Individual Details
Drusilla Ragan Poole
(March 5, 1921 - December 11, 1981)
Drucilla Poole never married and had no children.
Drucilla Poole was a graduate of Yale University School of Nursing, Class of 1947, later a recipient of a Yale School of Nursing Distinguished Alumna Award.
"Miss Poole (A. B., Scarritt College, Nashville, Tennessee; M. N., Yale University) is assistant director of nursing service at Emory University Hospital, Emory University, Georgia." ("Study Units - a Means for In-Service Education," by Drusilla Poole, The American Journal of Nursing, Vol 54, No 2 (Feb 1954), pages 194 - 196.)
"In July 1958, The Army Nurse Corps joined with the National League for Nursing (NLN) in the Disaster Nursing Project financed by the Federal Civil Defense Administration. Four Army Nurse Corps officers, three on active duty and one U.S. Army Reserve officer not on active duty, were assigned to develop courses on disaster nursing to be introduced in the curriculum at civilian schools of nursing. Lt. Col. Ida Graham Price served at Teachers College, Columbia University; Capt. Drusilla Poole at the University of Minnesota; Capt. Virginia Farrell at Massachusetts General Hospital; and Maj. Grace Davidson, ANC, USAR, remained working with Skidmore College. Although the NLN project was a five-year endeavor, the Army Nurse Corps officers served for one year assigned to the Department of Nursing, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, with duty station at the respective civilian schools of nursing.
"On 3 June 1978, the final Walter Reed Army Institute of Nursing (WRAIN) commissioning ceremony was held; ninety-one graduate nurses were commissioned 50 as first lieutenants. At this ceremony the WRAIN unit flag and crest were retired and donated to Army nurses for future display in the Army Medical Museum. During its eleven years, five ANC officers served as WRAIN's Director: Lt. Col. Iladene H. Filer (1964�-1967), Lt. Col. Margaret Ewen (1967-�1968), Col. Drusilla Poole (1968�-1974), Lt. Col. Billie J. Barcus (1974�-1976), and Col. Hazel W. Johnson (1976�-1978).
In 1973, Col. Drusilla Poole received the Anita Newcomb McGee Award of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR), which honors the memory of Dr. McGee, who organized the Army Nurse Corps during the Spanish-American War. The award is sponsored yearly by the DAR to an active duty Nurse Corps officer, with the grade of captain or above and in a career status, selected by the Surgeon General as the "U.S. Army Nurse of the Year." ("Highlights in the History of the Army Nurse Corps," Edited by Carolyn M. Feller, Lieutenant Colonel, AN, USAR; and Debora R. Cox Major, AN; U.S. Army Center of Military History Washington, DC 2001.)
"Nursing has had a long history in the Yale-China Association. YSN's Drusilla Poole was a nurse who worked at Xiangya Medical College and was one of the last [Yale] people to leave China prior to the revolution." (Yale School of Nursing Newsletter, 2003.)
Drucilla Poole was a graduate of Yale University School of Nursing, Class of 1947, later a recipient of a Yale School of Nursing Distinguished Alumna Award.
"Miss Poole (A. B., Scarritt College, Nashville, Tennessee; M. N., Yale University) is assistant director of nursing service at Emory University Hospital, Emory University, Georgia." ("Study Units - a Means for In-Service Education," by Drusilla Poole, The American Journal of Nursing, Vol 54, No 2 (Feb 1954), pages 194 - 196.)
"In July 1958, The Army Nurse Corps joined with the National League for Nursing (NLN) in the Disaster Nursing Project financed by the Federal Civil Defense Administration. Four Army Nurse Corps officers, three on active duty and one U.S. Army Reserve officer not on active duty, were assigned to develop courses on disaster nursing to be introduced in the curriculum at civilian schools of nursing. Lt. Col. Ida Graham Price served at Teachers College, Columbia University; Capt. Drusilla Poole at the University of Minnesota; Capt. Virginia Farrell at Massachusetts General Hospital; and Maj. Grace Davidson, ANC, USAR, remained working with Skidmore College. Although the NLN project was a five-year endeavor, the Army Nurse Corps officers served for one year assigned to the Department of Nursing, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, with duty station at the respective civilian schools of nursing.
"On 3 June 1978, the final Walter Reed Army Institute of Nursing (WRAIN) commissioning ceremony was held; ninety-one graduate nurses were commissioned 50 as first lieutenants. At this ceremony the WRAIN unit flag and crest were retired and donated to Army nurses for future display in the Army Medical Museum. During its eleven years, five ANC officers served as WRAIN's Director: Lt. Col. Iladene H. Filer (1964�-1967), Lt. Col. Margaret Ewen (1967-�1968), Col. Drusilla Poole (1968�-1974), Lt. Col. Billie J. Barcus (1974�-1976), and Col. Hazel W. Johnson (1976�-1978).
In 1973, Col. Drusilla Poole received the Anita Newcomb McGee Award of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR), which honors the memory of Dr. McGee, who organized the Army Nurse Corps during the Spanish-American War. The award is sponsored yearly by the DAR to an active duty Nurse Corps officer, with the grade of captain or above and in a career status, selected by the Surgeon General as the "U.S. Army Nurse of the Year." ("Highlights in the History of the Army Nurse Corps," Edited by Carolyn M. Feller, Lieutenant Colonel, AN, USAR; and Debora R. Cox Major, AN; U.S. Army Center of Military History Washington, DC 2001.)
"Nursing has had a long history in the Yale-China Association. YSN's Drusilla Poole was a nurse who worked at Xiangya Medical College and was one of the last [Yale] people to leave China prior to the revolution." (Yale School of Nursing Newsletter, 2003.)
Events
| Birth | March 5, 1921 | Cornersville, Marshall County, Tennessee | |||
| Death | December 11, 1981 | San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas |
Families
| Father | John Crutcher Poole (1893 - 1961) |
| Mother | Grace Eulalia Judia (1889 - 1976) |
| Sibling | Rebecca Poole (1922 - 1978) |
| Sibling | Geneva Poole (1925 - ) |