Carolyn Hope Smeltzer

Biography:

Carolyn has been a nurse for 53 years. She is still practicing nursing by caring for her husband and her 100 year young mother. Carolyn is an Evanston Hospital School of Nursing graduate and who is committed to preserving history. She is active on hospital boards. She was the Vice-President of Nursing at the University of Chicago Medical Center and Chief Operating Officer at the University of Arizona Medical Center. Carolyn has taught nursing in diploma schools of nursing and at the Graduate level. She has written six history books, Ordinary People, Extraordinary Lives, the Stories of Nurses, Chicago Nurse Parade, Evanston Hospital School of Nursing (EHSN) 1898-1984, Lake Geneva in Vintage Postcards, Geneva Lake and Camps of Geneva Lake. Her latest book was EHSN,1898-1984 published in 2022 and was accepted in the Barbara Bates Center for Nursing History. Carolyn is a retired partner from PricewaterhouseCoopers and in her spare time, swims, golfs, and plays bridge. She enjoys mission work with the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth and has been very thankful to serve in India and NePaul. She has also served in Viet Nam, Peru with Loyola University of Chicago.