university of pittsburgh school of nursing magazine + spring 2008 PITTNurse

this issue: making a difference through leadership About the cover: Leadership takes many forms. In 1943, three Black women were admitted into Pitt’s nursing program for the first time in history. Rachel Poole, Adena Johnson Davis, and Nadine Frye broke the color barrier for future generations of Pitt nurses and went on to a lifetime of achievements.

Inside pitt Nurse

Features De a n ’s Me s s a g e 1

St u d e n t Le a d e r s 17 FRIENDS IN UNFRIENDLY TIMES 2 Rachel Poole, Adena Johnson Davis, and De v e l o p m e n t Ne w s 21 Nadine Frye broke the color barrier for future Honor Roll of Donors 2006–07 23 generations of Pitt nurses. Al u m n i 32 Pitt Nurses are Everywhere 32 LEADing by example 6 Alumni News + Notes 34 Over the past eight years, four School of Nursing Continuing Education 36 alumni have been honored as Legacy Laureates. Nu r s e Be a t 38

Re m e mb e r Wh e n 40 Exemplifying Academic Leadership 12 Endowed professorships and chairs help universities attract top academic talent.

It’s all there Check out the University of Pittsburgh School of Nursing Alumni Society Web site for the latest alumni news. Visit www.nursing.pitt.edu and click on the alumni society icon at the bottom of the page. From upcoming events and meetings to event highlights and more, it’s all there!

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The University of Pittsburgh School In addition, faculty are lead authors of Nursing’s reputation as a prestigious on more than 80 reviewed articles or institution continues to manifest itself book chapters, and 64 percent of our on many fronts. full-time faculty have active research The school increased enrollment activity. The emphasis on research in the traditional undergraduate pro- productivity and quality is reflected gram, with a 150 percent increase in in the school’s rankings—currently annual new nurse graduates over the ranked sixth in NIH funding, third in past five years. An accelerated second number of NIH research grants, and degree BSN program prepares more seventh overall in the 2008 edition of through research, technology, and nurses for the workforce, while Fast ’s U.S. News & World Report America’s Best community health nursing. We are Track Back, a continuing education , with several individual Graduate Schools proud of all of our Pitt nursing alumni. program, prepares nurses returning programs ranking even higher. With more than 11,000 graduates from to work. Because 80 percent of the The rankings in turn have helped the school’s baccalaureate, master’s, school’s PhD graduates enter academic attract outstanding students: This year’s RN Options, and doctoral programs, careers, increased resources have been entering class had an average SAT score there are thousands of stories; we have directed to full-time PhD study to of 1232, and 56 percent were in the presented just a few here. ensure timely completion and entry top 10 percent of their graduating class. If you have a story we should tell, into academic careers. The school enrolls one in eight, or please be sure to complete the What’s Doctorally prepared faculty 12.5 percent of applicants, with approxi- Happening form, now inserted as a increased from 66 percent to 77 percent mately 50 percent of those admitted postage-paid self-mailer in the center (an 11 percent increase) over five years, enrolling. We have the highest four-year of the magazine, so we can update your and the number of tenured faculty graduation rates in the University, and information. We added some questions has nearly doubled. School of Nursing in 2007 we had our first University to help identify stories about nurses faculty hold significant leadership posi- Honors College graduate. who are making a difference for the tions in regional, state, and national All of these accomplishments reflect next issue of Pitt Nurse. A downloadable organizations. Many of the organiza- the school’s standing as one of the leading pdf of the What’s Happening form tions influence policy that directly schools of nursing in the country. In is available on our new Web site that impacts health care delivery and health this issue of we consider Pitt Nurse, you can fill out online and send to us care education. Faculty leadership posi- yet another indication of the school’s electronically, if you prefer. Or, feel free tions include advisory and review groups excellence: leadership. to call our alumni office toll free at at the National Institutes of Health This is the second issue in our series 1-866-217-1124. However you choose (NIH), non-NIH national and interna- looking at ways Pitt nurses are making to stay in touch, please let us hear about tional organizations including interdisci- a difference. In the last issue, we focused you and what you’re doing! plinary groups, and review groups for on Pitt nursing alums making a differ- national organizations that provide ence by implementing evidence-based funding for peer-reviewed research. practice in a community-based hospital in a rural setting. In future issues, we will Jacqueline Dunbar-Jacob, PhD, RN, FAAN focus on Pitt nurses making a difference Dean, University of Pittsburgh School of Nursing

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Friends in Unfriendly Times

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In 1943, three black women were admit- A year later, both women got “They wanted us to make our mark ted into Pitt’s nursing program for the in. Along with Poole’s friend Frye, on the world,” says Gertrude Johnson first time in history. Adena Johnson MLIT ’51, BSN ’47, they broke the Wade, Poole’s cousin who later became Davis, Rachel Poole, and Nadine Frye nursing school’s color barrier. When the first Black female principal in the celebrate the 60th anniversary of their they donned the [nursing] pins for the Pittsburgh school system. Johnson Wade graduation—and a lifetime of achieve- first time, another brick in the wall said her parents came from a generation ment in the Pittsburgh medical of racial segregation had fallen. of Southern Blacks for whom slavery community. Life for Black college students at was a not-too-distant memory. “A lot Johnson Davis, BSN ’47, remembers White schools such as Pitt in the 1940s of parents had histories—of being on marching up to the front desk at the could be isolating and full of trials, says plantations—and they had the real desire University of Pittsburgh School of Consuella Lewis, an assistant professor to see their kids make it.” Nursing, plunking down her test scores, of education at Pitt. “They were always Edward Lee Johnson, the man report cards, and transcripts. She had haunted by instructors who didn’t feel who raised Poole, came to Pittsburgh in been an A student at Peabody High they belonged there. Classmates treated 1903 from Virginia, with a fourth-grade School. For sure, she thought, this will them like they were invisible.” education. Poole’s aunt, Laura Belle get me in. The school’s secretary, a Except for all-Black universities in Johnson, had come to Pittsburgh with pretty White woman with a lilting the South, little opportunity existed for an eighth-grade education. Southern accent, gave it to her straight: Blacks in higher education. Those who “They had limited formal education The school was not accepting Blacks. did get into White schools faced extraor- but were very wise people,” Poole says. That same year, a slender, self- dinary segregation, Lewis says. “There was no question that [Gertrude] assured young woman, covaledictorian at Those Blacks who did get in were and I were going to go to school every Westinghouse High, went to every nurs- the cream of the crop. “They had to day, do well in school every day, and go ing school in the city. They all said the be exceptional students, way beyond to college. We were never told that. We same thing. Whites only. the standards required of other just knew that they expected it, and we “I was absolutely livid,” remembers students,” Lewis says. did it. It was as simple as that.” Poole, BSN ’47, who later became the Johnson Davis, Poole, and Frye Johnson Davis’ father, Theodore first Black director of nursing at Western fit that bill. They were raised by men Johnson, came to Pittsburgh from Psychiatric Institute and Clinic. and women who had come of age in Georgia with a third-grade education. the Jim Crow South, who insisted their While working as a garbage carrier, he children become went to school at night. He eventually “somebody.” got a high school diploma and took Opposite page, left: Nadine Frye (second from left), Rachel Poole classes at Pennsylvania State University. (center), and Adena Johnson Davis are shown with friends in 1943 He became a union shop steward and or 1944. Right: Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority for African American later a state representative. women. Nadine Frye is shown fourth from the right, back row, and Rachel Poole is in the center directly behind the “K.”

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In 1943, three Black women were admitted into Pitt’s nursing program for the first time in history. Rachel Poole, Adena Johnson Davis, and Nadine Frye celebrate the 60th anniversary of their graduation— and a lifetime of achievement in the Pittsburgh medical community.

“There was always this emphasis program if it continued to bar Black on each other, take blood pressure, and on studying and learning in my house,” students. “They wanted that federal shampoo a patient’s hair. In a few years, she remembers. money,” says Johnson Davis. they would be working in hospital wards. All three could have gone to all- After graduating from Pitt, Johnson Once they were accepted into the Black schools in the South. In 1942, Davis went on to have a long career at program, Poole felt confident the three after Pitt turned her down, Johnson Magee-Womens Hospital of UPMC and would succeed. “Admission was the chal- Davis went to Fisk University in the Veterans Administration hospital, lenge,” she said. “Once we got in, we Nashville, Tenn., for a year. But Poole where she became head nurse. She said, ‘We’re smart. We’ll do well.’ I just didn’t want to leave town. wanted to become a nurse after watching knew we were going to make it.” “I refused umpteen scholarships her mother go to the hospital time and There was no question that each [from Black schools]. I figured, ‘I live in again while growing up. Poole had grown had the drive. Poole, who later earned Pittsburgh, I should be able to go to up giving her mother medicine from a a PhD in education and became a nurs- school here.’” little amber bottle. Her mother died of ing professor at her alma mater, worked Frye, who’d slept with a picture abdominal cancer when Rachel was nine. 48-hour jobs in addition to taking a full of Florence Nightingale tacked to the “I would sit there and look at that course load her first year. wall above her bed as a child, wanted glass until it was time to give it to her. Gaining acceptance from White to work as an Army nurse to support I felt powerless, helpless, absolutely. students and faculty was another matter. the war effort. But she didn’t want to I remember thinking, ‘When I grow There were certainly friendly White go south, either. up, I’ll never feel this way again. I will students. Johnson Davis became good The government, in need of nurses never not know what to do with someone friends with one, Rosemary McNamara for the war effort, threatened to pull who’s sick like my mother was.’” Kelly (BUN ’47). Kelly remembers an funding from Pitt’s Cadet Nurse Corps By the fall of 1943, the three women assignment at Western Psychiatric, when were practicing how to administer shots

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“I refused umpteen scholarships [from Black schools]. I figured, ‘I live in Pittsburgh, I should be able to go to school here.’”

one of the hospital’s nurses objected on attending, but the dean told them “As a young Black woman, I had to Johnson Davis’ rooming with to show up. The nuns from St. Francis no power, whatsoever, none. And I’m White nurses. Hospital wanted to see how the Black being threatened by the dean and the “She was from the Deep South, students mixed with White students. chancellor. I had worked hard for five and she thought things should be The dean had one word of caution, years, and I only had a few months left, like the Deep South. The woman however. No dancing with the White and they were going to expel me for absolutely wanted Adena in there by medical students. standing up for my rights.” herself,” said Kelly, 84, of Halifax, Pa. That evening, dressed in a hastily Eventually, the school backed down, “I said, ‘We’re friends and we pick arranged fortune-teller costume, with and Poole kept her academic standing. who we room with.’” the eyes of the nuns on her, Frye Pitt’s current dean of nursing, But other Whites kept the Black remembered feeling a surge of pride. Jacqueline Dunbar-Jacob, says she students at arm’s length, remembers “We knew that other Black students marvels at what the three women were Johnson Wade, who was enrolled in were going to be admitted to St. able to accomplish. “They did it without the School of Education at the time. Francis,” said Frye, who later earned alienating others. They did it in a way “We didn’t get the kind of help and a PhDEduc and taught mental health that allowed others who had been attention that [White] students got.” nursing at Pitt. saying no to them to step back and say, Frye and Poole joined Alpha The scrutiny didn’t end there. ‘Gosh, I wonder why we said no to Kappa Alpha, one of the nation’s oldest A janitor told Johnson Davis that the these people?’” Black sororities. They spent many nuns had been through her dorm room, All three women are active in hours studying in the Cathedral of inspecting her housekeeping abilities. the alumni association and in recruit- Learning or hanging out with other They found the room spotless. ing Blacks into nursing. Pitt named Black students in the “tuck” shop—’40s St. Francis integrated its nursing a scholarship after Johnson Davis slang for cafeteria—smoking cigarettes program shortly after Pitt. that goes to a promising African and drinking Coke. Signs of racial prejudice were not American student. Though they had broken the color hard to find for the young women. “I was proud of Pitt for letting us barrier for nursing in Pittsburgh, Frye “One patient said to me, ‘I want in, no matter how they let us in,” Frye and her classmates never stopped to a real nurse,’” Poole remembers. says, “because they were the first.” ponder their place in history. “I said, ‘You got one right here, so Yet they knew many eyes were let’s get going.’” on them. While on an assignment in The nursing school dean called Braddock, Poole tried eating lunch at them into her office one Halloween. a restaurant there but was turned away Written by Reid Frazier There was a dance that night for because she was Black. “I took it to the Cover photograph by Renee Rosensteel Historic photographs courtesy of Rachel Poole students at the medical and nursing magistrate,” she remembers. “And the This excerpt first appeared in the winter 2008 issue of schools. None of the three had planned University was furious with me. They Pittsburgh Quarterly and is reprinted with permission. told me I needed to quit, or they would expel me.”

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Established in 2000, the Legacy Laureate program recognizes University of Pittsburgh alumni for their personal and career achieve- ments, while providing them with an oppor- tunity to contribute to the success of today’s students. Members of the group represent a broad array of disciplines, including business, medicine, journalism, law, government, LLeadingeading byby sports, social services, education, and the arts. Legacy Laureates are individuals who have achieved exceptional success in pursuit of their life goals and who continue to inspire EExample:xample: us by their example. The goal of the program is to recognize these individuals as living examples to our students of the potential for Pitt Nurse excellence that exists within our University community. The supporting rationale for Legacy Laureates the Legacy Laureates program was developed from the idea that no one is a better role Make a Difference model for a student than an alumnus who has been successful in his or her chosen on Many Fronts professional field. The program enhances the academic curriculum in an exciting and meaningful way by providing opportunities for close and personal contact among eminent alumni, students, faculty, and University administration on all campuses. Over the past eight years, the Legacy Laureates program has honored four School of Nursing alumni in recognition of their outstanding personal and profes- sional accomplishments. Though working in very different set- tings, these four Pitt nurses tell stories that echo a common theme: Leadership is a skill best demonstrated by example. And through that leadership, they continue to make a dif- ference both in the lives of the people they touch and the industry that surrounds them. Whether working on the front lines of a refugee camp on the Thai border, guiding victims from the wreckage of a terrorist attack, or conducting clinical trials involving brain tumors, nurses are the health care professionals who make the greatest direct impact on people’s lives.

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There was a time when Patricia Today, Horoho—a colonel in Horoho considered becoming the U.S. Army—is the first woman a teacher. Her family supported and first nurse to serve as com- her dreams of higher education, mander of the Walter Reed Health but they also had another career Care System, which provides health in mind. care to about 150,000 service mem- “My grandfather always said, bers, relatives, and retirees in and ‘Get an education, because it’s around Washington, D.C. She is the one thing that someone can’t responsible for the hub facility, take away from you,’” recalls Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Horoho, MSN ’92, RN. An Italian as well as 10 other military facilities immigrant who worked in coal throughout Maryland, Virginia, mines, her grandfather was so and Pennsylvania. impressed by the nursing profession “I have a passion for making that he put her cousins through a difference,” says Horoho, who nursing school. believes the core skills she learned Seeing the positive impact in nursing school prepared her for CColonelolonel those cousins were able to make, everything from her clinical duties Horoho’s mother advised her to to administrative work. PPatriciaatricia follow in their footsteps. Little “You’re triaging chaos and did she know the legacy of that making decisions quickly based decision would be so profound. on your assessment and clinical HHorohooroho On September 11, 2001, when judgment,” she says. a plane struck the Pentagon, From a leadership perspective, 2007 Horoho evacuated her coworkers Horoho follows the acronym then sped to the point of impact, C4SG, which stands for four Cs Legacy where she became first in command (connection, character, competency, Laureate of medical care. She established and conviction) one S (serving) evacuation routes, treated patients, and one G (gift). and moved victims until unidenti- “It’s a gift to be in the health fied planes flying overhead were care profession and to have grounded. She also established those clinical competencies,” a command center for emergency says Horoho. “Trust that gift medical services and coordinated of instinct when you’re making rescue and medical efforts with the those decisions.” FBI, fire and police departments, medical facilities, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

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Every year, Holly Ann Williams in a multidisciplinary setting is shares a phone call that reminds probably the best way to approach her of the bonds created by her pro- any problem.” fession: She speaks to the family of An anthropologist and epide- a little girl to whom she cared dur- miologist as well as a nurse, ing her first job after graduation. Williams was able to draw upon Williams, BSN ’76, still recalls all of her interests by focusing on how she told the girl, Jodi, that she emergency international health. was leaving to coach synchronized “It’s just taking what I’ve swimming at a summer camp and always done, but putting it in the asked the child to write her a letter. context of emergency situations Jodi, who had leukemia, said she or refugees,” she explains. wouldn’t be around to do it. Two Both she and her husband, weeks later, she died. Williams was anthropologist Art Hansen, travel so moved by the experience that extensively for their jobs, so they when she converted to Judaism in must coordinate to ensure one her 20s, the Hebrew name she took of them is always in the United CCaptainaptain was the same as Jodi’s. States to care for their 14-year-old “Those nights with Jodi are daughter, Kaitlin. Despite spending HHollyolly AAnnnn still as clear in my mind as if I 40–60 percent of her working were 24, caring for her again,” hours outside the United States, says Williams. “Every year, on the Williams still found time to serve WilliamsWilliams anniversary of her death, her mom as the leader of her daughter’s and I talk. And those are the links Brownie troop and participate in 2005 in nursing that physicians rarely school activities. have. That’s where we’re so fortu- “But it’s hard, it’s really hard. Legacy nate as nurses: to be able to touch You miss a lot,” says Williams. Laureate someone’s life like that, and have “I just keep telling myself that per- them touch yours. It’s a gift, that’s haps in her 20s or 30s, my daughter the only way I can describe it.” will appreciate that women can do Today, as a commissioned very creative, interesting, and non- officer in the U.S. Public Health traditional jobs. I hope that’s the Service, Williams works at the message I’m imparting to her.” Centers for Disease Control and As for the message she hopes Prevention. Among her many to impart to other nurses, Williams accomplishments, she has worked is straightforward: “Don’t let any- with refugees along the Thailand one tell you [that] you can’t do it.” Cambodia border, helped hurricane When nurses branch out into victims in Florida and areas hit by unusual fields, “you’re showing Hurricane Katrina, and taught peo- people that nurses are so incredibly ple internationally to fight malaria. talented, and our socialization “Those experiences have allows us to look at problems from shaped me professionally in terms a wide array of perspectives.” of being able to deal creatively with “I want nurses to know that an array of situations,” Williams they can go out and do 100 differ- says. “It makes you flexible; it ent things,” Williams continues. makes you understand that working “You don’t leave nursing; it comes with you. It’s who you are.”

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Pearl Moore always knew she’d grants, and career development be a nurse. As a little girl, she awards for the ONS Foundation. pretended to be Cherry Ames, “She was instrumental in push- the mystery-solving nurse featured ing nursing to have a seat at the in a book series. Later, she worked table with decision makers to give as a volunteer candy striper at what nursing a powerful voice, and peo- is now UPMC-Montefiore. ple listened,” says Barbara Sigler, Moore, MN ’74, BN ’68, who was a graduate student when assumed her first leadership role she met Moore and later followed at Montefiore when she became her to the ONS. “Her leadership of director of its school of nursing oncology nurses has had a dramatic in the 1970s. She returned to clini- impact on the quality [of] care that cal work when her mother was patients with cancer now receive. … diagnosed with cancer, a seminal She has really laid the groundwork event that would shape the rest for those nurses that followed.” of her career. Moore also started working “That is when I decided to as an adjunct assistant professor PPearlearl pursue a specialty in oncology at the School of Nursing in nursing. Fortunately, the School 1974 and has held posts in the MMooreoore of Nursing had started an oncology American Academy of Nursing, master’s program, so I enrolled,” the International Union Against 2004 Moore says. Cancer, and other nursing and One of the first oncology health-related groups. Legacy clinical nurse specialists in the She retired from ONS in 2007 United States, Moore also was and jokes, “It took me a whole day Laureate one of the first coordinators of to adjust to retirement.” the brain tumor study group, part A strong advocate of advanced of a groundbreaking national con- education, one of her few regrets is sortium conducting clinical trials. that she did not pursue a doctorate. In 1975, she was one of a group “I would encourage anyone in nurs- of nurses who met informally to ing to get their doctorate—a PhD share ideas about how to help or DNP,” she says. cancer patients. Moore recently was named From those early talks sprang a 2008 School of Nursing the Oncology Nursing Society Distinguished Alumni awardee. (ONS), a Pittsburgh-based organi- “Of all the awards I have zation that now spans more than received, awards from my alma 200 chapters nationwide and boasts mater mean the most to me,” a membership of 35,000 health care she says. “Adding the School professionals. Moore became its of Nursing Distinguished first executive director in the 1980s Alumni award to the Legacy and helped raise millions of dollars Laureate honor is wonderful.” for scholarships, research grants, memorial lectures, public education

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There are many kinds of nurse quantification, deliberation, and leaders. Some are very operational executive style communication. and internally focused. Others are First, nurse executives must operational but also are constantly be able to quantify, measure, com- looking for the answer to “what’s pare, and clearly identify clinical, next?” Maryann F. Fralic is one of financial, and operational outcomes. those leaders who has the uncanny “CNOs need to be bilingual, know- ability to look into the future and ing financial language as well as prepare current leaders for the next patient care language,” she says. reality she sees. Fralic believes the ability to develop Fralic, DrPH ’82, MN ’73, a detailed business plan that can RN, FAAN, professor and director, become an institutional vehicle for corporate and foundation relations, strategic planning will give nurse Johns Hopkins University School of executives a strong voice at the Nursing, is reflective. She is always table, not simply a seat. looking for the bigger picture, to Next, Fralic believes nurse see the confluence of issues and executives need the ability to MMaryannaryann FF.. the consequences of events on the deliberate—to think, reason, listen, future. “I try to anticipate the unan- question, analyze, debate, read the FFralicralic ticipated. To look for the familiarity extant literature, recognize the and patterns in what is occurring. patterns. And finally, they must 2000 To ask what happened in the past possess executive style communica- and how may it impact the future,” tion skills and behaviors. “It’s how Legacy she says. “To create ‘what if’ you look, speak, write, and make scenarios and to do active scenario presentations, as well as the ability Laureate planning. To diligently focus on to accurately ‘read a room’ and act the strategic visioning that today’s accordingly,” Fralic says. “You must nonstop environments demand.” always conduct yourself with integ- Fralic also serves as executive rity as a senior executive of the advisor for the Nursing Executive organization, effectively represent- Center of the Advisory Board Co., ing a major institutional constitu- Washington, D.C., and as consul- ency.” The most important thing tant for the Robert Wood Johnson is to communicate that values will Nurse Executive Fellows Program. always guide your leadership path. Keeping her feet in the worlds of “Principled leaders are consistently both clinical care delivery and aca- values driven,” she says. demia permits Fralic to influence— Fralic is known for forming and be influenced by—the academic great working coalitions and rela- arm of clinical practice. “We must tionships with many people and be an integrated profession, not one organizations throughout the of parallel functions,” Fralic says. United States and other countries. “Staying well informed is, “Establishing partnerships, coali- I believe, a task of leadership,” tions, and strong relationships is the she says. Fralic sees three additional essence of what all effective leaders prime competencies for the success- must do. That’s how meaningful ful contemporary nurse executive: work is accomplished,” she says. “But you must first respect others, value what they know and what they

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Dean Dunbar-Jacob named can contribute, and ensure that 2007 NINR Pathfinder these relationships will serve their purposes as well.” Distinguished Research Awardee Mentoring is something Fralic considers a professional responsibil- ity. “Most of us have been well men- tored in our professional lives,” she The Pathfinder Distinguished Research Award is given by Friends of the National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR) to acknowledge nurse researchers whose work has focused says. “I believe giving back is an on advancing deep understanding of human health and health care and has been expectation, a way to say ‘thank you’ sustained by multiple grants from NINR/National Center for Nursing Research. The 2007 to those who have invested in you.” award was intended to specifically recognize a nurse researcher whose body of scholar- In considering the future of ship illustrates long-standing commitment to an aspect of nursing research that has nursing, Fralic quotes the words of made a difference in the lives of people with health care needs. General Eric K. Shinseki, former Research is integral to the professional career of Jacqueline Dunbar-Jacob, PhD, RN, chief of staff for the armed services, FAAN. For more than 20 years, she has focused on the study of patient adherence, who said, “If you do not like change, addressing a variety of patient populations including rheumatological conditions, cardio- you will like irrelevance even less.” vascular risk factors, diabetes, AIDS, cancer screening, and transplantation. Given that “If we do not create a new approximately 50 percent of patients are poorly adherent to treatment regimens, the future for the profession, for health long-term impact of her research has considerable clinical significance. Her research has care, and for the work that we do, also influenced the methodology for the study of adherence over time. others will. And then we become Dunbar-Jacob has been principal investigator, co-investigator, or advisory committee irrelevant,” Fralic says. “We must as member for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Science Foundation, a profession equip ourselves to lead and seven of the institutes in the National Institutes of Health. As an educator and men- in what will predictably be extremely tor, she continually strives to develop opportunities where students are trained to evalu- turbulent and challenging times.” ate and synthesize information and adapt to an ever-changing environment. She leads by example as she possesses an insatiable spirit of inquiry and works to inspire lifelong And how does Fralic maintain learning in all students. balance in her life? “I got a refresh- ing perspective on balance from an As Susan Albrecht, PhD, RN, FAAN, noted, “Dr. Dunbar-Jacob set the pace for nursing article in the magazine Fast Company research when she received one of the first NINR Core Center Grants. The grant assisted Dunbar-Jacob in by [K.H.] Hammonds titled ‘Balance deepening her research focus area of chronic disor- is Bunk.’ How could you not read an ders, and has sustained continuous funding for an article with that title? … The author unprecedented 14 years.” notes that we are constantly urged to pursue perfect balance in our lives, “I am truly honored at this recognition from my peers. Research drives important changes in but that is an unattainable illusion,” nursing care that ultimately impact patient lives,” Fralic says. “We should ask ourselves says Dunbar-Jacob. “I am grateful that one question: ‘Am I happy?’ If the the Friends of the National Institute answer is ‘yes,’ you are in balance. of Nursing Research, through the That’s a great common-sense lesson establishment of this award, recognize for nurse leaders everywhere.” the importance of what every nurse researcher does.”

The Maryann Fralic portion of this article is excerpted from an article published in Nurse Leader, Volume 4, Issue 4, Karlene M. Kerfoot, PhD, RN, CNAA, FAAN, interviewer, “Leader to Watch/ Maryann F. Fralic, RN, DrPH, FAAN,” pages 10-14 (August 2006). Copyright Elsevier 2007. Keith Weller (Photography, © 2006)

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Exemplifying Academic Leadership Kathleen Dwyer and Linda Phillips

othing connotes success in academia more Her reasons were twofold and reflect both the difficulties faced by nurse researchers generally and the inherent Nthan the prestige of an endowed chair. To challenges of moving a research project from one institution to another. quote Pitt Magazine, “Most universities have a “The chair provides understandable recognition that you simple yet powerful way to attract top academic are doing quality work,” she says, “especially when you’re interacting with other disciplines. Many people still don’t talent and add luster to their reputations. It’s the understand that a nursing PhD is a research degree, not a clinical degree. The ‘labeling’ that comes with holding the EPC factor—endowed professorships and chairs, chair allows me to interface with others without having to explain that I’m a doctorally prepared researcher. It has which can profoundly influence the long-term definitely opened doors across campus.” On a more fundamental front, the resources that came fortunes of an institution.” with the chair were a boon to moving her research. As Dwyer While holding such a chair equates with distinguished explains, “I had applied for a grant from the National Institute scholarship and teaching, it may or may not equate with other of Nursing Research (NINR) while still in Tennessee, and aspects of leadership, such as the elusive ability to inspire the proposal received a very good score. However, the proposal others to action. In the case of two School of Nursing grads, was submitted in response to a call for projects using commu- however, leadership is writ large. The University of Pittsburgh nity-based participatory research methods and the proposal School of Nursing is proud to have produced many leaders had been designed utilizing a community group I assembled over the years, including Kathleen A. Dwyer and Linda in that state. All of that community-based networking had R. Phillips, both of whom now hold academic chairs at their to be reconstructed in Oklahoma if I was to move the research respective institutions. project. The endowment funds made it possible for me to Dwyer, PhD ’93, holds the Henry Freede Chair in begin laying the groundwork for an Oklahoma-based partner- Nursing Science at the University of Oklahoma Health ship in January 2007, host a networking luncheon in March, Sciences Center College of Nursing (OUCN). Her research have a partnership in place by mid-May, and receive funding focus has been developing interventions to assist cancer survi- from NINR in September. At the very least, it would have vors and their families with the transitions that occur following taken much longer without the chair, if I had been able treatment; she has received numerous federal and foundation to manage it at all.” grants to support her research. She is a member of the team She is a great believer in the value of community-based developing the University of Oklahoma Cancer Institute and participatory research, and her project partners are a group also is involved with implementation of a new doctoral program of African American breast cancer survivors or supportive in the College of Nursing. others; together they are working to create a multimedia The endowed professorship was critical to Dwyer’s approach that can be accessed no matter where the family decision to move to Oklahoma from her previous position at lives. The approach also considers cultural differences faced Vanderbilt University. “I wasn’t looking to move and was very by Black women such as a need to appear strong at all costs. comfortable in Tennessee. Once I paid a visit to Oklahoma and Fostering Post-Treatment Transitions in African-American learned more about OUCN and the endowed chair, I saw that Breast Cancer Survivors is funded by the NINR at the it was an exciting opportunity. Without the endowed chair, National Institutes of Health. I doubt I would have made the move.” Carole Kenner, dean of OUCN, explains that at OUCN, “People who hold endowed chairs are assumed to be senior, very accomplished faculty who automatically garner a great

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Exemplifying Academic Leadership Kathleen Dwyer and Linda Phillips

deal of support. They also have research has received more than 24 federal and 10 state grants a great deal of responsibility to from sources that include the NINR and National Institute on be good mentors to junior faculty Aging. She has published more than 40 refereed journal articles and to leverage interdisciplinary on caregiving and abuse of caregivers, 15 additional articles, resources at a higher level than four scholarly books, and 13 book chapters. would otherwise occur. Dwyer’s In a follow-up interview with Pitt Nurse this year, Phillips research is cutting edge, and her was asked about her new role at UCLA. leadership is taking treatment She recalled that around the time of the previous interview to an entirely new level of care.” with Pitt Nurse, “I had been at Arizona for more than 25 years Phillips, PhD, MN ’73, and was contemplating what to do next. The UCLA School of BSN ’69, RN, FAAN, FGSA, Nursing announced a newly endowed chair, and after talking holder of the Audrienne H. with the late dean, Marie J. Cowan, PhD, RN, FAAN (who Moseley endowed chair in nursing could be very persuasive!), it became clear that it was a perfect at the University of California, opportunity for me at this phase of my career.” Phillips retired Los Angeles (UCLA), since 2006, from Arizona and headed for Los Angeles in 2006. has proven vision and the drive Now she focuses on the next generation of leadership behind it to accomplish her goals. “in tandem with carrying on her own research. She was one of the earliest Janice D. Crist, PhD, RN, a former colleague of Phillips’ researchers to focus on care-giving at Arizona says, “Dr. Phillips has always had an extraordinary to frail elders, particularly the commitment to mentoring and role-modeling, for which she crosscultural aspects of such care, has been sought for decades by graduate and postgraduate and the field of elder abuse. She students. Her mentoring of doctoral students and postdoctoral first turned her attention to elder fellows has attracted numerous nurse researchers to the area Kathleen A. Dwyer, above Linda R. Phillips, below abuse many years ago as a home of family care for the elderly. I was one of those postdoctoral health nurse for the Visiting Nurse fellows and can attest to her dedication.” Association of Allegheny County in the 1970s. So, what is the main advantage of holding an endowed “Elder abuse was the most difficult thing I dealt with. chair for someone who is already at the top of her field? Phillips It wasn’t on the forefront of anything, there were no laws echoes Dwyer’s response in part: resources. “The chair came specific to the problem, and we had very few alternatives at with the funds to support development of the Center for the time,” Phillips states. Her dissertation (completed in 1980) Gerontological Nursing. I was able to hire a postdoc and was one of the first pieces of research to address the issue, and a staff member to support gerontological research and care she has been in the lead ever since. and am working with more junior faculty to give them oppor- “I love this work,” Phillips told Pitt Nurse in a 2006 inter- tunities they might not otherwise have had in this field.” view while still on the faculty at the University of Arizona. Crist notes that Phillips frequently copublishes with those “There are not enough hours in the day to do all of what whom she mentors and stays involved with former students needs to be done, but I believe we are raising awareness of as a consultant on their research grants. “She is simply inspira- the challenges and stimulating health professionals to think tional,” says Crist. about these issues as they plan care for elders.” And what does Phillips say when asked how it feels Phillips was given the national Doris Schwartz to hold such a prestigious position attained after a lifetime Gerontological Nursing Research Award in 2007 in recogni- of leadership? tion of her innovative research over the course of 30 years that “I’m having fun—this is my retirement adventure!” has improved the lives of countless numbers of elderly. Phillips’

Photo of Linda Phillips courtesy of Reed Hutchinson at Calfoto

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Dream Weaver: Alumna Strives to Improve Adherence to Sleep Apnea Treatment

For the more than 12 million Americans who the national Board of Directors of the suffer from sleep apnea, a good night’s sleep American Lung Association, and in October is a precious commodity. As common a health 2006, she was named that year’s recipient of disorder as diabetes, sleep apnea occurs its Ada Sue Hinshaw Award, an unrestricted when a person’s breathing stops or becomes grant that supports the work of a nurse extremely shallow during sleep, with each researcher. It is intended to focus attention pause in breath lasting 10–20 seconds, on the significance of nursing research and 20–30 times or more every hour. the contributions made by nurse scientists The risks are sobering: According to the that improve health care. National Institutes of Health (NIH), people Weaver has developed the gold standard with untreated sleep apnea can be at increased for studies of quality of life in patients with risk for high blood pressure, heart attack, sleep apnea. Among the most common and stroke, as well as work-related and driving treatments for the disorder is the continuous accidents. Yet patients demonstrate only positive airway pressure (CPAP) machine, Terri Weaver a 50 percent adherence rate in their first which requires patients to wear a mask over week of treatment. their noses during sleep. The mask blows That’s where Terri Weaver comes in. air into the patient’s throat at a customized Weaver, PhD, BSN ’73, CS, FAAN, is an asso- pressure level, keeping the throat open ciate professor and chair of the Biobehavioral during sleep. and Health Sciences Division at the University Software embedded in the CPAP machine of Pennsylvania School of Nursing. She is enables providers to identify adherence infor- studying issues that impact adherence and mation, the patient’s functional status, and quality of life in patients with sleep disorders. the person’s ability to respond to treatment. Recognized nationally and internationally When individuals perceive the benefits for her research on the effect of daytime sleep- of the CPAP, they are more likely to use it, iness on daily behaviors and assessment of Weaver theorizes. And if she can improve treatment outcomes, Weaver has developed adherence to treatment, “insurers are more two disease-specific functional status mea- willing to pay for it,” she adds. sures: one for chronic pulmonary disorders, the other for sleep disorders. Weaver’s current research is supported by the National Heart Blood and Lung Institute of NIH. In May 2006, she was named chair of

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Gail Wolf Wins AONE Lifetime Achievement Award

The Lifetime Achievement Award honors an American manager groups, still a Organization of Nurse Executives (AONE) member who fairly radical concept at the Dr. Wolf is is recognized by the broader nursing community as a signifi- time (1991–92). “We recog- a visionary cant leader in the nursing profession and who has served nized that anyone in a AONE in an important leadership capacity, demonstrating the leadership role is dealing nursing leader qualities of leadership and service to the nursing profession with the same issues, and by his or her professional and personal example. we should be accessing our who has inspired Gail Wolf, DNS, MSN, BSN, FAAN, coordinator collective wisdom to benefit generations of of the nursing administration and leadership program in patient care,” she says. “ the Department of Acute and Tertiary Care, embodies the In 1999, Wolf founded nurses to lead AONE vision: shaping the future of health care through the three-tiered Leadership and learn. innovative nursing leadership. During the early 1980s, she Academy to give emerging, was a member of one of the first classes of Wharton Fellows, operational, and strategic a highly selective group of nurse executives chosen to attend leaders from across the country the leadership skills an intensive three-week training session at the University of they need to adapt and excel in a transformational health Pennsylvania’s Wharton School. It was one of the first—if not care environment. the first—systematic effort to apply business information and In 2007, she received a grant award from the Provost’s practices to the practice of nursing. “It was a watershed moment Advisory Council on Instructional Excellence for the Virtual for nursing,” Wolf says, “and for me, too. As a hospital nurse Hospital: A Business Simulation Model for Nursing” Leaders. administrator, I was painfully aware of the gaps between the An innovative Web-based tool using the case study method, clinical and business sides of health care, and this crystallized Virtual Hospital allows students to learn and evaluate multiple many things for me. solutions in a simulated setting without subjecting patients “Clinical practice is near and dear to our hearts, but and/or organizations to actual risk. you have to be able to speak the language of business to “Nurses really need integrated business training,” says advance the role of nursing within the health care sector,” Wolf. “Taking isolated business and finance courses will teach she says. “Unfortunately, nurses traditionally have received you theory, but it doesn’t translate that theory into the real almost no such training.” Through her hospital leadership roles, environment, and that has direct implications for the quality teaching (which she has done throughout her career), research, of patient care.” lecturing, and writing, Wolf has stepped into and led the way Wolf has been teaching leadership skills at Pitt’s School in filling this void. of Nursing since 1982 and brings 30 years of nursing manage- In 1989, Wolf helped develop the Transformational Model ment and leadership experience to her students. In addition, for Professional Practice in Health Care Organizations to she has conducted numerous seminars and lectures across the provide the framework for integrating a health care system, United States and around the world. balance competing priorities, develop leaders and staff, and “Dr. Wolf is a visionary nursing leader who has inspired maintain an unerring focus on the organization’s values generations of nurses to lead and learn guided by exemplary and goals. Her research continues to focus on the application standards and evidence-based practice. I know of no other indi- and outcomes of this model. vidual more deserving of this prestigious award,” says AONE She led AONE as its president during its 25th anniversary President Linda Everett, PhD, RN, FAAN. year, as it strove to integrate the organization’s executive and

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Distinguished Alumnus Works for Nurse Recruitment and Patient Safety

“I absolutely love what I do!” says for nurses to assess patient safety infor- Victoria L. Rich, PhD ’91, MSN ’84, mation, another of her passions. RN, FAAN, chief nursing officer Considered a pioneer in patient at the Hospital of the University of safety systems and initiatives, Rich Pennsylvania. Her hope is that in finding developed an innovative framework a solution for the current nursing short- for creating and sustaining a culture age, she will be able to convince others of safety that has become a model in to love the profession, too. the United States. Recognized as an outstanding policy “The nurse is accountable for leader in the shortage and recruitment the safety and education of patients and crisis, Rich was named a Distinguished their families through surveillance Alumnus of the Pitt School of Nursing in and reconnaissance,” she says. 2006 and recently earned similar honors As a consultant with the U.S. Food “The nurse is from Indiana University of Pennsylvania. and Drug Administration, Rich uses She views nurses as the key point evidence-based practice tools to help accountable of information for the patient. design medical technology that is safe for the safety “Everything is about the patient,” and easy for health care providers to she says. “Nurses are conduits for infor- use. She also is working with the engi- and education mation through the entire continuum neering and computer science depart- of care from the initial assessment ments at Penn to design a platform of patients and through discharge.” for doctors and nurses to interface their families.” And it’s discharge that Rich with human factors. believes may be the most critical time

Faculty Achievements

The 79 full-time School of Nursing faculty members are distinguished by their academic achieve- ments and by their contributions beyond the classroom. During 2006–07, this included: 11 FAAN memberships; Service on more than 34 review and editorial boards. Service on more than 45 state and national boards along with members Faculty also have been first or second who held at least 42 offices and authors of more than 100 articles, committee chairs; 20 abstracts, and six book chapters.

Service on more than 44 advisory In addition, 25 members of the faculty panels and task forces; and were recognized with 31 awards during the same time frame. Combined with untold hours of service to the profession and to the community that are not included in these numbers, School of Nursing faculty are an impressive group of people!

16 university of pittsburgh pitt Nurse spring 200b 17 STUDENT leaders Stephanie Borkowski, NSA President Exemplifying Student Leadership “Steph has brought a level of initiative, energy, enthusiasm, and commitment to NSA that is just extraordinary.”

We’ve all heard the expression, “she’s a representative at the SNAP State Convention, born leader,” but leaders don’t magically a seat that Katie held the prior year.” appear fully developed like Athena springing Borkowski has never sought to define from the head of Zeus. It takes time, a honing herself as a leader—she just enjoys working of skills, and the opportunity to stretch before with people, likes to be involved in things, and most leaders emerge and are recognized. is really passionate about improving the lives The School of Nursing is fortunate to have of others. That quality also makes her a caring dynamic student leaders who are well along nurse with an ability to inspire others. “My that path: Stephanie Borkowski and her col- primary inspiration comes from the patients leagues on the Nursing Student Association I’ve cared for, many of whom have maintained (NSA) board, of which she serves as president. perspective and kept a positive attitude even Other NSA board members this year are when they were very sick,” she says. Liz Konieczny, secretary-treasurer; Katie Nurses are another source of inspiration. McCormick, vice president of professional “They work incredibly hard and will do development; Amber Boyer, vice president anything to enhance patient care. Plus, the of fundraising; Allison Pavlov, vice president faculty here are just so accomplished—I’ll of service; and Sirena Lehmer, social events be researching a topic and realize that the chair. All of the board members are seniors. articles were written by my professors who are NSA represents the University of Pittsburgh conducting amazing research. It’s incredible chapter of the affiliate, Student Nurses’ to be a part of a world-renowned school.” Association of Pittsburgh (SNAP) and She loves the emphasis on evidence- National Student Nurses’ Association. based research (EBR). “EBR makes all of us NSA advisor Suzanne Brody, BSN, technical leaders. Part of what makes nursing RN, says, “Steph has brought a level so interesting is that it’s always changing, and of initiative, energy, enthusiasm, and research is a major part of that. If you like commitment to NSA that is just stasis, don’t pick nursing!” extraordinary, leading it through For someone who thrives on activity and a dramatic revitalization.” manages to balance a successful academic Brody also notes that this leader- career (she’s on the Dean’s List) with signifi- ship hasn’t ended at the doors to cant outside activity, Borkowski’s future career Victoria Hall. “Steph and Katie both choice seems a natural: She hopes to work in have terrific organizational and political a hospital ER in her native Philadelphia and instincts. They successfully organized cam- eventually go on to graduate work. paigns to help our student representatives win “I look forward to seeing Steph’s name statewide office. Sophomore Jatolloa Davis in Pitt Nurse 10 years from now,” says Brody. was elected as the Greater Pittsburgh region “It will be exciting to read about the contribu- tions she has made to the profession!”

pitt Nurse spring 200b 17 Scholarships Scholarships The Future of Nursing

The School’s scholarship program Undergraduate Awards represents both academic excellence and a commitment by alumni and Adena Johnson Davis Scholarship in Nursing Frank & Anna Minno Scholarship Fund in Oluwatobi Adeboyejo friends who support academic excellence Memory of their Daughter Lt. Col. Julia Minno Keiara Williams Lexie Armstrong in nursing educa​tion. Scholarship donors have generously invested in nursing’s African-American Nursing Alumni Scholarship Kathryn C. & John W. Conway Endowed Student future, while scholarship awardees are Michael Okoye Nursing Award Susanne Apgar preparing to become the future of Ann M.J. Reed Memorial Scholarship Katie Stonelake the profession­—our connection to Thomas D. Carnahan, IV a tomorrow filled with boundless Meryl Kohos Ladies Hospital Aid Society Endowed Fund for promise and opportunity. Amanda Nietupski Student Resources Our scholarship list continues to Brittany Tatro Margaret Campbell grow each year thanks to the generous Theresa Timcheck Jessica Westfall Lt. Ann Visnovsky Miner–Class of 1948 Nursing support of alumni and friends. We Keiara Williams Scholarship Fund are proud of each of our scholarship Megan Donaldson awardees and grateful to all of our Anne J. Pierce Endowed Fund for Margaret M. Dick Quasi-Endowed Scholarship donors. Their ongoing support of Student Resources George Moura in the School of Nursing nursing education assists our best and Callan Carnahan brightest students to successfully meet Army ROTC Partners in Nursing Education Kaitlyn Deardorff their educational goals. Scholarship Laura Dum Megan Donaldson Allison Mentzer Christine Mulkern Cameos of Caring Endowed Nursing Scholarship Patricia Owen Leslie Edwards Ronald A. Mennow Navy ROTC Scholarship Kimberly A. Pikul Alexis Krestos Shari Renee Sand Nursing Alumni Senior Student Award Deborah Elaine Lawhorn Memorial Fund Shannon Moore Indira Gowda Pirates Alumni African-American Nursing Dr. Ann Gera Yurick Memorial Fund Student Scholarship Heather Harris Lauren Williams Elaine F. Hagerty Memorial Nursing Student Rebecca Olive McKinney Endowed Fund for Resources Fund Student Resources Allison Borza Meghan Nicola Elizabeth Lucas & Wilbur J. Chaffee Memorial The Stella Yaksich Endowed Scholarship Undergraduate Scholar’s Award Phoebe Stewart Laura Sperli The Tony and Mildred Sherry Savino Memorial Ellen B. Rudy Endowed Scholarship for Future Student Resource Fund Nursing Leaders Christopher Zorger Amanda Botscheller William Randolph Hearst Foundation Endowed Scholarship Fund for Undergraduate Nursing Students Emily Landkrohn

18 university of pittsburgh Graduate Awards

Beryl B. Haughton Jackson Endowed Fund for Corinne M. Barnes Endowed Scholarship Patricia P. Lynch Scholarship Graduate Students to Study Women’s Health Kristin Nowack (DNP) Barbara Chesnutt (MSN) Jill V. Radtke (PhD) Doris E. & Davina J. Gosnell Endowed Rose E. Constantino Endowed Scholarship Bessie Li Sze Scholarship Nursing Scholarship Beth Grabiak (PhD) Amy Federoff (MSN) Serafina Bear (MSN) Susan Nath Bywaters Endowment Award Cameos of Caring Endowed Nursing Scholarship Dorothy Drake Brooks Endowment Jacqueline Sepaniac (MSN) Becky Broskey (MSN) Theresa Hilton-Berger (MSN) Erin S. Carwile (MSN) Rachel Rahe (MSN) Szeming Sze Student Award Laraine F. Coyne (MSN) Claudia Kregg-Byers (PhD) Kimberly A. Curry (MSN) The Elizabeth Bayer Baxter Student The Marie S. Houston, PhD, RN Student Amy Federoff (MSN) Resource Fund Resource Fund for Nursing Education* Jason C. Hamilton (MSN) Heidi Stogard (MSN) Leslie Scheuer (MSN) Elizabeth Lazzaro (MSN) Elizabeth Lloyd Noroian Scholarship Melissa A. Miller (MSN) Julie Doebler (MSN) W. Edward and Jeannette L. Wolfe Mary Thompson Newcomb (MSN) Memorial Fund Lindsey Orlowski (MSN) Gail A. Wolf Graduate Nursing Leadership Award Jessica Linney (MSN) Jill V. Radtke (PhD) Laura Fennimore (DNP) Melanie B. Shatzer (DNP) Heidi L. Stogard (MSN) Jeanne Swindell Wolfe Orr Endowed Fund Kristine Keefer Wolff (DNP) for Graduate Students Mary Riley (MSN) * First-time awards

Robert and Jennifer Savino (left) and Dean Jacqueline Dunbar-Jacob (far right) congratulate Christopher Zorger ’08, recipient of the Tony and Mildred Sherry Savino Memorial Student Resource Fund Scholarship.

pitt Nurse spring 200b 19 Cameos of Caring

A Celebration of Nursing

Since 1999, the University of Pittsburgh In addition, six School of School of Nursing has been the proud Nursing alumni were also honored sponsor of the Cameos of Caring Awards with Nurse Educator Awards: Program and Gala, created to honor • Darlene Gattens (MN ’81, outstanding nurses for their dedication BSN ’75), West Penn Allegheny to quality patient care, increase public Health System, the Western awareness of the nursing profession Pennsylvania Hospital School by highlighting its career rewards, and of Nursing recruit a new generation of nurses to offset the current nursing shortage. • Maureen E. Gaydos Leonardo Twenty hospitals joined the Cameos of (MN ’80, BSB, CNE, CRNP, Caring family that first year; in 2007, BC), Duquesne University 43 hospitals/care facilities and nine School of Nursing schools of nursing, spanning a nine- • Elaine L. Patalski (MSN ’88, county area, and one international facil- BSN ’81, CRNP), UPMC ity participated in the Cameos of Caring Shadyside School of Nursing 2007 Cameos of Caring Awardee Kimberly Arenth of UPMC tradition. Of the 62 nurses honored at South Side accepts her award from Dean Dunbar-Jacob while • Michele Dropik Rega (MSN Mike Clark of WTAE-TV watches. the ninth annual Cameos of Caring ’93, BSN ’81, RN), West Penn Awards Gala, 21 were Pitt alums. Allegheny Health System, the • Susan Jackson (BSN ’87, RN), In addition to recognizing excep- Western Pennsylvania Hospital Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh tional nurses, proceeds from the event School of Nursing of UPMC benefit the scholarship fund; nearly Advanced Practice Awardee • Janey A. Roach (MSN ’92, MNEd, $600,000 has been raised since the BSN, ONC), UPMC St. Margaret • Martha Lee Kuhns (PhD ’93, program’s inception. School of Nursing MSM ’84, APRN, BC), Western In 2006, the Cameos of Caring Psychiatric Institute and Clinic • Carl A. Ross (PhD, MSN, Awards Program introduced the Cameos Advanced Practice Awardee of Caring Nurse Educator Award. BSN ’85, CRNP, BC, CNE), Because outstanding nursing faculty are Robert Morris University • Karen F. Little (MSN ’06, RN), key to training the next generation of VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System– skilled nurses and alleviating the nursing Heinz Division Fifteen other Pitt alums received shortage, recognizing nurse educators Cameos of Caring Awardee Cameos of Caring awards: brings the event full circle. This year, • Mary Alice McLaughlin nine outstanding nurse educators were • Keli Ann Heiple (MSN ’03, (MSN ’88, BSN, RN), recognized from area diploma, associate RN, CRNP), Indiana Regional UPMC Passavant degree, and baccalaureate schools of Medical Center Advanced Practice Awardee Advanced Practice Awardee nursing, including two Pitt School of • Ronald Mennow (BSN ’07, RN), Nursing faculty members: (Posthumous Award) UPMC St. Margaret • Ann M. Mitchell, PhD, RN, AHN, • Dale E. Heron (MSN ’01, CRNA), Cameos of Caring Awardee University of Pittsburgh Physicians, BC (Pittsburgh campus) • Mary Beth Pais (MNEd ’80, BSN, Department of Anesthesiology • Becky A. Sease, MSN, RN ONC), UPMC Presbyterian Advanced Practice Awardee (Johnstown campus) Advanced Practice Awardee

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Alumni Gift Creates a Better First Impression and a Lasting Tribute

• Aurora Patterson (BSN ’00, RN), The School of Nursing’s first-floor lobby recently became Indiana Regional Medical Center a much nicer place for students, faculty, and visitors, thanks Cameos of Caring Awardee to the generosity of Rita L. Doll (MA ’60, BSNED ’56). Doll • Joy M. Peters (MSN ’96, MBA ’96, made a gift to renovate the front area of the first-floor lobby BDN), West Penn Allegheny Health in memory of her stepfather and mother, Cyril Mulley and System, Allegheny General Hospital Angelica Lombardi Mulley. Advanced Practice Awardee The first-floor lobby is used heavily by studying students, faculty, and visitors to the school as well as for functions • Lisa Schoch (MSN ’06, BSN, RN, year-round. Improvements include new flooring, paint, win- CCRN), UPMC Presbyterian dow treatments, and furniture. Even the sculptures in the Cameos of Caring Awardee lobby are receiving some attention by having their pedestals • Barbara Schultz (BSN ’73, RN), updated. The renovated space is welcoming and comfortable UPMC Passavant while still projecting a sophisticated look for the school. Cameos of Caring Awardee For more information on how you can make a difference • Mary Lou Goodrich Sirianni in Victoria Hall, contact Julie A. Harris at 412-624-7541 or (BSN ’77, RN), Magee-Womens toll free at 1-866-217-1124 or via e-mail at [email protected]. Hospital of UPMC Cameos of Caring Awardee • Karen Balke Stein (MSEd, BSN ’84, RN), Magee-Womens Hospital of UPMC Advanced Practice Awardee The newly refinished lobby made possible by a generous contribution from alumnus • Sandra L. Zebrak (BSN ’79, RN), Rita L. Doll, MA ’60, BSNEd ’56. Sculptures created by Judith Strellec Charlson, BSN ’66 Excela Health, Westmoreland Hospital Cameos of Caring Awardee

A special thanks to the 2007 Cameos of Caring event sponsors: • Center for Organ Recovery & Education • Integrated Voice Solutions • Jewish Healthcare Foundation • Johnson & Johnson • STAT Staffing • University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC)

pitt Nurse spring 200b 21 development news

A Conversation with Julie A. Harris, Director of Development

It has been a great year as the new director of Why is a planned gift a good choice for a donor who development for the School of Nursing. I want Q wants to support the School of Nursing? to share some questions that frequently come up, There are several different scenarios that not only this past year but in the 15 years I’ve A make a planned gift a good choice. For exam- worked in development. ple, for individuals who want to make a contri- There are so many worthy causes competing for bution to their alma mater, but who are philanthropic dollars. What motivates a donor to concerned about first taking care of personal Q give to his or her alma mater? or family obligations, a planned gift can offer Everyone knows that charitable giving comes a great opportunity to achieve both goals. A from the heart. However, I think it often A bequest in a will, a beneficiary designation comes from the head as well. When someone on a life insurance policy or a retirement has enjoyed a positive educational experience, account, or a remainder interest in a trust are or has greatly benefited in his or her career easily accomplished—and these gifts do not because of what was learned at college or take effect until the death of the donor. Or, university, it is a natural response for that for an alum who is concerned about having person to want to support the institution and an adequate income during his or her life, help ensure it will be able to provide similar charitable gift vehicles, such as charitable gift benefits for future generations. Frequently, annuities and charitable remainder trusts, can alumni tell me that if it weren’t for the schol- provide a guaranteed stream of income for arship assistance one person received, or the donor, with the balance eventually going the special interest a particular professor to support the school. showed another, that person would never Does a donor need a minimum amount in order to have achieved what he or she has. The heart Q establish a planned gift? is grateful and the head says this is a worth- No. Anyone can make a planned gift of any while effort to support. A amount. A bequest in a will, a beneficiary We know that donors of very large gifts to charity designation on a paid-up life insurance policy, Q can change lives, but what impact, if any, can the or a future gift of securities are all examples smaller donor make? of planned gifts that may run the gamut from People don’t realize what an amazing impact modest to major. Gifts of any size are greatly A they can make with small gifts over a long appreciated and can help make a positive period of time. For example, there is an impact on the school. increasing need in the School of Nursing for Please feel free to contact me if you would like to support for scholarship funds. The ability to discuss any of these topics in greater detail or if offer tuition assistance enables the school to you have a question of your own. I can be reached attract the best and brightest students. at 412-624-7541 or at [email protected]. Together, people can make a big difference. No matter the size of a gift, I am always happy to work with donors to determine exactly how they would like for their gifts to be used.

22 university of pittsburgh pitt Nurse spring 200b 23 Honor Roll of Donors 2006–07

The School of Nursing is deeply Mary Purdy Cook, ’54 Charlotte Jones Buchman, ’53 Suzanne Laughrey Ballard, ’52, and grateful to the following individuals William John Cully, CAS ’49 John Henry Campbell, KGSB ’50 Amos Donald Ballard, ENG ’52 and organizations who have pro- Barbara Wheeler Davies and Yu-Mei Yu Chao, PhD, ’67, ’79 Margaret L. Balog, ’51; GSPH ’60 vided their support and friendship. Randy Arlen Davies Susan Elizabeth Bare, ’94 This list reflects donations from Cynthia Cecilia Chernecky, ’80 July 2006 to June 2007. Names, Jacqueline Dunbar-Jacob, PhD Michelle M. Covey, ’82 Robert W. Barrett titles, and degree information Audrey Hillman Fisher Constance Notopoulos Drenning, ’65, Bryan Louis Barshick, ’94 reflect each individual’s “preferred” Beverly L. Freed-Lawrence, ’58 and Richard P. Drenning * Carl R. Bauer saluatation in our records. For Lee Glunt and J. Roger Glunt, Rebecca Webster Hudson, ’63, and Gerene Sue Bauldoff, PhD, ’93, ’01 further information or to provide KGSB ’60 Floyd E. Hudson any corrections or omissions to Kim Komaromy Beam, ’78 Davina J. Gosnell, PhD, ’67 A. Alice Kindling, ’64, ’66; GSPH ’84 this list, please contact Julie A. Valerie Mechelle Bell, ’86, ’91 Harris, director of development, Elizabeth L. Graham, PhD, ’68, ’70; Mary Lee Zurich Long, ’73, ’02 Ruth Smith Bendel, ’83, ’92, and at 412-624-7541 or via e-mail at EDU ’80 Joanne Malenock, PhD, EDU ’79 Patrick S. Bendel [email protected]. David C. Hammers, KGSB ’59 Judith Tabolt Matthews, Catherine Marie Bender, PhD, ’79, ’94 Margaret M. Hill and John B. Hill, MD, PhD, ’98; GSPH ’99, and * Denotes gifts with matching funds. John Robert Bender Jr., PhD, EDU ’60; MED ’57 Richard Alan Matthews, KGSB ’79 * EDU ’62; EDU ’69 Names in italics denote donors who Elsie H. Hillman and Henry L. Hillman Patricia McQuade Mego, ’82 have passed away. Aimee Becker Benedict, ’79 Leslie A. Hoffman, PhD, EDU ’79 Pearl Friedman Moore, RN, MN, Diane Schleyer Berkowitz, ’99 Individuals $5,000 and more FAAN, ’68, ’74 Lana K. Kelley Miss Madeline C. Bertucci, ’74 G. Nicholas Beckwith III Thelma E. Patrick, PhD, ’91 Janice Scully Dorman, PhD, CAS ’75; Louise Hartzfeld Bierer, ’58 Kathryn May Conway, ’49, and GSPH ’81; GSPH ’83, and Kathryn McKavish Puskar, DrPH, John W. Conway Ronald Edward LaPorte, PhD, MN, ’71; GSPH ’78; GSPH ’81, and Jean Lockhart Blair, ’56, ’76 FAS ’74; FAS ’76; GS George Puskar Rita L. Doll, ’56, ’60 Alice Maus Blazeck, ’75 Thomas H. Miller Cheryle Remley Marie Smith Houston, PhD, ’61; Eva Tansky Blum, Esquire, EDU’86 Ruth Ann Morgan, EDU ’52 Marguerite Jackson Schaefer, DS, CAS ’70; LAW ’73 ScDHyg, GSPH ’64, ’72 Lucie S. Young Kelly, PhD, ’47, ’57; Emma Elizabeth Rose, CAS ’45; Patricia Ann Bohachick, PhD, ’67, EDU’65 LIS ’51 Sandra A. Sell, ’88 ’70, ’81 Estate of Mary Louise Lane Mary Schubert and Roseanna Spizzirri, ’72 Marilyn Hood Bohn, ’55 Richard J. Schubert Miss Mary Lou Lane, ’48 Margaret M. Wilden and Mark Wilden * Jamie A. Borrasso, GRE ’00 Glenwood C. Scott Jeanne W. Orr, ’50, ’61 Nancy Jo Wilson, ’76 Judith Kuhlman Boyko, ’67 Dorothy B. Sheahan Estate of Jayne Declue Wiggins Gail A. Wolf and Charles H. Wolf Joann Switala Bralich, PIA ’87 Angela Simon Staab, ’65, ’72, and June Yonas Jacqueline Goldberg Breakstone, ’86 Jayne Declue Wiggins, ’53 Thomas Robert Staab, KGSB ’64; Sallie Jane Zoerb, ’47 KGSB ’66 Joan E. Britten Individuals $100–$499 Estate of Frances L. Steward Suzanne W. Broadhurst and Individuals $1,000–$4,999 Julie W. Abrera James Sherwood Broadhurst, KGSB ’66 Frances L. Steward Susan Ann Albrecht, PhD, ’75, ’78; Kurt Adams Suzanne O. Brody, ’80 H. Campbell Stuckeman EDU’81, and John A. Albrecht Alice Heiple Ahlfeld, ’65 Margaret O. Brophy, ’49, and Nancy L. Stuever, ’78, and Cynthia Elizabeth Allshouse, KGSB ’99, Sheila Alexander, PhD, ’89, ’04 James E. Brophy and T. Jeffrey Allshouse * A. Lawrence Stuever * Rose Marie Alvin, PhD, ’86 Joseph J. Brun, ’94, ’98 Debra Newmeyer Thompson, ’77, ’81, Mary Donnan Baker, ’58 ,and Charlene A. Buchanan, ’01 Frank T. Baker and John W. Thompson Geraldine Mae Decarbo Angel, PhD, ’63; EDU ’91 Julie Marie Budinger, ’96 Dorothy Drake Brooks, ’64, ’67 Mark Ellis Tipton Alexandra Czernecki Aramini, ’73 Rebecca Sheffey Bumsted, ’64 Helen Kissell Burns, PhD, ’81, ’93, and Individuals $500–$999 Gerald R. Burns * Rhona S. Arbit, ’80 Constance Fulgenzi Buran, ’85 Leota Thoman Acord, PhD, ’74; Margaret S. Austin, ’54 Lora E. Burke, PhD, ’97; GSPH ’98 Virginia A. Campbell, EDU ’58 EDU ’81 Andrea Joy Backers, ’91 Lawrence S. Busch Rose Eva Bana Constantino, PhD, Janet A. Barlett ’71, ’79 Frances Powell Bakewell, ’54, and Ruth S. Butts, ’54 Walter E. Brown Jr. Frank S. Bakewell Jr., MD Boyd Campbell

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James William Campbell, EDU ’52; Mike Dorfner Patricia K. Goorin, ’04 Beryl Haughton Jackson, EDU ’55 Barbara Louise Doring, HRP ’81 David Gormsen PhD, ’72, ’82 Linda Campbell, RN, RNP, ’60 Willa Marlene Doswell June Riffle Grace, ’55, and Lloyd F. Grace Dana R. James Tama Meledandri Carey, ’77 Martin W. Dowling Gail Tussing Greene, RN, BSN, Michele E. Jameson, RN, ’80 Leah Mae S. Carlisle, ’66 Darlene Ann Dubay, EDU ’74, ’85, ’91 CRRN, ’76, and Daniel C. Greene * Eileen Jamison, ’57 Donna Dvorsky Caruthers, PhD, ’78, Margaret S. Dubuque, ’64 Carrie Wolfe and Mark Greenwood Norine Anice Jenkins, ’84 ’82, ’05, and William Franklin Margaret J. Grey, DrPH, ’70 Shirley Boatman Jennewine, ’67, and Caruthers II, Esquire, LAW ’80 Laure Lestinsky Dudley, ’79 Rene Pieja Grim, ’77 Richard Curtis Jennewine, ENG ’62; Bob Cermignano Judith Mary Dzyak, ’73 KGSB ’66 Mary Bergan Grossett, ’59 Denise Charron-Prochownik Jeanne Turner Earley, ’67, and David Rudolph Johnson, ’97, ’04 William H. Earley Juanita Guise and Kenneth E. Guise Jr. Margaret Husband Cochran, ’72 Gwendolyn L. Johnson, ’73, ’79 Anita McAtee Egan, ’79, and Shirley Herwick Gutermuth, ’56, and Susan M. Cohen William Christopher Egan, MD, MED ’83 Blaine E. Gutermuth Janice Davis Johnston, ’74, and Dale E. Johnston, CAS ’72; FAS ’75 Patricia Bayer Colonna, ’54, ’60, and Gilan El Saadawi, MED ’04 Michael Dean Hackett, ’01, ’03 Albert J. Colonna, FAS ’52 Bernadette Marianne Jordan, PhD, Rebecca Nealen Ellis, ’87 Robert M. Hallstrom Andrea Kathleen Conover, ’82, and GSPH ’71; EDU ’78 Steven M. Conover Sandra Joyce Engberg, PhD, ’87, ’93, Viola Gaydos Halpin, ’52 Tricia Frack Jordan, ’93, ’98, and and Richard Allen Engberg, CGS ’75 Carolyn Hocker Cooper, ’68 James S. Hamilton Oliver R. Jordan, ’93, ’98 Debra Jean Engel, ’80, and Rebekah Jean Hamilton Olive Porter Jumet, ’59, ’63 Melanie Cordoro, ’96 Gregory Scott Engel, MD, MED ’86 Jean Harris Hanson, ’69 Laura Juran, ’72 Karen L. Courtney Kimberly Ann English, ’88, ’92 Lynn A. Klanchar, ’78, and Laurene Hardy, ’90, ’92 Elizabeth Anne Kachmar, ’82, ’97, Barbara Hootman Ensor, ’59 and Mark Paul Kachmar, ENG ’82; Donn Moore Chip Coutts Brenda Crush Hay, ’80 Becky Lee Faett KGSB ’98 Karen Susanne Cramer, ’97 Barbara Asche Haynes, PhD, ’67; Deborah Pirone Fagan, ’81 Sally Behler Karas, ’78 Anne Lipps Crawford, ’78 EDU ’85, and Donald F. Haynes Martha Fay Fellers, ’64, and Patricia E. Kaufman, ’05 Miss Nancy Jane Crouthamel, Charlotte M. Heller Albert C. Fellers Judith Ann Kaufmann, DrPH, ’89; ’75, ’83 Richard A. Henker, ’02 Jennifer Whitehurst Fellows, GSPH ’04 Susan Rae Culbertson, ’57 KGSB ’04, and Martin Fellows * Joan E. Heyson, ’80 Jennifer Keeley, ’06 Patricia Ann Cuthbert, ’68; Helen Ann Fetsko, ’69 David H. Hicks EDU ’72, ’82 Mary Louise Keller, ’75, ’79, and Terri Elizabeth Weaver, ’73, and Sally Bigger Hill, ’64, and Donald Harry Keller, EDU ’84 Mildred L. Czar, ’50, ’57 Bruce Fiedler Edward B. Hill, MD, MED ’75 Mary A. Kier Kathleen Yourish Czekaj, ’75 Dale Francis Fleck, ’00 Mary Snyder Hill, PhD, ’45, ’48, ’66 Julius Mulwa Munyoki Kitutu, PhD, Joeta Kay D’Este, ’82 Michelle Josiane Pfenninger, ’02, and Stacie F. Hitt, PhD, ’98 EDU ’97; EDU ’99; EDU ’02 Lynda J. Davidson Brendan Flynn Kjerstine Kelly Hoffman, ’54; Karen Mohan Klein, ’76, and Adena Johnson Davis, ’47 Nancy Bush Fowler, ’61 SOC WK ’60 Robert A. Klein Jr. Alice Calabria Davis, ’73, ’84 Nadine Grace Frye, PhD, ’47, ’51; Ann Willcox Hoist, ’74, ’99, and Marcia Peterson Klepac, ’67, and Francis Stephen Hoist, KGSB ’67 Glenn Edward Klepac, LAW ’70 * Beverly Ann Davis, ’70 EDU’87 Linda Susan Holden, ’74, ’87 Leigh A. Kloss, ’76 Ann Davisson, ’67 Michael D. Gaber, KGSB ’00 Joann Louise Holt, ’67, ’68 Terri E. Koehler, ’83 Jason Dechant, PhD, CAS ’94; FAS ’96 Dorothy Mae Gailani, ’49, ’55 Judith Taylor Horensky, ’65 Carla A. Kormanik, ’91 Susan Penman Decker, ’81, and Marybeth Gallagher, ’80 Richard L. Decker Patricia Rae Galsky, ’77 Margaret J. Howe, ’58 Mildred Huston Kovacik, ’67, ’74, and Paul J. Kovacik * Richard J. S. Del Signore, CAS ’54 Rhonda Backers Garrett, ’75 Marilyn T. Hravnak, PhD, ’83, ’00, and Paul F. Hravnak, ENG ’80; Judith Ann Kovalak, ’76, ’90 Annette J. DeVito-Dabbs, PhD, ’03 Brian Generalovich, DMD, CAS ’66; KGSB ’90; CGS ’06 DEN ’68 Nancy Baxter Kravitz, ’81, and Howard Richard Diehl Barbara Foster Huff, ’78, and Kevin Drew Kravitz, CAS ’81 Lynn George, ’90 Ann M. Dietrick, ’05 James R. Huff II Carroll Olton Labarthe, LIS ’69, and Dana DiVirgilio-Thomas, GRE ’93; Andrew J. Gera Donna Schutz Humes, ’64, ’67 Jules Labarthe Jr. CGS ’04; GSPH ’07 Eleanor Potter Gilroy, ’51, ’60 Jean Lewis Huston, ’51 Loretta Piazza Lang, EDU ’61, and Susan Jaditz Dixon, ’70 Timothy Scott Glaser, ’01, ’05 Susan Harvan Imam, ’75 Joseph H. Lang, KGSB ’60 Sandra Lee Doman, ’69 Jack Glunt Ruth E. Inkpen Deborah Roberts Latsha, ’80 , Maria Groethe Donohue, ’92, and Marie Gnus, ’48, ’52, ’70 and Kimber Lynn Latsha, Esquire, Cynthia Ann Intihar-Hogue, RN, BSN, LAW ’80 Bryan C. Donohue, MD Joseph S. Goode Jr., ’97, ’00 CCM, ’94 Pauline Marie Law, ’88

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Kimberly Cipra Leone, ’77, and Elaine E. Meisner, CAS ’68, and Louis J. Pace, ’94 John K. Schaefer Guy R. Leone, MD, MED ’82 Thomas Michael Meisner Jr., PhD, Mary L. Pacoe, PhD, ’75, ’77, and Elizabeth A. Schlenk CAS ’68; EDU ’70; EDU ’78 James Joseph Lestitian, LAW ’73 Larry V. Pacoe, CAS ’60 Lisa F. Sciullo C. Vanetta Lewis, ’71 Janet Rose Tarosky Mele, ’80, and Laura Bushmire Palmer, ’73, ’82 Daniel Mauro Mele III, DMD, Joy Thomas Seder, ’81 Melissa A. Liberto, ’01, ’05 CAS ’79; DEN ’83 Paula Joanne Palmer, ’74; HRP ’87, and Esther Frances Seeley, ’69 Paul D. Palmer * Rachel Mencini Libman, ’84 Cydney Afriat Menihan, ’73 Carole Shimko Senter, PhD, ’72, ’77; Mary Lou Palsa, ’52 Karen Stegman Lilli, ’73, and Ethel Joan Michael, ’68 GSPH ’95; EDU ’04 Robert Harry Lilli, MD, HRP ’73 Scott E. Pearson, ’98, ’05 Diane Louise Michalec, ’84, ’91 Paula Riess Sherwood E. Gay Lindsay, ’58 Amy Bettencourt Pelkey, ’04 Patricia Ruffo Mihalcin, PhD, ’75, ’78; Luda C. Shields, ’55 Kelly M. Lochmuller, ’03 EDU ’89 Ina Perlman and Martin Perlman Nancy Jean Short, ’78 Marcia Louise London, ’73 John V. Milantoni, CAS ’60 Susan M. Sereika and Vincent Albert Natalie Diehl Shriver, ’75 Petrelli, ENG ’82; ENG ’88 Darlene Averell Lovasik, ’82, and Margaret Shandor Miles, RN, Lynda Shuman and Jay Shuman Vernon Andrew Lovasik, DMD, PhD, ’65 Doris Sherman Petrosky, ’50 CAS ’76; DEN ’91 Marlene Lucille Sienicki, ’96 Allyn Sara Miller, ’02 Lynn Michele Petruzzi, ’86 Margaret Anne Lucas, HRP ’88, ’95 Yvonne M. Silverberg, ’64 Cordelia Zambano Miller, ’64 Carol McAnulty Petti, KGSB ’88 Peter A. Machi, ’03, ’05 Joseph Sincavage Elise M. Miller, ’67, and Cheryl Tilley Petursson, ’75, ’80, and Jan Wilma Madison, MD, MED ’85 Ernest George Miller, CAS ’65 Sigurdur R. Petursson, MD Thomas Paul Sloane Jr., ’80 Kathy Sue Magdic, ’92, ’95 Jacqueline Lynn Miller, ’95, ’04 Regina Harriet Phillips, PhD, ’67; Jennifer Abele Smith, ’72 EDU ’77 Thomas L. Maidens Amy D. Miller, ’73, and Karl Jay Smith, CAS ’70 Ann E. Maiolo, ’82 William Tracy Miller, KGSB ’75 * Suzanne Boehm Piccioni, ’72 Laura Smith and James Clair Smith, CAS ’76 Janice Carol Maker, SOC WK ’85 Alexander M. Minno, MD, CAS ’43; Cheryl Armstrong Pittman, ’85 MED ’47, and Frances Minno, Esquire Mary Snyder Smith, ’64, ’67 Cara M. Malcotti, ’05 Coleen Kelly Poirier, ’90 Nancy U. Monro, ’64 Shirley Ann Powe Smith, ’59, ’79, and Miss Lois E. Mansfield, ’45 Myrna Dible Porter, ’48 Jemelene Chastain Moore, ’68 Robert Preston Smith, DDS, CAS ’55; Alison Elizabeth Marinak, ’97, ’02 Robert Barry Powell, ’71 DEN ’60 Joan Marie Murray, ’95 Stanley M. Marks, MD, CAS ’69; John Power Margaret Monguzzi Smith, ’84, and MED ’73 Elizabeth Louise Muse, ’78 Katherine Greco Pyros, ’88, ’91 Stephen James Smith, CAS ’84; Susan Bitner Mars, ’64 Denise Custer Myers, RN, ’73 Lynn F. Reinke, ’90 LIS ’85 * Rita M. Marsh, ’03, ’06, and Mary Grace Nairn, ’59 Victoria L. Rich, PhD, ’84, ’91, and Mary Catherine Smolenski, ’72 Kenneth James Marsh, GRE ’87 Donna Grace Nativio, PhD, ’64; Alexander R. Rich, PhD Linda S. Solecki Evalyn Mae Martin, ’62 GSPH ’67; EDU ’86 Kenneth E. Richard Mi-Kyung Song Hilary Stone Martin, ’78, and Mary Virginia Neal, ’52 Eleanor Bash Richter, RN, BSN ’55 Janet Rexrode Southby, ’69 Dennis Stevens Martin, CAS ’78 Kristen E. Nesser, ’01 Teresa White Robosson, ’86 Kenneth J. Speicher, ’00 Donna S. Martsolf, PhD, ’91 Beverly Ann Nickelson, ’80 Marsha Lutes Roche, CAS ’76 Charlotte Mae Spicher, PhD, ’63, ’75 Elizabeth Jane Mason, ’60 Joan F. Nock, CGS ’04, and Nancy Galley Roderick, ’66 Charlene Wandel Stanich, ’69, ’78, and Edward Nock Bettina A. Dixon, ’93, and Jon F. Mazur Mary Jo Domin Rodgers, ’74, and Gary M. Stanich Marta Katz Mazor, ’68 Lois Gregory Norton, ’54 Gregory George Rodgers, CAS ’72 Amber Latta Stanko, RN, MN ’73, ’80, Kerry James McCarty, ’93, ’95 Ivan J. Novick, CAS ’49, and Adelyn Materna Rogalla, ’65, ’84 * and Michael Stanko Mary B. Novick Ruth Ann McChesney, ’61 Mary Nicholson Romero, ’56 Lucy Elwood Stetter, ’51 Matthew J. Nypaver, ’95, ’03 Geraldine McKinnon McElree, ’55 Margaret Quinn Rosenzweig, PhD, ’86, Judy Ann Stevenson, ’95 Phyllis Bergent O’Block, ’49 Dorothy Ceyrolles McElwee, ’79, and ’01, and Michael Howard Rosenzweig, Mae Cook Stewart, ’60 John Francis McElwee Jr., ENG ’80 Marilyn Zrust, ’79, ’89, and Esquire, CAS ’81; LAW ’84 Carol S. Stilley, PhD, EDU ’92; EDU ’97 Timothy Charles O’Connor, CGS ’87 Kathryn Evans McGeary, ’52 James Patrick Roupe, ’01 Doris M. Stitely, ’68, ’71 John O’Donnell Lorna M. McKenzie Ellen B. Rudy, PhD Opal Wetzel Stockwell, ’51, and John Marc O’Donnell, ’91 Kathleen Mary McKool, ’72 Marion Long Russell, ’55 Elbridge F. Stockwell Jr., ENG ’50 Kathleen A. Oberst, ’72, and Nancy Rishel Rymut, ’74 Sue Ann Strohm, ’81 Jean McLaughlin, ’56, and David John Oberst, CAS ’73 John N. McLaughlin Dorothy Lois Sabolsice, ’53 John Christian Strollo, ’98 Christie Graham Oblak, ’86, ’96, and Elizabeth Irene McNally Mitchell D. Oblak, ’91, ’00 Susan Bakewell Sachs, ’79 Laura Bond Sutton, PhD, ’99 Joann Helen Megonnell, ’80 Margaret Lee Oleary, ’82, ’89 Grace Ammannito Scarsellato, ’59; Patricia M. Sweeney, Esquire, EDU ’70, and John N. Scarsellato, MD GSPH ’03 Ellen Frances Olshansky

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Marguerite F. Tamasy, PhD, RN ’79 Norman C. Young Jr. Anita Colasante Barkin, DrPH ’85; Paul Robert Borman, CAS ’65; FAS ’68 Judith A. Tate, ’91 Sam S. Zacharias, CAS ’64 GSPH ’04 Lorraine Borrell, JHN ’01, ’02, ’04 Mary L. Taylor Alice Gantzer Zich, ’67 Helen V. Barkley Lenora Altvater Borucki, ’76, ’05 Mary M. Taylor Nancy Anne Zieber, ’73 Tara E. Barnhart, ’77, and Bernard G. Borum, ’94, ’06 Christopher W. Barnhart Susan R. Terlingo-Saxon, ’83 Kathryn Shearer Zini, ’77, and Carol Ann Bostjanick, ’67 Eleanore Barovitch, ’68 Esther Mae Tesh, ’71 Aldo Zini, ENG ’75 Sandra Sulsberger Bowles, ’61, ’64 Mildred Maxine Barricklow, ’71 Erin S. Teskey, ’04, and William Bryce Deborah Ann Zipay, KGSB ’89 Adele Fierst Bowman, CAS ’52, ’54 Dale R. Bartholomew Teskey, ’98, ’02 Marci Lynn Zsamboky, ’94 Joanne Johnston Bowser, CAS ’62, James A. Theys William Zwiers, ’04 Barbara Sjogren Bates, ’79 and Ellsworth T. Bowser, DDS, CAS ’58; Catherine Hilaire Thompson, MS, RN, Margaret A. Bates DEN ’60 IBCLC, ’63 Individuals $99 and Under Kathleen Bauer Shelly D. Boyce, ’05 Anita Lacava Thorne, ’57, ’64 Sara Barley Aalto, ’67 Angela S. Bayless, ’78 Beverly Taylor Boyd, ’67, ’69 Tammy Moschel Tokarczyk, ’82, ’07 Renee S. Abelson, ’75 Michael Beach, ’01, ’02 Lois Greenfield Boyles, ’79 Jean Degenhardt Trester, ’72 Kathleen Ablauf Frances A. Becker Elaine Bozza, ’05 Jamie R. Trunzo Bette Callahan Acker, ’46 Arlene Jusys Beckman, ’75 Kathryn Bradley, ’77 Patricia Klinefelter Tuite, ’85, ’92 Linda Adinolfi, ’02, ’04 Darla Kuhel Beers, ’83 Debra Rizzo Brady, PhD, ’74, ’81, and Madeline Renee Turkeltaub, PhD, ’70, Lois Ann Ahlborn, ’70 Karen Beese and Michael Beese Martin John Brady, CAS ’75; FAS ’80 and Paul Charles Turkeltaub, MD, Richard S. Albright Sandra L. Bell and Glenn K. Bell Janice Braunegg Brandeburg, ’74, ’78, MED ’69 and Stephen J. Brandeburg Jr. Peggy Llewelyn Alderdice, ’67 Margaret Wilson Bellak, ’73, and Lois Close Turnbull, ’45 Lyn Rene Alexander, ’99 John Allen Bellak, ENG ’66 Beverly Truby Brandt, ’83, ’96 H. Woodruff Turner, Esquire, CAS ’61, Mary Christine Alichnie, PhD ’72, and Kathleen Mary Bellis, ’85 Jean Wilson Braun, ’71, and and Mary P. Turner Steven Braun William Howell Alichnie, DMD, Mary Ann Bender, PhD, EDU ’04 Wendy Weyant Tusay, ’88 DEN ’72 Ruth Ann Crawford Brawdy, ’61 Elizabeth Michlovic Benedum, Robert Joseph Varese, ’77 Anita Marie Allender, ’88 ’68, ’85 Betty J. Braxter, PhD ’03 Richard Vidaud, ’94, ’96 Annette M. Altman, ’95, and Susan E. Benn Nancy Burkhouse Brehm, ’77, and Kenneth R. Altman, CAS’92 George Kenneth Brehm, CAS ’76 Alexander Simon Vujan Jr., MD, MED ’74 Dale Bennett Lexie Alton Cheryl K. Brendel, ’72 Wendy Lucille Weaver, ’93, ’95 Tina Lynn Berezansky, ’03 Scott Weber Peggy Walter Anderson, CAS ’70, and Marie Rizak Brendlinger, ’58, and Jack R. Anderson, CAS ’70 Michelle Bergman Thurman R. Brendlinger, KGSB ’46 Ann D. Weiss and Jack Weiss Jacqueline Gavin Anderson, ’89 Judith Ann Bernardo, ’61 Barbara Taylor Brennan, ’84, and Joy Ann Bindbeutel Welty, ’66 Patricia Ohrin Anderson, ’74 Lisa Marie Bernardo, GSPH ’00 Thomas Joseph Brennan Jr., CGS ’83 Valerie Bobbin Wengler, ’89, and Amelia M. Bernd, ’64 Lillian Jossi Brenner, ’48 Timothy Wengler Angela Jacobi, RN, MN, IBCL ’77, and Burleigh Paul Angle, EDU ’72 Mary Ellen Grassman Bernstein, ’87 Sharon Callihan Brewer, ’61, ’78 Anne L. Wentling, ’77 Dorothy Anna Ardisson, ’48 Margaret Ann Steele Berry, ’50 Terry J. Brewer, ’94 Beth A. White, ’05 Barbara Mock Arena, ’75 Chrystal Lowery Bey, ’84 Jennifer Streb Brezger, ’79 Christine L. White, ’65 Lois Ann Ashcroft, ’76, and Gretchen Bierenbaum Martha Wingerd Bristor, ’57 Janet Minner White, ’92 David Ashcroft Mary Joan Bilcheck, ’54 Mark Bronder Allison L. White, ’93, and Thomas Mary C. Augustine, ’91 Patrick White IV, CAS ’93 * Mary Elizabeth Bilitski, ’87 Catherine Latu Brophy, ’84 Mary Shields Aulisio, ’98 Jean Pitzer Wiant, ’55 Joan Mae Bishop, ’63, ’79 Betty Lee Brown, ’52 Margaret Stanley Austin, ’77 Nancy R. Adams Wieker, ’66 Elizabeth Seely Black, ’49 Marcia R. Brown, ’77 Ruth Z. Bachman, P.N.P., ’70 Yvonne Woods, ’86 Eileen Chasens Blumenfeld, DSN Nellie Hogan Brown, ’74 Sheila M. Baez, ’74 James L. Woomer Jr., CRNA ’00 Ruth Riddle Boatman, ’61, and Wendy Lee Brown, ’98 Sherry L. Baird, CAS ’75 Jack D. Boatman Virginia Gail Ratliff Woomer, ’79 April D. Bruce Barbara A. Baker, ’73 Sherry Moskowitz Boberman, ’81 Eric A. Wrenn, ’04 Mary Ray Brumbaugh, ’56 Lynn Whitaker Baker, ’80 Paula Tocash Bodley, ’79 Erin Kathleen Wright, ’02 Louise Frenchik Bucci, ’90, ’97 Elizabeth Stirling Balliet, ’73 Michelle Renee Bodziak, ’84 Debra Shiley Wujcik, ’77, ’82 Diane Marie Redington, ’83, and Mary Dolbear Banks, ’65 Betty Jane Fox Boggio, ’57 Roy M. Buchta, KGSB ’79 Kyeongra Yang Chryssoula Barbas Sharon K. Bonavoglia and Daniel Paul Burick, ’76 Joan M. Yoder, ’78 Janet L. Barber, ’82 Arthur E. Bonavoglia Sheryl Vona and James Burke

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Colleen Heeney Burkhardt, ’49 Joanne D. Connelly, ’98 Carol Lee DeMico, KGSB ’03 Gwen Gunter Feather, ’73 Patricia Vernal Burkhart, PhD, ’72, ’96, Ann Fuller Connolly, ’87, and Nancy Zentner DeMilta, ’81 Mary Dillie Feathers, ’46 and Terry Paul Burkhart, PIA ’78 Mark John Connolly, CAS ’87 Carol Jean Demoss, ’73 Dorothea L. Fee, ’61 Mary Gwynne Burrow, ’59 Helenea Hrebenak Connor, ’79 Dianne Davis Dencler, ’63 Eleanor Annis Feerst, ’60; EDU ’65 Margaret Jenkins Buzza, ’49 Sharyn Neiman Conrad, ’76, and Ellen Proeller Dennis, ’74 Maryanne Fello, ’72; EDU ’76 Joan Phyllis Byers, ’87 David Edward Conrad, CGS ’67; KGSB ’71 Dennis Deutsch Richard J. Fera Pamela Reder Caden, ’81 Kathryn Jo Conrad, ’81, ’85 Jayne DeVine and Robert DeVine Norma Fetters, ’56 Michelle R. L. Caicedo, ’93 Bonita G. Conroy Kenneth L. Dietz Margaret Geisler Fetzer, ’93 Susan Callen, ’04 Mary Ellen Cook, ’97 Patricia Allen DiGeorge, ’67, and Janet Wingerd Feucht, ’55 Diane S. Campbell, ’81 John Donald DiGeorge Jr., ENG ’67 Maryjane Cooney, ’89 Marie A. Fioravanti Mary Catherine Campbell, ’59 Betsy Ann Kauffman DiNardo, ’84 Eleanor Osborne Corcoran, HRP ’55; Roberta M. Fiore Robert L. Campbell, KGSB ’55 HRP ’56 Monica Marten Dinardo, ’78, ’84 George C. Fischer III Mary Camporeale and Susan L. Costello, ’90 Janet A. Donahoe, ’77, and Beth Ann Fisher Ronald Camporeale Patrick Robert Donahoe, CAS ’77 Mary McCaa Cothran, PhD, ’96 Mariann Meholic Fisher, ’67 Anne M. Butz Canny, ’78 Kathleen A. Donatelli Mary E. Kujava Coughlin, ’75, and Andrea F. Rodgers Fischl, CAS ’75; Claudia C. Careccia, CGS ’74, ’86 Robert Lee Coughlin II, CGS ’81 Audrey Donovan and Daniel Donovan GSPH ’80 Carol Stevenson Carr, ’62 Wilma Betts Couper, ’52 Heidi S. Donovan, PhD Marcia Nelson Fix, ’58, ’61 Susanna Carroll, CGS ’74 Elaine Wicke Cowen, ’56 Karen L. Dover and Mark K. Dover Gary L. Fleming Jr. Valerie Ann Carthew, ’99 Mary Czyz Coyle, ’77, and Michelle Ann Dragotta, ’86, ’07 William B. Flynn, EDU ’87 Elizabeth Ewing Case, ’59 Christopher J. Coyle, Esquire, T. Audean Duespohl, PhD, EDU ’89 LAW ’79 Carol Eidel Foltz, ’64 Frances Elizabeth Casillo Valeria C. Dukelow, ’60 Nancy Coyne, ’94 Edward Fortson Mary Jo Cassano, ’93 Mary Jo Seng Dunn, ’78, ’84 Elizabeth A. Crago Keith Richard Foster, ’93, ’95 Kathleen Nicolette Cecil, ’62, ’79 Sarah Wilson Dunning, ’74 Bonnie Craig, ’91, ’93 Sandra Anne Founds Jane Cathcart Cerny, ’44 Brent Alan Dunworth, ’96, ’99 Patricia Koon Craven, ’70 Linda Margaret Fowler, DrPH ’83; Dawn Marie Charles, ’94 Stephanine Sue Duplaga GSPH ’86; GSPH ’97 Ruth Ralston Crawford, ’95 Lt. Colonel George N. Charlton Jr., Joan Welty Duran, ’67 Mary Leap Franceschini, ’65 Margaret H. Crighton KGSB ’55 Mary Lou Durr Bethany A. Francis, ’05 Susan Crissman, ’69, ’76 Sharon Wood Chesson, ’70 Alice M. Dzyak, ’77 Virginia Powell Francis, ’45, ’48 Deborah Anne Crowley-Lisowski Mary D. Chisholm-Zook, ’59 Thomas J. Earley Debra Lynn Frank, ’89 Kelly Davis Csuhta, ’93 Elaine Love Civic, ’72, and Ronald T. Eckner Darlene Ann Freker-Bartos, ’86 Thomas John Civic, ENG ’71; Sue Ann Cunningham, CAS ’69 GSPH ’74 Terry Tallman-Eddy, ’78, ’88, and Barbara Mae Fullerton, ’83 Sheila Renee Czarniecki, ’99, ’02 John G. Eddy, HRP ’76 Jeanne Katherine Clancey, ’87 Nicole Marie Gannon Tracey L. Dahill, ’82 Frannie Stein Ein, ’65 Brig Gen Marcia Clark, ’63 Linda J. Garand Robyn Jo Daniels, ’99, ’01 Catherine Carmack Emanuele, ’77 Julie A. Clarvit, ’95 Linda Susan Garcia, ’72 Sarah Markle Dattilo, ’56 T. Kunkle Emberg, ’68 Nancy E. Cobb Dorothy Garland, ’80 Judith C. Daum, ’73 Mary Louise Ende, ’65 Carla Nickl Cocco, ’83, and Darla Anne Garver, ’98, ’06 Mark V. Cocco Marilyn Brickner Davies, PhD, ’70, ’77; Richard Allen Engberg GSPH ’85 Michelle Gazella, ’89 Marianne Channas Cockroft, ’80 Patricia R. Ergas, ’63 Adelaide Marie Davis, ’77, ’81 Sheila Giesler Gealey, ’94 Leslie Anne Coda, ’74 Helen Weber Errera, ’62, ’69 Bonnie Davis, RN, ’69, ’76 William Gearhart Kathryn O. Coisman, ’97 Mary Bartlett Espinosa, ’69, and Carlotta Marie Gedman, CGS ’80 Ruth De Haven, ’64 Ruben Jose Espinosa, PhD, CAS ’67; Helen R. Cole, ’04 Deborah Schloder De Muro, ’79 FAS ’69; FAS ’74 Carolyn S. Geister, ’66 Charlotte Sporck Collman, ’50, ’79 Wilda Dietrich DeHart, ’46 Nancy Mack Ettinger, ’65 Susan Gould George, ’74 Pamela G. Colson, ’77 Cheryl Fazio Delaney, ’73 Karen Kunkle Evans, ’69 Leah Vota George-Cunningham, ’76 Diane Jessie Comer, ’90 Cassandra Kosanovich Delisio, RN, Margaret Brackin Ewalt, ’56 Jody Marie Getsy, CAS ’00 Jennifer J. Como, ’98 BSN ’68 Anthony Falcone Tenisha Lynn Gibbs Yvette Perry Conley, PhD, GSPH ’93; Frances L. Delissio, ’98 Donna Jean Falsetti, DrPH, ’82, ’86; Nancy Whitley Gibellino, ’72 GSPH ’99 Mary Gregorius Demarest, ’50 GSPH ’01 Lillian Hampton Giles, GSPH ’01, ’03

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Renee E. Gilhousen, ’79 Gwendolyn L. Hardt, ’57 Jacqueline Arentz Hoverath, ’61 Carol A. Kelley Pamela Ann Gill, ’05 Elizabeth Flaherty Harkins, ’80 Susan Hreha, ’78 Kathleen Kennedy Donna Maguire Gillis, ’67 Janet Pruitt Harman, ’78 Allison Jean Hricik, CAS ’02; EDU ’04 Sheila Hays Kerr, ’67, ’70 Dorothy Hornick Glasson, ’44 Jennifer Spear Harp, ’82 Deborah Lynn Hubbard, ’92 Donna Clemens Ketterer, ’74 John G. Glasson, ENG ’42 Brenda Smithnosky Harris, ’92 Debra L. Hughes Carol Kieda, LIS ’94 Kathleen Uebele Godfrey, ’80, ’86, ’99 Lorri Ann Harshberger, ’87; JHN ’97 Diana M. Hull, ’76 Linda Evelyn King, ’63 Susan Franz Gold, ’75 Shirley K. Hart, ’58 Jenny Rebecca Hull Judith Etzel King, ’62, and Anne-Marie Cussel Gordon, ’45 H. Ann Hartary, RN ’64 M. Katherine Brown Hull, ’78, and William R. King Pauline Barnes Gose, ’49 Elizabeth Hartz, ’79 Willard Hull Elizabeth Stein Kinley, ’87 David F. Gould III Gloria Dragan Haughton, ’52, ’63 Olga R. Hulley, ’45 Victoria Lynn Kirkland, PhD, ’99, and Maria Hunt, ’80 Robert O’Connor Kirkland, PhD, Beth R. Grabiak Wilson Weaver Haughton Sr., CAS ’53; FAS ’98; FAS ’01 EDU ’67 Ruthie Campbell Hunt, ’59 Joanne Hart Graffte, ’69 Sandra Kramer Kiser, ’68 Lynne B. Graham, ’74 Carol Smithburger Haus, PhD ’72, Florence M. Hunter-Umstead, ’81, ’96 ’83, ’03 Patricia Darlene Kissell, ’66, ’68 Laurel Ruth Grant, ’77 Mary T. Hurley, ’85, ’95 Dorothy Hawthorne Mary Beth S. Klein, RN, BSN ’77, and Deborah L. Gray Nancy Patricia Hutchinson, ’70 Charles Klein Mary E. Hawthorne, ’90 Delores Jean Graziani, ’85 Estella M. Hyde, ’81 Sara Jo Klein Alexander Hays IV Joanne Greedan, ’65 Brenda Golby Ivanac, ’73, and Rose Marie Kmetz, ’70 Sharon Butts Hays, ’70 John Ivanac Jane F. Green, ’53 Judith Ellen Knapp, PhD, SOC WK ’79; Judith Graham Hazlett, ’58 Elizabeth Ann Ivey, ’59, and SOC WK ’93 Sally Jean Gresty, ’65 William J. C. Ivey, DDS, CAS ’56; Nancy Russell Hedges, ’62 Marcie Marie Kolick, ’94 Deborah Ann Griffith, ’75, and DEN ’60 Roberta G. Heller, ’67 William Schuler Griffith, PhD, FAS ’73; Kay Soper Jambor, ’88 Nancy Neiberg Kosanovich, ’65, ’67 FAS ’79 Susan Shook Heller, ’80, and Mary Louise Krul, ’57 Dean Stanley Heller, HRP ’79 Brandi F. Jefferson, ’02, ’06 Joan Lesniak Grocki, ’82, and Sandra Louise Kubala, ’94, ’00 Daniel Joseph Grocki, LIS ’84 Norma Quinet Hesen, ’55 Janelle Christine Johns-Tutera, ’99, ’02 Caroline Wright Kuhl, ’69 Suzanne Weller Gross, ’56, ’63 Irene C. Hickey, ’80 Helen C. McMahon Johnson, ’59 Roberta Kurland, ’04 Jana L. Gruber, ’73 Rachel Hicks, ’01 Sandra Johnson Paula Ann Lacher, ’86 Maureen C. Gruber Susan Volpe Hicks, ’56, ’60, and Susan Elisabeth Johnson, ’83 Sister Judith A. Laffey, ’85 Louise D. Grundish, RN ’76 Harry E. Hicks, KGSB ’55; KGSB ’56 Charlotte N. Jones, PhD ’56, ’73; Christine Annette Lajkowicz, ’68 Tanya T. Gurian, ’77 Deborah Higdon, ’74 EDU ’79 Ruth Christina Lambert, ’71 Judith Mueller Gustafson, ’63 Kathy R. Higgins, ’75, ’78 Allen McKee Jones, ’82, and Margaret Mary Lambrou, ’82 Jane Guttendorf, ’87, ’94 Anne Louise Hitchak, ’76, ’81 Cynda L. Jones Diane Novotny Lancaster, ’79 Cheryl Scofield Gutterres, ’63 Carol Fitzpatrick Hodgkiss Janice Margaret Jones, ’92 Tracey Lynn Lang and Craig A. Lang Nancy Voye Haddad, ’82 Gail Pfeiffer Hoffman, ’57 Felice Luka Jordahl, ’83 Virginia A. Lang, ’53 William Hadfield W. Benjamin Hoffman Margaret M. Joyce, ’91 Cynthia Cheryl Lann, ’72 Michael Allen Haffey, CRNA ’95 Rosemary L. Hoffmann, PhD, ’77, ’83; Mary E. Jubeck, ’69, ’91 SHRS ’06, and Paul Charles Hoffmann, Laurie Lapsley Barbara J. Hagins, ’76 Marguerite Ann Judy, ’73 PHA ’79 Elizabeth M. LaRue, PhD, LIS ’95; Shane Hall Beverly Benz Hogan, ’59 Susan A. Jurik, ’82 LIS ’06 Judith Noble Halle Dawn Thomas Hoge, ’81 Roberta Karsh Kaplan, ’83 Patricia L. Lange Lasher, ’02 Joanne Brodala Halsey, ’72 Margaret D. Holdcroft, ’56 Jane Singer Kart, ’68, ’78, and Gail E. Latimer Barry H. Kart, MD Susan Ann Hammer, ’85 Judith Vincenti Holl, ’79 Susan Klinkner Lauffer, ’75, and Bonnie Mitchell Kautz, ’61, and Russell Thomas Lauffer, PHA ’76 Marcia A. Hammerle Ruth Hollen, R.S.M., ’80 John Lewis Kautz, DDS, CAS’ 57; Mark Hamscher Mary Lee Holler, RN, BSN, M.NED ’78 DEN ’61 Helen L. Laughran, ’56 Jean Lydick Hanas, ’76 Lori Wardrop Holt, ’99 Mary Ellen Keefer, ’76 Carol Lindsay Lausch, ’63 Margaret Ann Hancock, ’66 Roberta Ann Hoover, ’95, ’98 Mildred Volz Kegel, ’53, and Marian A. Leake, ’54 Reverend Adam Kegel, ENG ’49 Margaret Susan Hannan, PhD, ’01, ’07, Beverly Lois Horn, ’73 Katharine A. Lembright, RN ’46 and Ronald E. Hannan, CAS ’73 Jeane Sullivan Keibler, ’72 Stacey Ellen Houck, ’98 Amy Louise Lender, ’88, and Mary Elizabeth Happ Nancy Jo Keller Daniel Michael Lender, PHA ’86 Martin Pierre Houze

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Marian Janco Leone, ’83 Kathy Diane Mansfield, ’97 DeEtta Metz Blanche Peterson Nordeen, ’60 Linda K. Lesic Conroy, ’85 Evelyn Hearn Marker, ’60 Michelle A. Meyers, ’02 Agnes Rosenbaum Nossek, ’76 Michalena Fran Levenduski, ’79, ’83 Sandra Nuss Markley, ’60 Jacqueline Mansour Mickley, ’70 Genevieve Mihelcic Novak, ’68 Rosaline Babinsky Levenson, ’57, Ruth Ewing Marlin, ’49, ’55, ’70 Jodi J. Miller, ’05 Dolores Liszka O’Hara, ’73, ’77 and Rear Admiral Lee E. Levenson, R. Jeanne Marmarose, ’46, and Nora Lee Miller Dorothy A. O’Hara KGSB ’57 Frank A. Marmarose, DDS, CAS ’46; Rebecca Anne Groth Miller, ’94 Michele O’Hara, ’92 Kapo L. Lew DEN ’47 Rosemary Birmingham Miller, ’47 Dorothy M. O’Neill, ’47 Elaine Tyrie Lewis, ’44 Barbara G. Martens, ’83 Martha Suzan Milvet, ’79, ’92 Neil K. Oberholtzer Shawn Cassidy Lewis, ’00, and Mary Rose Martinelli, ’67; GSPH ’80 Teresa Mingrone, ’86 James M. Obringer, ’99 Tim Lewis Nancy Simpson Marts, ’52 Ann Margaret Mitchell, PhD, EDU ’87 Mary Pettus Ogden, ’58 Mary Theresa Lieb, ’70 Justine Yurkovich Masi, ’48 Teresa Ann Modrak, ’78 Alma Elizabeth Olson, ’98 Kathleen Oare Lindell, PhD, ’82, Rachel A. Mathers, ’98, and ’87, ’07 Lawrence John Mathers, MD, MED ’00 Janice Maier Molnar, ’66 Josephine E. Olson, PhD Susan Holsinger Lindman, ’66 Diane McDermott Mathews, ’72 Marjorie Jean Montanari, EdD ’60; Linda Organist, ’79, ’86 EDU ’78 Esther Ronken Lingren, EDU ’60 Joseph Gerard Mattis, ’95 Miss Mary Anna Orrison, ’50 Judith Ann Montgomery, ’61 Kimberly Woodcock Littell, ’83 Geraldine M. Maurer Ray S. Oswald Joan Moore and Charles Moore Olga Roman Lloyd, ’54 Kaye Maxwell and Walter Maxwell Barbara Bryce Owen, ’56 Leona Olander Moore, ’45 Grace Lockard, ’78 Doris Hatherill Mayausky, ’78, and Maria Lynn Pacella Dianne L. Locke, ’75 John Stanley Mayausky, CAS ’77 Jo Ann Moorhead, ’76 George Louis Panzak, ’77; EDU ’89 David Lordi Beth Anne Mayers, ’85 Jena Victoria Morey, ’89 Helen Baxter Parenti, ’81, and Mary C. Quinn Loughran, ’77; GSPH ’87 Joan B. Mays, ’57, and Kristen Morgan and David Morgan Michael J. Parenti, DMD, CAS ’80; DEN ’83 Harold J. Louis A. Earl Mays, CAS ’53 Deborah Lee Morgan and Richard J. Morgan Autumn E. Parramore Jill Funfar Love, ’81, and Maura K. Mccall Charles J. Love, MD, MED ’83 Kay McCandless, ’74; GSPH ’75 Kimberly Mowrey Roberta Lash Patrizio, ’70, ’94, and Patsy Anthony Patrizio, CGS ’76 Xiaoli Lu, ’94 ’02; GSPH ’06 Joan Frances McCarthy, ’97 Lynn Carlson Moyer, ’89 Barbara M. Patterson, ’86 Margaret Kaylor Lucas, ’59 Cynthia W. McClellan Robert Donald Moyer Jr., MD, MED ’92 Barbara Elaine Peace, CAS ’79 Devera Bloom Lucker, ’60 Donna Bell McClure, EDU ’62, and Ruth Mrozek, ’64, ’70 Ila Swearingen Peck, ’63 Maryann Payne Luft, ’72, and Thomas David McClure, MD, CAS ’61; Martha Hartle Munsch, Esquire, Carl Frank Luft, CAS ’72; PIA ’76 MED ’65 CAS ’70, and Richard J. Munsch John G. Pecorari Lucy Spinelli Lusk, ’79, and Megan Lewis McDonald, ’59 Vicki Murrio and Jeff Murrio Janice Lee Penrod, ’76 Thomas W. Lusk Diane R. McDougal, ’77 Admir Music, ’94, ’04 Jane Broyan Perazzola, ’77, and Margaret Henderson Lyness, ’55, and Beatrice Joan McDowell, PhD, Edvin Music, ’94, ’01 Carl Joseph Perazzola, ENG ’75 George Edward Lyness, ENG ’56 GSPH ’78; EDU ’85 Barbara J. Nagle, ’54 Kathleen Puchtler Perich, ’85, ’91 John Lyons Geraldine Blissell McGinn, ’52; Carolyn Dickinson Perry, ’58 EDU ’68 Denise Mericli Nagy, ’84 Patricia Ann Lysko, ’77 Janet L. Peterson, ’95, ’96, and John McGonigle Dorothy Pinette Nardella, ’76, ’80, and Cynthia MacDonald, ’99 Guy M. Nardella, MD, MED ’82 Kim A. Peterson The Honorable James R. McGregor, Carol Christine MacDonald, ’72 Robin Ann Nazzaro, ’98 Charlotte R. Petrarco, ’65, and LAW ’57, and Marguerite U. McGregor William Donald Petrarco, PHA ’66 Anne Hoffman MacDonald and Reva L. Neiman, ’90, ’93, and Christopher S. MacDonald Amy Krall McLaughlin, RN ’98, and Frank V. Petrone Dennis McLaughlin Lee M. Neiman, MD Mary Kate Mackenzie Irene Petrovich Eileen Marie McLaughlin, ’70 Henry E. Nelson Jr. Holly Joy Myers Mackey, ’84 Katherine Ann Jensen Nelson, Barbara Mineweaser Piper, RN, ’86, Arlene Altmyer McLean, ’67 ’95, and Derek John Piper, ENG ’85 Marlene C. Mackey, ’75 ’69, ’73 Margaret A. McNeil Marjorie Youngblood Placek, ’74, ’80 Barbara Ann Mackley, ’73 Caren Evette Newman-Lawee, ’74 Richard McNitt Nancy Contakos Plumb, ’62, ’67 Theresa Stephenson Majetic, ’87 Barbara Cott Nicolson, ’59; EDU ’68 Kathleen Marie Meehan, ’86 Patricia Ann Plummer, ’03 Mary Jane Maloney, ’63 Dawn Nider and Cary Nider Lois Romaine Meek, ’69 Gale B. Podobinski, CGS ’87 Judith Ann Maloni, PhD ’75, ’87 Karen Ruth Nigra, ’89 Marla S. Melnyk, ’06 Margaret M.A. Pointek, ’54, ’59 Margaret E. Manion, ’89 Stephen J. Niznik Carolyn J. Menk, ’58 Mary Elizabeth Polacek, ’85 Judy Manjerovic Norma Jack Noden, ’54 Ramona Thieme Mercer, PhD ’73 Hazel L. Pontious, ’50 William M. Manning, ’04 Carol Jones Noonan, ’76

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Mary Jane Popojas, ’04 Carol Boye Russo, ’75 Terri Booth Shaffer, ’79, and Denise M. Sponcer, ’05 Major Rose Anne Popovich, ’89 Cynthia Herr Moran, ’90, and Thomas Richard Shaffer, Esquire, Carol J. Sprague LAW ’82 Diana L. Portillo, ’60 Vince C. Russo Kathleen M. Srsic-Stoehr, MSN, MS, RN, Trista M. Shah Deborah Potts Kelly J. Rutter, CBA ’03 CNAA-BC, ’72 Sandra L. Shanahan, ’68; PIA ’85 Marianne Steedle Powers, ’81 Marilyn Ryan, ’80 Linda J. Stanton, ’84, and David C. Joyce Falsetti Shanty, ’83 Stanton, MD, DMD, CAS ’84 Richard J. Ptachcinski Sharon Lucas Rydbom, ’74 Joan Campbell Shawgo, ’62 Kirsti Hetager Stark, ’74, ’85 Sally Sciabica Purnell, ’78 Valerie Ann Sabo and Daniel J. Sabo Lynn G. Shearer Myra Musulin Stas, CGS ’94; PIA ’02, Kathryn Jane Pusateri, ’61 Judith R. Sabol, ’72 Melissa Zock Shene, BRD ’95, ’96, ’02 and Michael J. Stas Sally Reed Pyle, ’63 Shirley Prizent Sacks, RN ’57 Christine Marcinizyn Sheppard, ’72 Mercedes Ann Staudt, ’63, and Sharon Foster Raquet, ’65 James V. Sadvari Donald J. Staudt Sr., KGSB ’59 Kimberly A. Sherer Nancy Clare Razorsek, ’87 Rebecca B. Staub Sahl, ’90 Kristine E. Stebler, SOC WK ’95 Anne Shields Barbara Pavuk Recker, ’79, and David Salandro Lois Helen Steiber, ’49 Anne J. Shiley, ’64, ’74 Perry David Recker, LIS ’86 Marilyn Maddox Salem, ’54, and Lorah Denise Dorn and Howard Stein Alexander Nassar Salem, CAS ’50 Judith Ann Shovel, ’80 Marcia Palka Rees, ’78, and Howard R. Stein, EDU ’06 Paul Zachary Rees, DMD, DEN ’81 Joanne Gorenflo Samuels, ’57; Donna L. Showalter, ’76 Beverly Amanda Steinert, ’48 Veronika G. Remic, EDU’75, ’93 GSPH ’64 Geraldine Anne Shuman, ’53 Carol Hobaugh Stewart, ’74 Xinhua Zhao, GSPH ’07, and Jacqueline A. Yochum Saracco, ’75 Luann Smith Shutt, ’77, ’81 Janet L. Stewart Dianxu Ren, PhD, GSPH ’05; GSPH ’06 Marcia Lebec Satryan, ’82, ’94, and Nancy J. Silay, ’74 Michael Alan Satryan, CAS ’80 Michelle Lafferty Stringer, ’80 Carolyne Doyle Ressler, ’65, ’92 Nikki Cepullio Silvis, ’77 Patricia Ann Rettig, ’79 Rebecca Jane Satryan and Ann K. Strunk and Jon Strunk Richard Patrick Satryan Margaret Turocy Sinback, ’74, and Barbara Davidson Reuning, ’81, ’89 Timothy H. Sinback Ronald Stubbs Susan Cameli Scanland, ’81 Cheryl Ann Rich, ’77 Virginia Stiffler Sines, ’64, ’67, and Glenda Simonton Stump, ’77 Phyllis A. Schad, ’72, and Garry E. Sines, ENG ’61 Janet Elaine Stys, ’95 Olive Jeanette Rich, PhD, ’72 Randolph Francis Schad, PHA ’71 Lynn Wolfe Slavic, ’70 Nancy Sullivan, ’70 Lois Gay Richards, ’58 Martha Steele Schartner, ’84 Patricia Vollmer Slingwine, ’72, and Lawrence J. Sumansky, ’82 Susan Gredesky Richey, CAS ’91 Richard Garay Schilling Jr., ’98 William Richard Slingwine, ENG ’73 Joyce A. Summers, ’68, and Barbara Ryan Ride, ’48, and Patricia Lynn Schmitt Frederick G. Ride, DDS, DEN ’43 Rosemary Slobodnyak, ’87 James L. Summers Maureen Higgins Schnittger, RN, Tracey M. Smeltzer Arlene Jones Sumner, ’65 Evelyn Rogus Rippin, ’71; EDU ’74 PhD ’74 Barbara Jean Smith, PhD ’68, ’89 Donald Suzenski Vera Lee Davis Robbins, ’51, and Carol Sue Pell Schnitzler, ’75, and Robert Stanley Robbins, MD, MED ’52 Michael Steven Schnitzler, CAS ’74 Elizabeth Louise Smith, ’54 Barbara Jean Swicord, ’70, ’73 Margaret Mihalik Robinson, ’47 Barbara A. Scholle, ’77 Leslie Smith Ruth Maurer Switch, ’47 Stephanie Rendos Robinson, ’81 Nancy Anne Schoman, ’97 Lynne Lytle Smith, ’88, ’91 Teresina Synborski, ’79, and Donald Albert Synborski Jr., CAS ’78 Mary Sproch Rodkey, ’67 Barbara Spak Schultz, ’73 Monica Petrella Smith, ’81 Carol Duckworth Rogers, ’72 Joan Smith-Walleck, ’68; GSPH ’78 Frances Hamilton Szafran, ’73, and Jane Bossert Schwab, ’60 James Joseph Szafran, LAW ’72 Helen L. Romano, ’78 Kathleen Walsh Smyers, ’68, and Steven Scutella Joann Myers Szymecki, ’73 Gail Lorraine Roosa, ’73 Daniel J. Smyers Jason Scott Sebelin, ’99 Margaret Park Tait, ’59, ’75 Maria L. Rosporski, ’82, ’94 Linda Ann Snyder, ’75, ’86 Helen F. Seidel, ’90 and James Seidel Kathe Berk Taliaferro, ’70, and Cynthia L. Roth, ’81 Sherry Wonsidler Sonneborn, ’74, and Barbara H. Seiple, ’64 Michael George Sonneborn, CAS ’75 Alvin B. Taliaferro Jr., KGSB ’73 Donna Smalski Rothman, ’79, ’98 Sharon Henderson Seligson, ’68 Lucille Sowko Nancy Lee Tall, ’79, ’94, ’96 Sally Buseck Rouch, DrPH ’57; Alita Sellers, PhD, ’78; EDU ’91 Jeanne Davic Soyars, ’59 Phyllis Speck Tarno, ’55, and GSPH ’72; GSPH ’75, and M. Lee Tarno Jr., DMD, DEN ’56 John Rouch Bernadette Schmitt Semenick, ’82, Kathleen Curley Spadaro and Richard Charles Semenick, Ann C. Taylor, ’93 Nicole Marie Roup, ’96 Julie Ann Spangler, ’82 ENG ’82 Melaine Meisel Taylor, ’71 Lisa Kay Tamres, CAS ’83, and Jeffrey L. Senick, ’91 Vera Z. Spear, ’75 Alexander Rudnicky Patricia Lloyd Taylor, PhD, ’78 Peter A. Seppi Arlene Misklow Sperhac, ’73 Terri Frederick Rumble, ’77 Deborah M. Territ Judith Sacco Serago, ’74 Barbara Elliott Spier, PhD ’68; Pauline Berkley Rush, ’44, and SOC WK ’89 Deborah Sorce Thomas, ’75 Calvin C. Rush, MD, MED ’44 Kathy A. Seyman, ’80, and Theresa Robles Thorpe, ’99 Michael John Seyman, ENG ’79 Leslie Kate Spierling, CGS ’94 Barbara W. Russell Linda Jean Spizzirri, ’75

30 university of pittsburgh pitt Nurse spring 200b 31 honor Roll of donors 2006–07

Mary Grace Tighe, ’77, and Jacqueline Owens Winsett, Glunt Contracting Service Inc. Sigma Theta Tau International, Inc. John Thomas Tighe III, PHA ’78 EDU ’77; EDU ’81, and Health and Community Systems Sleepytime Anesthesia LLC Rev. Joseph Van Alfred Winsett Mary Jane Tonge, ’64 Faculty and Staff Somerset Hospital Margaret Ann Wintermyer, ’78 Andrea Joan Topoleski, ’73 HealthSouth Harmarville Speakman Financial Group Barbara Vollenhover Wise, ’75, ’02 Rehabilitation Hospital Ann Q. Trageser, ’76 St. Margaret Foundation Michael Wise Heritage Valley Beaver Steven J. Trinkala Stat Staffing Medical Services, Inc. Patricia Maloney Wolpert, ’76 Heritage Valley Sewickley Edna-Jane Truax, ’60 Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Pamela Kepic Trunzo, ’77 Norma Lou Wood, ’49 Indiana Regional Medical Center Foundation Mary Kazik Trusela, ’55 Martin Wynn Integrated Voice Solutions T. A. Ward Constructors, Inc. Karen Pasternak Turner, ’80 Irene Margaret Yakulis, PhD, ’69, ’70; J.C. Costello Construction Inc. Tenet Healthcare Foundation EDU ’82 Susan Terry Urrows, ’76 James P. Fahey Co., Inc. Uniontown Hospital Laura Stein Yawnlis, ’84 Ellenor Williams Vajda, ’44, ’49 Jayar Construction Co., Inc. United Way of Allegheny County Joanne C. Yost, ’63 Ruthann Valentine, ’66, ’68 Jefferson Regional Medical Center University of Pittsburgh Medical Judith Frances Zedreck, ’79 Donna Kay Valler, ’60 Jewish Healthcare Foundation Center Phyllis Dunkle Ziants, ’47 of Pittsburgh Marcia Nelson Vancini, ’67 UPMC Bedford Memorial Richard G. Ziegler, ’93 Johnson and Johnson Norma Jean Vidale, ’62 UPMC Braddock Kathleen M. Zoldos Kelly-Rielly-Nell Associates, Inc. Mary Lee Villani UPMC Braddock Medical Staff Eleanor Grace Zulick, ’62 Kennametal Foundation Therese Cartier Vogel, ’76 UPMC Cancer Center Laborers’ Distrct Council of Western Karen Teresa Vujevich, ’93 Organizations, Foundations, UPMC Horizon Community Health Pennsylvania Foundation Pamela L. Wagaman, ’76 and Corporations Latrobe Hospital UPMC Magee Womens Hospital Julie M. Wagner 3M Foundation, Inc. LifeCare Management Services, LLC UPMC McKeesport Robin Smith Wagner, ’82 84 Lumber Co. Macy’s Foundation UPMC Passavant African American Women’s Rita Walker, ’62 Medical Staff of the Medical Center, Speakers Bureau UPMC Passavant Professional Staff Nancy Ellen Wallace, ’00, and Beaver, Pa., Inc. Alcoa Foundation UPMC Presbyterian Hospital A. Austin Wallace IV, FAS ’99 Medical Staff of Sewickley Marjorie L. Walrath, ’91 Alle-Kiski Medical Center Valley Hospital UPMC Saint Margaret Jing Wang, A&S ’07 American Academy of Nursing Mellon Financial Corporation UPMC Shadyside Hospital Foundation Alice Ware American Association of Critical UPMC South Side Care Nurses Mercy Critical Care Associates P.C. Sue Ellen Berry Warner, ’75 UPMC St. Margaret Staff American Cancer Society, Inc. The Mercy Hospital of Pittsburgh Carol Matocha Watson, RN, BSN ’77 Verizon Foundation American Nurses Foundation Mercy Jeannette Memorial Hospital Jane Karen Way, ’59 West Virginia University Hospital, Inc. BAE Systems Merrill Lynch and Co. Foundation Jean Martin Wedel, RN, ’48, and Western Pennsylvania Hospital Paul G. Wedel Becton Dickinson Foundation Monongahela Valley Hospital The Western Pennsylvania Hospital John Weidle Bill’s Marine Service Morgan Stanley Foundation School of Nursing Nancy Jo Reed Weiland, ’75 Center for Emergency Medicine of Neuroscience Nursing Foundation Western Psychiatric Institute Western Pennsylvania and Clinic Debra Miliczki Weimer, ’76, ’89, and Ohio Valley General Hospital Cerner Corp. WPAHS-Allegheny General Joseph Schuller Weimer, EDU ’74 Passavant Hospital Foundation CF Advisors Group WPAHS-Allegheny General Hospital Valre Walter Welch, ’69 Pella Windows and Doors Citizens School of Nursing WPAHS-Canonsburg General Hospital Lucille Valasek Werthman, ’76, ’79, Pennsylvania Higher Education and Ronald J. Werthman Construction General Laborers and Foundation WPAHS-Forbes Regional Hospital Material Handlers Jacqueline Wesche-Thobaben PPG Industries Foundation WPAHS-Suburban General Hospital CORE Deborah Ann White Robert Morris University Duquesne University Susan Marie Whitfield, ’83 Roche Laboratories, Inc. Excela Health John Quincy Williams Jr., EDU ’72 Rockwell Automation Charitable Corp. ExxonMobil Foundation Tracy S. Williams, ’88 Schindler Elevator Corp. Federal Home Loan Bank of Pittsburgh Walter Michael Williams, MED ’78 Schumacher Homes of Marie Hawley Wilson, ’87, and First Commonwealth Bank Greensburg, Inc. Ronald Scott Wilson, ENG ’87 Geico Philanthropic Foundation Sewickley Valley Hospital Foundation

pitt Nurse spring 200b 31 Alumni

Pitt Nurses Are Everywhere!

University of Pittsburgh School of Nursing alumni can be found in each of the 48 contiguous states, as well as Alaska and Hawaii. Washington The map indicates that our 53 densest alumni concentration North lies within Pennsylvania’s Montana Dakota borders, but our presence 5 1 Minnesota is of national—and inter- Oregon national—proportion. 19 Wisconsin 28 Idaho South Pitt nurses practice around 11 Dakota 26 the world from Australia 4 to the United Kingdom Wyoming and can be found in 4 Iowa 28 countries. Significant Nebraska Nevada numbers of Pitt nursing 4 10 alumni live in Canada, 19 Utah India, Taiwan, and Thailand. 6 Colorado Distance may be a California 68 Kansas Missouri factor, but staying connected is easy. Visit us often online 212 18 35 at www.nursing.pitt.edu and keep your contact information Oklahoma current. Your world is our world! Arizona Arkansas 72 New Mexico 15 23 10

Alaska Louisiana 4 Texas 10 153

Hawaii 14

32 university of pittsburgh Pitt Nurses Are Everywhere!

Worldwide Australia 1 Philippines 2 Botswana 1 Puerto Rico 1 Canada 8 Saudi Arabia 1 Vermont Maine Egypt 2 Sierra Leone 1 9 15 Germany 1 Singapore 2 New India 7 South Africa 1 Hampshire Iraq 3 Sweden 1 New York 16 Massachusetts Israel 1 Switzerland 1 145 Connecticut 58 Michigan 52 Japan 1 Taiwan, Republic of China 8 104 Rhode Island Jordan 2 Thailand 6 Pennsylvania 14 New Jersey Korea 2 United Kingdom 3 Illinois 6,455 Ohio Mali 1 Virgin Islands 1 79 Indiana 103 331 West Delaware Mexico 1 America Europe* 6 43 Virginia Virginia 37 Panama 1 America Pacific* 2 74 Maryland Kentucky 235 232 *U.S. military address 40 District of North Carolina Columbia Tennessee 199 14 49 South Mississippi Carolina 10 Georgia 80 Alabama 92 25

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pitt Nurse spring 200b 33 alumni news + notes

s research on “Resilience in Older success.” FTB is especially well- Bernadette Melnyk (PhD, 1950 Women: Evolutionary Concept represented by the Class of ’77: MSN ’83, RN, CPNP/NNP, FAAN, Eleanor M. Stittich (MLit, ’54, Analyses” at the Southern Nursing Rosemary L. Hoffmann (PhD, MSN FNAP), dean, College of Nursing BSNEd, ’51) is professor emerita Research Society meeting in ’83, BSN ’77, RN) is now an FTB and Healthcare Innovation at at California State University, Birmingham, Ala. She also holds faculty member. Arizona State University, has Fresno. She was inducted into a courtesy faculty appointment been appointed to the U.S. the Central San Joaquin Valley at the University of Florida College 1980s Preventive Services Task Force. Nursing Hall of Fame in 2005, was of Nursing in Gainesville and is Susan Bindon (BSN ’84) is the appointed to the steering com- a clinical preceptor for the UF Marie Moreau (MSN ’89, BSN ’85) senior consultant for education mittee for the Center for Nursing Family NP students. is a CRNP for Tri Rivers Surgical Excellence at CSU in 2007, and development at LifeBridge Health Associates in Pittsburgh. is listed in the eigth edition of Linda R. Phillips (PhD, MN ’73, in Baltimore, Md. She works with schools of nursing to establish Janet (Baird) Reynolds Welker Who’s Who in American Education BSN ’69) was awarded the relationships and possible part- (BSN ’83, MSN ’87) is manager 2007–2008. 2007 National Doris Schwartz Gerontological Nursing Research nerships that benefit both the of special projects at the Iowa Ruby L. Wilson (EdD, BSNEd ’54, Award. The tribute is given annu- students and the hospitals. Foundation for Medical Care. She RN, FAAN) received the Duke ally in honor of Doris Schwartz, a is also an adjunct faculty mem- Barbara Brennan (MSN ’84) is University Medal for Distinguished pioneer in gerontological nursing ber of the Grand View College chief nursing officer for the Skyline Meritorious Service in 2006. Also research, in recognition of the Department of Nursing in Des Medical Center in Nashville, Tenn. in 2006, the Patient Assessment recipient’s visionary and exem- Moines, Iowa. Lab in the new School of Nursing plary contributions advancing the Melanie Erskine (BSN ’78, Michael Seelman (BSN ’84) was building was named for her. Wilson field of geriatric nursing research. MSN ’85) has recently been recently promoted to senior vice received the inaugural Duke Phillips joined the UCLA College appointed by the Veterans president and chief operating University Nursing Alumni Life of Nursing in 2006 and holds the Integrated Service Network to officer of Forum Health Services Achievement Award in 2008. Audrienne H. Moseley endowed oversee the implementation in northeastern Ohio. She is professor of nursing, chair in nursing. of two nationally recognized assistant to the chancellor for programs designed to improve Susan Tremont (BSN, ’77) has 1990s health affairs, and dean emerita, the health and well-being of returned to nursing through the School of Nursing. veterans and their families, and Julie Alexander-Royzman Fast Track Back program after to promote electronic access to (BSN, ’97) is a certified occu- a 22-year absence while she s health information for veterans, pational health nurse and case 1960 raised her children. She attests their families, and employees of manager for Pfizer, Inc. She has Susan Gelfand Malka (BSN ’65) is to the need and popularity of the 10 Veterans Administration worked in its employee Health the author of a new book, Daring program. George Panzak (BSN ’77) medical centers and 43 affiliated Services Department for eight to Care/American Nursing and and Mary Lou Goodrich Sirianni outpatient clinics. years and lives in New York City. Second-Wave Feminism, published (BSN ’77) from the same class in 2007 by the University of have entered the program as well. Bonnie D. Harr (MSN ’82) is Orly Toren (PhD ’98) has been Illinois. Malka is a former nurse “So many of the women from our the chief operating officer of a named associate director of and nursing instructor who teach- generation have so much invested multi-corporation medical center. the nursing division at Hadassah es American and women’s history in nursing,” says Tremont, “and She is also a national consultant Medical Organization in at the University of Maryland. it’s wonderful to get back to it now to medical spas, an Endorsed Jerusalem, Israel. A critical that our children are grown.” She HealthRhythms facilitator, and care and open heart surgery 1970s added that the Fast Track Back a soon-to-be-published author. nurse, Toren was the director of nursing and paramedical pro- Jeanne Hopple (BSN ’77, MSN, (FTB) program made it possible Janet Horvath (BSN ’85) is a staff fessions at the Sheba Medical CFHNP) is a board-certified nurse to overcome any fears she had nurse at UPMC Shadyside. Center in Tel Hashomer prior to practioner with Ocala Family about trying to come back. The program “gets you ready to enter coming to Hadassah. Physicians, P.A., in Ocala, Fla. She Kathy Butler Mayle (BSN ’77, a hospital orientation, not jump also is a doctoral candidate in MNEd ’80, MBA) is a doctoral back onto the floor,” with all of the surgical nursing at the University candidate in health care ethics at responsibilities that it entails. “The of Central Florida in Orlando. She Duquesne University. was invited to present her original preceptor role was critical to our

34 university of pittsburgh pitt Nurse spring 200b 35 2000s In Memoriam Wendy Henderson (P hD, ’07, MSN ’99, BSN ’94, CRNP, RN) is Beryl Haughton Jackson, MN ’72, PhD ’82 She was dedicated to the nursing profession and working at the National Institute Dr. Beryl Haughton Jackson, 83, passed away on served on a host of local and state professional of Nursing Research (National organizations, including the Pennsylvania Nurses Institutes of Health) as a staff September 2, 2007. Former faculty member at the School of Nursing, Dr. Jackson was named a 1996 Association, Sigma Theta Tau, and the Hospital scientist in the Bio-Behavioral Council of Western PA. Unit. The focus of Henderson’s Distinguished Alumnus of the school. She was a research is to better understand founding member of Pitt’s African American Nursing the mechanisms involved in symp- Alumni Scholarship Committee and in 2002 estab- 2007 Distinguished Alumna tom distress related to digestive lished the Beryl B. Haughton Jackson Endowed Fund Honored in Thailand and liver diseases, specifically for Graduate Students to Study Women’s Health at the biobehavioral relationships the School of Nursing. Soon after Dr. Vunvilai Chandrabha (PhD ’75, MN ’72, between inflammation and patient Elaine Tomnay McHaffie, BSNEd ’71, MN ’76 BSN ’63) was named a 2007 University of Pittsburgh symptoms. The goal of her current School of Nursing Distinguished Alumna last spring, Elaine Tomnay McHaffie passed away on August 12, studies is to identify genetic or she passed away. The colleague and friend who 2007. Ms. McHaffie, an instructor in the Department other biologic/physiologic factors submitted Chandrabha’s nomination packet, Julia of Health Promotion and Development at the that predict patient-related R. Plotnick, MPH, RN, FAAN, RADM, USPHS (ret.), School of Nursing until her retirement in May 2002, clinical outcomes. believed the award plaque should hang in the Bureau taught pediatric nursing. Formerly of Aliquippa, of Nursing, Department of Medical Services, at the Pa., McHaffie and her husband, Richard, retired to Ministry of Public Health in Bangkok, Thailand as a Clermont, Fla. In addition to her husband, she is tribute to the late Dr. Chandrabha. survived by daughter Kerry Anderson of Pittsburgh. Plotnick traveled to Thailand late last fall to attend the Dr. Mary Virginia Neal, MLIT ’52 annual nurse convention there. During the conven- Dr. Mary Virginia Neal passed away on October 11, tion program, Plotnick read School of Nursing Dean 2007. A Living Legend and Fellow in the American Jacqueline Dunbar-Jacob’s remarks from Alumni Day Academy of Nursing, she was named a 1984 2007 and a moment of silence was observed by the Distinguished Alumnus of the School of Nursing. nearly 1,000 nurses in attendance. She then pre- Throughout her professional nursing career, Dr. Neal sented the plaque to Bureau of Nursing Director Dr. made a significant impact in the area of prenatal and Kanjana Chunthai of the Ministry of Public Health. It premature infant care, developing an apparatus to is Thai custom for a book to be printed in honor of simulate the rocking motion and then studying its a prestigious individual upon his or her death. Plotnick effect on premature infants. shared the book created on behalf of Dr. Chandrabha Evelyn Page Parker with the school. Evelyn Page Parker, 86, passed away on January 2, 2008. A former School of Nursing faculty member, Ms. Parker earned a master’s degree from Pitt’s Janice Estelle Martha Grabowski Graduate School of Public Health. She was passion- Bachtell ’58 Kvarta ’46 ate about nursing and mentoring young African July 7, 2007 October 31, 2007 Dean Jacqueline Dunbar-Jacob Americans to pursue a career in nursing. The Diane Jessie Comer ’90 Dorothy True Metzger ’58 presents the game ball to alumni Pittsburgh Black Nurses in Action, where Ms. Parker October 28, 2007 June 11, 2007 emeritus William J. Cully after was an active member, has named a scholarship Gwen Gunter Feather ’73 Eugenia Kirby Santini ’49 the Pitt women’s basketball game in her honor. November 7, 2007 June 5, 1998 on February 2. Cully, president Maureen F. Rusnock, MNEd ’67, MN ’72 Gratia J. Gikling, ’43, ’48 Margaret Osborne of United Plate Glass Co., Inc. November 2006 VanDyke ’49 of Butler, Pa., is an active member Maureen F. Rusnock, 77, passed away on January February 3, 2007 of the School of Nursing’s 16, 2008. Former vice president of nursing ser- Anna Hartman Hall ’49 Volunteer Advisory Committee vices at UPMC Presbyterian and School of Nursing June 27, 2007 Mary Jane Cunningham and is a 2008 recipient of the faculty member, Ms. Rusnock was named a 1983 Keli Ann Heiple ’03 Zoller ’50 school’s Honorary Alumni Award. Distinguished Alumnus of the School of Nursing. February 8, 2007 October 1, 2007

pitt Nurse spring 200b 35 Continuing Education

The University of Pittsburgh School of Fast Track Back: Re-Entry A five-module, self-paced online course is Nursing’s Continuing Education Program to Practice for Registered offered for nurses who work one on one with provides a broad range of on-site and online Nurses Program our nursing students. This online course is activities tailored to nurses in clinical practice. offered without charge to current and potential To meet the new legislative requirements FALL SESSION: October 1–November 9, 2008 nursing student preceptors. for annual continuing education, we have The Fast Track Back: Re-entry to Practice Continuing Nursing Education Credits: 1 launched a series of online education for Registered Nurses Program prepares programs. To learn more about our educational registered nurses for re-entry into hospital- To register or for more information, contact programs, please call 412-624-3156, e-mail based nursing practice through 20 hours Terry Northcutt, RN, coordinator for Community [email protected], or visit www.nursing.pitt.edu. of classroom and human simulation learning Clinical Placements, at [email protected] or and 80 hours of hospital-based practice with 412-648-0287. an experienced registered nurse clinical coach. ON-SITE PROGRAMS AT THE This program is designed for registered nurses COPROVIDED PROGRAMS VICTORIA BUILDING with a current nursing license in the state of Pennsylvania to refresh their nursing skills. Center for Research in Chronic 15th Annual Nursing Horizons This program is a recognized refresher Disorders: Visiting Scholars Conference: Best Practices program and not a reinstatement program, Series 2007–2008 which is required in the event a registered in Patient Safety: Sharing nurse has let the nursing license expire. Monday, April 7, 2008 and Monday, May 5, the Evidence 2008, 12–1:30 p.m. Program fee: $1,300 plus a $12 liability insur- Friday, May 16, 2008 ance fee, which is required for nurses doing The series focus on the impact of health Patient safety is the highest priority in health clinical practice at UPMC facilities. The program policy and systems on patient and provider care delivery. This conference showcases fee includes tuition, textbooks, lunch, and park- adherence. Attendees will gain an understand- the best practices in patient safety as they ing for the didactic and simulation components ing of and appreciation for the importance of relate to communication, technology, and work at the Oakland campus. policy and systems on health care in the United States and abroad through presentations by environments. National and local professional Continuing Nursing Education Credits: 105 nurses from all health care arenas will present expert scientists in this field. their best practices and discuss their out- Continuing Nursing Education Credits: 1.5 comes in promoting patient safety. The target ONLINE PROGRAMS audience is clinicians, educators, and manag- For more information and reservations, contact ers in clinical and academic settings. Kathleen Kennedy at [email protected]. Fundamentals of Clinical Ethics Continuing Nursing Education Credits: 5.2 for Nurses Center for Research Registration Fee: $125 Methodology Seminar Series This is a fundamental clinical ethics course 2008 Pharmacology Update providing the practicing nurse with information Writing for the Media Conference about terms, concepts, and theories commonly used in clinical ethics. This course is for Monday, April 21, 2008 Thursday, August 21, 2008 registered nurses from diverse educational Our 2008 Annual Pharmacology Update and specialty backgrounds. Other health care Through a Journal Editor’s Eyes includes topics of interest for all health care providers (such as physical therapists, occupa- Monday, May 19, 2008, 12–1:30 p.m. professionals, including advanced practice tional therapists, and social workers) seeking This series is designed for staff nurses, nurse nurses, pharmacists, physicians, and physi- a basic course in clinical ethics would also researchers, and nursing educators interested cian assistants. We emphasize a broad phar- benefit from this course. in further developing their writing skills. macologic knowledge base through dynamic Continuing Nursing Education Credits: 10 Continuing Nursing Education Credits: 1.5 presentations of pharmacologic issues affect- Registration Fee: $100 ing patient care. Concurrent sessions address For more information and reservations, contact For more information, contact Lisa M. drug therapies for adult and child populations Kathleen Kennedy at [email protected]. with content that enables clinicians to offer Bernardo, RN, at [email protected]. pharmacologic interventions that are evidence based and support best practice. The Clinical Preceptorship: The University of Pittsburgh School of Continuing Nursing Education Credits: 8 A Bridge between Knowledge Nursing is an accredited provider of continuing Registration Fee: $125 and Practice nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission The strength of the program is the involvement on Accreditation. of preceptors like you—knowledgeable, experi- enced nurses who are willing to guide students.

36 university of pittsburgh pitt Nurse spring 200b 37 Pitt Nursing accessories

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pitt Nurse spring 200b 37 * NurseBeat Faculty News Lora Burke (PhD ’97, MPH ’98, FAAN), professor of nurs- Patricia Tuite (MSN ’92, BSN ’85), instructor in the ing and epidemiology in the Department of Health and Department of Acute and Tertiary Care, was nominated Community Systems, was elected as the vice chair/ for an Excellence in Education Award from the American chair-elect for the American Heart Association Scientific Lora Burke Association of Critical Care Nurses. Council on Nutrition, Physical Activity and Metabolism. It is a six-year commitment. Rebekah Hamilton (PhD, MSN, RN), assistant professor in the Department of Health Promotion Transitions and Development, is moderating a scheduled chat Sandra R. DeLuca (MSN ’87, RN) joined the room specific to the issues younger women face who Department of Health and Community Systems find out they carry the BRCA mutation, which signifi- as a part-time Instructor. cantly increases their risk of breast and ovarian cancer. Judith Erlen The chat room began in September and takes place one Judith Erlen (PhD, MSN, RN, BSN ’66) accepted the Friday evening a month on the FORCE (Facing Our Risk additional role of interim department chair of Health of Cancer Empowered) Web site. and Community Systems. Ann M. Mitchell (PhD ’87, RN, CCRC, AHN-BC) assistant Patricia Fratangelo (MSN, RN) joined the Department professor in the Department of Health and Community of Acute and Tertiary Care as a part-time instructor. Systems, received the 2008 Beckwith Institute for Janet Grady (DrPH ’00, MSN ’89, RN) joined the Innovation in Practice Award for her work on Non- University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown School of Nursing, Pharmacological Interventions to Decrease Agitation Janet Grady Department of Health and Community Systems, as in Patients with Dementia. She is principal investigator a full-time associate professor and director of the working with Dawn DeCicco (MSN ’06, RN), Michelle Cain, Nursing Program. (BSN ’90, RN), Georgia Patterson, RN, and the staff on the Integrative Health and Aging Program at Western Margaret Hannan (PhD ’07, MSN ’01, CPNP, RN) joined Psychiatric Institute and Clinic (WPIC). Recent graduate the Department of Health Promotion and Development nurse Cara Tiedeken (BSN ’07) and current nursing as a full-time assistant professor. students Lynn Boucek and Raeann Rose also are work- Alice Jane Haines (MSN ’89, RN) joined the Department ing with this evidence-based practice (EBP) team of of Acute and Tertiary Care as a full-time instructor. nurses. Mitchell also is a faculty consultant to the EBP Ann M. Mitchell and Research Council of WPIC. Allyson Havill (PhD, MA, MSN ’88, RN) joined the Department of Health and Community Systems Donna G. Nativio (PhD, CRNP, FAAN, PNP), associate as a full-time assistant professor. professor and director of the Family/Adult and Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Programs in the Department of Irene Kane (PhD ’07, MSN ’80, RN) joined the Department Health Promotion and Development, recently received of Health and Community Systems as a full-time notification of successful completion of the PNP Primary assistant professor. Care Review process conducted by the Pediatric Nursing Certification Board. Recognition is granted through 2010. Paula Sherwood Heeyoung Lee (PhD, MSN, RN) joined the Department of Health and Community Systems as a full-time Gilan El Saadawi (MD, PhD, MS ’04) assistant professor assistant professor. in the Department of Health and Community Systems, received an award from the National Institutes of Michael W. Neft (MSN, CRNA, RN) joined the Department Health for her proposal, A Standards-Based Tool for of Acute and Tertiary Care as a full-time instructor. Clinical Trials Protocol Authoring. Total Project Period: Lora Ott (MSN ’95, RN) joined the Department 9/26/07–8/31/09 Total Project Award: $237,600 of Acute and Tertiary Care as a part-time instructor.

Paula Sherwood (PhD, RN, CNRN), assistant professor in Patricia Tuite the Department of Acute and Tertiary Care, received an award from the National Institutes of Health for her pro- posal, “Mind-body Interactions in Neuro-oncology Family Caregivers.” Total Project Period: 9/14/07–7/31/12 Total Project Award: $2,029,317

38 university of pittsburgh pitt Nurse spring 200b 39 Student News UPCOMING EVENTS Alison Bedekovich, junior nursing student, Jatolloa Davis, sophomore nursing student, Pinning Ceremony has been selected to attend the 2009 was elected as the greater Pittsburgh region Friday, April 25, 2008 Presidential Youth Inaugural Conference representative at the Student Nurses’ 7 p.m. (PYIC) in Washington, D.C. PYIC is designed Association Pennsylvania (SNAP) State Soldiers and Sailors Military Museum to educate, motivate, and inspire students Convention; she fills the position held by senior and Memorial by giving them a deeper understanding of the Kathleen McCormick last year. McCormick also electoral history of the United States as well received the SNAP Upperclassman Award. Graduate Student Dinner as their roles in democracy. PYIC provides Sunday, April 27, 2008 high-achieving alumni of the Congressional Matthew Gallek, BSN ’01, RN ’07, was named 4 p.m. Youth Leadership Council and the National a Society of Critical Care Medicine Research Pittsburgh Athletic Association Youth Leadership Forum an opportunity to Citation Finalist for 2008 for his abstract, witness the responsibilities of leadership while “Endothelin-1 Tagging SNPs are Associated Alumni Day 2008: commemorating a truly historic event—the with Cerebral Vasospasm and Long Term “A Celebration of Pitt Nursing” presidential inauguration. Outcomes Following Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Saturday, May 3, 2008 Hemorrhage.” The award is intended to Joseph Ciampoli and Amanda Edris, senior recognize excellence in critical care research 9 a.m. nursing students, participated in the second for a number of specialties. As a Research Welcome and Continental Breakfast four-week interprofessional Healthteam course Citation finalist, Gallek attended the 37th School of Nursing offered through the School of Medicine (the Critical Care Congress in Honolulu, Hawaii in First-Floor Lobby, Victoria Building first course was offered in January 2007). February, where he was invited to display Noon Working with a student each from the School a poster of his original scientific research. Luncheon of Medicine, the School of Pharmacy, and the Twentieth Century Club School of Social Work, Ciampoli and Edris devel- Sirena Lehmer, senior transition student, was cited by staff nurses on her UPMC oped a plan of care incorporating interprofes- Nancy Glunt Hoffman Memorial Presbyterian clinical unit for recognizing sional team members for a group of inpatients Golf Outing a knowledge deficit on the part of the nursing and outpatients with renal disease, dialysis, Friday, July 18, 2008 staff and working to fill it. She researched and and transplantation; shadowed professionals 12:30 p.m. created a highly sophisticated informational from the other disciplines; and represented Shotgun Start bulletin board addressing abdominal drain nursing to those professions. Ciampoli also was Longue Vue Club named the 2008 Emma W. Locke Award winner. issues, and, in the process, bridged the gap between education and service. Convocation Melissa V. Taylor, PhD ’05, RN, won first place Monday, September 8, 2008 for the New Investigator Award for the 1 p.m. American Heart Association Council on First-Floor Lobby Cardiovascular Nursing. Victoria Building

Cameos of Caring Awards Gala Saturday, November 1, 2008 6 p.m. Reception and Silent Auction 7 p.m. Dinner and Awards Presentation Spirit of Pittsburgh Ballroom David L. Lawrence Convention Center

Joseph Ciampoli

pitt Nurse spring 200b 39 REMEMBER WHEN

Can you identify the year and the faces?

If so, contact Joan Nock at 412-624-2404 or [email protected]. We will publish your answer in the next issue of Pitt Nurse. Want to share your memories with fellow alums? Just send us your favorite photo of yesteryear, and we’ll run it in an upcoming issue. Submit your pics to: ­­­University of Pittsburgh, School of Nursing, 218 Victoria Building, 3500 Victoria Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15261. All pictures will be returned.

Remember When? Photo from Fall 2007 Issue Evelyn Hoop O’Block submitted the photo of the Class of 1953 that appeared in the Fall 2007 issue of Pitt Nurse. Special thanks also to Jane Fleming Green and Patricia Moll Glessner, who wrote in response to the photo.

According to O’Block, the members in the photo are: (top row, left to right) Patricia Nelson, Lorraine M. Linar, Marianne Halle, Georgianna Booth, Marcy Toohill; (middle row) Charlotte Jones, Dorothy Ryan, Evelyn Hoop (O’Block); and (front row) Mary Gillespie, Carolyn Smith, Anna Campbell, and Wilda Yeager. It is always great to hear from alumni who enjoy putting names to faces. Thanks to all who took the time to contact the School of Nursing.

40 university of pittsburgh pitt Nurse spring 200b 41 University of Pit tsburgh School of Nursing Alumni Society Executive Committee 2007–08 Officers President Beth K. Mastrangelo ’99 Baccalaureate Representative Bethany A. Francis ’05 Post-Baccalaureate Representative A. Jane Haines ’89 Immediate Past-President Joan P. Byers ’87 Chair, African American Nursing Alumni Committee Luevonue Lincoln ’78, ’82 Representative to the Pitt Alumni Association Michael Cellurale ’06 Ex-Officio Jacqueline Dunbar-Jacob At-Large Alumni Support Monretta D. Aarons ’59 Jessica Devido ’04 Gloria P. Gotaskie ’77, ’94 Cynthia K. Hofius ’05 Michael Okoye ’07 Michele M. Prior ’80 Chad Rittle ’00 Shirley P. Smith ’59, ’79 Kris Keefer Wolff ’93, ’00

Pitt Nurse Associate Dean, Development, Alumni Affairs and Student Services Susan A. Albrecht ’75, ’78 Director of Advancement and External Relations Jennifer Fellows, MBA Director of Development Julie A. Harris, CFRE Assistant Director of Alumni Relations Joan F. Nock Assistant Director of Public Relations Joan E. Britten Contributing Editor Cheryl R. Towers Contributing Writers joan E. Britten Niki Kapsambelis Joan F. Nock Cheryl R. Towers The University of Pittsburgh, as an educational institution and as an employer, values equality of opportunity, human dignity, and racial/ethnic and cultural diversity. Accordingly, the University prohibits and will not engage in discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, color, religion, Design national origin, ancestry, sex, age, marital status, familial status, sexual orientation, disability, or status as a disabled veteran or a veteran of the Vietnam era. Further, the University will continue to take affirmative steps to support and advance these values consistent with the University’s Department of University Marketing Communications mission. This policy applies to admissions, employment, and access to and treatment in University programs and activities. This is a commitment made by the University and is in accordance with federal, state, and/or local laws and regulations. Principal Photography Joe Kapelewski For information on University equal opportunity and affirmative action programs and complaint/grievance procedures, please contact the University of Pittsburgh; Office of Affirmative Action, Diversity, and Inclusion; 412 Bellefield Hall; 315 South Bellefield Avenue; Pittsburgh, PA 15260; 412-648-7860.

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pitt Nurse spring 200b 41 Nancy Glunt Hoffman Memorial Golf Outing Save the Date Career Third Annual Nancy Glunt Hoffman Update Form Memorial Golf Outing Friday, July 18, 2008 Now Online 12:30 p.m. Shotgun Start The school is eager to learn in what roles alumni are practicing, Longue Vue Club, Verona, Pa. and it just became easier to let us know what’s happening with you. Visit www.nursing.pitt.edu, click on the “Alumni” tool bar Outing proceeds benefit the University of Pittsburgh at the top of the home page, and then click on “Career Update School of Nursing’s Oncology Chair Fund. Form.” Completing this brief form takes only several minutes, For more information, contact Jennifer Fellows at and with another click, it’s submitted electronically to our 412-624-5328 or [email protected]. alumni office. We can’t wait to hear from you!

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