Hartford Hospital history

Mary Dennison Fuller 1882, and a committee of members raised sufficient funds to purchase a piano, which Miss Friend received for the Residence and gave a cordial invitation to hold all it's future meetings in the Nurses Residence.

3/6/1884 -- Miss Plummer announced that she felt sure no objection would be made by the surgeons to graduates attending operations at Hartford Hospital.

At the September meeting in 1918, a few months after her sudden death, the Alumnae Association voted to establish the Lauder Sutherland Memorial Loan Fund to assist nurses desiring to study for special work.

Short piece detailing the history of Hartford Hospital, beginning with its start at the Old Kissel Boarding House to the transition to Hartford General Hospital in 1920.

Samuel Colt." The gavel was made of the Charter Oak. (The original hiding place of Connecticut Colonial Charter.) 9/1921 -- Lauder Sutherland Fund made wholly a Loan Fund for nurses wishing to become teachers or hospital instructors.

9/1922 -- Meeting of the Lauder Sutherland Fund was held.

OR, X=ray). 12/1934 -- Miss McConnell read an extract from the Winchell Smith Will which is to defray the expenses of the nurses of HH staff and graduates of the school.

1935 -- House Bill 856 introduced to the legislature re: registration of nurses.

1939 -- Free Bed Fund name changed to Alumnae Bed Fund and a committee was formed to oversee it.

T&A's; dental). 1941 -- Late Doctor Phineas Ingalls left $1,000.00 to our Alumnae Bed Fund; Miss Rachel McConnell retired.

1942 -- From the Annual Report "the greatest achievement of the year was the awarding of a @ $500 scholarship to a member of the Association chosen by the Scholarship Committee.

1945 -- Rose Kreuter Knoek '21 gave the AA a $100 bond to be used in helping sick nurses.

10/1949 -- Free membership for 30 year members started.

6/1951 -- It was voted to combine Bertha Graves Fund with the Loan Emergency and Mitchell House Funds to be known as Graves-Mitchell Loan and Emergency Fund.

Miss Brooks announced that the Diamond Jubilee of HHSN would be celebrated May 12, 1952.

10/1956 -- New uniform voted on.

9/1957 -- Balloting by mail started.

1958 -- The price of joining the Alumnae Bed Fund was raised to $50.00.

1960 -- $10,000 of Alumnae funds were transferred to the Alumnae Bed Fund at HH. HH plans for expansion started.

1961 -- New Haven Chapter president, Georgia Clark Erickson '53 met with the Alumnae to discuss the Chapter and it's plans to donate to the October Fair.

1964 -- Our Bed Fund: Doctor Hamilton Requested that the surplus monies be kept by HH to be used against future deficits.

1967 -- There was a discussion of starting a newsletter.

The Award (as worded by Miss Brooks) was "presented to the member of the graduating class whose kind,skillful nursing care has been characterized by a spirit of living and giving with joy" (5/25/69). 1970 -- Our first male graduated.

1971 -- The question of what would happen to the Alumnae Bed Fund in control of HH in the event of eh US government should take over HH was discussed.

Also, this year, Miss B rooks' first volume of "A Long Way", a history of HHSN was published, followed later by Volume II. 1986 -- A decision on HHSN shield pins was made.

1992 -- Talks with HH CEO John Meehan and HH Treasurer John Biancomono were held to discuss opening the Bed Fund to other uses at HH. Examples were Pre-admission testing, use of Jefferson House, Medical Lab, etc.

1993 -- Louise Beecher Seeley '40 donated $1,000 to Lauder Sutherland Fund.

1994 -- Marilyn McKeown '69 presented an idea to make a gift to HH that would forever remind all who come to HH that there was a School of Nursing at HH that should not be forgotten.

1995 -- A resolution was passed to combine all funds under Assistant Treasurer into one called Alumnae Fund.

1996 -- Executive Board of AAHHSN voted to support the concept of a study regarding a memorial statue of HHSN. A memorial committee was formed in August with Karen Mazzarela '69 and Mary Jane Densmore '69 as co-chairmen.

1997 -- A formal arrangement between the Memorial Project Committee and the Alumnae Association was set up as the Committee needed to use the Alumnae's tax number.

1999 -- Dissolution of the Memorial Project was prepared.

2002 -- History of HHSN Alumnae Association was written and published by Pat Audet '56.

2004 -- HHSN Alumnae Association goes "hi-tech" with the launch of its web site, June, 2004 at http://hhsnalumnae.org.

2008 –Alumnae Association money, previously managed by Hartford Hospital, was transferred to Alumnae Association control and invested into Morgan Stanley Accounts.

2009 –Scholarship Committee formed to give nursing scholarships annually to alumnae members and their immediate family members.

2011 – The Alumnae Association made a $50,000 donation to Hartford Hospital for Nursing Education.

2012 - Nursing Scholarships applications now include employees of HH and IOL employed for over 6 months 2012 – Title changes approved for the Executive Secretary to Executive Director of Alumnae Affairs, Treasurer to Board Treasurer and Assistant Treasurer to Vice Treasurer.