Sara Corning c/o Yarmouth Hospital Foundation website.
An internationally known Yarmouth born nurse is being honoured with a scholarship in her name.
The Yarmouth Hospital Foundation has announced the YHF Sara Corning Equity, Diversity, Inclusivity Scholarship at Dalhousie University’s School of Nursing.
The annual $5000 scholarship will be awarded to students of under-represented backgrounds at the Yarmouth Campus.
Corning served as a Red Cross nurse in World War I and is known internationally for saving the lives of thousands of Armenian and Greek children during an upheaval in Turkey in 1922.
Managing director of the foundation Mary Surette discussed why it’s important to add Corning’s name to the scholarship.
“She is a well known nurse from the Yarmouth area and I think adding her name on to this scholarship is very important to pass on her legacy for years and years to come.”
Surette says the idea for the scholarship came as Nova Scotia grapples with a shortage of nurses.
“We thought it was our way that we could support all nursing careers and entice young individuals to perhaps look at the nursing career as a future career for people, in particular down this end of the province.”
Corning is also remembered through the Sara Corning Society and the Sara Corning Centre for Genocide Education in Toronto. She was born in Chegoggin in 1872 and returned to her childhood home after retirement. She died in 1969 at the age of 97.
The Foundation says more details on the scholarship will be shared in the spring. It will start being awarded in the fall.
Read more about the Yarmouth Hospital Foundation’s recent commitments to purchase priority equipment for the Yarmouth Regional Hospital here.
