Aldrich Memorial Nursery School

The beginning of Aldrich Memorial Nursery School can be traced to the early 1940s when interested Rochester women established a group to direct and perpetuate the informal nursery school program then in progress. In 1944 the Mayo Foundation, in extending its public health research activities, formed the Rochester Child Health Institute. Dr. H. F. Helmholz, then head of Mayo Clinic's Section of Pediatrics, selected Dr. C. A. Aldrich to carry out this ambitious study of the child in a community. Dr. Aldrich believed a nursery school to be an essential part of the community.