Biographical/historical information

The Alumnae Association of the Rocky Mount Sanitarium School of Nursing in Rocky Mount, North Carolina was created in 1934. It was founded to stimulate mutual help, improvement in professional work, and good fellowship among the graduates of the school.

The Rocky Mount Sanitarium was opened in 1913 by Dr. L.W. Kornegay, Dr. John L. Lane, and Dr. Walter Staley as a general hospital of forty beds serving eastern North Carolina. The Rocky Mount Sanitarium Nurses Training School served in conjunction with the hospital. In 1922, it was sold to a Franciscan order of nuns who operated the hospital for one year before selling it back to Kornegay. Over the years, the hospital underwent a few additions and renovations. In 1950, the Sanitarium found it necessary to close the Nurses Training School.

Scope and arrangement

Contains Rocky Mount Sanitarium Nurses Alumnae minutes (1956-2013), constitution and bylaws, and Florence Nightingale pledge booklet.

Administrative information

Custodial History

12 November 2013: minutes, constitution and bylaws, and Florence Nightingale pledge booklet. Gift of Mary M. Overton, President of Rocky Mount Sanitarium Nurses Alumna.

15 October 2012: Collection contatins one book. Gift of Mary M. Overton.

Processing information

Processing revised by Ashley Williams, 2015

Copyright notice

Literary rights to specific documents are retained by the authors or their descendants in accordance with U.S. copyright law.

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Language of material

English

Related material

Related artifacts held at The Country Doctor Museum, Bailey, North Carolina.

Kornegay Family Papers (CD01.127), The Country Doctor Museum, at The William E. Laupus Health Science Library, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, USA.

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