She married Vernon F. Loughran on 3 August 1943.
AURORA, Colo. (Sept. 12, 2013) - Shortly after the outbreak of World War II, Japanese-American nursing students up and down the West Coast found themselves ejected from colleges and packed off to bleak internment camps in the interior of the country.
The injustice of the policy along with the waste of critical nursing skills during a time of war incensed Henrietta Adams Loughran, then dean of the University of Colorado College of Nursing. So she and Gov. Ralph Lawrence Carr, who also opposed internment, devised a plan. Loughran, "on-loan" from the University of Washington, used connections there and at the University of California San Francisco to quietly transfer Japanese-American or Nisei nursing students facing internment to the University of Colorado to continue their studies. Nisei students flooded in and soon CU had more than any other American university. And while the exact numbers are unclear, one report shows that between 1942 and 1946, 505 Japanese-American students studied at colleges throughout Colorado. Last Friday at the CU College of Nursing's 2013 Reunion, Loughran was honored with a posthumous 2013 Pathfinders Award "for creating pathways for Japanese-American and other minority students." She had come here in 1941 as acting director for a year but ended up getting married and staying. Loughran served as dean for 16 years and a professor for another 23 years.
Her work is collected in the University of Washington's library. Below is the outline of her life and the collection:
Henrietta Marguerite Adams Loughran was born in Seattle, Washington on July 12, 1898. She graduated from Kirkland High School in Kirkland, Washington in 1915 and then attended the Seattle General Hospital School of Nursing. After receiving a nursing certificate in 1920, she worked as a private duty nurse and then as an obstetrical supervisor at Seattle General Hospital. In 1926, she received her BSN from the University of Washington and served as a nursing instructor at Everett General Hospital in Everett, Washington from 1926 to 1928. From 1928 to 1931, she taught nursing at the University of Washington, then in 1931 became director of nursing education at the newly established Harborview Hospital Division of the University of Washington School of Nursing. She received her MSN from the University of Washington in 1934. In 1941, she moved to Colorado to be the acting director of the University of Colorado School of Nursing, then became the dean in 1943 and served in that capacity for 16 years. She also taught nursing at CU for 23 years until her retirement in 1965. In 1943, she married Vernon F. Loughran. After her husband's death in 1978, she moved back to Redmond, Washington and died there on October 2, 1980 at the age of 82.
Content Description of Collection:
Correspondence, ephemera, subject files, reports, clippings, and other materials primarily related to Loughran's time at University of Washington as a nursing instructor and director of nursing education. Organizations represented include American Nurses' Association, Association of Western Hospitals, King County Graduate Nurses Association, King County Defense Council, Seattle General Hospital, Washington State Nurses Association, Washington State Graduate Nurses Association, and Washington State League of Nursing Education.
AURORA, Colo. (Sept. 12, 2013) - Shortly after the outbreak of World War II, Japanese-American nursing students up and down the West Coast found themselves ejected from colleges and packed off to bleak internment camps in the interior of the country.
The injustice of the policy along with the waste of critical nursing skills during a time of war incensed Henrietta Adams Loughran, then dean of the University of Colorado College of Nursing. So she and Gov. Ralph Lawrence Carr, who also opposed internment, devised a plan. Loughran, "on-loan" from the University of Washington, used connections there and at the University of California San Francisco to quietly transfer Japanese-American or Nisei nursing students facing internment to the University of Colorado to continue their studies. Nisei students flooded in and soon CU had more than any other American university. And while the exact numbers are unclear, one report shows that between 1942 and 1946, 505 Japanese-American students studied at colleges throughout Colorado. Last Friday at the CU College of Nursing's 2013 Reunion, Loughran was honored with a posthumous 2013 Pathfinders Award "for creating pathways for Japanese-American and other minority students." She had come here in 1941 as acting director for a year but ended up getting married and staying. Loughran served as dean for 16 years and a professor for another 23 years.
Her work is collected in the University of Washington's library. Below is the outline of her life and the collection:
Henrietta Marguerite Adams Loughran was born in Seattle, Washington on July 12, 1898. She graduated from Kirkland High School in Kirkland, Washington in 1915 and then attended the Seattle General Hospital School of Nursing. After receiving a nursing certificate in 1920, she worked as a private duty nurse and then as an obstetrical supervisor at Seattle General Hospital. In 1926, she received her BSN from the University of Washington and served as a nursing instructor at Everett General Hospital in Everett, Washington from 1926 to 1928. From 1928 to 1931, she taught nursing at the University of Washington, then in 1931 became director of nursing education at the newly established Harborview Hospital Division of the University of Washington School of Nursing. She received her MSN from the University of Washington in 1934. In 1941, she moved to Colorado to be the acting director of the University of Colorado School of Nursing, then became the dean in 1943 and served in that capacity for 16 years. She also taught nursing at CU for 23 years until her retirement in 1965. In 1943, she married Vernon F. Loughran. After her husband's death in 1978, she moved back to Redmond, Washington and died there on October 2, 1980 at the age of 82.
Content Description of Collection:
Correspondence, ephemera, subject files, reports, clippings, and other materials primarily related to Loughran's time at University of Washington as a nursing instructor and director of nursing education. Organizations represented include American Nurses' Association, Association of Western Hospitals, King County Graduate Nurses Association, King County Defense Council, Seattle General Hospital, Washington State Nurses Association, Washington State Graduate Nurses Association, and Washington State League of Nursing Education.
She married Vernon F. Loughran on 3 August 1943.
AURORA, Colo. (Sept. 12, 2013) - Shortly after the outbreak of World War II, Japanese-American nursing students up and down the West Coast found themselves ejected from colleges and packed off to bleak internment camps in the interior of the country.
The injustice of the policy along with the waste of critical nursing skills during a time of war incensed Henrietta Adams Loughran, then dean of the University of Colorado College of Nursing. So she and Gov. Ralph Lawrence Carr, who also opposed internment, devised a plan. Loughran, "on-loan" from the University of Washington, used connections there and at the University of California San Francisco to quietly transfer Japanese-American or Nisei nursing students facing internment to the University of Colorado to continue their studies. Nisei students flooded in and soon CU had more than any other American university. And while the exact numbers are unclear, one report shows that between 1942 and 1946, 505 Japanese-American students studied at colleges throughout Colorado. Last Friday at the CU College of Nursing's 2013 Reunion, Loughran was honored with a posthumous 2013 Pathfinders Award "for creating pathways for Japanese-American and other minority students." She had come here in 1941 as acting director for a year but ended up getting married and staying. Loughran served as dean for 16 years and a professor for another 23 years.
Her work is collected in the University of Washington's library. Below is the outline of her life and the collection:
Henrietta Marguerite Adams Loughran was born in Seattle, Washington on July 12, 1898. She graduated from Kirkland High School in Kirkland, Washington in 1915 and then attended the Seattle General Hospital School of Nursing. After receiving a nursing certificate in 1920, she worked as a private duty nurse and then as an obstetrical supervisor at Seattle General Hospital. In 1926, she received her BSN from the University of Washington and served as a nursing instructor at Everett General Hospital in Everett, Washington from 1926 to 1928. From 1928 to 1931, she taught nursing at the University of Washington, then in 1931 became director of nursing education at the newly established Harborview Hospital Division of the University of Washington School of Nursing. She received her MSN from the University of Washington in 1934. In 1941, she moved to Colorado to be the acting director of the University of Colorado School of Nursing, then became the dean in 1943 and served in that capacity for 16 years. She also taught nursing at CU for 23 years until her retirement in 1965. In 1943, she married Vernon F. Loughran. After her husband's death in 1978, she moved back to Redmond, Washington and died there on October 2, 1980 at the age of 82.
Content Description of Collection:
Correspondence, ephemera, subject files, reports, clippings, and other materials primarily related to Loughran's time at University of Washington as a nursing instructor and director of nursing education. Organizations represented include American Nurses' Association, Association of Western Hospitals, King County Graduate Nurses Association, King County Defense Council, Seattle General Hospital, Washington State Nurses Association, Washington State Graduate Nurses Association, and Washington State League of Nursing Education.
AURORA, Colo. (Sept. 12, 2013) - Shortly after the outbreak of World War II, Japanese-American nursing students up and down the West Coast found themselves ejected from colleges and packed off to bleak internment camps in the interior of the country.
The injustice of the policy along with the waste of critical nursing skills during a time of war incensed Henrietta Adams Loughran, then dean of the University of Colorado College of Nursing. So she and Gov. Ralph Lawrence Carr, who also opposed internment, devised a plan. Loughran, "on-loan" from the University of Washington, used connections there and at the University of California San Francisco to quietly transfer Japanese-American or Nisei nursing students facing internment to the University of Colorado to continue their studies. Nisei students flooded in and soon CU had more than any other American university. And while the exact numbers are unclear, one report shows that between 1942 and 1946, 505 Japanese-American students studied at colleges throughout Colorado. Last Friday at the CU College of Nursing's 2013 Reunion, Loughran was honored with a posthumous 2013 Pathfinders Award "for creating pathways for Japanese-American and other minority students." She had come here in 1941 as acting director for a year but ended up getting married and staying. Loughran served as dean for 16 years and a professor for another 23 years.
Her work is collected in the University of Washington's library. Below is the outline of her life and the collection:
Henrietta Marguerite Adams Loughran was born in Seattle, Washington on July 12, 1898. She graduated from Kirkland High School in Kirkland, Washington in 1915 and then attended the Seattle General Hospital School of Nursing. After receiving a nursing certificate in 1920, she worked as a private duty nurse and then as an obstetrical supervisor at Seattle General Hospital. In 1926, she received her BSN from the University of Washington and served as a nursing instructor at Everett General Hospital in Everett, Washington from 1926 to 1928. From 1928 to 1931, she taught nursing at the University of Washington, then in 1931 became director of nursing education at the newly established Harborview Hospital Division of the University of Washington School of Nursing. She received her MSN from the University of Washington in 1934. In 1941, she moved to Colorado to be the acting director of the University of Colorado School of Nursing, then became the dean in 1943 and served in that capacity for 16 years. She also taught nursing at CU for 23 years until her retirement in 1965. In 1943, she married Vernon F. Loughran. After her husband's death in 1978, she moved back to Redmond, Washington and died there on October 2, 1980 at the age of 82.
Content Description of Collection:
Correspondence, ephemera, subject files, reports, clippings, and other materials primarily related to Loughran's time at University of Washington as a nursing instructor and director of nursing education. Organizations represented include American Nurses' Association, Association of Western Hospitals, King County Graduate Nurses Association, King County Defense Council, Seattle General Hospital, Washington State Nurses Association, Washington State Graduate Nurses Association, and Washington State League of Nursing Education.
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Henrietta A.
1895 - 1980
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