Eleanor Lee was Director of Nursing and Associate Dean (Nursing) of the Columbia University Faculty of Medicine. Born in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, she graduated from Radcliffe College in 1919, attended a three-month nursing course at Vassar and then entered the Presbyterian Hospital Nursing School.
Upon graduation in 1920, Lee taught at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston and at Teachers College, Columbia University. In 1924 she returned to Presbyterian Nursing School as educational director and in 1937 was appointed an associate professor. She became director of the Nursing Department in 1955 and Associate Dean and 1958, and retired in 1961.
From the guide to the Papers, 1919-1966, (Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute)
