Scott and White School of Nursing

The school's second life began at Mary Hardin-Baylor. Dr. LaVerne Gallman, who had taught for 25 years in the Scott and White diploma program, became the first director when the program moved to the university and became a baccalaureate degree in 1970. The Texas State Board of Nurse Examiners approved it in 1971, and the first class graduated in spring 1972, with 28 members. Of the 59 students who graduated in the first two years, 58 passed licensure, and the National League for Nursing granted full accreditation in 1974.

What the plaque says

Scott and White School of Nursing The School of Nursing was founded in 1904 by Dr. Arthur C. Scott and Dr. Raleigh White, Jr., as a part of their Temple Sanitarium to provide professional training for nurses. Initially a small local student body was instructed by the doctors and nursing superintendent at their facility, a former Catholic convent on South Fifth Street and Avenue F in Temple. Doctors Scott & White based the nursing school on the philosophy of Florence Nightingale, and created an atmosphere of training and education. The school expanded over the years, and changes took place in both the name of the school and the diversity of the curriculum. In 1946 nurses' training included a liberal arts education in conjunction with Temple Junior College. By 1949 the school was ranked among the nation's top programs in nursing. In 1968 administrators planned a two-year phasing out of the diploma program in nursing and the beginning of the baccalaureate nursing program at Mary Hardin-Baylor College. During its 66 years of existence as a diploma program, the Scott & White School of Nursing graduated 1,233 nurses who served prominently in health care worldwide. (1997)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Temple Railroad and Heritage Museum — 7.4 mi
  The Santa Fe depot of 1911 in a railroad town that began in 1880 as a construction camp, now a museum with locomotives and cars parked beside the active rail yard.
• Mother Neff State Park — 19 mi
  A Leon River park that grew from six acres Isabella Neff left the state in her 1921 will, where Civilian Conservation Corps Company 817 built a stone tower, a pavilion and roads in the 1930s.

More markers nearby

• A Memorial to Civil War Education in Texas — steps away
• Jeff Hamilton — steps away
• The Curtis Mansion — 0.2 mi
• African American Education in Belton — 0.4 mi