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Bryce Hospital School of Nursing Class of 1930

Front row: Posey Hicks, Nursing Instructor; Ruby Lowley, R.N. Graduate; Iva Strickland, Nursing Instructor; Betty Finch, Nursing Instructor; Zena Cranford, R.N. Graduate; Ara Williams, R.N.…

Dr. John Francis Burnum was a native of Tuscaloosa and a graduate of the University of Alabama. He served as a combat infantryman in the Battle of the Bulge.

Upon his return from service he attended the University of Alabama School of Medicine…

Bryce Hospital School of Nursing students Clenny Hartley and Ola Belle Mullenix hold babies born to patients at Bryce Hospital in 1939 in Tuscaloosa, AL.

The building built for the Alabama Insane Hospital, later named Bryce Hospital, was designed by psychiatrist Thomas Kirkbride and architect Samuel Sloan, famed architect of the time. With three wings set in echelon formation, the hospital was an…

The U.S. Army Review ran this story about Northington General Hospital in 1945. The publication explored the high value of soldier/patient care in Tuscaloosa while praising Northington's long-term rehabilitation innovations.
Note the soldier aimed…

The World War II Army hospital in Tuscaloosa was named in memory of Lt. Col. Eugene Garland Northington, born Feb 12, 1880 in Prattville, Alabama, and who was a former student at the University of Alabama. He received his medical degree from Tulane…

The Northington General property was built as a temporary Army hospital in World War II. Work started on the hosptial in the early part of 1942 and eventually sprawled over 160 acres. After three years, the Army left at the end of the war and…

Druid City Hospital's School of Nurses, Class of 1933. The nursing School graduated its first class in 1924.

The picture shows all 5 students who graduated in 1933, with Gladys Parks in the middle.

This 1912 charter of The Medical Society of Tuscaloosa County indicates that the group was originally chartered in 1877. Physicians in the area were granted membership by the Medical Association of the State of Alabama.

Groundbreaking of the South Wing of Druid City Hospital
On the ground - Col. Bryan Culberson and possibly Mr. Bramlett (?)
On the machine - Congressman Walter Flowers, D.O. McClusky, Frank Moody, Charles Snyder (behind post).