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alumninews+ notes2000sTheresa L. Brown (BSN ’07) wrotean article on her personal reflectionson the death of a patient that waspublished in the September 8, 2008,Health section of The New YorkTimes.Angela R. Collins (BSN ’07) is aregistered nurse at St. JosephMedical Center in Towson, Md., in themedical-surgical ICU.Taryn Edwards (BSN ’04) is a clinicalnurse III at The Children’s Hospitalof Philadelphia, Pa., in the newborn/infant intensive care unit.Katie Ness Kandrysawtz (BSN ’05)is working as a staff nurse at YorkHospital’s inpatient adult oncologyunit. She is in the first year of thefamily nurse practitioner programat Millersville University and on trackto graduate in 2011.Crystal Moss (BSN ’06) is a clinicalsupport and education specialistwith Innercool Therapies.Kristine Keefer Wolff (MSN ’00,BSN ’93) has been selected as anursing leadership representativeon Team Pennsylvania, a group thatwill participate in a national NursingSummit sponsored by the RobertWood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) inFebruary 2009 in Washington, D.C.The Summit is a RWJF collaborationwith the U.S. Department of Labor,the Health Resource and ServicesAdministration and the Centerto Champion Nursing in Americato address the critical decline innursing education capacity as amajor driver in the nursing shortageacross the United States. Wolff alsoreceived grant funding from theLadies Hospital Aid Society for agrief program for staff throughUPMC’s Good Grief Center for bereavementsupport.In MemoriamDorothea Bumpus, BSN ’49 Jane M. Ung, BSN ’73Marie T. Coyne, MNEd ’67February 27, 2008Florence M. Thompson,BSNEd ’48February 22, 2007Jean Pitzer Wiant, BSN ’55December 30, 2008Ruth M. Young , BSNEd ’51,MA ’61October 14, 2008Dr. Madeline R. Turkeltaub, MN ’70Dr. Turkeltaub passed away on June 21, 2008. Throughouta successful professional career, she was recognizedas a nurse leader, nurse educator, and practitioner. Dr.Turkeltaub held positions as an administrator in bothnursing education and nursing service and set nursingpolicy on the National Council of State Boards of Nursing,the National League for Nursing, and other local, state,and national organizations. The School of Nursingrecognized her as Distinguished Alumna in 2003. At thetime of her death, Dr. Turkeltaub was director, Divisionof Extramural Research Activities, the National Instituteof Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases.Pitt Nursing AlumnusReceives National HonorMargaret Grey, DrPH, RN, FAAN, Yale School of Nursingdean and Annie Goodrich Professor, has been awardedThe Council for Advancement of Nursing Science(CANS) Outstanding Nurse Scientist Award. A BSN’70 alumna of the University of Pittsburgh School ofNursing, Grey accepted the award on October 2 at theNational Congress on the State of the Science in NursingResearch in Washington, D.C.Throughout an extraordinary professional career, Greyhas focused her research on adolescents coping withdiabetes and the study of behavioral interventions thatimprove metabolic control of diabetes and the qualityof life in young people and their parents. She has beenprincipal investigator for grants totaling more than $20million, authored more than 200 publications, and waselected to the Institute of Medicine in 2005.Nursing Alumni andPathways to ProfessionsSchool of Nursing alumni Marian Hershman (BSN ’58)and Darlene Ursiny (BSN ’91) participated in Pitt AlumniAssociation’s Pathways to Professions on October 23during Homecoming Weekend. Alumni representingschools and colleges across campus are invited toattend this networking event for students to learn moreabout careers.2008 Lantern NightFlame-bearers IncludePitt Nursing AlumniOn August 24, 2008, five School of Nursing alumniparticipated in the University’s 88th annual LanternNight ceremony at Heinz Memorial Chapel. Each alumnushas a special relationship with a member of the 2008freshman class. 2008 Lantern Night flame-bearers wereChris Barry (BSN ’79), mother of School of Arts andSciences freshman Ellen Barry; Doris J. Davies (BSN’52), grandmother of Arts and Sciences freshman SarahDavies; Mary Fike (BSN ’79), mother of Arts and Sciencesfreshman Kathryn Fike; Joann Pantages (MSN ’86),mother of Arts and Sciences freshman Christa Pantages;and Mary Rudy (BSN ’76, MN ’80), mother of engineeringfreshman Alexandra Rudy.Begun in 1920, Lantern Night is one of the longeststandingtraditions at the University of Pittsburgh andsymbolizes the passing of the light of learning to thenext generation of Pitt women.Friend of the School NamedUniversity Emeritus TrusteeJ. Roger Glunt was elected an emeritus trustee by theUniversity of Pittsburgh Board of Trustees in late October.Glunt is a business administration graduate of theUniversity and has served as an alumni trustee. He ispast president, director emeritus, and a life member ofthe Pitt Alumni Association. A special friend of the Schoolof Nursing, Glunt chairs its volunteer advisory committeefor the University’s capital campaign; establishedthe Nancy Glunt Hoffman Memorial Fund at the Schoolto honor his late sister, a nursing alumna; and hosts anannual golf outing to raise funds toward endowing achair in oncology nursing research at Pitt.Strong Pit t Nurse Presence at20 08 American Thoracic Societ yInternational Meeting in TorontoFour Pitt Nurse alumni have leadership roles within theAmerican Thoracic Society: Kathy Lindell, RN (PhD ’07),is the incoming chair of the nursing assembly;Gerene Bauldoff, RN (MSN ’93, PhD ’01), is chair of theprogram committee; Margaret Ann Carno, RN (PhD’02), is chair-elect of the program committee; and LynnReinke, RN (MSN ’90), PhD, has been elected representativeto the nominating committee and also serves onthe diversity committee. Annette DeVito Dabbs, RN(PhD ’03), received the Marilyn Hansen Award for thetop-scoring nursing abstract.34 university of Pittsburgh