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The omission of the Boston College School of Nursing was certainly blatant. The School was founded in 1946 and housed at 126 Newbury St. Boston, MA. The first Dean was Mary Maher (now deceased) and followed by Rita P. Kellerher who is alive and well living in Hingham, MA.

The first class of nurses were all women and veterans of WWII. They had served in various posts around the world. Jesuits and teachers would travel “down town” to teach, however, the students traveled to the Heights for the science courses. They were the first group of women students to break the campus “barrier.”

To deny the existence of the School of Nursing because it was not located at the Heights also would deny the existence of the School of Social Work and The Intown School.

Alice G. Dowd, 1st President of the BCSON class of ’49