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"Frank Heasley" <drheasley@n_o_s_P_a_m_medzilla.com> wrote in message
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: Marysville, WA - June 25, 2002 - Luther Christman, PhD, RN, had already
: begun his fight for diversity in nursing when he was dean of nursing at
: Vanderbilt University in the 1950s and '60s. The first male dean in a
United
: States nursing school, Dr. Christman employed black women as faculty at
: Vanderbilt for the first time. He also was recruiting men into nursing. "I
: made arrangements with the Pentagon to refer all the names to me of people
: being discharged in the southern area of the country who had been medical
: corps men for their four years in the armed forces. I thought they'd be a
: good group to recruit from because they're already oriented toward care,"
he
: says.
:
: So, when Affirmative Action took hold under the Kennedy Administration in
: the early '60s, Dr. Christman was ready and willing to uphold the policy
: designed to redress past discrimination through active measures to ensure
: equal opportunities in areas such as education and employment. He
remembers
: the Affirmative Action group from Washington D.C. descending en masse at
: Vanderbilt and warning the faculty that they would take all the federal
: research money away from the university if the deans failed to enforce
: Affirmative Action. Then, Dr. Christman says, they pointed at him and
said,
: "Except you. You don't have to conform to affirmative action in any way."
:
: For the rest of the article, see:
:
: http://www.medzilla.com/press62502.html
:
: Frank Heasley, Ph.D.
: President, CEO
: MedZilla Inc.
: http://www.medzilla.com
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