Events at Arlington National Cemetery
"Devotion to Duty: Memorializing Jane Delano"
Saturday, Jan. 31, 4 p.m. (via Zoom)
Webinar with the Army Nurse Corps Association
ANC Senior Historian Dr. Allison S. Finkelstein will be leading a public webinar for the Army Nurse Corps Association (ANCA). This free webinar is being hosted by the ANCA and is open to any member of the public.
Buried in Section 21 of Arlington National Cemetery (ANC), Jane Delano was an influential superintendent of the Army Nurse Corps during its formative years. Delano also devoted herself to the American Red Cross, and her leadership proved pivotal during World War I. Her death on duty in France in 1919 devastated the American nursing community, who commemorated her in multiple ways at ANC and beyond. In honor of the 125th anniversary of the Army Nurse Corps, this webinar will explore Delano’s service and legacy—and highlight ANC’s role as a sacred site for the military nursing community.
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Image Source: National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; painting by Bjorn P. Egeli; gift of the Jane A. Delano Post #6 of the American Legion, 1938