Her dedication to higher-level nursing education has been credited with laying the groundwork for the foundation of the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing in 1984.
[1] Wolf was born on June 25, 1890, in Guntur, Madras Presidency, India, to I.B.
She subsequently worked at Johns Hopkins as an instructor and the assistant superintendent of nurses, taking time off in 1918 to work as a nursing instructor at the Vassar Training Camp.
[2][3] In 1926, she became an associate professor at the University of Chicago, as well as superintendent of nursing at Albert Merritt Billings Hospital.
She worked at New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center from 1931 until 1940, when she returned to Johns Hopkins to become director of the school of nursing and nursing services.