Emily Loveridge’s Memoir: As I Remember
Emily Loveridge founded the Good Samaritan School of Nursing in Portland, Oregon in June 1890, making it the first school of nursing in the Northwest. In her 40 years as superintendent, she oversaw the growth of the school and prepared hundreds of students for the nursing industry. When Loveridge retired in 1930, she had successfully overseen the growth of the Good Samaritan Hospital from a small, struggling endeavor to a respected and well-known institution. In 1985, Good Samaritan School joined Linfield as the Linfield College-Good Samaritan School of Nursing.
Near the end of her career, Emily Loveridge wrote her memoir, As I Remember, chronicling her life and the growth of Good Samaritan. This gallery contains her memoir as well as images of Emily Loveridge from the Good Samaritan Hospital and the Good Samaritan School of Nursing.
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As I Remember
Emily Loveridge
This typewritten document was authored by Emily Loveridge, the founder of the Good Samaritan Hospital School of Nursing. Loveridge began working at the Good Samaritan Hospital in 1890 and worked there for 40 years. This memoir is her remembrances of people, events, and the way the hospital and nursing program evolved during her tenure.
Please note that the back of page 14 has additional text not accounted for in the original page numbering. The manuscript is numbered page 1-47, but consists of 48 typed pages. The pdf document is a total of 49 pages, counting the cover as page 1.
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!["Aunt Emily [Loveridge]" and Secretary by Unknown](https://digitalcommons.linfield.edu/nursing_photos/1008/thumbnail.jpg "\"Aunt Emily [Loveridge]\" and Secretary by Unknown")
"Aunt Emily [Loveridge]" and Secretary
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Emily Loveridge is seated at a desk with a secretary. The nickname "Aunt Emily" is indicated on the back of the photo (which can be downloaded from the additional files) and was a name commonly used to refer to Emily Loveridge's close relationships with her nursing students and the Good Samaritan Hospital staff.
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Emily Loveridge and Nursing Students
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Emily Loveridge is sitting with nursing students of the Good Samaritan School of Nursing.
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![Helen and "Aunt Emily [Loveridge]" by Unknown](https://digitalcommons.linfield.edu/nursing_photos/1006/thumbnail.jpg "Helen and \"Aunt Emily [Loveridge]\" by Unknown")
Helen and "Aunt Emily [Loveridge]"
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This photograph shows (from left to right) Helen and Emily Loveridge. Annotations on the back of the photograph indicate that the child is Ernestine Helen Cannon, Emily Loveridge's niece through her half-sister, Myra Loveridge Cannon.
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Portrait of Emily Loveridge at Desk
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Emily Lemoine Loveridge, in old age, is seated at a desk in her nursing uniform.
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Good Samaritan School of Nursing Class of 1896
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This is a photograph of the Good Samaritan School of Nursing graduating class of 1896. One of the graduates, Mattie Morris, became seriously ill shortly before graduation and died a few weeks later.
(left to right, top to bottom): Blendina Manning, Mattie Morris, Julia Hinkle, Elise Hamilton, Hannah Scott, Emily Loveridge, Annie Roth, Antoinette Heitman, Elizabeth Dyer
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Good Samaritan School of Nursing Class of 1894
McAlpin and Lamb
The Good Samaritan School of Nursing class of 1894 features Emily Loveridge (in black) and Lillian Long Stevens (front right), who went on to be the first Superintendent of Nursing at St. Luke's Hospital in Boise, Idaho. The graduates were (in no particular order): Gertrude Churchman, Ellen Dunseath, Edith Duke, Marian Eastham, Annie Graham, Mabel Lake, and Lillian Long. The nursing students graduated on August 23, 1894. The photograph was donated to the Linfield College-Good Samaritan School of Nursing by Stevens's daughter-in-law.
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Emily Loveridge as a Student Nurse
Pach Brothers
This is a portrait of Emily L. Loveridge at age 23 in New York City. At the time this photograph was taken, Loveridge was studying nursing at Bellevue Training School for Nurses (in New York City), from which she graduated in 1889.
