We will momentarily announce the winners of last week’s trivia’s challenge. But first, a little background:
The School of Nursing — Loma Linda University’s oldest school — dates to the year 1905. With its official curriculum beginning in January 1906, it was called the Nurses’ Training School. The first class graduated in 1907, and it received official accreditation from the California Department of Health in 1917.
In 1924, its name became the School of Nursing. Two years later, the College of Medical Evangelists (Loma Linda University’s name at the time) organized a second School of Nursing at the college’s Los Angeles campus. The two schools ran concurrently until the late 1940s, both offering a three-year diploma.
In 1948, the College of Medical Evangelists decided to raise the level of the nursing educational program to baccalaureate and to consolidate the two programs. Last week’s trivia question asked who became the first dean of that new four-year school in 1949.
Cynthia Potts, Graham Allen and Dolores Wright are the three randomly chosen winners among those who correctly answered Kathryn Jensen Nelson, MS. Please email pr@llu.edu to claim your prize, which must be picked up within 60 days.
A 1917 graduate of the Nurses’ Training School, Nelson earned $46.75 per week, the maximum rate approved for directors by the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists (Loma Linda University’s parent organization).
Under her leadership, the new collegiate-level School of Nursing received national accreditation in 1951.
1951 was also an important year for another school at Loma Linda University. That was the year that officers of the General Conference voted to establish said school. Which of LLU’s eight schools was this?
Email the answer to pr@llu.edu by midnight Tuesday, Feb. 17, for the chance to be a random winner. One answer per person.