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Speaker Series Presentation – Speaker Series Presentation – Dr. Samantha S. Nivison, 19th Century Healer and Sanitarium Founder, Presented by Deborah White
March 2, 2023 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
The Historical Society of Hammonton (HSH) will hold its FREE-to-the-public Speaker Series on Thursday, March 2, 2023, at 7 PM at the Canoe Club, Hammonton Lake Park.
Dr. Samantha S. Nivison, a 19th Century Healer and Founder of Hammonton’s Summit Grove Place Sanitarium, was one of Hammonton’s most notable, and possibly maligned, residents of the late 1800’s. Dr. Nivison fought to save the most vulnerable, including foundlings from New York and Philadelphia, but was cast off by “proper” Victorian society. A pioneering female physician at the forefront of holistic care, Dr. Nivison’s story is largely unknown and misunderstood by many.
Our featured speaker is Deborah K. White, HSH’s Museum Curator and retired respiratory therapist and pulmonary function technologist. Deborah previously supervised the Pulmonary Function Lab at the St. Louis Children’s Hospital & Mercy Hospital in St, Louis. Deborah earned her BS in Forest Zoology from SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (Syracuse University) and an AAS in Respiratory Therapy from SUNY Upstate Medical College (Syracuse, NY). She has contributed to and authored several chapters and peer-reviewed articles on pediatric pulmonary function testing, respiratory physiology, and SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome).
If you can’t attend the presentation, come in and play back recordings of this and dozens of other past presentations. Monthly meetings and presentations will continue the first Thursday of each month through June, resuming again in the fall.
Funding has been made possible in part by the New Jersey Historical Commission, a division of Cultural Affairs within the Department of State, through funds administered by the Atlantic County Office of Cultural and Heritage Affairs.