The Class of ’28 graduated amid an era of change in the School of Nursing. That year, Presbyterian Hospital moved from East 70th Street to its current location, and Maxwell Hall had just been completed for $1 million to house the aspiring nurses. The photo was taken in that new building, which was located at 179 Fort Washington Ave., overlooking Riverside Drive. It was named for Anna Maxwell, the founder of the nursing school and its director from 1892 to 1921. Her health failing, she was a patient at the hospital at the time this photo was taken and died the following year. Helen Young was the director at the time and can be seen in the center of the third row from the front. Maxwell Hall provided both dormitory and classroom facilities for the nurses. These students spent the first of a three-year program receiving classroom instruction within this building. If the preliminary year went well, they were invited to officially join the school for a junior and senior year, where they would spend gradually less time in the classroom and more time working in the hospital’s wards. Upon graduating, they received nursing certification—not a college degree. Each student paid a one-time fee of $70, which included all three years’ tuition, board, textbooks, instruments, uniforms, and "rubber heels." In 1984, Maxwell Hall was demolished to make room for the Milstein Hospital Building. The School of Nursing then moved to the Georgian Building on 168th Street.