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_ Certified Public Accountant
i City Bank Building
A Lexington, Ky.
l MEMBER
  Kentucky Society of Certified Public Accountants
, T , American Society of Certified Public Accountants
  National Association of Cost Accountants
°¤_   National Tax Association
  HELEN H. FORTUNE, C. P. A.
To the Officers and Trustees,
4, Frontier Nursing Service, Incorporated
h Lexington, Kentucky
. 5 Ladies and Gentlemen:
A I have made a detailed examination of your records and
accounts for the fiscal year ended April 30, 1936, with the re-
- sult as disclosed on annexed Exhibits, A, B, and C, and sup-
  porting schedules B-1, to B—5, both inclusive.
·§ Income on investments was certified to me direct by the
  various trustees therefor. Contributions and gifts have been
  checked against the Treasurer’s receipts and reports and traced
~ , into the bank.
{ i All disbursements have been verified by means of canceled
° checks and supporting vouchers. The various bank accounts
A have been reconciled and found correct.
’ Endowment and Memorial Funds, which have more than
3 doubled during the year, were certified to me direct by the Trus- »
  tees therefor.
. Aa In my opinion all monies received have been duly and prop-
, erly accounted for.
.  Respectfully submitted,
 i (Signed) W. A. HIFNER, JR.,
i Certified Public Accountant
  Lexington, Kentucky, ‘
May Twenty-first,
  Nineteen Thirty-six.
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RESOLUTION .
(Adopted by the Trustees of the Frontier Nursing Service at the Twelfth  
Annual Meeting for Members and Trustees, May 23, 1936)  
 
WHEREAS the voting membership of the Frontier Nurs-  
ing Service, under the terms of its Articles of Incorporation, is !
vested in the members of the Committees of the Frontier I
Nursing Service, and such members have the privilege of voting
to elect the Board of Trustees at the Annual Meeting, and
WHEREAS the Board of Trustees has the power of amend-
ing the By-laws of the corporation at any meeting, and
WHEREAS the Frontier Nursing Service has more than
2,000 financial supporters distributed throughout many parts
of the United States and even abroad, and
WHEREAS it is impossible to include the majority of these
subscribers in the regular Committee voting membership of the
Frontier Nursing Service, and yet it is- desired to give them an
integral part in the life of the Service which they support,
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the By-laws of
this Corporation be amended by adding to Section 5 of the By-
laws the following sentence:
To each donor of $2.00 or more annually shall be given  
the title of Contributing Member; to each donor of $100.00 or
more annually, the title of Cooperating Member; to each donor `
of $1,000.00 or more annually, the title of Sustaining Member;
and to each donor of $1,000.00 or more to the Endowment Fund  
the title of Endowment Member. f

  
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  I ANNUAL REPORT OF
THE FRONTIER NURSING SERVICE
  May 1,1 1935 to April 30, 1936
1 For the fifth successive year we condense our annual re-
', port to reduce the cost of printing. There follows a summary
A of the fiscal year which closed April 30, 1936, both as to funds
and as to the work.
i FISCAL Rsroar
We received this year from all sources, including donations
and subscriptions, nursing and medical fees, investment income,
sales of books, revenue from the Wendover Post Office, the
Director’s lecture fees, benefits, and refunds, but exclusive of
a $10,000.00 gift to retire indebtedness and exclusive of $70,-
000.00 new endowment, a total for-running expenses of $78,-
134.78. But there were several thousands of dollars of unpaid
obligations, which represented certain large accounts continually
in arrears since the deepest part of the depression. A member
of our Executive Committee immediately gave $5,000.00 to bal-
ance the budget and bring these accounts abreast. In setting
our budget for the coming fiscal year again at $80,000.00,
which is our basic minimum, we have every expectation of _
keeping it on a cash basis and meeting it month by month. To
_l do this, however, we will need approximately $2,000.00 more in ·
on donations and subscriptions during the current fiscal year than
_ we received during the last fiscal year.
  ENDOWMENT
It An encouraging feature of the picture, however, is the in-
  crease of $70,000.00 in our endowments during the past year.
, We are eager to bring these endowments up as rapidly as pos-
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i than four individuals during the past year have added to our ·· J
endowment fund during their lifetimes. If all subscribers either I
will do this, or else provide a principal in their wills to- take care
of at least a part of what they give annually, the Frontier _&
Nursing Service will rapidly reach the solid basis upon which  
a national demonstration should rest. ,
The Jessie Preston Draper Memorial Center has now its A5
own endowment of $65,000.00, a gift from the estate of the late ·
Mrs. Draper Ayer of Boston. The income on $15,000.00 of this
is for the upkeep, repairs, replacements, insurance, etc., on i
the property. The income on $50,000.00 of this endowment is I
for the maintenance of one nurse, her horse and supplies. The ‘
Belle Barrett Hughitt Memorial Center has now an endowment .
of $15,000.00 for the maintenance of the property. The Mary
Ballard Morton Memorial wing of our hospital at Hyden has
an endowment of $53,000.00 to date and, in addition, one baby
crib-—The Joan Glancy Memorial—is endowed. The Mary ·
Parker Gill Fund, through its trustee, the United States Trust
Company, of Louisville, has, during the past year, given $1,178.-
18 for repairs and replacements in connection with this hospital,
one wing of which is a memorial to Mary Parker Gill.
In addition to its endowments, the Frontier Nursing Ser-
vice owns, without lien, land and buildings, equipment, horses
and cattle, valued at $183,45914. »
ANALYSIS OF Rnomrrs »
The total receipts of the Frontier Nursing Service for the
. past fiscal year were $158,13478. It has already been stated
that $70,000.00 of this was in new endowment and $10,000.00
was a gift payment on old debts. Of the $78,134.78 for current  
running expenses, $65,225.26 came from donations and subscrip- Q
tions. This does not, of course, include the benefits, lecture fees,
etc., enumerated in the first paragraph. It is this figure of
$65,225.26 which must be increased by $2,000.00 to balance the I
budget for the current fiscal year. These donations have been y
given by 2,031 generous people, 1,554 of whom are old sub-
scribers and 457 of whom are new subscribers.
In order to increase our subscriptions it is necessary to .
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..   We call the attention of our readers to the Resolution adopted at
, our last annual meeting, on page 2 of this Bulletin, and ask
all of our old members to make an effort to interest one new
, person in the Frontier Nursing Service during the current year.
‘ We made this same request last year through personal letters.
These brought in a total of $3,005.00. We are not sending these
` letters out again this summer because we believe our old mem-
* bers will read the request in this Bulletin and act upon it.
A letter of thanks will, however, go to each old member who
, does get a new member, and a letter of welcome will go out to
T the new member.
We will close this analysis with a word of grateful thanks
. to a generous trustee who gives the complete support of a "Helen
Draper Ayer Memorial Nurse," her horse and supplies. Three
other generous donors have assumed complete support of a nurse
during the past year, two of whom have given this support
‘ for many previous years. ·
Our very special gratitude goes out to the chairmen of
various city committees who sent out our spring saddlebag ap-
peal, to new persons, above their own signatures. The returns
from this appeal are not all in even yet, but it has already
brought in considerably more than for several years past. The
Committees which have brought in the most money during the
T past year in contributions and benefits have been: Kentucky,
, $20,072.81; New York, $18,482.83; and Washington, $7,089.75.
The Washington Committee donations represented an increase
of more than $4,000.00 over the previous year and more growth
than any.
Q _ FIELD Rnroar
Our cover picture is a chart of the district nurse-midwives’
, work during the past year. This chart, the result of a study
made by the statisticians, is a percentage distribution of the
A 36,000 hours of work done by the field nurse-midwives and re-
ported daily to the Central Office. These figures are exclusive of
the 14,000 hours spent by hospital nurses in the Hyden Hospital
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that the district nurse spends more time in midwifery-that is,
in prenatal, delivery and post-partum care of women in child-
birth—than in sick nursing and public health combined. The
reader will see just how much time is taken up in travel and care
of horses, bearing in mind that the travel time this past winter ,
and spring, because of the terrible snows and tides, was unusual-  
ly heavy. The heading, "Breaking In New Nurses," means that _ U
time taken up by a senior nurse in teaching our saddlebag-and- (
cabin-technique and our trails to new nurses. The heading,  
"Group Work," covers Mothers’ Clubs, sewing classes, Christmas l
parties, debating societies, conferences, health talks, etc., etc.
The work of administering a center has to be accounted for in
every field nurse’s daily report. This includes time given in
arranging for repairs and upkeep on the center, for the enter-
tainment of guests and graduate students, arrangements for
the cleaning of barns, getting in the winter’s coal supply, hauling
in the winter hay, etc., etc. Study of this chart will help those of
you who support this work to understand the field aspect of it
in relation to those dear and gallant members of the Service,
the district nurse-midwives.
The Officers of the Frontier Nursing Service extend the
grateful thanks of the Service to each and every member of the
staE, from the Medical Director himself to the newest staif
nurse, for their courage and endurance_and unending patience
during the worst winter and spring we have ever had. No chart
_ can show against what appalling odds the staf have worked
for at least six months of the past fiscal year. Please read into
l the section, "Midwifery," the calls for the nurse-midwives from
lonely cabin mothers on January nights with the thermometer
below zero. Read into it also the more than 150 miles horse- K,
back through one of our worst blizzards in which our Medical x
Director travelled between nursing centers-two of them 36- li
horseback miles apart. Add to this the devotion of the men in J
every district who volunteered to carry stretcher cases through o 
the wildest weather, the enduring patience of the mothers them- l
selves, and you have a record of which humanity can be proud.
To summarize a few iigures, we take from the statisticians’
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MIDWIFERY
The nurse-midwives delivered 345 women in childbirth of
332 live babies, 7 stillbirths, and 7 late miscarriages; and gave
, them full prenatal and post-partum care. There was one set of
  twins. There were 404 new cases admitted and 336 closed after
_ U post-partum care. Of the latter 20 went to the Hyden Hospital
( for delivery and physicians were called to four district deliveries.
l We are grieved to state that we had two deaths in our
  registered midwifery cases this last winter. Neither death, how-
ever, was from maternal causes, even indirectly. Both women
died of pneumonia. They were both carried by stretcher into
our nearest nursing stations and special day and night nurses
were sent over to take care of them. Dr. Kooser spent two days
and nights with each case. We did `everything in our power to
save them, but the pneumonia was of a very virulent character
and we could not pull them through.
In addition to our regular cases, the nurse-midwives were
‘ called to seven emergency deliveries where the mother had not
been registered, or given prenatal care; 16 miscarriages (un-
registered cases); and they gave post-partum care to 10 un-
= registered mothers.
There were 24 outside-area cases of which eight were de-
livered in the Hyden Hospital. .
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The field nurses carried during the year a total of 7,121 peo-
ple in 1,417 families. Of these 4,361 were children, including
ii 1,953 babies and toddlers. Bedside nursing care was given to
'   359 very sick people, of whom 19 died. The district nurses paid
’ 16,398 visits and received 19,562 visits at nursing centers.
There were sent to hospitals and institutions outside the moun-
i tains 28 patients, 26 of whom, with their attendants, were
transported on passes given us by the Louisville and Nashville
Railroad Company.
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1 gave 5,462 inoculations and vaccines against typhoid, diphtheria,
smallpox, etc., and sent 175 specimens out for analysis.
We held during the year 134 field clinics with an attendance
of 4,253 people.
HOSPITAL  
The Frontier Nursing Service Hospital at Hyden was  
occupied during the past year 4,284 days by 388 patients. The
reader’s attention is called to the chart on the inside of the 1
cover page of this bulletin showing the percentage distribu-
tion of 347 admissions which fall under the five major ser-
vice divisions. This does not include worm specials, nursing
mothers accompanying sick infants, etc. It is interesting
to note that 55.9% of all these admissions were children,
including newborns. These children were all in desperate need
of hospitalization and among the cases treated we have had
terrible burns; pneumonia; dysentery; communicable diseases
-—such as diphtheria, sleeping sickness, and meningitis (in the
Thorpe-Rousmaniere Annex); and a wide variety of accident i
and surgical cases.
The Frontier Nursing Service Hospital is, so far as we
know, the only institution giving free care to children among
the 250,000 Kentucky mountaineers. We have never refused a
mountain child. In cases where our medical director wishes
expert outside advice, better laboratory facilities and X-Ray
(which has not yet been given us), we have, during the year,
» occasionally relayed children to the Children’s Free Hospital in ,
Louisville and the Children’s Hospital in Cincinnati. Both of ,
these institutions have given our children wonderful care at ,
no cost to us or to the children.
When we say we have never refused a mountain child we “‘
realize that we are facing a situation in which we will have  
to refuse children and other patients because of our absolute ;
inability to take them in. We can double our capacity as soon _
as we build a nurses’ home. The number of nurses in the hos-
. pital has increased from one to five, in addition to the superin-
tendent. Three district nurses must also be housed in the hos-

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pital. Whenever we have a contagious disease we have to get
two special nurses up from Lexington who must also be housed
in the hospital. Rooms and beds once occupied by patients are
now being used for the nursing staff. ._
Our first urgent need is for a nurses’ home. Our second
  urgent need is for an X-Ray. Our third urgent need is for a
I laboratory. Our fourth is for a new barn and additional pas-
» ture land with fencing for the horses, mules and cows that serve
1 the hospital and its patients and the Hyden district nurses.
T We could not, however, install either the X—Ray or the
laboratory until the hospital is freed of its resident staf.
We extend our warmest congratulations to the hospital
nurses who during the past year have cared for a wide variety
of cases with perfect safety to our patients under conditions
so overcrowded that we continuously dread a cross infection.
Only the most scrupulous nursing technique is responsible for
our record.
We want also to extend our deepest appreciation to the
Nurses’ Registry in Lexington, Kentucky (165 miles away),
V whose nurses have never failed to respond to our urgent call for
‘ special nurses for communicable diseases and have taken care
of these diseases at a fraction of their city charge for normal
cases.
It is hard to find the words in which to tell our medical
director, Dr. John H. Kooser, what we feel about the days and
nights of devoted and brilliant care that he has given single-
handed. Nor can we find the words in which to tell our attend-
‘ ing surgeon, Dr. R. L. Collins of Hazard, how much we love and
T admire him for all the surgical work he has done without any
I charge whatever to us. The charge to the patient is never more
·_,, than he can pay, and in necessitous cases no charge at all. Dr.
L Collins has come over for surgical emergencies whenever we
’ have called him and carried all our general elective surgery.
’ He has saved lives that no one thought could possibly be saved
» and restored to health peo-ple who have despaired of ever being .
well again. Our profound gratitude is also extended to Dr. B.
M. Brown of Hazard who has carried our Ear, Eye, Nose and
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out any charge to us, and coming over to Hyden to operate
for us. ‘ `
_ We have, again during the past year, received the courtesy -
of large free clinics from Dr. F. W. Urton of Louisville for y
tonsillectomies and from Dr. Scott Breckinridge of Lexington  
for gynaecological work. These two dear men regularly give "
us each Autumn several days of their valuable time and their ‘ E
. skilled services. Our very grateful thanks go out to the Lex-  
ington doctors on our Medical Advisory Committtee who have  
given free care to numerous patients sent down to them, and
have completed the third edition (2nd Revision) of our Medi-
cal Routine during the past year.
SOCIAL SERVICE DEPARTMENT
(Alpha Omicron Pi Fund)
It is impossible in the case of figures to enumerate the bril-
liant and devoted work which Miss Bland Morrow has done as
director of our Social Service Department. Literally thousands
of people, reached directly by her or through the nurses under
her direction, are having their lives transformed. Miss Mor-
row’s thorough social service preparation and her years of liv-
ing in the mountains, added to her warm and understanding ·
personality, make it possible for her to succeed where a less
well equipped person would fail. We are deeply grateful not
only to her but to the Alpha Omicron Pi sorority which finances h
her and her work.
Service and aid have been given in connection with the fol- L
lowing cases: ·
Dependent and neglected children: 14 cases ,i A
Handicapped children: l 15 cases •·
Medical-Social cases: _ 51 cases: of these-
_ A 15 were sent to ouside ,
hospitals .
36 were given service of z
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Family cases: 21 cases
» Unclassified cases: 6 cases
· Service has been given in connection with the following
community activities:
  Sewing classes
. l Singing class
Q Circulating libraries
. Christmas celebrations
i County Red Cross Chapter
Tuberculosis Seal Sale
Public Relief
In conclusion we want to mention the splendid work, short-
handed and under terrific pressure, by our administrative group;
the valuable liaison work of our courier service, more difficult
_ than ever before during this past terrible winter and spring;
and the unswerving cooperation and loyalty of both our outside
1 and our local committees, and of our thousands of patients.
Mas. S. THRUsToN BALLARD, Chairman.
C. N. MANNING, Treasurer. »
MARY BREcK1NRn>oE, Director.
. The Late King George’s Mottoes
Teach me to be obedient to the rules of the game. h —
‘ I Teach me to distinguish between sentiment and sentimentality.
y Teach me to neither proffer nor receive cheap praise.
’* If I am called upon to suffer, let me be like a well-bred beast,
" that goes away to suHer in silence.
Teach me to win if I may, if I may not, then above all teach me
to be a good loser.
` Teach me to neither cry for the moon nor over spilt milk.
i —Contributed.

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T IN MEMORIAM
“He shall go out with joy and be led forth with peace . . . ”
MRS. PERRY W. HARvEY, of Cleveland  
We are saddened by the loss of one of our oldest and truest J
friends. During the years of her Trusteeship Mrs. Harvey has Q
given this work her time, her thought, her money, her hospi- ’·
tality, over and over, the whole of her charming and lovable
personality. An able woman of an able old family, she had a
well-endowed mind, but the qualities for which she will be re-
membered most are those of the heart. One of the tenderest
and kindest and sweetest women that ever lived, she leaves an
emptiness in this world by her going. We wish her Godspeed
on this new supreme adventure where royal rank is given to
the unselfish, the gentle, the good. To her children we extend
our deepest sympathy in their irreparable loss.
MRs. AUGUsTA T. ERRETT, of Cincinnati
This quiet, self-efacing, and lovely woman gave us the rare
privilege of her friendship. Mrs. Errett took no part in the i
active work of the Frontier Nursing Service except for bene-
factions, including a generous legacy in her will. Her health
was very frail from the time that we first knew her. She will-
T ingly embraced the spiritual activities, the heaviest of all parts,
which can be carried on from a quiet room. She is not known on
one of our Committees, nor among our Trustees, and yet few
people have given as many hours of loving thought and gen- T
erous prayer. She gave the whole of her unseliish devotion.
Mrs. Errett’s passion for humanity burned like a flame in ~
her frail body. She lived quietly not only because she liked sim-
plicity but in order to have more with which to relieve suffer-
ing. Life gave her three sons. To the one who is living we ex-
tend our deepest sympathy in the loss of such a mother. With
the two sons who died in their teens we join in thanksgiving.

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OPEN LETTER
Dear Friends:
  From the Executive Committee and from the Chairmen
  of a number of our large city Committees I have obtained per-
, mission to discontinue our heavy speaking programs this year.
¤» We will not hold any of our annual meetings, except the one
required by our Articles of Incorporation—namely, the annual
meeting of Trustees and Members—in May, 1937, and I am
already declining requests for lectures. It may be possible to
make one or two exceptions in very special cases which do not
fall under our regular categories, but it is altogether impossible
for me to make my regular tours in the Middlewest this autumn
and the East next winter. The reason for this decision is pri-
marily because of renewed trouble in connection with the break-
ing of my back in 1931. I have never felt able to take as pro-
longed a rest as the doctors thought necessary and they now
insist that I carry as light a load for a year as possible. I don’t
expect to go anywhere or do anything in particular, but the
year’s program must be lightened considerably. During the
past fiscal year, in less than four months, at broken intervals,
_ I spoke 82 times in 42 widely separated places, thus reaching,
in behalf of the Frontier Nursing Service, many thousands of
people. In addition, I attended many conferences, luncheons,
” dinners, and teas, where the contacts were more informal. It
is this heavy program that I must call off this year in order to
· be equal to it the year following.
Our Executive Committee does not feel, and our Committee
I Chairmen do not feel, that we will lose financially by this de-
cision. We will, of course, lose the money that comes from my
~ lecture fees, but we will not lose in new subscribers if the ma-
jority of our Members each will try to get one new Member dur-
ing the year. As to our old members themselves, we are sure
that they will be even more ready with their support and will
not mind missing one year’s report of the work which I have
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I in which my back was broken. We will, of course, continue _
to give reports of the work in the pages of the Quarterly Bul-
. letin and through personal letters. I shall be in very close touch I
with the field but there, too, I have got to take things a little ,
more easily. It was a 25-mile horseback ride at one stretch that i
set up an inflammatory process in the site of the old fracture V
and reduced me to bed, alternating with the steel brace. X-rays · 
have been taken and show that no permanent harm is done, but `
I must not ride over 18 miles again, even in a steel brace. _.
I am sure you, all of you, must realize that I look forward
to longer unbroken hours in the mountains with utter joy.
Speaking continually is the most exhausting thing of which I Y
know since one has to throw one’s whole self into it. I shall wel- ~
come long stretches with what St. Francis would call "Sister
Silence." I will have lots that is fresh and delightful to tell you I
when I go out again a year later.
A thousand thanks to you all for the lovely reception you I 
have always given me.
Yours sincerely,
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THE QUARTERLY BULLETIN OF W
TI—IE FRONTIER NURSING SERVICE, Inc.  yl
Published quarterly by the Frontier Nursing Service, Lexington, Ky. I
SUBSCRIPTION PRICE $1.00 PER YEAR A ’
VOLUME XII SUMMER, 1936 " NUMBER 1 .
“Entered as second class matter June 80, 1926, at the Post Ojj’tce—¢;
Lexington, Ky., under the Act of March. 3, 1879." _
Copyright 1936 Frontier Nursing Service, Inc. _

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BEYOND THE MOUNTAINS
From the National Council of Nurses of Great Britain we
Y  have received a brick from the demolished house of Florence
· Nightingale, No. 10 South Street, London, as a presentation to
I the Frontier Nursing Service. This brick was carried all the
` way over from England by our Mary Cummings, who had just
» taken her graduate midwifery course in Edinburgh. We are
— having it inserted in a stone wall of our hospital at Hyden.
’ Thus a bit of the house where Florence Nightingale lived for
` so many years is now a part of the house where we carry on
p in her spirit with the work she loved.
i From Miss Adelaide Nutting we have another precious
I piece of Nightingaliana, which was given Miss Nutting by Miss
» Nightingale’s cousin, Henry Bonhan Carter. This is a book
; called "Introductory Notes on Lying-in Instruction, together
with a Proposal for Organizing an Institution for Training Mid-
wives and Midwifery Nurses."
“ Enrolled for the Courier Service of 1955, by special request,
Miss Margaret Avery Schreiner, born May 10, 1936, weight 7
  pounds 31/2 ounces, the daughter of our splendid former Chicago
  courier, Mary MacCaughey.
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· Our utmost gratitude to the St. Mark’s Juniors, of New
w York, for a most liberal gift of terribly needed new hospital
-  instruments to the value of $100.00.
  On May 12 Miss Gladys Peacock spoke before the Women’s
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Rochelle, New York, with the result that they sent us a check
"for the delightful address." A
We received from John T. Vance of Washington, D. C., a
copy of an address by Mrs. Roosevelt, delivered before the Dis-
trict of Columbia Library Association on "What Libraries , ‘~
Mean to the Nation." We note that she suggests that traveling Q
libraries could be carried in saddlebags as the Frontier Nurses
carry their supplies. This leads us to make a suggestion. We
have loan libraries now at all of our stations and would wel-
come gifts of new books for them, particularly children’s books,
books of adventure, animal stories, Bible stories, and standard
novels such as those of Dickens and Scott.
We wish to express our appreciation to the Canadian Wel-
fare Council at Ottawa for the excellent article on the Frontier
Nursing Service in their official organ, "Child and Family Wel-
fare," for March, 1936.
Speaking engagements carried by the Director during the T
past two months included a talk in the Sabbath School Audi-
torium, under the auspices of the Altrusa Club of Hamilton,
Ohio; another talk before the State Division of the American
Association of University Women, in Louisville; one before the
Colonial Dames, Eastern Branch, in Knoxville, Tennessee; one ,
in a private house in Knoxville; and one in a private house in ll
Maryville, Tennessee; an address before the Tippecanoe County l
Historical Society at Lafayette, Indiana; and the graduation ad-
dress of the Miami Valley Hospital School of Nursing at Dayton, ·
Ohio; and an address before the Eastern Kentucky nurses at
Jenkins, Kentucky. `
We were profoundly impressed by the deep historical knowl-
edge and interest of the men and women of the Tippecanoe

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County Historical Society. They even have a museum. The oc-
casion of our being there was f‘Founder’s Day," in memory of
William Digby. The Chairman, in a most graceful speech of
introduction, said that the Frontier _Nursing Service was "mak-
ing history."
The Miami Valley training school graduation was one of
__ the most moving occasions we ever attended. We were deeply
5 impressed with the school and its faculty and students. The
foundation laid by our friends, Ella Phillips Crandall, and the
late Lillian Clayton, has produced a wonderful growth. Over
a thousand people came to the exercises and even the vast au-
ditorium of the National Cash Register Company, where they
were held, was not too large. The internes, in their white clothes,
. acted as ushers. The nurses carried daisies, the school flower,
and there was a lovely bouquet of them set aside in memory of
a nurse who had died just before graduation. We particularly
loved the school hymn, those lines of Whittier’s beginning: "Im-
mortal love."
"The healing of his seamless dress
Is by our beds of pain;
We touch him in life’s throng and press,
. And we are one again."
Berea
,_ We think, and hope, that most of our friends are friends
`i also of Berea. We commend to those who may not have seen
j it the annual report of the President, just issued, as a most en-
thralling picture of the mountain people and of a great piece
· of educational work.
Our grateful thanks go out again this year to the Lexing-
ton Herald for sending itself daily to each of our eight stations.

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FIELD NOTES
The annual Mothers an•d Babies Party at the Possum Bend .
Nursing Center entertained 68 guests. The nurses, Miss Kelly
and Miss Int-Hout, served pies, ginger bread, graham crackers,
coffee, for the mothers and milk for the babies. The guests { ~
brought presents of onions, narcissus bulks, and "flower pots" _
of everything in bloom. I
The grounds of the Possum Bend Nursing Center have been
greatly improved by the work of the local division