
joined
the
faculty
of the
School
of
Nursing
at the
University
of
North
Carolina
at
Chapel
Hill
in
1953
and
taught
there
until
1966
. She also
earned
a
doctorate
in
education
at
Duke
University
in
1963
.
Lewis
became
the
first
dean
of the
School
of
Nursing
at
UNCG
in
1966
. She
retired
from
UNCG
in
1985
.
Lewis
was
active
with the
UNCG
community
and in
various
professional
organizations
throughout
her
career
and
after
her
retirement
. She was the
president
of the
American
Association
of
Colleges
of
Nursing
from
1978
to
1980
and the
first
editor
of the
Journal
of
Professional
Nursing
in the
mid-1980s
. She was also
very
active
with
hospice
care
in
Greensboro
.
Lewis
received
numerous
awards
for her
contributions
to the
nursing
field
and
four
honorary
degrees
.
Eloise
Lewis
died
in
1999
.
Place
Phoenixville
(Pa.)
Type
image
Original format
photographs
Original publisher
[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified]
Contributing institution
Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives, UNCG University Libraries
Source collection
WV0047 Eloise Rallings Lewis Papers
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.
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to
reuse
.
Object ID
WV0047.6.001
Digital publisher
The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, University Libraries, PO Box 26170, Greensboro NC 27402-6170, 336.334.5304 --
http://library.uncg.edu/
OCLC number
900810781
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