PERSPECTIVESEditorial
From the managing editor
In 1944, at age 17, my grandmother, Delma Kerley, joined the United States Cadet Nurse Corps through Grace Hospital in Banner Elk, N.C. The U.S. government established the program in 1943 to ensure that the country had enough nurses to care for patients both on the home front and at war. The Cadet Nurse Corps greatly increased our country’s number of nursing students, led to greater public recognition for nurses, and changed how nurses were educated and trained.
Soothing the soul
I have two best friends and both of them are healers.
I met the first in fifth-grade homeroom years ago. There was this quality that I couldn’t understand at the time which drew me to her. Now I know that it was her definite sense of self and her drive to get the most out of every minute. She had big glasses just like mine and a kind heart. We were attached at the hip most of the way through middle school and high school.
SML is looking for your photos
Smoky Mountain Living prominently features images from across the southern Appalachians in each edition. Photo essays adhere to the issue’s overall theme.
