School of Nursing Scrapbook 1979

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_..._"" WITH THE BEGINNING OF THE FIRST NURSING COURSES IN JANUARY 1975) I RECEIVED A FORM 2, ·, LETTER FROM AN OFFICE IN DHEW IN WASHINGTON ABOUT THE AVAILABILITY OF FEDERAL fvONEY TO BUILD AN INSTRUCTIONAL BUILDING FOR THE NURSING SCHOOL, I PROPOSED THE r{)TION TO PREISDENT HUGHES AND TI-IE IDEA BEGAN TO TAKE HOLD OF CONSTRUCTING A NURSING / SCHOOL BUILDING FUNDED IN PART THROUGH PUBLIC fYONIES, A GRANT WAS SUBSEQUENTLY WRITTEN I AND SUBMITTED BY MARCH OF 1975. No GRANT WRITTEN FOR THE FEDERAL GoVERNMENT EVER Is ACCEPTED AS WRITTEN) AND THE SIJ"lt,1ER OF 1975 WAS SPENT IN REWRITING SECTIONS AND EXPLAINING PORTIONS OF THAT OOCUMENT WHICH TO US HERE AT USD SEEMED PERFECTLY LUCID) CLEAR AND SPECIFIC! WE HUNG IN SUSPENsE UNTIL DECEMBER i975 WHEN WE RECEIVED NOTICE THAT THE GRANT WAS APPROVED BUT THAT NO FUNDS WERE ALLOCATED, WADING THROUGH THE USUAL AfVDUNT OF FEDERALISE WE LEARNED THAT f'IONETARY APPROPRIATIONS WERE VERY RESTRICTED) ALJv'OST TO THE POINT OF NON-EXISTENCE, IN APRIL 1976) THE TIDE WAS TURNED WHEN OUR STALWART SUPPORTER MURIEL MARSH HAHN rvlADE THE CO/VMITMENT FOR THE fvlATCHING fv'ONEY REQUIRED FOR THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TO fvlAKE THE GRANT AWARD, OFFICIAL APPROVAL FOR CO/VMITMENT OF FUNDS WAS RECEIVED IN JUNE 1976, THE CONSTRUCTION OF THIS BUILDING SOON TO BEGIN IS A SINGULAR EXAMPLE OF PEOPLE POWER) FROM THE FAITH AND CONFIDENCE OF A-iILIP AND MURIEL

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