Tombolo Books is thrilled to welcome local author Pia Marie Winters Jordan to the bookstore for a conversation about her mother's ten years of military nursing and her work with the Tuskegee Airmen.

Memories of a Tuskegee Airmen Nurse and her Military Sisters focuses on a four-year period from 1942 to 1946 during World War II when up to 28 women from the Army Nurse Corps staffed the station hospital on the base where the future Tuskegee Airmen were undergoing basic and advanced pilot training. These women were African-Americans, graduates of nursing schools throughout the country, registered nurses and lieutenants in the Army Nurse Corps. They were military officers and the pilot cadets saluted them. Jordan's mother was among them.

Jordan will be in conversation with the President of the African American Heritage Association, Gwendolyn Reese.

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Pia Marie Winters Jordan is the Project Director of the Tuskegee Army Nurses Project. She continues to work on a multi-media documentary on the Army Nurse Corps members who served with the Tuskegee Airmen at Tuskegee Army Air Field during World War II. Her mother, Louise Virginia Lomax Winters, was a First Lieutenant and one of those nurses.

Jordan retired in 2018 as an associate professor in the School of Global Journalism and Communication at Morgan State University in Baltimore, Maryland. Before joining the Morgan faculty, she served almost twenty years as an anchor, reporter and producer for the Howard County Government Information Channel in Columbia, Maryland. She earned her M.A. in Journalism-Public Affairs, Radio-Television at American University in Washington, D.C. and her B.S. in Journalism-Broadcast News from the University of Maryland. For two years before transferring to the University of Maryland, she also attended the Mass Communications program at Bethany College in Bethany, West Virginia.

Gwendolyn Reese is President of the African American Heritage Association of St. Petersburg, FL, Inc. and CEO of Peaten Reese Peaten Consulting, Inc. She serves on the St. Petersburg Community Planning & Preservation Commission and co-chairs the Community Remembrance Project Coalition Pinellas Remembers. In 2015 Ms. Reese was the recipient of the 2015 MLK Leadership Award presented by the National Council of Negro Women and was recognized by Congresswoman Kathy Castor for more than 40 years of community activism and leadership.