CASE 5: A TRIBUTE TO AGNES GELINAS, 1897 - 1976

Agnes Gelinas served on the Skidmore College nursing faculty from 1928 to 1965.  As  chairperson for 37 years, she led the nursing department through many significant times of growth and change.  Several of Miss Gelinas's many accomplishments are featured in this tribute.  (Please click here to view a biography of Agnes Gelinas).  Click on the images below for more information and a larger view.

Gelinas as a student at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital School of Nursing, 1920.

Graduating class of 1920, Peter Bent Brigham Hospital School of Nursing.

Agnes Gelinas. Nursing and Nursing Education. New York: Commonwealth Fund, 1946.

Letter to Agnes Gelinas from Skidmore president Henry T. Moore, March 12, 1957

Gelinas (right) and Mei-Yu Chow, Dean of Nursing, National Defense Medical Center, Republic of China, December 19, 1959

Collegiate Education for Nursing: Signs for the Future.  Skidmore College Faculty Research Lecture by Agnes Gelinas, 1961.

From Skidmore... announcing Gelinas's retirement, 1965

Gelinas's retirement party, 1965

Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters, 1968

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