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elcome! As president of the Nurses Alumni Association (NAA) of the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing, it is my great pleasure to share with you, through this magazine, the activities of our alma mater. If you live in Atlanta and are interested in becoming more involved with the NAA, please let me hear from you! Outside of Atlanta, the Association of Emory Alumni (AEA), of which you are also a member, plans regional events in US cities and abroad. We encourage nursing alumni to attend these stimulating events. For more information, contact Allison Dykes, director of regional programs, at 404-727-8878 or at adykes@emory.edu. Alumni can also assist the school in student recruitment. If you are willing to help with this, please contact Debbie Ashtiani, interim director of the office of student services at 1-800-222-3879 or at nurda@nurse.emory.edu. The NAA is working to establish an Atlanta-area speakers' bureau, which could bring alumni back to the classroom to share their first-hand experiences and health care expertise. Both faculty and students have expressed a strong interest in seeing this happen, and it is an ideal opportunity for alumni to contribute to the intellectual life of the school. A survey about this was mailed to alumni last year. If you did not receive--or return--a questionnaire and would like one, please contact Anne Bavier, acting director of development, at 404-727-6917 or at abavier@emory.edu. Finally, we are planning an exciting and successful Alumni Weekend. Mark your calendars now for September 25-27, 1998! The theme of the nursing program on Friday will be "Where's the Bedside?" Saturday morning will feature a joint event with alumni from nursing, medicine, and public health. Our traditional banquet caps off Saturday evening. We look forward to seeing you back at Emory. Sincerely, Barbara Reed, 57N, 79MN |
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1930s Pearl Murphy, 33N, has a beautiful life in Connecticut surrounded by her children and grandchildren. |
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1940s Sarah Harris Kirby, 42N, of Alexandria, Va., stays active as a hospital volunteer. Before retiring in 1987, she had worked for 22 years in the US Army Nurse Corps. She served during World War II as an Army nurse at Camp Butner, N.C., along with classmates Jeanette Hancock Foley, 42N, and Jocelyn Shearouse McLean, 42N. It was at Camp Butner that a certain patient made a strong impression on Sarah: her future husband, John C. Kirby, was a patient of hers. He proposed to her in Hyde Park in London, and they were married Nov. 7, 1946. Olive Galloway, 43N, is living in an active retirement community in Tampa, Fla., travels, and would love to see her classmates at the reunion in September! Corinne M. DeBardeleben FitzSimons, 47N, of Lake Charles, La., has been active for the past 50 years as a clinical nurse specialist, nurse educator, and nursing supervisor at Lake Charles Memorial Hospital. Mary O. Hall, 49N, 62MN, 83G, is employed part-time as a nurse with the Fulton County Health Department. She travels every few years to Vienna, Austria, to visit her son, who has been pastor of the International Chapel of Vienna since 1985. |
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1950s Barbara K. Slauson, 50N, is retired in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., and writes that she is glad she practiced when she did because of the expense of health care today. "People's health or people's wealth," she asks, "which comes first?" Betty Marie Davis Stewart, 52N, of Atlanta, is a homemaker and grandmother of ten. A long-time volunteer for the School of Nursing, she expresses continued gratitude for her nursing education at Emory. Em Olivia Bevis, 55N, of Bluffton, S.C., was awarded
an honorary doctorate by Shenandoah University, in Winchester, Va., on May 10, 1997. |
Virginia M. Harmeyer, 61MN |
1960s Virginia M. Harmeyer, 61MN, retired in Valdosta, Ga., was named by the Georgia Council on Aging as the Distinguished Senior Georgian of 1997 and was commended by the State Senate for her public service and dedication to the concerns of the elderly. Meredith Mills Mentzer, 59Ox, 63N, of Adrian, Mich., is lead health consultant for Head Start Region VA. She and her husband, Thomas, have three children. |
A Legacy of Scholarship Professor Emerita Rose Dilday, 79N (honorary), of Atlanta, is pictured here with Shani Howard, the 1997 Rose C. Dilday Scholar in the School of Nursing. This scholarship was established in 1983 by grateful students of Mrs. Dilday, to honor her upon retirement. Mrs. Dilday, who headed the psychiatric and mental health nursing program at Emory, had taught at the school for 15 years. Kay D. Sedler, 79MN |
1970s Lucy Meley Richardson, 71N, of Kingwood, Tex.,
has been an elementary school nurse for 11 years, with a primary focus on tobacco education.
Barbara Johnston Fletcher, 72MN, of Jacksonville Beach, Fla., is a clinical associate professor of nursing at the University of North Florida. Mary McCabe, 72N, is assistant director of the division of cancer treatment, diagnosis, and centers at the National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, in Bethesda, Md. Candy Kohn, 73MN, works as a clinical specialist in obstetrics at Yale-New Haven Hospital in New Haven, Conn., where she specializes in high-risk pregnancies. She and her husband, Don (74D), are avid travelers. Cindy Selleck, 75N, works for a health education network in Florida, where she prepares clinicians for service to rural patients. She and her husband live in the Tampa area with their 12-year-old son. Linda Dieck Siegel, 75MN, of Federal Way, Wash., is a colonel in the US Air Force Nurse Corps, and is currently a chief nurse executive at McChord Air Force Base Clinic in Tacoma. Jere Ziffer Lifshitz, 76N, has moved to Miami and is president of Prime Health Consultants, Inc., a health care marketing, education, and strategic planning firm. Lorene Newberry, 76N, of Marietta, Ga., is a clinical nurse specialist for PROMINA Northwest Health System Emergency Services. She edited the fourth edition of Sheehy's Emergency Nursing Principles and Practice, which was published in 1997 by Mosby. Anne Shirah Barker, 78N, is a clinical nurse specialist and clinical manager at a 2,000-deliveries-per-year maternity center. She writes that she has become a computer pro as she has guided her center into computer documentation of nursing and health care. She and her husband, Robbie, reside in Richmond Hill, Ga., with their two daughters. Born: To Susan Howard Maloney, 78N, and Sean Maloney, of Asheville, N.C., a third son, John, on Nov. 16, 1997. Their eldest, Michael, will be 13 in May. The middle son, Matthew, recently turned 10. Kay D. Sedler, 79MN, of Albuquerque, N.M., is chief of the nurse-midwifery division in the department of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine. She was elected in 1997 to the board of directors of the American College of Nurse-Midwives. |
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1980s Suzanne Kanipe White, 82N, has been appointed senior vice president of patient services and chief nursing officer of Saint Thomas Health Services in Nashville, Tenn. Meg Gazzola Jeffrey, 81Ox, 83N, of Atlanta, has a new job as clinical coordinator for Lifelink of Georgia working with pancreas and kidney recipients at Emory University Hospital. She is also a member of Emory's Nurses Alumni Association Executive Committee. Gary W. Flecker, 84MN, of Grant, Ala., has retired from the Army Nurse Corps as a lieutenant colonel. Debianne Peterman, 84MN, of Atlanta, is now vice president of the south region of Integrated Care Delivery. She is responsible for all business initiatives, including Scottish Rite's partnership with Piedmont Hospital to build Fayette Community Hospital. Born: To JoAnn Scott Walker, 84N, and Warner Walker, 85B, a third child, a son, Hayden Scott, on Aug. 29, 1997. Another big change for the Walkers: A new job for Warner has taken the family from Atlanta to Scottsdale, Ariz. Born: To Emily Bronzo Ellis, 85N, and her husband, Jack, of Miami, their first child, Rachel Morgan Ellis, in December 1996. Emily works in management and strategic development. Lori Every, 86N, has taken a leave of absence from her work to be with her son full-time while her husband is fulfilling his military assignment in Bosnia. Born: To Kristin Lewandowski Aziz, 87N, and Mike Aziz (87C, 90L) of Duluth, Ga., their second child and first daughter, Caroline Hope, on Feb. 25, 1997. Kristi is employed as a childbirth educator with the Better Birth Foundation, and her husband is an attorney with Cooper & Avery. Lucy C. Willis, 87MPH, 87N, of Hoover, Ala., is a continuum care manager at Birmingham Baptist Medical Center in Princeton. Married: Ellen Worth Churchill, 88MN, and Spencer McCants Smith (85L), of Hilton Head Island, S.C., on March 16, 1996. Ellen is a pediatric nurse practitioner with Family Practice Associates of Hilton Head, and Spencer is an attorney. |
Marjorie Frazier, 91MN Caroline Bowers Birchmore, 92MN, and son Nancy Rabin, 93MN Brenda Baker, 94MN, and her sons on a trip "Down Under" |
1990s When Marjorie Frazier, 91MN, was accepted in the master's program at the School of Nursing, it meant the fulfillment of a lifelong dream to attend Emory. When she was awarded a Woodruff Scholarship, she saw it as a gift from God.
Born: To Caroline Bowers Birchmore, 92MN, and Mark Vaughn Birchmore, a son, Evan Alexander, on May 18, 1997. The family resides in Lexington, S.C.
Married: Wendy DeAnn Howard, 90Ox, 92N, 96MN, and David W. Coots, of McDonough, Ga., on July 12, 1997. Wendy is an adult nurse practitioner at Internal Medicine of Griffin, Ga. Linda Wetherbee, 92N, 95MN, of Battle Creek, Mich., is a pediatric nurse practitioner at Family Health Center in Battle Creek. Married: Alicia Vander Wiele, 92N, and 1st Lt. Jeffrey Michael Casucci, on Oct. 26, 1996, in Atlanta. They reside in Lawton, Calif.
Nancy Rabin, 93MN, former Woodruff Scholar at Emory, has served for the past four years as a primary care nurse in a mobile wellness van, travelling hundreds of miles along Maryland's rural roads and inner-city streets to deliver care to medically underserved children. Their parents qualify for neither insurance nor Medicaid.
Brenda Baker, 94MN, is a perinatal clinical nurse specialist at Mission Hospital in Asheville, N.C., where she has continued research on twin families. She has found that the current trend in twins focuses on the individuality of each child from an early age.
Jennifer Morton Snow, 94N, of Port Orange, Fla., is employed as a clinical charge nurse in pediatrics. Heidi Anne Orme, 95N, of Nashville, Tenn., is a critical care staff nurse at Baptist Hospital. She passed her CCRN certification examination in February 1997 and is pursuing nurse anesthetist training in Nashville. Carol Webster, 95N, is employed as a CNM for Primary Care for Women at Georgia Primary Care in Lawrenceville, Ga., where she lives with her husband, Tim, and their two sons. Sheila Rossell, 96MSN, of Decatur, Ga., is a primary care provider nurse practitioner with the Grady Health System's Infectious Disease Program. Married: Michelle Cook Garlock, 95Ox, 97N, and Sean Garlock on August 2, 1997. They reside in Reno, Nev. |
Betty Tigner Turner, 53N |
1930s Ossie Bailey Fredericks, 30N, of Asheville, N.C., on Aug. 5, 1996. Laura Rumble Galloway, 30N, of Smarr, Ga., on Oct. 24, 1996. She is survived by her sister, Kathleen Rumble Brown, 37N. Lillian Bailey Hunter, 37N, of Tallahassee, Fla., on Feb. 24, 1997.
Betty Tigner Turner, 53N, of Atlanta, on May 27, 1997, of cancer, at age 66. Mrs. Turner served the School of Nursing in countless ways: as president in 1975 of the Nurses Alumni Association, as a member of the school's Council of 50 and of the Board of Governors of the Association of Emory Alumni, and as a generous donor to the school and its scholarship programs. She is survived by her husband of 43 years, Dr. John S. Turner, Jr. (52C, 55M), three daughters (one of whom is Elizabeth Turner Gibson, 76Ox, 78C, 81N), and seven grandchildren. [See related article.]
Mildred Belcher Pryse, 60N, of Americus, Ga., on Jan. 9, 1997. Jo Ann L. Talbott, 69N, of Peconic, N.Y., on June 26, 1996. Miss Talbott had been employed as assistant director for nursing at the Suffolk County Department of Health Services, Division of Patient Care. She is survived by her mother, Mrs. Anna D. Talbott.
Anita Pitts Holliday, 79N, of Alexander City, Ala., on June 4, 1997, of liver cancer. She is survived by her husband of nearly 17 years, K. Roger Holliday (78Ox, 80B), and three children.
Catherine Ann Jackson, 94N, of Athens, Ga., on March 8, 1997, of complications from mitral valve prolapse. She is survived by her husband, William W. Jackson. |
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Evelyn Prescott Rowe, 45RN, 49N, of Atlanta, on July 3, 1997. A professor in the School of Nursing for many years, Mrs. Rowe was instrumental in developing Emory's graduate nursing program, and served as interim director of the program for one year. Her quiet, unassuming manner sometimes disguised the many important contributions she made to the school and to Emory's Center for Rehabilitation Medicine, according to Professor Emeritus Elizabeth Mabry, a long-time colleague of Rowe's. "She should be remembered as being an essential part of the nursing school's history," she said, "one of the real pioneers." Mrs. Rowe was preceded in death by her husband and is survived by a brother- and sister-in-law, David and Mary Rowe of Atlanta. |
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Kathleen Brewer, MN. The experience of nurses caring for incarcerated patients: a phenomenological study. Sigma Theta Tau. Catherine Campbell, MN. Adult children of servicemen missing in action: an examination of stress, grief, and family hardiness. Georgia Nurses Foundation Research Doctoral Student Grant, Oct. 22, 1997. Annette Frauman, RN, PhD. Health self-responsibility in fifth-grade children: questionnaire pilot (co-principal investigator), Emory University Research Council, Dec. 1996. Catherine Lindenberg, RN, PhD. Preventing substance use and risky sexual behaviors among high risk low-income young persons in Costa Rica. Roberts-Strachan Family Foundation, Feb. 1997. Latina alcohol, tobacco, and other drug use and sexual risk prevention intervention. National Institute on Drug Abuse, NIH, May 1997. Kathy Parker, RN, PhD. The effects of hemodialysis on the sleep-wake cycle, RO1, NINR, July 1997. Kathleen Pittman, RN, PhD. Preventing substance use and risky sexual behaviors among youth. Association of Women's Health, Obstetrical, and Neonatal Nurses. Pubertal development assessment: a methodological assessment. Sigma Theta Tau. Laura Porter Kimble, RN, PhD. Self-administration of sublingual nitroglycerin in community dwelling angina patients. American Heart Association, Georgia Affiliate, July 1997. Sublingual nitroglycerine use in a community dwelling angina population. Georgia Heart Association and Emory University Research Council. Laura Porter Kimble, RN, PhD, Sandra Dunbar, RN, PhD, Deborah McGuire, RN, PhD, and Ora Strickland, RN, PhD. Gender differences in patterns of chronic anginal pain, NINR, NIH, R29 First Award, Aug. 1997. Marianne Scharbo-DeHaan, RN, PhD. A teaching enhancement program for the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing, Emory University Provost. Judy Schmidt, RN, PhD. Perinatal nurse practitioner advanced practice program, Advanced Nurse Education Training Grant, Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration, Bureau of Health Professions, July 1997. Christi Warner, RN, PhD. Length of stay and quality of life post cardiac surgery. American Nurses Foundation. |
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