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The Forgotten Frontier - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Forgotten Frontier is a 1931 documentary film about the Frontier Nursing Service, nurses on horseback, who traveled the back roads of the Appalachian Mountains. It was directed by Mary Marvin Breckinridge, and featured her cousin, Mary, who was a nurse-midwife and founded the Frontier Nursing Service. The film has been selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Forgotten_Frontier   (95 words)

Educational Items and Continuing Education The FSMFN is a division of the Frontier Nursing Service. Frontier School of Midwifery and Family Nursing, Inc. All rights reserved. Frontier School of Midwifery and Family Nursing (FSMFN) www.midwives.org /ed_items.htm   (291 words)

UW Libraries - Audio Visual Database Result Detail In the 1920's Kentuckian Mary Breckinridge began the Frontier Nursing Service to bring adequate health care to remote areas of Kentucky. To bring awareness of these problems to as many as possible, a 1930 silent film was made. www-lib.uwyo.edu /uwlibs/avdbdetail.cfm?id=1574   (74 words)

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Travel Info We'd like to take some of the guesswork out of finding your way to the Frontier School of Midwifery and Family Nursing. If interested in this service, please indicate this on the Registration form or notify the Hyden office Secretary (606-672-2312) no less than 2 weeks prior to arrival. LKLP has agreed to provide this service for FSMFN groups, who need transportation to and from the airport. www.midwives.org /progoption/CONFERENCEunderservedTRAV.shtm   (1404 words)

Frontier Nursing Service Quarterly Bulletin: Frontier School of Midwifery and Family Nursing News Accreditaion by the Commission on Colleges signifies that an institution has a purpose appropriate to higher education and has resources, programs, and services sufficient to accomplish and sustain that purpose. These comments may be submitted either directly to the National League for Nursing Accrediting Commission at 61 Broadway, 33rd Floor, New York, NY 10006 or they may be submitted directly to Dr. Susan Stone, President & Dean of FSMFN, 195 School Street, Hyden, Kentucky 41749. The commission on Colleges for the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools is the regional body for the accreditation of higher education institutions in the Southern states (Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia) and Latin America that award associate, baccalaureate, master's or doctoral degrees. www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa4050/is_200407/ai_n9432666   (886 words)

South African Military History Society - Research Help Wanted Peter Brown started his service in the Frontier Armed and Mounted Police. I am writing on behalf of a dear friend who served with the South African Military Nursing Service during WW 2. I am seeking information and photographs concerning Kaptein J J Naude' who was apparently Head of the "Spionasiekorps" (Spy Service) of the ZAR from 1901. rapidttp.com /milhist/research.html   (886 words)

Who's Who in Ridgefield CT A-F During her internship at Johns Hopkins, she worked with the Frontier Nursing Service in rural Kentucky, riding to her patients on horseback. He received a John F. Kennedy Library award in 1991 for developing creative, effective curriculum, was voted by students to Who's Who among America's Teachers, won Outstanding Teacher Awards from Tufts and the University of Chicago, and was honored in 1996 by the League of Women Voters for service to school and community. Worcester established a practice of pediatrics in New York City in the 1930s, was on the attending staff at Bellevue Hospital's Children's Medical Service from 1933 until 1968, was medical director at The New York Infirmary for many years, and was a professor of clinical pediatrics at New York University's Medical School for 38 years. www.acorn-online.com /A-F.htm   (886 words)

Lawyers Jeff Davis County Texas: Lawyers and Attorneys In their place, he offers a penetrating, frequently surprising look at the early service of some of the most outstanding leaders of the Civil War, and the creation of one of the armys most storied regiments.The Second was the armys elite. The "Lords of the Plains" reacted with furious raids against frontier settlements in Texas and Mexico.The governments answer was the Second Cavalry, created by U.S. Secretary of War Jefferson Davis. Experienced in major injury cases as well as wrongful death cases including nursing home abuse. www.edgsolicitors.co.uk /2049.html   (608 words)

Leslie County, Kentucky Leslie county is the home of the Frontier Nursing Service, headquartered in Wendover. The county was formed in 1878 and named for Governor Preston H. Leslie. It is a rugged, mountainous county with very little agriculture. www.uky.edu /KentuckyAtlas/21131d.html   (36 words)

WELCOME TO LESLIE COUNTY KENTUCKY Leslie County is probably best known for being the home of the Frontier Nursing Service which is headquartered at Wendover. The population of the county is 12, 401. Leslie County was formed in 1878 from Clay, Harlan, and Perry Counties, one of the last Kentucky counties to be formed being the 117th county. www.rootsweb.com /~kyahgp/leslie   (475 words)

Rural Expansion of Afghanistan's Community-based Healthcare (REACH) : Press Room : Stories Breckinridge, the first to bring nurse-midwifery to the United States, founded the Frontier Nursing Service (FNS), the forerunner of the Kentucky State Association of Midwives, which became the American Association of Nurse-Midwives in 1929. The first rode on horseback to help women giving birth in isolated areas of the Appalachian mountains in eastern Kentucky; the second delivered babies of Afghan refugees and braved the rough terrain of northern Afghanistan to train others to do the same. Two women: One, an American, born in 1881; one, an Afghan born 80 years later in Ghorban, Parwan province, Afghanistan, both tied together by one common goal. www.msh.org /afghanistan/6.2c.htm   (812 words)

Wendover, Kentucky Wendover, in central Leslie county, was founded in 1925 by Mary Breckinridge as her home and the headquarters of the Frontier Nursing Service. It is located on the Middle Fork of the Kentucky River about two miles south of Hyden. www.uky.edu /KentuckyAtlas/ky-wendover.html   (40 words)

National Women's Hall of Fame - Women of the Hall Wald created public health nursing services for many groups, and established the Public Health Nurses, known today as Visiting Nurse Service. She later became the nation's first woman airline captain, also at Frontier Airlines. Poet, dramatist, satirist and historian Mercy Otis Warren was widely known for using her pen to share her strong political views. www.greatwomen.org /women.php?action=viewProfile&letter=W   (960 words)

American Women Through Time Mary Breckinridge organizes Frontier Nursing Service to provide health care to remote areas of Eastern Kentucky. Florence Sabin becomes the first female member of the National Academy of Sciences. The Florence R. Sabin Papers as part of its Profiles in Science site. www.mtsu.edu /~kmiddlet/history/women/wh-20s.html   (1154 words)

AllRefer.com - Hyden, Kentucky (KY) (Leslie County) - (village) - Facts and Information Seat of Frontier Nursing Service Hosp., including Wendover Big House (1925), to W. Buckhorn L. reservoir and State Resort Park to N. Est. Leslie co., SE Ky., 12 mi/19 km WSW of Hazard, in Cumberland Mts., on Middle Fork Kentucky R., surrounded by Daniel Boone Natl. AllRefer.com - Hyden, Kentucky (KY) (Leslie County) - (village) - Facts and Information reference.allrefer.com /gazetteer/H/H06276-hyden.html   (161 words)

Medical History Books 1987 The Frontier Nursing Service oral history project : an annotated guide. Porter, R. Mind-forg'd manacles : a history of madness in England from the Restoration to the Regency. Catalogue of the papers and correspondence of Rodney Robert Porter, CH, FRS, (1917-1985) deposited in the Bodleian Library, Oxford. www.medlina.com /medical_history_books_1987.htm   (5537 words)

History Matters Search Presents oral histories pertaining to Supreme Court Justice Stanley F. Reed, U.S. Senator John Sherman Cooper, the Frontier Nursing Service, American military veterans, Appalachian fiddlers, and the transition of an area from farming to an industrial economy. Senator Robert F. Kennedy’s trip to South Africa in June 1966 to protest that country’s system of apartheid and support efforts to combat it, is amply documented on this site with texts, audio files, film clips, and photographs. Includes photographic collections of renowned photographer Russell Lee, who documented health conditions resulting from coal industry practices; Roy Stryker, head of the Farm Security Administration photographic project; and others that provide images of a variety of cities, towns, schools, camps, and disappearing cultures. www.historymatters.gmu.edu /search.php?function=find&topsouth=1&wwwhist=1   (5537 words)

Mary Breckinridge Before Mary Breckinridge began the Frontier Nursing Service (FNS), childbirth was primitive in remote, rural areas. Mary Breckinridge's first husband died prematurely and left her a widow in 1906 at only twenty-six years old. Her father was minister to Russia under President Grover Cleveland from 1894-1897. www.kytales.com /mbreck/mbreck.html   (5537 words)

Kentucky Historical Society News-Press Release-About KHS Past honorees include former state Senator Georgia Powers, Olympic swimmer Mary T. Meagher Plant, and Frontier Nursing Service founder Mary Breckinridge. This Exhibit honors Kentucky women and their lifetime achievements, therefore, nominees should have reached the pinnacle of their careers or other chosen pursuits. To get a copy of the nomination form and to learn more about the program, please visit the KCW web site at history.ky.gov /About_KHS/KHS_News_kcw.htm   (214 words)

Leslie County, Kentucky The Frontier Nursing Service has its headquarters in Wendover, just south of Hyden. Search the Gazetteer for features in Leslie county: www.uky.edu /KentuckyAtlas/21131.html   (70 words)

This Week in the Civil War October 12,1862 John Schofield leads his newly denominated Army of the Frontier, "the combined forces of Missouri and Kansas," to Elkhorn Tavern, Arkansas. John B. Gordon, received acclaim for nursing her husband, wounded five times at Antietam, back to health despite grievous injuries. In Lee's army, Longstreet, in a tribute to his distinguished service as Lee's "Old War Horse," is to be the senior lieutenant-general, ranking "Stonewall" Jackson by one day. www.civilweek.com /1862/oct1262.htm   (3573 words)

Carol Crowe-Carraco Professional Page History Department WKU I am also writing biographies of Mary Breckinridge, the founder of the Kentucky Frontier Nursing Service, entitled "Cry for the Children: Mary Brekinridge and FNS" and Fanny Andrews, a Georgia classical botanist. Furthermore, I am completing an essay on Kentucky antebellum silversmiths and producing slide shows on Vita Sackville West's garden at Sissinghurst and on Regency novelist Georgette Heyer. I am a frequent speaker across the state for civic and professional organizations. www.wku.edu /Dept/Academic/AHSS/History/crowecarraco.htm   (3573 words)

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