S1156B1851A09017 MAB:EJH 06/27/18 #90 A09017
AMENDMENTS TO SENATE BILL NO. 1156
Sponsor: REPRESENTATIVE DeLISSIO
Printer's No. 1851
Amend Bill, page 1, line 16, by striking out "and"
Amend Bill, page 1, line 18, by striking out the period after
"Highway" and inserting
; and designating a bridge on that portion of State Route 4001,
also known as Henry Avenue, over the Wissahickon Creek and
Lincoln Drive in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia County, as the
Brigadier General Anna Mae V. McCabe Hays Memorial Bridge.
Amend Bill, page 7, by inserting between lines 9 and 10
Section 7. Brigadier General Anna Mae V. McCabe Hays Memorial
Bridge.
(a) Findings.--The General Assembly finds and declares as
follows:
(1) In 1941, Anna Mae V. McCabe Hays graduated with a
degree in nursing from the Allentown General Hospital School
of Nursing.
(2) After the attack on Pearl Harbor, a sense of duty
inspired her to join the Army Nurse Corps and she entered
active duty in 1942.
(3) In 1943, she was deployed for two and a half years
to Ledo, Assam, India, where she was assigned to the
operating room and her unit provided care to more than 49,000
patients, including American soldiers who were building an
overland communication route to China, fighting the Japanese
in Burma and flying supplies over the Himalayan Mountains to
Chinese forces.
(4) In 1945, she was promoted to first lieutenant and
chose to remain on active duty after World War II when she
was assigned to Tilton General Hospital at Fort Dix, New
Jersey, as an operating room supervisor and later as head
nurse.
(5) In 1947, she was promoted to captain and
subsequently became the obstetrics supervisor at Valley Forge
General Hospital in Phoenixville.
(6) In 1950, after hostilities broke out in Korea, she
mobilized with the 4th Field Hospital at Fort Benning,
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Georgia, where she participated in the notorious Inchon
Landing on September 15, 1950, and assisted the 4th Field
Hospital in caring for more than 25,000 patients.
(7) In May 1956, she reported for duty as head nurse of
the Emergency Room at Walter Reed General Hospital in
Washington, DC, where she was one of the private nurses to
care for President Dwight D. Eisenhower while he was
hospitalized there for 23 days after suffering an ileitis
attack.
(8) In 1958, she graduated from Columbia University
Teacher's College with a bachelor of science degree in
nursing education.
(9) In October 1960, she became chief nurse of the 11th
Evacuation Hospital in Pusan, South Korea.
(10) In September 1963, she was selected as Assistant
Chief of the Army Nurse Corps.
(11) On September 1, 1967, Anna Mae V. McCabe Hays was
sworn in as the 13th Chief of the Army Nurse Corps, where she
guided the Army Nurse Corps during the worst fighting of the
Vietnam War.
(12) In 1968, she was promoted to colonel and received a
master of science in nursing from the Catholic University of
America.
(13) On June 11, 1970, Anna Mae V. McCabe Hays was
promoted to brigadier general and became the first woman in
the United States Armed Forces to achieve the rank of
general.
(14) Her recommendations to Surgeon General Hal B.
Jennings led to groundbreaking reforms in personnel policies,
including the elimination of automatic discharges for married
officers who became pregnant and the elimination of
restrictions on the age of dependents of female nurses
seeking appointment in the Army Nurse Corps Reserve.
(15) She retired as Chief of the Army Nurse Corps on
August 31, 1971, after serving in the position for four
years.
(16) On January 7, 2018, she passed away at the age of
97 and Governor Tom Wolf ordered the Commonwealth flag at the
Capitol Complex and at all State facilities in Allentown to
fly at half staff in honor of her memory.
(17) Her numerous awards included the Distinguished
Service Medal, Legion of Merit, Army Commendation Medal,
American Campaign Medal, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal with
one service star, World War II Victory Medal, Army of
Occupation Medal, National Defense Service Medal with oak
leaf cluster, Korean Service Medal with three service stars
and the United Nations Service Medal (Korea).
(b) Designation.--The bridge located on that portion of
State Route 4001, also known as Henry Avenue, over the
Wissahickon Creek and Lincoln Drive in Fairmount Park,
Philadelphia County, is designated as the Brigadier General Anna
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Mae V. McCabe Hays Memorial Bridge.
(c) Signs.--The Department of Transportation shall erect and
maintain appropriate signs displaying the name of the bridge to
traffic in both directions on the bridge.
Amend Bill, page 7, line 10, by striking out "7" and
inserting
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