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CLASS NOTES
1940s
Nancy Carnegie Merrill, MN ’48, was
honored with an award created in her
name, the Nancy Carnegie Merrill
Award, which is presented to the winner
of an essay contest. The award
commemorates her contributions to the
preservation of Exeter, New Hampshire’s
local history.
1960s
Lynore Dutton DeSilets, BSN ’64, was
honored as the Frances Payne Bolton
School of Nursing 2009 Distinguished
Alumna at the FPB Alumni Day
Luncheon on May 16, 2009 (see Alumni
Celebration section full story).
Betty Lou Mantzell, BSN ’69, was
honored with the Frances Payne Bolton
School of Nursing 2009 Alumni
Association President’s Award at the FPB
Alumni Day Luncheon on May 16, 2009
(see Alumni Celebration section for full story).
1970s
Barbara W. Dahl, BSN ’75, writes
articles for Energy Magazine, an online
adjunct to the Healing Touch Program.
One of her articles, entitled “Healing
Touch in a Muggle World” grew out of a
keynote presentation she gave at the
Canadian Healing Touch Conference in
Nova Scotia. She also writes a
Practitioner Profile for every issue of
Energy Magazine and contributes a
monthly article for Washington State’s
Healing Touch e-newsletter. Currently,
she is doing research for a book about the
Nurse Cadet Corps.
Deborah Lynn Krueger, BSN ’79,
received the 2008 Nurse Excellence
Award from Wake Forest University
Baptist Medical Center (WFUBMC),
the Great 100 North Carolina Award for
Nursing Excellence, a scholarship for
recertification as a Certified Neuroscience
Registered Nurse from the Neuroscience
Nurses Foundation, and the first Novice
Writers Award from the Journal of
Neuroscience Nursing, which published
her article “Ethical Decision Making in
Neurosurgery: A Case Study.” She was
also recently promoted to magnet
program director/coordinator of the
Nurse Residency Program at WFUBMC.
1980s
Frances (Brown) Evans, MSN ’69,
received the first ever DAISY (Diseases
Attacking the
Immune System)
Award for
Extraordinary
Nurses from Lake
Pointe Medical
Center in
Rowlett, Texas,
on April 21,
2009. She has
been employed in
the Obstetrics
Department at Lake Pointe since 2005,
and has more than 40 years of nursing
experience.
Fatima Al Rifai, MSN ’89, has been
involved in the development and launch
of the Emirates Nursing Association
(ENA) web site at: http://www.ena.ae
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1990s
Catherine Ann Hoffman, MSN ’92, is
the new president of the Ohio State
Association of Nurse Anesthetists.
Katharine Youngberg Kolcaba, PhD ’97,
MSN ’87, was featured in Cleveland’s
Sun Courier for her holistic “comfort
theory,” which is designed to meet
patients’ physical, psychological, social,
and spiritual needs.
June Ann (Hart)
Romeo, MSN ’97,
BSN ’80, is the new
division chair of
Health and Physical
Education at
Baldwin-Wallace
College (B-W) in
Berea, Ohio. Before
being named to this
position, she was the
founder and codirector
of the Center
for Performing Arts Health and Research
in the Conservatory of Music at B-W.
She was also a nurse practitioner/director
of research at Premier Physicians
Centers/Southwest Rheumatology and
Research Group. Before coming to B-W,
she was vice president and dean at
MedCentral College of Nursing in
Mansfield, Ohio. Her education includes
a bachelor’s degree and MAEd from
Baldwin-Wallace College, a bachelor’s
degree and master’s degree in nursing
from Case Western Reserve University,
and a PhD in sociology from City
University of Los Angeles. She is
currently working toward a doctor of
nursing practice degree from Case
Western Reserve University, with an
expected graduation date of August 2010.