Joan Miller

JoAnn Miller

b. 1929, Arp, Texas, ABŞ, d. 7 Noyabr 2004, Granbury, Texas, ABŞ. 1949 -cu ildə Texas Qadın Universitetindən məzun olan Miller, 50 -ci illərin əvvəllərində Columbia Kollecində təhsilini davam etdirmək üçün Nyu Yorka getdi. …
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b. 1929, Arp, Texas, ABŞ, d. 7 Noyabr 2004, Granbury, Texas, ABŞ. 1949 -cu ildə Texas Qadın Universitetindən məzun olan Miller, 50 -ci illərin əvvəllərində Columbia Kollecində təhsilini davam etdirmək üçün Nyu Yorka getdi. Bu vaxta qədər, o, klublarda və bir neçə il ərzində mahnı oxumağa başlamışdı və aparıcı agent Joe Glaser tərəfindən idarə olundu, yay səhmdar cəmiyyətlərində fəaliyyət göstərmək, reklam üçün səsli səslər yazmaq da daxil olmaqla tam bir ifa cədvəlinə sahib idi. otellərin uzun turlarında mahnı oxuyur. Sonrakı onillikdə o, 1968 -ci il Karnavalı və Pal Joey və Oh, Kapitan! 70 -ci illərin əvvəllərində "Never Too Late" filmini gəzdi və 1974 -cü ildə Texas Worth -da səhnələşdirilən Qaraçı istehsalında Gisele MacKenzie ilə oynadı. Məhz o zaman Granbury'de məskunlaşaraq doğma ştatında məskunlaşmağa qərar verdi. Bir neçə il hər il qurucusu olduğu Texasdakı Granbury Opera Evində çıxış etdi. Opera Evi ilə əlaqəsi əhəmiyyətli idi və 1974 -cü ildən etibarən 20 ildən artıqdır ki, tanıtım və fandreyzinq, eləcə də kastinq, prodüserlik və rejissorluq işlərində pərdəarxasında fəallıq göstərərək onun işığı hesab olunurdu. Orada olduğu müddətdə Miller, ulduz olacağı bir konsert və ya revyu da daxil olmaqla hər il bir çox fərqli əsərin səhnələşdirilməsindən məsuldur. 1990-cı ildə, Jo Ann Miller: Miss keçirilmiş bir gənclik haqqında düşüncələr ilə tamaşaçıları sevindirdi. 2001 -ci ilin əvvəllərində insult keçirərək qocalar evinə köçdü.

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Gəzintini maliyyələşdirmək üçün tələb olunan 80.000 dolların çoxu diqqət çəkən şüarı olan 15.000 köynək satışından gəldi: A QADIN & rsquoS YERİ YÜKSƏDƏ. Bəzi tərəfdarları üçün, köynəklər güclü qadınların həm dağlarda, həm də cəmiyyətdə ən yüksək yerlərə qalxa biləcəyini düşündükləri ortaya çıxan bir zeitgeisti əks etdirir.

BLUM: Oğlanlarla birlikdə ekspedisiyalara gedəndə onların ofisləri və katibələri olurdu. Gələn hər kəslə birlikdə pul yığmağı özümüz etdik
və könüllü olaraq. Bu ev, Berkeleydəki Indian Rock Road -da, Christy rsquos treyleri ilə ön həyətdə park edilmişdi. T-shirt mərkəzi idi.

TEWS: San Fransiskoda köhnə evlərin santexnika işlərində yarımçıq işlədim. Qalan vaxtlarda köynək satdım. Ölkə boyu bu sərgilərə getdim. QADIN & rsquoS YERİNİN ÜSTÜNDƏ olduğunu deyən köynəklərimiz vardı, sonra isə yalnız ANNAPURNA deyən köynəklərimiz vardı, çünki ekspedisiyanın bəzi üzvləri ikiqat yoldan utanırdılar. İnsanların bu köynəklərdən birini istəmək üçün öz şəxsi səbəbləri var idi. Bu böyük adamlar keçib mənə yuxarı -aşağı baxıb deyərdilər: "Bəli, balam, onlardan birini istəyirəm". & Rdquo

AĞ EV: O zaman T-shirt geyinməyi xoşlamırdım. Bu pul yığma partiyalarında, bu loqoya cinsi məna verməyə çalışacaq qəribə uşaqlar alırsınız. Və onlardan əl çəkmək mənim üçün rahat deyildi.

TAYLOR: Şüar haqqında düşündüyüm zaman ağlıma gələn bu dağılmış və mdasha gizli səsi birdən -birə dağların üstündən qışqırılmasıdır: & LdquoBir qadın və rsquo yer üstdədir və biz bu dağın zirvəsinə çatacağıq! & Rdquo

(soldan) Mingma Tshering Sherpa, Chewang Rinjing Sherpa və Irene Miller (Şəkil: Arlene Blum)

1978 -ci ilin avqustuna qədər Annapurna üzərində yalnız səkkiz alpinist dayanmışdı. Qalxma zamanı 9 alpinist həlak olmuşdu. Və hələ zirvəyə gedən cəmi üç marşrut var idi. Nəhayət, Blum şimal üzündəki az tanınan Hollandiya qabırğasına yerləşdi, demək olar ki, bir il əvvəl, 1977-ci ilin oktyabrında, 11 Hollandiyalı alpinist və doqquz Sherpa heyəti ilə öncül oldu. Hollandiya komandasının lideri Xander Verrijn-Stuart daha sonra marşrutu təsvir edəcək Amerika Alp Jurnalı dağın o tərəfindəki digər, daha təhlükəli yollara & ldquosafe & rdquo alternativi olaraq. Blum və komandası tezliklə bunun əksini öyrənəcəklər.

BLUM: Annapurna 8000 metrlik zirvəyə qalxdı. Aşağılardan biri idi. Buranın nə qədər təhlükəli olduğunu bilmədim: kifayət qədər tarixə malik deyildi. Kəşfiyyatımız 1977 -ci ilin dekabrında, hər şeyin donub qaldığı vaxt idi. İlin digər vaxtlarında uçqunların nə qədər pis olduğunu başa düşsəydim, ora getməyəcəyimizi düşünürəm.

LHAKPA NORBU SHERPA (1977-ci ildə Blum & rsquos ekspedisiyasına qoşulan Hollandiya Qabırğasının ilk yüksəlişində 21 yaşlı işçi): O uçqunlar çox qorxunc idi və bu risklər küləkli olduğu üçün bizi də təhlükəli bir silsiləyə qalxmağa məcbur etdi.

MICHAEL KENNEDY (keçmiş baş redaktor Alpinist, Neil Beidleman, Veikka Gustafsson və Ed Viesturs ilə birlikdə 2000 -ci ildə Hollandiya Qabırğasını sınayan): Annapurna və rsquos şimal üzünün miqyası, əslində orda olana qədər başını sarmağın çox çətin olduğu bir şeydir. Holland Rib üçün olduqca inamlı bir buz tırmanıcısı olmalısan. Ancaq əslində çətin olan üzün nə qədər böyük olmasıdır. Düşdüyünüz və sərt qarın üstündə olsanız, uzun bir gəzintiyə çıxacağınız ərazi növüdür.

Hollandiya qabırğasının dalğalı zirvəsinə qalxaraq, komanda yumşaq, qeyri -sabit qar və nəhəng kornişlərlə üzləşdi. (Şəkil: Arlene Blum)

Yetmişli illərin ortalarında, alp tipli dırmaşma və mdashsmall qrupları, əlavə oksigen, yüksək yüksəklikdə dayaq heyəti və ya sabit iplər və mdash olmadan sürətli və yüngül şəkildə hərəkət edir və 8000 metrlik zirvələrə yayılmağa başlayır. Blum, bir qrupun bir çox düşərgəyə qədər böyük miqdarda qida, yanacaq və dişli daşımasını tələb edən daha ənənəvi bir mühasirə yanaşması üzərində dayandı.

Qərar, komandanın ideallarının praktik tətbiqi ilə bağlı erkən qarşıdurmalarla üzləşdiyini ifadə etdi: Ekspedisiyasını 1920 -ci illərdə kişilərin ordudan gətirdikləri taktikaya əsasladıqları nə demək idi? Bütün cinslərdən olan alpinistlər üçün, 70 -ci illərin əks -mədəniyyət hərəkatı, tək bir avtoritar liderə söyüş və utancaqlıq ənənələrinə qarşı müqavimət göstərdi. Komandanın birləşməsinin vacib olacağını bilən Blum, qrupun psixoloq Karin Carrington ilə görüşməsini təşkil etdi. Bir sessiyada alpinist Joan Firey, Bluma rəhbərlik etmək qabiliyyətinə tam etibar etmədiyini söylədi. Digərləri, "qərarsız və rdquo" lideri olacağını, həm də əhatəli, konsensus əsaslı bir modelə uyğun işlədiyini ümid etdiklərini söylədi.

BLUM: Alpinistlərdə çox fərdilik var. Düşündüm ki, qadınlar daha az olacaq, amma Annapurna kimi bir dağa çıxmaq istəyən hər kəsin şəxsi həyatı çoxdur.

TEWS: Həyatında bir -biriylə bir daha danışmayan ekspedisiyalardakı kişilər haqqında hekayələr var idi. Və həqiqətən qaçmaq istədiyimiz bir şey idi.

BLUM: Dostluğumuzu qorumaq dağa qalxmaq qədər vacib idi.

KARIN CARRINGTON (komanda psixoloqu): Bir çox mübahisə var idi, Qadınların daha çox işbirliyi etməsinə yönəlmiş alternativ bir liderlik yolu nədir və eyni zamanda bu işdə həlledici bir səsin təhlükəsizliyini təmin edir, Arlene & rsquos & mdashto ekstremal şəraitdə zəng edir? Necə Annapurna keçmişdə bütün kişilərdən ibarət olan ekspedisiyaların təkrarı deyil, həm də qadın və rsquos məkanına çevrilir?

TAYLOR: Bəzilərimiz kişilərdən və kişilərin liderlik tərzlərindən tamamilə müstəqil olmaq istəyirdik. Ancaq geri qaytara biləcəyimiz çoxlu sənədlər yox idi. Ekspedisiya formatı kişilər tərəfindən hazırlanmışdır.

RUSMORE: Dırmaşma vəziyyəti 1978 -ci ildə alp üslubunun norması olsaydı, fərqli bir tırmanış olardı. Ancaq Arlene müvəffəqiyyətli olduğumuzdan əmin olmaq istəyirdi. Biz o vaxt dağçılıq normalarını artıq pozmuşduq. Bəlkə də hər şeyi götürməmək yaxşı bir fikirdi.

TAYLOR: Bəzilərimiz üçün hər şeyi səthə çıxarmaq və getdiyimiz kimi işləmək lazım idi. Digərləri buna nifrət edirdi. Arlene səylə demokratik və əhatəli bir prosesin qapısını açmağa çalışırdı.

Dostluğumuzu qorumaq dağa qalxmaq qədər vacib idi.

8000 metrlik ekspedisiyaların bir çox lideri kimi, Blum da köməklərinin təhlükəsizlik marjasını artıracağını düşünərək Sherpa işçilərini işə götürməyə qərar verdi. Bununla da, komandasının kişilərin köməyinə güvəndiyini tənqid edə biləcəyini bilirdi. O vaxt yüksək dağlıq təcrübəsi olan Sherpa qadınları çox az idi. Blum, aşağı səviyyəli qadın qapıçıları işə götürməyi və onlara dırmaşmağı öyrətməyi ümid edirdi, amma sirrin əvəzinə iki qadın və mdashPasang Yangin Sherpa və Ang Dai Sherpa və mdashto mətbəx köməkçisi seçdiyini öyrənəndə məyus oldu.

Blum & rsquos Annapurna ekspedisiyasında işləyən Sherpa kişilərindən bəziləri Sherpa qadınlarının olmasını alqışladı. Digərləri, qadınların dağdakı kişi işçilərini yerdəyişdirə biləcəyindən narahat olaraq narahat oldular. Nəhayət, Blum Sherpa qadınlarına yüksəkliyə dırmaşma bacarıqlarını öyrətməkdən əl çəkdi və onları evlərinə erkən göndərdi. Pasang Yangin və Ang Dai, iş itkisinə görə qəzəbləndilər.

BLUM: Nepal qadınlarının komanda üzvü olması və Sherpalarımızın qadın olması fikri xoşuma gəldi. Ancaq Sherpa birliyi bunu heç istəmirdi. İşə götürülən qadınlar var idi, amma onlar həqiqətən dırmaşmaq üçün deyil, paltar və qab -qacaq kimi işlərlə məşğul olurdular. İndi əlbəttə ki, Nepal qadınları və rsquos ekspedisiyaları var. Ancaq bu fikir, ehtimal ki, 70-ci illərin ortalarında Nepal üçün vaxtından qabaq idi.

AĞ EV: Sherpa qadınları çətin vəziyyətə düşdülər, çünki üstün olmaq üçün seçildilər, lakin hələ də arxa plana, tırmanma qabiliyyətinə malik deyildilər. Arlene, fərqli olmalarını və bacardıqlarından fərqli olaraq ifa etmələrini istəyirdi. Düşünürəm ki, Sherpas'ı komandanın üzvləri hesab etməyə çalışmaqda ümumiyyətlə yaxşı idi, baxmayaraq ki, kimsə və rsquos pul alanda hər zaman fərqlidir.

LOPSANG TSHERING SHERPA (38 yaşlı sirdar): Sirdar işinin təklif olunmasından xoşbəxt idim, amma xoşbəxtliyimin bunun bir qadın və rsquos ekspedisiyası olması ilə heç bir əlaqəsi yox idi. Pul qazanmaq üçün bir fürsət idi. Bilirdim ki, Himalay dağlarına dırmaşmağa gələn qadınlar alpinistlərdir. Gəldikləri yerdə də qar və buz vardı.

CHEWANG RINJING SHERPA (32 yaşlı yüksəklik heyəti): Xarici qadınlara baxanda özümə inam hiss etmədim. Mike Cheney-ə [Blum & rsquos Katmandu mərkəzli ekspedisiya ustası] dedim ki, baza düşərgəsinə gedəcəklərinə əmin deyiləm. Qəzəbləndi. & LdquoDağa çıxmağı bacarsalar, bu yolla gələ bilərdilərmi? & rdquo dedi. Bundan sonra susdum.

MINGMA TSHERING SHERPA (24 yaşlı yüksəklik heyəti): Mən həmişə dağa getməyin risklərini düşünürdüm. Ekspedisiyanın fərqli olacağı, yoxsa alpinistlərin zirvəyə çıxa biləcəyi və mdashBunu əvvəllər heç düşünmədim & shyhand. Bu qədər sadə dağlılar qrupu idi.

Pokhara'dan baza düşərgəsinə qədər olan on günlük yolda hamalçılar (Şəkil: Arlene Blum)

Joan Miller ’s Xərçənglə Mübarizə

Hamınızın bildiyiniz kimi, anam (və bu bloqun yaradıcısı/saxlayıcısı) uzun müddət xərçənglə mübarizədən sonra dünyasını dəyişdi.

Aşağıdakı nekroloqundan tam mətni əlavə etdim. Joan üçün bir qonaq kitabına imza atmaq istəyirsinizsə, qəzetlərin nekroloqunu burada tapa bilərsiniz: http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/calgaryherald/obituary.aspx?n=barbara-miller&pid=162245982&fhid=5928

Bacardığım müddətcə bu bloqu idarə etməyə və saxlamağa davam edəcəyəm. Xoş sözlərə və düşüncələrə görə hər kəsə təşəkkür edirəm.

Barbara "Joan" Miller (nee Kerr), mədə xərçəngi ilə cəsarətli bir səyahətdən sonra 4 yanvar 2013 -cü ildə ailəsi ilə əhatə olunmuş Calgary'de sülh yolu ilə keçdi. 7 Mart 1953 -cü ildə Saskaçevanın Watrous şəhərində anadan olub. Babası William (Bill) Irvine və Isabel (Woodland) Irvine və Homer və Elizabeth (Wilson) Kerr, atası Edward John Kerr tərəfindən 1983 -cü ildə alındı. Joan, anası Elizabeth (Betty) I Kerr (Irvine) Calgary tərəfindən 37 illik ən yaxın dostu və sevən əri, Reg W Miller, Calgaryli oğlu Kevin Miller (Dorlisa Lam), Calgaryli Heather Miller qızı, qardaşlar, William (Bill) Kerr (Pam və qızı Yasmine) Calgary, Ellen (Kerr) Reginalı McClughan (Neil və oğlu Scott), Trail, M.Ö. qayınanası Yvonne E. Miller (nee Aumack), BC, Viktoriya, Qordon Miller (Kathy Hudspith və qızları Jessica və Kariann), BC, Trail, BC, həm də çoxsaylı bibilər, əmilər və əmiuşaqlar Hugh Miller (Gail Gabana və uşaqları Andrea, Nicholas və Joseph) baldızları.

Joan, Saskaçevanın Nokomis yaxınlığındakı Hatfilddəki PFRA otlaqında böyüdü. 3 uşağın ən böyüyü Joan, Hatfildəki bir otaqlı məktəbdə məktəbə başladı və sonra Nokomisdə 12 -ci sinfi bitirdi. Uşaqlıq fəaliyyətlərinə Qız Bələdçiləri, üzgüçülük dərsləri, "toparlanmağa" kömək etmək və əmiuşaqlarından çoxsaylı ziyarətlər daxildir. Joan təhsilini Saskatoonda orta məktəbdən sonra Biologiya Elmləri Diplomunu alaraq davam etdirdi. Joan qısa müddətdə SaskTel -də bir yoldaş vəzifəsində çalışdı və burada can yoldaşı ilə tanış oldu. 5 İyul 1975 -ci ildə Nokomis Birləşmiş Kilsəsində Reg ilə evləndi və Kevin və Heather adlı 2 övladının doğulduğu Calgary şəhərində yaşadılar.

Joan, 2009 -cu ilin payızında təqaüdə çıxaraq, 34 il Calgary Universitetində Texnolog və Laboratoriya müdiri və#8211 Tibbi Araşdırma laboratoriyalarında çalışdı. Joan, DNT texnologiyasından və sosial mediadan ənənəvi şəcərə araşdırmalarını tamamlamaq üçün istifadə edən bir genetik şəcərəçi idi. Buraya Alberta Ailə Tarixləri Cəmiyyətinin (AFHS) DNA Xüsusi Faiz Qrupunun Y-DNA layihə idarəçisi və koordinatoru da daxil idi. Genealogical Speakers Guild, International Genetic Genealogists Cəmiyyətinin və digər müxtəlif şəcərə cəmiyyətlərinin üzvü idi. Joan, Alberta Ailə Tarixi Cəmiyyəti üçün müntəzəm bir köşə yazdı və İctimaiyyətlə Əlaqələr komitəsində xidmət etdi. O, həmçinin Family Tree Magazine -in 2011 -ci ilin ən yaxşı 40 Blogu adı verilən Luxegen Genealogy Blogunu yaratdı. Rootstech 2011 -in Rəsmi Blogeri olaraq çalışdı. Joan, ailə tarixçisi və böyük hekayə danışan ana nənəsi Isabel Irvine -dən genealogiya genini miras aldı. . Babası Bill Irvine 60 il gündəlik saxladı! Nəvələrdən birinin nəsil köklərini davam etdirməkdə maraqlı olması qaçılmaz idi və bu Joan idi. Joan, 2012 -ci ilin Yanvar ayında Hörmətli Toastmaster Təyinatını alaraq müxtəlif səviyyələrdə çalışdığı Toastmaster International -da könüllü olaraq çox fəal idi. Joan mədəniyyətlərin müxtəlifliyini sevirdi və bir çox ölkəyə səyahət edərək həyatını zənginləşdirirdi. Joan, futbol, ​​xizək, qigong və yürüyüş kimi fəaliyyətlərlə dolu aktiv bir həyat sürdü. Həyatına toxunduğu hər kəs üçün darıxacaq. Ailə Tom Baker Xərçəng Mərkəzinin işçilərinə çox təşəkkür edir. Həm də onun dünyasını dəyişməsinə göstərdikləri inanılmaz qayğı və mərhəməti qəbul etmək istərdilər. Nəhayət Dr Easaw, Dr Wiens və Colleen Cathbert -ə bu səyahətdə göstərdikləri bütün qayğı və səylərə görə təşəkkür etmək istəyirlər. Çiçəklər əvəzinə, Kiva – Ailələr üçün Genealogist layihəsinə bağışlar edilə bilər və http://www.kiva.org/team/ genealogists saytında dünyanın hər yerində insanlara güc verir.

Film treyleri – Qadınlar (1939)

Qarşı Cins (1956)

Xülasə

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Invisibilia -dan Lulu Miller, 12 yaşında ikən bədəni yavaş -yavaş bağlanmağa başlayan Martin Pistoriusdan bəhs edir. For years, he was locked in his own body with nothing but his thoughts.

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MILLER: And today, we are discussing thoughts.

SPIEGEL: How to think about your thoughts. What we should think about our thoughts that we think.

MILLER: What do you think about your thoughts these days?

SPIEGEL: I think that the new way of thinking about thoughts is deeply helpful to how I think about thoughts.

MILLER: The new way being that you can just let them all go?

SPIEGEL: The idea that I don't have to take my thoughts seriously, I find deeply liberating and slightly disturbing when I think about all of the many, many hours that I and millions of people all over the country have spent trying to understand our thoughts and where they came from.

MILLER: Like all that's just time wasted?

SPIEGEL: Yeah. How do you feel about it?

MILLER: Well, I'm not sure if it's always time wasted. Like, I wonder if you can get a deeper peace if you really.

MILLER: And to show you a pretty profound example of this.

MILLER: . I want to tell you the story of Martin.

MILLER: So Martin Pistorius, in the late '70s, was a little boy growing up in South Africa. To tell his story, we're going to have to leave the question of thoughts for two or three minutes. But it will circle right on back. OK.

MILLER: But it all begins when he was 3 years old. And he marches into his parents' bedroom and tells them that when he grows up, he wants to be what he calls an electric man.

JOAN PISTORIUS: He used to insist that we buy him all sorts of electronic equipment.

RODNEY PISTORIUS: Resistors and transistors and you name it.

MILLER: These are his parents - Joan and Rodney Pistorius.

JOAN PISTORIUS: And he would build us things.

MILLER: Things like a flashing star for their Christmas tree, an alarm system to keep his little brother out of his Legos.

JOAN PISTORIUS: We had a broken plug. I thought nothing of it. I just said, Martin, please just fix the plug for me. And, I mean, here's live electricity in the house. And I'm asking a child younger than 11 to fix it. And he did.

MILLER: Where do you think he picked this up?

JOAN PISTORIUS: I have no idea. He was always going to be an electric man as he told me when he grew up. And then.

MILLER: Martin's life took an unexpected turn.

RODNEY PISTORIUS: He had just turned 12.

MILLER: He came home one day, saying he was feeling very sick.

JOAN PISTORIUS: And said, ma, I think I'm getting flu.

MILLER: But this wasn't a normal sickness. Martin began to sleep and sleep and sleep.

JOAN PISTORIUS: Like a baby, nearly all day.

MILLER: And when he woke up, he'd refuse food.

JOAN PISTORIUS: Rod used to sit there and force his mouth open. And I used to put the food in.

MILLER: He began getting nosebleeds.

JOAN PISTORIUS: So they tested him for everything under the sun from TB, Parkinson's disease, Wilson's disease, deficiency in copper, measles, and everything was negative.

MILLER: Still he got worse and worse. As the months wore on, everything about him slowly closed down. His ability to move by himself, his ability to make eye contact and finally, his ability to speak.

JOAN PISTORIUS: And the last thing he ever said because he was still in hospital was, when home. And all he wanted to know was when is he coming home? And - sorry.

RODNEY PISTORIUS: He progressively got worse, probably in the second year of his illness. He was sleeping whenever we didn't wake him up. He was permanently lying down in the fetal position.

MILLER: And a test finally came back positive.

RODNEY PISTORIUS: Cryptococcal meningitis.

MILLER: The doctors told Joan and Rodney that Martin was beyond hope.

RODNEY PISTORIUS: As good as not, they - you know, he's a vegetable. He has zero intelligence.

MILLER: They were told to take him home.

RODNEY PISTORIUS: Try and keep him comfortable until he died.

MILLER: But one year passed, and two years passed.

JOAN PISTORIUS: Martin just kept going, just kept going.

MILLER: So Joan, Rodney and their two kids did their best to care for Martin's body.

RODNEY PISTORIUS: I'd get up at 5 o'clock in the morning, get him dressed, load him in the car, take him to the Special Care Center where I'd leave him. Eight hours later, I'd pick him up, bathe him, feed him, put him in bed, set my alarm for two hours so that I'd wake up to turn him so that he didn't get bedsores.

MILLER: All throughout the night?

RODNEY PISTORIUS: Yeah. Every two hours, I'd get up and turn him over and then get a little bit of sleep. And at 5 o'clock the next morning, I'd start the same cycle.

MILLER: That was their lives.

RODNEY PISTORIUS: Load him in the car, drop him off, pick him up.

MILLER: Three years turn to four.

RODNEY PISTORIUS: Bathe him, feed him, put him in bed.

MILLER: Four years turn to five.

RODNEY PISTORIUS: Five o'clock the next morning, I'd start the same cycle.

MILLER: Six years. Seven years.

RODNEY PISTORIUS: Load him in the car, drop him off, pick him up.

RODNEY PISTORIUS: Load him in the car, drop him off, pick him up.

JOAN PISTORIUS: This was so horrific.

MILLER: Joan remembers vividly going up to him one time and saying.

JOAN POSTORIUS: I hope you die. I know that's a horrible thing to say. I just wanted some sort of relief.

RODNEY PISTORIUS: Load him in the car, drop him off, pick him up.

MILLER: Was there any life inside?

RODNEY PISTORIUS: I was not certain.

MILLER: It was impossible to know.

JOAN PISTORIUS: In my mind, I'd decided he'd died.

MARTIN PISTORIUS: Yes, I was there, not from the very beginning, but about two years into my vegetative state, I began to wake up.

MARTIN PISTORIUS: Yes, using the grid to speak.

MILLER: The grid is just a computer keyboard that allows him to quickly choose words and then have the computer read them out loud.

MILLER: Now, I will get to how he regained consciousness and developed the ability to operate a keyboard and the wheelchair that he uses to get around. But what you need to know is that for about eight years, while all the world thought that Martin was gone, he was wide awake.

MARTIN PISTORIUS: I was aware of everything, just like any normal person.

MILLER: He thinks he woke up about four years after he first fell ill, so when he was about 16 years old.

MARTIN PISTORIUS: I suppose a good way to describe it is like an out-of-focus image. At first you have no idea what it is, but slowly it comes into focus until you can see it in crystal clarity.

MILLER: And somewhere in this reawakening to the world, Martin realized, to his horror, that he couldn't move his body. He couldn't even speak.

MARTIN PISTORIUS: I stared at my arm, willing it to move. Every bit of me condenses into this moment.

MILLER: Martin would later write a book about this called "Ghost Boy: My Escape From A Life Locked Inside My Own Body." And this is him reading a passage about one night when he tried as hard as he could to get his father's attention.

MARTIN PISTORIUS: (Reading) I am sitting in my bed. My heart is beating as my father undresses me. I want him to know, to understand that I've returned to him.

MILLER: But nothing in his body would obey.

MARTIN PISTORIUS: My father doesn't recognize me.

MILLER: It went like this again and again - attempt.

MARTIN PISTORIUS: Dad, can't you see?

MILLER: . And failure, attempt and failure.

MARTIN PISTORIUS: Everyone was so used to me not being there that they didn't notice when I began to be present again.

MILLER: Though he could see and understand everything, it didn't matter.

MARTIN PISTORIUS: The stark reality hit me that I was going to spend the rest of my life like that - totally alone.

MILLER: And when he finally accepts this, that he truly is trapped, he said it was like something broke open in his mind. And it unleashed a fury of thoughts.

MARTIN PISTORIUS: I am totally alone. You are pathetic. You are powerless. You will be alone forever - alone forever - alone forever.

MILLER: He said the thoughts literally battered him.

MARTIN PISTORIUS: You are doomed.

MARTIN PISTORIUS: Your family doesn't see you anymore. You will never get out.

MILLER: So here is another man overrun by thoughts.

MARTIN PISTORIUS: You will never get out. You are pathetic, powerless, totally alone.

MILLER: But unlike the rest of us, he can't call a friend to talk about it. He can't go on a run to clear his head. He can't even move his position in his chair. He is trapped in his head. And so what does he do? Well, one day he just intuitively invents the very therapeutic technique that so helped the man in our last story, S. Martin just starts detaching from his thoughts.

MARTIN PISTORIUS: No one will ever show me kindness. You can never get out.

MILLER: He refuses to engage them and lets them all just float by. And he says he got really good at it.

MARTIN PISTORIUS: You don't really think about anything. You simply exist.

MILLER: Can you describe what that feels like? I wonder, is it peaceful, or.

MARTIN PISTORIUS: No, I wouldn't say it is peaceful. It's a very dark place to find yourself because, in a sense, you are allowing yourself to vanish. Days, if not weeks, can go by as I close myself down and become entirely black within - a nothingness that is washed and fed, lifted from wheelchair to bed.

MILLER: Sometimes the nurses were careless with him. They'd pour scalding hot tea down his throat or leave him in cold baths sitting all alone. One of the nurses even began to intentionally abuse him.

MARTIN PISTORIUS: You are powerless.

MILLER: But instead of allowing himself to feel the sting of these thoughts.

MARTIN PISTORIUS: I sit for hours each day staring blankly into space.

MILLER: Though there was one thought he'd allow himself to engage and savor.

MARTIN PISTORIUS: I prayed and wished with all my might to die.

MILLER: So that, my friend, was his experience of letting thoughts go.

(SOUNDBITE OF CLOCK TICKING)

MILLER: Though, occasionally there were these things.

(SOUNDBITE OF TV SHOW, "BARNEY AND FRIENDS")

UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR: (As Barney) You can always count on having a fun day when you spend it with the people you love.

MILLER: . These things that provided a kind of motivation, like "Barney."

(SOUNDBITE OF TV SHOW, "BARNEY AND FRIENDS")

UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR: (As Barney, singing) I love you. You love me.

MARTIN PISTORIUS: I cannot even express to you how much I hated Barney.

(SOUNDBITE OF TV SHOW, "BARNEY AND FRIENDS")

UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR: (As Barney, singing) We're a happy family.

MILLER: See, since all the world thought that Martin was basically a vegetable, they would leave him propped up in front of the TV watching "Barney" reruns hour after hour, episode after episode, day after day.

(SOUNDBITE OF TV SHOW, "BARNEY AND FRIENDS")

UNIDENTIFIED CHILDREN: (Singing) John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt.

MILLER: And one day, he decided he'd had enough. He needed to know what time it was because if he could know what time it was, he could know when it would end and, specifically, how much closer he was to his favorite moment in the day.

MARTIN PISTORIUS: Simply to make it to when I was taken out of my wheelchair and that for a brief moment, the aches and pains in my body could subside.

MILLER: Now, the problem was that Martin was rarely seated near a clock. So he calls upon these old allies - these thoughts - to help him carefully study the lengths of the shadows.

MARTIN PISTORIUS: I would watch how the sun moved across the room or how a shadow moved throughout the day.

MILLER: And he begins to match what he sees with little bits of information he's able to collect - what he hears on the television, a radio report, a nurse mentioning the time. It was a puzzle to solve, and he did it. Within a few months, he could read the shadows like a clock.

MARTIN PISTORIUS: Yes, I can still tell the time of day by the shadows.

MILLER: It was his first semblance of control. Simply knowing where he was in the day gave him the sense of being able to climb through it.

MILLER: And this experience ultimately led him to start thinking about his thoughts differently.

MARTIN PISTORIUS: I think your thoughts are integrated - connected and part of you.

MILLER: He realized that they could help him, and so he starts listening to them again.

MARTIN PISTORIUS: I'd have conversations with myself and other people in my head.

MILLER: And if a particularly dark thought came up.

MARTIN PISTORIUS: You are pathetic, powerless.

MILLER: . He'd try to contend with it. Like one time, shortly after having the drool wiped from his chin by a nurse.

MARTIN PISTORIUS: You are pathetic.

MILLER: He happened to notice a song playing on the radio.

MARTIN PISTORIUS: Whitney Houston was singing the "Greatest Love Of All." In the song, she says, no matter what they take from me, they can't take away my dignity.

(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "GREATEST LOVE OF ALL")

WHITNEY HOUSTON: (Singing) They can't take away my dignity.

MARTIN PISTORIUS: I sat there and thought, you want to bet?

(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "GREATEST LOVE OF ALL")

HOUSTON: (Singing) Because the greatest.

MILLER: The point is reengaging with his thoughts transformed his world. Life began to have purpose.

MARTIN PISTORIUS: Oh, absolutely. I would literally live in my imagination, sometimes to such an extent that I became oblivious to my surroundings.

RODNEY PISTORIUS: Load him in the car, drop him off, pick him up.

JOAN PISTORIUS: I hope you die.

MILLER: He was conscious when his mom told him that.

JOAN PISTORIUS: Oh, that's horrific when I think about it now.

MILLER: He was staring right back at her.

MARTIN PISTORIUS: The rest of the world felt so far away when she said those words.

MILLER: But this time, when the dark thought came up.

MARTIN PISTORIUS: No one will ever show me tenderness.

MILLER: . He leaned into it and began to wrestle with it. Why would a mother say that? Why would my mother say that?

MARTIN PISTORIUS: As time passed, I gradually learned to understand my mother's desperation.

MILLER: He realized that it came from profound love for him.

MARTIN PISTORIUS: Every time she looked at me, she could see only a cruel parody of the once-healthy child she had loved so much.

MILLER: Which actually made him feel closer to her. And so onward he went, trying now to understand his dark thoughts instead of just ignoring them all, which brings me to the last act of his story - the way in which Martin is able to climb out. This is a long story involving inexplicable neurological developments, a painstaking battle to prove his existence in the face of doubt and.

MARTIN PISTORIUS: Anyway, the short version.

MILLER: The short version is that over time, Martin slowly regained some control of his body. By the time he was in his mid-20s, he could squeeze your hand on occasion. And he was getting better and better at holding himself upright in his chair. Now, the doctors told his parents that he still had the intelligence level of a 3-month-old baby. But one nurse, one nurse named Verna, was convinced that there was something there. And so she eventually convinced his parents to get Martin reassessed at another medical center, where he was given a test where he had to identify different objects by pointing at them with his eyes. And he passed, not with flying colors, but he passed.

JOAN PISTORIUS: I then gave up my job.

MILLER: That's his mom again, Joan, who came home to care for Martin, help him with his physical therapy and most important, purchase this kind of joystick for the computer.

JOAN PISTORIUS: A proximity switch, which is just something that you knocked.

MILLER: And though it took him about a year to get the hang of it.

JOAN PISTORIUS: We had like school - if you want to call it - four hours in the morning every single day.

MILLER: Once he did, everything changed because suddenly he had a way to select the words he wanted to say.

MARTIN PISTORIUS: I am cold. I am hungry. I want toast.

MILLER: And as words came back, gradually, so did other things.

RODNEY PISTORIUS: He started moving his eyes and moving his head and almost nodding, asking for coffee by stirring his hands around and things like that.

MILLER: They couldn't really explain it, but.

JOAN PISTORIUS: When he gets the tools to communicate, he forges ahead.

MILLER: OK. So wherever you are standing in your life, prepare to be lapped. Within two years of passing that assessment test, Martin gets a job filing papers at a local government office.

MARTIN PISTORIUS: I wanted to prove that I could do more than just speak words via a laptop.

MILLER: Around this time, his nurse savior Verna mentioned she's having trouble with her computer. And Martin, who has not tinkered with electronics since he was 12 years old fixes it.

MARTIN PISTORIUS: Repairing a computer is a bit like going into a maze. You might go down dead ends. But eventually, you find your way through.

JOAN PISTORIUS: It was absolutely flabbergasting. I couldn't understand it.

After that he scraps the government job.

MILLER: . Starts a web design company.

MILLER: . Gets into college.

JOAN PISTORIUS: In computer science.

JOAN PISTORIUS: He's learning to drive. He always wanted to drive.

MILLER: He's learning to drive?

JOAN PISTORIUS: Martin achieves everything he wants to do.

MILLER: So how is it that Martin has been able to achieve all this? Now, I don't want it oversimplify it because it was many things - Martin's naturally strong will, flukes of electricity in the brain, a really dedicated family. But I do think that his decision to lean back into those thoughts way back when, instead of just spending his life detaching, in some way helped him, in part because it probably kept his mind occupied and allowed him to emerge this kind of well-oiled machine of mental ability, but also because I think his leaning into those dark thoughts in particular gave him a kind of self-understanding and humor about the human condition that allowed him to snag the very best thing in his life.

MILLER: This is Martin's wife.

JOANNA PISTORIUS: When Martin talks about me or types about me, he always starts smiling.

MILLER: Joanna was a friend of Martin's sister. And the two of them first met over Skype.

JOANNA PISTORIUS: I was a manager for the social work team for a hospital social work team.

MILLER: Joanna says the thing that drew her to Martin.

JOANNA PISTORIUS: I turned around, and it was just this guy with this big smile. And it's such a warm personality.

MILLER: . Was the way he began to interact with her.

JOANNA PISTORIUS: Unfortunately, I'm one of those people, I say something and then I, more often, need to say sorry I said it.

MILLER: But not with Martin. When she asked him how things work in the bathroom or what people do around you when they think you are not there.

JOANNA PISTORIUS: If I ask him anything, he'll give me an honest answer.

MILLER: And that perked her ears.

JOANNA PISTORIUS: There's no pretend.

MILLER: That first night, they talked for hours.

MARTIN PISTORIUS: She would speak, and I would type my response.

MILLER: The sister and the other friends drifted away, and Joanna just stayed there in front of the screen.

JOANNA PISTORIUS: I just really liked him.

MILLER: After that, she just kept wanting to Skype with him.

JOANNA PISTORIUS: Yeah. OK, well, he's in a wheelchair, and he doesn't speak. But I love this guy. He's amazing. It just so quickly turned into love.

MILLER: As for Martin - after over a decade convinced that he would be alone forever, he was pretty happy.

MARTIN PISTORIUS: My face would hurt from smiling so much.

JOANNA PISTORIUS: (Laughter).

MILLER: They were married in 2009. Martin was 33 years old.

SPIEGEL: One story about this poor man trapped in his own body for 13 years, another about someone who is bombarded by horribly violent images - do you think maybe our first show is a little bit heavy?

MILLER: This was a heavy show. (Laughter).

SPIEGEL: Yeah. Let's hit the dance music.

(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "SAN FRANCISCO")

THE MOWGLI'S: (Singing) Well, I've been in love with love.

SPIEGEL: This is INVISIBILA. It's a party, everybody.

(SOUNDBITE OF THE MOWGLI'S SONG, "SAN FRANCISCO")

THE MOWGLI'S: (Singing) Something binding us together, you know that love is strong enough. And I've seen time-told tales about that.

SPIEGEL: INVISIBILIA from NPR News is me, Alix Spiegel.

MILLER: And me, Lulu Miller.

SPIEGEL: The show is edited by Anne Gudenkauf, the best editor in the world, with help from Eric Nuzum, Matt Martinez (ph) Porschia Robertson-Meegas (ph) and Natalie Kaseka (ph). Production help today from Brendan Baker (ph) and Brent Balmon (ph).

MILLER: And now for our moment of nonsense.

I'm not reading it. I was totally not reading it.

SPIEGEL: OK. But I want to take it away.

MILLER: (Laughter) To take it away.

MILLER: I can't do it without you. I wasn't even looking at it.

SPIEGEL: Join us next week for more INVISIBILIA.

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Valor: One-Man War on Arundel

When former college football star Hugh Barr Miller Jr. joined the destroyer USS Strong in August 1942, he knew he’d see combat. What he didn’t expect was that within a year he’d end up a castaway, fighting a one-man war on a small South Pacific island.

Born in Tuscaloosa, Ala., in 1910, Miller grew up on a farm in Hazlehurst, Miss. After high school he enrolled at the University of Alabama and, though of only medium build, became a star on the 1929–30 Crimson Tide squads, helping spur Alabama to victory in the 1931 Rose Bowl. After earning a law degree in 1933, Miller practiced in Mississippi until joining the Navy in 1939.

Following various staff postings ashore, Miller was assigned to the then-building Fletcher-class destroyer Strong. By February 1943 the ship was supporting American operations in the Solomon Islands. Just after midnight on July 5, while bombarding New Georgia in advance of amphibious landings, Strong was struck by a torpedo launched blindly by a Japanese destroyer 11 miles away. Soon after the destroyer USS Chevalier took off most of its crew, Strong yarıda qırdı.

Miller had just managed to free two sailors trapped on the main deck when the ship sank beneath him. As he hit the water, several of the doomed destroyer’s depth charges detonated, knocking him unconscious and causing severe internal injuries. When Miller came to, he found himself the senior officer among a group of survivors clinging to a cluster of damaged life rafts and floater nets. Over the next three days the men drifted at the mercy of the currents. Several of the more severely injured died, and Miller sent the fittest men ashore in the damaged rafts to seek help.

No assistance came, however, and on the night of July 8 Miller and the five other remaining survivors pulled themselves ashore on a tiny islet. The speck of land was not the best haven, and after the July 10 death of one man, Miller and the four others floated their way to nearby Arundel Island. On that larger island they found water and coconuts, but they soon discovered that Japanese troops had occupied the island. The July 13 death of another sailor and Miller’s own worsening condition convinced him that the only hope of survival for the three remaining enlisted men was to leave him behind. He ordered them to do so, and on July 15 they set out across a nearby sound in an attempt to reach U.S. forces on New Georgia.

To his surprise, Miller didn’t die of his injuries. In fact, his health improved enough for him to begin searching for food. But he also found the enemy: Japanese patrols crisscrossed the island, nearly stumbling upon him on several occasions. On the morning of August 3 Miller found the body of a Japanese soldier and from it recovered socks, shoes, some tinned beef, a bayonet and two hand grenades. The following night he hurled one grenade into the midst of an enemy patrol, killing all five men.

Between August 9 and 14, using additional grenades taken from the dead soldiers and from the bodies of enemy troops washed ashore, Miller attacked several shoreline machine-gun positions, killing their crews. His depredations didn’t go unnoticed, however Japanese troops continued to comb the island in search of him.

On the morning of August 16 a low-flying U.S. torpedo bomber spotted Miller. Within an hour a Marine Corps rescue team arrived in a J2F Duck amphibious biplane, landed on a nearby stretch of calm water and rowed ashore in an inflatable boat to collect the injured but resourceful castaway. They rushed Miller to a forward aid station on New Georgia, and he was ultimately evacuated to the fleet hospital at Espiritu Santo in the New Hebrides.

On Sept. 15, 1943, with Red Cross volunteer and First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt looking on (see photo at left), South Pacific Area commander Admiral William F. Halsey Jr. awarded the still-recuperating Miller the Navy Cross in recognition of his heroic actions during the sinking of Strong and his subsequent 43-day, one-man war against the entrenched Japanese forces on Arundel.

Originally published in the January 2011 issue of Military History. Abunə olmaq üçün bura daxil olun.

Joan Miller Martin Jones Mathews, RN ’62, BSN, MSN, EdD

1998 Distinguished Nursing Alumnus of North Carolina Central University In Recognition for Excellence in Nursing Practice, Education, And Research

I, Joan Delores Miller, was born on April 24, 1937, in Traphill, North Carolina, in Wilkes County, the third child and second daughter of Pearl Campbell and Thomas Calvin Miller. I lived with my maternal grandparents and extended family on a sixty-acre farm. My mother worked for a family in Elkin and my father was a hotel cook. They came home on Wednesday and Sunday afternoons, respectively, and went back to work early Monday morning. I would be excited on Saturdays when we would go to Elkin to ship, visit our parents, and go to the movies. Sundays were spent at church and visiting relatives and friends. Social activities included games, dancing, debates, picnics, and holiday parties.

Education was emphasized in my family, as several family members were teachers and ministers. I began my education in a one-room school in Traphill. Because eight grades were taught in this room, I listened to the lessons for all the students and was able to pass two grades in one year. This school closed, and from fifth grade until my graduation in 1954, I attended Lincoln Heights High School in Wilkesboro. As class valedictorian, I gave my first major public speech from memory no notes could be used.

During my freshman year at North Carolina College at Durham (now North Carolina Central University), I became interested in nursing and decided to transfer to Lincoln Hospital School of Nursing. My goal was to work as a federal government (AID) nurse in underdeveloped countries. In my junior year at Lincoln I withdrew because married students were not permitted to attend. In 1958, I received a diploma from the Durham School of Practical Nursing and ranked first in academic achievement in my class. I was employed on the Obstetric Unit at Lincoln Hospital. Lincoln Hospital School of Nursing began admitting married students and I re-enrolled and graduated in 1962. During the graduation ceremonies, I received two awards: the Excellence in Leadership Award and the Most Technically Competent Award. I received a commendation from the North Carolina State Board of Nursing for being one of two applicants to have the highest score (714 of 800) in obstetrics on the RN licensure examination in 1962. I was working on the Medicine and Surgery Unit at Lincoln Hospital when Mrs. L.Z. Williams, Director of the School of Nursing, smiled and said, “Good Morning, Mrs. Martin, RN,” and I realized that I had passed the State Board of Nursing Examination (the school received the scores before the graduates did). I was elated I was a registered nurse! Thus, my career as a nurse truly began.

As the requirements for various career paths in professional nursing changed, I made changes as well. I continued my education as I changed positions in nursing. I obtained a bachelor of science degree in nursing in 1965 from North Carolina Central University a master of science degree in nursing in 1971 from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a doctorate of education in curriculum and teaching in 1997 from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. I retired in 1999 from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro as Clinical Associate Professor in Nursing, returned in 2000 as Adjunct Assistant Professor in Nursing, and was reappointed to serve in this capacity until 2011.

My experiences in nursing include visiting assistant professor in nursing, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 1984-1997 assistant professor in nursing, North Carolina Central University, Durham, N.C., 1970-1984 instructor of medical-surgical nursing, Lincoln Hospital School of Nursing, Durham N.C., 1966-1968 public health nurse I, Durham County Health Department, Durham, N.C., 1965-1966 and the summers of 1969, 1971, 1972, 1974, 1975, 1979 staff nurse, medical-surgical and gynecological nursing at Duke Hospital, Durham, N.C., part-time, 1980-1983, and Watts Hospital, Durham, N.C., May 1973-August 1973 staff nurse, medical-surgeon, gynecological nurse, and emergency nursing at Lincoln Hospital, Durham, N.C., 1960-1965, 1968-1970 and private duty nurse, part-time, Duke Hospital, Durham, N.C., 1976-1977.

During my career I have enjoyed working with students in classes and in various organizations, especially the nursing sorority. I am one of the beta sponsors for the Sigma Chi Alpha Beta chapter of the Chi Eta Phi Sorority at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and have held this position since its chartering on February 27, 1999. I was also beta sponsor when Phi Beta chapter was chartered in 1971 at North Carolina Central University and served in that position until I moved to Greensboro in 1984. I have maintained mentoring relationships with many of my current and former students. Many send me announcements of their promotions, educational pursuits and successes, and personal and family achievements.

Lincoln Hospital School of Nursing emphasized participation in civic, professional, and community organizations. Lincoln Hospital was closely associated with and received support from the community. I embraced this behavior as demonstrated by my role in professional and community-service organizations. Among these organizations are the following: NCA&T State University School of Nursing Advisory Committee, North Carolina Association of County Boards of Social Services (vice president, 2010-2012) Guilford County Board of Social Services (vice chair, 2006-2007) by Guilford County Commissioners for two terms (1/4/01-6/30/07) American Nurses Association Gamma Zeta Chapter, Sigma Theta Tau National Nursing Honor Society Lincoln Hospital School of Nursing Alumni Association (president, 1964, Ms. Lincoln Alumni 1976). Chi Eta Phi Nursing Sorority and life member of the NAACP. I have held positions in these organizations, such as president and committee chairperson. I have published articles in several journals and have completed a master’s thesis and a doctoral dissertation. My public speaking has occurred in settings such as graduation ceremonies, civic and religious programs, and workshops.

Other awards and recognitions include educational scholarships, academic achievement awards, leadership awards, induction into Colden Chain and Santa Filomena honor societies, citizenship awards, a Nurse of the Year for District 11 award from the North Carolina Nurses Association, and being nominated in 1991 for the M.L. King Service Award and Excellence as an organization advisor at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. In 2009, I received Soror of the Year award from the South East Region, Chi Eta Phi Sorority for my contributions and leadership in nursing and the community. Since 1994 I have sponsored the Woodrow Jones Nursing Scholarship at North Carolina Central University.

I am describing the makeup of my family because I taught nursing using these different names. Students I taught at Lincoln knew me as Mrs. Martin, at North Carolina Central University as Mrs. Martin and later as Mrs. Jones, and at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro as Mrs. Jones, Dr. Jones, and Dr. Mathews. In 1956, I married Joseph H. Martin and had a Lincoln baby, Joseph H. Martin Jr. My son followed me into the health profession and is currently a physician in Atlanta, Georgia. Joseph graduated with honors from Howard University (Phi Beta Kappa) and received his medical degree from Duke University. Following my divorce from his father in 1980, I married Rev. Woodrow Jones Sr. in 1983 and moved to Greensboro, N.C. Reverend Jones died in 1994 following a two-year battle with cancer of the brain. In 1999, I married Louis H. Mathews, who is a retiree from the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Post Office. One of my nursing mentees, Lt. Colonel Elmontenal C. Allens, MS, RN, has adopted Louis and me as his parents.

As I stated at the beginning of my description of my nursing career, it really and truly began at Lincoln Hospital School of Nursing. Lincoln Hospital School of Nursing made it possible for me to have an interesting profession in nursing. I was able to be a leader in nursing and other organizations because of my excellent mentors and the support from colleagues and family to fulfill the predictions of the awards and recognitions received.

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