THE The Original Since 1892 MAGAZINEALUMNI Columbia University-Presbyterian Hospital Summer 2014 School of Nursing Alumni Association, Inc. Vol. 107, No. 1 R E U N I O N 2 0 1 4 he Class a terrific of 1964 lunch and a Tchecked jazz cocktail into the hotel reception at a d a y e a r l y the Georgian to begin the rounded out festivities. In the day. their hospitality We learned s u i t e , w e about the gathered to new School catch up on 50 of Nursing years! People b u i l d i n g , came from far and program and wide to join planning at the fun and we the School missed those described who could not b y D e a n join us. The Berkowitz. “Entertainment Y o u a l l C o m m i t t e e ” would be brought blue p r o u d t o and white balloons, black stockings, fire extinguishers and hear of the cutting-edge programs happening at our alma old uniforms to remind us of our student days. Two hundred mater. Two presentations were given: “Then and Now” helium-filled balloons with black stockings attached were with over four decades of graduates commenting and carried into Bard Hall prior to the beginning of the reunion, “Collaboration,” about current research and its implications as alum sang “When the Saints Go Marching In.” More than for practice. We were educated to be “super nurses” when in 70 of the class attended the event. school and today’s students are also having the same “super” The day at Bard Hall was lovely. The School and the Columbia- education for the 21st century. Presbyterian Alumni Association gave each of us gift bags At a dinner party that evening, some classmates in full student filled with information, corsages, a CD Memory Book and a uniforms appeared. Skits reminiscing about the various capers DVD with our graduation pictures which also contained an of our class were presented and Miss Gill was depicted interview with some classmates relating stories about their measuring hem lengths. (see photo page 22) student lives and the importance of their education. Breakfast, Sandy McLaughlin Johanson’64 2 SUMMER 2014 Summer 2014 Volume 107, Number 1 The Alumni Magazine A publication of the Columbia University-Presbyterian Hospital School of Nursing Alumni Association, Inc. Contents 480 Mamaroneck Avenue • Harrison, NY 10528 Phone: (914) 481-5787 President’s Message ...............................................3 Fax: (914) 481-5788 PHSON as Model for Danish Nursing Program ....4 E-Mail: [email protected] Website: www.cuphsonaa.org Alumni Research Reports .......................................6 Alumni Day ............................................................7 Administrator of Alumni Affairs Denise N. Ewing Distinguished Alumni Awards .............................13 Important to Know ...............................................17 Board of Directors Scholarship Awardees ...........................................18 Officers Class News ...........................................................19 President Suzanne Law Hawes ’59, EdD, RN In Memoriam ........................................................24 Vice President Madelon Battle .....................................................25 Margaret L. Fracaro ’70, MA, RN The Beginning ......................................................26 Treasurer Louise Malarkey ’62, EdD, RN Honor Roll ............................................................27 Secretary Lois Mueller Glazier ’60, PhD, RN CLASS OF 2015 Congratulations Patricia Jones ’60, MA, M.Ed, BS, RN to the Jill Nadolny Kilanowski ’77, PhD, RN Nora Barrett Tulchin ’70, BS, RN Class of 2014 We welcome all of you into an august membership CLASS OF 2016 of nursing professionals. You have a proud Sandra McLaughlin Johanson ’64, PhD, RN heritage and we are looking to you and your Joan Ambrose McCormick ’61, JD, RN future accomplishments to continue this legacy. Janice Cobb Ziemba ’74 BS, RN We are the original School of Nursing Alumni CLASS OF 2017 Association, founded in 1892 through the efforts Joan Hagan Arnold ’69, PhD, RN of Anna C. Maxwell. Then, as now, our mission Judith Hupcey ’77 EdD, RN is to assist alumni through scholarships, sick Carol Thomas Martin ’60, BS, RN benefits and annual stipends for those in financial Permanent Members need and provide opportunity for alumni to Marion Richardson Thompson ’60, MSN, RN connect and share. Learn more about your Laurie Verdisco ’58, MA, RN origins. Go to our website: www.cuphsonaa.org and find out more about us. CUPHSONAA Publications Suzanne Law Hawes ’59, Editor Viola Gommer ’60, Associate Editor Pamela Heydon ’60, Associate Editor Patricia Jones ’60, Associate Editor Committee Members Wanted Applications can be found on our website, www.cuponsonaa.org The Alumni Association’s magazine and newsletters are distributed regularly to all alumni. “In spite of the time and distance that or call the office and leave your name separates us, all alums - staff nurses, administrators, educators, and number and the committee of choice scientists, volunteers, and parents - remain ‘Neighbors,’ united in 914-481-5787. spirit by our commitment to nursing and to each other.” Keville Frederickson ’64 THE ALUMNI MAGAZINE 3 PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE Suzanne Law Hawes ’59 t was 120 years ago on May 15th, that Anna Maxwell Our practice is still evolving. There are yet unforeseen witnessed the graduation of her first class of twenty- horizons and our larger presence in health care awaits Ione students of the Presbyterian Hospital Training our contributions. Assuredly, Columbia graduates will School for Nurses. Although many were employed by play an important role in this changing health care the hospital upon graduation, others had to freelance in scene. Our Distinguished Alumni and scholarship private duty for their livelihoods. To assist them in finding awardees also attest to this progress. employment a registry was established that year and David Brooks wrote recently about historical was hugely successful. However, it was insufficient for consciousness in the New York Times. He said that the numbers of alumnae seeking assistance, not only in when we think and plan for the future we look at employment, but with life’s circumstances. Recognizing the larger picture and “don’t think about the texture this need, a group of alumnae quickly established an and the tensions, the particular smells, shapes and alumnae association to provide funds for alumni who conflicts, the ‘dents in the floorboards.’” All of these were ill as well as impoverished retirees. They also small things gave meaning and context to the picture granted loans to alumnae with adverse circumstances. As we now remember of our nursing career and lives. there was no higher education for nursing at that time, Brooks said: “Future imagination and vision cannot scholarship assistance was added to the alumnae benefits match what we have already experienced.” Hence, at a later date. This is the mission our Alumni Association we must always look at our history to appreciate our has served through the years and continues today. future. Nursing was hard work then as now. It was a very We are all part of the fabric of this school that educated different kind of hard work than we think of today. No us and our long line of predecessors. Our work is built air conditioning, central supply, disposables, limited upon theirs and so it will be in the future. Remember medicines and an absence of technology. Single women where we have been and where we are now. This will all, the nurses lived at the hospital and dealt with the guide us in our future. city’s poor and underserved six days a week. These nurses As a supplement to these remarks, we are including could be found cleaning patients and scouring the hospital the full statement of Dr. Susan Rydahl-Hansen of the environment; it was all part of the job. Bispebjerg Hospital in Copenhagen. She came to the Anna Maxwell’s goal was to produce graduates of superior United States to accept the Distinguished Alumni nursing ability. Her ability and influence continued and Award in Memoriam for Charlotte Munck, 1909. has expanded across the globe ever since. We have moved our practice from apprentice to professional with each succeeding decade of graduates. Dr. Susan Rydahl-Hansen and Gunilla Svensmark of Denmark can attest to our early history and how the Maxwell model of nursing education swept across the world in the early 1900s. The Danish Ambassador and Dr. Susan Rydahl-Hansen have come to us today to pay tribute to one of our earliest graduates who changed the course of nursing in her country and throughout Europe 4 SUMMER 2014 Charlotte Munck, 1909: An Early Protegé of Anna Maxwell Presented by Dr. Susan Rydahl-Hansen Dr. Hawes, Members of Presbyterian Hospital School of She convinced the Danish Nurses’ Organization that they Nursing Alumni Association . must find a young woman willing to go abroad to be educated Thank you for inviting me to talk about Charlotte Munck – in order to come back and found the first proper nursing at this extraordinary school in Denmark. occasion. It is difficult Margrethe Koch was a friend of Charlotte Munck, and to express what an one day Charlotte asked her if she would help her to go to honour it is to stand Presbyterian Hospital since she had trained at the Danish here - close to Charlotte Deaconess Foundation for four months, and nursing appealed M u n c k ’s b e l o v e d to her religious and philanthropic mind. Presbyterian Hospital, Margrethe Koch immediately wrote to Anna Maxwell, and where she got her nurse shortly afterwards Charlotte Munck sailed to New York education and formed and moved into Florence a lifelong friendship Nightingale Hall – the with sub-attended nurses’ home at Presbyterian Anna Maxwell. Hospital. One hundred and five For the next three years years ago, in May she wrote many letters to 1909, Charlotte Munck her family and fortunately, became a member of Charlotte Munck as a young woman, 1905 Margrethe Koch has quoted your Association.