Legacy 2008 Fall - University of Virginia School of Nursing

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The University of Virginia
Nursing Alumni Association and School of Nursing
Also Inside:
Claude Moore Nursing
Education Building
Features of the new
building will shape
the future of nursing
FAll 2008
education at U.Va.
A new Era
Dean Dorrie Fontaine
www.nursing.virginia.edu
Virginia Legacy
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From the Dean
A Time of Transition: Dean Fontaine Looks to the Future
As Ralph Waldo Emerson observed, “Nothing is secure but life, transition, the energizing spirit.” At
the University of Virginia School of Nursing, this year has been highly energizing. Within one week, many of
our faculty and staff moved into the long-awaited Claude Moore Nursing Education Building, and I succeeded
Jeanette Lancaster as dean.
Such momentous changes could turn transition into turmoil, but I am delighted that we had a successful
“hand-off,” to borrow patient safety terminology for the safe transfer of patient information from one
caregiver to another. Jeanette and I worked closely to assure that these changes would go smoothly.
Dean Lancaster’s successful 19-year tenure has left the school strong, justly proud of its tradition of
excellence and innovation, and poised for future opportunities. Indeed, I was attracted to the school because
of its stature, its connection with a highly ranked academic health care center, fine faculty and staff and
stellar students, and a record of forward thinking.
I am grateful to all of you for welcoming me to U.Va. with such enthusiasm, and for all of your support, past
and present. We would not have this beautiful new building without your support. I also appreciate the multitude
of other ways you demonstrate your commitment to the school, to our faculty and students, and to nursing.
It is still a little early for me to offer definitive plans for our future, but there are some important
issues about which I feel strongly. They include healthy work environments, expanded interprofessional
collaborations, improving diversity among our faculty and students, and strengthening the school by growing
research in our centers.
Healthy work environments are critically important in any setting—people do their best work in an
atmosphere that is supportive and empowering. In the hospital setting, this benefits patient outcomes as well.
We have the opportunity to model such an environment through our demonstration of healthy lifestyles and
positive working relationships. Our school will always be a place where faculty, staff, and students flourish,
and more will wish to join us. Thomas Jefferson noted that knowledge is power, safety, and happiness. One of
my goals will be to increase all these factors, especially happiness.
With health care ever more fragmented and technological, it is important that our students also learn
from our example to work in collaborative relationships with other professionals, including those from other
fields. Currently, we have a project with students from the School of Engineering to develop a prostate
simulator. We will continue to seek other mutually beneficial relationships at U.Va. and beyond. At the same
time, we need to diversify our faculty and student body to better reflect the patient populations we serve, so
that we can offer more culturally informed care. Diversity matters. Data also suggests that male and minority
nurses remain in nursing for a longer time, which is an added benefit.
We are fortunate to have five nursing research centers here at U.Va., including two with a focus on rural
health care, plus a center to support nursing research and to encourage a new generation of researchers. I
envision growing these research centers as a key way to strengthen the school over the coming years.
We have a lot in our past to admire and celebrate. Together, we can build on that foundation to achieve a
new level of excellence for this extraordinary school. I look forward to meeting many more of you, and I count on
your continued support and enthusiasm to help create future generations of ”Virginia nurses.” I welcome your
thoughts as we begin this important mission. Please feel free to contact me at [email protected].
Dorrie Fontaine
Sadie Heath Cabaniss Professor of Nursing and Dean
News
Fall 2008
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News from the School of Nursing
Editor Julie Goodlick
Managing Editor Lynn Woodson
Editorial Advisers Victoria Brunjes
(BSN ’98), Reba Moyer Childress (BSN
’79, MSN ’91, FNP ’92), Lori Cwalina,
Dory Hulse, Lisa Kelley (BSN ’99),
Kathryn Laughon (BSN ’98, MSN ’99)
Class Notes & News Editor
Elisangela Blevins
Design Roseberries
Contributing Writers Anna Tubbs
Emery, Jane Ford, Dory Hulse, Lynn
Woodson; proofing by Gail Hyder Wiley
Photographers Dan Addison,
Elisangela Blevins, Anna Tubbs
Emery, Julie Goodlick, Stephanie
Gross, Jane Haley, Dory Hulse,
Andrew Shurtleff, Coe Sweet,
Kay Taylor
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Feedback Welcome!
Let us know what you think about
this issue of Virginia Legacy.
Write us at nursing-alumni@
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With Hope and Courage: Dean Dorrie Fontaine Takes the Helm
Newly appointed Dean Dorrie Fontaine shares her thoughts as she begins her
tenure at the U.Va. School of Nursing. She looks ahead to some exciting new
advancements for the school.
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Standing Proud: The Claude Moore Nursing Education
Building Marks a New Chapter in the School’s History
With the opening of the new Claude Moore Nursing Education Building, the
School of Nursing begins a new era. Learn what features of the new building
will shape the future of nursing education at U.Va.
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Impact: Nursing Research
Effecting change in prevention, practice, and policy
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Donor Honor Roll and Annual Report for 2007–08
We thank our generous donors for the past year and provide a snapshot of the
year’s finances.
Sadie Heath Cabaniss Professor
of Nursing and Dean
Dorrie Fontaine, RN, PhD, FAAN
University of Virginia School of Nursing
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From the Nursing Alumni Association
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a year by the University of Virginia
School of Nursing and Nursing Alumni
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Worth Noting
In Every issue
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Philanthropy
23 Events in Review
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Class Notes and News
44
Alumni in Action
45
Virginia Moments
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On the cover: Dean Dorrie Fontaine, photographed by Jane Haley
Virginia Legacy
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Worth Noting
News from the School of Nursing
A donor wall prominently placed in the new Claude Moore Nursing Education Building recognizes the generosity of the school’s
many benefactors.
Lancaster Fund Grants
First Awards
Campaign Reaches Goal,
Looks Ahead to New Needs
T
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he f i rst awa rds f rom t he newly
established Jeanette Lancaster Fund for
Faculty Excellence were made this fall. The
awards, honoring former
The awards will support the School of Nursing’s
Dean Jeanette Lancaster,
suppor t t he S chool of
Nursing’s research and
and the professional development
teaching missions and the
of nursing faculty.
professional development
of nursing faculty. These
objectives were near and
dear to Dean Lancaster.
“This project is close to my heart. I wish
I had been able to secure more funding to
support the faculty,” said Lancaster preceding
her departure.
The school moves closer to achieving
that goal, thanks to the generous nursing
alumni and friends who are helping to build
the Lancaster Fund. Rebecca Ruegger (BSN
’73) established the Lancaster Fund with a lead
gift of $500,000. Mark Sternheimer (College
’50) also made a significant gift honoring his
late wife, Anne Young Sternheimer
(DIPLO ’50, BSN Ed ’52). Many
others continue to follow in the
footsteps of these visionary
donors, making cumulative
gifts to bring the fund’s total to
$1 million.
research and teaching
missions
‹‹ Rebecca Ruegger
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Virginia Legacy ith the end of the fiscal year, the School
of Nursing officially surpassed its
initial campaign goal. To date, the school has
raised $30.2 million in new commitments.
In addition to supporting the construction
of the new Claude Moore Nursing Education
Building, funds raised during the initial
phase of the campaign were instrumental
i n prov id i ng f i na nc ia l a ssi st a nce for
underg raduate a nd g raduate students,
funding to enhance recruitment efforts for
clinical faculty and encourage innovation
within the classroom, and seed money for the
upcoming renovation of McLeod Hall.
With three years still to go in the Campaign
for the University of Virginia, the school will
work with Dean Dorrie Fontaine to identify
new priorities and expand original goals.
While the overall campaign goal has been
met, specific goals—especially in the areas of
student, faculty, and programmatic support—
remain unfulfilled. In addition, new priorities
will emerge as classes continue in the Claude
Moore Nursing Education Building and as
Dean Fontaine works with faculty and others
to assess the future needs of the school.
“This phenomenal early success is a result
of the overwhelming generosity of alumni,
faculty, and other friends of the School
of Nursing,” says Lori Cwalina, assistant
vice president for development. “It clearly
demonstrates the deep commitment of our
Fall 2008
Worth noting
community members toward educating the
next generation of nursing leaders. With three
years left in the campaign, we can make a
serious impact on needs that remain unmet
as well as our emerging aspirations for the
school’s future.”
second Jefferson Scholar, rising second-year
student Caroline Richards.
Doctoral student Michael P. Cary, Jr.,
received the Johnson & Johnson/American
Association of Colleges of Nursing Minority Nurse
Faculty Scholars Award, intended to address
a national shortage of nurse educators.
Megan Tessa Ott (BSN ’06, MSN ’11) was
one of three graduate students selected
nationally for the McNeil Rural & Underserved
Scholarship from the National Association of
Pediatric Nurse Practitioners (NAPNAP). The
scholarship gives assistance to students during
graduate school for books and living expenses.
Ott received the award during the NAPNAP
conference in April 2008.
Incoming nursing student Laura Karen
Hansen has been selected as a U.Va. Jefferson
Scholar. Jefferson Scholars are chosen on the
basis of extraordinary intellectual range and
depth, leadership qualities, scholarship, and
citizenship. The School of Nursing also has a
Tiptoe quietly, dress in the dark
We are careful not to disrupt a roommate’s slumber
(knowing her day will begin many hours after our own)
Sounds of coffee filtering and the scent of a routine—
A routine soon banished by arrival at work
For what we do has no standards, nothing customary
to confirm
New faces,
New relationships to build.
F
Megan Ott and renowned nurse practitioner Loretta Ford at
the 29th Annual Conference on Pediatric Health Care
We wake up early before the sun
Each a new day
Students Achieve
or the first time, two U.Va. nursing students
will take part in an internship with the
U.S. Office of Disease Prevention and Health
Promotion. Carol Brotherton and Rebecca
Mance are both students in the school’s online
Community & Public Health Leadership track.
Brotherton will develop an independent
project on nurses’ awareness and use of dietary
guidelines to improve American health through
better nutrition, with the goal of building
awareness and communications between
dietitians and nurses. Mance is working on
a community strategies team called Healthy
People 2020, with a goal of helping individuals
and various groups develop programs aimed
at improving health.
Extraordinary Ordinary
New questions to answer,
New pain to assess,
New trust to gain.
We walk into the elevator, white shoes scruff-less and
neat
Wondering what the shift may have in store
Will it be a Mrs. Jones—
sweet and stoic? Afraid to ask anything of you that
might cause inconvenience?
Or will it be a Mr. Tosin—
Rebecca Green, right, with classmate Kristina Ponton, penned
the winning essay in this year’s creative writing contest.
needy and alone? His hand fastened tight to the call
button?
Will it be a Sandra—
Students Write from
Experience
N
ursing students often encounter situations
in their clinical rotations that are new to
them. At U.Va., they are required to keep journals
that help them emotionally and intellectually
process what they learn and experience, and
that provide their instructors with information
that will be helpful in teaching and guiding
them. As nurse managers and educators know,
mastering the art of nursing is crucial to nurse
job satisfaction and retention.
To assist students in understanding and
developing their artistry, faculty member
Jeanne Erickson established an annual creative
writing contest in 2002. This opportunity is
made possible by Nursing Annual Fund
donations and gives students a forum in which
to further process their experiences. This not
only benefits the author and other students
but the public as well; through reading these
compositions, the greater community can
better understand the realities of nursing.
Winners in the 2008 Creative Writing
Contest for Nursing Students were Rebecca
Green (BSN ’08) (first-place essay, “They’ll
Not Go Gently”), Deborah Gleason-Morgan,
PhD student (second-place essay, “The Light
Switch”), Amy Nylund, fourth-year student
(first-place poetry, “Extraordinary Ordinary”),
and Cecilia Venzon, PhD student (second-place
poetry, “A Privileged Position”).
full of youth and hope? Her faith an incentive and a
refreshing inspiration?
Or could it be a Judd—
flat-toned and depressed? Ready to cease trying, in
search of something left to live for?
We wonder but still we know
That for each we will give the same mind
For each we care with equal love
For each we approach with the same wish to support
Assumptions banished and nothing prejudged
We step into the room to a new face
New opportunities to grow
So when we go home
(friends surprising us with complaints about what now
seems trivial)
We look back on the day
on the lives we have touched and changed
And in our hearts a little celebration of thanksgiving
As we think of how they have changed our own
And we set out to change another.
—Amy Nylund, first place, poetry
2008 Creative Writing Contest
for U.Va. Nursing Students
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Worth noting
Faculty Achievements
C
arolyn Ramwell and Emily Tinsley were
among six volunteers from Physicians for
Peace who were invited to the White House
to kick off National Volunteer Week 2008.
They were among 200 volunteers honored
as representatives of the 60 million people
who volunteer in this country.
Suzanne M. Burns (BSN ’85, FNP ’96)
received one of the first Flame of Excellence
Awards from the American Association of
Critical Care Nurses (AACN) at its National
Teaching Institute & Critical Care Exposition
in Chicago in May. The new award honors
individuals who have sustained the AACN’s
Circle of Excellence criteria at the regional
and national levels.
Reba Moyer Childress (BSN ’79, MSN ’91,
FNP ’92) has been inducted as a fellow into
the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners
and is in the second group of inductees for the
newly formed National League for Nursing
Academy of Nursing Education.
Ann Hamric has been named chairelect of the University’s Faculty Senate. This
is believed to be the first time this important
governance position has been held by a faculty
member from the School of Nursing.
Last spring, Tina Brashers, M.D., received
the All-University Teaching Award for the
second time. In addition, she was among four
distinguished faculty to deliver a “Last Lecture.”
The Last Lecture Series is an annual tradition
at U.Va., providing a forum for distinguished
faculty members to lecture to students as if
it were their last time to do so. The lecture is
Carolyn Ramwell (third from right) at the White House
Other Awards of Note
At the annual Hooding and Pinning ceremonies, which preceded Final Exercises, School of
Nursing faculty, including the following, received special honors for their achievements.
Oscar and Ruth Lanford Memorial Research Awards
Tina Brashers
on the Web at www.virginia.edu/uvatoday/
lastlecture.
Karen Rose (PhD ’06) as been awarded a
two-year Claire M. Fagin Fellowship through
the John A. Hartford Foundation/Atlantic
Philanthropies, administered by the American
Academy of Nursing. She will be working with
physicians at the University of Pennsylvania
and University of Iowa to complete her training
and research in sleep disturbances in persons
with dementia and in their family caregivers.
(See story on page 19.)
Clay Hysell has received $113,709 in
funding for three Health Resources and
Services Administration grants, including
“Scholarships for Disadvantaged BSN Students,”
“Disadvantaged Graduate Students,” and the
“Advanced Education Nurse Traineeship.”
Established by Eloise Lanford in honor of her parents
Elizabeth Epstein (PhD ’07)
Faculty Transitions
Ann Gill Taylor (BSN ’63) and Cheryl Bourguignon
Kim Innes, Karen Rose (PhD ’06), and Terry Selfe
Katharine M. Donohoe Clinical Research Award
Endowed in honor of a 1973 BSN graduate
Sarah Delgado and Laura Hansen
*Nightingale Research Award
Marianne Baernholdt
**Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award
Richard Steeves (FNP ’94)
**Outstanding Faculty Publication Award
* funded through the Nursing Annual Fund
**funded by the School of Nursing Alumni Association
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Virginia Legacy ›› Reba Moyer
Childress was
inducted into
the American
Academy of Nurse
Practitioners.
A
rlene Keeling (BSN ’74) has been
appointed to chair the Department of
Acute and Specialty Care, and Mary Gibson
(BSN ’75, MSN ’76) now chairs the Department
of Family, Community and Mental Health
Systems. John Kirschgessner directs the
Primary Care Nurse Practitioner Program,
and Ann Hamric directs the Master’s and
Doctor of Nursing Practice programs.
Courtney Lyder, former department
chair for Acute and Specialty Care,
left U.Va. to assume the deanship of
the UCLA School of Nursing. Susan
Kennel, who directed the Primary
Care Nurse Practitioner Program, left
U.Va. to assume a new position at
the University of South Florida.
Fall 2008
Worth noting
Donald Johnson
Patricia Woodard
Johnson and Woodard Join
Nursing Advisory Board
Enrollment Snapshot: 2008–09
D
Undergraduate student enrollment:
onald L. “Don” Johnson (BSN ’80) and Patricia Booth
Woodard (BSN ’69) have recently been named to the
School of Nursing Advisory Board. Johnson is a managing
director of the Corporate Client Group at the NASDAQ Stock
Market, the largest electronic equity securities market in
the United States. Prior to joining NASDAQ, Johnson was
a captain in the U.S. Army, practicing critical care nursing
and anesthesia, and teaching cardiology and critical care
courses to military physicians, registered nurses, and other
medical personnel. Today, he commutes between his home
in Northern Virginia and New York City.
Woodard is the newly named president of the Nursing
Alumni Association. In the 1970s, she taught pediatric nursing
at U.Va., before leaving to become pediatric nursing faculty
chair at Widener University in Pennsylvania. She also served
as an adjunct assistant professor at Old Dominion University
in Norfolk and as a staff nurse at Makemie Woods Presbyterian
Camp in Pennsylvania. In recent years, Woodard has served
on the U.Va. Nursing Alumni Council and the Claude Moore
Nursing Education Building Dedication Committee. Brennan
Collins (BSN ’10) and Emma Mitchell (PhD ’11) were selected
to serve as the board’s undergraduate and graduate student
representatives, respectively.
Members of the School of Nursing Advisory Board are
appointed by the dean of the School of Nursing and the
president of the University. Board members serve to advise
and advocate on behalf of the school and the dean.
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First-year students: 59
Second-year students: 72
(16 are transfer students)
Third-year students: 98
(19 were summer-entry students)
Fourth-year students: 96
RN to BSN students: 37
Graduate student enrollment:
319
Master’s program students: 241
MSN specialties:
Acute and Specialty Care: 48
Community and Public Health Leadership: 35
Health Systems Management: 9
Primary Care NP: 54
Psychiatric-Mental Health: 21
Post-master’s students: 23
Clinical Nurse Leader students: 51
(23 admitted in 2008)
Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) students: 36
From the U.Va. Health System
S
teven T. DeKosk y, M.D., an international leader in the field of
Alzheimer’s disease research, is the
new vice president and dean of the U.Va.
School of Medicine. DeKosky formerly
served as professor and chair of the
Department of Neurology and director of the Alzheimer Disease Research
Center at the University of Pittsburgh.
Steven DeKosky
Pam Cipriano
DeKosky’s wife, Beverly, is a psychiatric
nurse leader.
Pam Cipriano, chief clinical officer
and chief nursing officer of the U.Va. Medical Center, has received the American Nurses
Association (ANA) Distinguished Member Award, honoring her leadership and contributions
to ANA initiatives. Cipriano was also appointed editor in chief of the official journal of the
ANA, American Nurse Today.
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) students: 42
See the School of Nursing Web site at
www.nursing.virginia.edu for a complete
listing of all programs.
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From the Nursing Alumni
Association
Faculty, Student, and Alumni Awards
Honoring Excellence
Faculty Recognition Awards
T
he Nu r si ng A lu m n i A ssoc iat ion
recognized three faculty members of the
School of Nursing in 2008. Awardees receive a
modest stipend to support their professional
development, which sometimes takes the
form of funding research, conference travel,
or continuing education. Awards are funded
with proceeds from the Centennial Teaching
Award endowment.
Distinguished Professor Award
Beth Merwin, Madge Jones Professor of Nursing and
Associate Dean for Research
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Virginia Legacy The Distinguished Professor Award recognizes superior accomplishments in teaching,
research, and service, with emphasis on
outstanding teaching and contributions to
the School of Nursing and the University of
Virginia.
This year’s recipient, Beth Merwin,
is Madge Jones Professor of Nursing and
associate dean for research. She also directs
the Rural Health Care Research Center, created
to support research for improving the health
care of those living in rural areas.
Despite a rigorous research schedule,
Merwin continues to teach high-level courses
each semester. “Her courses on database
management are highly sought after by our
own doctoral students and by the public health
sciences students in the School of Nursing,”
says nominator Sarah Farrell. “She is devoted
to students and to the teaching mission.”
As a researcher, Merwin’s studies include
a focus on cost, access, and quality of care,
with particular emphasis on provider issues
such as supply and demand and outcomes
of care. Her research grants draw substantial
support to the school. She also represents the
University nationally through her writing and
speaking engagements.
In terms of service, Merwin is dedicated
to the missions of the school. One example
includes serving as clinical translational
research award writer, which requires
substantial sacrifices of personal and research
time. She frequently mentors other faculty
members, helping them to excel. As Farrell
notes, “Beth Merwin lives the phrase: when
one ship rises, we all rise.”
Faculty Leadership Award
The Faculty Leadership Award recognizes
School of Nursing faculty who have distinguished themselves as leaders in the nursing
profession, as evidenced by outstanding contributions to the profession through research,
leadership positions, legislative influence,
clinical service, or scholarly work. This year
the choice was clear—no one embodies the
spirit of this award more completely than
Jeanette Lancaster.
Lancaster stepped down from the role of
dean of the School of Nursing this year after
an unprecedented 19 years at the helm. Her
last year was marked by several important
accomplishments and honors.
Her dream of expanding the school’s
facilities became a reality with the completion
of the Claude Moore Nursing Education
Fall 2008
From the NAA
Building in summer 2008; this project was
the culmination of years of hard work and
unfailing optimism on Lancaster’s part.
The Virginia General Assembly passed
a resolution commending Lancaster on her
“effective, visionary, and inspiring leadership
as dean of the School of Nursing of the
University of Virginia, and for her work in
improving health care for all the citizens of
the Commonwealth.”
In March, Lancaster testified for increased
support for nursing education in the federal
budget before a U.S. House of Representatives
subcommittee. Her testimony reflected a keen
understanding of the nation’s growing nursing
and nursing educator shortages.
Lancaster is widely known as a national
and global advocate for the nursing profession
and an authority in the fields of community
health nursing, nursing education and
leadership, and public policy. As she transitions
from her role as dean, Lancaster continues to
be a leader in the field, as well as a passionate
educator. This fall, she will be returning to
the classroom, as she travels to Hong Kong
to assume a one-year visiting professorship
teaching undergraduate nursing students.
Excellence in Teaching Award
Assistant professor Dawn Rigney (BSN ’69)
seems a perfect fit for this award created to
recognize excellence in undergraduate and/
or clinical teaching.
A teacher of the undergraduate course
Community Health Nursing for many years,
Rigney recently developed a new Clinical
Practice and Decision Making course for
Clinical Nurse Leader
(CNL) students. She
also teaches the
final synthesis
practicum for
graduating
traditional
students each
spring and
Apply for the Alumni Scholarship
The Nursing Alumni Association is
pleased to fund a $3,000 scholarship
to support continued nursing
education at any institution. All U.Va.
nursing alumni who are enrolled in a
degree-granting program are eligible to
apply. The annual deadline is June 1.
Funding for this scholarship is
made possible by the generosity of
alumni and friends who make gifts to
the Nursing Annual Fund.
You can download an application
from the web at www.nursing.virginia.
Innovative Teaching Awards
T
he Nursing Alumni Association also
announced recipients of the 2008–09
Innovative Teaching Awards, funded through
the Nursing Annual Fund. Nearly $3,000 was
distributed to faculty for their creative projects
to enhance and improve the curriculum and
learning experiences of nursing students.
According to committee chair David Strider
(BSN ’89, MSN ’92), “Each of these projects
provides new ways to look at innovative and
cost-effective teaching methods, and are
attainable with measurable goals.”
Congratulations go to the following:
edu/alumni and click on “Alumni
Scholarship” or call (434) 924-0138 to
request an application.
provides community service through the
Central Virginia Health Coalition for the
underserved.
One nom i nator c a l l s R ig ney “t he
exemplar of innovativeness and flexibility”
for the manner in which she has reinvigorated
the Community Health Nursing course,
energizing students with unique clinical
assignments that include visits to area high
schools, Alzheimer’s and hospice facilities,
health fairs, senior centers, and low-income
housing communities.
A few years ago, Rigney was instrumental
in creating and finding funding to support a
parish nurse in a local low-income housing
community and open up additional teaching
partnerships. Through her energy and passion
for the community, Rigney’s course achieves
its objectives while also making a difference
to the community.
Rigney has also played a significant
role within the school’s curriculum. When
an overwhelming majority of CNL students
elected international experiences for their
community assignments, Rigney jumped in to
provide them all with the required preliminary
coursework that would provide the foundation
for their work in Honduras, Denmark, and
southern Africa.
• Reba Moyer Childress (BSN ’79, MSN
’91, FNP ’92) for her project “GNUR
XXX—Preparing Educators to Teach
Generation X and Beyond through the
Use of Innovations”
• Deborah Conway and Catherine Kane
for “Bio-Innovation—Multidisciplinary
Independent Study in Health Care Innovation, Design, and Commercialization”
• Linda Eastham (MSN ’82) for “Smile, You
Are on Nursing Cam!”
• Kathleen Fletcher and Karen Rose for
“Interactive Gerontological Nursing
Journal Club: Partnership with Pennsylvania State University”
Scholarship Awards
T
he Nursing Alumni Association is pleased
to recognize and reward some of the
best U.Va. nurses with tuition support. The
following students and alumni received 2008–
09 merit scholarship or fellowship awards
provided via the Nursing Annual Fund:
• Anne Granbery (BSN ’09) and Elizabeth
Peterson (BSN ’10) Roy C. Beazley
Undergraduate Merit Scholarships
• Mee Young Sowa (BSN ’09) RN-BSN Merit
Scholarship
• Devon Noonan (PhD ’11) and Megan Ott
(MSN ’11) Graduate Merit Fellowships
• Kelley Anderson (BSN ’88) Alumni
Scholarship
‹‹ Dawn Rigney
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From the NAA
Rose Lewis
Alumni Awards
T
he 2008 Alumni Awards were presented
during Reunions Weekend this past June.
These awards recognize alumni for outstanding
contributions to the profession of nursing
or service to the School of Nursing. The
annual deadline for nominations is March
15. Guidelines can be found on the School of
Nursing Web site (nursing.virginia.edu).
respect of the thoracic-cardiovascular fellows
and attending physicians and established her
as a leader among the unit’s nursing staff. Lewis
takes her role as a mentor seriously, actively
participating in orienting new nurses and fostering strong lines of communication between
surgeons and nursing staff.
Lewis continues to contribute to the
nursing profession through scholarship and
has gained recognition nationally. A member
of Sigma Theta Tau International since 1984,
Lewis was nominated for its Nursing Excellence
in Clinical Practice Award in 2007. In 2005,
she received an AACN grant for evidencebased clinical practice focusing on innovative
uses of PDAs (personal digital assistants) to
improve clinical outcomes for long-term
ventilated patients. In 2004, she received first
place for the nursing research poster at the
“Changing Practice through Clinical Research”
conference.
Drawing on her advanced clinical
knowledge, Lewis has published three papers
in peer-reviewed journals and authored
two chapters on mechanical ventilatory
management, as well as presented papers at
the National Teaching Institute for Critical
Care Nurses.
Young Alumni Award
Distinguished Alumna Award
Rose L. Lewis (MSN ’91, ACNP ’07) currently
practices as an acute care nurse practitioner
with cardiac surgery patients at the U.Va.
Medical Center.
Her extensive clinical experience, intuition, and eye for detail have gained her the full
In the brief span of time since her graduation
from the School of Nursing, Tanya Thomas
(BSN ’05) has well exceeded expectations.
She has impressed her colleagues on the
hematology-oncology inpatient unit at the
U.Va. Medical Center with her extensive
knowledge of hematologic malignancies,
bone marrow complications, and venous
David Strider, Tanya Thomas, Jeanette Lancaster, and Cindi
Colyer Allen
access devices. She also serves as adjunct
faculty for the School of Nursing’s Clinical
Nurse Leader program and has played a key
role in developing the chemotherapy course
curriculum.
Thomas is an active community volunteer, and continually seeks opportunities to
participate in clinical research and scholarly
activities. She developed case studies for a
faculty simulation institute, and continues to
engage in research on the early recognition
and treatment of mucositis in adult oncology
patients.
A strong patient and nursing advocate,
Thomas is a natural teacher who inspires
students to set higher outcome goals for their
assigned patients. She offers both guidance
and support to the patient care assistants in
the oncology acute care unit. According to
one friend, “Tanya is just as much a nursing
advocate as she is a patient advocate. She
continues to serve as a strong role model for
nursing staff. Her calm demeanor is always
apparent as she employs critical thinking skills
to map out the best plan of care for each of
her assigned patients.”
Passing the Gavel
Nursing Alumni Association President Cindi Colyer Allen (BSN ’75), left, has officially passed
the gavel to a new council president after two terms (six years) as president. Allen will continue
to support the school in her one-year term as president emeritus. Taking on the president’s
role is Patricia Booth Woodard (BSN ’69), right.
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Virginia Legacy Fall 2008
From the NAA
Reunions 2009
Save the Date
Thomas Jefferson Society
Reunion
May 11–13, 2009
Honoring the Classes of 1959 and all
current Thomas Jefferson Society members
Undergraduate Reunions
June 4–7, 2009
Reconnecting members of the Classes of 1964,
1969, 1974, 1979, 1984, 1989, 1994, 1999, and
2004.
Special events are planned for nursing
alumni, including a Saturday luncheon and
Sunday brunch.
Visit
www.virginiareunions.com
Your resource for U.Va. Reunions 2009
Do you have letters, photographs, or other artifacts from your time as a nursing student or your
nursing career? Consider sharing these with the Center for Nursing Historical Inquiry to add to your
reunion experience and help preserve nursing history. For more details or directions, contact the CNHI
at [email protected] or (434) 924-0083.
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With Hope and Courage:
Takes the Helm
elaxed and confident, Dean Dorrie Fontaine already seems
completely at home in her new office on the third floor of the Claude
Moore Nursing Education Building. She also possesses an amazing
amount of knowledge about the school and about U.Va., especially
for someone who has been in the job for such a short time. She is enthusiastic about
the variety in her new role. On an average day, she may meet with the nursing faculty,
confer with University leaders, or share time with students. In her first few weeks,
she spent a day in the University Medical Center getting to know her colleagues there
and developing a better sense of the clinical education environment for U.Va. nursing
students.
And Dean Fontaine didn’t waste any time in tackling a new bit of technology for
the School of Nursing by taping a video interview podcast for the school’s Web site.
Preceding the taping, she chatted easily with a group of students, asking where they
are from, why they picked U.Va., and what they want to do after graduation. She even
played around on the piano with some of the students, showing off her lighter side.
When the videotaping commenced, she began without hesitation.
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A healthy work
environment includes
skilled communication, true
collaboration, and meaningful
recognition, among other attributes.”
I am honored and thrilled to be the new dean of the School of
Nursing at the University of Virginia. It was about a year ago
when I first came to U.Va. to accompany my 17-year-old son
on the college tour for prospective students. It was incredibly
wonderful to see this University through the eyes of a 17-yearold. I was completely taken with Thomas Jefferson’s ideals for
the Academical Village. It’s a world-class university, with a top,
prestigious School of Nursing.
It is also an honor to follow in the footsteps of Dean
Jeanette Lancaster, who helped to create, build, and develop
this wonderful state-of-the-art facility, the Claude Moore
Nursing Education Building, with the help of alumni and
friends who generously donated to make it a reality.
What attracted you to the University of Virginia and the School
of Nursing?
There are many, many things. First are the talented faculty,
with their strong reputation as excellent clinicians, wonderful
researchers, and respected scholars and teachers.
Second are the stunning and stellar students, the best and
the brightest anywhere.
Third is the dedicated and loyal staff.
Fourth are the top programs we have, including the BS,
MSN, and PhD, as well as the new Clinical Nurse Leader
program and Doctorate of Nursing Practice.
Another reason I chose U.Va. is because it is an academic
health care center, with a Magnet designation. I have spent my
entire 35-year career in academic health care centers. My very
first week here, I spent a day in the Medical ICU and in the PostOp Surgical Unit, seeing firsthand the incredible care we give
patients and their families and working with two wonderful
University of Virginia Health System nurses.
What are some of your goals for the school?
I can’t really set firm goals until I have met with all our faculty—
100 strong—and our staff. But I do have some thoughts.
First and foremost, one of my goals is to create and sustain
a healthy work environment, so that our faculty, students,
and everyone can grow and flourish. I have a lot of experience
helping to create positive work surroundings in hospitals
and academic settings. I have been a critical care nurse for
35 years, and I’ve spent at least three decades as faculty
in academia. I realize what it takes to create and sustain
supportive work conditions. A healthy work environment
includes skilled communication, true collaboration, and
meaningful recognition, among other attributes. I look forward
to working with all my colleagues in the School of Nursing, the
Medical Center, and across all the schools toward this goal.
Such a supportive environment is essential if we are to recruit
and retain the talented faculty and students who will devote
strengthening all our
“I look forward to
collaborations here.
their lives to creating nursing science, caring for patients and
families, and improving the lives of the citizens of Virginia, the
nation, and the world.
I have very significant goals in collaboration. At the
University of California in San Francisco, I was head of
interprofessional education, working with other schools. I look
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A Career of Achievements
Dean Dorrie K. Fontaine is the fifth dean of
the U.Va. School of Nursing and the fourth
Sadie Heath Cabaniss Professor of Nursing.
She formerly served as associate dean for
academic programs at the University of
California–San Francisco School of Nursing.
Her research focuses on comfort for critically
ill patients, pain relief, and family presence at
the end of life.
A leader in developing the national
Standards for a Healthy Work Environment
with the American Association of Critical Care
Nurses (AACN) in 2005, Fontaine believes that
Dean Fontaine with son, Sumner, and husband, Barry
one of her great strengths will be to bring
those values to the academic setting of the
of Medicine and Medical Center, I believe that
issues and is the primary investigator on a
University. She served as president of AACN,
we will have the opportunity to work together
$9.7 million grant to implement an accelerated
the largest specialty nursing organization in
to do great things in nursing for Virginia, the
doctoral program in nursing. She also has
the world, in 2003–04.
nation, and the world.”
continued to teach a course on leadership
“She is an accomplished scholar,
Fontaine spent 15 years at the University
and for the past four years has delivered
dedicated clinician, and collaborative and
of Maryland School of Nursing before joining
classroom lectures on the importance of
innovative administrator who has succeeded
Georgetown University, where she spent
family to patients near death.
in her every endeavor,” said University
nine years moving through the ranks before
President John T. Casteen. He added that
becoming associate dean for student and
from Villanova, Fontaine received her
Fontaine’s recent work at UCSF aligns closely
academic affairs, and finally associate
master’s degree in nursing at the University
with the themes of the Commission on the
dean for undergraduate studies. In 2002,
of Maryland at Baltimore (1977) and PhD at
Future of the University.
she became associate dean for academic
The Catholic University (1987). In 2006, she
programs at UCSF. Throughout her career she
attended the Harvard Graduate School of
strong reputation for and success in bringing
has been active in numerous professional
Education’s Institute for Management and
together undergraduate education and
organizations as well as public service and
Leadership in Education. She was inducted as
research. She also cites the challenges of
diversity initiatives at the institutions she
a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing
the nursing shortage as an area on which
has served. She has been a member of the
in 1995.
she plans to focus. “The health care crisis
UCSF School of Nursing’s Diversity Task Force
is currently fueled by a chronic shortage of
for five years, during that time researching
Sumner, a freshman at Villanova, join her in
nurses,” she said. “Being at such a high-profile
the curriculum to address diversity. She has
Charlottesville.
institution with such an outstanding School
written and spoken extensively on health care
Fontaine is excited by the University’s
forward to strengthening all our collaborations here—across
Grounds with other schools, and especially with our colleagues
in the School of Medicine. The new dean of the School of
Medicine, Dr. Steven DeKosky, and I will be, according to
University Provost Tim Garson, the new “dream dean team.”
I look forward to our collaboration. We also want to collaborate
in clinical simulation, interprofessional education, and many
other areas. Collaborations are absolutely essential, and I look
forward to forging those.
A final goal relates to diversity. We need to increase our
faculty diversity, and we need to increase diversity in our
student body. Our goals should be to strengthen an already
After receiving her bachelor’s degree
Fontaine’s husband, Barry, and their son,
excellent school at every level: teaching, research, service, and
global outreach.
As President John Casteen noted upon his inauguration in
1990, “I start this position with hope and courage.” I too begin
my deanship with hope and optimism for a bright future for our
wonderful U.Va. School of Nursing, and I will use fresh courage
to meet the challenges here.
You may view the full video podcast of Dean Fontaine’s interview
at www.nursing.virginia.edu
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S tan di ng Prou d:
The Claude Moore Nursing Education Building
Marks a New Chapter
in the School’s History
by anna tu bb s e m e ry
W
alking into the Claude Moore Nursing Education
Building, it’s hard to miss the impressive wall of
windows that infuse the building with natural
light. Accenting these windows, a spacious stairway ties the
building’s four floors together and adds to an open, airy feel.
Faculty pause on the stairs to catch up with their
colleagues. Students sit by the open windows, quietly
reading. Others rush to class or grab a quick bite to eat.
Amid the activity, there’s a pervasive sense of intimacy in
the 32,000-square-foot space. Large enough to accommodate
the school’s growth, the Claude Moore Nursing Education
Building is also small enough to feel like home.
With a new facility and an energetic new dean at the
helm, the School of Nursing stands poised to begin a new
chapter in its history. Everyone affiliated with the school
can share feelings of pride in the Claude Moore Nursing
Education Building, a facility that reflects nursing traditions
and values.
incorporates the latest technology to keep both faculty and
students connected.
The ground level includes much-needed lecture space.
Here, two lecture halls seat 75 and 125 students, respectively.
The larger of the two, the Theresa A. Thomas Memorial
Foundation Lecture Hall, is equipped with two projectors with
two inputs, allowing the simultaneous presentation of two
data sources. This ground level also houses student lockers and
mailboxes, as well as the Fisher Commons area.
Two large classrooms on the first floor each seat up
to 50 people, and have taken pressure off McLeod Hall
classrooms. Both are equipped with ceiling-mounted
projectors, motorized screens, and moveable furnishings to
accommodate a variety of uses. Additionally, one classroom
is equipped with a ceiling-mounted camera and microphone
to facilitate distance learning. The first floor also houses the
glass-walled Birdsong Conference Room and the Sternheimer
Student Life Center.
The second and third floors each have their own
technologically equipped conference rooms, as well as
faculty offices and graduate student workspaces. The third
floor also houses the Dean’s Suite.
Wireless Internet access is available throughout the
building, with additional space for plugging in laptops
situated directly off the main entrance. Flat-screen TVs
delivering relevant news, information, and emergency alerts
are set up on the ground and main levels.
A Look Inside
The first classes of the fall semester began in the Claude
Moore Nursing Education Building in August. Together,
students and faculty began taking full advantage of the
building’s many features. Beyond creating a comfortable
and open space, the design of the new building seamlessly
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by local art philanthropists Pamela and Glen Rhodes. Their
generous donation also includes a number of pieces from
American artist Harry Nadler, representing a variety of artistic
styles. A lightweight aluminum-and-acrylic mobile hangs
between the ground and first floors, gently rotating in the light
current from nearby vents.
From Glen Rhodes’s perspective, the experience of being
surrounded by art, the opportunity to “breathe it, look at it,
move around it,” holds special value for those working in health
care. A retired vascular surgeon who worked his way through
medical school as a patient care assistant, Rhodes understands
and appreciates the emotionally and physically draining
work often required of nurses. He believes that art can play an
important role in replenishing the inner well, helping to soothe
and to stimulate a tired mind.
The building’s art collection also includes photographs
donated by Dr. George Hurt, a U.Va. Health Foundation board
member, and Walter Mason (MSN ’83), an RN at the U.Va.
Medical Center, as well as work from local artists Anne Chesnut
and Trisha Orr.
A Home for Students
Replenishing the Well
The building is designed to reflect the values of self-care and
wellness promotion, themes that emerged in initial focus
groups. The open stairway promotes fitness by encouraging
walking (the building has only one elevator). Benches facing
a small garden on the north side of the building will offer a
shady, contemplative space. Bike racks encourage alternative
transportation, and a shower helps students restart the day
after their morning clinicals.
On the first floor, a prayer ladder from the Dogon people of
Mali offers visual interest. This is one of many pieces donated
Students were allowed considerable input in the building’s
design, and it was Theresa Carroll, assistant dean for
undergraduate student services, who coordinated much of that
effort. Students clearly expressed the need for a space of their
own in the new building, a multipurpose area where they could
study, socialize, or just relax.
“Walking into the McLeod lobby, there would be students
sitting all over the floor, hanging out or working on their
laptops. There wasn’t any other place for them to go,” Carroll
remembers. “The Claude Moore Nursing Education Building
offers a home away from home for our students, with the
student life center serving as the living room of the school.”
Indeed, the Anne Young Sternheimer Atrium and Student
Life Center is the hub of activity in the new building for
students and faculty. Comfortable couches and chairs are set
Dedication Day
In early September, two years after breaking ground in 2006, School of Nursing faculty, students, alumni, and friends gathered to
dedicate the new Claude Moore Nursing Education Building. Students and volunteers led tours of the new building, as well as of the Clinical
Simulation Learning Center, the Center for Nursing Historical Inquiry, and other spaces in McLeod Hall.
More than 350 people attended to celebrate the building’s dedication, spilling out into the newly named Jeanette Lancaster Way. Jeanette
Lancaster, past dean and visionary for the project, was also on hand. She received praise from U.Va. President John Casteen III, new School of
Nursing Dean Dorrie Fontaine, and others for her unwavering commitment. However, for Lancaster, it was the efforts of many that she took
the opportunity to recognize. “Thank you for having faith, for believing in the dream, and for making the dream possible,” she said.
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Virginia Legacy ›› Jim Roberts addresses a crowd of more than 350 at the Claude Moore Nursing Education Building.
Fall 2008
A Community of Benefactors
in clusters around a surprisingly realistic electric fireplace,
creating a warm ambiance for study or relaxation. The offices of
the registrar and student life are located nearby. A piano rests
in the niche of windows just off this space, giving students a
chance to showcase their talents, or just to stop and play “Heart
and Soul” between classes. Here, students can also grab a quick
bite to eat. Nearby, a dedicated student organization workroom
gives groups like Nursing Students Without Borders and
Nursing Student Council a place to meet and share ideas.
“In McLeod, the Nursing Student Council would hold
their meetings on the spare couch in my office,” says Carroll.
“There wasn’t any space for them to display or even store their
materials. We wanted to make sure that there was a space in the
new building that our student organizations could really call
their own.”
Smaller, less obvious, touches in the Claude Moore
Nursing Education Building have an impact as well, including
an abundance of electrical outlets in the lecture halls. Most
nursing exams are now electronic, and in McLeod Hall,
students faced a frustrating lack of electrical outlets. In the
new building’s lecture halls, outlets are built into the desks and
there’s one for each student.
Nineteen spaces have been named in the Claude Moore Nursing Education
Building, thanks to the generous gifts from friends and alumni of the School
of Nursing.
Theresa A. Thomas Memorial Foundation Lecture Hall
Gift of the Theresa A. Thomas Memorial Foundation
Anne Young Sternheimer Atrium and Student Life Center
Gift of Mark Sternheimer
In memory of his wife, Anne Young Sternheimer (DIPLO ’50, BSN ’52)
Ruegger Lecture Hall
In honor of Rebecca Huffman Ruegger (BSN ’73)
Roberts Classroom
In honor of James C. Roberts and Charlotte K. Roberts
Minor Board Room
Gift of Gil Minor and Charlotte Minor
Fisher Commons
Gift of Richard L. Fisher and Dorothy D. Fisher
In honor of Bailey L. Fisher (BSN ’09) and Dorothy L. Fisher
and in memory of Richard L. Fisher, Jr.
Boyce Faculty and Staff Lounge
Gift of Daniel J. Boyce and Shelley Bowles Boyce (BSN ’83)
Perry Foundation Conference Room
Gift of the Perry Foundation
In honor of its founder, Hunter Perry
A Place for Old and New Traditions
Gorrell Conference Room
Gift of J. Warren Gorrell, Jr., and Catherine Rice Gorrell (MSN ’79)
Goode Conference Room
Gift of William E. Goode and Eleanor Maxey Goode (BSN ’64)
When Barbara Foris (DIPLO ’63) took a hard-hat tour of the new
Claude Moore Nursing Education Building during Reunions
Weekend, she was impressed with the open stairway, large
classrooms, and the building’s advanced security system. (In
the event of an emergency, doors in the building will allow
people out but not into the building. The release bars on the
large lecture hall doors are impossible to chain shut, by design.)
Things have changed dramatically since Foris was a
student. Then, there were no high-tech security systems, and
the School of Nursing was housed in the basement of McKim
Hall. All nursing students were required to take their turn
serving afternoon tea in the McKim Lobby. (See a photo of
afternoon tea on page 45.)
Todd Student Commons Annex
Gift of James W. Todd and Sharon Todd
In honor of nurses
Landin Porch and Gardens
Gift of David Craig Landin and Susan Gregory Landin (BSN ’69, FNP ’75, MSN ’78)
Jeanette Lancaster Dean’s Office
Gift of W. Keith Woodard and Patricia Booth Woodard (BSN ’69)
In honor of Dean Jeanette Lancaster and her many contributions to the
University of Virginia’s School of Nursing (1989–2008)
Nursing Alumni Association Student Organization Room
Gift of School of Nursing Alumni Association
Executive Office
Gift of Nancy Toms Rizor (BSN ’80)
Birdsong Conference Room
Gift of Harvard R. Birdsong and J. Spencer Birdsong
In memory of their mother, Charlotte Spain Birdsong (DIPLO ‘38)
Walker Faculty Office
Gift of Matthew B. Walker and Nancy B. Walker (BSN ’83)
Estes Faculty Office
Gift of Mary Ellen Zator Estes (BSN ’81, FNP ’83, MSN ’00)
Moss Vestibule
In memory of Amelie Preddy Moss (DIPLO ’37)
Gift of the family and friends of Amelie P. Moss
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During that time nursing students like Foris often formed
close-knit ties that lasted a lifetime. Today, while the lobby of
the Claude Moore Nursing Education Building may no longer
be home to afternoon teas, it will be a place where students can
come together, have fun, and form their own traditions.
Up Next … McLeod Hall
In McLeod Hall, a long-awaited renovation is about to begin.
The changes are being driven by input from faculty and
students. Already, some programs have gained new space in
McLeod following the move of other activities to the Claude
Moore building.
After the renovation, the Clinical Simulation Learning
Center (CSLC), run by Reba Moyer Childress (BSN ’79, MSN ’91,
FNP ’92), will be expanded to encompass the full third floor of
McLeod. The CSLC, with its state-of-the-art equipment, is an
essential part of nursing education today. Nursing students find
this training invaluable in allowing them to gain familiarity
with procedures and confidence in their skills before
performing them in the hospital.
With new space available, the Center for the Study of
Complementary and Alternative Therapies (CSCAT) has moved
its operations back to McLeod. This proximity to nursing
colleagues will enhance collaboration and provide more
opportunities for interdisciplinary research.
The Center for Nursing Historical Inquiry (CNHI), one of
only two centers of its kind in the nation, has also moved to a
much larger space on the first floor of McLeod and is now able
to offer graduate student work space.
Addressing the Nursing Shortage
With the nursing and nursing faculty shortage worsening every
year, the additional classroom, lecture, and office space in
the Claude Moore Nursing Education Building (as well as the
planned renovation of McLeod) is essential to increasing the
school’s enrollment by 25 percent over the next five years.
“We’ve already started increasing our enrollment,” says
Sarah Farrell, associate dean for academic programs, “and
we’ve put together some new programs, including doctoral
and master’s programs.” This includes the Clinical Nurse
Leader accelerated master’s program and the Doctor of Nursing
Practice program, both designed to forge new pathways for
individuals in the nursing field.
Finding qualified applicants for those additional spaces is
one challenge the School of Nursing will not have to face. Every
year, the applicant pool becomes larger and more competitive,
and the school is forced to turn away qualified applicants. For
fall 2008 admission, a record 404 applications were received; only
59 applicants were accepted. The School of Nursing is the only
school within U.Va. to have doubled its applications since 2000.
Equal to Its Reputation
For years, the School of Nursing has enjoyed a national
reputation for excellence, ranking among the top 5 percent of
nursing schools in the country. The student body is talented;
the faculty are leaders in their fields.
Now there’s one more reason to be proud. Students and
faculty agree that the Claude Moore Nursing Education
Building, beyond meeting the needs of the school, truly holds
its own with other buildings around Grounds.
The new building has also energized both students and
faculty. Rising fourth-year Colleen Donohoe is enjoying
attending classes in the new building, and having a place she
can meet up with her friends, both inside and outside the
School of Nursing. “The new building is so open and inviting;
you just want to walk inside. It’s really going to entice people to
come over,” says Donohoe.
The Claude Moore Nursing Education Building gives the
School of Nursing the tools and space it needs to begin a new
chapter in its history. This next chapter promises to be one of
achievement and distinction, following in the footsteps of those
who came before, and forging new paths into the future.
Honoring Claude Moore
The Claude Moore Nursing Education Building honors one of U.Va.’s most generous
benefactors. Dr. Claude Moore, a 1916 graduate of the School of Medicine, was committed
to enhancing the educational opportunities for young people in the Commonwealth of
Virginia, and in 1987 established a foundation to further this philanthropic vision.
In 2006, the Claude Moore Charitable Foundation awarded the School of Nursing
$5 million—the largest single gift in the school’s history—to support its expansion.
This transformational gift, along with a large commitment from the Commonwealth
of Virginia, made the new building possible, by meeting a significant portion of the
building’s cost as well as motivating other donors to step forward.
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Virginia Legacy ‹‹ University President John T. Casteen (back, left) and members of the Claude Moore Charitable Foundation (back,
l to r: J. Hamilton Lambert, Lynn Tadlock, and Randy Sutliff; front: Leigh Middleditch, Peter Arntson, and Guy Gravett)
Fall 2008
The discovery of new knowledge to inform and change nursing practice and
education has long been a tradition at the University of Virginia School of
Nursing. On these pages, we explore specific research initiatives under way by
U.Va. nursing faculty. Nursing research begins with real health care questions.
Impact
The answers always focus on improving patient care.
Nursing Research Effecting Change
in Prevention, Practice, and Policy
Prevention
Seeking Relief for Alzheimer’s Patients—and Their Families
Alzheimer’s disease is devastating for patients, but it also takes a tremendous toll on family
caregivers. How can we develop programs to support caregivers? What interventions will delay
or minimize some of the symptoms for patients?
Karen Rose
Alzheimer’s disease is now the sixth leading cause of death in the U.S. and fifth among
people over the age of 65. With the aging population worldwide, this rate will only increase.
Many Alzheimer’s patients are cared for by family members at home, but as the disease progresses and as patients’ sleep patterns are disturbed, the stress on family
members often becomes intolerable. Sleep disruption and resultant caregiver exhaustion is the primary reason for patients to be placed in nursing
homes, resulting in an increased economic burden for families and on the
health care system.
Sleep disruption for caregivers is linked to cardiovascular illness, cognitive
decline, and mental health problems such as depression and anxiety. In patients
with dementia, sleep disturbance increases disruptive behavioral patterns.
While other researchers are exploring various aspects of this problem, assistant
professor Karen Rose (PhD ’06) focuses on the question of how the patterns of
sleep differ between family caregivers and their family member with Alzheimer’s
disease. Findings from this study will be used to inform Rose about potential
interventions that could be used to better synchronize these patterns.
Rose is one of 10 postdoctoral scholars selected each year from across
the country for two-year Claire M. Fagin Fellowships through the John A.
Hartford Foundation and Atlantic Philanthropies administered through the
American Academy of Nursing. She is collaborating with her mentor, Kathy
Richards of the University of Pennsylvania, whose focus has been on sleep
patterns of persons with dementia, and with Kathleen Buckwalter of the
University of Iowa, whose studies have been primarily with caregivers of this
patient population.
Rose will use polysomnography to assess brain waves, respiration,
EKG, and EMG to detect muscular movement in the chin during sleep, and
electrooculargrams to detect REM sleep. As the scientific community learns
more about the outcomes of poor and good sleep, Rose hopes to translate this
knowledge into practical interventions for family caregivers and for persons
with Alzheimer’s disease.
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impact
Practice
Improving Health Care
Products
Have you ever questioned why a product
was made one way when it could be so much
better? The U.Va. School of Nursing Health Care
Product Evaluation Center uses collaboration
among nursing faculty, private industry, and
Medical Center partners to bring better products to market for the sake of patients and those
who care for them.
The Health Care Product Evaluation
Center (HCPEC) is a dynamic collaboration among the School of Nursing, the U.Va.
Medical Center’s Department of Nursing,
and various others—including physicians,
pharmacists, therapists, and information
technology specialists—to provide expert
input into the development of health care
products.
The center provides services to industry
in at least three key ways. One service provides
focus groups recruited for appropriate expertise
in a particular product field who offer feedback
on design concepts and prototypes. The center
can also organize working clinicians to test
products in a patient care unit (after FDA
approval is secured). Finally, once a product is
ready for market, HCPEC can offer training for
Deborah Conway
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Virginia Legacy sales and marketing personnel to improve their
understanding of the pertinent disease processes,
typical treatments/procedures, and the user’s
perspective on the product or device.
Teams are formed by a study coordinator
under HCPEC supervision. All coordinators are
graduates of U.Va. Medical Center’s evidencebased practice research mentor program. In
the interest of transparency, all participants
declare any financial interests they may have
in a company and provide full disclosure
when publishing anything that relates to their
study. Assistant professor and Center Director
Deborah Conway explains, “We’re selling the
clinicians’ intelligence in the form of their
objective feedback.” Clinicians who participate
in focus groups are paid on an individual basis.
If a product has been approved by the FDA,
it may be tested in a hospital unit where the
fee is paid to the unit team and used for staff
development purposes such as underwriting
conference participation.
HCPEC projects have included special
medication carts, enteral feeding pumps,
safety sharps, a patient chair, and various other
devices. CO2NFIRM NOW, for example, is a
colormetric device developed to ensure that
a stomach feeding tube is not accidentally
routed to the patient’s lungs as it is inserted.
While an x-ray is still the “gold standard” for
ensuring correct placement, the presence of
carbon dioxide (CO2) detected by this device
is an immediate indicator of a problem. The
U.Va. Medical Center and other hospitals have
now adopted this product.
Other positive outcomes from HCPEC
participation include a boost in nursing staff
morale, increased funds for clinicians and their
units, and even a new interdisciplinary graduate
elective course that will be offered next spring.
In a pilot program for the class, three students
(nursing, business, and architecture) were asked
to identify a real problem at the U.Va. Medical
Center and develop a solution or product. They
developed a new system for hospital units to
handle supplies that makes it faster to find
needed items, limits waste, and reduces error.
Nursing staff who participate with HCPEC are
frequently excited by the research and how it
affects patient care. Some have even returned to
school for undergraduate and graduate courses
related to nursing research.
Tapping the Therapeutic Power of Massage
“High-tech, high-touch” characterizes some
of the work being done in the school’s Center
for the Study of Complementary and Alternative
Therapies (CSCAT). Specifically, researchers are
exploring how cancer patients undergoing the
usual regimen of treatment might benefit from
intensive therapeutic massage.
Ann Gill Taylor (BSN ’63), Betty Norman
Norris Professor of Nursing and director of
CSCAT, is the principal investigator for a study
funded by the National Cancer Institute. The
study tests a novel massage intervention on
quality of life of cancer patients during and
following treatment for hematologic cancers
such as acute myeloid leukemia. Patients with
such cancers experience serious stressors
during treatment, including adverse reactions
to their treatment regimen. Such reactions
may not respond adequately to conventional
pharmacological/medical approaches, making
these patients highly vulnerable to short- and
long-term threats to their quality of life.
Therapeutic massage, a well-known
complementary therapy, has often been
recom mended to a ssist pat ient s w it h
cancer and treatment-related symptoms.
Taylor’s study provided for a significantly
larger dose and duration of massage (three
one-hour sessions weekly for
seven weeks) than
prior studies. The
session s bega n
at t he t i me of
hospitalization
›› Ann Gill Taylor
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impact
Policy
Research Changing Everyday Care
“Policy” can refer to standards of care established through legislation, but it can also refer to
the way a particular institution governs its practice. In either case, the ideal driver of policy is
knowledge. Evidence-based practice depends on the willingness of providers to conduct research
and publish their findings. The perspective derived at the bedside by clinicians is as crucial as
the contributions from academic researchers.
Audrey Snyder
and continued in the community setting
when patients were between hospital stays.
Assistant professor Audrey Snyder (BSN ’89,
MSN ’91, ACNP-CS ’98, PhD ’07) served as
massage coordinator for the study.
In addition, Taylor and her co-investigators
used a unique approach to study the underlying
mechanisms of massage effects using heart rate
variability to assess the role of the autonomic
nervous system in the expression of the
relaxation response. This data is currently
under analysis.
Taylor is also sponsor of research proposed
by BSN to PhD student Paula Ruffin, who
is seeking funding to support her doctoral
dissertation through an individual National
Research Service Award from NIH. Ruffin is
interested in stress reduction in women at high
risk for breast and ovarian cancer who might
benefit from therapeutic massage intervention.
The proposed research is grounded in
psychoneuroimmunology. Research has
shown that reducing one’s stress reduces
inflammation and promotes the immune
system, which is important in diminishing
risk from the damaging effects of depression,
fatigue, and sleep disturbances, especially
for these women at high risk. Since there is
no published data on the use of professional
community-based massage therapists in
research enrolling women at high risk for
ovarian and breast cancer, the study also will
examine factors related to the efficacy of the
massage protocol, including adverse effects
and treatment adherence.
In a fast-paced clinical setting, practice improvements begin with nurses at the bedside posing questions like “Why are these BP readings so high? Is this the best way to take
blood pressure?” In an environment where scientific inquiry exists, the answer “we’ve
always done it this way” is no longer the accepted norm.
Suzanne Burns (BSN ’85, FNP ’96) is both a professor of nursing and a top-level clinician
at the U.Va. Medical Center. Personally sold on the value of research and evidence-based
practice, Burns has proven to be the perfect sparkplug to implement a clinical research
program and fire up her fellow nurses to participate.
Burns leads self-selected groups of nurses through the entire scholarly research process,
from developing research questions through creating the test methods, data collection, coding
and analysis, and, finally, publication. Since early 2005, approximately 28 projects have been
completed, with manuscripts either in process or already accepted for publication. A few of
the study group mentors have now launched second-generation studies.
Burns’s personal energy and her passion for improving practice encourage U.Va. Health
System nurses to bring evidence-based practice into the clinical arena. “It’s natural for nurses
to want to make things better for patients,” says Burns. “This model teaches our clinicians
how to use the evidence, or, when none exists for the practice, to conduct research to learn
methods to do it better. Plus, this approach infuses a culture of inquiry and scholarship.”
Practice and policy implications are tremendous. One study on how best to take an
accurate blood pressure reading has resulted in a hospital-wide change of practice. The study
showed that patients who are seated in a relaxed position with both feet on the floor may have
a reading that is as much as 14 points lower than a reading taken when they are perched at the
end of an examination table. Point variations
Suzanne Burns
such as these can make a significant difference
in diagnosis and medication management, with
attendant issues of drug side effects and overall
economic impact to the health care system.
This and other targeted studies have
become the impetus for change within
U.Va.’s Health System as their findings are
communicated and incorporated. They have
also had an impact on the nurse researchers
themselves. “In contrast to academic research,
the clinical projects are accomplished during
the course of everyday practice,” says Burns.
“The studies are focused and generally unitbased. This makes sense when one considers
the very real constraints of the busy clinical
setting. But the rewards are big. The staff know
they are improving patients’ lives, and they are
also becoming professionals who know how to
make a difference with research.”
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21 •
What’s in a Name?
New Building Names Reflect Deep Ties to Nursing
S
Philanthropy
ternheimer. Roberts. Landin. These and
many other names grace the classrooms,
conference rooms, and other sites throughout
the new Claude Moore Nursing Education
Building. Behind each name is a stor y.
Collectively, the stories form a lively legacy
of the U.Va. School of Nursing and the lives
it has touched.
The Birdsong Conference Room
Charlotte Birdsong in 1936
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Virginia Legacy In the new Birdsong Conference Room, nursing
faculty leaders meet to discuss new directions in the nursing curriculum or innovative
teaching ideas. Charlotte Spain Birdsong
(BSN ’38), for whom the room is named,
would appreciate that. The School of Nursing
always occupied a special place in her heart.
In 1938, Birdsong and her nursing classmates
were the only female students on the U.Va.
Grounds. That made for lasting friendships,
a number of which Birdsong maintained up
until her death in 1999. As a student, she also
met her future husband, McLemore Birdsong
(Med ’37), who went on to become chair of
U.Va.’s Department of Pediatrics.
Charlotte practiced as a pediatric
nurse at U.Va. until leaving to raise her
family. After her death, her sons looked for
a special way to honor her life. The result
was a gift to name the new conference
room.
“When we heard about plans for the
new nursing building, a bell just went off,”
says Harvard Birdsong. “We thought this would
be a very significant way to honor our mother.
She was committed to nursing. Well into her
seventies, she still volunteered as a nursing
aide, taking water to patients and giving words
of encouragement.”
“She had very strong feelings for the
nursing profession, the medical community,
and U.Va. as a whole,” adds Spencer Birdsong.
“She always had stories to tell. She actually
knew Josephine McLeod, for whom McLeod
Hall is named.”
Charlotte Birdsong has five grandchildren
who have graduated from U.Va., two of whom
are pursing careers in nursing.
The Estes Faculty Office
For Mary Ellen Zator Estes (BSN ’81, MSN
’83, FNP ’00), making a gift to name the Estes
Faculty Office in the new building just came
naturally.
“I’ve been a donor since graduation,” says
Estes. “I may never be a million-dollar donor,
but I believe in doing what you can. I think we
should all do our part.”
Nursing has always been central to Estes’s
life. She currently works as a nurse practitioner
in private practice. She is also editing the fourth
edition of a nursing textbook she authored.
“Nursing opens up so many different
paths,” says Estes. “I have been an academic,
practitioner, writer, teacher, and clinician.”
Now, as an investor in the new Claude
Moore Nursing Education Building, she is
excited about the education that will take
place there.
Mary Ellen Zator Estes with former Dean Jeanette Lancaster
“The students are so fortunate to have
this facility,” says Estes. “The whole first floor is
designed to encourage collaboration, and that’s
where innovation can happen. Today’s students
have a very broad, even global, perspective.
The school is taking nursing to a new level
by empowering students with the skills and
knowledge to make a real difference.”
Estes is pleased to think of the faculty
office that bears her name existing in the midst
of all this activity. And, as a bonus, she says,
“it overlooks McLeod Hall, the cornerstone of
my own education.”
Fall 2008
Events in Review
Events
in Review
▲ The Class of 2008 saw 104 new
BSNs pinned. At Hooding ceremonies,
31 graduate students (including two
new PhDs) celebrated the completion
of their degrees.
At Pinning, Sarah Boschung, class
president, presented the School of Nursing
with $3,000 raised by the undergraduate
Class of 2008, which had a participation
rate of 66 percent in their fourth year
campaign. Going forward, Sarah will
serve as 2008 Class Advocate.
One hundred and thirty-five nursing
students walked the Lawn in graduation
ceremonies last May. A number
received special honors, including
Melissa Sutherland, who won the Barbara
Brodie Scholars Award and the Phyllis J.
Verhonick Research Award.
▲ During Final Exercises, Judy Sands was recognized as an honorary member of the UVa
School of Nursing Alumni Association, in recognition of her 24 years teaching at
the school.
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23 •
Events in Review
▲ Aryana Khalid, assistant deputy secretary of Health and Human Resources for the
Commonwealth of Virginia, delivered the 2008 Catherine Strader McGehee
Memorial Lecture on the topic of “The Role of Nursing in Public Policy.”
The School of Nursing hosted the
4th Annual Rural Health Care
Research Center Conference
in April. The topic “Innovations in
Rural Health Research: Community
Partnerships and Translational Research”
attracted a variety of participants and
included experts from U.Va., Johns
Hopkins, Binghamton, Virginia Tech, and
community organizations.
▲ Former Dean Jeanette Lancaster was
the special guest at a variety of goingaway celebrations, including a reception
at Carr’s Hill hosted by President John
Casteen. Casteen praised her many
achievements and contributions to the
school and University. In addition to
the farewell events, Dean Lancaster was
recognized with the renaming of the street
running between McLeod Hall and the
Claude Moore Nursing Education Building
as Jeanette Lancaster Way. Lancaster
will spend the next year as a visiting
professor in Hong Kong.
▲ Businessman and philanthropist
John Kluge and his wife, Tussi, came to the
school to speak to a CNL class, sharing
insights on leadership and life, risk taking,
managing people, and giving back.
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Events in Review
▲ Phyllis Hamner Steger celebrated her
70th reunion during the Thomas
Jefferson Society Reunion in May.
Last May, nearly 100 nursing alumni and guests celebrated the induction of the Diploma
and BSN classes of 1958 into the Thomas Jefferson Society. The DIPLOMA class of 1958
is pictured above.
▲ Laura Thigpen enjoyed her 40th reunion
in June with fellow members of the Class of
1968.
At JUNE REUNIONS 2008, former dean
Jeanette Lancaster addressed alumni for
her final time as dean.
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25 •
Class Notes
and News
1940s
’47 DIPLO Louise K. Aylor of Aroda, VA, was
honored with the naming of the lobby at
the Madison County Health Department on
June 11, 2008.
’47 DIPLO Norma Close Griffith of Thomasville,
NC, is currently retired after working in various
professional nursing roles over the years. She
now volunteers in several areas.
Jennifer Holowecki, U.Va. pediatric nurse; Rebecca
Green, Massachusetts General MICU nurse; and Sarah
Boschung, U.Va. Pre-Med Post-Baccalaureate student
Join in the Celebration
This May, the Class of 2008 celebrated
’47 DIPLO Betty VanDoren Wood of Manassas,
VA, is retired but keeps busy with gardening
and her church ESL program. She reports that
her older son, Walter, and his wife have gone on
missions in South America. Her son, Sam, is a
goat farmer in Stanford, KY, and her daughter,
Daphne Wood Lasser, is with Capitol One in
Richmond, VA, and lives in Ashland, VA.
newly earned degrees, an unparalleled
U.Va. experience, and bright futures that
will touch many lives. This celebration is
shared with everyone who helped make it
possible through their gifts to the Nursing
Annual Fund.
Thank you for helping these, and all
students, at the U.Va. School of Nursing,
’47 DIPLO Joyce Hornsby Wyant of Lovettsville,
VA, has four daughters: one is a pharmacist,
one is a chiropractor, one is a nurse, and one
is a Methodist minister. Though retired, Joyce
keeps herself busy helping neighbors and
family members with health problems and
volunteering at her church.
this and every year!
Make your gift online or with the
enclosed envelope to renew your support
today.
www.campaign.virgina.edu/
supportnursing
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Virginia Legacy ’49 DIPLO Kathryn Short Carr of
Charlottesville, VA, lives at the Laurels of
Charlottesville. Her husband, Dr. Quintin O.
Carr, visits every week from Staunton. Kay
has four daughters, two of them living in
Charlottesville and the other two living in
Ashburn, VA, and Philadelphia.
1950s
’57 DIPLO Mary Brammer Birckhead of
Lutherville, MD, is a master gardener and
floral designer. Mary celebrated her 50th
wedding anniversary this summer. She has
three children and five grandchildren.
’57 BSN Frieda Ann Headley Byrd of Macon,
GA, has five children and eleven grandchildren.
She is a member of her church choir, does
water aerobics, and travels. After six years
as director of nursing at Bullock Memorial
Hospital, Statesboro, GA, and certified nursing
administrator, Frieda retired in 1984.
’57 DIPLO Peggy Errington Callaghan of
Summersville, WV, served on her local hospital
board of directors and says she now has an
entirely different view of running a hospital.
’ 5 7 B S N Au d re y Sa n d e r s Ka rd o s o f
Charlottesville, VA, retired fully in 2000. Audrey
first retired from working full-time at U.Va.
after 40 and a half years, then worked three
years as a part-time nurse. She is now catching
up with work at home.
’57 DIPLO Patti Sizemore Marshall of
Camarillo, CA, works full-time for Livingston
Memorial. Patti has three daughters, six
Fall 2008
Class Notes
granddaughters, and two grandsons. Her
husband, Dr. Barringer D. Marshall, passed
away in July 1999.
’57 DIPLO Sandra Peck Oldfield of Prescott,
AZ, is retired after a busy career doing acute
work in various hospitals, a convalescent
hospital, a doctor’s office, hospice, private
duty, registry work, and polio clinics. Sandra
wrote and taught a program teaching home
health aides and hospice and terminal care
specialists. ’57 DIPLO Barbara Johnson Rodman of
Whitefish, MT, is retired after a busy career
of 40 years as a registered nurse and an
emergency certified flight nurse. With the
Emergency Nurses Association, she developed
a trauma nurse core class for rural nurses in
Montana. Barbara volunteers at her hometown
medical library. She has four sons: three living
in Montana, and one in California.
’57 BSN Tatum Newbill Saunders of Piney
River, VA, is president of the board at the Blue
Ridge Medical Center. Tatum’s volunteer work
had also included the American Cancer Society.
The farm she owns along with husband Paul
and her sons was selected as the 1988 Virginia
Farm of the Year.
’57 DIPLO Joyce Longanacre Stokes of Moneta,
VA, worked as a nurse on mission trips to Africa,
China, and Mexico. She found that her training
at the U.Va. School of Nursing prepared her
well to cope with sometimes primitive living
conditions.
’ 58 D I P LO Nancy Br inkley Glenn of
Lynchburg, VA, is on the board of trustees at
the Westminster-Canterbury of Lynchburg.
Nancy also is a community volunteer for Meals
on Wheels.
’58 DIPLO Ellen Plant Lawson of Lawrenceville,
GA, is still working full time as a telephonic
nurse case manager. ’58 BSN Ann Watt Marsh of Richmond, VA, is
on the board of directors for the Shepherd’s
Center of Richmond–Open University as a
recording secretary. Ann also enjoys Scottish
country dancing.
’58 DIPLO Dawn Fullen Olinger of Tazewell,
VA, is retired, and serves on the board of a
crisis center and safe house. Dawn has three
children who graduated from U.Va., including
one in nursing, one in medicine, and one from
the college.
’58 DIPLO Jonnie McNully Schroeder of Deland,
FL, is a retired RN and real estate broker. She
has two children and three grandchildren.
’58 DIPLO Shelby Mason Senell of Jamestown,
NC, retired from hospital nursing in August
2007. Shelby is an active nurse manager at
First Aid Center at the International Home
Furnishing Center, and she also volunteers at
the Community Clinic of High Point.
’58 BSN Ann Carr Toms of Troy, VA, has two
children and six grandchildren. Ann still works
full time for the Endoscopy Department at the
U.Va. Medical Center.
1970s
’70 BSN, ’85 MSN Mavis M.C. Ford of Roanoke,
VA, recently retired from the VA Medical Center in
Salem, VA. Mavis was the first African-American
RN to graduate with her BSN from U.Va.
’71 BSN, ’74 MSN Fay Raines of Huntsville,
AL, was elected president of the American
Association of Colleges of Nursing at its spring
meeting. Fay, currently dean of the College of
Nursing at the University of Alabama, succeeds
former U.Va. Dean Jeanette Lancaster, who
served as president of the association for two
years.
’73 BSN Bonnie Peatross of Salt Lake City,
UT, obtained a master’s degree in nursing
from Brigham Young University in community
health and nursing education in 1992. She
recently retired after the last 18 full years
(seven years part-time) as infusion therapist
for the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Salt
Lake City. Her favorite accomplishment was
being one of the first nurses in the state to
place PICC lines. She placed more than 3,000
PICCs during her career and taught more than
100 nurses from all over the country the art and
science of PICC placement. While part-time,
Bonnie and her husband, Richard Jackson,
M.D., a pediatrician, lived in and owned a bed
and breakfast at the Brighton Ski Resort in
Utah, where they started a medical clinic for
ski-related injuries. After 12 years of shoveling
snow, they have moved back to Salt Lake City.
They have been traveling as much as possible
and serve as medical advisors and mentors
for YouthLINC, a local group that takes high
school and college students on humanitarian
missions to Peru, Mexico, Thailand, and Kenya.
Bonnie says this is very rewarding work.
’74 BSN Donna
Buchanan of
Avon, CT, has been
named the 2008
Direct Care State
Nurse of the Year
by the Connecticut
De p a r t m e n t o f
Ad m i n i s t ra t i v e
Ser vices. With
more than 26 years
of service at the University of Connecticut,
Donna has earned a reputation of doing
whatever it takes to ensure the health
of a newborn. She is responsible for the
oversight of safety and performance of
the neonatal transport system at the
University of Connecticut’s Health Center
NICU and also serves as neonatal outreach
coordinator to provide multidisciplinary
training and education to health care
providers statewide.
’79 BSN Deborah Louise Robinson-Minneman
of Lakeville, MN, is assistant varsity lacrosse
coach for the Lakeville High School girl’s
lacrosse team.
1980s
’81 BSN, ’86 MSN Kate (Ellen Kay) Fitzgerald
of Frederick, MD, graduated cum laude from
the University of Baltimore School of Law in
May. After sitting for the Maryland bar exam,
Kate will begin a judicial clerkship in the circuit
court of Arlington County, VA.
’83 BSN, ’93 MSN David Edwards Simmons,
Jr., of Charlottesville, VA, has been nominated
Nurse of the Year 2008 for Community Service
Virginia Legacy
27 •
Class Notes
by the Black Nurses Association at its 36th
Annual Institute and Conference. David is the
clinical director of the Nephrology Outpatient
Department at the U.Va. Health System.
1990s
’90 MSN Teri Moore of Christiansburg, VA,
was promoted to associate vice president for
student learning, which includes leadership
of the nursing program, at New River
Community College in Dublin, VA. Teri was a
co-presenter at the 2008 SACS-COC Summer
Institute in Orlando, FL, for her college’s quality
enhancement plan.
’90 BSN Christine Marie Prince of Indianapolis,
IN, is enrolled in the master of science in
nursing degree program at Regis University,
where she is pursuing a degree in health
care leadership and a graduate certificate in
education. Christine is employed as a clinical
access nurse. She lives in Indianapolis, where
she chose to settle after working there as a
traveling nurse.
’94 BSN Ann Marie Reilly of Warrenton,
VA, married Tommy L. McGovern on
February 16, 2008. She is employed by Prince
William Hospital in Manassas, VA, as a
registered nurse case manager.
’97 BSN Tracey Pietron Perry of Cary, NC,
and her husband, Matthew, welcomed their
second child, Nathan Matthew, on September
30, 2007. Nathan joins three-year-old
brother Charlie.
Margaret Overton, Theresa Carroll, Megan Chinen, and Sarah Boschung
2008
At the annual Hooding and Pinning ceremonies on May 17, 2008, which preceded Final
Exercises, graduating students received special honors for their achievements.
The 2008 recipients were the following:
Nursing Student Contributing Most
to School of Nursing
Megan Ruth Chinen, BSN, and
Margaret Ellen Overton, BSN
Nursing Student Contributing Most
to U.Va.
Rebecca Marie Green, BSN
Shannon Scholar Award
Sarah Morris Boschung, BSN
VA, and her husband, Alvin, welcomed their
second child, Christian Fredric Holland, on
December 16, 2007. Christian joins his sister,
Skylar Anne, 5.
’98 MSN Tammy Jibben Wingo of Jetersville,
Annan, Sandra L. (2008). Intimate partner violence
in rural environments. Annual Review of Nursing
Research, 26, 85–113.
FACULTY PUBLICATIONS
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Virginia Legacy Barbara Brodie Scholars
Nurse Practitioner Award
Lisa Laurie, MSN
Distinguished Majors Awards
Megan Maxine Benckert,
BSN; Ellen Coles Davis, BSN;
Rebecca Marie Green, BSN; and
Carolyn Florence Cordtz, BSN
Graduate Teaching Assistant Award
Melissa Ann Sutherland, PhD
2000s
’04 BSN Kelly Davison Sicoli of Mechanicsburg, PA, is studying nurse-midwifery at
the Frontier School of Midwifery and Family
Nursing. Kelly married Mark Sicoli in August
of 2007 in Crozet, VA.
Greiner, Doris S., Glick, Doris F., Kulbok, Pamela
A., & Mitchell, E. M. (2008). Rural health nursing
research review: global perspectives. Annual Review
of Nursing Research, 26, 261–294.
Jallo, N., Bourguignon, Cheryl, Taylor, Ann G., &
Utz, Sharon W. (2008). Stress management during
pregnancy: designing and evaluating a mind-body
intervention. Family & Community Health, 31, 3,
190–203.
Hauenstein, Emily. (2008). Building the rural mental
health system: from deFacto system to quality care.
Annual Review of Nursing Research, 26, 143–173.
Cox, Kathleen, Mahone, Irma H., & Merwin,
Elizabeth. (2008). Improving the quality of rural
nursing care. Annual Review of Nursing Research, 26,
175–194.
Jones, Randy A., Taylor, Ann G., Bourguignon,
Cheryl, Steeves, Richard H., Fraser, G., Lippert, M.,
Theodorescu, D., Mathews, H., & Kilbridge, K. L. (2008).
Family interactions among African American prostate
cancer survivors. Family & Community Health, 31, 3,
213–220.
Fall 2008
Class Notes
Margaret Tyson
First Nursing Dean
(1920–2008)
T
he first dean of the School of Nursing,
Margaret Gould Tyson, died on April
25 after a long illness. She was 87. Tyson
became the school’s first dean in 1958 and
served until taking an educational leave to
pursue her doctoral degree in 1961. She
returned to serve as dean from 1962–64.
During Tyson’s tenure, she upgraded
the academic content of the school’s
programs and began recruiting faculty
with advanced degrees. She also worked
toward granting permission for nursing
students to marry and for the school to
admit men. The first male student was
admitted in the fall of 1963.
In 1964, she left U.Va. for a faculty
position at Columbia University. She
later became dean and professor of nursing at Hunter-Bellevue and at SUNY in
Binghamton, NY.
An endowment fund honoring Tyson,
established by Margie Saunders Howell
(BSN ’60) and Elaine Smith Venn (BSN
’60, MSN ’83) and supported by their
fellow students from the Class of 1960,
was created at the U.Va. School of Nursing
in 2006. The fund will support innovative teaching awards for nursing faculty.
For more information or to contribute,
please call the School of Nursing Alumni &
Development Office at (434) 924-0138.
I N M E MOR I A M
’33 BSNED Marie J. Showalter of
Harrisonburg, VA, died on March 9, 2008.
’50 DIPLO Amelia Catherine Lipchak of
Petersburg, VA, died on April 27, 2008.
’38 DIPLO, ’41 BSNED Benita McCarthy
Drumm of Barboursville, VA, died on June 2,
2008.
’55 DIPLO Shirley Cannon McIntire of
Falmouth, MA, died on March 23, 2008.
’42 DIPLO Dorothy Bruce Cruser of
Richmond, VA, died on March 7, 2008.
’43 DIPLO Commander Anne Josephine Chelf,
USN, of Culpeper, VA, died on April 23, 2008.
’43 DIPLO Martha Ormond Doner of
Roswell, GA, died on June 4, 2008.
’46 DIPLO Anna Lee Beech of Oakton, VA,
died on December 9, 2007.
’46 DIPLO Nancy Woolard Smith of Tucson,
AZ, died on August 25, 2007.
’47 DIPLO Ruth Mortensen Bardin of Elk
City, OK, died on June 13, 2008.
’47 DIPLO Louise Moughton Cooper of
Raleigh, NC, died on April 1, 2008.
(2008). Pressure ulcer guidelines: “Minding the gaps”
when developing new guidelines. Advanced Skin
Wound Care, 21, 5, 213–7.
O’Laughlen, Mary, Hollen, Patricia, & Ting, S. (In
press). An intervention to change clinician behavior:
conceptual framework for the Multicolored, Simplified
Asthma Guideline Reminder (MSAGR). Journal of the
American Academy of Nurse Practitioners.
Rose, Karen M., Taylor, Ann G., Bourguignon,
Cheryl, Utz, Sharon W., & Goehler, L. E. (2008).
Cranial electrical stimulation: Potential use in
reducing sleep and mood disturbances in persons
with dementia and their family caregivers. Family &
Community Health, 31, 3, 240–246.
Langemo, D., Cuddigan, J., Baharestani, M., Ratliff
Catherine R., Posthauer, M.E., Black, J., & Garber, S.
’58 DIPLO Ruth Thayer Fariss of Hartford,
WI, died on August 10, 2008.
’72 BSN Melinda L. Nimmer died on
June 5, 2008.
’73 BSN Ellen A. McFadden of Monrovia,
CA, died on February 8, 2008.
’74 BSN Nancy Coopper Kaspick of
Charlottesville, VA, died on April 7, 2008.
’82 MSN Robert Michael Hoover of
Toledo, OH, died on April 2, 2008.
’89 ND Virginia Langran Wagner of Afton,
VA, died December 22, 2007.
’05 BSN Mary E. Montgomery of Durham,
NC, died on December 18, 2007.
Winslow, S., Mullaly, Leith, & Blakenship, J. (2008).
You should publish that: Helping staff nurses get
published. Nursing for Women’s Health, 12, 2, 120–126.
Ratliff Catherine R. (2008). Wound exudate for
healing. Advance for Nurse Practitioners, 16, 7, 32–36.
’56 DIPLO Nancy Jo Craven Jander of
Vancouver, WA, died on June 3, 2008.
Barish, R., & Snyder, Audrey E. (2008). Use of
complementary and alternative healthcare practices
among persons served by a remote area medical
clinic. Family & Community Health, 31, 3, 221–227.
Selfe, T. K., & Taylor, Ann G. (2008). Acupuncture and
Osteoarthritis of the Knee: A Review of Randomized,
Controlled Trials. Family & Community Health, 31, 3,
247–254.
Alexander, G. K., Taylor, Ann G., Innes, Kim E.,
Kulbok, Pamela, & Selfe, T. K. (2008). Contextualizing
the effects of yoga therapy on diabetes management:
A review of the social determinants of physical activity.
Family & Community Health, 31, 3, 228–239.
Utz, Sharon W. (2008). Diabetes care among rural
Americans. Annual Review of Nursing Research, 26,
3–39.
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›› Students find a well-lit study space in the new Claude Moore Nursing
Education Building.
Donor Honor Roll 2007– 08
We are pleased to recognize here donors who made gifts to the School of Nursing between July 1, 2007,
and June 30, 2008. The generosity and thoughtfulness of all our donors ensures the future success of the
nursing school and creates exciting opportunities for students, faculty, and alumni.
School of Nursing
Alumni by Class Year
Thank you.
1947
Ernest & Ethelene Nichols Schelling
Michael & Maiddie Frye Pierry
Opal Snow Collier
John & Levato Jacobs Thomas
William & Nancy Conway Smith*
Alumni with multiple U.Va. nursing
Kathryn Holsclaw Hunter
Betty Dyke Vansant
degrees are listed by year of their
John & Allison Bryant Keye
Samuel & JoAnn
first nursing degree or diploma.
Nancy Mayo Knight*
Van Valkenburgh Whitacre
1954
Joe & Mary McClure McCary
David & Tosca Glenn Minichan
Philip & Maxine Keck Leveque
1938
gift
Every
—no matter the
size—is truly important to us
and vital for the success of
the school!
Dorothy Lucas Stone
1952
Doris Blatchley Swaim
Robert & Phyllis Edmonston Bloomberg
Agnes Livesay Sorensen
Barbara MacDonald Thomas
Henry & Maxine Craddock Burton*
1955
Virginia Schoos Wilkins
Dorothy Pettice Crute
John & Mary Ann Law Anderson
1940
Charles & Margaret Mahone Witten
Ruth Cline Horton
Mandaville Nance Bower*
Harold & Helen Hull Yood
Patricia Mann Wood*
Virginia Wood King
Sarah Hahn Franklin
1942
1948
Alice Huffman Bugel
Sue Racey Kline*
Donald & Wanda Hicks Garber
Frederick & Barbara Tate Robinson
Jack & Mary Cook Hodge*
Wilbur & Dorothy Sandridge Gloor
Betty Meredith Chapman
Mary Jane Morris
Ann Harris Foster
1953
William & Delores Durbin O’Neil
Doris Chrisley Hildreth
Mary Lou Dean Criss
Carol Cannon Richardson
1943
Charles & Page Long Saunders
Hodding Carter & Patricia Murphy Derian
Vivian Branham Moore
Carl & Bobbie Comer Spangler
James & Jacqueline Williams Etheridge
Norma Roberts Romm
Alice Lorraine Wallenborn
Elisabeth A. Lambert
Frederick & Barbara Cloud Little
Helen June Lambert*
1944
*Indicates 10+ years of consecutive giving to the SON
Names in bold are Dean’s Circle members for 2007–08
† Now Deceased
1949
Raymond & Thelma Weaver Bohn
Linwood & Mary Burnett Adams
Ruth Anne Reed Chitwood*
Alice Mae Auciello*
James & Mary Pappandreou Davis
Betsy Pharr Kuehn*
Constance L. Ferebee*
Thomas & Patricia Morris McDonald
Clifton & Carolyn Stratton Gruver*
Frances MacGregor Harryman
1950
Donald & Margaret Martin MacKenzie
Mary Fulton Bruce
Edward & Julia Childress Payne
Sharon Sutherland Catlett*
Carl & Isabelle Gray Schaake*
Doris McCraw Cobb*
Marion Redmond Davis
1945
Samuel & Anne Finley Richeson*
Jean Loving Barnett*
Barbara Broadfoot Wilkison
Jean Keller Berkelman
Peggy Stahl Floyd
1951
Donald & Ellen DeHart White
William & Lorraine Bowers Albrecht*
Irving & Jacqueline
1946
Sweetwood Brownfield
Virginia Cummings Amiss*
Linda Dofflemoyer Devine
Howard & Doris Cox Browne
Josephine Campbell Garrett*
Vivian Harner Cooper
Kal & Julie Dennis Howard*
Martha Bon Durant Fitzgerald
Jack & Marion Balzer Hunter
William & Gladys Walker Harris*
Virginia Goddin Leake
Josephine Sykes Runnion
Jane Sternheimer and Mark Sternheimer
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2007–08 Donor Honor Roll
“My husband and I have been giving for many years. We tend to give because of
. We began giving to honor Zula Mae Bice, who was acting
dean when I was a student, and my first instructor. Later, we gave to the scholarship
in honor of Mary Jane Morris, who is a very dear lady and was a model for me. Most
recently, we have given to the Dean’s Circle, in honor of Jeanette Lancaster, another
very special person.”
special people
—Virginia Tierney, BSN ’63
1956
Owen & Anne Hill Bricker
W. Nathaniel & Margie Saunders Howell*
Alvin & Jeannie Sorce Smith
Joseph & Kathryn Engquist Brown
Warren & Virginia Tharpe Brubaker
Frank & Nancy Nestor McCue
Laurel & Melissa Alderholt Smith
H. Stuart & Mildred Corum Campbell
Robert & Inez Ellen Carlisle
Margaret Reed McPherson
Brian & Christina White Wittenkeller
Edward & Grace Cumming Long
Albert & Nancy Lanford Carr*
Charles & Candace Harris Paris
Ann Gray Norris
Alexander & Beth Ames Clarke
Winifred Pauley
1963
Nancy Calloway Peery
Elrose Plentovich Couric
Thomas & Olga Wagner Perry
James & Darlene Schaefer Allison*
James & Doris Arrington St. Clair
Sandra Cooley Darnell
H. Ray & Marjorie Pulman Smith*
Darden & Carol Gay Battle
James & Sarah Nissley Woody
A. L. & Carolyn Leonard Eller
John & Beverly Lindauer Sullivan*
Rita Marie Bowman
Richard & Betty Williams Fiske
Elaine Smith Venn
Elizabeth A. Bray
Mildred Janes Fitzgerald
David & Mary Lou McNabb Warden
Joseph & Brenda Jones Canepa
Dennis & Nina Stutts Barnes*
Elizabeth Gwinn Foster
Frederick & Carmen McKinney Williams
James & Judith Poole Clendenin
Edward & Patricia Venable Giles
Sue Plentovich Hollinger
Donna Bloomstrann Wolff
Thomas & Nancy Rush Cragg
Frank & Paula Surratt Holloway
John & Helen Dove Howze*
Roberta Sibold Hunt*
Diane M. Irwin
1961
John & Karen Donckers Doherty*
Lewis & Audrey Sanders Kardos
Thomas & Kathryn Whitehead Kelsey*
William & Dorothy Thompson Arnold
Nicholas & Barbara Paquette Foris
Patricia Rilee St. Clair
Charles & Linda Dickson Landis
John & Jane Black Bales
Mary Ann Fravel*
Dorothy Withers Stacks
Michael & Rachel M. McCutchan
William & Gloria Alphin Flournoy
Rees & Joanna Deane Frescoln
Henry & Joanne Johnson Wyatt*
Judith Moore Mitchell
William & Mary Calhoun Higgins
George & Wilhelmina Bos Gilmer
Donald & Beverly Jones Nelms
Raymond & Janet McCary Huebner
Jeanne Bieren Gue
1958
Benjamin & Shirley Nuckles Olinger
James & Nancy Hottle Jones
Donald & Mary Jane Cleavenger Harper
1957
Dean & Joan Mann DeChaine
Carol Albert Amitin*
Warren & Sally Neal Pistey*
John & Judith Kennedy Matthews
Sharon Racey Kamen
Anne Vinson Austin
Iris Cundiff Powell
Harry & Mittie Weeden Moffett
Stanley & Ann Clarke McGhee
JoAnn Sesso Beman
Orest & Nancy Wenger Prockiw
Harry & Barbara Kelly Oakley
Philip & Martha Thomas Morton*
John & Joan Bauer Dilworth*
H. Harwood & Frances Marshall Purcell*
Don & Carol Hammack Poulson
Bruce & Elizabeth Marshall Motley
Arnold & Loretta Stanerson Flagel
Joy McGlincy Reed
Sarah Black Pulley
Amelia Montague Poythress*
Janet Gay Garrison
Rose Mary Leistra Ritchie
Richard & Jean Hicks Rood*
Norman & Alice Swartzentruber Raiford
Robert & Nancy Brinkley Glenn
Patricia Roberts Rutledge
Sue Hopkinson Stajdohar*
Thomas & Beverley Beachum Smith
Harland & Carolyn Artz Kronk
Barbara A. Ryder
William & Patricia O’Neil Tedesco
William Childress & Phyllis Strock
Alton & Ann Gill Taylor
Ann Watt Marsh*
Gerald & Patsy Eargle Saunders
Wilhelm & Sue Baber Volskis*
James & Mary Faber Masloff
Shelby Flack Shires*
Winfry & Helen Drash Whicker*
Michael & Virginia Christian Tierney*
Louise Foutz Newton
Carol A. Taylor
Gurney & Nancy Sowers Whiteley
Joseph & Selma Brown Trombo
Constance Gouyer Sanders
Nancy Cunningham Van Dyke
Martin & Shelby Mason Senell
Deanna Auvil Wilbourn
1962
Owen & Kathryn Bivens Vining*
Bradford & Bettie Pugh Stanerson
Robert & Frances MacDonald Williams
Adrienne Ames*
Ross & Dorothy Blue Wright
John & Patricia Dorman Tsou
Thomas & Betty Fox Berry
Louis & Catherine Cooper Taxiarchis
1960
David & Vanelia Oakley Gallagher
Robert & Anne Harris Brosio*
Hugh & Deborah Craun Hawkins*
Lucy Fielding Brown
Robert & Judith Davidson Creasy
Martha B. Hunt
Susan Carter Butler
James & Shirley Davis Ayers
William & Phyllis Marx Crouse
Sandra Cox Jones
Leo & Billie Goff Boone
John & Velma Dohm Docherty
Robert & Linda Atwell Proctor
Robert & Lyle Rea Brehm
Patricia Vought Grine
Jerry & Carole Lipsey Rothstein
M. Lee Wilson
1959
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† Now Deceased
Fall 2008
William & Eleanor Maxey Goode*
Tony & Joann Whitley Smith*
Donald & Susan Orange Swensen*
Jane Murphy Hellinger
Robert & Sandra Byrum Smith
Thomas & Frances B. Watters
Frank & Anne Herbsleb Johnson
B. W. & Rhea Mahan Strum
George & Linda Fiske Wehrle
Ward & Genevieve Hasenbalg MacKenzie
Patricia E. Terry
Mack & Judith Hansen Wilcox
P. Dale McMahon
Philip & Susan Todd Webb
P. Bradley & Jane Trevillian Nott
James & Melinda Davidson Wilde*
1967
Wayne & Virginia Lewis Pulley*
John & Eva Ergenbright Zirkle
John & Sandra Clements Ashworth
Alfred & Mary Louise Hannabass Barritt
Sandra Whitley Ryals
William & Marinda Fariss Sasser
1966
James & Martha Graham Barry
Dean’s Circle members
(noted in bold) contributed
$1,000 in the fiscal year to the
Nursing Annual Fund or another
annually expendable purpose.
Graduates from the past ten years
John & Mary Ann Williams Semones*
Robert & Judith Young Bernardini
Marian Parker Belanger
Grant & Marla Johnson Sparks
Jesse & Carolyn Krauch Braudaway*
Jeffrey & Marjorie Janss Bryant
G. McNeir & Nancy Kingery Tilman
Raymond & Jo Ann Lindenmayer Craemer
Joseph & Susan Waldrop Donckers
John & Margaret Blanchard Towers
James & Jeanne Walker Derington
Lucie Lancaster Ferguson*
Edwyna McMullan Wingo
Helmuth & Constance Wetzel Drosdat
Gary & Evelyn Cottman Kessler*
Charles & Suzannah Ayers Wornom*
Mary H. Frazer
William & Vivian Bowles May*
1969
Larry & Phyllis Carver Galsky
Doris Stoltzfus Sullivan*
Arthur & Georgia Wirth Autorino
1965
Harry & Judith Woody Gray
C. Eugene & Nancy L. Swartz
David & Lillian Pyles Bartlett
Kathryn Tuttle Birnbaum
C. Garland & Jean Haynie Hagen
David & Rebecca Smith Taylor
Ronald & Helen Smith Cox
Diana Schubert Brown
William & Zora Herrington Jenkins*
Weyland & Peggy Webb Burns
G. W. & Barbara Stuetz Lanford*
1968
Robert & Carolyn Jones DuVal
Robert & Connie Hayes Cleveland
Peter & Joyce Fisher Laux
William & Diane Honeycutt Ager
William & Linda Custard Gillikin*
Robert & Martha Shaw Davis*
Margaret Hazelwood MacGregor
Janis Peacock Bellack*
Harry & Carolyn Doughty Gordon
Robert & Nancy Marr Evinger*
Steven & Ruth Bennett Nauman
Bonnie House Boland*
Jeffrey & Ronda Shepherd Hall
Rebecca Ellen Gore
Mary Margaret Omohundro
Wiley & Diane Jones Bunting
Cheryl McGinnis Hallman
Raymond & Patricia Markham Haddad
William & Barbara Eley Parker*
Bernard & Patricia White Chesshir*
James & Linda Cooper Handy*
David & Melanie Snell Hitch
can join the Dean’s Circle with a
contribution of $250 or more.
Robert & Deborah Beidler Dean
David & Elizabeth Gilliam Harrelson
Filmore & Janet Kaplan Rose
James & Ellie Talley Clark
William & Mary Ewers Kagey
Robert & Jeanne Kreibohm Severin
John & Maureen Boyer Corrigan
Robert & Linda Selfe Jackson
Charles & Mary Gill Koches
Donald & Madeline Higginbotham Sly
Wilson & Anne Harrison Dickerson
James & Sandra Jones Kerr*
Homer & Margaret Magette Saunders*
Robert & Frances Straus Stone
Bruce & Ethel Bibber Fehl
David & Susan Gregory Landin*
John & Marilyn Barker Shirley
James & Mary Catherine Farris Stout
Wayne & Patricia Turner Gibbons
Jan Desmond Melluzzo*
James & Sally Kaufman Gorman
Allen & Kathleen Devine Meyer
Mary Crocker Hale
Steven & Teri Benson Olson
Clyde & Christine Davidson Hohenstein
Richard & Velma Meredith Ottmar
John & Harriet Ross Jones
Jessee & Deborah Sherman Ring
Eric & Elaine Roosendaal Kendrick*
Patrick & Sue Childers Taylor*
Merton & Mary Childs Leeper
Jane Blake Turnbull
Phil & Ellen Locker Leventis
Charles & Frances White Vasaly
William & Martha Ware Lonergan
W. Keith & Patricia Booth Woodard
Sandra Horn Nabers
John & Anne Alford Zawistoski
Henry & Diane McChesney Parfitt
Claudia L. Poole
1970
J. Michael & Avon Burcher Pryor*
David & Mary Harrold Alexander
Stephen & Penny Zetterstrom Schobel
Oscar & Barbara Deinet Baird
Robert & Ann Kelley Short*
Jack & Barbara Olander Bumgardner
Suzanne Marr Skinner
Donna Crooker Cary*
Bernard & Patricia Peerce Stoppi
Neal & Mary Perkins Clay
Robert & Judith Lukmire Temple
George & Linda Richter Davies*
Thomas & Phyllis Wampler Thompson
Walter & Karen Sproles Emroch*
Nancy M. Watson*
Beryl P. Evans
Shirley Friendlich Wayne
Darrell & Judith Dunn Gorman*
Patricia McMullen White
Barbara Ann Graham*
John & Maxine Small Willey
Wayne & Charlotte Mayer Williams
† Now Deceased
Bessie Birckhead and Bill Moss
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33 •
a little something
“I have been giving
each month for years. It’s
not very much, but, if you stick with it, it adds up.”
Kevin & Susanna Chiocca Mannix
Donald & Lynn Gruver Mense
Altha Stutzman Miller
—Gladys Harris, Diploma ’46, BSN ’73
Beverly Anne Nelson
Dennis & Shirley Humbert O’Donnell
Paul & Suzanne Blackburn Olsen
Paul & Lorraine Fiore Ondrasik
Susan Fishel Ramzy
Jesse & Alice Murray Hopkins*
Robert & Katherine Smith Davis
Igor & Clare Woodell Houseman
Robert & Rebecca Cromer Joyce
H. Gregory & Anne Judkins Campbell
Diana Davis Rockwell
Albert & Pauline L. Dessertine
Randall & Sylvia Totten Carlson
Douglas & Cheryl McPherson Rodgers
Locke & Cathy Cornwell Floyd
John Copenhaver & Marsha Childs
Daniel & Linda Timmes Ross
Larry & Carolyn Campbell Lavecchia
Richard & Kathryn Vance Hall*
Robert & Lisa Leong Cohen*
David & Judy Carpenter Skove
Robert & B. Lynne Mallonee
Steven & Brenda Coleman Isaac
D. Wayne & Cecilia Porter Creech
Stephen & Christine Vincent Smith
James & Mary Alfriend Noland
Z. Micah & Gayle Crane Kaplan*
Leanna Jean Crosby
Robert & Beth Pritchett Staton
Richard & Mary Jo Pollock*
Gordon & Paula Miller Logan*
James & Jean-Marie Hutcheon Daleo*
Ted & Michele Torrance Tarbet
J. Christopher & Candace Darnall Powell
Jacob & Cynthia Wolfe Neathawk
Elmore & Marice Willard Davis*
Ralph & Sallie Gatling Volk
Charles & Denise Geolot Sherer*
Betsy Wright Shires
David & Mary Bounds Dellinger*
Timothy & Barbara Byrider Weinmann
Stuart & Jean Laffin Smith
Edwin & Priscilla Ogden Shuler
Richard & Linda Krongaard DeMong
James & Terrell Osteen Wootten
Fred & Suzanne Russell Stillman
Alan & Betty Smith Thalinger
D. Kevin & Lisa Lancaster Dolan*
Carroll-Ann Wykoff
William Rodier & Karen A. Walborn*
Virginia Sewell Yanishak
Barbara H. Dunn*
Jeanne Coe Watkinson*
Ron & Mary McKeone Ellmore
1975
W. Alan & Bridget Breen Whitson
1973
Beverly Ford Garrison
David & Mary Seal Alford
Mary Elaine Zuck
Edward & Jane Stowell Adams
Mitchell & Debra Ward Goldberg
Jeffrey & Cynthia Colyer Allen
Richard & Susan Stewart Bell*
Stephen & Frances Ligon Gray
Janice Rosser Allen*
1971
Julia A. Cooper
Clifton & Cinda Sutton Hickman
Ann Littlejohn Bayliss
James & Lelia Saunders Barks
Frederick & Susan Kenney Dent
Michael & Susan Cooper Hildebrand*
Lewis & Mary Wright Baylor
Phyllis Stables Breil
Karen Erickson Elvena
Dennis & Judith Belew Hogberg
Janet Brooks
Jane Gemmell Cooper
Carol Avery Burrage
James & Carol Harrison Gallimore
Joseph & Linda Oster Johnson*
John & Barbara Hasko Curry
Samuel & Kathy Hancock Grillo
Nancy Coopper Kaspick*+
Leonard & Betty Elliott Coyner*
Keith & Bonnie Sue Dodson
Linda Wittkamp Harris
Arlene Wynbeek Keeling*
James & Ellen Shaid Deppe*
Edith Raine Fenick
Janet K. Herr
Peter & Norah Ray Knutsen
John & Nancy Stief Douglas
Kenneth & Linda Scott Handy
Diane Hughes
Patricia Driver Hanger
Forrest & Susan Zsamar Hunter*
Monte & Pamela Peden Harrington
Jittikom & Rebecca Massey Jantarasami
William & Ellen Kattan Herwig
Thomas & Carolyn Utts Kelleher
Douglas & Brenda Winslow Horton
Nathaniel & Barbara McCartney Kirkman
Christine Sullivan Jones
Wickliffe & Martha Lou Lyne
Rosalie Day Lewis
Michael & Betty Rupp Mileur
Gardner & Monika Ferguson Mundy
JoAnne Hutchinson Peach*
William & Lynne Melancon Richardson
Michael & Kelley McGinnis Quinlivan
Douglas & Mary Gilman Rowe
Dennis & Catherine Race
Susan Leftwich Sale
Rebecca W. Rimel
John & Cynthia Worrell Sanborn
Philip & Rebecca Huffman Ruegger*
Joseph & Nancy Clarke Verdirame
Harold & Joan Vollmers Vander Molen
Nancy Edna White*
Kenneth & Mary Ann Jones Walker
John & MaryAnn Dill Wine
William & Sallie Turner Watson
Mary Jordan Wyatt*
William & Kathleen Fields Weimer
Thomas & Mary Zaiser Whelan
1972
Mary L. Wicker
Susan Trogdon Barnett*
Alison Woody Carter
1974
James & Katherine Watts Bowen
Philip & Susan Duck Baum*
† Now Deceased
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David and Susan Landin
Fall 2008
“As a family with close ties to the University of Virginia for three generations,
the decision to
our alma mater was clear cut and exciting.
Equally important to my husband and me was finding the appropriate
venue where our support could foster not only education but also
. As a graduate of the University
School of Nursing, I knew that funding its initiatives would enable students
to make a positive impact on the lives of many … both within the University
community and far beyond.
to be part of that mission.”
Corbin & Sarah Rosenberger Eissler*
support
Leah Stuart Feyh*
Robert & Mary Eckenrode Gibson
Elaine R. Graf
Brian & Rosanna Savine Gritte
benevolence and service
Samuel & Robin Lovelace Gutridge*
J. Patrick & Linda Smith Halpin*
Max & Kathryn Davidson Harden
We are proud
Ronald & Patricia Leonard Higgins
Joseph Gagen &
—Jackie Rodriguez, BSN ’78
Joanne Prescott Hopkins
Alan Donalson & Cynthia C. Janechild
Allen & Dorothy Gess Jonas*
J. Michael & Valerie Smith Kirkman*
Walter & Sara Virginia Windham Knight
Michael & Robin Paxton McCullough
Robert & Evelyn Deane Harris
W. S. & Jan Lombard Hundley
Harold & Jacquelyn Fleishel Rodriguez*
Timothy & Virginia Pender Michel
Persse & Carolyn Loyd Deverell*
Jean Perry Karnes
John & Joanne Stewart Rotar
Robert & Barbara R. Moore
Kevin & Sharon Cumby Fay
John & Marye Dorsey Kellermann
James & Michelle Luttig Routson
Robert & Janice Martinson Neil
Patrick & Kathleen Weissenborn Finn
Larry & Karen George Lancaster
Amy Scarbrough-McCabe
Sarah North Nicholson
Deborah Cropper Hayes
Richard & Clarissa Sykes Lovegrove
Lynnette Ann Scott
George & Constance Daniel Palmer
David & Christine Kessler Johnson
Scott & Katherine Clary Mathews
William & Kim Sandy Teague
Amir & Amy Scrafford Pelleg
Bruce & Hardee Brown Klitzman
Mark & Barbara Van Horn Rawlings
John & Denise Farley Vollkommer
Linda M. Peterson
Max & Katherine Duguid Kurbjun
David & Marguerite Hunter Rupar*
George & Mary McGowan Wheeler
Donna Louise Poole
Gayle M. Lorenzi
Vance & Mary Moulis Salter
Stephen & Carol MacKeith White
William & Carolyn Weber Pugh
Mark & Janice Almond Lux
Greg & Margaret Yow Scott*
Wendy J. Wolf
David & Susan Avery Purcell
Wayne & Belinda McFaddin DeBlois
Philip & Emily Moyse Shaw
Edwin & Emmagene Mayle Wright
Walter & Deborah Ricinak Schobel
Walter & Rebecca Frazier McGough
Samuel & Margaret Conway Short
Deborah L. Ziemer
Preston & Virginia Fullerton Simpson
Kathryn Laws Pierce
Robert & Sandra Swanson Sink
Virginia Vanhook Smith
J. Christopher & Terry Koehler Prince
Stephen & Karen Stasko
1979
Mark & Stephanie Moulis Spees
Michael & Nancy Gray Rockers*
Alex & Oksana Ivanovna Tereshchenko
George & Nancy Howell Agee
Kathryn Miller Stacy
Thomas & Julie Wine Schaffner*
L. Carr & Ellen Witscher Trovillion
Pete & Virginia Falls Apperson
Susan Christman Sweeting
Haden & Jennifer Mawyer Scruggs
Trina Vecchiolla*
W.W. Sam & Helen Hearn Butler
Robert & Mary Ellen Petersilia Wadsworth
Ann Louise Shoemaker
Gary & Joan Coleman Wooldridge
Stephen & Barbara Thompson Castellan
Fred & Katherine Farrar Willard
Dennis & Karen Michael Slagle
Denise A. Wood*
David & Alice Pallavicini Stephens
1978
James & Diana Beveridge Conroy
Alan & Pamela Pollock Wrigley*
Carl & Nance Nuckols Thompson
Stephen & Elizabeth Zeller Adams
Nancy Blaine Davis
Charles & Mary Lawrence Welliver
J. Hudson & Marinda Elliott Allender*
Lee & Catherine Tubbs Duke
William & Mary Elizabeth Mechling
John & Kathleen Painter Artois
Cynthia D. Ebert*
Oliver & Catherine Artois Bray
Sean & Candace Van Wagenen
1976
Kathryn L. Anderson*
Blair & Kay Mantiply Clark
Younger*
Robert & Sandra Stone Appleby
Mary A. Callahan
Fitzpatrick
Barry & Dawn Tinsley Arrington
1977
Barbee Bancroft
Roland & Patricia Pataky Anderson
Katherine Hooker Garrett
Warren & Catherine Rice Gorrell*
Douglas & Susan McCready Blevins
Donald & Judi M. Arnold
Carolyn Collinson Frodyma
Steven & Mildred Turner Gurvich*
Thomas & Jan Connors Dagenhart
Raymond & Karen Peters Frisch
Virginia Louise Emmitt Bryde
Rebecca Brown Battle
Sallie T. Graham
James & Margaret Hadro-Venzke
Daniel & Helen Pierpont Burzumato*
Alan & Nancy Martin Bedell
Clifford & Deena Young Guren
Ralph & Lisa Murphy Hammond
Kay Vicars Busby
Eugene & Linda Baxter Bishop
Lynn K. Laning
David & Kathryn Henley Haugh
Joseph & Nancy Resch Carroll
David & Melinda Goodwin Black
Perry & Derenda Farmer Lovelace
Arnold & Debra Hardy Havens*
James & Suzanne Hamar Cassidy
James & Marsha Dailey Bolding
Stacy & Jean Gillette Morrison
Ann Elizabeth Hewitt
George & Beverley Martin Crickenberger*
James & Catherine Savage Crandell
Thomas & Nancy-Lu Friese Moul*
Andre & Kristen Hoffman Jalbert
Jeanette Taylor Criswell
Teresa R. DiMarco
J. R. & Mary Breedlove Persinger
Earl H. Douple &
Michael & Mary Senseney Deane
Deborah Menno Duchen
Thomas & Stephanie Porter Radunzel
Raymond & Susanna Neal Dyer
Stephen & Lori Blosser Ratliff
Alexander & Catherine Johnson Murray
Patrick & Anne Rutherford Fenn
Joseph & Beverly Reynolds Raudabaugh
John & Margaret Szarek Oehrli*
Robert & Karen Nelson Harriman
Michael T. Bryant & Sandra Reed-Bryant*
Joanne M. Phillips*
† Now Deceased
Christine Kennedy-Douple*
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“As an advocate for education and a grateful alumna, I am enormously proud
to support the U.Va. School of Nursing. U.Va. provided me with a world-class
education and instilled in me a code of conduct that includes treating people with
, as well as inspiring
others to always do their best. As president of a nationally recognized managed
care organization, I am at all times conscious of my academic experiences at the
University and the instrumental role they played in my personal and professional
growth. I look forward to continuing my support toward developing and inspiring
the next generation of leaders.”
compassion, dignity, and respect
—Shelley Boyce, BSN ’83
Harry & Mary De Mouy Poulter
George & Virginia Moore Greene
Sarah Parcell Farrell
David & Jan Pond Phillips
Andre & Nancy Conlon Browning Premen
Frank & Wendy Wilson Habicht
P. Edward & Terri Jackson Forsyth
Stephen & Elizabeth Smith Sergio
Thomas J. Minneman &
Michael & Karen White Hojnowski*
Anthony & Julie Obenshain Francis
Steven & Rebecca Tkach Smart
Donald & Dalila Johnson
Thomas & Victoria Vasta Healy
Carol Stracquatanio Baker
Deborah Robinson-Minneman
Mary Kay Barrett Rotert*
William & Karen Harris Keeter
Richard Smith & Susan Howard-Smith
David & Jennifer South Wagner*
Alben & Patricia Evans Sellers
Richard & Kareen Beller Knowles
Charles & Catherine McMahon Hundley
Sharon Fitzgerald Wiesner
Martha Nash Smith Green
Bill & Dianne Paulson Lacy
Philip & Celestine Ross Jones
Daniel & Lori Levison Wood
Randall & Patricia Heid Smouse*
Susan Manselle
Ronnie & Donnese Clevinger Kern*
Charles & Claudia Beebe Sursa
Alan & Catherine Markham Mays
Roberta Barnhart Kramer*
1983
Robert & Margaret Irby Swerlick
Margaret McCook McCague
Roque & Barbara Gallagher Mariscal
Lisa Marie C. Ashley
Shirley Hillers Thomas
John & Judith Cargill McGinty
Debra Woodward Marshall
Daniel & Shelley Bowles Boyce
Kimberly Van Duyse-Atkin
Walter & Maureen Donohoe Meisen
Larry & Charleen Frances McPherson
Christopher & Sharon E. Brodie
Debbie Draper Wilkinson
Wayne & Cheryl Norcross Nelson
Kevin & Cynthia Falk Napier
Joseph & Lillian Adair Bryant
Michael & Anne Stahon Nemeyer
Peggy Jo Peterson
James & Sarah Charlton Cargile
1980
John & Mary Goodwin Noffsinger
Bryan & Dorothy Windle Rogers
William & Donna Jo Case
Lawrence & Shelby Sharp Aladj*
Mark & Annette Snyder Peterson
Elliot & Cindy Phillips Rubino
William N. Burnette &
Robert & Diane McFadden Allen
David & Nancy Brown Quittmeyer
Karen Saunders
Kenneth Ramsey & Jane Balint*
Thomas & Susan Malecki Renda
Steven & Mary Jane Rike Schon
Eileen M. Clarke
Tamera Cauthorne-Burnette*
Peter & Theresa Reilly Bernardino
Nancy Toms Rizor
Jeffrey & Jacqueline Ouzts Shogan
Gregory & Elizabeth Fletcher Davis
Warren & Nancy Davisson Bolton
John & Susan Kay Roach
R. Lawrence & Ann Rawlings Stutts
Brian & Colleen Betts Demott
Mark & Gail Boehlert Boswell
Kathryn Wash Roth
Vladimir & Laura Lee Troche
Melinda L. Dunn
Charles & Pamela Palmer Bradshaw
Scott & Karen Passehl Singel
Stephen & Jennifer Smith Wilhoit*
Page & Shannon Manning Fletcher
James & Estelle Mounfield Brodeur
Robert & Sarah Waters Southard*
Anthony & Katherine Pfeiffer Williams
Suzanne Petty Fuhrmeister
Gustave & Eileen Mara Carlson
John & Martha Morris Watson
Linda Anne Carosella
Richard & Megan Joan Wholey
Charles & Dorothy Searcy Cluff*
Susan Fontaine Coleman
1981
William & Alice Prather Coppa
William & Linda Kozak Ballard
Karl & Kathy Jeanne Koops
1982
Michael & Carolyn Falvo MacCormac
Michael & Laura Murphy Battle
Walter & Rebecca Mason
Mark Weidenbaum &
Lisa Berke-Weidenbaum
Robert & Julia Evangelista Mazurak*
John & Susan Knight McCoy
Thomas & Gingerella Ebert Dawson*
Laura Benson
John & Lisa Hughes Cawthorne
Laura B. Denny
C. Craig & Candace Ann Upshur Blades
Steven & Anne Rhines Elder
Robert & Nancy Noffel Miller
Hattie Driver
Chester & Carol H. Blankenship
Sarah Pinkerton Gates
Sherri J. Miller
Michael & Judith Shiebout Fisher
Ronald & Barbara Brown Bonheur
Edwin & Sue Ellen Akers Holler
Sandra Burwell Nowell
Steven & Ruth Proffitt Giannas*
Christina L. Bridgeport
Timothy & Eileen Gallagher Leahy
Royden & Christine Walker Ogden
Lee & Arlene R. Gordon
Thomas & Teresa Harris Burckhalter
Carl & Mildred Stofko Morgans
Bruce & Diane Avery O’Leary
James & Maria Lockett Carlton
Deborah Claire Murren
Mary Spencer Palmer
Janis C. Childs
Rob & Lisa Davis Nowicki
James & Janet Hunter Shields
Pat & Melanie Hurt Cowlishaw
Patricia O’Brien
Ronald & Martha O’Donnell Solomon*
† Now Deceased
• 36
Virginia Legacy Kathy Elaine McNamarah
Fall 2008
Mariss Sraders & Mary Beth Murphy-Sraders
Emily Eiwen Drake
Mary Lou Arrington Dunn
Helen-Marie Molnar
Thomas & Martha Murray Stokes
Donald & Donna Devereaux Eddy
Bret & Laurie Berry Grieves
Christine Clark Morrison
Robert & Mary Beth Tombes
John & Leslie Potter Evett
Thomas & Patty Joy Hale
Matthew & Catherine Barbour Prescott
Tina Marie Vassar
Andrew & Mary Stinson Farmer
Wade & Pamela S. Keller-Arledge
Robert & Sally Neal Sargeant
Matthew & Nancy Borchers Walker
Bradford & Tammy Allison Felker
Christian & Jane Fleischmann Lehmbeck
Kirk & Donna MacMillan Scattergood
Lisa Schurman Walsh
Fritz & Janet Smith Franke
Shelley A. Linthicum
Michael & Denise Moore Tuso
Martin & Ann Duffey Gaffey
Philip & Glenda Willard Mangano
Jerry & Jean Hoer Tyree
1984
Michael & Gail Faris Galli
Donald & Judy W. Maurer
Albert & Tracy Brown Baker
Robbi Lynn Hartsock*
John & Melissa Mallare Newton
1989
Carolyn Sue Ball
Dean & Joyce Skiba Hearne
Brian & Kathy Huggins O’Kelley
Walter & Eyde Huffman Adams
John & Alison Huddle Bolen
Nicole Bretches Jones
Emanuel & Angela Joan Morris
Edward & Jennifer Cirenza Bell
Thomas P. Buckley & Juanita Reigle
Kim L. Neskey
Philip & Tamara Oakley Perdue
Blaine & Susan Glover Cosgro
Kevin & Margaret Rodger Campbell
Christopher & Cindy Derrenbacker Peterson
John & Betty Franklin Phillips
David Arthur & Nancy Hoffart
Teri Jenene Carter
Thomas & Lisa Kessler Richardson
Laura Edmondson Reed
Linda S. Kidd*
Kevin & Tanner Bruce Cox
Cassandra B. Riggs
Jeffrey & Judith A. Reichl
John & Sharon Ashton Larson
William & Mary Hedley Sipe Gunther
Gavin & Jennifer Millard Rose
Francis & Susan Wiggins Schneck
Patricia Price Miller
Susan Ford Hammaker
A. R. & Vickie Hopkins Southall
Peter & Jean Palmer Watling*
Dean & Melissa Marenick Prentice
Donald & Gloria Lee Moe
Kevin & Debra A. Stergios
Perry & Jennifer Barbara Westerman
John & Catherine White Sconzo
D. L. & Jo Ellen Armentrout Perry
William & Sarah Hoff Thomas
Michelle R. Wolfe
Evan & Audrey Wright Snyder
Dan & Kathryn Ballenger Reid
Charles & Mary A. Turjanica
Michael & Doreen Bittner Satterwhite
Martin & Kelly Marie Vincent
David V. & Karen Strider
David & Cynthia Crannis Slawson
1987
Lee & Verne Rita Sullivan
Robert & Karen Korade Boyle
John & Denise Lorenz Wolfe
Edward & Mary Gordon Spangler
1986
Sarah F. Brumbaugh*
Kirk & Melinda Robinson Tanner
Jeanne V. Allen
Peter & Dorothy Butler Burns
1990
Walter E. Reineman &
Steven & Julianna Verser Bachmann
Eugene & Susan Genevieve Corbett
Robert & Suzanne Jemmison Ault
Judith A. Behm
Stanley & Grace Capps Cover
Collins & Charlotte McDaniel Beagle
Heather Yeatman Carlino
Robert & Lisa W. Forsyth
Allene Shipley Brighton
Mary Caird Van Buskirk*
Peter & Jane Drewry Wales
Barbara Jean Chandler
William & Karen Daley Gallivan
Nicola & Nancy Methfessel Bruno
1985
Douglas & Patricia S. Conklin
Joe & Leslie Pittard Godfrey
Richard & Patricia Ann Cloonan
David & Catherine Trice Brawley
Colleen Lyn Corish
William & Patricia Ann Heggie
Richard L. Comstock
Michael & Lori Munson Caslin
Anthony & Donna Dickinson DiBiase
Steven & Lynn Campbell Hinckley
Robert & Anne Monk Diamond
Keith & Catherine Hartnett Horvath
Jennifer A. Dixon
William & Elizabeth Rose Pyrch Lamotte
Mary Elizabeth Dowling
Rebecca Ann Lewis
Kenneth & Judith Lynn P. Elias
Tim & Sheryl Hinsley Loftus
C. L. & Eileen Mary Gilman
Garrison & Priscilla Shippee Merrill
Lori Bealle Hanton
Thomas & Claudia Robertson O’Neill
Coleen Patricia Kenny
Matthew & Karen Fiddler Partlow
Douglas & Patricia Aquinata McAdams
Douglas Koontz & Cheryl Ann Switzer-Koontz*
Ronald & Anna Elliot Miller*
Alan & Jennifer Christian Turner
Priscilla Webster Ramsey
Jonathan & Laura Meador Wadsworth
Israel & Patricia Norris Stewart
Todd & Susan Cramer Winters
Karen Bieler Via
1988
1991
Gary & Claudi Protzman Barone
Robert & Karen Jordan Bohn
Mark & Tiffany Adams Bartholf
Donald & Donna Lee Charlebois
George & Karolina M. Cimochowski
Leslie C. Hicks*
R. Stewart & Sharon Lynne O’Brien Eads
Pamela S. Holt*
Mary A. Early
James & Kathleen Arganbright Koon
Robert & Mary Harris Edmonds
Elaine A. Miller*
John C. Kirchgessner
Andy & Janet Marie Pinson
John & Luisa Pilpowsky Kropcho
David & Natalie Brinton Krovetz
David & Heidi Aker Ladd
† Now Deceased
Don Johnson
Virginia Legacy
37 •
1996
Kerry Elizabeth Sweeney
Christopher & Kristin Montgomery Dayton
Diana M. Taibi
Darryl & Pamela Baker DeGuzman
Mary Ann Tate
Merle Erb Mast
Chris C. Waddell
Melanie Jacobson Schuster
Harold & Dorothy Horton Woodward
James & Sidenia Surratt Earven
Barbara Jenkins Thornton
2002
Adam & Pamela Wilson Wright
Jason Beverage & Christina Jean Banks
Henry & Cheryl M. Bourguignon
1997
Lauren Delamar Head
Matthew & Leah Anne Bersamin Anderson
Corey & Kara Doggett Hearn
Gregory & Christa Janowski Hartch*
Jason & Rachel Brewster Karo
Christopher & Jennifer Collie Hutchinson
David & Tracie Brown Lattimore
Amy Christine Kulikosky
Brian & Caroline R. McKinnon
Janet E. Jumper
Emily R. Randazzo
Dennis & Rebecca McGarry Logue
Beverly E. Ross
David M. Mercer
John & Holly Hill Sinclair
Chad & Sarah VanRensselaer Paynter
Matthew & Beth Dierdorf Quatrara
2003
1998
Christopher Ryan Haley
Katherine Anne Baylor
Jim and Sharon Todd
Hedra & Martha Paige White Sanusi
Gail Lavene Dussere
Jennifer Bol Baker & Richard Baker
Po Ning Soo-Hoo
Suzanne Sheppe
Steve & Jennifer Miller Edwards
Peter & Victoria Lee Brunjes
Julie Mays Wilson
Steve & Deborah Bingler Shifflett
Julie & Charles Allan Fisher
Elissia Darcel Hawkins
Myra J. Swan
Matthew & Cheri Stern Hahn
Marcia L. Luniewski
Laura Jeanne Kuhn
Natalie Darlene Matthews
Louise Nunnally Hooff
1992
John & Lisa Ann Plowfield
Otis & Karen Simpson Peacher
Craig & Natalie Murphy McClain
Ashley Cecil Bull
John Gerard Twomey, Jr.
Gregory & Julie Elizabeth Domecq
Rick & Mary Deborah Smith Walton
1999
Molly Coleman Shaughnessy
Sarah Moore Dressel
Elizabeth Mitchell Welch-Carre
John & Michelle Elaine Barbour
Roy & Mary Margaret Swan
Keith & Cynthia McClanahan Ellis
Gregory & Tami H. Wyatt
Jean-Jacques & Sarah Summa Cabou
2004
William & Meredith Campbell Moore
James & Catherine Peterson Furrow
2005
Shirley Pugh Gibson
1994
Shawn & Ashley Fitzgerald Hall
Dale & Katharine J. Buck
Dwight & Donna Thomas Graham
Marjorie Watson Eggleston*
Joseph Miller & Lisa M. Kelley
Vickie A. Carothers
Deborah Bright Harris
Frederick & Elizabeth Gingell Epstein
Heather Louise Lothamer
Daniel J. David
Dennis & Sarah Sine Hutchins
Marc & Charlotte Schmedtje Hebert
Rich & Jennifer Hamilton Schaub
Timothy & Andrea Craine Farwell
Douglas & Patsy Byrd Keating
Eugene & Catherine Ismay McGahren
Martin Bremer &
David & Caroline M. Lee
Leighanna Kelley Midkiff
Donald & Sheilia O’Brien Forrer
Philip & Candace Hoffman Lowry
Kenneth & Jane Bryant Neese
Thomas & Amy Kozler Maxey
Kevin & Barbara Ellen Sauer
David & Patricia Lynd McManamen
Roy Gregory Tomlin
Melissa Neale Schmidt-Bremer
Denise A. Harmeyer
Amanda K. Rogerson
Nate & Stephanie Cooper Treadaway
Todd & Amy Mattingly Schmidt
2000
2006
Carlos & Katherine Berschback Cooper
Margaret E. Cates
Patricia M. Patterson
1995
Matthew & Polly Nissly Foster
Sarah Jane Creech
Jefferson & Amy Yoder Spurlock
Lowell & Miev V. Heak Carhart
Victoria S. Menzies
James & Cheryl J. Dumont
Patrick DeLorenzo &
Lissa Biedenharn Cash
Michael Jansen & Sarah Marie Mies
Jane Elizabeth Fellows
Fernando & Karyn-Jean Edlund Daguerre
Scott & Shannon Gilbert Schmelzer
William & Kathryn Stokes Hansen
Alan & Tricia Richardson Dalkin
David Haas & Nachama Sternlicht-Haas
Emily B. Morse
Joseph & Renee Bottka Novak
Jacqueline L. Walsch
Allison P. Walton
Kevin & Karen Moomaw Rose
Lynne Marie Deucher
1993
Bill & Ashley Darrah Hall
2001
Tex & Pegge Lee Bell
William & Deborah Ann Hayes
Katrina M. Alino
Dudley & Celia Sue Bryant
Scott & Amy E. McDonnell
Rachel Anne Rauschberg
James R. Carnes &
Derek & Porsha Marie Poteet
Ellen Marie Gotthardt
Philip & Elizabeth Fletcher Pyles
Ann Maushammer Lovejoy
James & Sylvia Diane Rinker
Richard A. & Marla A. Ridge
Richard Clark Hantzmon
Daphne Lea Dawson
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Virginia Legacy Elizabeth B. Talley
† Now Deceased
Fall 2008
“I chose to give back to the School of Nursing in thanks for everything they gave me
the last four years. Not only did they provide
for my career, but I made friendships that will last a lifetime. I cannot imagine
where I would be today without the School of Nursing. Embarking on my first job,
I am
that I received my nursing degree
from the University of Virginia, and I hope that future students can have the same
experience that I did.”
a strong foundation
honored to tell people
—Carolyn Cordtz, BSN ’08
2007
Stephanie G. Sweatt
Ellen C. Davis
Laura Elizabeth Bishop
Deirdre Kling Thornlow
Margaret B. Erickson
David & Lindsey Jones Cardwell
Derik & Laura Roes Trissel
Rebecca M. Everett
Caitlin E. Curtis
Chad & Leah Wayner
Megan E. Ezelle
Sarah Marshall Greene
Lyndsay T. Wilson
Ashley N. Foltz
Mr. & Mrs. Lucien L. Bass III
Carla B. Galbreath
Collins & Charlotte McDaniel Beagle
Raymond C. Bice, Jr.
Julie A. Grishaw
Current & Former
Faculty and Staff at the
University of Virginia
Meghan Elizabeth Hughes
2008
Elizabeth S. Gough
Kenneth & Carol Wood Jamerson
Tiffany E. Adongay
Rebecca M. Green
David C. Black
Lindsey Megan Kerry
Jennifer A. Bates
Karey H. Groome
Warren & Nancy Davisson Bolton
Allison Elizabeth Kirkner
Megan M. Benckert
Jennifer H. Guthrie
Henry & Cheryl M. Bourguignon
Darroch Massie
Sarah M. Boschung
Jennifer M. Holowecki
Rebecca D. Bowers*
Mary Kemper McDonald
Megan R. Chinen
Sarah E. Joutras
Robert & Karen Korade Boyle
Justine Marieva Mize
Carolyn M. Colley
Esther H. Kim
Valentina L. Brashers
Allison Leigh Motheral
Carolyn F. Cordtz
Joanne Y. Kim
Ellen L. Brock
Amy C. Mundy
Sarah E. Cowherd
James & Kelly Traux King
Barbara M. Brodie*
Alia Elizabeth Steiner
Courtney B. Crumpton
Emily A. Kingman
Juanita Reigle
Amanda L. Lewis
Gordon & Marjorie Burris
Christin C. Lipscomb
Lawrence R. Burwell
Katherine Drummond Major
James R. Carnes &
Michelle R. Musoke
Richard Clark Hantzmon
Anne Marie Neatrour Chartrand
Janis C. Childs
Matthew & Dory L. Neurock
Camille Neff Cline
Margaret E. Overton
George & Deborah C. Conway
Sharon Gail Parrish
Blaine & Susan Glover Cosgro
Leah S. Passman
Leonard & Betty Elliott Coyner*
Kristina L. Ponton
Lori A. Cwalina
Abigail K. Rundquist
George & Linda Richter Davies*
Audrey M. Seeley
Richard & Linda Krongaard DeMong
Maria K. Seguerra
Michael & Amalie Shaffner Derdeyn
Caitlin W. Shalley
Mark & Marquita L. Doherty
Manju Sharma
Emily Eiwen Drake
Colleen K. Shortall
Kenneth & Terry Maguire Elzinga
Terri J. Smoot
Julie & Charles Allan Fisher
Melody A. Sullivan
Mildred Janes Fitzgerald
Melissa A. Sutherland
Barry & Dorothy Fontaine
Shelby E. Taylor
Elizabeth E. Friberg
Portia E. Thelwell
Joan B. Fry
Meg M. Wiese
Amanda N. Wilson
† Now Deceased
Kathryn Haugh and Amanda Cunningham
Virginia Legacy
39 •
Parents of Current &
Former Students
James & Nancy Annette Schleser
Thelma C. Adongay
Israel & Patricia Norris Stewart
R. Cotten & Valerie Alston
David & Deborah Stosch
Lewis & Mary Wright Baylor
Rocky Thelwell
Alan & Emily Crea Pilkinton Sielbeck
Mark & Linda Starkey
Kevin & Elizabeth Beale
De & Linh Tran
Daniel & Elizabeth Bechard
Jerome & Marilyn Trausch
Harvard & Joan Birdsong
Marvin & Sue Tucker
Ralph & Marilyn Boschung
Michael & Eileen Vassallo
William & Kathleen Butler
Frank & Margaret Welsh
Laurel W. Chamberlain
John & Maxine Small Willey
David & Teresa Clawson
John & Anne Alford Zawistoski
Mark & Ellen Di Zio
A. L. & Carolyn Leonard Eller
Elvin Genargue Enad
Friends of the
School of Nursing
Sarah Parcell Farrell
Jeanette Lancaster and Ellen Baer
Richard & Mindi Feldman
Charles & Byrd Abbott
Richard & Dorothy Fisher
Philip & Janet Abraham
Jeffrey & Carol Fishwick
Margaret Claire Alexander
Peter & Holly Floersheimer
Gary & Denice Galloway Allen
Annette Gibbs*
Todd & Amy Mattingly Schmidt
John & Martha Franklin
Lester Randolph Amiss+
Robert & Mary Eckenrode Gibson
J. Daniel & Sandra L. Schmidt
Charles & Judith Friede
Stephen Anderson
Carol J. Gleit
William & Vicki L. Schwab
John & Maria Garland
Pamela K. Arledge
Julie D. Goodlick
Daniel & Rita Ritchie Seale
Stevens & Margaret Gentil
Andrew R. Bacas
Barbara Ann Graham*
Scott & Karen Passehl Singel
Jeffrey & Cynthia Gill
Ellen D. Baer
Charles & Doris Greiner
Donald & Madeline Higginbotham Sly
Frank & Anne Snell Gough
Cynthia L. Balin
Thomas & Patty Joy Hale
Evan & Audrey Wright Snyder
Clifton & Carolyn Stratton Gruver*
Lorna Mill Barrell
David & Kathryn Henley Haugh
A. R. & Vickie Hopkins Southall
Paul & MaryCay Harrington
James H. Barton III
Alan B. Howard
Kevin & Debra A. Stergios
Dennis & Kathleen Hogan
Marie P. Basti
Arlene Wynbeek Keeling*
Elizabeth Taliaferro-Jones
William & Margaret Holowecki
John & Mary-Scott B. Birdsall
Richard P. Keeling
Alton & Ann Gill Taylor
Richard & Meta Joutras
J. Spencer & Diane N. Birdsong
John C. Kirchgessner
Dorothy F. Tullmann
George & Jodi Richmond Keller
Manfred & Virginia Boehringer
Mary Beth Knight
Robert & Sharon W. Utz
John & Marye Dorsey Kellermann
Waldo & Margaret Born
Wade & Jeanette Lancaster*
E. Darracott & Anne Vaughan
James & Sandra Jones Kerr*
Lowell G. Brannon, Jr.
John & Sharon Ashton Larson
Lynn Woodson
David & Tonya King
Milton F. Breeden
Rebecca Ann Lewis
Elke Zschaebitz
Paul & Patricia Kuczkowski
Billye Jean Brown
Marcus & Donna M. Martin
James E. Lewis
Edwin & Janet Bryant
Helen-Marie Molnar
Douglas & Nancy MacDonald
Lucy Douglass Buchholz
Current School of
Nursing Students
Marcus & Donna Martin
Paul & Mary Ann Burnam
Gray & Mary Jo McCalley
Katherine C. Cabell
Gregory & Marisa G. Mize
Salvatore & Gail Calabrese
Kevin & Cynthia Falk Napier
Carrie L. Barnes
Jay & Sandy Morse
Jeanette G. Chamberlain
Christine Clark Morrison
Michael & Marybeth Morsberger
Deborah Claire Murren
Barbara J. Parker
Elizabeth E. Friberg
David F. Motheral
Kearby D. Chen
JoAnne Hutchinson Peach*
Deborah Gleason-Morgan
Frederick & Eleanor May Mullen
Nettie Chewning
Gregory & Marisa G. Mize
Edwin & Suzanne Hardy Munson
Robert & Janis Chilton
Stephen & Lori Blosser Ratliff
Jacob & Cynthia Wolfe Neathawk
Rosemary Chisholm
Dan & Kathryn Ballenger Reid
Patrick & Iris Noonan
Jamie H. Cockfield*
Gavin & Jennifer Millard Rose
William & Susan Overton
Janet Colaizzi
Kevin & Karen Moomaw Rose
Montford & Thelma Shobe Cook
Phyllis Jaffrey Ross
James & Charlotte Roberts*
Teresa P. Cooper
Judith K. Sands
Elliot & Cindy Phillips Rubino
Michael & Doreen Bittner Satterwhite
Kevin & Barbara Ellen Sauer
Kirk & Donna MacMillan Scattergood
Charles & Page Long Saunders
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Virginia Legacy *Indicates 10+ years of consecutive giving to the SON
† Now Deceased
Fall 2008
Jeannine B. Cowles
Christopher & Elizabeth Peach Ginter
Martha Williams Cox
Kevin & Lisa Giovanetti
Joseph S. Cragwall, Jr.+*
James & Mary Glerum
Charles Joseph Crimmins
Fredericka U. Goldenberg
Arlene Davis Cundiff
Justin Louis Goldsmith
documented gifts of future support such as bequests, annuities, or
Richard & Alexandra Brisky Cunningham
Vann & Renee Gordon
trusts. The Cornerstone Society takes its name from the cornerstone
W. Thomas & Ruth Cunningham
Vincent L. Gott
Benjamin Palmer Davidson, Jr.
Benjamin & Kristiane Crane Graham
Virginia C. Dericks
Dorothy E. Gregg
cornerstone Society
The Cornerstone Society recognizes alumni and friends who have made
of Pavilion VII, which was laid in 1817 at a ceremony attended by
James Madison, James Monroe, and Thomas Jefferson.
Joseph & Deborah Dinunzio
John M. Gurley
Margaret T. Dix
Thomas & Regina Gwiazdowski
More than 100 nursing alumni and friends have designated a bequest
Ralph & Gray Dowell
Gary N. Hall
or planned gift to provide future support for the University of Virginia
Genevieve F. Downs
Carol S. Helmstadter
School of Nursing. As such, they become members of the University’s
Susan Dudas
Neal Heriaud & Ann Platzer
Cornerstone Society.
Thomas Page Duke
Wanda C. Hiestand
Margaret Easter
William B. Hoffman
William & Lorraine Bowers Albrecht
Grace G. Kelly
Grace P. Erickson
Lynn Houweling
Jeffrey & Cynthia Colyer Allen
Eric & Elaine Roosendaal Kendrick
Jonathan & Judith Erlen
Todd & Michelle Howell
Raymond C. Bice, Jr.
John R. & Josephine Lehman
Ronald & Julie A. Fairman
Thomas & Tricia Humphreys
Mary A. Blount
William D. & Louise Martin Lewis
Larry E. Fields
Jane Johansen
Mary Frances Fulton Bruce
Barbara C. Little
Phillip & Susan Fines
Lucie S. Kelly
Henry & Maxine Craddock Burton
Maurice F. & Nancy B. McCarthy
Anthony Fiorillo & Judith Albert
Jeanne J. Kiefner
William N. Burnette &
Larry & Charleen F. McPherson
Marilyn E. Flood
Mary Virginia King
Shirley H. Fondiller
Harry Handlin & Marguerite Kinney
John B. Chickering
Mary Jane Morris
Matthew & Polly Foster
David & Joanne K. Koepnick
Rita K. Chow
Beverly J. Nelms
Tamera Cauthorne-Burnette
Mr. and Mrs. William J. Montgomery
David & Martha Snow Gaddy
Mary D. Lagerwey
Doris McCraw Cobb
Ann Gray Norris
William R. Gallivan
Mark J. Lidman
Jamie H. Cockfield
Dr. and Mrs. Wallace C. Nunley
Gale C. Garner
Kevin & Laura McMahon Lindemann
Tony Cristo
Gerald S. Nurre
David & Jean Gibb
Allison Linney
George & Linda Richter Davies
Michael B. & Patricia Shirey O’Brien
Calvin & Tina Gilley
Timothy & Lisa Lloyd
Patricia M. Derian
Lisa L. Onega
Richard & Leslie Gilliam
Stephen & Rita Loderick
Thomas & Dorothy H. DeShazo
Dale N. Schumacher &
Pauline L. Dessertine
Barbara J. Parker
Barbara H. Dunn
Joanne M. Phillips
Virginia H. Edwards
Patricia K. Reppert
Mary E. Fisher
Pamela Mildren Reynolds
Catherine K. Giles
Isabelle Gray Schaake
William & Linda Custard Gillikin
Martha Shenkenberg
Dorothy Sandridge Gloor
Irv & Debra Olson Silver
Eleanor Maxey Goode
Donald E. & Madeline Higginbotham Sly
J. Warren & Catherine Rice Gorrell
Karla M. Sorensen
Barbara Ann Graham
Edna Hubbard Sutton
Glenn C. Hall, Jr.
Carol A. Taylor
Linda C. Hodges
Helen Vaden
Nancy Hoffart
George & Linda Fiske Wehrle
Peter & Elizabeth T. Houck
Mack R. & Judith Hansen Wilcox
W. Nathaniel & Margie Saunders Howell
Betty Wingfield
Carl & Inge Hull
W. Keith & Patricia Booth Woodard
Martha B. Hunt
William Jessup
Arlene Wynbeek Keeling
† Now Deceased
Virginia Amiss
Virginia Legacy
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James H. Longshaw
John Owen & Rachel Weissmann
Rachel S. Lord
John L. Parascandola
Mark A. Sternheimer
Corporate Matching
Gifts
Robert Burger & Burden Lundgren
James & Sally Petit
James & Deborah Stone
If you or your spouse work for
Joan E. Lynaugh
Joseph & Helen Yura Petro
James & Nancy Stuart
a company with a matching gift
Barbara C. Macholz
Robert V. Piemonte
Edna Hubbard Sutton
program, you can double, sometimes
James L. Maddex, Jr.
Thaddeus Placzkouski
D. Edward Swarbrick & Iris An Parham
triple, the impact of your donation!
Paul & Ruth Manchester
Nancy L. Procovic
Erin E. Swarbrick
We thank these companies, and
Diane J. Mancino
Gilbert K. Queitzsch
Barbara M. Talbott
our alumni and friends, who take
Laura J. Markman
Ronald & Gay A. Redcay
Gary & Carol Wells Mosley Tash
advantage of these generous
Michael & Susan Woolwine McAdoo
Natalie N. Riegler
Edward B. Titmus
programs.
Martha McClellan
Michele A. Romano
Paul N. Veltman
Christopher Otrok & Mary Stegmaier
Ronald & Nancy McFarlane
James & Roberta Romeo
Jeanette Waits
American Electric Power Company
Jeffery & Ann McKennis
Brian & Cathy Jean Roy
Barbra M. Wall
American International Group
James & Nancy McMillan
Dennis & Deborah Sampson
Marion Moncure Wall
Analog Devices
Therese Meehan
Margarete Sandelowski
Mary E. Walter
Anheuser-Busch Foundation
Adrian S. Melissinos
George & Mary T. Sarnecky
William F. Whalen
Bank of America
Connie J. Messemer
Patricia J. Saunders+
Ellen D. White
Chevron Texaco Foundation
Edward T. Miles
Todd L. Savitt*
David Wilkinson
CIGNA Foundation
Joan H. Miller
Carla Schissel
Peter W. Williams*
Embarq Corporation
G. Gilmer & Charlotte Minor
David & Mary Sedlak
Russell Camp Williams III
EMR Properties
William & Maureen Minor
Richard & Sherry Sharp
Thomas & Margaret Ellen Wulf
Exxon Mobil Foundation
W. R. Misner
Kingman Cody Shelburne+
Mary Frances Yeager
H. J. Heinz Company
David & Jennie Moody
Rachel S. Shumate
Catherine A. Yezzi
IMS Matching Gift Program
Edward & Cara Morris
Louis & Audrey Cahill Silveri
IBM
Scott & Bonnie Morton
Kyle J. Simmons
Microsoft Corporation
William & Enola Ryan Moss
Pat & Helen Simmons
Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp.
Quang A. Nguyen
Thomas D. Smith
The Pew Charitable Trusts
Elfrida H. Nord
Joseph & Mildred Spencer
Joseph T. Norris & Marianne Muellerleile
Judith M. Stanley
Kate G. Oprandy
Wallace & Susan Fry Starke
Quest Diagnostics
Reid & Riege
Sit Investment Associates Foundation
† Now Deceased
State Farm Companies Foundation
SunTrust Banks
We have done our very best to ensure that every gift has been recognized here. If we missed your gift or listed your
SYSCO Corporation
name in error, we apologize and ask you to please notify the School of Nursing Alumni and Development Office at
Wachovia Corporation
(434) 924-0138. This honor roll is produced solely for alumni and friends of the School of Nursing. The University
The Williams Companies
prohibits the distribution of this listing to any other commercial or charitable institution.
Xerox Foundation
Corporations, Foundations, and Organizations
American Association of Colleges of Nursing
Community Foundation for National Capital Region
The New York Community Trust
American Organization of Nurse Executives
The Community Foundation
Owens & Minor
American Association of Neuroscience Nurses
Denver Foundation
Pediatric Nursing Certification Board
Association of Territorial Directors of Nursing
Doctoral Nursing Student Organization
Richmond Mexgrill
Bacas Family Foundation
EBSCO Industries
San Diego Foundation
The Cabell Foundation
Greater Green Bay Community Foundation
Shean Family Foundation
Charlottesville Area Community Foundation
Harry A. Henkel, Inc.
The Titmus Foundation
Citizens National Bank Corporation
The John D. Keye, Jr. Family Trust
U.Va. Hospital Auxiliary
Class of 1947-School of Nursing
The Mary Morton Parsons Foundation
Veltman Investment Services
Claude Moore Charitable Foundation
Meriwether Hills Apartments
Waterstone
Susan F. Coleman Living Trust
National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners
Wolters Kluwer Health
• 42
Fiscal Year 2007–08
These charts and graphs provide a snapshot of donors and dollars for fiscal year 2007–08 (the fiscal year
runs from July 1 to June 30). If you have questions about any of the information included in this report,
please contact the School of Nursing Alumni & Development Office at (434) 924-0138 or e-mail [email protected]. Thank you for your support!
U.Va. Nursing Annual Fund Income
$379,443
400,000
Market Value of U.Va. School of
Nursing Endowments
2007–08 Top Ten
Class Participation
$39,983,649
40,0000,000
Highest participation overall:
Class of 1963 at 46.77%
350,000
35,000,000
300,000
30,000,000
Highest in each decade:
250,000
25,000,000
1930s
1938 at 11.11%
200,000
20,000,000
1940s
1944 at 26.47%
150,000
15,000,000
100,000
10,000,000
1950s
1959 at 43.02%
50,000
5,000,000
1960s
1963 at 46.77%
1970s
1970 at 22.52%
1980s
1980 at 21.46%
0
2003 - 04
2004 - 05
2005 - 06
2006 - 07
2007 - 08
0
2005 - 06
2006 - 07
2007 - 08
Each year, gifts from alumni, parents, faculty, and friends
Endowments created through the generosity of donors
made to the Nursing Annual Fund provide the school a
provide permanent sources of revenue for the school to
1990s
1990 at 13.04%
source of unrestricted income. This allows the school
draw upon in perpetuity. These funds, which are often
2000s
2007 at 14.39%
flexibility to meet emerging needs of students, faculty, and
restricted in purpose by the donor, are prudently invested
academic programs through scholarships and fellowships,
by the University, and the income earned each year is used
support for innovating teaching ideas and faculty
to address many of the school’s most important priorities,
Congratulations to the students in
professional development, and funding for student and
including financial assistance for students, research, and
the BSN Class of 2008 for achieving
alumni outreach.
professional development funds for faculty, honorarium for
a record 66% participation rate in
For a detailed listing of Nursing Annual Fund expenditures,
guest lecturers, and many other programmatic needs.
their class giving campaign!
please contact the Alumni & Development Office.
U.Va. School of
Nursing Revenues
2007–08
Endowments & Gifts* (18%)
Total = $11,942,205
Other (1%)
*This reflects only income earned on
endowments plus expendable gifts.
It does not include new gifts made to
endowments in the fiscal year.
Sponsored Programs (19%)
Medical Center (3%)
State Support (60%)
Academic Support (13%)
U.Va. School of
Nursing Expenditures
2007–08
Student Services (4%)
Total = $11,806,415
Public Service (2%)
Scholarships/Fellowships (12%)
To make a tax-deductible gift to
the School of Nursing, contact the
Alumni & Development Office
PO Box 800826
(434) 924-0138
E-mail: [email protected]
Online gifts are welcome and
appreciated!
www.campaign.virginia.edu/
supportnursing
Thank you for your
generous support!
Research (21%)
Instruction (48%)
Virginia Legacy
43 •
Experiences Lead to New Challenges
Emily Smith Des Champs (BSN ’04)
Alumni
in Action
N
ot every twenty-something has the courage to move across the country to a city without
family or friends. And daily facing the highly charged issue of illegal immigration in a
health care setting is certainly not for the faint of heart.
But, after graduating from the U.Va. School of Nursing, Emily Des Champs was ready for an
adventure. Born and raised in Crozet, VA, she moved to Arizona in 2004. She spent the next four
years at the University of Arizona’s teaching hospital in Tucson. Here, her work in the ICU brought
her into frequent contact with border crossers in medical crisis.
“In the summer, they find people just passed out in the desert,” recalls Des Champs. “By the
Close Up on Emily
time they are brought in, they’re in pretty bad shape.”
Migrants crossing the border fall victim to both the glaring sun and a lack of good information.
“Southern Mexicans are used to a lush climate more similar to Virginia than southern Arizona,” she
From Emily’s writing: “The
says. “They’re unfamiliar with the terrain and often misunderstand the distances involved. I have
sadness along our border grows and
talked to people who think they can walk to Chicago because someone has told them they can.”
grows, and some days I can actually
When caring for these patients, Des Champs frequently found herself in the middle of some
feel the divide between us growing
complicated situations. She often used writing as a way to process her experiences and to express
wider too.”
compassion for those in crisis. She also volunteered with Humane Borders, a group that main-
—excerpted from the Arizona
tains water stations in the desert along migrant routes, in the hope of keeping border crossers out
Health Sciences literary magazine
of the ICU.
Tackling complex problems on multiple fronts comes naturally for Des Champs. “At U.Va.,
Favorite non-nursing pastime?
Hiking and kayaking—my husband
and I like to go into Mexico near the
Sea of Cortez. And I have always
loved hiking in the Shenandoah
National Park!
it is assumed that you will make important contributions after you graduate,” she says. “I don’t
think that nursing students in other programs always get this impression. They
may be wonderful nurses, but no one told them early on that they were expected to be leaders.”
Last fall, Des Champs completed an intensive palliative care training
program, which she hopes to integrate into her future work. She likes
the in-depth conversations with patients aimed at discovering the
Favorite book? Animal,
therapies and approaches that will serve them best.
Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara
A desire for that intimate patient interaction played a
Kingsolver. Her novels initially
role in Des Champs’ recent decision to return to school. This
sparked my interest in
fall she and her husband moved back to the East Coast,
Tucson.
to Baltimore, where Des Champs will be taking classes
at the University of Maryland to become an acute care nurse
Advice to future nurses?
Get a well-rounded
practitioner.
“At the RN level, practice opportunities in palliative
education within and
care are somewhat limited, but the role for nurse
outside of nursing. Don’t pay
practitioners is clear,” she says. “I’m looking forward to
attention to those who
having the autonomy to branch out more in that area.”
minimize the role of nurses.
Nurses play an essential role in
health care; it’s important
to understand this as
you enter the field.
“At U.Va., it is assumed that
you will make important
contributions after
you graduate.”
• 44
Virginia
Moments
McKim Hall lobby, 1954. McKim Hall was the first home of the School of Nursing, and
tea was held each afternoon in the basement lobby. Alongside their studies, nursing
students were required to learn how to properly serve tea, using the school’s sterling
silver tea set.
(Is this you, or someone you know? We’d love to identify the alumnae in this photo.
If you have information, please contact Julie Goodlick, director of Alumni Affairs,
(434) 924-0084, or [email protected].)
Photo courtesy of the Center for Nursing Historical Inquiry collections. Learn more about resources
and opportunities to support the history center at www.nursing.virginia.edu.
January 2009
April
13 Spring 2009 Semester Begins
3–5 Black Alumni Weekend
13 Admissions Doctoral Programs (PhD,
DNP) Information Session
Calendar
of Events
17 Admissions Open House & Information
Session
1 U.Va. Homecomings and Young
Alumni Reunion
2 School of Nursing Homecomings
Open House (9:30–11:30 am)
Session—Graduate Programs only
18–25 Historic Garden Week in Virginia
February
TBD Catherine Strader McGehee Memorial
Lecture
November
7 Alumni Council Winter Meeting
May
17 Nursing History Forum: “When the
City Is a Great Field Hospital: Lillian
Wald and the Influenza Epidemic in
6–12 National Nurses Week
New York City, 1918”
11–13 Thomas Jefferson Society Reunions:
Session
Classes of 1959 and earlier
16 Pinning and Hooding Ceremonies
28 Spring Recess begins
17 Final Exercises
Joanne Disch, PhD, RN, University of
March
June
Minnesota School of Nursing
8 Spring Recess ends
4–7 Reunions Weekend! Celebrations for
5 Zula Mae Baber Bice Memorial Lecture:
11 Nursing History Forum: “The
Experience of Tuberculosis Nursing in
Chicago, 1915–1970”
Session—BSN Programs only
20–21 The Agnes Dillon Randolph
Save the date!
Conference. Keynote Speaker Joan
E. Lynaugh, PhD, FAAN, Professor
17 Admissions RN-BSN Information Session
Emerita, University of Pennsylvania
1984, 1989, 1994, 1999, and 2004.
International Nursing History
15 Nursing Leadership Forum
the Classes of 1964, 1969, 1974, 1979,
School of Nursing
December
1 School of Nursing Annual Career Fair
For details on the Center for Nursing
Historical Inquiry events, call
(434) 924-0083.
For details on the Admission Information
Sessions, call (888) 283-8703.
4 Lighting of the Lawn
5 Classes End
8–16 Examinations; End of Fall Semester
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