| Date Span: | 1945-1968 |
| Creator: | Calderon, Barbara McDonald (1915- ) |
| Extent: | .25 linear inches. |
| Collection Number: | IWA0247 |
| Repository: | Iowa Women's Archives |
| Summary: | Nursing administrator and first African-American public health nurse in Iowa. |
Barbara McDonald Calderon, an African-American nurse as born on August 11, 1915. She received her diploma from the School of Nursing in Kansas City, Missouri in 1940, her B.A. degree from Drake University in 1952, and her M.N.A. degree from the University of Minnesota in 1963.
She served as a lieutenant in the Army Nurse Corps at the Station Hospital, Camp San Luis Obispo, California during World War II. Calderon was Iowa's first African-American public health nurse. She also worked as the Veterans' Administration hospital administrator in Iowa City, Iowa.
In 1963 Governor Harold Hughes appointed Calderon to the Iowa Commission on the Status of Women.
Arrangement: One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Access: The papers are open for research.
Use: Copyright has been transferred to the University of Iowa.
Acquisition: The papers (donor no. 345) were donated by Barbara M. Calderon in 1996.
Preferred Citation: Barbara M. Calderon papers, Iowa Women's Archives, The University of Iowa Libraries, Iowa City.
| Repository: | Iowa Women's Archives |
| Address: | 100 Main Library University of Iowa Libraries Iowa City, IA 52242 |
| Phone: | 319-335-5068 |
| Curator: | Kären Mason |
| Email: | lib-women@uiowa.edu |
| Website: | http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/iwa |
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Series 1: NURSING
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