Sylvia Ann Michal McLeod papers, 1928-1984.

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Sylvia Ann Michal McLeod papers, 1928-1984.

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Military service documents, scrapbooks, photographs, correspondence, and printed materials relating to McLeod's training as a professional nurse, her service as a U.S. Army nurse in Europe during World War II (1942-1945), and as a nurse and later nursing administrator for the U.S. Veterans Administration (1946-1974). Also includes items relating to her employment as a commercial airline stewardess in the 1930s, her role as an advisor to the Orvis School of Nursing at the University of Nevada, Reno, and her service as a member of the Nevada State Board of Nursing.

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Nevada State Historical Society

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United States. Veterans Administration

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McLeod, Sylvia Ann Michal, 1908-1993

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U.S. Army nurse during World War II; nurse and nursing administrator for the U.S. Veterans Administration; in the 1950s she returned to Nevada, where she had lived as a child and attended the University of Nevada, and served at the Veterans Administration hospital in Reno. From the description of Sylvia Ann Michal McLeod papers, 1928-1984. (Nevada State Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 166428331 ...

Nevada. State Board of Nursing

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The State Board of Examiners for Examination and Certification of Graduate Nurses had been extablished by a statute of 1923 to regulate the nursing of the sick in the State of Nevada, providing for examinations and issuing of certificates to graduate nurses, and providing penalties for the violation of the act. Another State Board of the same name was established in 1933, and repealed in 1945, when the State Board of Examiners for and Certification of Registered Nurses w...

University of Nevada, Reno

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Governor's Day was an annual occasion for honoring ROTC cadets. In 1970, students that opposed the war in Vietnam held a peace rally the same day, and distributed flyers and posters on campus announcing the rally and opposition to the Governor's Day observances. From the description of Governor's Day records, 1970. (University of Nevada, Reno). WorldCat record id: 40932828 In 1970/71, the Oral History Program at the University of Nevada and the University Archives initiated ...

Orvis School of Nursing

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A study by Dr. Richard H. Licata, Chairman of the University of Nevada Anatomy Department, addressing a proposed delivery system (audio-visual devices, ETV, etc.) for a continuing higher education program utilizing a North-South linkage developed by the Orvis School of Nursing to support university-hospital educational programs for medical personnel. From the description of Orvis School of Nursing records, ca. 1967. (University of Nevada, Reno). WorldCat record id: 750527984 ...

United States. Army

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The United States Army is the largest branch of the United States Armed Forces and performs land-based military operations. It is one of the seven uniformed services of the United States and is designated as the Army of the United States in the United States Constitution, Article 2, Section 2, Clause 1 and United States Code, Title 10, Subtitle B, Chapter 301, Section 3001. As the largest and senior branch of the U.S. military, the modern U.S. Army has its roots in the Continental Army, which wa...