Cameroon Mobile Clinic. Mrs. Clark and Mr. Myhan accom· panied several students to the Medical Missions Seminar in Atlanta, Georgia, last October. Severa l cardio·pulmonary rec u sitation courses were taught to certify students, facul· ty, and community people. New to the faculty was Cheryl Clark, a resident of Jacksonville with the MSN degree from Cali· fornia State University at Los Ange l es, and Michael Niswander , an alumnus of the program. To distribute the student load on hospitals more evenly and continuously throughout the year, the clinical curriculum was revised for 1981·82. ~ Harding 's nursing honor society, Sigma Theta Tau, was granted charter membership in· to the international SOCiety this year, becoming only the second school in Arkansas to be so honored. To be considered for Sigma Theta Tau membership, an in· dividual had to have attained a 3.5 grade point average in the nursing curricu lum and hold a cumulative average of 3.0. In addition to the high academic marks necessa ry, each student must be approved by three fourths of the members in attendance to attain active status. Upon comp leting the last stages of the national SOciety entrance, the group went on in its year to sponsor a seminar and present two academic pro· - Silawn Daggel! grams for its members. ~ Providing opportunities to be recruited, national magazines and valuable information on current events in the field were merely a few of the advantages found in Harding's Student Nurse's Association (SNA) this year. The group's main area of ser · vice was focused on the Ronald McDonald houses, places where parents stay while far from home yet close to their children anq the hospital. The organization also d id their part during National Stu · dent Nurse's Week in February to promote awareness. Searcy mayor Jack Wiseman was in· vited to speak before the group during this time period. SNA president Sheila Cox said, "I have learned a lot about the issues that are in nursing. The profession is really struggl - ing to be recognized as a profes· sion. The organization teaches us what we can do in a nonbelligerent way to forward ourselves. It is really teaching us how important it is to edu· cate ourselves and cont inue qur education." ~ 1. SPEAKING at the installation ceremony of the national nursing honor society, Sigma Theta Tau, is Dr. Virginia Jarratt , president·elect of the National League of Nurses and dean of the School of Nursing at the Universily of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in UWe Rock. 2. S TUDENT NURSES ASSOCIATlON. Fronl row (decending): Redding, Huddleston, Lane, Harris, Stewart, Schloffman. Back row: Myhan·sponsor, Carneal, Caluert, Shackelford, Cox, Bakely. 3. SIGMA THETA TAU. Front row: Bracken, Sowell, Moore, Kerns, Mit· chell, Reeves, Harris, Lone, Noell, Lomax, Myhan. Second row: Chavez, Haas, Miller, Schloffman, Jones , Cox, Albany, Myers, Clark. Third row: Southerland. Aebi, Gerkey, Bobbitt. Boyd, McLaughlin. Back row: Leslie, Wood, Keck, Red· ding. School of Nursi ng · 123
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