HELEN HANSEN
It didn’t take long for UNO’s first class of graduates to begin making their mark on the world. The 1913 roster of 11 graduates included Helen Hansen, who after earning her BA went on to earn her nursing degree from Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York. That began a long, outstanding career that saw Hansen become not just a practitioner, but a leader in the field. She eventually became chief, bureau of registration and inspector, for Schools of Nursing for California. She also wrote many books on nursing used in schools throughout the country during the first half of the 1900s.