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North Carolina's Heroes of Healing | Appalachian Today


North Carolina’s Heroes of Healing
A close-up of the Appalachian State University scrubs worn by Mountaineer nursing students. Photo by Marie Freeman
“All of nursing is focused on caring for others to make the world a better place.”
Dr. Phoebe Pollitt, an App State retired associate professor of nursing
Dr. Phoebe Pollitt. Photo by Marie Freeman
The Nurse Historian
As a nurse, educator, and historian of nursing, Phoebe Pollitt has spent her career studying and celebrating the accomplishments of nurses past and present. After receiving her bachelor’s degree in nursing from UNC Chapel Hill, Pollitt worked as a home health nurse and as the first school nurse in Watauga County, where she focused on tobacco and teen pregnancy prevention. She went on to earn two master’s degrees and holds a PhD in curriculum and instruction from UNC Greensboro. She is the author of nearly 50 articles, three books, and numerous presentations, many of which tell the stori ....

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Longtime Lower Moreland HS Teacher, Lawrence Leong, Passes Away


UpdatedThu, Mar 4, 2021 at 4:12 pm ET
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Lawrence K. Leong, 81, of Lower Moreland, was a dedicated family man and longtime teacher. (Courtesy of family)
Obituary submitted by family
LOWER MORELAND, PA Lawrence K. Leong beloved husband, father, and teacher passed away peacefully in his sleep on the morning of February 12, 2021. He was at his home in Huntingdon Valley, Pennsylvania, with his whole family, wife Lee and sons Kevin and Davin. He was eighty-one.
Born in Singapore to his father Yong Mon Leong and mother Yin Peng Lee, Larry grew up the eldest of four children. He was a natural teacher and lifelong learner, studying at Singapore s Raffles Institution and Teachers Training College before traveling, in 1964, to the United States ( with forty dollars in my pocket ) to pursue more study with the help of contacts from his home church, Life Bible-Presbyterian Church. ....

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Anna Deavere Smith on Forging Black Identity in 1968


The Atlantic
We Were the Last of the Nice Negro Girls
In 1968, history found us at a small women’s college, forging our Black identity and empowering our defiance.
This article was published online on February 9, 2021.
My high-school counselor at Western High School, an all-girls public school in Baltimore, was a rotund white woman with a pleasant but less than energetic countenance. She was wholly absent from my education until one day, after rumblings about affirmative action in colleges had begun shaking the ground that Negroes traversed to higher education, she suddenly summoned my mother and me for a meeting. My mother, a veteran teacher in Baltimore’s public schools, took the afternoon off. We sat in the high-ceilinged counseling office, prim and proper as can be, while the counselor showed us one pamphlet after another with images of white girls in sweater sets relaxing in bucolic environments. ....

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