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Mary Carolyn Sees
School of Nursing
School of Nursing
Mary Carolyn Sees, Instructor in Nursing (Medical-Surgical Nursing II/Specialties)
Diploma, Edward J. Meyer Memorial Hospital School of Nursing, Buffalo, New York, 1952; B.S.N.Ed., Syracuse University, 1955; M.A., University of Michigan, 1961; Ph.D., Syracuse University, 1974.
Staff Nurse, Meyer Memorial Hospital, Buffalo, New York, 1952-1953; Staff Nurse, Meyer Memorial Hospital, Los Angeles, 1953-1955; Instructor in Nursing, Hollywood Presbyterian Hospital School of Nursing, Los Angeles, 1955-1957; Instructor in Nursing (Medical-Surgical Nursing II/Specialties), University of Michigan School of Nursing, 1957-1961; Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, and Chair, Department of Nursing, Hartwick College, Oneonta, New York, 1961-1982; Chair, Department of Baccalaureate Nursing, Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, 1982-1986; Dean, College of Nursing & Health Professions, Arkansas State University, Jonesboro, 1986-1991.
Sees served as president of District 15 of New York State Nurses Association in 1966-1967; member of the Board of Review for the National League for Nursing, in the 1980s; and president of the Arkansas Nurses’ Association. She is the author of IMAGE OF NURSING: ITS RELATIONSHIP TO CHARACTERISTICS OF STUDENTS AND FACULTY IN BACCALAUREATE NURSING PROGRAMS (1974).
Sees, who was born in Richmond, Virginia, moved with her family to upstate New York at a young age. She attended school in the Binghamton area, graduating from Vestal High School in 1948. She died in Jonesboro, Arkansas in 1992 at age 61.