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Chase County Kansas Historical
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Keller, Nancy
Nancy Keller, the daughter of Martha and Wayne
Keller, was born in Cottonwood Falls on May 15,
1936. She attended the Cottonwood Grade School and
graduated as co-valedictorian of the class of 1954,
Chase County Community High.
After a four-year program in professional nursing at the University of Kansas in Lawrence and
Kansas City, she worked as staff nurse at the Medical Center for a year.
Migration Westward took her to Nevada where
she worked as an office nurse for another year and
then to Texas where she began her teaching career.
Three years of teaching nursing in a diploma program did two things: 1) produced a novel called
Serpents of Mercy, and 2) sent Nancy back to school
(University of Texas) for her Master's degree in
Nursing (1965).
Going next to Richmond, Virginia, Nancy worked for four years in a baccalaureate program as an
Assistant Professor of nursing. The richness of
that experience culminated in three published articles in the nursing literature and the desire to return to school one more time.
She was awarded a nurse-scientist fellowship
to attend the University of Arizona to study for a
doctorate in sociology. So, in the Fall of 1969,
Nancy moved to Tucson, Arizona. At the end of
two years of study she had earned her Master of
Arts degree in Sociology and a trip to Honolulu,
Hawaii, to present a research paper about medical
sociology at the Pacific Sociological Association's
convention. This paper was later published in a
sociological journal.
Nancy is presently finishing her third year of
study and plans to obtain her Phl) in Fall of this
year. (1972). After graduation this time, she de
clares: 1) she will not go back to school again,
and 2) she will do clinical research in hospitals.
Job offers are numerous enough to be interesting,
but at this point no decision has been made . . .
except it will undoubtedly call for a move to another
part of the country.
And, to Chase County as home, best wishes
and fond memories.
Chase County Centennial, 1872 - 1972.
by Lorna Marvin
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