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NURSING PROGRAM

"A most significant expansion of the college's curricula took place in the 1986-87 academic year when nursing was added as a two-year Associate in Applied Science degree program in response to community needs for nurses. The Northampton-Accomack Memorial Hospital, other health care organizations, and physicians needed qualified nurses. The effort to start the program began in the fall of 1985, a year before it first enrolled students, because a series of steps had to be taken to receive approvals at many higher levels of higher education governance. ESCC personnel recognized that Shore's College could do a better job by offering nursing in cooperation with a larger college that already had an established program. That college was Tidewater Community College, and it's president was George Pass. He readily accepted the idea of establishing a cooperative program for ESCC and TCC. From that point, the two colleges had to receive approvals from their local college boards, the Virginia State Board of Nursing, and the State Board for Community Colleges. TCC Dean of Instruction Robert Grymes and Nursing Department chairman Shirley Lee and ESCC's President Fiege presented their plans to these authorities and received enthusiastic approval from all of them."

Fiege, John. "NURSING PROGRAM."  Eastern Shore Community College: A History, 1971 - 2001, Published by Hickory House, United States, 2001, page 142.