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Reaching Out Across the Years

"The promotion of human happiness is all that makes business—or anything else—worthwhile." Emory nursing instructor Gladys Stallworth wrote those words on the back of a bookmark she gave to Olive Galloway, 43N, many years ago. The bookmark is tucked in a scrapbook that Galloway recently gave to the School of Nursing along with her nursing cap, cape, and pin. She also has provided a scholarship bequest to steer future nurses on the road to happy, productive careers.

More and more, older graduates and recent ones are reaching out across the years to support their school through planned giving. Their generosity supports our endowment and enables the school to grow. Each story is a special one.

About the time Galloway graduated, an Emory medical student named David Hallstrand married Patricia Waldroop, 42N. Sadly, Waldroop died in 1998. Because they both valued their education at Emory, Hallstrand has provided a bequest to support scholarship for nursing and medicine. Barbara Anne Davis Carroll, 69N, is continuing a giving legacy with an unrestricted gift annuity. She continues a tradition begun by her parents, Hugh P. Davis and Alice Kydd Davis, in appreciation of the nursing education their daughter received. Many graduates have enjoyed successful careers outside of traditional nursing. As a consultant to the health care and pharmaceutical industry, Marcie Hirshberg, 85MN, remained a nurse at heart and now uses the life skills she learned at Emory as a community volunteer. Her gift to future graduate students is a bequest to endow a professorship in maternal-child health.

We are proud of the people who come forward to support our school for generations to come. If you'd like to learn more about planned giving, please call me at (404) 727-6917. We extend our heartfelt thanks to these donors and invite you to join them in providing a bright future for aspiring Emory nurses.

Anne R. Bavier, 73MN, FAAN Assistant Dean for Development, Alumni and External Relations

"I decided that
we both owed Emory
a lot because we
both received our
education there.
Pat always
regarded her nursing
education at Emory
as excellent."
—Dr. David Hallstrand, 45M

Patricia Waldroop, 42N, was a private duty nurse at Emory Hospital. David and Pat Hallstrand met at a restaurant near Emory in 1943.

Love Springs Eternal

Scholarship gift recalls a lifetime of memories

On a Sunday night in April 1943, David Hallstrand, 45M, and a roommate strolled just outside Emory's main entrance to grab some grub. The young men ordered steak dinners, but the entree was so popular that Hallstrand got only half a serving. Turns out he still got the better end of the deal.

Also dining in the restaurant was a pretty young nurse named Patricia Waldroop, 42N. They chatted briefly, and before he knew it, Hallstrand was escorting her later from the nurses' dormitory to Emory University Hospital, where she worked as a private duty nurse. The two became instant sweethearts and married two months later in Glenn Memorial's Little Chapel. Their marriage flourished for 55 years until Waldroop's death in January 1999.

To honor her memory, Hallstrand has provided a charitable gift annuity to the School of Nursing to establish a scholarship fund in Waldroop's name and a similar gift to the School of Medicine for a scholarship fund in his name.

"I decided that we both owed Emory a lot because we both received our education there," says Hallstrand, who is 80. "Pat always regarded her nursing education at Emory as excellent."

After they married, the Hallstrands rented a garage apartment on Clifton Road near Emory Hospital, where Pat continued her private nursing duties for patients like Ralph McGill, the Pulitzer Prize-winning editor of The Atlanta Constitution. She would sometimes relieve Edith Honeycutt, 39N, another private duty nurse who looked after Ernest Woodruff, father of Emory benefactor Robert Woodruff. Honeycutt also introduced the young nurse to Robert's wife, Nell Hodgson Woodruff.

The Hallstrands remained at Emory until David graduated in 1945, marking the beginning of a medical career that would take them to several states before and after their son, David Jr., was born in 1947. Hallstrand was hoping to start a surgical practice in Chicago when he was invited to check things out in Miami. The gamble paid off, and Hallstrand soon had a busy surgical practice and in 1960 helped open South Miami Hospital and Baptist Memorial Hospital, where he served on the board of directors for 22 years and twice served as board president. Pat also thrived as she raised their son (who is now an anesthesiologist in Melbourne, Florida), sang in the church choir, and volunteered at South Miami Hospital for 25 years. She often accompanied her husband on his visits for the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, a part-time duty that took him to 27 states and Washington, DC.

In 1988, Hallstrand agreed to head the surgical assistance unit at South Miami Hospital. He also served in 1991 as the hospital's acting CEO but declined a permanent appointment in order to spend time with Pat, who had begun to suffer a variety of health problems. Despite her illness, the Hallstrands continued their travels. Their last trip together was a Baltic cruise in 1998, not long before she died at age 77.

From time to time, the Hallstrands corresponded with Edith Honeycutt, who still has the letters Pat wrote to her. And of course, Honeycutt was more than delighted when she learned that Hallstrand had provided a scholarship gift in Pat's name. "It is a lovely, thoughtful way for Dr. Hallstrand to honor his wife with an enduring gift to nursing and the school she loved."

A Meaningful Vocabulary

The Davis Family continues its giving legacy

"Outreach" was part of the Davis family vocabulary long before Barbara Alice Davis Carroll, 69N, was born.

Her first lesson began at home near Manhattan, where her father, Hugh P. Davis, MD, was an EENT specialist for the New York Mets and other well-known patients. He also provided free treatment to those who served others—teachers, firefighters, policemen, nurses, members of religious orders—as well as those who couldn't afford medical care.

"Daddy believed that you had to give something back. I learned a lot from him," says Carroll.

When she decided to go to nursing school, there was no question that she would enroll in a BSN program, and she chose Emory after longtime friends recommended the school to her father. In addition to her nursing classes, Carroll worked weekends at Emory University Hospital.

The experience proved invaluable after graduation, when she joined the nursing staff at New York's Presbyterian Hospital, caring for adult patients and helping establish one of the first satellite pharmacies in the country.

Carroll next worked in hospital pediatrics, eventually moving to Sarasota, Florida, where her parents had retired. By then, her nursing education and experience had made an impression on her family. Before Carroll's mother died in 1987, she had decided to provide a gift to buy new books for the nursing library, housed in Emory's Health Sciences Center Library. The nursing collection was dedicated in 1988, and the Alice Kydd Davis Endowment supports the yearly acquisition of books, fulfilling her desire to help the most students possible.

The endowment also marked the beginning of a giving legacy. When Carroll's father died in 1988, her family established the Hugh P. Davis Lectureship, which brings a nationally known nursing researcher, practitioner, and educator to Emory each spring.

Four years ago, Carroll and her husband, Walter, created a charitable remainder trust to provide unrestricted support for the nursing school. They provided another unrestricted gift annuity this year.

To this day, Carroll remembers how Emory instructor Cynthia Mallory enlarged her vocabulary. "Nursing is definitely a 'getting' profession," Mallory told her. "You get more back from people than you are ever able to give."

Once a Nurse, Always a Nurse

Graduate experience inspires teaching bequest

Marcie Hirshberg, 85MN, RN, still has the counted cross-stitch her adviser made the year she graduated from the School of Nursing. "She did one for each of us with our name and year on it," says Hirshberg, referring to Johanna Flynn, MA, RN, former coordinator of perinatal and neonatal nursing.

For Hirshberg, the memento is a sweet but strong reminder of the skills and encouragement imparted to her by Flynn and other nursing faculty. To reciprocate, Hirshberg has made a bequest to endow a professorship in maternal-child health for graduate studies in the School of Nursing.

After completing her MN in perinatal and neonatal nursing at Emory, Hirshberg worked as a labor and delivery nurse, a maternal-child clinical coordinator, and an obstetrics unit manager in Miami and other Florida hospitals.

By then, Hirshberg had acquired nine years of obstetrics experience, making her a prime candidate for a pharmaceutical sales position with the Parke-Davis division of Warner-Lambert. She eventually transferred within the company to Atlanta, where she soon was promoted to medical liaison, linking researchers and practitioners in efforts to develop new drugs for women. Later, she joined KPMG, one of the Big Five accounting firms, as a consultant for university health care system and pharmaceutical clients.

Today, Hirshberg channels her energies into community work. "It seems to me that 'once a nurse, always a nurse' holds true," she says. "Many of the things I learned through school and work translated into valuable skills within the pharmaceutical industry and health care consulting. A lot of those skills have transferred easily into everyday life."

She credits much of her success to her father, a retired pediatrician, and to Flynn, her Emory mentor. "Whatever your goals were, she tried to help you reach them."

A Real Treasure

Scholarship bequest recalls happy times at Emory

Like many women who grew up before World War II, Olive Galloway, 43N, MA, had three career options: teaching, nursing, or secretarial work. Fortunately, Galloway chose nursing and became a dedicated teacher of other young nurses. Because of her commitment to nursing education, Galloway has made a scholarship bequest to the School of Nursing.

Now 80, Galloway still has strong feelings for the place where she earned her nursing diploma. "I loved everything about it," she says. "That's the reason I'm leaving this scholarship. Emory is one of the places where I've been the happiest in my life."

As a student, Galloway took basic science classes in the Anatomy and Physiology Building and nursing classes in Harris Hall next to Emory University Hospital. Each day at 10 am, the nursing school provided snacks, juice, and milk for students under the shade of a nearby persimmon tree.

After graduating, Galloway eventually joined Duke to teach basic nursing arts and medical nursing while earning a nursing education degree. Next, she joined the faculty at Gordon Keller School of Nursing, a three-year diploma program at Florida's Tampa General Hospital. Galloway later established the nursing program at Hillsborough Community College, which she directed until retiring in 1982.

In addition to her scholarship bequest, Galloway has donated her nursing cap, cape, and scrapbook to the School of Nursing. "That scrapbook contains tidbits about what went on when I was at Emory, including the school's pediatric affiliation with Bellevue Hospital in New York."

She also speaks fondly of her nursing pin, which bears the initials "EUH" for Emory University Hospital. "That nursing pin is a real treasure," says Galloway. Future students who will benefit from her scholarship bequest would agree that so is she.