Our guest speaker will be historian Nick Palmer. He will speak about his father Dr. Yates Palmer who helped establish Valdese General Hospital.

William Lea (Nick) Palmer: Firstborn of Yates Shuford Palmer, MD and Lillian Allen Wrigglesworth Palmer, RN, at the original Grace Hospital, Morganton, NC, Dr Edward Phifer, MD, attending physician; Waldensian Presbyterian Church; Valdese Elementary School; Asheville School, Asheville, NC; US Army (Vietnam); UNC-Chapel Hill - Board of Visitors (1993-1997; Habitat for Humanity, with extended travels on a 1986 R 80 G/S through 2016.