Tue, 05/11/2021 LAWRENCE — The University of Kansas School of Nursing taught Christine Hartley about making a positive impact in her world. She took that lesson and made an impact with a $1.5 million gift for nursing professorships. Hartley was an undergraduate student at the KU School of Nursing in the late 1960s and early ‘70s, a time of evolving social activism and change. The Baxter Springs native graduated with a bachelor's degree in nursing in 1973, a time she said was “interesting, to say the least.” “My classmates and I stretched the faculty, we stretched our education, and we stretched our limits,” said Hartley, an avid skier who now lives in Wyoming’s Jackson Hole valley.