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WON WORLD FAME IN NURSING PROFESSION
Memorial Proposed for Isabel Hampton Robb
[Welland Telegraph, 30 May 1916]
It will interest many readers of The Telegraph in town and country to learn that a movement was started in the United States some time ago to raise $50,000 as an endowment for a memorial for the late Isabel Hampton Robb. Mrs. Robb was born in Welland and after graduating from the Welland High School taught school for a time at Merritton. She was graduated as a nurse from the Bellevue Hospital, New York, and then went to Rome, Italy, returning to take the superintendency of the large Cook County Hospital at Chicago. Her appointment to be head of the hospital of Johns Hopkins University gave her great scope for the undoubted genius she possessed. In the organization of the training school for nurses her achievement placed her as a leader in the nursing profession. It was while here that she issued the textbooks that are today classic in the United States and indeed throughout the world for they have been translated into many tongues.
Already nearly twenty thousand dollars have been subscribed for the endowment fund which is to provide scholarships for advanced courses in hospital administration and social welfare. At the head of the board which is to administer the fund is Miss M. Adelaide Nutting of Columbia University. Miss Nutting is also a Canadian (a native of Ottawa) who has won distinction in the great profession which Mrs. Robb so conspicuously adorned.
It has been thought that many in Welland where Mrs. Robb was born would be glad to assist with the endowment fund and any such are asked to send their contributions to Miss L.J. Gross, Welland, who will make suitable acknowledgment.
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