Biography

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Mary Beard was a nurse and author. She served as Associate Director of the International Health Division of the Rockefeller Foundation, 1924-1938, and was Director of Nursing Services of the American National Red Cross. She also served on the Advisory Committee on Nursing of the New York City Department of Health, 1936-1937.

She graduated from the Cornell University School of Nursing in 1903.

CHRONOLOGY

1876	November 14, born in Dover, New Hampshire to Ithamar Warren and Mary Foster Beard.
1903	Graduated from New York Hospital School of Nursing (later became Cornell University New York Hospital School of Nursing in 1942).
1904	Visiting nurse in Waterbury, Connecticut.
1912-1922	Director of Instructive District Nursing Association in Boston.
1922-1924	Director of the Community Health Association in Boston.
1924-1938	Associate Director of the International Health Division of the Rockefeller Foundation of New York City.
1929	Author of The Nurse in Public Health.
1934	Conferred with honorary degree of Doctor of Humanities.
1938-1944	Director of Nursing Services for the American National Red Cross.
1944	Retired.
1946	Died December 4.
	Member of:
	National Organization for Public Health Nursing
	National League of Nursing Education
	American Nurses Association
	Episcopalian Club
	Honorary member of:
	Florence Nightingale International Foundation
	Association of Collegiate Schools of Nursing
	Honorary degree of Doctorate of Laws, Smith College