Mary Rita Petkauskas Papers

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Mary Rita Petkauskas Papers

1947-2000

http://hdl.handle.net/2345.2/BC2001-112

Contains an autobiography, certificates and albums of photographs and ephemera. Much of the material relates to Petkauskas's work as a professor in the Boston College Graduate School of Nursing and the School's Maternal and Child Health Program.

3.5 Linear Feet (5 containers)

eng, Latn

Boston College. John J. Burns Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7605342

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Boston College. Graduate School of Nursing

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Boston College

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In 1863, a charter from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts authorized five Jesuits of Maryland Province of the Society of Jesus to incorporate as β€œthe Trustees of the Boston College.” Their South End school became the first chartered college to operate in Boston in September 1864, when twenty-two boys – with an average age of fourteen – enrolled and classes began. Enrollment was limited to boys but open to those of any religious background. The original grounds were cramped, consisting only of a ...

Petkauskas, Mary Rita, 1917-2005

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Mary Rita Petkauskas was born in 1917 in Shirley, MA, to Peter J. Petkauskas and Mary Belshunas, recent immigrants from Lithuania. Her career as a nurse was inspired by two childhood experiences with illness: her father died in 1926 after a year-long struggle with pneumonia, and she herself was hospitalized for two years with tuberculosis, from 1930 to 1932. Petkauskas received her bachelor of science degree in nursing from Boston College in 1953, and her masters degree from Columbia University ...