Elizabeth Withers Smith of Salisbury provided this photograph of the 1962 graduating class of the Rowan Memorial Hospital School of Nursing. She was a member of the class. The first formalized training of nurses in professional schools in the United States had begun a century earlier in 1861 in New York City. Included in this photograph are the class mascots in the first row, Brenda Grubb and Darrell Brown; second row, left to right, Linda Whitt, Joyce Brown and Peggy Parker; third row, Violet Smith and Elizabeth Withers; fourth row, Mary Ann Hall, Sara Moore, Barbara Grubb and Carolyn Mason.