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1930s
Marian Howard Tidwell,
39N, has retired from a career in nursing and is living in the small
town of Manchester, Ga.
1940s
Mary Hall, 49N,
62MN, see entry under Kate Kelley Beveridge, 64N.
Mary
Hall, 49N, Elizabeth Sharp, and Kate Kelley Beveridge, 64N, 68MN
1950s
Martha Baron, 56N,
of Glenhead, N.Y., retired in August 1999 from Winthrop University Hospital,
where she was a clinical nurse specialist for 22 years. Some of her newfound
free time will be spent enjoying her first grandchild, Sofia May Pretch,
born in July 1999 to Baron's daughter, Ericka.
1960s
Jean Johnson Givens,
62MN, of Decatur, Ga., at age 86, has published a culmination of decades
of gardening know-how in Through the Gates with Jean. A collection
of essays from previously published gardening articles, along with poetry
and special herbal recipes, are gathered in this book. Givens, who taught
biology at Georgia State University for many years, was a charter member
of the Chattahoochee Unit of the Herb Society of America. In 1979, she
was among the first graduates of Georgia's Master Gardener program.
Courtesy of The
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Jean
Johnson Givens, 62MN
Kate Kelley Beveridge,
64N, 68MN, attended her 35th class reunion in 1999. There, she caught
up with two of her mentors in public health nursing, Professor Emerita
Mary Hall, 49N, 62MN, and Professor Elizabeth Sharp. Sharp
had left the nurse midwifery program at Johns Hopkins just before Beveridge
began the CNM/MPH program there. Beveridge writes, "With professional
colleagues like these, no wonder I have practiced clinical nurse midwifery
in Prince George's County, Md., and the Washington, D.C., metropolitan
area for the past 26 years!"
Elizabeth W. Riggs,
61Ox, 66MN, of Decatur, Ga., founded Riggs Consulting in 1997. She
provides medical-legal consultation to law firms that have cases with
health-related issues. She also has five active grandchildren.
1970s
Sharon Baker, 74MN,
of Rome, Ga., was appointed by Governor Roy Barnes to the Office of Women's
Health (OWH) Advisory Council. Part of Georgia's Department of Community
Health, the OWH leads efforts to improve the health and quality of life
of women through education, research, policy development, and coordination
of women's programming. Baker's colleagues on the Advisory Council include
former First Lady Rosalynn Carter and Georgia First Lady Marie Barnes.
Baker is the founder and director of the Women's Information Network,
which promotes women's wellness through information and interaction.
Courtesy of The
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Sharon
Baker, 74MN, stands next to Georgia Governor Roy Barnes and OWH Advisory
Council members.
Rebecca S. Bumsted,
78MN, of Willow Street, Pa., is a member of the Board of Directors
of Lancaster General Hospital and chairs the $5 million Raising Expectations
Capital Campaign to help fund the new Women and Babies Hospital of Lancaster
General. The new facility will provide a complete continuum of care for
women of all ages, with testing, treatment planning, education, childbirth,
surgery, and follow-up care all under one roof. With ample parking and
easy access via public transportation, Bumsted hopes this convenient and
coordinated system of care will remove some of the barriers that keep
women from getting quality care.
Rose Dilday, 79N,
professor of nursing emerita, celebrated her 85th birthday in March at
a party in Decatur, Ga. Betty Daniels, 51N, 67MN, assistant professor
of nursing emerita, Mary Earl Haynes, 66N, 77MN, Sally Lehr,
65N, 76MN, assistant professor (clinical) of nursing, Nell Rodgers,
65N, 67MN, and Laura Campbell, 71MN, hosted the happy occasion.
Ruth Smith, former secretary and assistant director of records for the
School of Nursing, and Maybeth Cooper, also a former secretary,
attended along with alumni and colleagues, including those who worked
with Dilday to redesign Georgia's mental health system in the 1960s.
 
Ruth
Smith (standing) and Maybeth Cooper helped Rose Dilday, 79N, (right) celebrate
her 85th birthday in March.
1980s
Married: Anne Elizabeth
Gregg, 81N, of Surfside Beach, S.C., and F. Larry Mozingo, on Dec.
30, 1998.
Laura Strange,
81MN, has become the first female colonel in the Georgia Army National
Guard. She is the Guard's chief nurse and serves as medical detachment
deputy commander at state headquarters in Atlanta. Strange joined the
National Guard in 1980 after three years of active duty with the U.S.
Navy Nurse Corps. Strange specializes in obstetrics and is one of the
first three PhD nursing students now enrolled at Emory. She has held a
variety of research, clinical, and management positions in Texas, New
York, and Georgia, including at Atlanta's Northside Hospital. She is also
a former member of Emory's nursing faculty. Strange and her husband, Jim,
have two teenage children, Leslie and Adam.
Brigadier
General Michael Seely pins Colonel Laura Strange, 81MN.
Born: To Patricia
Todd Perry, 82N, 91PA, and her husband, Michael, of Fayetteville,
Ga., a son, Michael Todd, on July 15, 1999.
Born: To Molly
Susan Smith, 81Ox, 83N, and her husband, Gary, of Macon, Ga., a daughter,
Molly Anne Merritt, on Dec. 22, 1999.
Married: Kimberly
Riedy, 84N, and Richard Browning, on April 10, 1999. The couple resides
in Gainesville, Fla.
Born: To Janet
Groves Green, 85N, and her husband, James, of Asheville, N.C., a son,
Jason Matthew, on March 26, 1999. Green currently holds an MN, ANPC, and
works as a forensic nurse and legal nurse consultant.
Born: To Alison
M. Kelly-Allen, 85N, 90MN/MPH, and her husband, Keith B. Allen, of
Zionsville, Ind., Blair Alison, on Jan. 9, 1998, and Marielle Grace, on
April 13, 1999. Kelly-Allen is a family nurse practitioner, but for now,
with five children, she is a full-time, at-home mom.
Born: To Karla
Rooney, 88N, and her husband, David, a daughter, Emily Grace, on Aug.
28, 1999. Emily joins sister Anna and brother Samuel. Rooney is an intensive
care RN in Mone Vista, Colo.
Dawn E. Raymond,
89N, 93MN, of Atlanta, after working as a family nurse practitioner
at a local practice for five years, decided to take on a new challenge.
She has a new position with the CDC/Public Health Service as an epidemiology
intelligence service officer, which is a two-year applied epidemiology
training program. Based at the Atlanta CDC National Immunization Program,
Raymond works in the assessment branch, where she monitors vaccination
coverage rates among preschool children in the United States.
1990s
Caroline Bowers-Birchmore,
92MN, of Lexington, S.C., now holds a two-year elected position as
the South Carolina state representative of the American Academy of Nurse
Practitioners. Last fall, she was invited to attend the Nurse Practitioner
Leadership Conference in Washington, D.C., where she met with South Carolina
Senator Strom Thurmond and Congressman Floyd Spence to discuss national
and local issues in her field. Bowers-Birchmore is a senior nurse practitioner
at Doctors Care Urgent Care Facility and the mother of two children, Evan
and Ansley.
Caroline
Bowers-Birchmore, 92MN, and Senator Strom Thurmond
Karen Yvonne Boone,
93MN/MPH, was recently appointed assistant professor of nursing at
North Georgia College and State University.
Cheri Thomas Dent,
93N, of Fayetteville, Ga., is currently a neonatal intensive care
unit RN at Piedmont Hospital in Atlanta. In addition, "I'm happy to be
a mom of two wonderful children, Will and Savannah, ages 4 and 3," she
writes.
Cheri
Thomas Dent, 93N, and husband William with Will and Savannah
Born: To Angela
Tatum, 94N, and her husband, Daniel, of Denver, N.C., their third
child, Joel Daniel Jr., on Nov. 11, 1998.
Born: To Kathryn
Rogers Gibbs, 95N, and her husband, David, of Kennesaw, Ga., a daughter,
Ashley Elizabeth, on Nov. 14, 1999.
Married: Eve N.
Economy, 96N, and Scott M. Williams, on June 19, 1999. Economy is
pursuing her master's degree as a nurse practitioner in women's health/Ob/Gyn
and works as an RN in labor and delivery at Northside Hospital in Atlanta.
Born: To Anna
Catherine Foshee, 94Ox, 96N, and her husband, Andrew, of Lawrenceville,
Ga., a son, Luke Edward, on Oct. 26, 1999. Foshee works as a staff relief
change RN in the medical oncology unit at Gwinnett Medical Center.
Luke
Foshee, son of Anna Catherine Foshee, 96N
Amy Nicole Grace,
97N, of Boynton Beach, Fla., and her husband are back stateside after
spending 1999 in Puerto Rico. Grace works in orthopedics at Boca Raton
Community Hospital and is seeking out a master's program in sports medicine
or another orthopedic-related field.
Born: To Kimberly
Stewart-Soroka, 97MN, and her husband, Stuart, of Tucker, Ga., a son,
Benjamin Grant, on June 6, 1999.
Married: Katherine
Wilson, 97N, and Jeffery Tatum, of Dalton, Ga., on June 12, 1999.
Married: Amy A.
Asaki, 98N, of Atlanta, and Warren D. Burn, of Durban, South Africa,
on Oct. 2, 1999. Asaki is a cardiovascular unit RN at Emory University
Hospital.
Barbara Jean Burt,
98N, a lieutenant in the U.S. Public Health Service, has accepted
a transfer from the Tohatchi Health Center in New Mexico. She is now stationed
in Dillingham, Alaska, where her duties include ambulatory care, emergency
department, and medevac nurse training.
Married: Jane C.
Freeman, 98MN, and Vinod H. Thourani, 94M, of Atlanta, on May 8, 1999.
Freeman works as an oncology nurse practitioner at The Emory Clinic, and
Thourani is a surgery resident at Emory.
Jane
C. Freeman, 98MN, and Vinod H. Thourani, 94M
Chastaine Kendrick,
75Ox, 98MN, of Carrollton, Ga., is a certified nurse midwife in private
practice with Wellstar/Cobb Gynecologists.
Erin E. Poe, 98N,
of Alpharetta, Ga., is pursuing her MPH at Emory's Rollins School of Public
Health.
Born: To Susan
Eckart Ward, 98MN, and her husband, Ralph, of Duluth, Ga., a son,
Jacob Henry Ward, on Nov. 5, 1998.
Born: To Karen
B. Seagraves, 93C, 96MPH, 99N, of Marietta, Ga., and her husband,
Scott, their second child, Jessica Elizabeth, on Sept. 18, 1999. Jessica
joins brother Jacob, born on July 28, 1995. Seagraves started the new
year with a new job in the neurosciences unit at Northside Hospital in
Atlanta.
Jessica
Elizabeth and Jacob Seagraves, children of Karen B. Seagraves, 99N
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Family
Caregivers Need Love Too
Anne Turner-Henson,
73Ox, 79MN, has been pleasantly surprised by the attention her research
has received in newspapers like The Dallas Morning News. An associate
professor with the School of Nursing at the University of Alabama at Birmingham,
Turner-Henson was the PI for a study examining the health-promoting practices
of family caregivers who have children with chronic conditions.
"We found that mothers
of children with chronic illnesses spend a great deal of time caring for
their children and don't take good care of themselves," says Turner-Henson.
"They often neglect diet and exercise and fail to get routine health exams."
Yuriko Kanematsu,
professor and dean of Japan's Iwate Prefectural University School of Nursing,
conducted the same study and reported similar results. The next step for
both collaborators is to design interventions to help mothers improve
their health. "It's important when pediatric nurses are meeting with parents
that they talk with them about healthy lifestyle practices," says Turner-Henson.
The study was developed
with support from the John E. Fogarty International Center and the Japanese
Society for the Advancement of Science. Turner-Henson and Kanematsu also
received a Fogarty Award from the National Institutes of Health, with
additional funding from the American Nurses Foundation (ANF). Turner-Henson
was the ANF Chow-Togasaki-Breitenbach Scholar in 1997-1998.
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Model of Compassion
Kim Kuebler, 95MN,
of Lake, Mich., has always been involved with hospice care. But at Emory,
she was able to tailor the adult nurse practitioner program in oncology
to her own interest in end-of-life care. That interest eventually brought
her back home to rural Michigan, where she has established Adjuvant Therapies,
Inc., to provide end-of-life care in an underserved area.
Adjuvant Therapies
highlights the role of the palliative care nurse practitioner and follows
the framework of the Macmillan Nurse in Great Britain. Macmillan Nurses
provide two to three years of palliative care, taking patients from diagnosis
to death. This integrated focus on continuity of care is what Kuebler
strives for.
"In the United States,
only 20% of the people in need of palliative care get it, and there is
no structure in place to ensure that patients are getting good care,"
says Kuebler. She saw 250 patients last year and uses the Internet to
consult with her internal medicine physician adviser, who is located more
than a two hours' drive away.
Kuebler was recently
asked to interview for the Governors Advisory Committee on End-of-Life
Care. "Michigan is the Kevorkian state," says Kuebler, "and physician-assisted
suicide is a hot topic. As you can imagine, legislators in Michigan are
extremely sensitive to issues involved with end-of-life care."
Kuebler continues
to do research, working on an interactive consulting model for end-of-life
care that provides standardized tools for assessments, a database demonstrating
efficacy, and a panel of experts. The trial will be housed at Boston's
Beth Israel Hospital under the supervision of Dr. Howie Smith. The model
may be used by the World Health Organization.
In addition, End
of Life Care Clinical Protocols for the Advanced Practice Nurse, a
textbook co-authored by Kuebler, should be available by the end of this
year.
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From
the Alumni President