Wilma Slates Arpen

Wilma Lydia Slates was a farm girl from Carrollton, Ohio who graduated from Carrollton High School in 1942. She was able to have the opportunity to become a Registered Nurse because of this program. The war ended before she completed the program, but she did complete it and had a long career in nursing. She worked in Pittsburgh in hospitals and as a school nurse and also in Florida as an office nurse for 25 years with one primary care physician, Dr. S. Joseph Bailey, in Mandarin, Florida. She lives in Mandarin today, 2020, and is 96 years old. On Dec. 7,  2019, she was honored for her service by the Mandarin Museum & Historical Society, along with 5 other World War II veterans, including a Cadet Nurse Corps member who trained in Iowa.