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^Mary Dee Drummond introduces CTIS~<5Miss ^Morrow S ^ T U C K y Offers Us

i \ Opportunities for

§OCIAL WO R K

Bland Morrow is the charming young woman who will become our social service By B L A N D M O R R O W
worker in the Kentucky mountains.
I Y E N a field in which no one has undertaken to do social work
The first qualification of a Social Service worker is, that she must have aft ( l l f in an intensive way—a field in which, to even the untrained eye,
understanding of, and sympathy for people as they are, irrespective of age, sex,
mentality, education, and social position, coupled with the faculty of accepting the social problems are varied, numerous, and oftentimes tragical-
facts as they exist without judgment becoming obscured by sentiment. Miss Mor- ly acute and it becomes difficult, when trying to map out a social-
row possesses this qualification to a high degree. She realizes fully the size of the work program, to draw the line between what will be possible and
job before her, but her type of mind is spurred rather than deterred by diffi- practicable in the beginning and what is desirable and ideal. Such is the
culties. I t is interesting to note that she did not seek to be a Social Service problem that confronts the embryonic social-service department of the
worker in the hills but rather developed into one imperceptibly. During a two- Frontier Nursing Service.
year residence in the hills as one of Mrs. Breckenridge's secretaries, she became
thoroughly acquainted with the people and their needs. It was discovered that The Frontier Nursing Service's hospital is a
she has a natural bent for understanding and handling their problems. Because welcome sight to the foot-sore stretcher
of this faculty the Frontier Nursing Service sent her to the New York School
of Social Service to get the necessary technical training. She graduates next spring bearers.
when she becomes a fullfledged worker among the people she has come to love and
understand. COURTESY, Hygeia Magazine

Miss Morrow was born in Mississippi, and laughingly says that her Social
Service training began in her family. She is the third among ten children. After
she graduated from high school she took a position in New Orleans with a steam-
ship rate-making organization. When she had saved a bit of money she entered
Maryville College in Tennessee where she graduated cum laude, with a B.A. de-
gree and a major in English literature. She is also a member of ITKA, an honor-
ary forensic fraternity. She returned to New Orleans and her old job, but find-
ing it rather uninteresting, cast about for something else and learned of an open-
ing with the Frontier Nursing Service and soon joined forces with that organiza-
tion in 1928.

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