Jeanne Quint Benoliel Papers, 1970-1998, 1.25 linear feet. Dr. Benoliel is Professor Emeritus of Psychosocial and Community Health, University of Washington School of Nursing. She joined the faculty in 1970 and became department chair at a time when the school was reorganizing. She was a member of the committee planning a Ph.D. program in Nursing Science and she initiated a funded study of patterns of dying in hospitals, 1973-1977. As the author of widely published articles and books on nursing care of cancer and terminally ill patients, she is a frequent guest lecturer and consultant. She has been active in many nursing professional organizations at both the state and national levels. The bulk of these papers reflect Dr. Benoliel’s work on the ANA Commission on Nursing Research and related matters for the years 1970-1976. The Commission, then a newly created structure within the ANA, created an infrastructure though which nurse investigators could meet, offer programs, and exchange information. This process was an important part of organized nursing’s growth as a profession.

Ruth McCorkle Papers, 1941-1998, 0.4 linear feet. Dr. McCorkle is presently Professor and Director of the Center for Excellence in Chronic Illness Care and Chair of the DNSc Program at Yale University School of Nursing. Before Yale, McCorkle spent twelve years at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, where for ten of those years she was the Director of the Center for Advancing Care in Serious Illness and Associate Director of Cancer Control for two years at the University of Pennsylvania Cancer Comprehensive Center. From 1975-1986, she was a professor in the Department of Community Health Care Systems, School of Nursing, University of Washington, Seattle, WA. Dr. McCorkle is a widely published author of papers and book articles. These papers consist of diplomas and certificates, correspondence and memos, grant proposals, U.S. Air Force Nurse Corps duty orders, newspapers clippings and photographs.