TWO GIRLS WIN
ECUSTA NURSES - SCHOLARSHIP
Left to right: Miss Helen Kathleen McCrary, Mr. J. B. Jones and Miss
Sallie Marie Graveley.
Two more Transyl
vania girls have been
selected for Ecusta
Scholarships for train
ing as nurses by the
Nursing Scholarship
Committee. This brings
to a total of four the
number of Transylvania
girls who have been
chosen under the pro
gram started last year.
The newly-selected
girls are Sallie Marie
Graveley and Helen
Kathleen McCrary.
Both girls have been
accepted for training
at Charity Hospital,
New Orleans, which is
connected with Louisi
ana State University.
They will begin the
three-year course of
training in September as pre-clinical students.
She has prepared herself from an early age for a
nursing career, influenced by an aunt whose work
as a nurse she greatly admired. Helen concentrated
in school on courses that would help—General
Science, Biology, Latin. She intends to major in
surgical nursing and, like Sallie, hopes to return
to fransylvania County to follow her career.
The two previous recipients of Ecusta Nursing
Scholarships are Dorothea Jo Price, who entered
the Memorial Mission School of Nursing at Ashe
ville, in September, 1950, and Sarah Mull, who
entered the same school last March. Miss Price
was capped in February and Miss Mull is due for
her cap next month. Both are graduates of Bre
vard High School.
Under the Ecusta program, the Committee of
Transylvania County Citizens which selects the
scholarship recipients is composed of the Super
intendent of Transylvania Schools, the County
Health Nurse, the President of Transylvania
County Medical Association, and the President of
the Transylvania Ministerial Association.
The same members have served on the commit
tee since the program was started last year. They
are: Mr. J. B. Jones, Mrs. Jessie Lollis, Dr. J. B.
Lynch, and Rev. B. W. Thomason.
Officials of the company express the hope that
the scholarship program will provide an incentive
and needed help for girls of high character and
ability who have a desire to prepare themselves
for the nursing profession.
The program was undertaken by Ecusta in the
belief that the community as a whole, including
the Ecusta Paper Corporation and its employees,
will benefit as a result. One benefit is seen in the
likelihood that more well-qualified and well-
trained nurses will become available in the com
munity as the program goes on.
It is pointed out, however, that scholarships are
granted without any condition requiring or ex
pecting that recipients necessarily will return to
this area to practice nursing.
After next year, when the third pair of girls is
selected, there will be six girls, attending school
each year with the aid of these Ecusta scholarships.
After six months they will become uniformed
nurses and, upon successful completion of the
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