Janet Steer Story

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Janet Story has served her community and the health care profession on the practical, professional and developmental levels since Newfoundland became a Canadian province.

Ms. Story received her education from Memorial University College, the University of Toronto, Memorial University and McGill University, where she became one of the first Newfoundlanders to earn a bachelor of nursing degree. After working as a supervisor-instructor at the General Hospital in St. John’s, Ms. Story was named director of nursing in 1963, a position she would hold for 20 years. In that capacity, she was part of a group that fostered the establishment of Memorial University’s nursing program in 1965.

One of the founders of the Association of Registered Nurses of Newfoundland and Labrador in 1954, she served two terms as president and another as vice-president of that organization. She has given her time to the Public Libraries Board, the St. John Ambulance Association, the board of directors of the Victorian Order of Nurses, the Canadian Heart Foundation and the Red Cross, just to name a few of her activities.

Since retiring in 1983, Ms. Story has served on the executive committee of the Museum Association of Newfoundland and Labrador, the Archives Association of Newfoundland and Labrador, Newfoundland Historic Trust, and the Memorial University Botanical Garden, again to name just a few of the groups she has supported.

For her participation in the life of the province, Ms. Story was awarded the Queen’s Jubilee Medal in 2002.

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