Lois Waite Gage

Background

Gage, Lois Waite was born on March 8, 1922 in Ipswich, Massachusetts, United States. Daughter of Roy Appleton and Mary Agnes (Surrette) Waite McGregor.

Education

Diploma, St. Elizabeth School of Nursing, Brighton, Massachusetts, 1943; Bachelor of Science, Simmons College, 1949; Master of Arts, Columbia University, 1957; Doctor of Philosophy, University of Michigan, 1972.

Career

Associate director primary care community medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1973-1983; associate professor Psychiatry-Mental Health Nursing, Wayne State University, Detroit, 1963-1973; supervisor of public health nursing, Health Department, Pittsburgh, 1952-1955; professor emerita Nursing, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1991. Consultant World Health Organization, Pan-American Health Organisation, 1980, 85, 86, 87, 88.

Achievements

• Lois Waite Gage has been listed as a noteworthy nursing educator, educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Lieutenant junior grade USNCR, 1944-1946. Fellow American Academy Nursing, American Public Health Association (chairman mental health section, Mental Health Section award). Member American Nurses Association, American Association of University Professors (steering committee), Michigan Nurses Association, National League for Nursing, Sigma Theta Tau (Excellence in Nursing award), Pi Lambda Theta, Kappa Delta Pi.

Connections

Children: Nancy Marie Gage-Lindner, John Barry.

Father:

Roy Appleton McGregor

Mother:

Mary Agnes (Surrette) Waite McGregor

child:

Nancy Marie Gage-Lindner Gage

child:

John Barry Gage