Materials contain papers of Vivian Hansen Mitchell regarding her service in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps during World War II from 1945 to 1946. Contains a personal narrative (2002) in which Mitchell describes her nursing career. Talks about her responsibilities at Letterman General Hospital in San Francisco. Also talks about serving at Birmingham General Hospital in Van Nuys, California, where she worked in psychiatrics. Talks about working with men from the Bataan Death March and missing her chance to serve overseas. Discusses the importance that having a testimony had on her ability to interact with her patients. Talks about her decision following the war to attend Columbia University Teachers' College, where she received her master’s in education. Also talks about her decision to work at Brigham Young University as dean of the College of Nursing. Discusses her plans for the nursing program and her decision to leave. Finally discusses how well received the college was to BYU's campus and the dearth of well-prepared faculty. Also includes pages from Ernest L. Wilkinson and W. Cleon Skousen’s Brigham Young University: A School of Destiny, discussing the formation and early history of the School of Nursing (1976). Also includes a letter written to President Bateman advising correcting several errors made about the creation of the nursing program and her own involvement in the creation (2002). Also includes a copy of a published news article from Butterworth, titled, "Brigham Young University: 1000 Views of 100 Years," which includes a photo of herself with President Wilkinson and states that she was the first Dean of the College of Nursing (1952). Also includes a copy of "The Spirit and the Challenge" and her role in developing the nursing program (1973). Epilogue discusses the influence of a loving mother and father who moved to Salt Lake City from Denmark in 1916. Materials were collected as part of the Nurses at War Project. Dated 1973, 1976, 2002.