Clara Noyes
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Clara Dutton Noyes (October 3, 1869 – June 3, 1936) was an American nurse who headed the American Red Cross department of nursing during World War I. In 1998 she was inducted into the American Nurses Association Hall of Fame.
Early life and education
Clara Dutton Noyes was born in Port Deposit, Maryland, one of the ten children of Enoch Noyes and Laura Lay Banning Noyes. Her father had been a colonel with the 26th Connecticut Volunteers in the American Civil War. She graduated from nurses' training at Johns Hopkins School of Nursing in 1896.[http://magazine.nursing.jhu.edu/2015/07/this-way-forward-clara-noyes-1869-1936/ "This Way Forward: Clara Noyes (1869-1936)"] Johns Hopkins Nursing (July 29, 2015).
Career
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During World War I and after, Clara Noyes was director of the American Red Cross's Bureau of Nursing, responsible for recruiting, assigning, and organizing nurses for assignments overseas in war zones and epidemics, and in the United States during natural disasters and other emergencies.[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/6721878/clara_d_noyes_director_of_american/ "'Doctor' to World Travels by Mail"] North Adams Transcript (August 11, 1927): 2. via Newspapers.com{{open access}} She lectured and wrote on matters of public health, disaster relief, and nursing education.[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/6721628/clara_d_noyes_1921/ "Neglect Nurse Training Too Much"] Topeka Daily Capital (November 14, 1921): 6. via Newspapers.com{{open access}} In 1920 she went to inspect Red Cross project sites in the Balkans, Greece, Czechoslovakia and Poland.[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/6721784/clara_noyes_to_europe_on_inspection/ "Miss Clara Noyes Will Inspect Red Cross Work Abroad"] The Index-Journal (September 20, 1920): 1. via Newspapers.com{{open access}}
From 1918 to 1922 she was president of the American Nurses Association, and of the National Graduate Nurses Association.[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/6722073/graduate_nurses_association_1921/ "Miss Westover Attended Graduate Nurses Convention"] Central Record (June 16, 1921): 1. via Newspapers.com{{open access}} She also served a term as president of the National League of Nursing Education. She helped establish the Bureau of Nursing Information. In 1923, she was awarded the Florence Nightingale Medal by the International Committee of the Red Cross.[https://www.jstor.org/stable/3458447 "The Florence Nightingale Medal"] American Journal of Nursing (September 1949): 580. DOI: 10.2307/3458447 In 1933, she was awarded the Saunders Medal by the National League of Nursing Education, for her many years of service to her profession.[https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ws4mAAAAIBAJ&sjid=QQIGAAAAIBAJ&pg=4446%2C2824476 "Famed Nurse is Awarded Medal"] Sunday Morning Star (June 11, 1933): 9.
Clara Noyes wrote about "The Midwifery Problem" in an article with that title in 1912.Clara D. Noyes, [https://www.jstor.org/stable/3404589 "The Midwifery Problem"] American Journal of Nursing 12(6)(March 1912): 466-471. She advocated for education, certification, and supervision.[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/6721695/clara_noyes_on_midwifery_and_child/ "No Conservation of Life of Child"] Huntington Herald (September 30, 1912): 7. via Newspapers.com{{open access}} She proposed a School of Midwifery modeled on schools of nursing, and she started a program for midwives while she was a nurse supervisor at Bellevue Hospital.Laura Elizabeth Ettinger, [https://books.google.com/books?id=q68mHyW1BjoC&dq=Clara+Noyes&pg=PA14 Nurse-Midwifery: The Birth of a New American Profession] (Ohio State University Press 2006): 14. {{ISBN|9780814210239}}
Later life and legacy
Clara Dutton Noyes died in 1936, after a heart attack while driving in Washington D. C., aged 66 years.[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/6721734/death_of_clara_d_noyes_1936/ "Head of Red Cross Nursing Unit Dies While Driving Auto"] Brooklyn Daily Eagle (June 3, 1936): 3. via Newspapers.com{{open access}} In 1998 she was inducted into the American Nurses Association Hall of Fame.[http://www.nursingworld.org/ClaraNoyes "Clara Noyes (1869-1936), 1998 inductee"] American Nurses Association Hall of Fame.
Clara Noyes: Life of A Global Nursing Leader (2017) is a recent biography of Noyes, by her great-great nephew Roger Noyes.Roger Noyes, Clara Noyes: Life of A Global Nursing Leader (Northshire Bookstore 2017). {{ISBN|9781605713502}}
References
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External links
- [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Noyes&GSiman=1&GScty=23476&GRid=144181064& Clara Dutton Noyes gravesite] in Old Lyme, Connecticut, on Find a Grave.
- The Library of Congress has [https://www.loc.gov/search/?fa=subject%3Anoyes%2C+clara+d. two photographs of Clara Dutton Noyes from 1920], on her tour of American Red Cross sites in Europe.
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Category:Johns Hopkins School of Nursing alumni
Category:American women nurses
Category:American women in World War I
Category:Florence Nightingale Medal recipients
Category:American Red Cross personnel