Saturday, May 11, 2013

North Carolina Nurses at Top of Class, 1940


“N.C. Nurses Tops in Exam in Virginia” From The Carolina Times, Durham, May  11, 1940. This issue is online at http://library.digitalnc.org/cdm/compoundobject/collection/newspapers/id/17112/rec/1

In the Richmond News, it was learned that from a number of white nurses and eight colored nurses of St. Philip's Hospital in Richmond, Va., who took mid-term State Board Exam in March, Miss Julia Porter of Asheville, N.C., averaged above 95 percent and received the gold seal, and Miss Margaret Bass of 701 Linwood Avenue, Durham, averaged second highest percentage. Miss Bass, R.N., is now employed in St. Philip’s Hospital, Richmond, Va.

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