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Collection DosD : Daphine Doster Collection

Description

Key

89759

Reference Code Element

DosD

Type

Text

Creator

Personal name, Doster, Daphine

Administrative/Biographical History

Daphine Doster
7 Oct 1906- 3 Aug 2000
Daphine Doster was born in Monroe, North Carolina in 1906. She graduated with a B.S. in music from the North Carolina College for Women in 1927 and was a member of the Johns Hopkins Hospital School of Nursing graduating class of 1936. From 1937 to 1940 she was Surgical Supervisor at Berea College Hospital in Kentucky. During World War II she served in the Johns Hopkins Base Hospital Unit #18. She served in the Pacific theatre, traveling the area and working at hospitals in Fiji and India before returning to the states. She received her Masters in Public Health from the University of Minnesota in 1947. From 1947 to 1949 she was the Educational Director for Public Health Nursing for the Arkansas State Health Department. In 1951 she was appointed the first acting Dean of the School of Nursing at the University of Arkansas and remained in that position until 1972. She married Joseph Mastroianni in 1992.

Chronology

Johns Hopkins Hospital School of Nursing, student, 1933-1936

Scope and Content

The Daphine Doster Collection documents her experiences in World War II and includes student photographs, her nursing diploma and a taped oral history interview.

Subjects - Name

Corporate name, Johns Hopkins Hospital. School of Nursing. Class of 1936

Administration

Date(s) of Descriptions

2004, 2007

Processing Information

The Daphine Doster Collection was processed by Anthony Dellureficio in 2004 and described by Elisabeth Sultzbaugh in 2007 through a grant from the Johns Hopkins Nurses' Alumni Association.

Accession

2000-046

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