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Wednesday, September 13, 2017 / Published in Events, Forgotten People, Local Heroes and Heroines, Local History

Event: Anne Penland, Asheville Native, W.W. I Nurse Anesthetist

Title: Anne Penland, Asheville Native, W.W. I Nurse Anesthetist

Speakers: Symposium with Keynote Speaker, Sandra Oullette, Past President, American Association of Nurse Anesthetist.

Also, the American Red Cross and Penland Family Members.

Guest appearances by Actress Callan White and the Asheville High Brass Quintet.

Date: Saturday September 16, 2017

Time: 1: PM to 3:00 PM followed by a dedication ceremony for the Anne Penland historical marker on Haywood Street.

Anne Penland 1885-1976) was the daughter of William H. and Mary Blair Penland. The Penland family home was on the current site of Pack Memorial Library and the Vanderbilt Apartments.

Join us to learn more about Anne Penland and other heroic nurses, who saved lives and comforted wounded and dying soldiers, often coming under attack themselves.

Shortly after the United States entered World War I in 1917, the “Presbyterian Hospital was asked to send two surgical teams near the front to support the British attack on Western Belgium, one of the teams used a nurse as its anesthetist. Major William Darrach, the team’s surgeon and a future dean of P&S, told a British colonel that Anne Penland’12, was the most qualified in the group, even though the colonel didn’t think a nurse could physically hold down a larger man while giving anesthesia. One night more than 1,200 casualties came through the makeshift hospital and Ms. Penland performed admirably. Her achievements motivated the British to develop programs for nurse anesthetists. Graduates later freed up more than 100 doctors for medical and surgical work during the war.” [From “Nurses Who Went to War” by Matthew Dougherty.]

Post by Zoe Rhine Librarian

 

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Tagged under: Anesthetist, Anne Penland, Asheville History, Buncombe County, Historical Markers, World War I

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2 Comments to “ Event: Anne Penland, Asheville Native, W.W. I Nurse Anesthetist”

  1. John Ferguson says :Reply
    September 17, 2017 at 1:05 pm

    A wonderful note on the important part played by nurses in WW1. Wish I could. visit Asheville and Bunscom County.
    JHF
    Lancaster IL

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    April 8, 2020 at 10:54 am

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