Mary Elizabeth "Bess" Shellabarger (October 16, 1879 - June 25, 1967) was a Registered Nurse, military nurse abroad during World War I and director of the American Red Cross Nursing Service in Albania and Montenegro.
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M. Elizabeth Shellabarger was born in Moffat, Colorado, on October 16, 1879, daughter of Adam Shellabarger (died 1915) and Abigal "Abbie" Wales, Colorado pioneer. Other children are: Charles Walter (b) 1875), Emma Irene (b) 1882), Clara Ethel "Dolly" (born 1884), Gertrude Eloise (born 1891).
Shellabarger graduated from East High School (Denver) in 1899 and then attended the Special Literature Course at Emerson College of Oratory in Boston, in 1901 and 1902, and Vocal training at the New England Conservatory of Music. He entered the Bellevue Hospital Training School of Nursing in June 1905, graduated in 1908, and Teachers College, Columbia University, in 1916, obtained B. S. in 1920.
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Careers
M. Elizabeth Shellabarger was the first person from Saguache County, Colorado to become a Registered Nurse.
1900s
In 1908, Shellabarger was appointed Junior Supervisor and Lecturer in Maternal Medicine at Bellevue Hospital Care Training School. In 1909 he was appointed Assistant Director of Touro Infirmary in New Orleans with a class of 100 students.
1910s
From 1910 to 1912 Shellabarger was the Inspector of the Association of Nurses Visiting Denver. From 1912 to 1916 he became the Superintendent of the School of Nursing at St. Hospital. Mark, Salt Lake City. In 1914 he was appointed President of the Association of Post-Graduate Nurses, Salt Lake City. He was an army nurse abroad during World War I: in 1917 he joined the University of Colorado Hospital Unit of the American Red Cross and in 1918 he served as Assistant Chief Nurse in London and Winchester, England. On the way back to the United States, he was the Head of Nurse at the Hospital, the Saxon Ship. In 1919 he became an instructor at the Army Nursing School, Fox Hill, Staten Island, New York.
1920s
From 1920 to 1921 Shellabarger was Director of the Community Health Care Course at the University of Colorado, with field services in Pueblo, Colorado. In 1922 he was director of Public Health Care under the American Red Cross Nursing Service in Albania and Montenegro. In 1924 he became Director of the Community Health Care Course at the Missouri School of Social Economics at St. Louis. From 1925 to 1927 he became Chief Inspector of Hospitals and Schools of Nursing at Memorial Hospital, Cheyenne, Wyoming: from this position he voluntarily resigned when the Supervisory Board would not provide the necessary support to raise the standards and meet the requirements to become Class A in under the College of Surgeons. He was president of the Wyoming State Nurses Association in 1926. In 1928 and 1930 he conducted a survey of the Nursing School in Arkansas for the State Nursing Supervisory Board when he became the Nursing School Inspector. He was later named Secretary of Education. In October 1929 he taught Science at Nursing City School, Colorado.
1930s
In 1931, Shellabarger worked for Drought Relief at Texas State Board 12 County in Brady Texas Center. From 1931 to 1933 he worked for the Official Bureau in Houston, Texas. From 1934 to 1936 he became Superintendent of Public Health Nurse in El Paso and three districts in Texas. He was President of the Texas State Organization for Public Health Nursing in 1934 and 1935. In 1936 he became Regional Supervisor for New Mexico. From 1937 to 1938 he became a Supervisor at the Methodist National Sanatorium, Colorado Springs, Colorado. In 1939 he was a dietitian and nurse for 200 soldiers in Soldier & amp; Sailors House in Home Lake, Colorado.
1940s
In 1940 Shellabarger worked for the Official Nursing Bureau in San Antonio, Texas. From 1940 to 1941 he taught a Refresher Course in San Antonio, Texas. In 1942 he became an instructor at University of the Incarnate Word teaching to Registered Nurses how to teach History of Nursing and Public Health Care.
Shellabarger contributes in the American Journal of Nursing (AJN).
Shellabarger is a member of the American Legion Auxiliary, the Cheyenne College Club, the American Nursing Education League, the American Public Health Association, Episcopal Church, the Order of the Eastern Star, the American Revolutionary Daughter, the American Women's Association.
Personal life
M. Elizabeth Shellabarger lived in Rito Alto Ranch, Moffat, Colorado, and retired to Tempe, Arizona in the 1950s.
In the late 19th century Shellabarger was romantically involved with Ralph Wykes Garretson. (1878-1903) but he died on 7 September 1903, from a broken appendix. That's when Shellabarger decided to become a nurse.
Shellabarger died on June 25, 1967 and was buried, with military honor, at Santa Fe National Cemetery in New Mexico.
Legacy
Alice Elizabeth Selch Stephenson, her grandson, wrote the memoirs of Mary Elizabeth's "Bess" Shellabarger, Three Luggage Suitcases: Biography of Mary Elizabeth's "Bess" Shellabarger Colorado World War I Nurse .
References
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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