The red stitching across the breast pocket read Mabel, a name Maggie had not heard since her childhood. What had become of all the Mabels? She tried to picture giving a new little baby that name.
orig. Mabel Doyle born Feb. 27, 1890, Barbados, West Indies died Nov. 29, 1989, Washington, D.C., U.S Caribbean-born U.S. nurse and executive. She joined two physicians to establish the first hospital in Harlem to treat U.S. blacks with tuberculosis (1920). As executive secretary of the National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses (NACGN), she campaigned to integrate the Armed Forces Nurse Corps; overwhelming public support led to full integration in 1945, and in 1948 NACGN succeeded in integrating the American Nurses Association
orig. Mabel Doyle born Feb. 27, 1890, Barbados, West Indies died Nov. 29, 1989, Washington, D.C., U.S Caribbean-born U.S. nurse and executive. She joined two physicians to establish the first hospital in Harlem to treat U.S. blacks with tuberculosis (1920). As executive secretary of the National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses (NACGN), she campaigned to integrate the Armed Forces Nurse Corps; overwhelming public support led to full integration in 1945, and in 1948 NACGN succeeded in integrating the American Nurses Association
mabel
الواصلة
Ma·bel
التركية النطق
meybıl
النطق
/ˈmābəl/ /ˈmeɪbəl/
علم أصول الكلمات
() English form of Amabel, from Latin amabilis (“lovable”).