Learn the History Behind Henry Allen Moe Prize for Nursing at Bassett

For the past 36 years, Bassett Medical Center has recognized nursing excellence among its staff by awarding the annual Henry Allen Moe Prize.

Dr. Moe, a former chairman of a the Bassett Board of Trustees, set aside money in his will for the creation of an award that would recognize the work of great nurses.

His bequest was prompted by the care of one particular nurse when he was a patient at the US Naval Hospital in Brooklyn. That nurse was Pearl Day.

No one was ever able to inform Day of the legacy created in her honor, but two years ago, Nancy Morris, a nurse at Bassett and a previous winner of the Moe prize, searched Pearl Day's family in Maine.

She will discuss her findings during her talk "Searching for Pearls" at noon Monday, May 13, in the Clark Auditorium at Bassett Medical Center.

Morris will share what she has learned from her research into the life of Pearl F. Day.