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Helen Johnson (1914-2011) was the founding director of the Purdue University School of Nursing, which she spearheaded in 1962. In her first year at Purdue she managed to secure finding, hire faculty, develop a curriculum, arrange sites for clinicals, and secured state approval for a new program. She continued to build the program over the next 18 years. It began as a department in the College of Technology that offered two-year associates degrees, and eventually bachelors degrees in 1970. The nursing program evolved into the School of Nursing  Among her significant achievements include a $1.3 million grant which funded construction of a building for the School of Nursing in 1972. The Nursing program evolved into the School of Nursing, of which Johnson was appointed head in 1975.

In 1979 she became the first head of the University's of the School of Nursing She became Department Head in 1975, earned her doctorate and retired in 1980.

Link to info in A Century and Beyond: http://e-archives.lib.purdue.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/php/id/1039/rec/1

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