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5 FIELD NOTES
g Kitty Ernst, a dear friend and one of our Governors, was
l seriously injured in an automobile accident near her home on
2 Friday afternoon, February 29. She is in the Grandview Hospital
* in Sellersville, Pennsylvania 18960, where she has been undergo-
l ing treatment and surgery. Reports of Kitty’s condition are
  encouraging, a long convalescence lies ahead; our thoughts and
prayers are with her.
. Al Smith, a Trustee, was designated by President Carter last
’ October to till the position of federal co-chairman of the Ap-
‘  palachian Regional Commission. His appointment was con-
C  iirmed by the Senate on December 19, 1979.
c  Helen Connors and Brenda Mills, the American Nurses’
V Association site visitors were here in late January. The Family
  Nurse Practitioner Program has since been accredited for another
3 years by theANA; we were credited with having an "outstan-
—  ding" program.
_  Dean Marion McKenna of the University of Kentucky College
A of Nursing came the second week of February to discuss the
,  affiliation with the FSMFN.
‘ Ruth Lubic, General Director of Maternity Center Association,
 . and Lorette Beck, Chairperson of the Department of Midwifery at
Q  Downstate Medical Center College of the Health Related
 _ Professions, both members of the FNS National Nursing Council,
_ were here two days in late March as consultants to FSMFN Dean
1  Lydia DeSantis. The FNS has close ties to these two New York
. organizations. Rose McNaught, an FNS Nurse-Midwife, was the
first instructor at Maternity Center Association’s School of Nurse-
Midwifery and MCA has been associated with the Downstate
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i  Even during the winter months, Wendover sees guests from all
A  over the United States and the world. Eugenia Nillas, a district
,  nurse from near Quezon City, the Philippines, was here for two
  weeks to observe and take back with her some ofthe lessons of our
j  rural health care demonstration. Helen Browne, "Brownie", was
  here for a few short days after the Executive meeting ofthe Board
,  on November 30th. We received a visit from Dr. and Mrs.
C Bosomworth in early December (Dr. Bosomworth is Director of
`  Medical Services at the University of Kentucky Hospital and was
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