Beard, Mary, 1876-1946

Mary Beard was a nurse and author. She served as Associate Director of the International Health Division of the Rockefeller Foundation, 1924-1938, and was Director of Nursing Services of the American National Red Cross.

Cornell University School of Nursing Class of 1903.

From the description of Mary Beard papers, 1926-1948. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 63541584

Mary Beard was a nurse and author. She served as Associate Director of the International Health Division of the Rockefeller Foundation, 1924-1938, and was Director of Nursing Services of the American National Red Cross. She also served on the Advisory Committee on Nursing of the New York City Department of Health, 1936-1937.

She graduated from the Cornell University School of Nursing in 1903.

• 1876: November 14, born in Dover, New Hampshire to Ithamar Warren and Mary Foster Beard.
• 1903: Graduated from New York Hospital School of Nursing (later became Cornell University New York Hospital School of Nursing in 1942).
• 1904: Visiting nurse in Waterbury, Connecticut.
• 1912 - 1922 : Director of Instructive District Nursing Association in Boston.
• 1922 - 1924 : Director of the Community Health Association in Boston.
• 1924 - 1938 : Associate Director of the International Health Division of the Rockefeller Foundation of New York City.
• 1929: Author of The Nurse in Public Health.
• 1934: Conferred with honorary degree of Doctor of Humanities.
• 1938 - 1944 : Director of Nursing Services for the American National Red Cross.
• 1944: Retired.
• 1946: Died December 4.
• Member of:
• National Organization for Public Health Nursing
• National League of Nursing Education
• American Nurses Association
• Episcopalian Club
• Honorary member of:
• Florence Nightingale International Foundation
• Association of Collegiate Schools of Nursing
• Honorary degree of Doctorate of Laws, Smith College

From the guide to the Mary Beard papers, 1926-1948., (Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library)