70th Anniversary Of The Student Nurse Association Of North Carolina

The upcoming 2019 NCNA Annual Convention marks 70 years since delegates to the 42nd Convention, held in High Point in 1949, voted to sponsor a statewide Student Nurse Association. Four months later, on February 8, 1950, 136 student nurses and 15 faculty members gathered in High Point for an organizational meeting of the Student Nurse Association of North Carolina (SNANC). Twenty-seven schools of nursing were represented.