DURING the last year the nursing profession has been busy launching its new organization, the National League for Nursing. New in a way but having also the goodly heritage of three organizations, two concerned with nursing education and the other with public health nursing. No one who reads the records or the official magazines of these organizations can fail to be impressed with the influence of Isabel Maitland Stewart on nursing education over the past 45 years. The evidence is there that it was her fertile mind which furnished the ideas for many of the profession's outstanding projects, her pen which clearly blueprinted them, and her energy which served as the dynamo to start them going.