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News from the University of Arkansas for Medical
Sciences
Marion
Pool Receives Dean’s
Award from College of Nursing
MAY 24, 2001 | The UAMS
College of Nursing honored Marion Pool of
Fayetteville, Ark., last week with the Dean’s Award.
Retired from the UAMS faculty, Pool has been a
generous supporter of nursing education, endowing
several scholarships and making other gifts to the
college.
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 Her
generosity began in 1987 with a scholarship dedicated to
support a junior nursing student who demonstrated excellent
potential and documented financial need and planned to work in
Arkansas. Later she funded a graduate scholarship honoring her
parents, Dr. and Mrs. William Pool. Pool also made a "one
life annuity gift" to fund a doctoral student and started
another scholarship in memory of her friend, Angie Faye
Waldrum. Last year, she initiated an annual scholarship to
support a student in the nursing program at Hope. Just this
month, she made another outstanding contribution to the
college.
Marion Pool’s Career
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Marion Pool’s Career
Pool’s lifelong interest in health care began
when she was a young girl and the daughter of a physician in
Bodcaw, Arkansas. She witnessed the lack of preventive health
services during her childhood when repeated outbreaks of
typhoid occurred in her hometown as her father and Health
Department officials struggled in vain to curtail the
epidemic. Her interest in public health nursing grew from this
early, tragic experience.
Today Miss Pool’s primary concern is
access to adequate health care for all people. She believes
that nurses must play a greater role in disease prevention and
health care in this country.
Miss Pool served as professor and
chairperson of Public Health Nursing at UAMS from 1956 to
1960. Her involvement in health care for Arkansas began in
1938, after she earned her diploma at St. Joseph’s Hospital
School of Nursing in Phoenix, Arizona. She served as a junior
public health nurse for the Pike County Health Department.
From there, she served as senior public health nurse in Conway
Country and became chief nurse of the Pulaski County Health
Department in 1941.
Realizing that she needed advanced education
to further her career as a public health nurse, she earned a
Bachelor of Science Degree in public health nursing from
George Peabody College at Vanderbilt University in 1941.
During WWII, she served in the U.S. Army
Nurse Corp in Africa, Italy and France. After military
service, she used the GI Bill to pursue graduate study in
public health administration at Case Western Reserve
University in Cleveland, Ohio, and earned a master’s degree
in 1947. She then took positions as educational director in
public health departments in Ohio and Washington.
Her career included teaching positions at
the University of Arkansas, The Ohio State University, the
University of Washington, the University of Kentucky, the
University of West Virginia and Washington State University in
addition to a two-year World Health Organization appointment
at the University of Madras in India.
Dr. Hodges said, "Marion Pool is a role
model for our other donors and is one of the most generous
contributors to the college. Nursing scholarships provide
funds for students to further their
education in ways that would be impossible without her
financial assistance."
Giving to the College of Nursing
Endowments are critical to the effectiveness of the College of
Nursing. The college invites contributions to several existing
endowments that support research and scholarships, as well as
new named endowments for professorships and chairs. Click here
for more information
about giving opportunities in the College of Nursing.
Photo: Marion Pool
Links on This Page
College of Nursing Thanks Supporters: http://www.uams.edu/today/031501/nursing.htm
Alumni Complete Field Scholarship: http://www.uams.edu/today/010401/carter.htm
College of Nursing Receives $1.3 Million Grant: http://www.uams.edu/today/122800/elder.htm
More information:
http://www.uams.edu/advancement/funding.htm
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