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'''Anna Dryden Wolf''' (June 25, 1890 – 1985) was an American nurse who served as the first dean of the [[Peking Union Medical College]] School of Nursing in [[Beijing]], [[China]], and later as the director of the school of nursing and nursing services at [[Johns Hopkins University]]. Her dedication to higher-level nursing education has been credited with laying the groundwork for the foundation of the [[Johns Hopkins School of Nursing]] in 1984.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://magazine.nursing.jhu.edu/2015/10/this-way-forward-anna-d-wolf-1890-1985/ | title=This Way Forward: Anna D. Wolf (1890–1985) | work=Johns Hopkins Nursing | date=Fall 2015 | accessdate=1 July 2017}}</ref>

==Biography==
Wolf was born on June 25, 1890, in [[Guntur]], [[Madras Presidency]], [[India]], to I.B. Wolf, a retired Indian missionary, and his wife, a teacher at an Indian all-women school.<ref name=zhen>{{cite web | url=http://rockarch.org/publications/resrep/zhen.pdf | title=Anna D. Wolf: The First Dean of the PUMC School of Nursing | date=2011 | accessdate=1 July 2017 | author=Zhen, Cheng}}</ref> She received her B.A. from [[Goucher College]] in 1911, her nursing degree from the Johns Hopkins Hospital School of Nursing in 1915, and her M.A. from [[Columbia University Teachers College]] in 1916.

She subsequently worked at Johns Hopkins as an instructor and the assistant superintendent of nurses, taking time off in 1918 to work as a nursing instructor at the Vassar Training Camp. She became the superintendent of nurses at Peking Union Medical College in 1919, and became the first dean of the school of nursing there in 1924.<ref name=zhen/><ref name=archives>{{cite web | url=http://www.medicalarchives.jhmi.edu/papers/wolf.html | title=The Anna D. Wolf Collection | publisher=Johns Hopkins University | work=Alan Mason Cheney Medical Archives | accessdate=1 July 2017}}</ref>

In 1926, she became an associate professor at the [[University of Chicago]], as well as superintendent of nursing at [[Albert Merritt Billings Hospital]]. She worked at [[New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center]] from 1931 until 1940, when she returned to Johns Hopkins to become director of the school of nursing and nursing services. She retired from this position in 1955.<ref name=archives/>

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