Professor Marguerite B. White

Marguerite B. White, Wagner professor of nursing from 1957 to 1970, died on November 28, 2011, at her home in Heritage Village, Connecticut. She was 96. She earned her B.S. in nursing from Skidmore College, her M.S. in nursing education from Syracuse University, and her Ed.D. in nursing education from Columbia Teachers College. After teaching at Wagner, she became an associate dean of the University of Connecticut School of Nursing. Her published work included Curriculum Development from a Nursing Model: The Crisis Theory Framework (1983). She was predeceased by her husband, Willard White, and is survived by her daughters, Ellen White Jeffrey '63 and Elizabeth White Fox '69, as well as three grandchildren and a great-granddaughter.