Comments on: Taborian Hospital http://storycorps.org/blog/griot-booth/memphis-tn/taborian-hospital/ Listen Closely Fri, 03 Feb 2012 21:53:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Lamenda Hase http://storycorps.org/blog/griot-booth/memphis-tn/taborian-hospital/comment-page-1/#comment-4044 Lamenda Hase Sun, 20 Nov 2011 03:49:06 +0000 http://www.storycorps.net/blog/griot-booth/memphis-tn/taborian-hospital/#comment-4044 This is a beautiful story and means so much to me. I have been conducting research on Taborian and others similar to it. I would love any other information you may have in regards to Taborian. This is a beautiful story and means so much to me. I have been conducting research on Taborian and others similar to it. I would love any other information you may have in regards to Taborian.

]]> By: alina coryell http://storycorps.org/blog/griot-booth/memphis-tn/taborian-hospital/comment-page-1/#comment-1951 alina coryell Fri, 14 Aug 2009 15:39:16 +0000 http://www.storycorps.net/blog/griot-booth/memphis-tn/taborian-hospital/#comment-1951 Michael, thank you so much for the wonderful post! Edwina, I would love to learn more from you about Taborian hospital. Did you ever meet Dr. Howard or was your family close to him in any way? Michael, thank you so much for the wonderful post!
Edwina, I would love to learn more from you about Taborian hospital. Did you ever meet Dr. Howard or was your family close to him in any way?

]]> By: Edwina Verner http://storycorps.org/blog/griot-booth/memphis-tn/taborian-hospital/comment-page-1/#comment-605 Edwina Verner Mon, 31 Dec 2007 00:51:21 +0000 http://www.storycorps.net/blog/griot-booth/memphis-tn/taborian-hospital/#comment-605 Thank you StoryCorps for giving our rich history the forum it deserves.I am the granddaughter of P.M.Smith who was the Chief Grand Mentor of the Knights and Daughters of Tabor. Sir Smith, as he was called, was instrumental in the founding of Taborian Hospital. I was born at the hospital as was my older sister and many of my cousins. My father Dr.E.W.Verner, a graduate of Meharry Medical College,was a surgical resident at the hospital. It was during his rotation in Mound Bayou that he met and eventually married my mother Zeraline,who is the daughter of P.M. Smith. I am now Director of Pediatrics at Newark Community Health Centers in New Jersey. I chose to attend Tufts Medical School because of its association with Mound Bayou and Taborian Hospital. The unprecedented history of Mound Bayou continues to serve as an excellent example of what can be accomplished by those who "walk by faith and not by sight" Thank you StoryCorps for giving our rich history the forum it deserves.I am the granddaughter of P.M.Smith who was the Chief Grand Mentor of the Knights and Daughters of Tabor. Sir Smith, as he was called, was instrumental in the founding of Taborian Hospital. I was born at the hospital as was my older sister and many of my cousins. My father Dr.E.W.Verner, a graduate of Meharry Medical College,was a surgical resident at the hospital. It was during his rotation in Mound Bayou that he met and eventually married my mother Zeraline,who is the daughter of P.M. Smith. I am now Director of Pediatrics at Newark Community Health Centers in New Jersey. I chose to attend Tufts Medical School because of its association with Mound Bayou and Taborian Hospital. The unprecedented history of Mound Bayou continues to serve as an excellent example of what can be accomplished by those who “walk by faith and not by sight”

]]> By: Ashlynn http://storycorps.org/blog/griot-booth/memphis-tn/taborian-hospital/comment-page-1/#comment-587 Ashlynn Thu, 06 Dec 2007 15:44:32 +0000 http://www.storycorps.net/blog/griot-booth/memphis-tn/taborian-hospital/#comment-587 It is lessons like these that prove the power of the individual to react to injustice with action, and to create the world she/he wants to live in. Being the change..., taking opportunities for motion, instead of sitting back and allowing the status quo to persist. Thank you, StoryCorps Griot, for celebrating those people who have stepped forward and paved the way for their communities to succeed. Thank you for honoring the stories of our history, the great and small achievements, that have gotten us where we are. May we continue to recognize and take example from those people who have dared to create justice, and see the possibility instead of the obstacle. It is lessons like these that prove the power of the individual to react to injustice with action, and to create the world she/he wants to live in. Being the change…, taking opportunities for motion, instead of sitting back and allowing the status quo to persist.

Thank you, StoryCorps Griot, for celebrating those people who have stepped forward and paved the way for their communities to succeed. Thank you for honoring the stories of our history, the great and small achievements, that have gotten us where we are.

May we continue to recognize and take example from those people who have dared to create justice, and see the possibility instead of the obstacle.

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