Ahead of Our Time: Chapel Hill’s First Nightingales

In 1951, a time when women were not admitted until their junior or senior year, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill opened its doors to the new School of Nursing’s small class of 27 female freshman students. In this collection of memoirs, the nurses who graduated from the program share memories of their journey through the state’s first four-year bachelor of science in nursing program and how this new approach to nursing education shaped the rest of their lives and influenced the education of nurses in North Carolina.