Lillian Wald was born into a family that had the financial means to send her to private boarding school. She graduated from the Miss Cruttenden's English-French Boarding and Day School for Young Ladies, at the age of 15. Wald then tried to enter Vassar College but was denied, because the school thought her to be too young, at 16 (Feld, 2009).
She traveled the world with friends for about six years, even working as a newspaper reporter some of the time (National Association for Home Care & Hospice, n.d.). Upon returning home, and still interested in nursing, Wald enrolled in the nursing program of the New York Hospital's training school.
In 1892, Wald entered Women's Medical College to study medicine, but left school in 1893, after visiting the poor living in the Lower East Side of New York. She felt the residents of this area were priority and desperately needed nursing services. She never returned to medical school (Feld, 2009).
References
Feld, M. N. (2009). Lillian D. Wald. Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia. Jewish Women's Archive. Retrieved June 29, 2009 from http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/wald-lillian-d.
National Association for Home Care & Hospice. (n.d.). Caring profiles: Lillian D. Wald. Retrieved July 7, 2006 from http://nach.org/NACH/Val/Columns/SC10-4.html.
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