Nancy Vance

1886-1942
North Carolina State Hospital Training School,
Morganton, North Carolina, 1908

• Developed Five-Point Standard of Health Program for children in Virginia's public schools
• Established the Nancy Vance Fund for Cancer Research at the University of Virginia
• Awarded a five-point, star-shaped, pearl-studded pin by Virginia Health Commissioner Dr. E.G. Williams for her work in maternal-child heath nursing

A pioneer in public health nursing, Nancy Vance devoted her career to improving the health of school children in Virginia. For over twenty years, Vance traveled the state tirelessly to work with mothers and children. Although her career was cut short by her untimely death in 1942 her spirit lives on through the Nancy Vance Pin Award, an honor bestowed biannually by the Virginia Nurses Association for nurses who exemplify her life and character.

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"The fact that Virginia today has one of the best school health programs in the Union is due in no small degree to the indefatigable zeal and unconquerable devotion of Nancy Vance"

Richmond Times-Dispatch January 4, 1942