Mary Mahoney Professional Nurses Organization

1940

Ernestine Williams admitted to Brewster Hospital, Florida

1941

Negro registered nurses in Seattle could not work in any hospital in Seattle.

1941

Mary Martyn is the first known Negro nurse to apply for a job at Harborview County Hospital. She was denied employment.

1941

Celestine Hodges Thomas met Anne Foy at Piedmont Sanatorium

1941

Maxine Pitter Haynes received BS degree in sociology from University of Washington

1941

Rachael Pitts entered Brewster Hospital School of Nursing

1941

Mary Martyn applied and was denied employment at Harborview Hospital

1942

Ira Gordon – first African-American RN hired at Gary Health Hospital

1942

Mary Martyn hired at Harborview Hospital

1943

Ernestine Williams graduated from nursing school

1943

Ira Gordon – first Negro registered nurse hired by Harborview Hospital

1943

Thelma Jacob Haynes moved to Seattle. She graduated that same year from Dillard University where she received a BA (premed) degree. Could not find a job as Med Tech

1943-46

Ernestine Williams worked in Dade County Florida

1944-Sept.

Katie Ashford was the second African-American registered nurse hired at Harborview Hospital

1944

Maxine Pitter Haynes graduated from nursing school

1944

Mary Marshall, Davis Hooks moved to Seattle - became the third African-American registered nurse to be hired at Harborview Hospital

1944

Rachael Pitts graduated from nursing school

1944

Katie Straton Ashford moved to Seattle

1944

Anne Foy took a trip to Seattle

1945

Juanita Alexander Davis returned to Seattle to work and got married

1945-May

Celestine Hodges Thomas moved to Seattle to practice

1945

Gertrude Dawson began working at Harborview Hospital

1945

Leola Lewis moved to Seattle, worked at Boeing as a riveter

1945

Maxine Pitter Haynes returned to Seattle to live

1946

Maxine Pitter Haynes married her first husband

1946

Mary Turner Stephens Lanier moved to Seattle – worked at Harborview for four years

1946

Leola Lewis first Negro nurse admitted to the School of Nursing

1947

Anne Foy married and moved to Seattle

1947

Ernestine Williams married Buddy

1947

Anne Foy and Celestine Hodges Thomas reconnected with one another in Seattle

1947

Rachael Pitts moved to Seattle

1947

Sadie Berry Smith Wallace moved to Seattle

1948

Leola Lewis entered nursing school at Montana State University, Bozeman

1949

Celestine Hodges Thomas and Anne Foy Baker met Katie Ashford and Mary Davis Hooks

1949 – Nov

Anne Foy Baker’s husband died two years and five months after marriage. Anne remained in Seattle only five months after founding MMPNC

1950

Ernestine Williams worked at St.

1950

Thelma Jacob Peynes admitted to School of Nursing University of Washington

1950

Mary Turner Stephens Lanier worked 36 years at Providence Hospital

1950s

Leola Lewis was hired at Group Health Hospital

1952

Rachael Pitts admitted to University of Washington BSN Program

1953

Thelma Jacob Peynes returned to University of Washington to complete her BS degree

1956

Gertrude Dawson first African-American RN hired at Group Health Hospital, first nurse manager at GHC

1960

Ernestine Williams moved to GHC Hospital to work

1968

Mary Mahoney nurses organized their first professional workshop. Whites from colleges and universities in Seattle attended this event. This made Celestine Thomas extremely happy for it was the first time that whites attended an activity organized by this group.

1969

Thelma Jacob Peynes graduated MN in nursing

1970

Gertrude Dawson founded sickle cell task force