Margaret G. Arnstein

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Margaret Gene Arnstein, 1904-1972
Dean 1967-1972

Margaret Gene Arnstein was born October 27, 1904 in New York City. She obtained her Bachelor of Arts (A.B.) degree from Smith College in 1925, her nursing education from Presbyterian Hospital School of Nursing in New York City in 1928, her Master of Arts (M.A.) degree in Public Health Nursing from Teachers College, Columbia University in 1929, and her Master of Public Health (M.P.H.) degree from Johns Hopkins University in 1934. She was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Science (Sc.D.) from Smith College i 1950, the honorary degree of Master of Arts from Yale University in 1967, and the honorary degree of Doctor of Science (Sc.D.) from the University of Michigan in 1972.

Positions held

Staff Nurse, Westchester County Hospital, 1929-1934

Nurse Consultant, Communicable Disease Division, New York State Department of Health, 1934-1937

Associate Professor and Director of Public Health Course, University of Minnesota, 1937-1940

District Consultant, New York State Department of Health, 1940-1943

Chief Nurse for the Balkan Mission of UNRRA (United Nations Relief Organization), 1943-1945

United States Public Health Service, Division of Nursing/Division of Nursing Resources, 1946-1964, Director/Chief, 1949-1964

LOA 1956, Florence Nightingale International Foundation to direct first international seminar in nursing research, France

LOA 1958, First Visiting Professor on the Annie W. Goodrich Endowment, Yale University School of Nursing

Senior Nursing Advisor, USAID, 1964-1966

Professor of Public Health Nursing, University of Michigan, 1966-1967

Fifth Dean and Professor, Yale University School of Nursing, 1967-1972

Professor and Coordinator, Combined Basic Graduate Program, 1972

Honors

Albert Lasker Achivement Award (with Lucile Petry Leone and Pearl McIver) on behalf of the Nursing Services of the United States Public Health Service, 1955

Distinguished Service Medal, United States Public Health Service

Rockefeller Public Service Award, 1965 (first woman recipient)

Sedgwick Medal, American Public Health Association (highest award), 1971 (fifth woman recipient since established in 1929)

Helen Varney Burst: Yale University School of Nursing: A Brief History, 1998.

Deans Donna Diers, Margaret Arnstein and Florence Wald.
September 1972.

Margaret Gene Arnstein, 1904-1972 Dean 1967-1972

Margaret Gene Arnstein, 1904-1972
Dean 1967-1972