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Sallie Bingham - 1957
Sallie Bingham was a Courier in the year 1957. Sallie's parents sent her from Louisville to Wendover as a way of avoiding a local traditional summer. (Read More...)
Fred Bunch - 1990
Fred Bunch Jordan attended college right after high school. After a difficult freshman year, he decided to take some time off from school and spoke with an advisor regarding his options... His advisor suggested looking into the Courier Program... (Read More...)
Jean White Bryne - 1941
Jean White Byrne learned of the Courier Program from a professor at Maryville College. Her professor encouraged her to travel to Frontier in her junior year to assist with bookkeeping. (Read More...)
Anna Carey - 2003
After three years of teaching in a rural community in Western New York (2000-2003), Anna Carey decided to explore other opportunities. (Read More...)
Carlyle Carter - 1962/1965
Carlyle Carter was 10 years old the first time she met her cousin, Mary Breckinridge. Mary came to visit Carlyle's grandmother's farm and invited Carlyle to visit Frontier that summer. (Read More...)
Elia Cole - 2009
Upon her return from a mission trip to Lima, Peru, during which Elia Cole spent time volunteering in a hospital, she was inspired to explore healthcare... (Read More...)
Lee Fox - 1976
Lee Fox went into college with the intention of pursuing an art history degree. However, during her sophomore and junior year of college, life intervened. (Read More...)
Jean Gilcrest - 1957
Jean Gilcrest was a Courier between her sophomore and junior years of college, in the summer of 1957. She had learned of the program through family members. (Read More...)
Martha Hill - 1965
The first time that Martha Hill knew she wanted to be a nurse, she was in the sixth or seventh grade. She did not have a television in her North Carolina mountain home, so she spent a lot of time reading books about women in different professional roles. (Read More...)
Jane Haldeman Hope - 1950s
Jane Hope was a Courier in the 1950s. She enjoyed her experiences so much so that she returned to Wendover on several different occasions as a senior Courier. Her last visit to Wendover was in 1959. (Read More...)
Maggie Jones - 1981
When she was 20 years old, Maggie traveled from Louisville, Kentucky to Wendover in the mountains. Being from Kentucky, Maggie and her family had heard of Frontier Nursing Service and the Courier Program long before she became a Courier. (Read More...)
Marian Leibold - 1977
While searching for her own life’s future direction, Marian Liebold saw the perfect opportunity to pursue a summer filled with adventure and service by traveling to help where her help could be used--Leslie County, KY. So in 1977, she, like many before her, embarked on her adventure in Wendover as a part of the Courier Program. (Read More...)
Kevin McCarthy - 2010
While in school at Wabash College in Indiana, Kevin McCarthy was looking for an opportunity to do something related to public health in a rural setting. Through Wabash's career website, he stumbled upon a short piece about Frontier Nursing Service's Courier Program. (Read More...)
Cari Michaels - 1988
When Cari Michaels was finishing up her undergraduate degree at the University of Minnesota, she decided to spend a couple of months as a Courier for Frontier Nursing Service. (Read More...)
Katharine More - 1952
Katharine More was a Courier in the summer of 1952. She does not remember how she learned of the program, but it was something that her and her family always had knowledge of. Katharine “was interested in doing something worthwhile, something that would be good for humanity.” (Read More...)
Leslie Olivas - 1963
In 1963, Leslie Olivas went to Wendover to serve as a Courier. She learned of the Courier Program from a classmate at her high school who had been to Frontier. (Read More...)
Jess Rice - 1994
Jess Rice learned about the Courier Program from a friend who had been a Courier the year before. She was just out of high school and was looking for an opportunity to explore an area outside of her hometown. (Read More...)
Cynthia Shultz - 1968
Cynthia heard about the Courier Program while she was in boarding school at Milton Academy in the tri-cities of New York. There were many connections to the Courier Program around the Boston area. (Read More...)
Rebecca Stanevich - 1970
Rebecca Stanevich learned of Frontier Nursing Services as she was flipping through an old book about different occupations, one of which was nursing. The Courier Program at FNS interested Rebecca because she wanted to learn more about the profession of nurse-midwifery. (Read More...)
Amanda Strauss - 2009
"Everyday I get a little clearer sense what the life of a nurse midwife looks like. Today I opened an entirely new door, the exhaustion of laboring. Yesterday I attended my first birth. Today I can feel it." (Read More...)
Ruth Venable - 1955
Ruth Venable spent time as a courier in the Summer of 1955. She spent time at both Red Bird Clinic and at Mary Breckinridge hospital, but the majority of her time was spent at Wendover. (Read More...)
Mary White - 1976
Mary White was a Courier at Wendover in the fall of 1976. She grew up in Mclean Virginia, close to Washington, D.C where many Courier alumni lived. She heard about the Courier program from her next door neighbor, who was a Courier when Mary Breckinridge was alive. (Read More...)
Phoebe Wood - 1967
In the late 1960’s, Phoebe Wood spent a summer in Wendover serving as a Courier for Frontier Nursing Service. The Courier Program was a family tradition: Phoebe’s mother and aunt had both been Couriers. (Read More...)
Edith Harrison Conyers - 1960s
Edith Conyers traveled to Wendover in the 1960s to serve as a Courier in her early college days. No one in Edith's family had experience in the medical professions, but her mother was intrigued by FNS so she encouraged Edith and her sister to look into the Courier Program. (Read More...)
Kathy Dalton - 1968
Kathy Dalton grew up hearing her mother's stories about Eastern Kentucky. While her mother was also from Lexington, her grandfather traveled frequently as a mining engineer for coal mines in Eastern Kentucky. (Read More...)
