CAMP SMITH, Mildred (ROBINSON)

ROBINSON, CAMP, SMITH

Posted By: Sharon R Becker (email)
Date: 1/9/2016 at 15:20:23

BIOGRAPHY of MILDRED (ROBINSON) CAMP SMITH
Graceland University

Mildred (Robinson) Camp Smith was born in Independence, Missouri, on July 29, 1920.

Mildred served 23 years as a nursing faculty member with Graceland College [present-day Graceland University] and the Independence Sanitarium and Hospital School of Nursing.

At the start of World War II, she had a job making bullets at Lake City, Missouri, before enrolling as a student at Graceland, where she became president of her sophomore class and graduated in 1945. After Graceland, she joined the Army nursing corps, obtained her B.S. from Washington University in 1948, and earned a private pilot's license in 1950.

Camp worked in psychiatric nursing in St. Louis, Missouri, until 1951, then resumed her career at "the San" as a medical nursing supervisor from 1957 to 1962. Camp then refocused her "San" work on education, teaching chemistry, microbiology, leadership and pharmacology from 1962 to 1968.

As the facility began the process toward becoming the Independence campus of Graceland College, Camp wanted to start a program in community health nursing, so she enrolled at the University of Colorado and finished her M.S.N. in 1969. Camp became a part of the Graceland faculty that fall, although she spent most of her initial year teaching upper division courses at Avila College.

In addition to Community Health Nursing, Camp's courses at Graceland included Introduction to Nursing, Medical Nursing, and Surgical Nursing. She was instrumental in developing the Independence Education Center's learning resources library and the Health Promotion Center. She also introduced new methods of healing instruction that utilized non-traditional and herbal remedies.

Camp retired as professor emerita in 1986, and married longtime friend A. Cliff Smith shortly thereafter.

SOURCE:
Goehner, David. “The Graceland College Book of Knowledge: From A To Z.” Pp. 395-96. Herald House. Independence MO. 1997.

Transcription and note by Sharon R. Becker, January of 2016

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