In 1945, University President Newcomb appointed a committee “to study the needs of the Nursing School in relation to a proposed incorporation of the school as part of the University." After a year of studying the plans of Walker and her nursing assistant, Roy C. Beazley, to upgrade the school, the committee recommended to the University’s new President Colgate W. Darden, “the establishment of a Collegiate School of Nursing at the University of Virginia.” The committee's report was submitted in December 1945.

December 1945

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