In the 1970s, Petros was a small community of 1400 on the eastern border of Morgan County. Unemployment in the county was high, in part because there were only 3 manufacturing firms that did not provide enough jobs to replace those lost as strip mining replaced deep mining. In 1972, there was no practicing physician …
This series consists of interviews conducted by Student Health Coalition members, 6-7 November 2019 in Oneida, Elgin, and Robbins, Scott County, Tenn. The interviews were conducted by Diane Lauver, Anne Dierdorff Thomas, and Irwin Venick, and the interviewees were James Lovett, Sharon Neal, June Burress Sharpe, Shelia J. Chambers, Debra Thompson, Donna Frogge, James Walker, …
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Contributed by Caryl Carpenter, November 2022. Norma, Tenn. is one of the original three communities that came together to form Mountain People’s Health Councils (MPHC). Norma is in the southern part of Scott County, Tenn., a county that was once one of the leading coal producers in the state. Norma was at one time a …
James Lovett first encountered the Student Health Coalition as a young patient at the 1970 or 1971 health fair in Norma, Tenn. In this clip of an interview with Caryl Carpenter and Rick Davidson, learn directly from Lovett about his personal and professional development that led to later becoming the CEO of Mountain People’s Health …
After graduating from the University of Akron with a Bachelor’s of Science in Nursing, I began my nursing career setting up and running health fairs with a team of community representatives and health professionals in eastern, rural North Carolina. I enjoyed this work and felt my calling might be to work with folks with limited …
Sharon Roberson attended Vanderbilt University from 1974 to 1978, an era during which the campus was still adjusting to racial integration that had begun less than a decade earlier. Stories she shares during a 2018 interview shed light on her experiences as a Black student leader in a mostly-White college community. In the summer of …
