When Bettie Jean Howard received her nursing certificate, President Harry S. Truman was establishing the American Cold War policy of containment. The Marshall Plan was announced that year to assist European economic recovery after World War II.

Howard remembered the shadow war cast on her education at the Church Home and Hospital just north of Johns Hopkins Medical Institutes.

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