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 Once again we stand tall with our fellow alumni in illustrating the strength of our alumni
network and the value it places on its Villanova education.
On April 4, 2002 a mural honoring the nursing profession was
dedicated in Philadelphia, PA. Located at the corner of 16th and Vine Streets,
the mural was funded in part by your alumni contributions. The College
and Villanova Nursing Alumni Society were proud to be a part of this
endeavor. With our recent 50th anniversary celebration, it is a timely
indication of the impact and rich history of nurses. Alumni are encouraged to
visit the mural when in the area.
The mural, funded with more than $60,000, was
created as a 5-panel depiction of the nursing profession. It began in the summer
of 2001 when the Nursing Mural Advisory Group was formed. Rose O’Driscoll (BSN
’64), Assistant Dean for Administration and College liaison to the Alumni
Society was a member of that group. While discussions were lively, it was
decided to represent both real and fictional nurses in various practice settings
and roles. The artist, Sam Donovan, was appointed by the Mural Arts Program of
Philadelphia to bring the vision to reality in the 5 panels.
- Panel 1 shows an anonymous African-American pediatric nurse and
patient, along with a World War II nurse who is also African-American.
- Panel 2 depicts an Asian perioperative nurse.
- Panel 3 uses images from a World War II government nurse
recruitment poster, along with a ghosted image of nurse Mary Anne Krisman-Scott
comforting a wounded soldier in Vietnam. She is now a nurse practitioner and
well-known nurse historian.
- Panel 4 portrays Helen Fairchild, who was one of the first 60
nurses sent to Europe with the Allies during World War I. She was subject to
gas attacks near the front lines. She later became ill in France and died in
1918. American Legion Post 412 in Philadelphia is named for her.
- Panel 5 shows Lula Warwick who came to Mercy Hospital in 1920 and
built the nursing school into one of the top schools for African-Americans
in the country. Walt Whitman is shown because he provided care to the
wounded during the Civil War; an image of an anonymous male nurse is also
shown. The panel includes a depiction of Barbara Brody, a pioneering
pediatric nurse practitioner, examining a patient.
Villanova supported this mural effort along
with:
- Thomas Jefferson
University Diploma Nurses Alumni Association
- Methodist Hospital
School of Nursing Alumni Association
- Nurses Alumni
Association, Germantown Hospital and Medical Center
- The Alumni Association
of Albert Einstein Medical Center School of Nursing
- Lankenau Hospital
School of Nursing Alumni Association
- The Nurses Alumnae
Association of Temple University Hospital
- Frankford Hospital
Nurses Alumnae Association
- Abington Memorial
Hospital Dixon School of Nursing Alumni Association
- Alumni Association of
the School of Nursing Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and Penn
Nursing
- Pennsylvania Hospital
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