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                                      Contact:  Katherine Jackson
     A PIONEER IN ADVANCEMENTS FOR BLACK NURSES FOR 60 YEARS
             TO SPEAK AT THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA
     CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA., April 18 -- Mary Elizabeth Carnegie, who
has been instrumental in the advancement of black nurses for nearly
60 years, will discuss "A Worldwide View of Black Nurses" at the
University of Virginia Health Sciences Library, Thursday, April 20,
at 5 p.m.
     Carnegie will lecture as the School of Nursing's second
recipient of the annual Agnes Dillon Randolph Award.  Initiated in
1993, the honoree is invited to the University to receive the award
and present a public lecture. A reception will be held at 4 p.m. in
the school's lobby.  
     The award honors a prominent Virginia nurse who helped
establish the Virginia Nurses Association, and helped raise funds
to endow the Sadie Heath Cabaniss Chair of Nursing Education, the
first professorship at the School of Nursing, and the first
graduate program in the South. The lecture and reception are free
and open to the public.
     A nurse historian and educator, Carnegie recently completed
her third book on the international history of black nurses. "Dr.
Carnegie was selected to receive this award because of her
contributions to the advancement of nursing history, and for her
exemplary leadership," says Barbara Brodie, director of U.Va.
Center for Nursing Historical Inquiry.
     Carnegie is an independent writing consultant, and has served
as a visiting professor at nine institutions during the past 15
years.  
     She was born in Baltimore and received a nursing diploma in
1937 from the Lincoln School for Nurses in New York.  In 1942 she
earned a bachelor's degree in sociology; in 1945 she received a
master's degree in administration in higher education from Syracuse
University, and in 1972 she earned a doctorate in administration of
health services from New York University.
     Her varied career has included general duty nursing at Lincoln
Hospital in N.Y., Veterans Hospital in Tuskegee and Freedmen's
Hospital in Washington; school nurse at West Virginia State 
College; clinical instructor and supervisor at St. Philip Hospital
School of Nursing in Richmond; assistant director at the Hampton
Institute School of Nursing; and dean and professor at Florida A&M
College School of Nursing.
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                                                   April 17, 1995