in 1972, when the Family Nurse Practitioner specialty began. By 1975 YSN offered 10 specialty programs and tracks, and was at the vanguard of the education of nurse practitioners at the graduate level along with clinical nurse specialists and nurse-midwives. In 1974, YSN reopened admission for students with no prior background in nursing through its Three-Year Program for Non-Nurse College Graduates (later called the GEPN program). Deans Annie W. Goodrich (1923–1934) Effie Jane Taylor (1934–1944) Elizabeth Seelye Bixler Torrey (1944–1959) Florence Schorske Wald (1959–1966) Margaret Gene Arnstein (1967–1972) Donna Kaye Diers (1972–1984) Judith Belliveau Krauss (1985–1998) Catherine L. Gilliss (1998–2004) Margaret Grey (2005–2015) Ann Kurth (2016–present) Notable faculty Lucy Conant Donna Diers James Dickoff Rhetaugh Graves Dumas Elizabeth Gordon Fox Annie W. Goodrich Virginia Avenel Henderson Patricia James Tish Knobf Mark Lazenby Ruth McCorkle Douglas Olsen Ida Jean Orlando Rachel Robinson Florence Schorske Wald Ernestine Wiedenbach Helen Varney Burst Linda Honan Loren Fields References External links http://premium.usnews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-nursing-schools/yale-university-33045 Nursing Nursing schools in Connecticut Educational institutions established in 1923 1923 establishments in Connecticut