Army Nurse Corps Class Rings
12 AUG 1931: The Army School of Nursing is discontinued due to economic concerns.
The tradition of class rings is inexorably bound up with the United States Army as the first class rings were created for the West Point class of 1835.
This physical reminder of one’s high school or college years can be a treasured keepsake. And certainly this was the case for the owner of this 1930 Army School of Nursing ring, now very worn. The ring bears the official insignia on one side and a shield and eagle on the other. To celebrate the arrival of the rings, the class of 1930 held a “Ring Dance.”
However on this day in Army History, 12 August 1931, the Army suspended future operations at the Army School of Nursing due to the cost involved in running the school.
The applicants who had been approved for the autumn class were informed that the school would not admit them and that the school would close after the class of 1932 graduated.
Thus ended the Army’s first school of nursing that had been founded in 1918 due to a shortage of Army nurses. America at that time was involved in both World War I and the global Influenza pandemic. 937 young women graduated during the school’s brief existence.
AMEDD Museum, Joint Base San Antonio, Fort Sam Houston, TX, 09JUN2016 (U.S. Army photo by Francis S. Trachta/Released)
| Date Taken: | 08.09.2018 |
| Date Posted: | 08.12.2025 11:37 |
| Photo ID: | 9252438 |
| VIRIN: | 180809-A-VG084-6532 |
| Resolution: | 3000x3000 |
| Size: | 3.19 MB |
| Location: | FORT SAM HOUSTON, TEXAS, US |
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