Chuck Darling
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Linda Hart
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 …
Charles “Boomer” Winfrey (1947-2023)
After studying geology at the University of Tennessee and working as a geologist for one year, Boomer took a job as a community organizer with Save Our Cumberland Mountains (SOCM). As he later described his role: “They needed somebody with geological training to go out and sample water and review mining plans and things and …
Neil McBride
From 1973-1978, Neil was a staff attorney for the East Tennessee Research Corp (ETRC). He was a valuable institutional ally to many SHC related community efforts. In this clip from a 2017 ETRC panel, Lark Hayes poignantly describes the character of Neil McBride and shares his commentary on the spirit of ETRC. Related Content:
John Gaventa
John Gaventa was born in Tennessee in 1949. He graduated from Vanderbilt University in 1971, was a Rhodes Scholar, and received his doctorate from Oxford University. In 1976, Gaventa began a grassroots adult educational program at Highlander Research and Education Center. He received a MacArthur Award for this work in 1981. In 1982, Gaventa published …
Martha Stucker
Martha was a Catholic nun and a registered nurse working in East Tennessee at the Clairfield clinic in 1969 when Bill Dow first encountered her and engaged her help in designing student-run health fairs. She had been conducting primary care for pregnant women and their children, including dispensing birth control, since before Nurse Practitioner was …
Pat Kalmans
Pat, while never officially part of the student workforce in SHC, was a major player in the early work of SOCM and ETRC. She primarily worked on setting up and finding resources, including funding, for the Mountain People’s Health Clinics (MPHC). She graduated Vanderbilt in 1973 and eventually went to law school at Georgetown University …