Archive Record
Metadata
Catalog Number |
HRHS-179 |
Collection |
Rockingham Memorial Hospital Collection |
Scope & Content |
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE: Rockingham Memorial Hospital opened in Harrisonburg, Virginia on October 1, 1912 and served a seven-county area. In May 2011 the hospital became a part of the Sentara Healthcare System and is now known as the Sentara RMH Medical Center. SCOPE AND CONTENT: This collection has items pertaining to Rockingham Memorial Hospital. COLLECTION INVENTORY: Folder 1: -Pamphlet titled Rockingham Memorial Hospital Building Fund Drive, August 3rd to 10th, 1919 -Commencement programs for Rockingham Memorial Hospital School for Nurses, 1926, 1937, 1949, 1953, 1962, 1975 (1962 donated by Scott Suter) -Postcard showing The Rockingham Memorial Hospital, postmarked 1935 (donated by Holly Heath Mullin) -Postcard showing Rockingham Memorial Hospital, postmarked 1927 (donated by Alvin Schant) -Postcard showing The Rockingham Memorial Hospital, no postmark (donated by the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Library in Charlotte, NC) Folder 2: -Booklet titled The Rockingham Memorial Hospital, Documentary History of Its Origin and Development, 1934 Folder 3 -Booklet titled Historical Review, 1908-1940 -Pamphlet titled Rockingham Memorial Hospital Building Fund, c.1940s -Booklet titled The Rockingham Memorial Hospital Today, 1912-1950 -Booklet titled The Rockingham Memorial Hospital, listing visiting hours, etc., 1957 -Program titled Dedication of School of Nursing Building and Addition to The Rockingham Memorial Hospital, 1959 -Programs for the Rockingham Memorial Hospital Alumnae Association, 1964, 1968 -The Bedside Banner, Vol. 7, Number 2, May 1981 Folder 4: -Booklet titled Roster of Registered Nurses Holding Certificates Permitting Practice in Virginia, March 1, 1934. Nurses are listed from Rockingham Memorial Hospital. -Typed list of nurse's names, 1966 Folder 5: -Booklet titled Rockingham Memorial Hospital and The School of Nursing Yesterday and Today, 1973 -Booklet titled Rockingham Memorial Hospital, The Hospital with a Heart for 75 Years, 1987 -Booklet titled 100 Years of Compassionate Care, The History of Rockingham Memorial Hospital, 1912-2012 Folder 6: (donated by Wanda and Mark Bennett) Items belonged to Carolyn Warner Bennett (used the name Inita Carolyn Warner): -1952 acceptance letters from E. Virginia Reilly, Director of Nurses -Report cards from School of Nursing, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955 -Program for 1953 Capping Exercises -Programs for Commencement Exercises, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956 -Program for Junior-Senior Banquet, 1954 -Letters concerning State Board Examination, 1955 -Bill for stay at Hotel Richmond, 1955 -Booklet titled School of Nursing Rockingham Memorial Hospital -Two postcards of RMH School of Nursing -Three photographs of Carolyn Warner and classmates Folder 7: -Article printed in the Summer 2006 Sentara-RMH publication about Dr. Jessee Bennett, a young doctor who performed a Caesarian section on his wife near Edom, Virginia in 1794. The article was written by Dr. George M. Nipe, Jr., a local obstetrician and gynecologist. (donated by Janet and Earl Downs) Folder 8: (donated by Jennifer Hopkins Matthews) -Typed information sheet on Maxine Marguerite Miller Cary, graduated from RMH Training School for Nurses in February, 1933. (Sister to Anna Catherine Miller Hopkins) -Typed information sheet on Anna Catherine Miller Hopkins, graduated RMH Training School for Nurses in May, 1940. Served during World War II. (Sister to Maxine Marguerite Miller Cary) -Typed information sheet on Jennifer Hopkins Matthews, graduated from MCV-Virginia Commonwealth University in 1975. (daughter of Anna Catherine Miller Hopkins) -Identification cards for Miss Anna Catherine Miller from the American Nurses' Association, 1941, 1942 -Photos of 1933 and 1940 graduating class of RMH Training School for Nurses -Miscellaneous photos of Maxine M. Miller, Anna C. Miller, Nell Moyers Fravel, Lula E. Gentry, RMH Operating Room in 1939 Folder 9: -RMH Alumnae Association Newsletters, various issues from 1962 to 1972 Folder 10: -Publication titled Called to Care, A History of the Rockingham Memorial Hospital School of Nursing, by Nancy Bondurant Jones, 2004 (donated by Sentara RMH) Folder 11: -Publication titled A Pictorial History of the RMH School of Nursing, by Rockingham Memorial Hospital Alumnae Association, 1987. Index of names of graduates included. (donated by Sentara RMH) Folder 12: -Booklet titled Your Baby's Care, 1958. Booklet was presented to patients at Rockingham Memorial Hospital and was sponsored by Shenandoahs Pride Dairy Products, Harrisonburg, VA (donated by M. Catherine Slusher) -My Baby magazines, September 1959, October, 1960. Presented to patients at Rockingham Memorial Hospital, sponsored by Joseph Ney's, Harrisonburg, VA (donated by M. Catherine Slusher) -Booklet titled About Babies, 1958. Presented to patients by Rockingham Memorial Hospital, sponsored by W. T. Grant, Harrisonburg, VA. (donated by M. Catherine Slusher) Yearbooks for RMH School of Nursing located in HRHS-150 (donated by Sentara RMH) |
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