---
title: Improvement Era
description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930.
authors:
  - Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
collections:
  - periodicals
tags:
  - magazine
  - improvement-era
periodical: Improvement Era
volume: 16
number: 9
published: 1913-07
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, "Graduating Nurses’ Class, Latter-day Saints’ Hospital, 1913," *Improvement Era* 16, no. 9 (July 1913).
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1609unse
  transcription: Transcribed from the Internet Archive scan of each issue (the item for each issue is named in the issue's own source); unnumbered advertising leaves are omitted, printed page numbers are kept as page markers.
  identifier: improvementera1609unse
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1913-07)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1609unse
  publication_year: 1913
  note: The Internet Archive item metadata carries a blanket "© Copyright by Intellectual Reserve, Inc." notice. The library owner judged it inapplicable because this issue was published in 1913, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# Graduating Nurses’ Class, Latter-day Saints’ Hospital, 1913

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GRADUATING NURSES' CLASS, LATTER-DAY, SAINTS^ HOSPITAL, 1913 The first class of nurses graduated in 1906, and since that time there have been seventy-one graduates, ten of this number forming the graduating class of 1913. Their names follow: left to right top row, Drusilla S. Hodson, Provo; first row Mabel Rockwel , Lehi, Utah; Adeline Kunz, Bern, Idaho; Daphne Dalton,Manassa, Colorado; second row Polly M. Skousen, Juarez, Mexico; Miss Dancy, Superintendent of Nurses; Pattie Pritchard, Salt Lake City; third row Ruth C. Hansen Salt Lake City; Audrey Benson, Provo; Mary Albrea Shumway, Penrose, Wyo.; bottom, Martha Tipton, Salt Lake City.