Biography
Marion McCune Rice served as an American Red Cross nurse in France for four years during WWI. In 1917, she was awarded the Palmes Academiques Medal by the French government for her service to France during the War. Rice also traveled in the United States in 1917 for the American Red Cross, touring the country talking about the War and the desperate need for bandages overseas.
Rice was a talented photographer and documented her war experience with a high quality Kodak camera. The letters she sent home during the War were also saved. Her war experience was the subject of a History Channel documentary titled "Dear Home, Letters from WWI". The American Red Cross highlighted Rice in their 125th Anniversary celebration in Washington, D.C. in 2007. A documentary about her war experience was produced in 1997 by a non-profit community group in Keene, NH.
Rice was one of the pioneers in Public Health nursing in the United States. She became Director of Simmon's School of Public Health Nursing in Boston in the late 1920's.Education
BA, Smith College (1905)
RN, Pennsylvania Hospital School of Nursing (1910)Occupation
Nurse
Professor
Administrator