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Shirley Nathan Pulliam

Two years after Old Harbour News feature, Shirley Nathan-Pulliam receives US lifetime achievement award

At a gala celebrating Jamaica’s 60th year of Independence held in Baltimore on Saturday (August 13), Mrs. Nathan-Pulliam was recognised for 20 years of service in the Maryland House of Delegates and five years in the Maryland Senate.

This comes two years after Nathan-Pulliam was featured by Old Harbour News, where she speaks of her journey as a career nurse and then later US politics.

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Former Maryland State Senator, Shirley Nathan Pulliam (seated in the wheelchair), listens as Ambassador Curtis Ward (at lectern) pays tribute to her, during the Jamaica Association of Maryland’s Independence gala held on Saturday (August 13) in Baltimore in the United States (US). (Photo: Derrick Scott)

Born to Serve: Jamaican Shirley Nathan-Pulliam dedicates life to nursing field in USA

After recurring complications from rheumatic fever, Nathan-Pulliam was hospitalized for three months at the Kingston Public Hospital (KPH). During her treatment, she recalled that the nurses there took such good care of her that she promised herself that when she got older, she would become a nurse.

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Senator Shirley Nathan-Pulliam