From The Clearfield Progress, Clearfield, Pennsylvania
June 27, 1944

Clearfield Nurse
Gets Important
State Position

   Announcement has been made of the appointment of Miss Margaret R. Gilliland, R. N., of Clearfield, to the position of Educational Advisor to the State Board of Nurse Examiners of Pennsylvania. She will assume her duties at Harrisburg on July 10th.
   Miss Gilliland is a graduate of the Clearfield Memorial Hospital Nursing School and of Columbia University. For the past four years she served on the State Board referred to above, having been appointed by Governor James; consequently this appointment at the hands of Governor Martin, on the recommendation of the state board, is further recognition of her ability.
   Following her graduation at the Clearfield institution, Miss Gilliland served there as Science instructor for eleven years, resigning to go to Mansfield State Teachers’ College to set up a program for the Cadet Nursing Corps connected with the Robert Packer Hospital at Sayre, Pa. This program, a great sucess, has been carried out in many hospitals in Pennsylvania.

-- transcribed by Kate Maynard, 2010