Moore will sign copies of new book Tuesday
Event will be at Buford Street Drugs - Ace Hardware

Recollections of 31 years of school nursing is the theme of Florence Moore's new book, Miss, My Head's A Hurtin.'

Books may be purchased during an autograph signing Tuesday at Buford Street Drug - Ace Hardware from 10 a.m. until noon and from 2- 4 p.m.

The book is a compilation of school nursing practices, student reactions, antidotes, letters, poems and relationships with school personnel from 1966 to 1967 in local schools.

"I have repeated some of these stories so many times that I was encouraged to write them down and publish them," Nurse Moore said. "I guess folks reasoned they wouldn't have to hear them over and over again if I did that."

Mrs. Moore and her pharmacist husband, Randy, live at 208 Crestview Drive. She is a native of Blacksburg, the middle daughter of Ted and Ruth Hoke. Because she inherited the rich nursing tradition of her mother and three aunts who were nurses, she was named for Florence Nightingale. A graduate of Anderson County Memorial Hospital School of Nursing, she earned a B.S. degree in sociology from Limestone College and was one of the first public school nurses in Cherokee County and South Carolina.

With three children of her own, she managed to balance home, family and career as she ministered to Cherokee County school children with love, care and compassion.

Speaking of her career, she said, "I did not choose nursing - nursing chose me."