Ed. Education and Local Schools

Abstract The Southwest Ohio School Nurses Association (SWOSNA) was founded in late 1967, with a primary purpose of developing strategies to obtain mandatory school health services and certification. It includes school nurses from southwestern Ohio, including Dayton, Springfield, Middletown, and Cincinnati. The organization’s goals include promoting health knowledge and advancing the quality of health services for school aged children in southwestern Ohio; fostering professional attitudes and adhering...

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Collection consists of 3 original financial items (2 receipts, 1 IOU), a news clipping, and a photocopy (2 sheets) of the 1891 graduation program from Dayton's Central High School, of which Dunbar was a class member.

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A child’s letter written to a friend in Xenia, Ohio. The letter written to Hodge (unclear as to if this is the recipient’s first or last name) expressing his concerns and thoughts about school. Dated December 11, 1876.

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Contains a catalog, notebook, and correspondence pertaining to the Miami Jacobs Commercial College / Business College.

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Contains the will and associated documents concerning Horace Mann, once President of Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio.

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Contains programs, articles, papers, and commencement materials for the Xenia Female College, dating between 1866 and 1873.

Abstract Edith McClure Patterson served on the Dayton Board of Education during the early 1930s and from 1915-1939 she was the first woman to serve on the Ohio Board of Liquor Control. In 1932, she ran unsuccessfully for Congress. Patterson was active in welfare and education work, and made a lifelong study of problems affecting the home and children. Her papers and scrapbooks are a source of information about local Dayton education, budget and thrift, home management, women's clubs, and liquor...

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Born and raised in Yellow Springs, Carr had a long, distinguished career working in Europe for the Red Cross and the Near East Foundation as a nurse and public health administrator. Her papers include extensive correspondence, journal articles, reports, working papers, clippings, genealogical materials, and photographs.

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Collection contains some materials which pertain to the National Special Libraries Association, however, most material deals with the activities of the local Central Ohio Chapter, previously named the Dayton chapter. Included are chapter by-laws, minutes, workshop and conference reports, bulletins, financial records and printed materials.

Abstract Lovetta R. (Dixon) Blanke (1919-2012), RN, B.S., M.A., was a school nurse, public health nurse, nurse educator, Dayton philanthropist, patron of the arts, and advocate for the profession of nursing. She advocated for children's health, health education, and other issues relevant to school nurses, such as school nurse certification. In 2008, she was named Outstanding Philanthropist by the Association of Fundraising Professionals, Greater Dayton Region Chapter. This collection documents Mrs....