Inspiration for Activism!

• Began her nursing career at the Henry Street Settlement in New York.
• Served in the Signal Corps during World War II. 
• Became Dean of the Yale University School of Nursing in 1958; resigned as Dean in 1968 to study the British approach to care for the terminally ill.
• Opened the first hospice in the United States in 1971.
• Initiated training for inmates in Connecticut to become hospice volunteers for dying inmates, an approach that became a model for prisons worldwide.