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Margaret Baggett Dolan

1914–1974 · Dates from the Library of Congress · Library of Congress authority record ↗

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  1. Margaret Dolan succeeds Ruth Hay as head of Public Health Nursing Dolan, from a North Carolina family with long ties to the university, had taken her B.S. in public health nursing at the school in 1944 and joined its faculty in 1950. She took charge of the department in 1959 and later served as president of the American Nurses Association and the American Public Health Association. Place: School of Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill · Also named: Ruth HaySearch the index · Robert Rodgers Korstad, Dreaming of a Time: The School of Public Health, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1939-1989 (1990), scan p. 105

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By Margaret Baggett Dolan

Margaret Baggett Dolan papers, 1936-1974.

Dolan, Margaret Baggett, 1914-1974 · 1936

Nursing papers of Margaret Baggett Dolan, who lived from 1914 to 1974, dated 1936 to 1974, about 9,600 items in twelve linear feet and in part copies, part of the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 3846. Topics include public health nursing and its teaching in North Carolina and Dolan's work with the American Nurses Association, the American Public Health Association, the National Health Council and the state nurses' association.

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