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    "ocrText": "She is a graduate of the University of Delaware, received her professional\ntraining at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing, and has a masters degree from\nTeachers College, Columbia University, New York City.\nMiss Sleeper, born in Manchester, New Hampshire, has been director of the\nSchool of Nursing at Massachusetts General Hospital since 1946. She received her\nprofessional training there, and holds B.S. and M.A. degrees from Teachers College,\nColumbia University.\nShe taught at Massachusetts General and the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, also\nin Boston; at Western Reserve University School of Nursing in Cleveland, and at\nTeachers College, Columbia University. She also has served as acting assistant\nsuperintendent of nurses at Peter Bent Brigham and as assistant superintendent of\nnurses and assistant principal of the School of Nursing at Massachusetts General.\nMiss Sleeper served on the National Health Advisory Committee of the Office of\nDefense Mobilization, the Advisory Committee to the USPHS Cadet Nurse program, and\nas honorary consultant to the Surgeon General of the Navy. She also has been presi-\ndent of the National League for Nursing, and has served in a nursing advisory capac-\nity to the American Red Cross, Veterans Administration Hospitals, the Childrens\nBureau and the National Association for the Prevention of Blindness.\nShe is chairman of the Educational Committee of the International Council of\nNurses and is a member of the Expert Committee on Nursing of the World Health Organ-\nization.\nTwenty-seven other American nurses have received the Florence Nightingale Medal\nsince 1920. The two latest previous recipients, in 1957, were Mrs. Elizabeth Kerr\nPorter, dean of the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing of Western Reserve Univer-\nsity in Cleveland, and Miss Marion W. Sheean, associate general director of the\nNational League for Nursing. In 1955, the award went to Miss Isabel Maitland Stewart\nof New York City and Lt. Col. Ruby G. Bradley of the Army Nurse Corps.\n3 -\n-15216-559"
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