Recalling Bright Careers

countless others in their careers in nursing.

These brave ladies overcame many obstacles to follow their various paths to caring for others. War, families, and household expenses were just some of those hurdles and they handled each with the strength and determination to see their dream realized.

Dorothy Porter, now 95, remembered her early days in nursing. “I began by doing six months of nursing with public health,” she said, “and then I decided it was time for a move.”

That move was to a more than 20-year career as School Nurse. “They were so cute,” she remembered, “and there were a lot of them! Connie Rostad was