Alma Elizabeth Gault was born on Sept 28, 1891, in Fernwood, Ohio, and died on July 12, 1981, in Columbus, Ohio. She graduated from the College of Wooster in Ohio in 1916. She is the daughter of Nancy Emma (Stark) Gault and Davison Stewart Gault. As a dean (1944–53) of the Meharry Medical College School of Nursing, a historically African-American institution in Nashville, TN, Ms. Gault created a baccalaureate program (as well as an accredited diploma school of nursing) and successfully pushed for the school to become the first "historically black institution" to be a member of the American Association of Collegiate Schools of Nursing. She enrolled in the Vassar Training Camp for Nurses (1918) and in the Philadelphia General Hospital School of Nursing, graduating in 1920. She then aworked as a Philadelphia General Hospital head nurse and was appointed as the Union Memorial Hospital School of Nursing's director in Baltimore. She then served as the Memorial Hospital's director of Nursing Service (Springfield, IL). At Vanderbilt University (Nashville, TN), she was employed as a nursing school associate professor in 1953 and as dean (1965–67), during which time the first African-American nursing student enrolled at Vanderbilt, She continued to work after her retirement in1959. Her honors include the proclamation of May 21, 1967, as "Alma Gault Day" by Nashville's mayor. SOURCE https://www.encyclopedia.com/women/dictionaries-thesauruses-pictures-and-press-rele