Keywords: Health class
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Mercy Hospital - School of Nursing Class Photos
"School of Nursing Class Photos Mercy Hospital School of Nursing Class Photographs The Mercy Hospital School of Nursing operated from 1920 to…"
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Mercy Hospital - Founding of Mercy
"In the autumn of 1918, the greatest health crisis in the city’s history struck Portland. Known at the time as the Spanish Influenza, the pandemic of…"
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Mercy Hospital - Sisters of Mercy
"… Mercy in Portland, Maine to respond to the severe health crisis of 1918. Asked about what qualifications there should be for a Sister of Mercy…"
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Mercy Hospital - School of Nursing - Page 1 of 3
"Margaret Hinds Bell (class of 1942) was inspired by Kilfoil, her “mother’s cousin, and my ideal” to become a nurse and train at Mercy."
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Mercy Hospital - School of Nursing - Page 3 of 3
"Class sizes, Burr remembered, were “sixty students to a room” in those days. The example of his parents and his educational background helped…"
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Mercy Hospital - People of Mercy - Page 2 of 2
"… she enrolled in Mercy Hospital’s first nursing class in 1943, acquiring her R.N. in 1946. Physical limitations prevented her from becoming a…"
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Mercy Hospital - School of Nursing - Page 2 of 3
"Mary Elizabeth Connolly (class of ’31) used a textbook published in 1928, Modern Methods in Nursing by Georgiana Sanders."
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Western Maine Foothills Region - Buckfield
"In addition, Buckfield once had its own Health Center. The Cornerstone Health Service, Inc., provided help with basic healthcare."
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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Bob Marley
"In his junior year, Marley would do comedy professionally for the first time. His first show was at a local health fair."
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Blue Hill, Maine - John Edward Horton, Civil War Soldier
"… for an "Increase in Widow's Pension" X His health continued to decline and he died of diarrhea on January 6, 1865 in Belle Isle Prison."
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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Champlain Society - Page 1 of 2
"… who believed in learning from nature, in the health benefits of outdoor pursuits, and in science education."
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Blue Hill, Maine - In Search of the Rustic Life
"Some rusticators spent time in Blue Hill for health reasons. They could get away from dirty cities and breathe fresh coastal air."
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Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington
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Blue Hill, Maine - Educating Blue Hill
"Instead of botany and physiology, it was Health and Biology. Latin gradually disappeared from the curriculum."
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The Freedom & Captivity digital collection in the Maine Memory Network, and the complete digital archive housed at Colby Special Collections, is a repository of personal testimonies, ephemera, memorabilia, artifacts, and visual materials that capture multiple dimensions of the experiences of incarceration for individuals, families, and communities, as well as for survivors of harm.
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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Education
"… Reports in Town Reports) During this time, health was also an issue. The influenza epidemic of 1919 closed schools for weeks."