Scope and Contents The collection consists of the book "Sparrow Tales: Memories from the Graduates" compiled by Eleanor Clapp Smith and Gloria Smith Bouterse and published in 1987. It is a compilation of personal stories, newspaper clippings, and photographs of the nurses that graduated from the Edward W. Sparrow Hospital School of Nursing in Lansing, Michigan. The book covers the first graduating class of 1899 to its final graduating class of 1961. In 1961,...