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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction to FNS l
The Joumey — Nathan W Lee 2 i
Footprints — Maigv Breckinridge 6 _
Field Notes - Barb Gibson 8
Former Courier and Staff News 1 1
Frontier School of Midwifery & Family Nursing Update
- Dr Susan Stone 12
Courier Program Update - Barb Gibson 15
Sad Day for an RN — Sherrie Rice Smith 17
Beyond the Mountains — Rhonda Arthur 20
Legacies - Barb Gibson 22
In Memoriam & In Honor Of 25
Urgent Need 32
Cover Photo - The Bam at Wendover (don’t have the date) when FNS
still had horses (photographer unknown).
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. Introduction to Frontier Nursing Service (FNS)
Mary Breckinridge spent her early years in many parts of the
world — Russia, France, Switzerland and the British Isles. After
; the deaths of her two children, she abandoned the homebound life
L expected of women of her class to devote herself to the service
of others, particularly mothers and children.
' Several years after graduating from St. Luke’s Hospital Training
School for Nurses in 1910, Mrs. Breckinridge established the
’ FNS in Leslie County, Kentucky, in 1925, as a private charitable
  organization sewing an area of 700 square miles. lt was the first
l organization in America to use nurses trained as midwives under
r the direction of a single medical doctor/obstetrician, based at their
l small hospital in Hyden. Originally the staff was composed of
  nurse-midwives trained in England. They traveled on horseback
and on foot to provide quality prenatal and childbirth care in the
  client’s own home.
Today, Mrs. Breckinridge’s legacy extends far beyond Eastern
Kentucky. FNS, Inc. is the parent holding company for Mary
Breckinridge Healthcare, Inc., Frontier Nursing Healthcare, Inc.,
which includes five rural healthcare clinics; Mary Breckinridge
Home Health Agency and the Frontier School of Midwifery and
Family Nursing which offers a Master of Science in Nursing de-
  gree with tracks as a Nurse—Midwife, Family Nurse Practitioner,
l Women’s Healthcare Nurse Practitioner and a Doctor of Nursing
l Practice (DNP) degree.
, Mary Breckinridge’s home, The Big House, located at Wendover,
is a licensed Bed & Breakfast Inn. For more information or
reservations, call 606-672-23 l 7 or e-mail: infonnation@frontier—
- nursing.org. You can also access our website:
  Frontier Nursing Service — www.frontiemursing.org
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The Journey
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‘It was 0n one 0/'my rides al0ne that I first saw Wendover Of I
course it wasn t Wendover then, but] knew it w0uld be... T0 myself I
and t0 my h0rse I said, "S0meday I’m going t0 build me a l0g
house right there. " ’- Mary Breckinridge, Wide Neighborhoods,
Chapter 13.
And so she did. On Christmas day in 1925, the Big House was
dedicated "To the Glory of God and in Memory of Breckie and
P0lly" before a crowd of five hundred old and new friends. Today, [
it would seem strange for many of us to “dedicate" our homes.  
But then, Mrs. Breckinridge never intended for the Big House  
to be just her home. For almost eighty-live years now, the Big l
House has servedjust as she intended it to serve: as a Mecca for
weary travelers; a fellowship hall for friends; a place of healing `
for the sick; a kitchen for the hungry; a temple of solace for the
troubled; and in so many other ways known only privately to the
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ln arranging its construction, Mrs. Breckinridge carefully
considered the challenges of mountain building. Neither the Big
House (nor any other F NS building, she noted) were constructed
{ in the more easily managed "bottorn land" near the river banks,
l as to be safe from the periodic Hooding which would certainly
  come. At Wendover, Mrs. Breckinridge’s father designed a series
  of channels to siphon water off the mountain and away from the
i buildings. But as typhoons in the Pacific Rim, tomados in the
E" American mid—west and hurricanes on the eastem coast prove with
T fair regularity, even the best preventive measures are sometimes
no match for the power of nature.
So it is now with the Big House and our Wendover historic
site. While run-off water from the mountains in wet times is
l simply something that just must be occasionally endured, this
i spring and summer have been extraordinarily wet for us here
in the mountains. Flooding waters have washed away sections
of mountains, Hooded river banks and, indeed, destroyed entire
' lengths of Highway 421, which snakes through our territory.
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These same flooding waters are wreaking havoc on Mrs.  
Breckinridge’s home here at Wendover. The Big House has  
always "creaked and groaned" in various parts and uneven floors V
and windowsills have been part of its charm since 1925. Eighty-  
four years of mountain run—off and particularly the excessive water
we’ve had the past few months, however, have begun to literally ¤
wear away its very foundation. Increasing numbers of visitors l
and guests touring the house have added to its burden, and now
we find ourselves in a situation where the back quarters of the  
house (the kitchen, back hall, and rear portions of the Dog-Trot I
area) are literally sinking into the mountain. I
Engineers with expertise in historical preservation have inspected  
the Big House and confirmed our layman’s fears. Now they turn  
to evaluating what steps are needed to shore up the foundation in
a way that’s respectful of the Big House’s character and historic l
nature. They’ll follow up by doing work on the mountain top to  
improve water How away from the Big House.  
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maintains the integrity ofthe home and the mountain on which it I
sits, will undoubtedly be terribly costly. And while our financial l
condition is assuredly improving, the timing of these necessary  
and costly repairs could not be worse. But as I firmly believe I
and trust you believe as well, doing whatever is necessary to  
protect and preserve Mrs. Breckinridge’s home must be done, I
regardless of its cost or any unfortunate timing. While we haven’t
yet received formal cost projections, preliminary information
indicates that to strengthen the foundation of the Big House
in a manner that protects both its structure and its historical  
integrity, and to improve drainage off the mountain in a manner l
that is sensitive to both the character of the mountain and the {
environment, will cost several hundred thousand dollars and {
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  It is not the tradition of the Frontier Nursing Service to overtly
  solicit gifts. As Mrs. Breckinridge knew so many years ago,
I the value of our work speaks for itself At this critical juncture,
I however, we find ourselves setting aside one tradition in the
name of preserving what is perhaps the greatest physical legacy
IL of Mary Breckinridge; her home. With this writing, we launch an
emergency preservation campaign aimed not only at protecting
__ the Big House and Wendover historic site, but also to create a
? fund that ensures its preservation and maintenance for generations
I to come. We have already had some success in several grant
l opportunities for federal and state historical preservation funds
  and we are working feverishly to secure a substantial lead gift
  toward our goal.
I We will need your support as well. lt’s fitting, I think, that the
I Big House was dedicated, in part by with words ofthe Christmas
I Carol, "O, Come All Ye Faithful", for the faithful have indeed
I come to the Big House from all over the world to support our
l efforts here in the mountains. I am thankful that you are among
I them.
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The past is never completely lost, however extensive the
devastation. Your sorrows are the bricks and mortar of a
magnificent temple. What you are today and what you will be
I tomorrow are because of what you have been. — Gordon I/Wight
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  We have inherited new difficulties because we have inherited
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Excerpts from Wide Neighborhoods  
by Mary Breckinridge, Founder  
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It was on one of my rides alone that I Hrst saw Wendover. Of course I
it wasn’t Wendover then, but I knew it would be. It was purely  
by accident that I happened to be riding along the Middle Fork  
of the Kentucky River. I was on my way to Stinnett and Beech I
Fork where the direct road lay up Muncy Creek and across a gap I
down to Stinnett Creek. A dear girl, Pauline Brashear, whom I  
had met at the Buyers’ dormitory in Hyden, begged me to turn  
off at Muncy Creek and follow a detour of some miles along the  
river that would take me past the home of her people. She went I
on ahead of me to tell them I would be there for the noon dinner.  
So, for the first of many thousands of times, I rode down Muncy I
Creek, forded the Middle Fork and rode slowly along its banks.
I thought I had never seen anything lovelier than the lay of the
land with its southern exposure facing the great North Mountain.
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i When I raised my eyes to towering forest trees, and then let them
fall on a cleared place where one might have a garden, when I
I passed some jutting rocks, I fell in love. To myself and to 1ny horse
I said, "Someday I’m going to build me a log house right there.”
Two years laterl did.
Chapter 18, Part III
During the summer and autumn of 1925, I started the building
` of Wendover. Early in the summer I bought the site with which I
I had fallen in love two years before, and engaged local workmen
i to build a log bam. They then began work on the log cabin. Men
I felled the logs on the mountainsides, and snaked them down by
  means of mules hitched to them with chains. Our local workmen
I could handle the bam and the cabin but, as the weeks passed, I
i realized I couldn’t expect them to construct a large two-story log
, house, with an attic, and with plumbing, unless they had expert
I direction.
  I rode over to Hazard in October to see Mr. and Mrs. Roy Helm
  and Mr. and Mrs. L.H. Stiles (among our early friends there) to
Y ask for help. They gave me the name of a local contractor who
  could build the Big House.
i Until the time came to bring in plumbers, and a carpenter or two
( to finish the inside, the local workmen were the only men the
l contractor had, and a fine crew of men they were. Stone masonry
  is traditional in certain mountain families. The tools and the craft
  pass from father to son. Such masons built the great stone chimneys
J in the Big House and in the cabin at Wendover.
  The logs for the second story of the Big House, and for the attic,
  were raised by means of a contraption called a "crab," with a pulley
l ` system used on the branches ofthe giant beeches. Although mine
  was not the only two-story log house (my neighbor, Elihu Mosley,
I lived in a lovely old one on Muncy Creek), it was the only one
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Field Notes
Wendover Guests
From June l, 2009 - September l, 2009, Wendover hosted a total
of 740 guests. This number includes ovemight guests, tour groups
and special luncheons/events. ·
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The 16th Annual Osborne Brothers Hometown Festival was held I
August 6th—8th in Hyden. Perfonners included: Bobby Osbome &
The Rocky Top X—Press, The BO] (Bobby Osbome, I r), Lonesome
River Band, Dr. Ralph Stanley & His Clinch Mountain Boys, A
The Grascals, The Moron Brothers, The Sullivan Family, Dean I
Osborne Band, J.P. Mathes & KSBTM Ensemble, Curtis Burch, i
Vince Combs, Crossroads, Ramblin Grass, Tommy Brown, Higher  
Vision, Brighter Day and Lany Efaw. I
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I ` During October 2009, Edith Collett will be the first from Leslie
` County to graduate from the Frontier School of Midwifery &
Family Nursing (FSMFN) Bridge Family Nurse Practitioner
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Edith began her journey at Mary Breckinridge Hospital in i
the l980’s as a Nursing Assistant for Home Health and the i
Matemity Clinic. She graduated from nursing school in 1996 I
with an Associate’s Degree in Nursing and began working in ?
the Emergency Room as Staff Nurse. In 1999, Edith became a r
House Supervisor and in 2001 became the Emergency Room .
Nurse Manager. Edith currently works as the RN Hospitalist on
the Medical Surgical Floor at the Hospital performing rounds with
physicians and FNPs assisting with case management. `
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2009 American Cancer Society Relay for Lye  
The 2009 American Cancer Society Relay for Life was held  
May 22nd at the Leslie County High School track and field. FNS   t
was a corporate sponsor and employees raised $2,437.00 for the I
event. Leslie County raised a total of $50,481.73. See photo on ;
next page.  
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Former Courier and Staff News
Holly Powell Kennedy, 1985 Frontier School of Midwifery &
Family Nursing graduate, has been named the inaugural Helen
Varney Professor of Midwifery at the Yale School of Nursing.
She also recently became the president-elect ofthe American Col-
lege of Nurse-Midwives and is the co—chair of the Intemational
Confederation of Midwives Research Standing Committee which
connects midwife researchers around the world.
Kennedy’s research focuses on the relationship between the work
of midwives and the positive outcomes of midwife-attended
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Frontier School of Midwifery & Family Nursing News
Another Mndaw 0fOpp0rtunitjy
by Dr Susan Stone, President & Dean
I have just returned from a meeting in Washington, DC. The {
Healthcare Workforce Crisis: A Summit on the Future of Primary
Care in Rural and Urban America. The purpose ofthe meeting was
to identify the issues surrounding the lack of primary healthcare pi
providers and brainstorm solutions. I
There are currently very few physicians choosing primary care I
as a specialty. At the same time, there are increasing numbers
of nurse practitioners and nurse—midwives prepared to effectively
and efficiently meet these needs. As we contemplate what the
healthcare system in America will look like in the future, this ,
situation surely opens another window of opportunity to make a
change that could benefit all Americans.  
Many studies have shown that care provided by nurse practitioners
and nurse—midwives have outcomes at least equal in quality and, r
in some cases, better than the outcomes of patients cared for by
physicians. Perhaps the reason is that nurse practitioners and
nurse-midwives are educated with a focus on nurturing health
promotion and disease prevention. I
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In the United States, we currently spend at least 75% of our I
healthcare dollars treating chronic disease. We live in a country  
where it is common for insurance providers to cover costs related I
to caring for these diseases. For that we are thankful. At the same
time, it is very difficult to get insurance coverage for the important
basic health promotion activities such as education on nutrition,
weight control or promoting exercise. Perhaps it is time for us
to spend as much time and effort keeping people healthy as we
do caring for those who are sick. Nurse practitioners and nurse- I
midwives are ideally suited to the work of health promotion and ;
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health maintenance. With their focus on prevention of disease
they effectively reduce cost by counseling people about health
maintenance and through early detection and treatment of
disease with referrals to medical care when appropriate. Nurse
practitioners and nurse-midwives are prepared to treat the illnesses
i that make up the bulk of primary care practice and they spend equal
time counseling patients on howto become more responsible for
& their health and the health of the family.
l This is often the forgotten thrust of what Mary Breckinridge
. demonstrated. This is why she chose to combine the talents
i of the public health nurse and the midwife to demonstrate her
primary care service in the then remote region of Southeastem
Kentucky with direct access to the best of medical care beyond
T the mountains.
T For effective reform of our healthcare system we must focus more
  on health promotion and prevention of disease. To accomplish
, this, there must be teams of healthcare providers working together
and with the people to be served. We have the communication
. technology today to efficiently and effectively function as teams
even when we are geographically separated, each bringing the best
of our talents to those we serve throughout the wide neighborhoods
T of need.
  Mary Breckinridge demonstrated and documented 85 years ago
  that nurse-midwives and nurse practitioners are the most logical,
  effective and cost efficient grassroots healthcare providers , both in
i educational preparation and in service, to meet today’s needs for
quality healthcare regardless of who pays for it. Her findings are
supported by a growing volume of evidence that nurse-midwives
and nurse practitioners can improve the health of mothers and
babies — and that improves the health of the family — and that
T improves the health of the coimnunity and the nation. It is not
A rocket science. In fact, Mrs. Breckinridge said it in one sentence,
  "All health care begins with the care ofthe mother." To date, the
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discussion of the reform of our healthcare system has focused
primarily on the problems we face at the end of life. Little attention
is being paid to the beginning of life, the launching pad for every
individual’s joumey. How well are we using that childbearing
year to prepare parents for a lifestyle that will promote health
and prevent disease?
So why, when all the scientific evidence points to preparing more
nurse—midwives and nurse—practitioners, are we not doing it? A
major reason is that we do not have enough practitioners.
One of the challenges of being part of the solution to the lack
of primary care providers is that we must be able to provide a
high level education to an adequate number of students. The
faculty and staff at Frontier have made tremendous progress in
curriculum development, application of technology to distance
learning, establishing faculty and student support networks across
the nation, obtaining full regional and specialty accreditation
for all programs and making do with the growing limitations of
facilities designed for one-tenth the present utilization. We are part
ofthe solution but we must reach to admit at least 1,000 students
annually. We have the systems for handling that volume and the
demand is increasing.
We will continue to do our best to meet the challenges of growth
but we must build a building that will enable us to meet our long
tenn goal to produce the primary care providers needed now and
in the future. I want to thank all of our readers for their ongoing
support.
Together, we can make a difference.
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Courier Program Update
by Barb Gibson
Today ’s C 0urier Program .
Over the years, the work of Couriers has benefited both the FNS
and the larger community. Today’s Courier Program continues to
be an opportunity to volunteer in a rural southeastem Kentucky
community, but in quite a different way from its original con-
cept. Couriers are still expected to perform some required tasks,
but there are many more opportunities to tailor the Program to
a Courier’s interest as well as the community’s needs. People
interested in rural healthcare, sociology, community service,
rural poverty, social work, cultural studies, non-profit work and
education are invited to explore further participation in the Courier
Program. A Courier must be flexible, adventurous, adaptable, and
open—minded. Living and working in Leslie County, Kentucky,
as a Courier is like no other experience one has ever had or may
ever have again!
Update
The Courier Program has been very busy this summer with several
Couriers participating in the Program.
Jordan Minor and Amanda Strauss were introduced in the last
Quarterly Bulletin.
Frances James, Bolton, Massachusetts, attends Hamilton College
and recently studied abroad in Scotland. She came to FNS with
plans of becoming a FNP or PA but has since changed her mind
and plans to become a nurse—midwife.
Danielle Ausems, Alexandria, Virginia, attends Washington and
Lee University and came to us through Shepherd’s Poverty Alli-
ance (a volunteer placement program). Danielle’s main purpose
for coming to FNS was to experience the culture and to "see
something outside ofthe big city".
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Elia Cole, Red Hook, New York, attends Bard College and plans
to go to medical school.
Stephanie Janes, Grayson, Kentucky, is a nursing student at
the Kentucky Christian College in Grayson. Stephanie came to
Wendover last year for a tour and decided to apply to the Courier I
Program. V
The following Couriers are scheduled to arrive during September: J
Katherine Caddle, Emily Hop, Roseanne Berton and Marielle
Battistoni.
To leam more about Couriers’ experiences, reflections, and impres-
sions of FNS, go to khakiandwhiteblogspot.com.
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Sad Day for an RN
by Sherrie Rice Smith, RN
The year was 1975 and I was a fairly new registered nurse who
had taken a job in southeastem Kentucky working for the Frontier
I Nursing Service.
2 My nose was stuffed, the day was long and I was very tired from
` my pounding head when my head nurse came to me with one
more job to do. Roger Lee needed to be transported to a local
hospital for more treatment.
Working on the "Med Surg" second floor of the hospital for a
ten hour shift caught me in a rough position. My shift was over
and I had hoped a doctor would come during the day to check
over Roger Lee, an eight—rnonth old baby who apparently had
viral pneumonia, as his breating was becoming more and more
labored. The Hyden Hospital had no equipment capable of deal-
ing with this baby’s respiratory condition, so he was placed in
a crib with an old fashioned oxygen tent. No pediatric oxygen
equipment was available to use. In this old hospital we made do
with what we had when we had it. Many times rigged together
equipment made all the difference as to whether a patient got
well or didn’t get well. Roger Lee needed more than we could
wire together that day.
Just before my shift ended at 5:00 pm, the Pediatrician showed
up asking why Roger Lee was still here. Flying into action, the
Pediatrician initiated the phone calls to Harlan Appalachian Hos-
. pital for admission. Immediately thereafter, the head nurse looked
at me with the question on her face of "who is going to make
the run?" Harlan was 30 miles to the east across the mountains,
meaning a twisty turning drive of an hour each way. Reluctantly,
amid my sniffing, I agreed to do it, as no one else was available. A
few quick phone calls were made to Wendover to find a Courier
to drive the vehicle to Harlan for me as I handled Roger Lee.
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Jenny, the Courier, arrived 30 minutes later in a VW Beetle, not
exactly the emergency vehicle I expected. Leslie County had only
one ambulance which was an ordinary station wagon, and doubled
as a hearse from the local funeral home. The VW was actually
better, as I could sit upright while holding the baby, rather than
riding the entire trip hunched down over him in the rear of the sta- ,.
tion wagon! Armed with all the sophisticated medical equipment
available, which included a small oxygen tank, metal funnel, and a
DeLee suction trap (a piece of plastic tubing attached to a four inch ·'
plastic cyclinder where respiratory secretions where trapped after
being extracted by a nurse literally sucking them out of a patient
via the tubing), the three of us set off for Harlan Hospital.
With the old rusty funnel positioned near Roger Lee’s face giving
him the maximum oxygen I could give, we fared well the first 25
miles. I could hear all the gathered secretions in this baby’s lungs
but they were so deep that the DeLee suction did nothing to clear
them. His coloring was like nothing I had ever seen. I vividly
remember reminding me of purple chicken wire design, meaning
he was extremely mottled and cyanotic, without much alertness
at all in his eyes. Suddenly, a loud gasp and a gush of orange—yel-
low fluid was emitted from Roger Lee’s little body. One look told
me the tale - he had quit breathing. I quickly grabbed the DeLee
suction trap again and sucked on the end of the tubing with all l
my might. What a surprise I got this time. Instead of the usual
response of little or no secretions, I got a great big mouthful of
the most awful tasting fluid! The subsequent suctioning was more y
gently done, but the results were the same - copious amounts of I
that terrible orange—yellow stuff I commenced CPR.
We arrived at the hospital parking lot with 1ne continuing CPR, as
I had been taught never to stop without a physician’s permission.
In my heart I knew it really didn’t matter. Roger Lee was dead.  
His breathing stuggle was finally over — his tiny heartjust couldn’t
take anymore of that grueling work. W
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The Emergency Room Doctor asked me if I wanted to leave Roger
Lee there and they would call the funeral home in Hyden to pick
him up. I told the Doctor, absolutely not, I was taking him back
with me as the family of seven was extremely poor, living up a
remote hollow without a telephone and only having a couple of
.- rooms for all of them. The Doctor suggested that I wrap up Roger
Lee’s little body and put him in the tmnk. Again, I refused.
" As I handed off my precious package to one ofthe Family Nurse
Practitioner Students in Hyden, I sat down and cried. One of the
RNs had pity on me, telling me I was taking the next day off after
I took the medication they were about to give me to knock me out
for a good night’s sleep.
I recall this story periodically, among many, many more, realizing
I was only 20 years old when this happened.
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PLEA FOR LAP QUILTS AND SCARVES
The Frontier School of Midwifery & Family Nursing students
present lap quilts, baby caps or scarves to the first baby they
. deliver and/or to their elderly patients. FNS receives these items
from our "knitting" friends. As our School continues to grow in
leaps and bounds, we need more and more lap quilts, baby caps
and scarves.
The size needed for lap quilts is approximately 40" by 42". Yam
. should be worsted weight.
Thanks for your continued interest in our work.
 
 
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Beyond the Mountains
F acuity Developmental Canference
by Rhonda Arthur; DNR CNM, WHNP-BC, FNP-BC
As a fairly new faculty member at the Frontier School of Mid- ~
wifery & Family Nursing (F SMFN), I was pleased to have the
privilege to travel to Savannah, Georgia, to attend a faculty
developmental conference entitled “Thriving as a Nurse Educa— 'A
tor". I had the pleasure of sharing this experience with F SMFN
faculty members, Tia Andrighetti and Laura Manns—James. The
Conference was held in February along the historic riverfront so
we were a