The Collegeof Nursing in 1978 acquired a large van furnished as a classroom on wheels, taking Continuing Education courses to health professionals in forty counties of southwest Texas-an area of 69,000 square miles extending from El Paso to the Big Bend on the south and to Cottle County in the northeast. At left is Eileen Jacobi, who became dean in 1976 after serving six years as executive director of the American Nurses Association. At the wheel is Sister Aloysius Williams, head of the college's Continuing Education program, who had been director of the Hotel Dieu School of Nursingfor the Daughters of Charity from 1959 until it joined the tJT nursing school group in 1970. Both Ietired in 1986. The Coordinating Board, Texas College and University System, met March 8-9, 1979, at the UTEP Collegeof Nursing. Getting together during a break were, from left, Kenneth H. Ashworth of Austin, Texas commissioner of higher education; President A. B. Templeton, and Sam Young, [r., of El Paso, member of the Coordinating Board. During that meeting, the board approved a construction project to expand the size of the Union Building by fifty thousand feet.
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