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Bates Center Welcomes Two New Advisory
Board members
This past year two new members joined the Bates Nursing History Center Advisory
Board. Dr. Dorothy del Bueno and Ms. Marion Matez are both well known to the
School of Nursing as well as to the Philadelphia area and are looking forward to their
new roles with the Center.
Dr. Del Bueno has had a rich and varied professional career. As a young woman,
she left a position as an assistant bank manager to attend nursing school, graduating from
the Philadelphia General Hospital in 1962. Between 1963 and 1975, Dr. del Bueno completed
a baccalaureate, a masters and a doctoral degree while working in a variety of positions
including staff nurse, night supervisor, instructor, and Director of Staff Education.
Her doctoral dissertation was the first study to evaluate the effects of continuing education
on subsequent clinical performance.
The author of three books and 113 articles, she has traveled extensively in the United
States Canada, New Zealand, and Australia as a lecturer and consultant. Well known for
her work in competency assessment, performance evaluation, and organizational politics,
she has received numerous awards from professional and educational organizations
including the 2005 American Association of Critical Care Nurses Award for a Distinguished
Career in Nursing.
Dr. del Bueno has served on the board of directors and advisory boards for a variety
of hospitals, educational services and professional groups including: Presbyterian Hospital,
Philadelphia, Concept Development, American Society for Health Manpower, Education
& Training, Journal of Nursing Administration, Nurse Educator, American Network,
RN Magazine and Moss Rehabilitation Center-lnternal Grants.
Formerly the Assistant Dean for Continuing Education and Interim Chair for the
Nursing Administration program at the University of Pennsylvania, School of Nursing
Dr. del Bueno is currently the senior consultant and partner of Performance Management
Services, Inc.
Dr. del Bueno joined the Board to add her voice in support of the mission of the
Bates Center to ensure the generation of historical knowledge, scholarship, and research.
Recognizing the vital nature of historical study to the development of the profession, Dr.
del Bueno is committed to advancing the goals of the Center as it meets challenges in the
coming years.
The Center also welcomes, Marian Matez, our second new Board Member. Ms.
Matez began her career here at the University of Pennsylvania where she received her
Baccalaureate degree. After moving to Connecticut and earning a Master’s degree in Education,
she worked in the Connecticut public school system where she wrote programs
for the intellectually gifted and introduced a variety of media programs into the school
library system. Much of her work initiated the trend to expand school libraries into media
centers.
After moving back to the Philadelphia area in the late 1970s, Ms. Matez met Claire
Fagin, who recruited her to the School of Nursing. Ms. Matez worked as the Admissions
officer charged by Dean Fagin with recruiting the “best and the brightest” to Penn Nursing.
She remembers Dean Fagin telling her that her job was to get the best people to Penn
and to change the image of nursing, which she did splendidly. To accomplish this goal
Ms. Matez traveled extensively around the country recruiting students and educating the
public about the difference between nursing and medicine.
Ms. Matez reports that “she loved her work at the School of Nursing,” meeting so
many people who helped to shape her life. Recruited by Joan Lynaugh for the Board,
Marion is looking forward to her tenure as a Board member. She recognizes the importance
of the Center maintaining a strong financial base and the need to ensure a stimulating
atmosphere in which to generate creative ideas for the future of the Center. Marion
Matez is most happy to renew her association with the School of Nursing and is eager to
participate in advancing the goals of the Center.
We welcome our new Board members and look forward to a productive relationship.
(New Space, continued)
ings in secure lockers while engaged in
research. The remainder of the reception
space includes a lovely sitting area which
is the new home to the Alumnae Association
of the Hospital of the University of
Pennsylvania’s grandfather clock. There
is also a small kitchen facility and an
office/workroom suitable for use by students
and visiting scholars adjoining the
main reception area.
The office wing of the Center contains
a conference room, faculty and
staff offices, collection storage space and
the office of the Alumni Association of
the School of Nursing of the Hospital
of the University of Pennsylvania. The
conference room features up-to-date
audiovisual technology appropriate to
the Center’s seminar and meeting needs.
Faculty offices are bright and cheery,
affording sufficient space for faculty to
work and conference with students. Curator
Gail Farr’s office is also located in
the office wing. Several of the Center’s
pictures hang on the corridor walls, adding
to the sense of the rich history of the
School. Although a thoroughly modern
space in which to work, the newly
re-furbished History Center creates an
historical atmosphere appropriate to the
Center’s mission.
After the year-long renovation process,
Center faculty, staff, and students
are happy to be back in Fagin Hall and
are particularly pleased to occupy such
a wonderful space. Having the Center’s
collections, faculty offices, and meeting
spaces in a contiguous area enables
the work of the Center to proceed in an
efficient, collegial manner. As well, the
space enables the Center to accommodate
a number of visiting scholars at one
time. To date, scholars have been well
pleased with the changes made.
On October 30, 2008, the Bates Center
took part in the official open house
for the renovated Fagin Hall. Guests
were delighted with the improvements to
the school building and quite impressed
with the new look of the Bates Center.
We invite everyone to visit the renovated
Center. For further information contact
Betsy Weiss at ehweiss@nursing.upenn.
edu or 215-898-4502.