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MARRIED: Jane Martin Atkinson, 65Ox, 68N, and Michael Paul Hammett of Marietta, Ga., on Sept. 13, 2002. She is program manager for the East Metro Public Health District in Lawrenceville and has worked in public health for 34 years. | ||||||||
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Winniefred A. Jones, 69MN, was honored with NurseWeek magazine’s Nursing Excellence Award for the nation’s south central region. She was a finalist in the community service category, which highlights significant professional and voluntary contributions in community outreach efforts. The awards ceremony was held in Dallas, Texas, in November 2002. Jones is an associate professor of nursing at the Charity School of Nursing at Delgado Community College in New Orleans, La. |
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 Dr. Linda F. Samson, 72N, 73MN, became dean of the College of Health Professions at Governors State University, Illinois Park, Ill., in May 2002. “My college includes programs in nursing, health care administration, social work, physical therapy, occupational therapy, communication disorders, and addictions and behavioral health,” says Samson. “I continue to work with faculty on developing Internet-based courses.” Previously, Samson taught courses in maternal and child health nursing, health care finance, and administration of nursing and health care. |
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Capt. Jeffrey A. Hill, 75MN, made naval history in March 2003 by becoming the first reservist ever mobilized as executive officer (XO) of an active-duty naval hospital. Two days before the Fleet Hospital of Pensacola, Fla., was deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Hill arrived at Pensacola Naval Hospital to take command temporarily. As the XO, the Atlanta-based Navy Nurse Corps reservist handled the day-to-day operations of the military medical facility, ensuring health care delivery to active and retired military personnel and their families in the Pensacola area. In addition, Hill oversaw health care delivery provided to people in four states, through 12 Navy branch medical clinics. Hill has resumed civilian life as a health and accountability specialist with the Georgia Hospital Association. He also is the senior nurse executive (Reserve) for Naval Hospital Camp Lejeune. |
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 Capt. Mary (Dawson) Lambert, 81MN, of the US Public Health Service ended her one-year assignment to the White House USA Freedom Corps Office in March 2003. The Freedom Corps is the citizen volunteer service initiative announced by President Bush in his January 2002 State of the Union message. It aims to recognize service and recruit and mobilize volunteers for community service. Lambert was key in the development of the civilian Volunteer Medical Reserve Corps, which she now directs. It is part of the Office of the Surgeon General in the Department of Health and Human Services. |
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Dr. M. Alice (Huss) Mason Poe, 82MN, received a doctorate of science in nursing from the University of Alabama at Birmingham in August 2002. Poe, who is a nurse-midwifery coordinator at the University of Florida at Jacksonville, commuted to Birmingham to get her degree. |
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BORN: To Karolyn Carr Jones, 85N, 95MPH, and her husband, Greg, a daughter, Darcy Brooke, on May 3, 2002. The Joneses believe in the veritable “thank heavens for little girls!” since Darcy joins three older brothers—Nate and younger twins Harry and William. The family lives in Alpharetta, Ga. |
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Elizabeth Morell Edel, 87MN, of Houston, Texas, has worked at three major hospitals in the Houston area, each having more than 1,000 beds. They are MD Anderson Cancer Center, St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital, and The Methodist Hospital. “I have received nothing less than superior remarks for my nursing degree from Emory,” she says. Edel specializes in oncology nursing and has published numerous articles in nursing journals. |
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MARRIED: Norma Fitzgerald, 88MN, and Edge Scarlett in December 2001. She is a family nurse practitioner at the Putnam County Health Department, a rural health clinic in Gainesboro, Tenn. |
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  osemary
Neidel Greenlee, 69MN,
and Dr. Evelyn M. Monahan, 79Th, are co-authors of And If I Perish: Frontline US Army Nurses in World War II, published by Alfred A. Knopf in November 2003. “The book is about the Army nurses, the medical staffs, and some of the men they cared for during World War II,” says Greenlee. “We interviewed a core group of Army nurses, doctors, and corpsmen from six or seven field and evacuation hospitals. We tell the story through their eyes as they followed the frontline fighting from North Africa, to Sicily, through Europe, and to Germany’s surrender. We hope that Americans who read it will have a much greater appreciation for the contributions of medical support and Army nurses in particular in winning WWII.” Greenlee taught briefly at the School of Nursing after graduating in 1969. She went on to serve 30 years with the federal government in various nursing administrative and clinical positions, including quality management analyst and assistant chief of nursing service at the Atlanta Veterans Affairs Medical Center (VAMC), where she retired in 2002. Monahan, a former VAMC counseling psychologist, earned an MEd from Emory’s Candler School of Theology in 1979. Monahan and Greenlee have written two other books about nursing: Albanian Escape: US Nurses Behind Enemy Lines and All This Hell: US Army Nurses Imprisoned by the Japanese, both published by the University Press of Kentucky in 1999 and 2000, respectively.
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BORN: To Deborah Ruane Anderson, 93N, 97MSN, and her husband, Christopher, a son, Christopher Jon (“CJ”) Jr., on April 16, 2002. She is a nurse practitioner at the Center for Diabetes and Endocrine Health at Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh. The family lives in nearby Gibsonia, Pa. | ||||||||
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MARRIED: Sally Gillen, 93MN, and Gary Schreck, 76C, 99MSN, of Atlanta on Oct. 21, 2002, in Decatur, Ga. “The relationship had a funny beginning,” says Gillen. “About three years ago, my daughter was dating Gary’s son in high school. They found out that they both had parents who are nurses and introduced us! I wasn’t crazy about the idea at first, but it really worked out.” Schreck works at Atlanta Nephrology. Early last year, Gillen spent four months as a nurse practitioner in Barrow, Alaska. Read more about her experience below (“Greetings from Barrow, Alaska”). |
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BORN: To Kathryn Rogers Gibbs, 95N, and her husband, David, a daughter, Sarah Kathryn, on April 8, 2002. Sarah has an older sister, Ashley Elizabeth. Gibbs mostly stays home with the girls but occasionally works as an RN at Peachtree Hematology & Oncology Consultants in Atlanta. “I have an incredible setup where I only work about eight days a year—just enough to keep my feet wet,” says Gibbs. The family lives in Kennesaw, Ga. |
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BORN: To Tiffany (Cheek) Holland, 99N, and her husband, Chris, a daughter, Olivia Joyce, on April 18, 2002. Holland is a cardiology RN at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Atlanta. The family lives in Smyrna, Ga. |
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native Dr. Marcia K. Stanhope, 71MN, has made a career of helping the
medically underserved in her home state. The University of Kentucky College
of Nursing has honored her by appointing her as the first Good Samaritan
Professor and Chair in Community Health Nursing. The Good Samaritan Foundation,
a health-related philanthropy that supports quality health care and health
education for low-income
and uninsured people in central and southeastern Kentucky, made her appointment
possible. Stanhope
knows these causes well. For more than a decade,
Stanhope
has collaborated with the foundation to
provide health education to the needy and to improve access to health
care. As professor and chair, Stanhope works
with master’s and doctoral students, interns, fellows, and staff
in the Good Samaritan Nursing Center, of which she is founding director.
“It is what we call a virtual nursing center,” Stanhope explains. “We reach out into the community to provide community health and primary care services to vulnerable populations. The foundation funds community health interns who staff the center. We provide health services of our own to the schools, the homeless, and other parts of the community. We also support agencies already in existence, such as the Baby Health Service, which is more than 100 years old. It’s a free service for mothers and babies who cannot afford well-baby care anywhere else.” Stanhope’s professorship encompasses numerous research activities. All are designed “to develop, implement, and evaluate programmatic efforts that promote healthy lifestyles and prevent diseases for Kentuckians who have limited access to primary health care,” says Dr. Carolyn A. Williams, dean of UK’s College of Nursing. Stanhope named Williams, who was associate dean at Emory’s School of Nursing in 1971, as the person who most influenced her nursing career beyond her BSN. She also named Dr. Mary Hall, 49N, 62MN, 83G, who, like Williams, was on Emory’s nursing faculty at the time. Stanhope has served on UK’s nursing faculty since 1981 and has held many leadership roles, including director of the Division of Community Health Nursing and Administration from 1985 to 1996. She has served as associate dean of the college, co-director of the new Doctor of Nursing Practice program, and director of continuing education. She also is editor of the leading textbook in community health nursing, Stanhope and Lancaster’s Community Public Health Nursing, used throughout the world. |
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(Henry) Jordan, 82MN, helped recruit volunteer
staff last summer for Camp Kudzu, Georgia’s only weeklong camp for children with diabetes and which provides medical management, health education, and plenty of fun. Held in August at Camp Barney Medintz in Cleveland, Ga., it was expanded to include a teen program for 16-year-olds. “My role at Camp Kudzu is mainly behind the scenes,” says Jordan. “I serve on the board and help with board development, strategic planning, fund raising, and recruiting. I don’t attend the camp because my own daughter has Type I diabetes and is a camper. I think it is a more  valuable
experience for her without me!” Jordan also points out that Camp
Kudzu is a wonderful opportunity for undergraduate nursing students to
gain experience and serve the community.Following her graduate work at Emory, Jordan developed another camp for children in Georgia in 1982. Camp Sunshine held its first session for children with cancer in the summer of 1983. “In addition to my involvement as founder and chair of the board, two other Emory nursing grad school alumni are involved,” Jordan says. Sally Hale, 80MN, is executive director, and Tricia Benson, 86MN, serves as program director. Most of Camp Sunshine’s activities are located at Camp Twin Lakes, near Rutledge, Ga. In addition to the 200 campers that come 
to summer camp, Camp Sunshine House in Atlanta serves nearly 600 children
in year-round, nonresidential education and support programs. “It
is the first of its kind in the country,” says
Jordan. “It’s similar to a ‘wellness center’—a
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(Moore) Brown, 76MN,
has come a long way since leaving Emory. She served on the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing and subsequently earned her medical degree at Jefferson Medical College, part of Thomas Jefferson University, in 1986. She completed her residency in ophthalmology at Wills Eye Hospital, also in Philadelphia, and went on to obtain her MBA in strategic management in 1998. Brown also married, had three daughters, authored more than 120 publications, and became a nationally recognized expert in medical economics. She is an adjunct senior fellow at the Leonard Davis Institute for Health Economics at the University of Pennsylvania. She also serves as director for the Center for Value-Based Medicine and is co-chief editor of Evidence-Based Eye Care. Recently, Brown was one of four new members appointed to the National Advisory Council on Aging by Secretary of Health and Human Services Tommy Thompson. This group advises the National Institute on Aging on research and training for diseases and conditions associated with aging. Now Brown is running for Congress in Pennsylvania’s 13th district for 2004. “I narrowly lost in the 2002 election, and the incumbent has decided to run for the Senate, thus leaving an open seat,” she says. “It should be exciting.” |
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 ally Gillen, 93MN,
spent four months early last year in the northernmost community in North
America—Barrow, Alaska. In a letter to the School of Nursing, Gillen
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(population 4,438) is located 725 air miles from Anchorage and 440 miles
above the Arctic Circle,” she writes. “Nothing grows in Barrow,
and the permafrost extends 18 inches down into the ground. Barrow is ‘off
the road system,’ and the only way to get there is by plane. Most
of the residents are Inupiat Eskimos, who make a living like their ancestors
did—subsistence fishing and hunting for seal, polar bear, walrus,
duck, and caribou. “Whale season starts in March when the ice pack thaws. Half a dozen whalers go out in their little whaling boats called ‘umiaks.’ They build the wooden frames and each spring cover them with new seal skins. When they bring in a whale, everyone drops what they’re doing to help bring it in and clean it. The biggest treat in town is feasting on ‘muktuk’ or whale blubber—a combination of skin and fat, which is usually eaten raw.” Gillen arrived in Barrow in early December 2002, in the middle of the long night when the sun does not shine. When the first rays appear in mid-January, villagers traditionally “walk to the sun” as it peeks above the horizon for a short time. To prepare for her trip, Gillen purchased a –40-degree parka and –20-degree boots and brought goggles since she heard her corneas might freeze. “I didn’t have a problem because the only walking I did was the mile and a half to get home from work each evening,” she says. A nurse practitioner at the local Wellness Center, Gillen worked in women’s health, in much the same way an NP would anywhere in the United States. The center holds mammogram clinics four times a year for women, |
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are flown in from surrounding villages, some with only 200 to 300 people.
Sometimes, nurse practitionersand registered nurses fly out to the villages
on propeller planes to treat patients and screen people in different communities. Gillen discovered that even Barrow residents must contend with commuting headaches. “Over the holidays, I also covered at the Senior Center, where they had seven residents,” writes Gillen. “Since polar bears sometimes walk into town, there was a sign in the break room that said, ‘We know that it is polar bear season and that you must check around your house before leaving in the morning, but please budget your time so that you won’t be late for work.’ And people in Atlanta think that the traffic is an obstacle!” |
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Eve Heemann Byrd, 86N, 98MSN/MPH, and Bonnie
Minter, 86N, were in nursing school together, they didn’t
do very well on their first anatomy and physiology exam. As the professor
told them, “You girls are going down the tubes.” Fortunately, their professor was wrong. Byrd had the honor of presenting Minter with the Distinguished Nursing Achievement Award at the Nurses Alumni Association banquet in fall 2003. Minter is the founder of The Regional Organization of Camping and Kids, Inc., which sponsors an annual camp for children with HIV and their siblings in Rutledge, Ga. She established the camp after working with HIV-positive children at Grady Memorial Hospital and extensive volunteer experience with Camp Sunshine, a summer program for children with cancer. Today, Minter continues to work as a pediatric nurse practitioner for the Grady Health System in addition to running her organization. NAA members honored another of their own when nursing professor Dr. Marcene Powell presented the Award of Honor to Juanita Howard, 92MN. Like Minter, Howard is a pediatric nurse practitioner and longtime champion for children. Thanks to her efforts, Power House for Kids opened in Toccoa, Ga., in 2002 as a refuge for abused and maltreated children. During its first eight months, the center cared for 98 children from four counties. Howard also is a Sexual Abuse Nurse Examiner, testifies as a child advocate, and serves on the board of FAITH (Fight Abuse in the Home), which helped her establish Power House for Kids. The NAA banquet proved to be a golden moment |
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 Lucille Darden Newsom, 27N, of Waynesville, N.C., on Nov. 23, 2002, at age 97 years and 5 months, according to her son, Grover (Bill) Newsom Jr. Other survivors include her husband, Grover Newsom Sr., and a daughter, Mary Margaret Newsom. |
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Ella Mae Harwell Holland, 29N, of Lookout Mountain, Tenn., on Feb. 19, 2003, at age 94. Her husband of 71 years, Reuben W. Holland, died on her 94th birthday, on April 11, 2002, according to daughter Helen Holland Garrott of Lookout Mountain. “Mother had done some private duty nursing in the 1930s, but then she stayed home with us kids until the last one graduated in 1954,” says Helen. “Then she went to work as a school nurse at Chattanooga High School. She must have been 46 at the time. She stayed there until she was 70, when she retired.” Holland also is survived by another daughter, Sarah Holland. |
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 Minnie Lee Herrington Rountree, 36N, of Macon, Ga., on Dec. 3, 2002, at age 93. As recently as February 2000, she and her husband, Earl R. Rountree, had lived in Darien, Ga., before selling their family home there. Other survivors include a daughter, Frances L. Roberts, and her husband, James C. Roberts. |
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| Mary Nell Morgan Conger, 39N, of Spartanburg, S.C., on Nov. 28, 2002, shortly before her 85th birthday. Conger worked as a RN in the office of her husband, Dr. Preston DeWitt Conger, 37C, 40M, who preceded her in death. She is survived by four children, Elizabeth Conger Camp, 66C; Nell Conger Lucius, 68C; Dr. Preston D. Conger Jr., 75C, 79M; Nancy Conger Bell, 73N; and eight grandchildren. | |||||||||
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Clark Bradley, 40N, 67MN,
of Valdosta, Ga., on July 28, 2003, at age 84. Bradley was born in Atlanta
and was in the first graduating class of North Fulton High School. Her
nursing career began at Henrietta Egleston Children’s Hospital in
Atlanta, took her to Queens Hospital in Honolulu, and back to Piedmont
Hospital in Atlanta. She also worked as a public health nurse for DeKalb
County. Bradley was instrumental in starting the nursing program at Georgia
Perimeter College and was deputy director of mental health services for
the State of Georgia. The AID Atlanta Health Services Unit was named in
her honor in 1993 because of her tireless work in public health, mental
health, and education. Bradley was preceded in death by her husband, Marion Howard Bradley Sr. She is survived by daughter Ann Randolph Bradley Burnette and her husband, Brad, and daughter Josephina (Jo) Eppes Church, all of Valdosta, and son Marion Howard Bradley Jr. (Howard) and his wife, Terri, of Gainesville, Ga. Other survivors include four grandchildren, three great-grandchildren, and three sisters. Bradley was buried at Westview Cemetery in Atlanta. |
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Mayson Johnson, 46N,
of Charleston, S.C., on Sept. 21, 2003, at age 78. Johnson served as head
nurse of the psychiatric department at Roper Hospital in Charleston for
three years and worked for more than 30 years in private practice with
her husband, Dr. Robert M. Johnson Sr. The couple met in the 7th grade
and were married for 56 years. Johnson was a licensed pilot and enjoyed
growing plants and flowers. In addition to her husband, she is survived
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Martha Fraze Strafford, 46N, of Thomasville, Ga., on Feb. 18, 2003. She is survived by her husband, John Jay Strafford II, who talked about her nursing career. “She worked for the VA for a while and then she started specializing in helping hospitals that had lost their accreditation in surgery,” he says. “She would get the ORs straightened out.” She also served as director of nurses at a small hospital in Canton, Ga,. and later worked as a private duty nurse. “She had one patient for three years,” says Jay. | ||||||||
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93MN, and 11 other family members died tragically in a plane
crash near Nairobi, Kenya, on July 19, 2003. Other family members on the
vacation trip included her parents, Jean and George Brumley, retired chair
of the Department of Pediatrics at Emory; her husband, Richard Morrell,
who was studying to complete his doctorate in psychology at Emory; and
their son, Alexander.Morrell, 39, worked as a neonatal nurse practitioner at Emory Crawford Long Hospital and Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta for five years. She left nursing to raise her three children and serve the community, a passion she shared with her parents and other family members. Among her activities, she served on the board of the Visiting Nurse Health System and maintained a special interest in hospice care for children and in providing educational opportunities for children with different learning styles. Morrell is survived by two daughters, Caroline and Rebecca, and two sisters, Nancy Jean Brumley and Marie Brumley Foster, all of Atlanta. |
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Margaret Mary McCracken (“Mac”), 64Ox, 65N, 71MN, on Oct. 27, 2003, at age 79. McCracken died at home in Willington, Conn. She was born in Altoona, Pa., and graduated from the Methodist Hospital School of Nursing in Philadelphia and the Frontier Graduate School of Midwifery in Hyden, Ky., before enrolling at Emory. She was a Korean War veteran, having served in the Army Nurse Corps. McCracken worked for many years as a nurse midwife in southeastern Kentucky and later for the Georgia Department of Health. In 1982, she received an honorary doctorate of humanities from Clemson University. She was the first district director of nursing for the Appalachia I Health District of South Carolina and retired from the state health department in 1987. McCracken is survived by her partner, Edna E. Johnson of Willington, nephew Frank Halpin of Canton, Ga., and two great nephews, Christopher and Josh Halpin, also of Canton. |
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Neb. According to a returned mailing, she died in 1997. In the past, she worked as a registered nurse in Kings Mountain, N.C. She is survived by three children, Vista, Troy, and Berth Eastwood. |
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am pleased to report on the success of our Homecoming Weekend this past
fall. Our alumni traveled from as far as Arizona and Hawaii to visit
with old friends and classmates over two days of special events.
achievements of two remarkable alumni, nominated by their peers and
selected by
the NAA to receive special awards. (See “Champions for Children”
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