Lillian Wald (From the AMSN Blog)
Nurses Week Spotlight
Lillian Wald was born on March 10, 1867, in Cincinnati, Ohio. She was born into a life of privilege and received an excellent education. When Wald was sixteen, she applied to Vassar in order to continue her education but was denied entry as officials at Vassar believed she was too young.
She spent the remainder of her teen years traveling the world and working as a newspaper correspondent.
...Wald’s work was acknowledged and appreciated by many. In 1922 The New York Times named Wald as one of the Twelve Greatest Living American Women.