Thursday, February 07, 2002

By Kristin Summerford, PR Intern

Wilmington- Gladys Melvin, a Registered nurse will discuss her experiences as a volunteer nurse and midwife in Africa at 12:15 p.m., Monday Feb. 25, in Wagoner Hall, Madeline Suite.

Melvin, a nursing instructor at the College of the Albemarle in Manteo worked in prenatal, postnatal, and family planning clinics in Kenya and Botswana in 1971. Her talks will focus on the development of the first visiting clinic available to villages with limited or no access to health care services and information. She is a native of Antigua who immigrated to England in 1964 and earned her nursing diploma from Musgrove Park Hospital in Somerset, England in 1968.

The UNCW School of Nursing sponsors this event, which is free and open to the public.

For more information, contact Peggy Segars at 910.962.7410 or Annette Richards at 910.962.3784. A photo of Gladys Melvin is available to download from the Web at www.uncwil.edu/news/releases/february02/melvin.html.