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Table of Contents .
Introduction to the FNS — Deanna Severance 1
Beyond the Mountains - Deanna Severance 3 ’
Wendover News — Jeremy 71 Bush 9
Courier Program News — Karen Thomisee I6 {
FSMFN/CNEP News — Susan Stone 20
Mail Order Baby — Betty Bradbury 22
In Memory of "Thumper" 23
In Memoriam 26
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_. The Frontier Nursing Service
, U you have never been introduced to the Frontier
}| Nursing Service we would like to take this opportunity to brief
-e you on the history and the on-going work of the Service. We
encourage you to share this Bulletin with a friend.
Q l Born in 1881 into a prominent American family, Mary
Breckinridge spent her early years in many parts of the world-
A Russia, France, Switzerland and the British Isles. After the
death of her two children, she abandoned the homebound life
, expected of women of her class to devote herself to the service
_ of others, particularly children.
J Mrs. Breckinridge established the Frontier Nursing
. Service (FNS) in Leslie County, Kentucky in 1925, then one of
the poorest and most inaccessible areas in the United States.
. Mrs. Breckinridge introduced the first nurse—midwives in this
country. Riding their horses up mountains and across streams
`] in blizzard, fog or flood, the FNS nurses brought modern
healthcare to families throughout an area of 700 square miles.
Q_ Until her death in 1965, Mary Breckinridge was the
l driving force behind the work of the Service whose influence
A today extends far beyond eastern Kentucky. Through the Fron-
j tier School of Midwifery and Family Nursing hundreds of
nurses have been trained and this important concept of family
healthcare has been carried throughout the world.
Today the FNS is organized as a parent holding com-
pany for Mary Breckinridge Healthcare Inc., (home health
_ agency, four outpost clinics, one primary care clinic in the
{ hospital, Kate Ireland Women‘s Healthcare Clinic) and for the
x Frontier School of Midwifery and Family Nursing - the largest
midwifery program in the United States.
Remarkably, the purpose and philosophy of the FNS
has remained constant since 1925. -Deanna Severance, CEO
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E Beyond the Mountains
"Spring, the sweet spring, is the year's pleasant king; Then blooms
U each thing, then maids dance in a ring, cold doth not sting, the
ii pretty birds do sing: Cuckoo, jug—jug, pu-we, to-witta—woo. "
Songs from Summer's Last Will and Testament (1600) Thomas
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Weather
My last Quarterly Bulletin note ended January 28. Sun-
· day, February 1, my husband Carl and I were delighted to have
Georgia Rodes for luncheon. Gaiety marked that beautiful after-
noon of sunshine. The next week the snows came! The wet, heavy
r snow at Wendover brought down trees and resulted in the electric-
E ity being out from Tuesday evening until Sunday moming. Our
local grocer friends at Food Fair very generously allowed us to
Q move our frozen food to their store which had backup power.
if Many thanks!
Presentations
I March 3, I was honored to be asked by Ms. Erla G.
i Mowbray, Associate Professor, and Ms. Tammy Liles, President,
to speak to the students at Lexington Community College during
Women's History Week. March 12, I had the good fortune to
; repeat the talk to the Vanderbilt nursing students. Carol Etherington
‘ asked me to speak at Vanderbilt. Carol came to the FNS when she
" finished nursing school in Louisville, and she credits FNS for
greatly influencing her nursing life. Carol continues to be active in
· international work with groups such as "Physicians Without
I Borders". Many thanks to Carol and her husband ,Stan Fossick, for
the lovely dinner and evening they showed to Carl and me! I was
delighted to be able to share the history of our founder, Mary
_ Breckinridge. Below are excerpts from my talk which were taken
i from James Klotter's book The Breckinridge's of K entucky:
_ "Mary Breckinridge‘s great—great-grandfather was John
p Breckinridge (1760-1806). He served in the Virginia House of
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1 served as Attomey General and Speaker ofthe House. He sat in the I
j 1799 Constitutional Convention and represented Kentucky as a
1 U.S. Senator. Additionally, he served as Attorney General under l
l President Thomas Jefferson. John Breckinridge married Mary p
Hopkins Cabell. They had two sons, Joseph Cabell Breckinridge . p
l and Robert Preston Breckinridge. i`
l Joseph Cabell Breckinridge was Mary's great—grandfa— I
1 ther. He was an attorney and served as Kentucky Speaker of the
House and Secretary of State. Joseph married Mary Clay Smith,
the daughter of the President of Princeton University.
l John Cabell Breckinridge, the son of Joseph Cabell Breck— _
1 inridge and Mary Clay Smith, was Mary Breckinridge's grandfa-
ther. John Cabell Breckinridge was married to Mary Cyrene
Burch. He served in the Mexican War, as a Kentucky Legislator,
a Kentucky Congressman, a U.S. Senator and as Vice-President
{ during the Buchanan presidency. Mr. Breckinridge ran against
Mr. Douglas in the Democratic primaries. Mr. Douglas won and
, went on to be defeated by Mr. Lincoln. During the Civil War, Mr.
Breckinridge served as a general in the Confederate Army and
i Secretary of War. p
John Cabell Breckinridge's son, Clifton Rodes Breckin— 1
ridge, was Mary Breckinridge's father. He was in planting and
trade in Arkansas. He married Katherine Breckinrid ge Carson and
spent a decade in Congress. From 1894 to 1897 he served as
Minister to Russia. It was to this illustrious, influential Kentucky
_ family that Mary Breckinridge turned when she began the Frontier
C Nursing Service. The rest is history, as they sayl"
F NP Program update
March 19 and 20, a fourth Family Nurse Practitioner -
, (FNP) curriculum meeting was held at the Lexington offices ofthe ·
. Frontier School of Midwifery and Family Nursing. Thanks to our .
wonderful, talented consultants Sue Peeples, Marguerite Pike and
Chris Banigan (who are also FNS-FNP graduates); our extraordi— "
nary, gifted CNEP faculty Susan Stone, Kerri Schuiling, Penny I
Waltman, and Katheryn Osborne; our friend and colleague
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y at Case Western Reserve University; and our anchor Dr.
` AnneWasson, we are making remarkable progress. Susan Stone
. and I will be interviewing FNP Program Director candidates the
second week in May. I am optimistic we will admit students in
June of 1999.
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I Board of Governors meeting
April 17 and 18 the Board of Govemors held their quar-
terly meeting at Wendover. It wouldn't be Wendover in the spring
if we did not have a "tide". With the heavy rains, the waters of the
Middle Fork rose across the road. The Friday meetings were held
J in the Dr. Anne Wasson Room at the Frontier School of Midwifery
and Family Nursing on Hospital Hill. By the time the Board
members arrived for dinner at Wendover the waters had receded.
I am happy to say the fence held for the first time!
The Board accomplished much hard work at this meeting.
The FNS annual budget is presented in the spring. Our fiscal year
is May 1 through April 30. We appear to be in stable financial
condition for the coming year. Ido continue to be concerned about
payments being withheld from Medicaid. As it is now, we receive
j 61 cents for every dollar we bill for those patients on Medicaid,
Medicare and other state assistance. _
Perhaps the most important decision made by the Board at
this meeting was to not merge with another hospital or sell Mary
Breckinridge Healthcare (MBHC). Our long time supporters
know that the 1980's were a very difficult time for small rural
. hospitals with over 700 closing their doors. You, our friends,
generously supported our hospital. In 1993, the Board began
I strategic planning with the single goal in mind of finding a way to
ensure that health care is always available in Leslie County. The
' Board seriously considered a sale to Community Care of America.
When that mutually was abandoned, the Board sought guidance of
all the major not-for-profit tertiary care centers in Kentucky. The
·, Board has reviewed national and regional trends, negotiated a
. potential sale, met with other small hospitals, sought the advice of
i the larger hospitals — left no stone uncovered in their quest to do
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partner in this community, giving people important, meaningful
employment as well as ministering to people's health care needs.
With all this in mind, the decision was made to continue to own and
operate MBHC. Frank Butler, Hospital Director of University of
* Kentucky Medical Center (UK); Dr. Emory Wilson, Dean of UK
. College of Medicine; and David Bolt, CEO of Health Associates ‘-
p of Kentucky are the group we are asking to be our strategic partner. I
I This will not be a capital relationship. However, we believe the
J University of Kentucky can help us continue with our strategic
planning into the next millennium.
I Daughters of Colanial Wars
L. Saturday, April l8, I caught a plane to Washington, DC
i and was delighted to speak on Sunday morning at the Daughters
. ofColonial Wars (DCW) "FNS Brunch". The DCW have been so
, generous to FNS. Their gifts have purchased home health vehicles,
provided midwifery scholarships, and oh, so much more over the
years. But, the baby caps they are knitting continue to be a most
inspirational gift to our midwifery students. Each student receives
a cap before they enter their clinical rotation. The student gives the
cap to their first mother and baby! Thank you DCW!!!
Berea Appalachian Fund Conference
April 22 and 23, Barb Gibson, Jeremy Bush, Leona Roy
and I attended the Berea College Appalachian Fund Conference in
` Berea. Dr. Larry Shinn, President of Berea College, attends the
entire meeting, and I always am energized by his words and those
i of the other recipients of the Fund. Mrs. Judy Stammer has long
been the driving force which ensures so many Appalachians are
L assisted. This year's scholarship recipient Leona K. Roy, CNEP
student, gave a very touching speech regarding her appreciation of l
L the assistance she received from Berea.
Blacklight Films "
April 28, Mark Marshall, Louis Schwartzberg and their
film crew with Blacklight Films filmed home health nurse Mary
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Appalachian College Conference
project is TIMESCAPE. They have been across the United States
filming ordinary people who do extraordinary things. As Mark
Marshall explained to me, Louis Schwartzberg initiated the idea of
an optimistic, hopeful film for the millennium. "A breakthrough
theatrical film event, TIMESCAPE captures the essence of
America's cultural diversity in sight and sound. It is a celebration
of America. . . its land, its people, its music, ajoyous live action
'Fantasia' in which all Americans play a part" We wish them luck!
Hazard Community College Groundbreaking
Barb Gibson and I, along with MBHC Assistant Admin-
· istrator Virginia Gross, Medical Records Director Mallie Noble
if? and Risk Management Officer Connie Napier attended a ground
gi breaking ceremony for the Hyden campus of the Hazard Commu-
X nity College. The Honorable Paul Patton, Govemor ofthe State of
Y Kentucky, presented the Leslie County Fiscal Court with $4 M for
" the renovation ofthe old Hyden Elementary School. This will offer
` local people the opportunity to take certain college courses closer
j to home.
G Gus Alfaro played the national anthem at the ceremony
, on the tmmpet and did a beautiful job! Gus is the son of Kathy
. Pennington in Accounting.

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Thanks ,.
Many thanks to our friends for the fantastic support
you provide to the FNS. May all of you, our dear readers,
p have a lovely summerl! —Deanna Severance, CEO A

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J Wendover News
by Jeremy T. Bush
Weather
"April is the cruelest month" (T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land)
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; We have made it! All of those slippery. horrid images of
snow have been erased from all of our minds. We do not have to
V worry about two feet of snow, trees crashing down into our
homes, and power outages that last for weeks . . . or do we'?
p The past few weeks of late April and early May have
ushered in a completely new meteorological obstacle for us here
i at Wendover. We now have days upon days of teary, dreary.
T drenching rainfall. Sure, we have green trees and flowers bursting
with radiant blooms, but who can enjoy them in heavy rain, wind
4 and fog? This is what I call the Monsoon Season in eastern
t Kentucky.
High Tide on the Middle Fork
¢ My wonderful American Literature Professor, Dr. Ted
Olson of Union College, and his friend, Monica Luke of The
_ Thompson Foundation, were recently trapped at Wendover after
several days of strong, steady rainfall. The Middle Fork of the

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Kentucky River, which passes only yards from our beloved
Wendover, ovetflowed its banks and engulfed Wendover Road.
No one was hurt, only stranded, by this incident. .
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The Four Kentucky Winters
Four Winters? Yes, we have four distinct Spring "winter"
patterns that usher in Monsoon Season here in Kentucky. These
"winters" are merely successive periods ofcold weather that bring
45-50 degree daytime temperatures and lots of rain to us here in the
Qt mountains. The names of these "winters" are based on various I
trees and bushes that bloom at different times in a particular order. I
"Sarvis Winter" is based on the white blooms of the Service tree i
(which always blooms first). "Redbud Winter" follows and is
based on the pink blooms of its namesake, the Redbud tree. I
"Dogwood Winter" is next and named after the Dogwood tree.
Finally, there is "Blackberry Winter" which is named after the ·
blooms of the ever fmitful Blackberry bushes. I had originally ‘
thought this knowledge was only used in any official sense by I
mountain people and their many descendants. However, much to l
my surprise and delight, I heard "Dogwood Winter" announced on
our local NPR (National Public Radio) station, not long ago.
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i Ellis Island at Wendover
, As many of you can tell, I absolutely love animals. Many
, of the animals here at Wendover are refugees of some foreign land
(Hurricane, Hyden, Beech Fork, etc). My dearest little feline
; friend, Peach, was a poor stray when he found Wendover. Trish
F was nearly dead when Susie rescued her from the cold, cruel
· world. Ruby, Karen's German Shepherd, was abandoned on the
p steps of the Wendover Post Office. The newest member of this
, family of cast aways is Wendy. Wendy is a small dog with a
dominant Border Collie bloodline. We found her just last week
wandering around Wendover. She was so sweet that I couldn't help
but adopt her and take her home with me. I guess that Wendover
I will always be a safe haven for poor, helpless creatures that need
· gentle love and care.
‘ A Memory from the Past
T I found the following feature in the Summer, I 955 edition
_, of the Quarterly Bulletin written by Mrs. Breckinridge:
· "In the spring of this year Paddy was seventeen years old.
. Years young - in spirit. He always wanted to follow the other
; Wendover dogs on walks, climbing mountains, chasing stones
` and sticks. In May he enjoyed a swim in his beloved river.
i Paddy was gay and gallant and loving to the end, in late
j June, when he went quickly and with his friends by him. We are
_ sure there were FNS friends ~ both people and dogs — waiting to
. welcome him on the Other Shore".
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Wendover Grounds _
—._ Mrs. Richard B. Kemp recently made a donation for a
flowerbox near the Big House to be filled with flowers in memory `,
of her late husband, Mr. Richard B. Kemp. The flowerbox has been
filled with many different kinds and colors of flowers. There are _
{ Glorious Daisies, Montana Blues, Spiderworts, Coreopsis, Violet ·
Queens, and a host of other perennial explosions of color. These a
I flowers will spread and cover the entire flowerbox creating an
organic splash of color across a green canvas. Mrs. Kemp can be
proud that such a wonderful expression of love will bloom year
fj after year praising the memory of her dear husband.
5 I took a brief tour of the Wendover Gardens on May 6.
Qi Junior, Christine, and Linda were working hard to fill the gardens _
Z; with beautiful flowers and green vegetation. I must say that I have
never seen such rich dirt around here as the soil in the Wendover
gardens. It looks so wonderful that I had to resist the temptation of I
just touching it. Our team is certainly doing a fine job!
We are glad that Dr. Anne has returned to Wendover after
a brief illness and stay in Mary Breckinridge Hospital. She will .
once again be able to keep sticky fingers away from those juicy
strawberries and oversee the Wendover Gardens. We love you Dr. A
Anne!
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Susie Hudgins Stewart update
Susie recently came to visit us here at Wendover with
-' many surprises. The first and most shocking of these was our poor
, little Trish. She has recently been sheared. When I say sheared, I
gy mean "sheared". The Vet sure went wild with the clippers when he
laid hold of her! Susie was a bitjarred from the sight ofa slick, de-
3 futred Trish, but quickly recovered from her immediate state of
shock.
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_A Susie also had a sight for us to see . . . her new husband!
p During May, she got married to Mr. Brad Stewart (her former
y husband and long-time friend).
I Susie has been doing exceptionally well. She is now living
· on Jekell Island in southern Georgia. She is also in the middle of
a huge remodeling project of her new home. We would like to
congratulate Susie and wish her the best in her wonderful new life.
i "A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words"
Not long ago I wrote about our extravagant drain and rock
_ work, but failed to produce a picture. I now have a wonderful
I picture of this finely crafted masonry.

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p I have been working on a huge preservation project at the
’ j Big House replacing many of the old, original photographs and ‘
{ y manuscripts, that are continually on display, with exquisite repro- _
li ductions. This will help ease all of our minds on the security of j
5 Mrs. Breckinridge's precious items and photographs. The origi— i
‘ i nals will be sent to the University of Kentucky Archives where j
ii they will be stored and protected from heat and humidity, two l
devastating factors in preserving old paperwork. Many people do §
lj ‘ not understand the awful heat of southestern Kentucky in the {
summertime and the intense humidity that an old house like the
3 Big House harbors during these muggy months. These factors,
` coupled with the constant threat of theft and abuse, warranted a
full—scale preservation project. When the project is finished, J
ti r everyone can still enjoy the wonderful works of the Frontier
i Nursing Service while the originals are safe in the hands of the `
experts. ’
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Invitation t0 Visit
We would like to extend an invitation to our faithful
" readers, to visit us here at Wendover. If reading about our wonder-
ful work is fascinating, just imagine what it's like seeing it in
p person! If you are interested, you can call 606-672-2317 and ask
A for me, Jeremy Bush or the official Tour Guide for more informa-
tion and travel directions.
. If a trip is not possible, why not check out our two web
sites? FNS can be found at www.baref00t.c0m and the Frontier
School of Midwifery and Family Nursing can be found at
www.midwives.0rg. These sites offer a wealth of information
about FNS, Mary Breckinridge, and the exciting field of Mid-
` wifery. Check it out!
M0re Yarn!
i We have had such a wonderful response to our request for
T unwanted yam donation. We would like to thank each one of you
j that sent yarn. Dr. Anne has been knitting like a mad spider for the
past few months and has knitted hundreds of sweaters for the Gift
_ Shop. We would like to urge all faithful donors to rally the troops
i and keep that rainbow of yarn coming! The sweaters generate
il revenue for Wendover and there are many children who stay
.3 snuggly and warm in Dr. Anne's sweaters!

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Courier Program News
by Karen Thomisee
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This "Courier Program News" is the hardest one I have
_ ever had to write. I have made a decision to return to North
A Carolina to attend school in the fall to study photography. Wen- W
dover has been my home for two and a half years. I have left other
I places but I know this will be the hardest.
·‘ My decision to study photography means that FNS has
l helped me see what path my life should take. I came here with a
I passion formidwifery and fortaking pictures. My interests quickly
· matured from midwifery to the entire nursing field and I knew that
somehow I wanted to be a part of it. FNS gave me the opportunity
to listen to my own voice and I know that even while pursuing
photography, healthcare will not leave my life. I am excited to see
how it weaves its way into whatever I end up doing.
l Icannot say good—bye to Leslie County because I love it
too much. Even more so, I cannot say good—bye to the friends I
have made because I want them to stay in my life. The young men
and women who have passed through Wendover as Couriers have
taught me so much; I feel so blessed to have had them in my life
ifonly for three months. As for everyone else, I cannot name them
all: Barb, Sherman, Marylin for looking out for me, all the
Wendover staff, the Hensley's and Hoskins/Brocks for being my
family, Eileen and Judy Morgan, Toddy and others at MBHC,
Matthew Feltner for all the adventures, and there is not enough I
I can say about Alabam who is one of my best friends. There are so
many others . . .just know that I thank you all.
My advice to all who come back to visit - walk slowly
down Wendover road a lot, sit in Hurricane Field and look up at the
sky and the mountains that encompass you on all sides, talk to
y more people and just take your time. I wish I had done more of
these things, but I'll be back. I will visit my sister in July in the
Central Asian country of Kyrgysatan. I will keep Wendover if
p updated on my adventures. After June write to me at 1260
A Piccadilly Drive, Charlotte, NC 2821 l.

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The following will allow you to see the many different
areas in which our Couriers become involved. Many of these
t wonderful people leave FNS with a future goal in mind that arose
during their stay.
` Winter Group
Lisa Bernasek is a graduate of Princeton University with
a degree in Middle Eastem Studies. She is from Lawrenceville,
New Jersey, and joined the Wendover team to learn about health-
care in the United States before departing to Morroco as a health
educator for the Peace Corps! Lisa has enjoyed shadowing Dr.
Sullivan; Cynthia Perkins, CNM; Debbie Hacker, FNP and Jodi
Baker, Child Health Educator. Lisa also gets to practice her Arabic
when tutoring our friend Huda from Syria.
Beth Dulany from Charleston, South Carolina is a nurs-
ing student at La Salle University in Pennsylvania. Beth is partici-
pating in a variety ofhealth care experiences, including shadowing
Beverly May, FNP; Debbie Hacker, FNP for the public health
department and Cynthia Perkins, CNM.
Diana Livingston came to us from Portland, Oregon,
where she will retum to attend graduate school in June in order to
teach middle school Biology. While in Leslie County she has
shared her teaching skills with the Adult Literacy Program and in
the Stinnett Elementary School (where she not only conducts a
science "Jeopardy" game but alsojumps in to play basketball with
the kids). Diana's help has also been much appreciated at the Leslie
County Humane Society, and she still finds time to take in surgery
once in a while.
Monika Ulrich is a Sociology student at Brigham Young
University in Utah but is from Ann Arbor, Michigan. While in high
school Monika spent two weeks volunteering in the Leslie County
schools and is still interested in education. While here, Monika is
tutoring in Adult Literacy, special education and reading with a
" kindergarten student. She also volunteers at the Hyden Manor
Nursing Home and shadows Home Health nurses and FNP`s.

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· F armer Couriers
` Cathy Croft (1990) sent us a wonderful letter about the
roads her life has taken since she left FNS. Cathy stayed at
Wendover for over a year and has lived and worked with fellow
Couriers in Minnesota and Colombia, South America; worked as
_ a health educator for the Peace Corps in Africa; and is now
’ receiving her Masters in Intemational Public Health at Tulane
` University in New Orleans. Cathy wrote that she could not help but
‘ notice how much FNS has played a role in where she is today. She
( wishes all Couriers good luck with their work.
{ Susan Mathew, Mariah Mottley, Jélllliféf Swisher and
A Cat Thompson (1998) have all been in touch since departing.
l Susan is taking Hindi language classes and working in
I Durham, North Carolina, to save money for her fall trip to India.
Cat and Mariah are both working in New York City and
‘ have enjoyed visiting one another (they found out that Cat works
in the same office building that Mariah's father works!). Cat is
” preparing to work at an organic farm in Maine in the fall and
Mariah will be working as a camp counselor in the summer before
( attending college.
j We all shared in Jennifer's excitement upon learning of
i her acceptance to medical school. She will be attending Kansas
City Osteopathic School of Health Sciences in Kansas City.
_ Missouri in the fall.
A The presence of these women is missed very much at
A Wendover.

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F SMFNI CNEP News
by Kerri Schuiling, Acting CNEP Educational Director _
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this quarter as a direct result of —· _ p
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President, Deanna Severance, _ " ‘
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