Welcome
from Dean Robin Remsburg
With the 50th anniversary of our BSN program arriving next
year, there’s no better time than now to celebrate the thriving
community our School of Nursing (SoN) has built together – and
to plan for our next 50 years of outstanding service and impact.
This magazine will take you on a swift and inspiring tour of
how today’s SoN, with tremendous support from our alumni and
friends, is readying for a future that holds great opportunity. As an
institution, we are focused on four critical areas: innovation and
growth; technology and online learning; groundbreaking research;
and global citizenship.
Our work in those arenas, which ranges from educating military
veterans in America with state-of-the-art equipment to treating
impoverished families in faraway lands, is brought to life by our
faculty and staff, our students and, most especially, our alumni
and donors. Their stories in these pages demonstrate how a SoN
education prepares us, quite literally, to change the world.
This magazine marks the final issue of our annual UNCG
Nursing magazine. Beginning this year, we will instead publish a
quarterly online newsletter that will bring you all the important
news from the SoN in more timely fashion.
Your feedback is of course always welcome, and I strongly
encourage you to share your thoughts on topics you’d like to see
covered in the newsletter. Together, we have a wonderful story to tell!
With gratitude for your support,
Robin E. Remsburg, PhD, FAAN, FGSA, FNGNA
Dean and Professor of the School of Nursing
In This Issue
Advisory Board......................................................1
SoN Envisions Its Next Era of Success
Dr. Robin Remsburg..............................................2
Programs...............................................................4
Stakeholders........................................................12
Faculty / Staff News.............................................22
Student News.......................................................23
International News...............................................24
Alumni News........................................................29
SoN Events..........................................................40
Absent: Cindy Jarrett-Pulliam, Alma Thompson,
Camille Townsend, Gay Bowman, Steven Anderson
Standing: Jo Winchester, Deana Knight, Ross Harris,
William Spivey, Barry Frank, Ernest Grant,
Jana Wagenseller, Richard Ouellette, Tom Cone,
Jeanine Woody, LaVonne Fisher
Seated: Stephen Fleming, Dean Robin Remsburg,
Bobbi Osguthorpe
Advisory Board Helps A
Guide the School of
Nursing into the Future
2013 - 2014
Steven Anderson, VP Cone Health Medical Group
Gay Bowman, MA Mathematics ‘72, Community Volunteer,
active member of Greater Greensboro Medical Alliance
Thomas Cone, Attorney at Law, Ott, Cone & Redpath, PA
LaVonne Fisher, BSN ’70, MSN ‘82, retired VP of Nursing,
Women’s Hospital, Cone Health
Stephen Fleming, Chairman of Advisory Board,
President & CEO, Well Spring Retirement Community
Barry Frank, VP & Treasurer, Stanley & Dorothy Frank Foundation,
National Proteins and Oils, Inc.
Ernest Grant, MSN ’93, Nursing Education Clinician – Burn
Outreach
Ross Harris, Marketing Consultant
Cindy Jarrett-Pulliam, BSN ’81, MSN ’84, Chief Nursing Officer,
Forsyth Medical Center
*Deana Knight, CEO, Select Specialty Hospital-Greensboro
*Jeffrey Miller, President & Chief Executive Officer,
High Point Regional Health System
Bobbi Osguthorpe, BSN ‘83, retired VP Medical Treatment
Systems
Richard Ouellette, CRNA Consultant
*Maureen Sintich, CNO & VP Operations, Wake Forest Baptist
Medical Center
William Spivey, Senior Vice President, Wells Fargo Advisors
Alma Thompson, Nursing Department Head, Alamance
Community College
Camille Townsend, AAS ‘65, Community Allied Health Liaison
Jana Wagenseller, BSN ‘76, Nursing Consultant
Johanna Winchester, BSN ’80, MSN ‘90, retired VP of Nursing,
Wesley Long Hospital
Jeannine Woody, VP Academic Programs and Services,
Davidson County Community College
s Dean Robin Remsburg leads the School of Nursing into a new era of growth and
impact, she has a powerful ally by her side – the School of Nursing Advisory Board.
Featuring nearly two-dozen influential community and industry leaders, the Board
aims “to support Dean Remsburg in her objectives in any way we can, particularly
with fund-raising,” says Steve Fleming, who succeeded Robin Britt Sr. as Board chair
in 2013. “We all want to be of service to what we believe is one of the outstanding
nursing schools in the country.”
Fleming is President and CEO of Greensboro’s Well•Spring Retirement
Community. Under his leadership, the Advisory Board is deepening its
understanding of the SoN’s facilities, programs and research so that it can better
promote the school. Recently, for example, Board members toured the SoN’s state-ofthe-art simulation lab.
As the head of Well•Spring, which is committed to high-quality health care for
its aging residents, Fleming has a special interest in geriatric nursing, especially
with an anticipated shortage of qualified nurses on the horizon. The SoN has
extensive expertise in that arena, with Dean Remsburg herself having worked as a
geriatric nurse.
This joint focus on world-class geriatric care makes the SoN and Well•Spring
natural partners, and their relationship continues to flourish. In 2008,
Well•Spring awarded a $500,000 grant to build and staff health centers at
several Greensboro public housing communities, in partnership with the SoN
and the Greensboro Housing Authority. In 2013, Well•Spring announced a
partnership with the larger UNCG community to involve senior citizens regularly
in programs and events on campus.
Fleming brings to the Advisory Board his own exceptional knowledge of working
with older adults. After studying public health administration at UNC-Chapel Hill,
he held leadership roles at Friends Homes in Greensboro before being recruited to
head a continuing care retirement community in New Hampshire. He came back to
the Triad in the 1990s as chief operating officer of Presbyterian Homes in High Point
and joined Well•Spring as President and CEO in 2000.
He currently serves as secretary of LeadingAge, a national association of
more than 6,000 nonprofit organizations specializing in aging services. And
since 1998, he’s worked as a referee for high school and college football games,
traveling the country.
Still, in a career with plenty of highlights, Fleming counts his service on the SoN’s
Advisory Board among his most rewarding opportunities.
“It’s a privilege to serve an institution with a long history of success and a very
bright future,” he says. “As a Board, we want to help build on that momentum.”
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SoN Envisions D
Its Next Era
of Success
“We want to prepare
the nurses that
our health system
partners need with
the skills that enable
them to excel.
Investing in worldclass simulation
technology makes
that kind of
education possible.”
uring a recent semester break, the halls at the School of Nursing’s Moore Building
were mostly empty as students enjoyed some time off from classes. But as she
discussed the SoN’s evolution during her first year and a half as dean and her vision
for the future, Dr. Robin Remsburg made it clear that there is always something exciting
happening there– and plenty more to come.
“Health care is changing rapidly now, so our field is fast-paced all year round,” says
Remsburg, who came to the SoN in July 2013 from George Mason University, where she
served as director of the School of Nursing and associate dean for the College of Health
and Human Services. “To stay competitive, you can’t have much down time.”
Since succeeding Dr. Lynne G. Pearcey as dean, Remsburg has led an ambitious
strategic planning process to guide the SoN into a new era. Among the key components
of the School’s vision: innovation and growth; technology and online learning;
groundbreaking research; and global citizenship. Building on already existing
momentum, substantial progress is occurring in each area.
On the innovation and growth front, the approaching launch of the SoN’s Doctor of
Nursing Practice program is a major highlight. The first practice doctorate program to
be offered at UNCG is enrolling students for Fall 2015 with concentrations for adultgerontological nurse practitioner primary care, nurse anesthesia, and a new MSN to
DNP executive leadership concentration. Remsburg says about 24 students are expected
in the inaugural adult-gerontological nurse practitioner class and about 40 in the nurse
anesthesia concentration.
The program will be housed in a brand new, 100,000-square-foot building in Union
Square Campus, a collaborative development in downtown Greensboro that involves the
city’s higher education institutions, charitable foundations and leading employers. The
new building, designed specifically for health care training and education, will be shared
by UNCG, N.C. A&T, Guilford Technical Community College and Cone Health. It will
include a state-of-the-art healthcare simulation center and foster cost savings through
shared equipment and laboratory space.
“During these tight budget times, it makes sense for institutions to come together and
find ways to collaborate,” Remsburg says. “This building is a great example of that. It will
lead to many levels of innovation and economies of scale.”
New outreach partnerships with community colleges throughout North Carolina
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studies that will enhance the treatment of women
with cardiovascular ailments and patients with
multiple chronic conditions. “We’re also making
a real effort to train our junior faculty members in
key areas, so they can develop their own programs
of research,” Remsburg says. “We have a proud
tradition of outstanding research, and it’s very
important that we continue it.”
Extending horizons through an emphasis on
global citizenship is also a top priority at the SoN.
Over the years, students and faculty have taken
part in service trips abroad that have ranged
from South and Central America to Eastern
Europe. Remsburg wants the SoN to expand
those opportunities to more students and to think
creatively about them within the United States as
well. An experience that introduces students to nursing care in rural
environments, for example, could be organized in eastern North
Carolina. The ultimate goal, Remsburg says, is to provide out-ofclassroom experiences that help students apply their knowledge in
unfamiliar settings and challenge them to be leaders in improving
the delivery of nursing care everywhere.
Challenging students to be their absolute best is also the
impetus behind the SoN’s Healthy Nurse Initiative. Nurses often
focus so much on the care of their patients that they neglect their
own health, Remsburg says. This new initiative is intended to
educate students about the importance of diet, exercise and stress
management in their own lives, which will in turn increase their
professional longevity and impact.
Awareness about the importance of health is being raised
throughout the academic year through activities such as yoga,
increased availability healthy snacks and numerous educational
sessions. “It’s about building a culture of health,” Remsburg says.
“You have to get buy-in and enthusiasm, and that starts with the
example set by me and our administrators and faculty.”
As the SoN puts its strategic plan into action, alumni will play
a critical role in bringing it to life by sharing their time, expertise
and resources in service of new generations of nurses. Remsburg
fondly recalls a moment last year when the SoN’s goal of connecting
students, alumni and health care partners for the benefit of the
broader community came together beautifully. During Homecoming,
the SoN held a flu shot clinic during the event for the first time.
Cone Health contributed 150 free flu vaccines. A group of students
overseen by UNCG faculty and SoN alumni in Greensboro set up a
work station and administered the vaccines to the public.
It might have been an unremarkable scene to the casual observer.
For Remsburg, however, it was a small but heartwarming example
of the SoN fulfilling its mission – and a powerful reminder that,
ultimately, the fruit of any strategy can be judged by the difference
it makes in people’s lives.
are also helping drive growth. Supported by a
$100,000 grant from the Northwest Area Health
Education Center (AHEC), the SoN is partnering
with Davidson Community College and RowanCabarrus Community College on RN to BSN
programs that began this fall. In Spring 2015, an
RN to BSN program will get under way as well
with Alamance Community College. Responding
to strong interest from the local community, the
SoN also launched an RN to BSN cohort at Cone
Health in early 2014.
“Outreach programs like these are crucial
for nurses,” Remsburg says. “Having the BSN
really facilitates their mobility within the health
care system, and the degree is a gateway to
graduate education.”
In a related move, the SoN is debuting an accelerated nursing
degree program in January 2015 that offers military veterans
academic credits for prior medical experience. Through the UNCG
Veterans Access Program, veterans who are RNs and have some
prior college credit can earn a BSN degree within nine months.
Closely connected with the SoN’s commitment to innovation and
growth is an enhanced focus on leveraging technology. E-tablets will
gradually be introduced into classrooms with a longer-term goal of
going paperless at the school, which will increase efficiency and also
heighten students’ overall comfort and skill with technology.
In the meantime, the fourth floor of the Moore Building is being
transformed into a sophisticated simulation lab. It features an
apartment for home health simulation and a cutting-edge anatomy
visualization system that arrived mid-summer called an Anatomage
Table. An iPad-like machine that displays the human anatomy in
real-life size, the Anatomage Table is being used by many of the
world’s leading medical schools and will offer SoN students a 3D
experience for practicing patient care.
“We want to prepare the nurses that our health system partners
need with the skills that enable them to excel,” Remsburg says.
“Investing in world-class simulation technology makes that kind of
education possible.”
Staying on the leading edge of nursing care also requires
continuing the SoN’s longstanding commitment to groundbreaking
research. The SoN’s Center for the Health of Vulnerable
Populations, funded largely through federal grants, plays a critical
role in that work. Research projects on an array of pressing
nursing topics, such as diabetes management in minorities and the
prevention of sexually transmitted diseases in teens, are under way.
Data collection on some projects is scheduled to wrap up this year.
“It will be exciting to see some of the practical interventions that
result from this research,” Remsburg says.
She points as well to other pioneering research efforts, including
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D
uring the UNCG Board of Trustees meeting in September, Dr.
Susan Letvak made a presentation about the School of Nursing’s
innovative Veterans Access Program (VAP), which offers military
veterans academic credits for prior medical experience.
By the time Letvak was done, Board of Trustees Chair Susan Safran,
BSN ’77, was more than impressed. She wanted to help immediately.
Safran’s mother and stepfather had both recently died,
leaving Safran an inheritance of $250,000. Safran wanted
to invest it in UNCG, but she wasn’t quite sure how – until
Letvak started speaking.
“It was like a lightbulb went off when Susan gave that talk,” Safran
says. “I knew this was exactly what we needed to do.”
Safran quickly worked with the SoN’s Development office to
establish the Willard E. Peterson Endowed Program Fund in honor
of her stepfather, a U.S. Navy veteran who saw combat in the North
Atlantic in World War II. He later succeeded as an entrepreneur in
the construction and restaurant industries.
“I wanted to honor him and my mother, Bettie Jo Peterson, with
this fund,” Safran says. “They were both extraordinary people with
special regard for veterans, and they would be thrilled to assist them
in this way.”
The funds will help students in the VAP cover a variety of costs
ranging from uniforms, equipment and technology to educational
experiences, counseling and academic fees.
“This is a very exciting and creative program, and it’s a privilege to
use these funds to provide extra support to veterans who will bring
tremendous talent and skill to the nursing profession,” Safran says.
Safran was a longtime nurse herself, having come to the field
unexpectedly. As a senior at Wake Forest University majoring in
business, she realized she wanted to make a change. “The man who
was to become my husband (prominent Raleigh attorney Perry
Safran) said, ‘I think you would be a great nurse. I understand there’s
a really good program at UNCG.’”
After an academic experience she describes as stellar, Safran
worked as a critical care nurse and in clinical education and staff
development at WakeMed in Raleigh. She earned her MSN at Duke
and then followed in her stepfather’s entrepreneurial footsteps,
founding CPR Consultants, Inc. which provides CPR training and
other services for health providers and businesses. While raising
three boys, she ran the company for two decades before selling it
seven years ago.
Establishing the endowed fund brings Safran full circle,
helping launch careers at the institution that prepared her for
lifelong success.
“I was fortunate to have the chance to learn from Dean Eloise
Lewis and many other great professors, and that led to a great career,”
she says. “We’re delighted to provide that same opportunity for a new
generation of nurses.”
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Nurse Leader
Susan Safran Invests in
Veterans Access Program
Susan Safran with Zachary Matthews, recipient of the Susan Morris Safran Merit
Scholarship in Nursing.
Taken at the Stakeholders Recognition Luncheon, 2014
New Program Transitions
Veterans into Nursing Careers
Community Partnerships
Extend SoN’s Impact
With support from a federal
grant, the School of Nursing
plans to launch an accelerated
nursing degree program next
year that offers military veterans
academic credits for prior
medical experience.
The UNCG Veterans Access
Program will start in 2015
with an initial group of about 24 veterans. With some prior college
credits, veterans who are RNs can earn a BSN degree within nine
months. Those earning the BSN leading to RN licensure can complete
the program within 18 months.
“Many veterans worked as medics, physical therapists, nurses’ aides,
licensed practical nurses, pharmacy techs and respiratory therapists in
the military,” says Dr. Susan Letvak, program director and chair of the
Adult Health Nursing Department. “This program provides course credit to
veterans for their valuable hands-on medical experience.”
The program is funded by a three-year federal Health Resources and
Services Administration (HRSA) grant of just under $1 million. UNCG is the
only university in North Carolina to receive the HRSA grant, which will fund
teaching faculty, a tutor, a part-time counselor and family orientation days.
The program aims initially to serve medically trained veterans in central
North Carolina and south central Virginia, especially in disadvantaged and
medically underserved areas. North Carolina is home to more than 776,000
veterans; about 1,500 medically trained veterans live in the target region.
The BSN degree is increasingly important to nursing students and
their employers. Health care providers often prefer or require nurses to
have a BSN degree because BSN-credentialed nurses at the bedside
have been shown to improve outcomes for patients. The Institute of
Medicine’s 2010 report on The Future of Nursing recommends that at
least 80 percent of bedside nurses have the BSN degree by 2020.
Since UNCG participates in the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs’
Yellow Ribbon Program, veterans with out-of-state residency will pay
lower, in-state tuition rates. UNCG’s Office of Veterans Services can assist
veterans with relocation housing.
Classes will be a mix of online and face-to face sessions. Letvak,
a U.S. Navy veteran, and Jean Reinert, a U.S. Air Force veteran who is
a nurse and manager of staff education with Cone Health, will teach a
Transition to Civilian Nursing class. In addition, veterans will study as
part of a peer learning community.
“We want our veteran students to feel supported and peer-mentored and
to know that the entire nursing faculty will be behind them,” Letvak says.
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tudents at the School of Nursing are trained to assist patients in
a wide variety of settings – and a growing roster of community
partnerships throughout the Triad plays a critical role in their education.
The SoN reaches out through a group of health centers and also
through an array of partners that give students a chance to sharpen
their clinical skills while also providing much-needed health care to
underserved adults and children.
With funding from Wellspring, the Greensboro Housing Authority and
UNCG, the SoN operates health centers in five low-income housing facilities
across Greensboro. This initiative, which has run for more than 30 years, has
gained added importance with budget cuts
limiting health care options for many of the
city’s most disadvantaged residents.
Typically, the SoN’s entire undergraduate
senior class, as well as students in RN to
BSN programs, work shifts in the health
centers, assessing the wellness of patients
and connecting them with resources to
help treat their ailments. In an average
academic year, about 140 students will spend time at the centers.
“It’s a great opportunity to work with patients who have chronic
illnesses to manage,” says Dr. Jacqueline DeBrew, clinical professor of
community practice nursing. “Students can really connect with patients
in their home environments and see what it’s like to provide care in that
kind of setting.”
Meanwhile, the SoN extends its presence through more than a dozen
partnerships with health care businesses, hospitals, and social service and
public health agencies, including Advanced Home Care, Cone Health
and Church World Services. It collaborates in downtown Greensboro,
for example, with FaithAction International House on a health clinic for
immigrant families.
“Many immigrants don’t have access to health care, and they end up
going to emergency rooms if they need help,” says Jayne Lutz, clinical
associate professor of community practice. “That’s not the best way to
manage long-term health, and it’s not very cost effective either.”
The FaithAction clinic opened in the fall of 2013 and serves about 12
to 15 clients a week. It also gives students exposure to the challenging
realities of life for families with little health insurance or none at all.
“Students say to me, ‘This reminds me of why I want to be a
nurse,’” Lutz says. “They went into this profession to help people,
certainly not to make money.”
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New Outreach Programs Speed Nurses’ Paths to BSN
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ith studies showing that BSN-credentialed nurses improve
Education Center (AHEC) that helps support faculty travel to and
patient outcomes and health care providers increasingly
from the community college sites. The Davidson County program
requiring that degree, the School of Nursing is rapidly expanding its began a few months ago with an initial cohort of 38 students;
BSN outreach programs throughout North Carolina’s Piedmont.
18 students are enrolled in the Rowan-Cabarrus initiative.
The SoN launched BSN cohorts at Davidson County and RowanThe Alamance program will launch with an initial cohort of
Cabarrus community colleges in Fall 2014, and it will debut a similar 25 to 30 students, primarily serving the community college’s
program with Alamance Community College in Spring 2015. It has
recent associate degree nursing graduates. As with the Davidson
also begun a BSN partnership with Cone Health in Greensboro.
and Rowan-Cabarrus programs, students learn through a blended
“These collaborations are an important component of the School
format of online instruction and in-person classes.
of Nursing’s plan to meet the
“The community colleges
changing needs of nurses and
have been very active in these
employers,” says Dr. Anita Tesh,
partnerships, sharing parking,
Project Director of the AHEC
classrooms, libraries and other
grant. “We are targeting new
facilities,” Tesh says. “They’ve also
associate degree graduates to
assisted with recruiting students,
support the Institute of Medicine
and that’s been wonderful.”
report’s call for a seamless
During the past year, the SoN
transition from ADN to BSN.”
also started a BSN student cohort
The Institute of Medicine’s
for about 25 nurses at Cone Health.
BSN prelicensure students with faculty Susan Hensley Hannah (seated holding Sim child),
2010 report on the Future of
“Overall, this is a dramatic
Debbie Hancock (4th right, standing) and Dr. Diane York (3rd right, standing)
Nursing recommended that at
expansion for us with a
least 80 percent of bedside nurses have a BSN degree by 2020.
heightened focus on training nurses at the beginning of their
The Davidson County and Rowan-Cabarrus programs are
careers,” Tesh says. “We are also in conversations with several
supported by a $100,000 grant from the Northwest Area Health
other institutions about starting new cohorts.”
Celebrating 30 years of the UNCG
Hickory Outreach Program
UNCG SON invited graduating students
and their families to a reception in Hickory
congratulating the RN to BSN and MSN
Graduating Classes of 2014 and celebrating
the 30th Anniversary of the UNCG Hickory
Outreach Program. During the partnership
with Northwest AHEC (Area Health Education
Center) of Wake Forest School of Medicine
and part of the NC AHEC Program, more than
500 students graduated from the RN to BSN
and masters programs.
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Representing NWAHEC: back right: Dr. Michael Lischke, Director;
seated: Barbara Bainbridge; Kay Herr, BSN ’81, MSN ’85;
Mona Ketner, MSN ’83; back left: Alan Brown, Associate Director for
Regional Education NC AHEC
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he School of Nursing is among six schools of nursing nationwide chosen by the National League
for Nursing (NLN) to receive 2013 Hearst Foundations Excellence in Geriatric Education Awards.
“The commitment of all nursing faculty to the development of nursing students’
competencies in working with older adults is the primary factor in sustaining the geriatric
content in our curriculum and our culture,” says Beth Barba, who directs the Geriatric
Workforce Enhancement Project run by the School of Nursing with support from the
Greensboro Area Health Education Center. “We believe that because the faculty, students and
the community have a sense of pride and ownership of the geriatric curriculum integration,
then geriatric sustainability is more viable.”
Faculty from the School of Nursing accepted the award in September during the NLN
Education Summit in Washington, D.C. They presented their innovative approaches to
teaching geriatrics at a pre-summit workshop.
The School of Nursing’s geriatric curriculum has won three prior awards since 1999, all from the
John D. Hartford Foundation and the American Association of Colleges of Nursing.
As part of an intensive focus on teaching care of older adults, NLN is recognizing schools
of nursing that demonstrate exceptional instruction and innovation in this key area of nursing
education. The inaugural award for Excellence in Geriatric Education is the first step in a
multi-year competitive awards program; a dozen schools of nursing will be selected for this
prestigious honor between 2012 and 2015.
The awards program is a component of the Hearst Foundation’s $400,000 grant to
the League – renewable for three years, up to $1.2 million – to expand Advancing Care
Excellence for Seniors (ACES). This web-based program for geriatric care education was
developed with Community College of Philadelphia with the support of the John A. Hartford
Foundation, Independence Foundation of Philadelphia, and Laerdal Medical.
To be considered for the Excellence in Geriatric Education Awards, nursing faculty had to complete
an ACES workshop and integrate those ideas into the school’s curriculum. Connie Rankin, a clinical
assistant professor in the School of Nursing, completed the ACES training and took the lead in
implementing the ACES
guidelines at UNCG.
Demand for geriatric
nurses is accelerating
along with the nation’s
changing demographics.
With baby boomers
approaching their
retirement years,
the number of Americans age 55 and older will soar from 60 million (21 percent of the
population) to more than 107 million (31 percent) by 2030, according to the National
Council on Aging in Washington, D.C.
In North Carolina alone, according to statistics from the N.C. Institute on Aging:
• The number of persons aged 65+ increased 25.7 percent between 2000 and 2010, to 12.9
percent of the state’s total population.
• Between 2010 and 2030, the state’s 65+ population is projected to increase by over 400,000
persons per decade, reaching 2.14 million, or about 18 percent of the state total, by 2030.
• The median age is projected to increase from 36.9 years in 2009 to 37.8 years in 2030.
• The North Carolina metropolitan areas of Raleigh-Cary and Charlotte-Gastonia-Concord
were #1 and #10, respectively, in national rankings for fastest growth in the 65+ population
between 2000 and 2010.
• Between 2000 and 2010, North Carolina’s very old (85+) population increased by nearly 40 percent.
• From 2010 to 2030, the proportion of the very old (85+) will remain between 11 percent and
13 percent of the elderly population.
• Age cohorts from 0-44 years are expected to decline in their proportions of the state total.
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Nursing School
Lauded for
Geriatric
Curriculum
NLN Hearst
Foundation Award
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SoN To Celebrate 10th Anniversary of PhD in Nursing Program
Visiting scholar Dr. Barbara Resnick. PhD, CRNP, FAAN, FAANP, with doctoral students
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August. The event will
include social and
networking gatherings,
as well as other
activities that highlight
the accomplishments of
students and alumni in
their personal and professional lives.
“This will be a unique gathering of faculty, staff, current students and
graduates, providing an opportunity to renew old friendships, make new
friends, and reflect on their time here,” Barba says. “We hope many of our
alumni and their families, current students, and past and present faculty and
staff will join us.”
Program graduates will receive more information about the event in the
coming months.
he arrival of 2015 marks the 10th anniversary of the School of Nursing’s
well-regarded PhD in Nursing program.
With an intensive focus on research, the program prepares nurse scientists
to advance the field through scholarly inquiry and produces leaders who
enhance the nursing profession. It promotes optimal health for ethnic
minorities, women, children, and older adults and also develops scholars
who meet the academic and healthcare industry needs for nursing in North
Carolina and the nation.
Since the program
awarded its first PhD
in 2008, 36 graduates
have maintained
an outstanding job
placement record,
with the vast majority
moving into academic
careers. Among
those alumni, most
hold tenure or tenure-track faculty positions at colleges and universities
across North Carolina. Others hold key roles in practice settings, where
they serve as mentors and role models. Program alumni have published
articles in leading academic and practice nursing journals.
“The School of Nursing is very proud of our PhD in Nursing program,
our faculty, our staff and our graduates,” says Dr. Beth Barba, director of the
program. “The excellence of the teaching, the outstanding learning opportunities
for our current students, and the achievements of our alumni illustrate why the
program has thrived for the past decade and continues to do so.”
These accomplishments will be recognized at a celebration at UNCG in
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Jacquelyn and A
Walter Wolfe
Invest in
SoN Sim Lab
s a young nurse working in the cardio-thoracic acute care unit
at Duke University Medical Center, Jackie McKoy Wolfe BSN ’71
sometimes encountered situations she hadn’t had the chance to rehearse
during her training.
“It could be a heart attack or an embolism or back pain pointing to
something more serious. When you haven’t had prior experience with a
challenge like that, because the problem simply never presented itself during
your training, it puts you at risk for not doing the right things,” she says.
Because of a major gift from Jackie and her husband Dr. Walter Wolfe, a
longtime surgeon at Duke’s School of Medicine, a new generation of School
of Nursing students will get to practice handling unexpected challenges
before they happen in real life.
The Wolfes have made a substantial contribution in support of
S.C.E.N.E. – the Simulation Center for Experiential Nursing Education
– a sophisticated sim lab on the fourth floor of the Moore Building. The
lab features an apartment for home health simulation and a cutting-edge
anatomy visualization system called an Anatomage Table. An iPad-like
machine that displays the human anatomy in real-life size, the Anatomage
Table is being used by many of the world’s leading medical schools and will
offer SoN students a 3D experience for practicing patient care.
Walt, a professor of surgery at Duke, made the gift in honor of Jackie and
her “tremendous commitment to nursing and education,” he says. “Well
trained and experienced nurses play an absolutely critical role in patient
recovery, and it’s a profession I’ve always admired greatly.”
At Duke, Walt says, Jackie was “a skilled intensive care nurse, a sensitive
and caring cardio-thoracic nurse clinician and
a respected head nurse of the cardio-thoracic
intensive care unit. We make this gift to the
School of Nursing in appreciation of the guidance
and education she received as a student there.”
It’s the kind of technology that Jackie says
she wishes had been available during her
student days.
“The sim lab will provide students an
opportunity to encounter common situations
in patient care that they may not have been
exposed to in hospital clinical settings,” she
says. “In the lab, mistakes can be made and
then corrected. Far better that this occurs in
the sim lab than in an actual patient setting.”
Jackie fondly recalls the powerful influence and example of School of
Nursing Dean Eloise Lewis, who expected students not only to be first-rate
nurses but also leaders in their field.
“She was an excellent mentor who also helped find resources for me
when I was afraid I might not have enough money to continue with school,”
Jackie says. “I’ve never forgotten that.”
Years later and now the parents of five grown children, the Hillsborough
residents are eager to help ensure a world-class education for today’s students.
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UNCG Nursing
School Lab
Simulates
Real Patients
Story by Michelle Hines
University Relations
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R
ed Yoder, an elderly man living on his own, has diabetes
and a painful toe wound. Two UNCG Nursing students are at
Red’s apartment to check on him.
Stephanie Faulk and Marianne Williams, both seniors, check
Red’s blood sugar levels, take a look at his toe, and assess his
living situation. They are alarmed when Red tells them he’s
mixing Benadryl and a few beers to help him sleep. And they
note the junk food packets, mostly carbs, strewn around Red’s
living room, drawing mice and cockroaches.
Not to worry: Red’s not real. He’s a hi-fidelity simulation
mannequin. And his apartment is part of a new simulation
space—the Simulation Center for Experiential Nursing
Education (SCENE)—that takes up most of the fourth floor of the
Moore Nursing Building.
The fourth floor was renovated to expand Nursing’s simulation
space. SCENE—created with $300,000 of departmental funds
and donations—officially debuted Nov. 19 with an open house.
Stephanie and Marianne’s visit with Red has been videotaped
so they can review it later, self-evaluating and getting feedback
from a faculty member. Both students would love to spend more
time with patients like Red.
“We can really reflect on how we did and really identify areas
we can improve on,” Marianne says. “It’s a good way to connect
classroom to clinical. It’s a step between the classroom and
working with a real patient.”
“Body language speaks better than our voices sometimes,”
says Stephanie.
Just down the hall from Red’s apartment, is a control room.
Today Susan Hensley-Hannah—clinical assistant professor and
simulation coordinator—is at the helm. She can see, hear and
record the students’ visit with Red. She can control Red’s body,
manipulating his heart rate and blood pressure or inducing a
cough or wheeze. And she can provide Red’s voice
through a voice modulated microphone that makes
her sound like an elderly man. Really.
Julie Kordsmeier—also a clinical assistant
professor and simulation coordinator—says
students will get to know Red over time, tracking
him through hospitalizations and declining health.
A faculty member will also portray Red’s daughterin-law and caretaker, Judy.
“It’s an evolving care story,” Kordsmeier says.
Red’s story was scripted by the National League for
Nursing (NLN). NLN offers development, training,
testing and grants for nurses and nursing faculty.
Kordsmeier, a 25-year nursing veteran,
says students will care for simulated patients
across the lifespan—including newborn and
child mannequins—and with a wide variety of
afflictions. In addition to Red’s apartment, there is
a pediatric room that simulates a hospital pediatric
unit and a two-bay adult care room.
Next week, Kordsmeier says, the child will
have a ruptured appendix. Meanwhile.The baby’s
breathing issues may point toward pneumonia.
Simulations give nursing students an advantage,
Kordsmeier says. They allow all students to
experience identical situations, situations handpicked by instructors, and to take the lead in
critical scenarios where they might otherwise be
pushed aside.
“Simulation is so beneficial,” Kordsmeier says.
“It provides a safe environment, a safe place to
make a mistake and to learn from it.”
A longitudinal study by the National Council
of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN), published
in July, was a groundbreaker for the efficacy of
nursing simulation.The large-scale study evaluated
almost 700 nursing students in 10 pre-licensure
programs in diverse areas of the country, dividing
them into three groups—those who spent less
than 10 percent of clinical hours in simulation,
those who spent 25 percent of clinical hours
in simulation, and those who spent 50 percent
of clinical hours in
simulation.
The NCSBN study
found “no significant
differences among
study groups regarding
end-of-program nursing
knowledge, clinical
competency, or overall
readiness for practice.”
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NCSBN researchers concluded that “all evaluative
measures produced the same results: Educational
outcomes were equivalent when up to 50 percent of
traditional clinical experience in the undergraduate
nursing program was replaced by simulation.”
Clinicals can cause anxiety in students,
putting them on edge. “We want them to want to
keep coming back, not to dread it,” Kordsmeier
says. “They can say, ‘I did this well, but I need
to repeat that.’”
Around the corner from Red’s apartment is a
smaller room containing the nursing school’s
new Anatomage table. The 300-pound, $70,000
portable table, is one of only about 70 in the world
and 50 in the U.S.
Anatomage is a person-length, touch screen
digital device which allows students to dissect
and explore body systems using high-resolution,
life-size scans of real cadavers. For instance if
students want to compare a healthy lung with a
lung affected by cystic fibrosis, they can call up
those images on Anatomage.
And then there are the less high-tech simulations.
One, an end-of-life situation with actors
playing same-sex partners, had students
in tears. “It was powerful to see,” HensleyHannah says.
Another simulation had Hensley-Hannah
disguising herself as a 78-year-old woman who
had fallen.The students who treated her, even
checking her vital signs, were in for a surprise.
“They didn’t recognize her,” Kordsmeier says.
Edward M. Armfield, Sr. Endowed Scholarship Fund
for Nurse Practitioners
Mindy Oakley, Rhonda Lucas, Bedford Cannon, Penny Powell, Shannon Leach
Stanley and Dorothy Frank Scholarship in Nursing
Barry Frank, Eugenia Frank, Ernest Grant (SON Advisory Board)
Hearst Fellowship for Geriatric Nurse Practitioners
Paul Franklin (right)
William C. Roper, II Scholarship in Nursing
Shanna Hintz, Kevin Treiber (right) Laura Roper (seated)
Hearst Fellowship for
Geriatric Nurse Practitioners
Eric Gill (second left)
Student names in italics
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The Brenda Kulynych Cline and Janice Kulynych Story
Scholarship in Nursing
Chancellor Linda Brady, Joshua Smith, Kristen Richardson,
Stephanie Shaw, Christine Royal, Brenda Cline
Ruby Gilbert Barnes Scholarship
William Barnes, Celia Barnes, Omar Alzaghari, Gloria Cloninger
Stephanie G. Metzger
Scholarship
in Nursing
Busola Amurawaiye,
Stephanie Metzger
Vera Bell Copeland
Lashley Scholarship
Martha Rierson,
Marianne Williams,
Barbara Rierson
Drusilla Pearson Trull
and William B. Pearson Memorial
Scholarship in Nursing
Krysta Owens, Jo Winchester
Tom F. Nolan Scholarship
Jennifer Leath, Nancy Wilkinson
John W. Umstead, Jr. Scholarship
Scott Crofts
Blanche Rigsby Shore Scholarship in Nursing
Patricia Clark
Elizabeth Byrd Norman Endowed Scholarship in Nursing
Thomas Norman, Ashley Lineberry, Mary Meletiou
Annie D. Wilson Scholarship
Beth Miller
Ruth C. Wilson Scholarship
Chelsie Stinson
Annie D. Wilson & Ruth C. Wilson Scholarships
Anne Vaughan (right)
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Betty Sue Cheek Yarborough Scholarship
in Nursing
Kaylee Russ, Jan Yarborough.
W
e expanded our traditional Scholarship
Recognition Luncheon to an annual
gathering of Stakeholders of the School
of Nursing to celebrate all our donors of
scholarships, professorships and endowed
program funds and the students, faculty, staff
and community that we serve.
Brenda Kulynych Cline and Janice Kulynych Story
Scholarship in Nursing
Standing: Victoria Boggs, Christian Smith, Kiara Jacobs,
Jill Reuille
Seated: Lydia Vernon, Janice Kulynych Story, Esther Afra
Cone Health Foundation: Vic Nussbaum Scholarship
Vickie Walker, Aleah Barnes, Sandra Welch Boren
Roena Bullis Kulynych Fellowship in Geriatric Nursing
Standing: Julia Choi, Ashley Timmons, Shannon Heaton,
Kristen Richardson, Courtney Griffin
Seated: Beverly Lo, Brenda Cline, Stephanie Edwards
Phyllis & Stanley Shavitz Scholarship in Nursing
Steve Shavitz, Shannon Barton, Sarah Burnham,
Phyllis Shavitz
UNCG School of Nursing Alumni Association
Endowed Scholarship
Linda Newton, David Walker, Debbie Green
Eloise R. Lewis Scholarships in Nursing
Sue Beeson, Meredith Davis, LaVonne Fisher
Arnold and Signe Gholson Scholarship in Nursing
Lynne Pearcey, Kara Wilson, Ed Pearcey
Barbara Osguthorpe Scholarship in Nursing
Philip Curtiss, Imane Chettouch, Bobbi wOsguthorpe
The Summerlin Family Scholarship in Nursing
Katie B. Shepherd Scholarship
Laura Caudle, Gay Bowman (Advisory Board)
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Standing: Lauren Robinson, Lisa Vang, Sarah Van Horn,
Lynne Bresko (UNCG), Betty Sanchez, Laura Ward
Seated: Jacob Ramsey, Kaziah Miller
William F. Black
and JoAnn F. Black
RN to BSN Scholarship
William Black, Denise Wolfe
PhD in Nursing Student Scholarship Award
Fund in Memory of Dr. Carolyn Blue
Anna Sams, Debra Wallace (Faculty)
Bates Scholarship and Fellowship
Tony Bates, Louis Bates
Emma and Victor Bates Fellowship
in Gerontological Nursing
Standing left: Penny Phlegar
Victor and Emma Bates Scholarship
Seated: Denisse Guzman, Stephanie Pittman
Margie Fulp Hatley RN to BSN Scholarship in Nursing
Marge Hatley, Tue Vo (center)
Betty & Max Karb Nursing Endowment
right: Ginger Karb
Sandra M. and Richard G. Ouellette
Graduate Scholarship in Nurse Anesthesia &
Helen P. Vos Graduate Scholarship in Nursing Anesthesia
Richard Ouellette, Brittany Donaghy, Tiffany Hamilton,
Tom Cone (Advisory Board), Sandy Ouellette, Dana Dunn (Provost)
Kathleen Lynch Simpson Scholarship
in Nursing
Kathleen Lynch Simpson, Seth Trader
Hazel Nixon Brown Merit Scholarship in Nursing
Standing: Mona Ketner, David Brown, Martha Brown,
Seated: Leonard Brown, Mary Lipetzky
Mary H. and Charles J. Jorgensen Scholarship in Nursing
Standing 1st left: Geri Naylor, Seated 1st left: Margaret Dick
Gladys Thornton Memorial Scholarship in Nursing
Standing 2nd & 3rd left: Stephanie Watson, Christine Horton
Hearst Fellowship for Geriatric Nurse Practitioners
Standing 1st right: Kate Clark
Cone Health Distingushed Professorship in Nursing
Seated center & right: Annette Osborne, Debbie Grant
Helen Mieras Endowed Fund
in Graduate Nursing and Music
Maria Stump, Eileen Kohlenberg
Gamma Zeta Chapter, Sigma Theta Tau International Honor
Society of Nursing, Endowed Scholarship in Nursing
left: Jayne Lutz
Brenda Welling Rechtine Scholarship
Standing: Taylor Smith, Stephanie Zafra, Sydney Noble,
Rebecca LaPlante (UNCG), Brittney Botzis
Seated: Summer Holland, Aleah Barnes
Rebecca Jensen Scott Fellowship in Nurse Anesthesia
Amanda Hall, Jacy Crocker
Nurse Anesthesia Program Support Fund
right: Nancy Bruton-Maree
Ella Reed Young, Margaret Anne Landon,
and Mildred G. Shaw Scholarship in Nursing
Katherine Robbins, Micqui Reed
Well•Spring Scholarship in Nursing
Andy Agyemang-Boafo, Stephen Fleming
Student names in italics
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Barbara Ziel & Alice Kautz
Endowed Scholarship in Nursing
Don Kautz, Shelby McNeil
New Scholarships in Nursing
Professorship Funds
PhD in Nursing Student Scholarship Award Fund
This scholarship award fund
was established in 2013
through the collective support
from Faculty and Staff at
UNCG School of Nursing
in honor and memory of
colleague and friend, Dr.
Carolyn L. Blue, professor in
the Department of Community
Anna Sams, Debra Wallace (faculty) Practice Nursing at UNCG
School of Nursing, who died unexpectedly in May 2013. An
annual award is made to a student seeking a PhD degree in
Nursing Science and exemplifies accomplishment in conducting
research in the areas of health promotion and or management
of chronic disease or has intent to do so.
Daphine Doster Mastroianni Distinguished Professorship
in Nursing
(Standing 1st left) Douglas Doster
(Seated 1st left) Debra Wallace (professor)
Eloise R. Lewis Excellence Professorship in Nursing
(Standing 2nd left) Denise Côté-Arsenault (professor)
(standing 3rd left) Rita Menzies
Cone Health Distinguished Professorship in Nursing
(Standing 3rd-5th left) Debbie Grant, Annette Osborne, Tom Cone
(seated 1st right) Steve Anderson
Mary Jo Helfers Endowed School of Nursing Faculty Fund
Dean
(Seated center) Robin Remsburg
Program Funds
Whitney Smith, Elizabeth Quiroz, Tamara Holly, Rebecca Harbaugh,
Caitlin Shepherd, Mary Jo Helfers
Mary Jo Helfers established this fund to support the Eloise R.
Lewis Scholarships in Nursing for students in the undergraduate
pre-licensure program. Ms. Helfers wanted to honor her fellow
faculty members at the UNCG School of Nursing and help in
creating a support fund to which other faculty members could
also make contributions. Ms. Helfers’ gift support was made
to honor the memory and legacy of her great aunt, Erma Todd
Walsh, who served in the United States Army as a nurse in
World War I. The Eloise R. Lewis Scholarships were created to
recognize and honor the lifelong service of Dr. Eloise R. Lewis,
the founding dean of the UNCG School of Nursing and also an
army nurse. Mary Jo herself served in the US Army Corps and
Army Reserves. Her nursing career spanned critical care nursing,
American Red Cross service and as a faculty member at the
UNCG School of Nursing until her retirement in 2009.
School of Nursing Dean’s Endowed Faculty Development Fund
(Standing 1st left) Lynne Pearcey
Daphine Doster Nursing Faculty Enrichment Fund
(Standing 2nd left) Douglas Doster
Jacquelyn M. Wolfe BSN ’71 & Walter G. Wolfe, MD
Endowed Fund
(Standing 3rd & 4th left) Walter Wolfe, Jackie McCoy Wolfe
Well•Spring Nursing Health Center Fund
(Standing 2nd right) Stephen Fleming
Avahleen Cain Staff Excellence Award
(Seated 1st left) Micqui Reed
Willard E. Peterson Endowed Program Fund
(Seated center) Susan Safran
Betty & Max Karb Nursing Endowment
(Seated right) Ginger Karb
Dean
(Standing 1st right) Robin Remsburg
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The Sheltering Home Circle of The King’s Daughters and
Sons Endowed Nursing Scholarship
Winchester Family Endowed Scholarship in Nursing
George L. Winchester
established his family
named fund through an
irrevocable planned gift and
makes annual award gifts
for scholarships to benefit
preferentially need-based
students enrolled in the
RN to BSN program or in
the pre-licensure program;
or secondly, students
seeking advanced degrees.
George Winchester, Deanna Griffie.
Mr. Winchester’s gift is
dedicated in memory of his parents and in honor of his wife,
Jo Winchester, a twice-degreed UNCG nursing grad, who also
has a named scholarship fund in memory of her parents. In Mr.
Winchester’s words: “I see these impressive, hopeful, dedicated
and energetic nursing students as vital to society and to the
world. I am privileged to be able to help them attain their vision
and goals.”
The North Carolina Circle of King’s Daughters and Sons,
Inc. established The Sheltering Home Circle of The King’s
Daughters and Sons Endowed Nursing Scholarship in
2014 to provide scholarships based on financial need to
support undergraduate students in the UNCG School of
Nursing who “exhibit professional integrity, moral standards,
service through community, and campus involvement.”
The NC Circle of King’s Daughters and Sons is part of the
International Order which is one of the oldest Christian
service organizations in the world. North Carolina was
the 25th state to enter the order in 1886. Scholarships are
awarded to a full-time rising junior or senior in the nursing
program. Scholarship awards cover tuition, books, fees and
uniforms. Throughout the state of NC, the King’s Daughters
Circle supports the education of those students seeking
degrees in social service, education and nursing.
Clinton William and Shirley Talbott Remsburg Endowed
Scholarship in Nursing
McGinley Family Endowed Scholarship in Nursing
This scholarship fund has
been established by MaryK
McGinley in honor of her
family through a planned
gift commitment to provide
scholarship support for
students, both undergraduate
and graduate seeking
nursing degrees in the
UNCG School of Nursing.
Carmen Winstead, MaryK McGinley
Ms. McGinley has served as
Director of Development for the School of Nursing for over five years
and most recently assumed the position in the school as Director of
C.A.M.A.R.E. (Communications, Advancement, Marketing, Alumni
Relations and Events). MaryK has worked in the health care field
and higher education for over 40 years and has devoted much of her
career to the professional education and advancement of health care
professionals –especially those in the nursing profession. Members
of her family include a physician, nurses, medical social workers and
paramedics. She places significant value in the future of nursing and
the profession’s ability to lead change and advance health. To quote
Goethe: “Knowing is not enough…we must apply. Willing is not
enough…we must do.”
Clint Remsburg, Shirley Remsburg, Callie Rape, Robin Remsburg
Dean Robin Remsburg established this scholarship in 2014 in
honor of her parents and their valuable support of her nursing
education. Scholarships are awarded to full-time students in
the undergraduate program seeking a BSN degree. Scholarships
are based on merit with consideration given to student special
circumstances which would be described by applicants in their
scholarship seeking process. Dean Remsburg serves as the fourth
Dean of the UNCG School of Nursing and is herself a graduate
of the school’s MSN program with a concentration in nursing
education. Both Dr. Remsburg and her parents proudly value and
support the nursing profession and the significance of lifelong
learners and degree accomplishment of nurses.
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School of Nursing Established Funds
Victor and Emma Bates Scholarship
The Adelaide Russell Bell and Paul Hadley Bell
Scholarship in Nursing ***
William F. Black and JoAnn F. Black RN to BSN
Scholarship
Hazel Nixon Brown Merit Scholarship in Nursing
Mildred Perkins Caldwell/St. Leo’s Hospital
Scholarship *
Program Funds
Peggy Kennedy Carter Scholarship in Nursing ***
Nurse Anesthesia Program Support Fund
Cassell Saperstein Scholarship
Avahleen Cain Staff Excellence Award
Brenda Kulynych Cline and Janice Kulynych Story
Jean B. Brooks, M.D. Endowed Fund
Scholarship in Nursing
for the Nurse Practitioner
Cone Health Foundation: Vic Nussbaum Scholarship**
Jean B. Brooks PhD in Nursing Program
Moses Cone Memorial Hospital Volunteers
Endowment Fund
Scholarship
School of Nursing Dean’s Endowed Faculty
Daphine Doster Scholarship
Development Fund
Lynn Kendrick Erdman Endowed Scholarship Fund
Daphine Doster Nursing Faculty Enrichment Fund
in Nursing
Betty & Max Karb Nursing Endowment
Eileen G. Evans Graduate Scholarship
NC Nursing Historical Archives at UNCG
in Nursing Education ***
The Ernest and Jean Spangler Endowment Fund for
Marilyn Lang Evans RN to BSN Scholarship
the Eloise R. Lewis Nursing Performance Center
in Nursing
Well•Spring UNCG School of Nursing
Evergreens Senior Healthcare System Scholarship
Health Centers Fund
in Nursing
Wayne A. and Kathryn S. Foster Scholarship
Scholarship Funds
UNCG School of Nursing Alumni Association
Stanley and Dorothy Frank Scholarship in Nursing
Endowed Scholarship
Gamma Zeta Chapter, Sigma Theta Tau International
Nurse Anesthesia Endowed Scholarship in Nursing
Honor Society of Nursing, Endowed Scholarship
in UNCG School of Nursing ***
in Nursing
Edward M. Armfield, Sr. Endowed Scholarship Fund Arnold and Signe Gholson Scholarship in Nursing
for Nurse Practitioners
Greensboro Medical Alliance: Nell Hendrix Knight
NC Baptist Hospital Nurse Anesthesia Scholarship *
Scholarship *
NC Baptist Hospital Lettie Pate Whitehead
Dawn Striker Hailey Endowed Scholarship in Nursing
Scholarship **
Margie Fulp Hatley RN to BSN Scholarship in Nursing *
Ruby Gilbert Barnes Scholarship
Hearst Fellowship for Geriatric Nurse Practitioners
Emma and Victor Bates Fellowship
Mary H. and Charles J. Jorgensen Scholarship
in Gerontological Nursing
in Nursing
Professorship Funds
Cone Health Distinguished Professorship in Nursing
Forsyth Medical Center Distinguished
Professorship in Health Care
Eloise R. Lewis Excellence Professorship in Nursing
Daphine Doster Mastroianni Distinguished
Professorship in Nursing
* Scholarship Award
** Not a UNCG endowed fund
*** Planned Gift
Roena Bullis Kulynych Fellowship in Geriatric Nursing
Vera Bell Copeland Lashley Scholarship
The Eloise R. Lewis Scholarships in Nursing:
Sue Ayers Beeson Fund
LaVonne Huntley Fisher Fund ***
Mary Jo Helfers Endowed School of Nursing
Faculty Fund
Rachel Dawn Llewellyn Memorial Nursing
Scholarship in International Service Learning
McGoldrick-Propst Scholarship in Nursing***
The Rita Jones Menzies & Robert McGregor
Menzies Scholarship in Nursing in Honor of
Jenn Rallings Jones
Stephanie G. Metzger Scholarship in Nursing
Helen Mieras Endowed Fund in Graduate Nursing
and Music
Frances Newsom Miller Scholarship in Nursing
Cathy Curtis Moore Scholarship in Nursing
Margaret C. Moore Nursing Scholarship
Etta and George Mullikin Memorial Nursing
Scholarship ***
Anne Murphy Scholarship
Tom F. Nolan Memorial Scholarship in Nursing
Elizabeth Byrd Norman Endowed Scholarship
in Nursing
Barbara Osguthorpe Nursing Scholarship
Sandra M. and Richard G. Ouellette Graduate
Scholarship in Nurse Anesthesia
Lynne and Ed Pearcey Endowed Scholarship
in Nursing ***
Drusilla Pearson Trull and William B. Pearson
Memorial Scholarship in Nursing
Rita Hundley Pickler Scholarship in Nursing
John Joseph Rall, Jr. Scholarship in Nursing
Brenda Welling Rechtine Scholarship
Sandra D. Reed Merit Scholarship in Nursing ***
Bridgett Wilson Ridge Scholarship
William C. Roper, II and Laura A. Roper Scholarship
in Nursing *
Susan Morris Safran Merit Scholarship
in Nursing ****
Rebecca Jensen Scott Fellowship in Nurse Anesthesia
Phyllis & Stanley Shavitz Scholarship in Nursing
Katie B. Shepherd Scholarship
Blanche Rigsby Shore Scholarship in Nursing
Kathleen Lynch Simpson Scholarship in Nursing
School of Nursing Freshman or Sophomore
Scholarship *
Jean Martin Spangler RN to BSN Scholarship ***
Frances Fowler Stanton Scholarship
The Summerlin Family Scholarship in Nursing
Gladys Thornton Memorial Scholarship in Nursing
John W. Umstead, Jr. Scholarship
Helen P. Vos Graduate Scholarship
in Nursing Anesthesia
Well•Spring Scholarship in Nursing
Wesley Long Community Hospital Volunteer
Scholarship
Tomika Williams Graduate Scholarship
in Nursing ****
Annie D. Wilson Scholarship
Ruth C. Wilson Scholarship
Betty Sue Cheek Yarborough Scholarship
in Nursing
Ella Reed Young, Margaret Anne Landon, and
Mildred G. Shaw Scholarship in Nursing
Barbara Ziel & Alice Kautz Endowed Scholarship
in Nursing
We, the School of Nursing faculty, staff
and students are forever grateful to our
many donors for their generous gifts of
support that benefit our students.
**** Planned Gift with Current Restricted Feature
SoN Becomes Favorite Cause for the Fosters
So fifteen years ago, the couple created the Wayne A. and
Kathryn S. Foster Scholarship to support SoN undergraduates with
financial need. The scholarship recipients are often transitioning
into a new career in nursing or earning the degree while raising a
family. The Fosters enjoy meeting them each year at
a luncheon and frequently mentor them as well.
But the Fosters’ commitment to UNCG doesn’t
stop there. They served as well on the steering
committee of the SoN’s Students First capital
campaign and recently completed a three-year
term on UNCG’s Board of Visitors. They have also
designated a planned gift for the School of Nursing.
“The way Wayne and I are involved, making
these contributions together, has been a very
rewarding experience,” Kathy says.
For the Fosters, service to the university remains a top priority
even as their careers have evolved. Kathy was recently promoted to
director of the Family Medicine Center at Moses Cone H. Memorial
Hospital in Greensboro, and Wayne works for Winston-Salem/
Forsyth County Schools, where he directs a multi-million dollar grant
project focused on transforming 16 high-needs schools.
“This is our university,” Wayne says. “It gave to us, now we’re giving
back and that makes us part of the community. If you’re at the stage of your
life where you’re ready to start giving back, this is a great opportunity.”
K
athy and Wayne Foster didn’t set out to be philanthropists. But
these days, the couple is helping make college affordable for
new generations of students at the School of Nursing
– and hoping to inspire new donors to follow in
their footsteps.
Kathy BSN ’84, MSN ’92 and Wayne PhD ’01
discovered a passion for philanthropy early in their
careers. In the 1990s, while still in their 30s, they
established a scholarship fund for college-bound
seniors at Page High School in Greensboro.
As Kathy became more involved with the School
of Nursing’s Alumni Association, they started
thinking about investing more substantially in the institution that
had launched her career.
Wayne, meanwhile, deep into a career in speech-language pathology
and audiology, was thinking about expanding his professional
horizons. He enrolled in a doctoral program in child development at
UNCG – and then received a stunning and happy surprise.
“We’d been saving money for me to go back to school,” he says, “and
then I was really fortunate to receive a fellowship that paid for almost
my entire doctoral program. I was so thankful to the university for that
support. And I thought, “I can’t just not give back!”’
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DONORS to the School of Nursing
7/1/13 - 12/31/14
Cathy Dye Aaron
Lt Col Mary Jo Abernethy, BSN ’77
James M. Adams
Jane Adams
Annette Adkins
Shelley Africa-Floyd, MSN ’93
Melanie Brooke Aley, BSN ’08
Benjamin H. Allen
Jocelyn M. Allan
Martha Payne Allen, BSN ’86
Linda Marie Anderson, BS ’08
Susan Lynn Anderson, MSN ’07
Vada Anderson
Laura Christine Armstrong, BSN ’09
Dr. Kathleen S. Ashton, PHD NURS ’12
Saralyn Prickett Austin, MSN ’91
Vann Austin
Larry Bannon
Mary J. Bannon, MSN ’97
Rhonda Ison Barber, MSN ’08
Claire McRoberts Bartlett,
BSHE GENL ’44*
Ivey Janell Bateman, BSN ’96
Elizabeth Triplett Beam, MM MEDU ’83
David Beam
Brian K. Beard, BSN ’86
Patricia L. Beard
James L. Beeson
Dr. Sue A. Beeson, BSN ’73, MSN ’77
Colleen Whitt Bell, BSN ’78
Paul D. Bell, BA HIST ’77, BA PSCI ’77
Lady Susan Hislop Bell, BSN ’91
Barbara Johnston Bennett, BSN ’76
Norma Jean Berry, BSN ’72
Laura Ellyn Black, BSN ’12
William F. Black
Alvin Blalock
Cathy Bahen Blalock, AAS ’67
Janet Andrews Bohmuller, BSN ’90
Dr. James Whit Boone
Lesa Dockery Boone, BSN ’84
Sandra Anne Bowers, BSN ’96
Gay Bowman, MA MATH ’72
Dr. William E. Bowman, Jr.
Kevin Peter Brady, BSN ’10
Joyce M. Bramwell
Robert B. Bramwell
Joseph C. Brent, BSN ’04
M. Brenda Brewer
Christina Welch Broberg, BSN ’96
Latina Layshawn Brooks, BS HDFS ’13
Dr. Mike Brooks
Susan Wyatt Brooks, BSN ’78
Vanessa Marie Brosan, BSN ’09
Anne Thompson Brown, BSN ’97, MSN
’06
Dr. Charles J. Brown
Laura A. Brown, BSN ’09
Marshall Brown
Dr. Ashley Leak Bryant, BSN ’03,
MSN ’05
Sheila Bryson-Eckroade, BSN ’78, MED
ADMN ’85
Eileen F. Buch
Jere R. Buch
Kelly Dawn Buie, BSN ’99
Jane House Burton, BSHE CLTX ’72,
BSN ’77
Dr. Janne Grace Cannon
Dr. Robert E. Cannon
Victoria Culberson Cannon, BSN ’93
Cameron Scott Carlton, BSN ’92
Phyllis Brooks Carouthers, BSN ’73
Carolyn Rierson Carpenter, BSN ’81
Kenneth B. Carpenter
Hugh John William Carroll, Jr, BSN ’10
Berkley Monagean Carter, MSN ’11
Laurie McRee Carter, BSN ’83
Lonnie N. Carter
Patsy Huff Castleman, AAS ’63
Gloria J. Causey
John P. Causey
Sarah Lauren Chalk, BSN ’08
Cathy Cheek, BSN ’78
Madeline M. Claggion, MSN ’89
Denise Clarida-Tyler, BSN ’81
Pat Clark, BS BEDU ’58
Shannon M. Clinard, BSN ’96
Barbara Louise Cobb, BSN ’75
E.J. Collins, MSN ’03
Frank L. Collins, BSN ’92
Dr. Susan Kay-Ransom Collins,
Dr. Linda Comer, MSN ’89, MS GUID ’96,
PHD EDLE ’04
Community Foundation of Greater
Greensboro
Pamela Cook, BSN ’02
Ann B. Corbett
Alisha Dante Cornell, BSN ’09, MSN ’13
Bennett L. Cotten
Wes Cotten
The Honorable Janet Cowell
Kay J. Cowen, MSN ’84
Michael A. Craddock
Pat Hughes Craddock, BSN ’77
Beth Griffin Craig, BSN ’79
Dr. Patricia B. Crane
Suzanne West Crater, BSN ’75
Shaina N. Crudup, BSN ’97
Dawn Culmer, MSN ’01
Robin P. Cunningham
Philip Curtiss
Rachael Lyn Dailey, BSN ’13
Mary Beth Darden, BSN ’76
Jones B. Darnell, MSN ’99
Allison Davis, BSN ’79
Dr. Leslie L. Davis
Tammy A. Day, BSN ’85
Dr. Susan Denman
Carolyn Dew, MSN ’87
Elizabeth K. Dickson, MSN ’77
Armand DiMeo, Sr.
Elizabeth A. DiMeo
Mary Dionne
Audrey M. Dobberfuhl, MSN ’02
Lawrence Dobberfuhl
Teah Nakesha Shante Doles-Johnson,
BSN ’08
Linda Townsend Douglas, BSN ’75
Holly Hendrixson Dozier, BSN ’76
Gerry Dozier
Ann Glenda Dunnegan, BSN ’96
Kathryn Edmonds Duntemann, BSN ’74
Sarah M. Durfee, BSN ’79
Amy Groce Dyer, BSN ’86
Crystal Starr Easter, BSN ’06
Martha Anne Easter, BSN ’86
David W. Eddinger, BSN ’80,
BA PSYC ’81
Kathleen M. Edwards
Lee Cardwell Ellis, BSN ’75
Saralea K. Emerson
Katy S. Emmert, BSN ’93
Tammi Erving-Mengel, MSN ’95
Tim E. Mengel
Livina Imo Eshiet, BSN ’12
Katalina Marie Eubanks, BSN ’13
John C. Eudy, Jr, BSN ’00
Tammy L. Evans, BSN ’93
Robin Everhart, BSN ’81
Mary Fenton Faint, BSN AHEC ’95, MA
MALS ’98
Deborah H. Faulconer, BSN ’79
Dexter Anthony Felder, CERT EDLE ’09
Judith Dalton Felder, BSN ’94
Marilyn L. Fishel, BSN ’72
Lavonne H. Fisher, BSN ’70, MSN ’82
Dr. Otis N. Fisher
Ayres A. Fitzgerald, BSN ’93
Dale Anne Fletcher, BSN ’78
Cynthia Connell Floyd, BSN ’80
Gary L. Floyd
Jacqueline Erin Foley, BSN ’07
Mitzi Mathena Fore, BSN ’76
Betty Wall Forrest, BSN ’75
Hayes Forrest
Katherine L. Forsell, BSN ’02
Fachecia L. Fort, MSN ’09
Kathryn S. Foster, BSN ’84, MSN ’92
Dr. Wayne A. Foster, PHD HDFS ’01
Barry S. Frank
Marc K. Franks
Robbie Caddell Franks, BSN ’83
Gilda Whitaker Friedman, BSN ’70
Kristie R. Fuller, BSN ’98
Alpha Whitley Fuqua, AAS ’60
Heather Lynn Gaither, BSN ’10
Darryl Raymond Gardner, BSN ’11
Mary Ann Yenc Gaster, MSN ’10
Sharon Speer Gentry, MSN ’00
Steve Gentry
Mary George
Saddie Hannah Gillespie, BSN ’77
Karen Glass, MSN ’93
Jakie Edwards Glick, BA ELED ’64
Kimberly Glover, BSN ’02
Nancy Goenaga
Ashley H. Graham, BSN ’98
Elizabeth Blalock Graham, BSN ’74
Rachel White Graham, BA BIOL ’00,
BSN ’06
Judi K. Grainger
Ernest Grant, MSN ’93
Jo Anna Gresham, MSN ’95
Dr. Mary J. Griffin, PHD NURS ’11
Patti Waggoner Griffin, BSN ’87
Alisha Grimes, BSN ’05
Marti Groome, BSN ’76
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Glenn McGirt
Julie D. Guentner, BSN ’88
Marcia Guine, MSN ’06
Scott Guthrie
Susan Cook Guthrie, BSN ’89
Peggy L. Hall, BSN ’96
Susan Bowden Hammond, BSN ’72
Deborah Croome Hancock,
Catherine Ruth Hanor, BSN ’03
Steve Hanor
Cindy Perryman Harris, BSN ’83
Erica Messana Harris, MSN ’13
Janet Seagle Harrison, BSN ’79
Jane Hedgecock Harriss, AAS ’61
William F. Harriss
Sherry Dunn Haszto, BSN ’09
Margie Fulp Hatley, AAS ’62
Beverly Barnes Haynes, BSN ’74
Amy N. Heintz, BSN ’86
Rod Heintz
COL Angelene Hemingway, BSN ’78
Janet Hendley
Kathy Huffman Henry, BSN ’09
Julianne Hepler
Fred G. Herndon, BSN ’99
Belinda Hester
John F. Hester
Peggy Hewitt, BSN ’05, MSN ’08
Catherine Kluttz Hile, BSN ’76
Sherry Hiltbrunner
Timothy G. Hiltbrunner
Sarah Elizabeth Hinkle, BSN ’98
Enid Isaacson Hinson, BSN ’78
S. Laing Hinson, III
Sandra Raines Hinton, BSN ’08
Greg C. Hobbs
Mary C. Hobbs
Cheryl LaMar Hoffer, MSN ’86
Jo Beth F. Holliday, MSN ’00
Mal Honeycutt, BSN ’10
Fran Hoover, BSN ’78
Melba B. Hoover
Richard L. Hoover
Amelia S. Hopkins, BA PSCI ’80, MA
ECON ’91
Barry Hopkins
James A. Howard
Shelby V. Howard
Glen Hubbard
Lori Hubbard, BSN ’98, MSN ’11
Margaret Cleek Hubbard, BSN ’87
Carole K. Hubble
Denise W. Hudson
Kathryn Masten Hudspeth, AAS ’63
Dr. Jie Hu
Jeanette W. Hyde
Dr. Yolanda Michelle Hyde, BSN ’00,
MSN ’03
Donna K. Ivey
William Dewey Jackson
Dr. Jeanne Brown Jenkins, MSN/MBA
’03, PHD NURS ’10
Dorothy Hughes Jobe, AAS ’59
William R. Jobe
Blondie S. Johnson
Catherine J. Johnson
Ida B. Johnson
Jessica Lynn Johnson, BSN ’10
Kathleen Robinson Johnson, BSN ’73
Laurie Benfield Johnson, MSN ’93
Lenwood A. Johnson
Jamie Lee Jonas, BSN ’09
Ramona Locklear Joseph, BSN ’85
Sunny Marie Joyce, BSN ’99
Brenda Stanton Julian, BSN ’83
Philip W. Julian, BSN ’78, MSN ’79
Dr. Virginia Karb
Dr. Kenneth S. Karb
Dr. Donald D. Kautz
Brenda Veazey Keech, BSN ’82
Milton L. Keech
Carol Keller, BA BIOL ’75, MLS LIBS ’80
Carol Schmidt Kelly, BSN ’94
Sarah C. Kendrick, BSN ’01
Carole Alley King, AAS ’64
Charles King
Deborah K. Goins Kirkman, BSN ’83
John Kirkman, BS BE ’82
Nancy Allred Kivett, AAS ’61
Bill Kleck
Sylvia L. Kleck, BSN ’73*
Celeste Treiber Klitenic
Jacob A. Klitenic, III
Brenda Johnson Knight
James Lee Knight
Marilyn A. Knox, AAS ’60
Kimberly Alexis Koechert, BSN ’10
Belle Smith Koester, BSHE HEDU ’55
Dr. Eileen G. Kohlenberg
Dr. Randy B. Kohlenberg
Darryl Konter
Roslyn Pollard Konter, BSN ’76
Keith Gerard Kordsmeier
Julia Ann Kordsmeier
Rosalynn May Kornegay, BSN ’80
Claudette Krell, MSN ’03
Kenneth Eugene Krell, BS RECR ’06
Dr. Daniel P. Krowchuk
Dr. Heidi Vonkoss Krowchuk
LabCorp
Linda Dale Lamberson
Sue Nichols Lambeth, AAS ’63
Terry Yale Laws, BSN ’84
Judith B. Ledbetter, AAS ’60
Eugenia H. Leggett
Jennifer Kristin Lenchik, BSN ’13
Susan Ward Lester, BSN ’94
Trisha Lester
Dr. Susan Ann Letvak
Debra Gail Levin, BSN ’78
Jonathan Hartlyn
Dr. Lynne P. Lewallen, MSN ’86
Paul Frazier Lewallen, MBA ’94
David A. Light
Jean Light, BSN ’82
Jay Loftin
Jenny Phibbs Loftin, BSN ’77
Carole Lynn Long, BSN ’72
Carol J. Lukosisus, BSN ’84
Edwin Lupo
*Deceased
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...a Student’s Perspective
I
t is hard to believe that three and a half short
years ago I was touring UNCG’s campus as a high
school senior. Today, as a member of the School of
Nursing’s New Student Orientation and Recruitment
Committee I am often asked by prospective student’s
why I chose UNCG. My answer is simple, “UNCG
was the only option for me!” Their response is usually
nothing more than a puzzled look, so I am quick to
justify my answer. No, I unfortunately did not receive
a full ride here and no this is not the only college
I was accepted to, in fact it was the only college I
applied to. Why might you ask? Well for me the
reasoning was simple. When I stepped on UNCG’s
campus for the first time in my entire life I felt like I
was in a place where I was embraced and valued for
exactly who I am as an individual.
Growing up in a small racially separated area I had
often times been ridiculed and even discriminated
against for being a multi-racial individual. I simply
knew that I wanted more from life and more out of
my education. I wanted to find a place where I was
no longer judged simply based on the color of my
skin, but instead on my work ethic, character, and
aspirations. I have found that home at the University
of North Carolina at Greensboro. Looking around
this room today I think it is clear that the School of
Nursing also shares in this value of diversity. Our class is
groundbreaking not only in the diverse racial makeup
of its students, but also in the number of male students,
non-traditional students and second-degree students.
Second-degree nursing students, I would specifically
like to take a moment to commend you on your
dedication to educational achievement. I say this because
it was a second-degree student much like you that
inspired me to pursue a career in nursing. Now 10 years
later after completing her nursing degree she is known
to most as Elizabeth Smith, Director of Nursing of an
assisted living facility in NC, but to me she is still simply
known as mom. I still vividly remember the nights of her
staying up until 3 a.m. to study in our family minivan
parked out in our driveway and never seeming to miss
a beat when it came to helping us with our homework
or making us breakfast every single morning before
school. She chose a career in nursing first and foremost
because she had a passion for serving others and secondly
because she wanted to provide a better life for her family.
Witnessing her journey, I learned two important life
lessons that still stick with me today. First, there is no
greater gift in life than the ability to serve others and
secondly it is never too late to pursue your dreams.
Scholarship recipients, I would like for each of
you to take a moment to examine what motivated
you to pursue a degree in nursing. Has it been
your own personal experiences with battling a
chronic illness? Caring for a loved one with a
terminal diagnoses? A lifelong passion for serving
others? Or do you also have a mentor who has
been your inspiration? Regardless of what has
motivated you to come to this decision, it is clear
that you have chosen nursing as a career path
because you possess a dream for creating a better
tomorrow for the patients we serve.
But what about the rest of you sitting in this room?
Whether you realize it or not, you too share in this dream
of creating a better tomorrow. Dean Remsburg, professors,
and nursing faculty, as educators you have perhaps taken
on one of the most selfless nursing roles in existence
today. You have chosen to dedicate your lives to sharing
your expertise with the future leaders of tomorrow. Your
efforts do not go unnoticed and the knowledge you are
instilling in your students reaches far from beyond the
boundaries of the classroom. It is unbelievable to think
that the education you are providing will eventually go on
to affect the care being delivered to thousands of patients
and for this reason I commend you.
Scholarship donors, without your selflessness and
generosity many of us would not be sitting in this
room today. For many scholarship recipients, including
myself, your act of kindness has meant the loss of a
burden. The burden of not knowing where our next
tuition payment will come from, how we will afford our
textbooks for the next semester, or where the money
will come from to pay the deposit on our uniforms. You
have chosen to invest not in a Fortune 500 company,
but in the future of our nation. I think that I can speak
on behalf of all of the scholarship recipients when I say
it hard to put into words how truly grateful we are for
your contribution to our future. I would also like to take
a moment just to say a huge personal thank you to my
scholarship donors Dr. & Mrs. Rechtine of the Brenda
Welling Rechtine Scholarship and Cynthia Fowler
Barnes of the Frances Fowler Stanton Scholarship. If
it wasn’t for your contributions, I would not even be
standing before you all today.
In closing, and as many of you go on to pursue
advanced degrees and become leaders in your chosen
areas of specialty, I would like to leave you all with
one final thought. It is one of my favorite quotes by
author Sarah Ban Breathnauch. It states, “The world
needs dreamers and the world needs doers. But
above all, the world needs dreamers who do.”
Thank You!
Brooke Smith, Class of 2015
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Stakeholders
Recognition
Luncheon
2014
DREAM…DESIGN…DO
education activities within the school, university,
region and globally.
And the SPP supports our Healthy Nurse Initiative
which focuses on our junior and senior pre-licensure
students as well as our faculty and staff who serve
as powerful role models for students. This Initiative
encourages and supports healthy personal and
professional practices through lifestyle modifications
to manage healthy weight and healthy physical activity.
We welcome your participation through your interest and gift
support to help us create exceptionally well prepared nurses
from day one. As a nursing alum, faculty or staff member, parent,
student – please make a gift. The number of participants counts to
make an impact not only for our nursing school but for the entire
university. Your annual gift of any size matters. Do you know that
37% of a student’s college education at UNCG is covered by private
contributions of alumni, constituents and friends of UNCG?
We all will eventually need a nurse’s care. Ours students need
you NOW. For information on ways in which you can provide
philanthropic support for the UNCG School of Nursing, please
contact us. Together we are the team to meet our community’s
health care needs of present and future.
Dear Alumni, Friends, Faculty, Staff, Parents and Students:
Each year as part of its strategic plan, the SON, designs its annual
giving appeal to make an immediate and vital impact on student
education. For 2014-2015, our focus is the Student Passport
Program (SPP) which will provide student domestic/ global
experiences that will enhance opportunities for students to apply
what they learn in the classroom.
The SPP supports the costs of providing real life “out of classroom”
experiences ranging from a local volunteer immigrant clinic to travel
overseas to a third world country to provide health services to groups
who otherwise have no access to healthcare. Students will practice
newly acquired skills and knowledge that help them to be prepared,
to think critically, respond to change and advocate for their patients
on day one. The SPP covers the cost of equipment, supplies for health
centers and community health fairs, travel costs for students and
faculty to remote practice sites to provide nursing and healthcare
services to underserved groups, as well as health promotion and health
MaryK McGinley
Director of C.A.M.A.R.E.
Communications, Advancement, Marketing, Alumni Relations, Events
DONORS to the School of Nursing
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Judy Osborne Lupo, BSN ’77
Nicole Fratus Luther, BSN ’01
Kim Martin Lutz, BSN ’77
Elmer R. Macopson
Janice S. Macopson, MSN ’89
Laura Mundy Magennis, BSN ’91
Diana Naumovna Malkina, BSN ’11
John I. Malone, Jr.
Beth Goodwin Maree, BSN ’77
F. Kenyon Maree, MED LBED ’71
Peggy Markham, BA MATH ’76, MS
ACCT ’05
Dr. William T. Markham
Ellen Martin
Jessica Marie Martin, BSN ’08
Pod Martin
John Martinelli, Jr, MSN ’04
Renee Martinez, BSN ’98
Sherry Wilson Matthews, MSN ’10
Susan Robinson Matthews, BSN ’92
Maggie Ann May, MSN ’82, MS FNIM ’98
Bernard Mayes
Judith Lynn Maynard, BSN ’72
Maria McAuley, BSN ’00
Bernice Muskelly McClain, BSN ’98
Mary E. McCulley, BSN ’84
MaryK McGinley,
Janet M. McGoldrick, BSN ’80, MSN ’92
Levi McGowan, MSN ’06
Emily Mckeown, BSN ’13
Alicia Mebane McMillan, BSN ’11
Cyndi McPherson, BSN ’07
Shannon Melby, BSN ’10
Rita Jones Menzies, BA DRSP ’71
Robert Menzies
Jacqueline D. Metzger
Robert L. Metzger
Dr. Stephanie G. Metzger, BSN ’84
Dr. David E. Miller, Jr.
Debra Livengood Miller, BSN ’80
Nancy Miller, BSN ’76
Ashley Shanice Millner, BSN ’12
Deborah Ann Minanov, BSN ’87
Dr. Kristijan Minanov
Ruth Miringu, BSN ’99
Donald R. Moore, BSN ’74
Lelia Summers Moore, BSN ’71
Martha McManus Moore, MSN ’80
Mildred Denise Moore, BSN ’81
Jonas C. Moretz
Nancy Crews Moretz, BSN ’75
Carey M. Morris, BSN ’93
Janell Lashawn Morton, BSN ’10
Elena Mosqueda, BSN ’11
Cameron Leigh Mull, BSN ’09
Karen Marion Mullinax, BSN ’75
Bill Mullins
Diane Mullins
Eleanor L. Mulumba, BSN ’93
Fran Myers, BSN ’79
Tameka Marshea Neely, BSN ’02
Beverly Robbins Nelson, AAS ’63,
BSN ’82
Mary Marlene Neumann, BSN ’98
Derrick Nelson Newkirk, BSN ’07
J. D. Newton
Linda Rogers Newton, BSN ’90, MSN ’94
Anna Daniels Nicholson, BSN ’85
Thomas Watson Jones
Jessica Noah
North Carolina Nurses Association,
Catherine Nunn, BSN ’74
Annette Osborne, BSN ’90, MSN ’99
Bobbi Osguthorpe, BSN ’83
Carrie Elizabeth Overgaard, BSN ’98
Ed Pearcey
Dr. Lynne G. Pearcey
Laura L. Pennington, BSN ’82
Tammy Edwards Pennington, BSN ’91
Sarah D. Penry
Thewanda Anise Peterson, MSN ’11
Robin Michelle Petro, BSN ’12
Lori Neal Phillips, BSN ’83
Robert Phillips
Julia Flack Phipps, BSN ’76
John S. Pickler
Dr. Rita Hundley Pickler, BSN ’79,
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MSN ’81
Leslie Nichols Pinnix, BSN ’97
Judy R. Piper, MBA ’93
Donna Joan Pittard, BSN ’79
Caitlin Marie Pope, BSN ’12
Julie Karen Potts, BS CDEV ’92, BSN ’05
Cheryl Wasserman Powers, AAS ’67
David P. Powers
Kathryn Ortman Prohoda, BSN ’81
Catherine Elaine Propst, BSN ’75, MSN
’94
Jennifer Crews Quinn, BSN ’96
Sean Patrick Quinn, BA PSCI ’95, MED
SOCS ’03
Mary Lindsay Rachui, BSN ’74
Ginny Rainey, BSN ’06
Christopher Ellison Ralph, BSN ’07
Stephanie Rippard Ramsey, BS BIOL ’98,
BSN ’98
Kevin Dale Rayfield
Rachael Potts Rayfield, BA SPCM ’95
Karen Cain Ray, BSN ’76
Dr. Robin Remsburg, MSN ’82
Kathy Jordan Reynolds, BSN ’71
Charlene A. R. Rhem
Paula Israel Rhude, AAS ’65
Helen Rice, BSN ’81
Leann Richard, BSN ’00, MSN ’14
Byron W. Ritter, BA PSCI ’74
Karen Priest Ritter, BSN ’77
Karen Tager Rivo, BSN ’77
Dr. Marc L. Rivo
Bill Roberts
James O. Roberts
Jo Roberts, AAS ’65
Linda White Roberts, AAS ’60
Lindsay Gore Roberts, BSN ’11
Teresa Walker Roberts, BSN ’79
Monique Yvette Robinson, BSN ’08
Bonita Henderson Rogers, MSN ’96
Elizabeth Wright Ross, BSN ’74
Richard J. Ross
Amy Sexton Rowell, BSN ’71
Joanna Andrews Russell, AAS ’61
Janice Butler Ryckeley, BSN ’80
Michael Forrest Ryckeley,
Perry Safran
Susan Morris Safran, BSN ’77
Samantha Ann Salter, BSN ’12
Dana Smith Sanford, BSN ’85
Timothy Edward Sanford,
Jessica Scavo, BS HS ’98
Carolyn Simons Schmidt, BSN ’83
Don Sutton Schmidt, MBA ’81
Brian Schoolman
Yonit Schoolman
*Deceased
continued on page 23
Faculty Recognition
Dr. Denise Côté-Arsenault was
selected as a 2013 Fellow in the
American Academy of Nursing.
Kay Cowen is co-author of
Principles of Pediatric Nursing,
6th Edition, published October
2014.
Dr. Leslie Davis was named
a Fellow of the American
Association of Nurse
Practitioners (AANP) and
inducted as a Fellow in the American Heart
Association, Cardiovascular and Stroke
Nursing Council in 2013. Selected by the
American College of Cardiology to serve
on the Management Board for the National
Cardiovascular Data Registry in 2014.
Dr. Jie Hu was selected as a
2014 Fellow in the American
Academy of Nursing.
Dr. Yolanda Hyde was a faculty
recipient of UNCG’s 2013-14
Teaching Excellence Award. She
is the 2014-16 President of the
North Carolina League for Nursing (NLN).
Dr. Louise Ivanov was selected
as a 2014 Fellow in the
American Academy of Nursing.
Dr. Laurie Kennedy-Malone
published with two of her
colleagues: Advanced Practice
Nursing in the Care of Older
Adults. Nineteen adult-gerontology NP
graduates contributed to this book which
received a 2014 Book of the Year Award for
Gerontological Nursing from the American
Journal of Nursing (AJN).
Julie Kordsmeier was a faculty
recipient of UNCG’s 2013-14
Teaching Excellence Award.
Dr. Susan Letvak received the
Sigma Theta Tau, Gamma Zeta
Chapter Excellence in Nursing
Leadership Recognition Award in
2013. She was the recipient of the 2012-13
UNCG Alumni Teaching Excellence Award
for Tenured Faculty and was the speaker at
2013 UNCG December Commencement.
Dr. Kobie Lieper successfully
defended her PhD dissertation:
“The Context, Content and
Consequences of Disruptive
Behaviors among Nurses through
Participant Observation and Interviews” at
UNC Chapel Hill, SON in October 2014.
Dr. Michael Rieker was
selected as a 2013 Fellow in the
American Academy of Nursing
and was named the Outstanding
Scholar Alumnus of 2013 by Penn State
University’s Schreyer Honors College.
Dr. Anita Tesh was selected
as a 2013 Fellow of the NLN
Academy of Nursing Education.
Dr. Debra Wallace received
the 2014 Distinguished Alumni
Award from East Carolina
University’s College of Nursing.
UNCG SON was awarded a 3 year grant
from HRSA, titled the Veteran Access
Program (VAP). The VAP is being offered in
partnership with Cone Health to provide
medically trained veterans with access and
specialized support in an innovative and
accelerated educational program to obtain a
BSN and be employed. Grant team members
include Drs. Susan Letvak, Jacquelyn
DeBrew, Donald Kautz, Anita Tesh and
Debra Wallace as well as Jean Reinert, an
Air Force veteran who serves as Manager of
Staff Education with Cone Health. See pages
4-5 for more details.
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School of Nursing
Leadership
Dr. Robin Remsburg, Dean
Dr. Debra Wallace
Senior Associate Dean for
Research & Innovation
Dr. Heidi Krowchuk
Associate Dean Academic Programs
Dr. Lynne Lewallen
Assistant Dean, Academic Affairs
Dr. Susan Letvak
Chair, Adult Health Nursing
Department; Director of
Undergraduate Nursing Programs
Dr. Denise Côté-Arsenault
Chair, Department of Family and
Community Nursing
Dr. Susan Denman
Director of the Doctor of Nursing
Practice (DNP) Program
Dr. Beth Barba
Director of PhD Program
Dr. Jacqueline DeBrew
Coordinator for the RN to BSN
Program
Dr. Robin Bartlett
Chair, Plenary Council
MaryK McGinley
Director of C.A.M.A.R.E
Communications, Advancement,
Marketing, Alumni Relations and Events
Class Officers Lead Successful Fund-Raising Campaign
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of the senior class – enough money to keep the award going for the
next couple years.
“We were really excited about that,” says MacEachern, who now
works as a nurse in the cardiac intensive care unit at Wake Forest
University Baptist Medical Center and has long-term plans to become
a nurse anesthetist. “It keeps the legacy of the class of 2014 going.”
The leadership experience she gained as a class officer, MacEachern says, also added an important dimension to her education at the
School of Nursing. She and Beasley continue as leaders by joining
the SON Alumni Association board of directors.
“The school offers a great learning environment, and my instructors
really emphasized the importance of not just being a good nurse but also
a good leader,” she says. “As class officers, we had the chance to work on
leadership, and we learned that communication is the key to anything.”
ith their final undergraduate year getting under way in the fall of
2013, the School of Nursing’s senior class officers had just $75
left in the bank for their class. Funding the scholarship and recognition
programs they wanted to support would take a lot more than that.
So they didn’t hesitate to set an ambitious goal – raising $1,000
by the end of the school year.
“We wanted to step up and bring together our class a whole,”
says Tifani MacEachern BSN ’14, who served as class president.
MacEachern and class vice president Teal Curry BSN ’14, secretary Mary Mayhew BSN ’14 and treasurer Matthew Beasley BSN ’14
knew they had set a real challenge for themselves. Their classmates
were occupied with full course loads and, like most college students, did not have much money to spare. MacEachern and the
other officers met frequently to track progress.
“It was better to set small fund-raising goals throughout the year
and focus on making gradual progress, rather than trying to get to
the big goal all at once,” MacEachern says.
They sold t-shirts, collected change during classes and raised
money at flu clinics and other events. By the time the year wrapped
up, their class had actually exceeded its target – raising $1,500.
The class promptly designated $500 for the Alumni Association
scholarship fund. The officers also earmarked money for a class
party and $500 for a recognition award for an outstanding member
2014 Class Officers
Katherine Mayhew
Teal Curry
Tifani MacEachern
Matthew Beasley
Secretary
Vice President
President
Treasurer
DONORS to the School of Nursing
continued from page 21
Dr. Elaine S. Scott, BSN ’77, MSN ’90
Rebecca Jensen Scott, BSN ’74
Ann S. Sealey, BA PRIE ’65
Ann L. Seats, MSN ’94
Elsie C. Yuen Seetoo, BSN ’48
Sylvia Vazquez Self, BSN ’79
Margaret Nicholson Selle, BS ECHL ’79
Denise Stroup Sellers, BSN AHEC ’96
Margaret Sellers, BSN ’71
Vicki A. Sessoms
Kristen Hudson Sharpe, BSN ’09
Morgan Hennis Shaw, BSN ’10
Lara Pleasants Shelton, BSN ’94
Jasmine Shiver, BSN ’12
Deborah Moretz Shook, BSN ’80, MSN ’94
Tracy Shumate
Maria Sienkiewicz Lennon, BSN ’92
Nicole Lemonds Simmons, BSN ’12
Grace Ann Simpson, MSN ’95
Donna Mosteller Sims, BSN ’96
Alice Alexander Skinner, BS ’73
Wendy Sue Slingerland, BSN ’08
Deborah Childress Small, BSN ’78
Daniel J. Smith
Debbie Smith, BSN ’77
Deborah Luebben Smith, BSN ’75
Senator Fred Smith
John N. Smith, III
Janice H. Smith, BSN ’13
Lauren Marie Smith, BA SPWS ’95, BSN ’05
Linda McGimpsey Smith, BSN ’78
Maria Haley Smith, BSN ’81
Robert A. Smith
Rose Smith, MSN ’94
Shelia Smith, BS PEDU ’55
Sonia Artrice Smith, BSN ’86
Virginia Smith
Lynette Currin Smitherman, AAS ’64
Vicki Smolin
Helen T. Snow
Richard Everett Snow, MSN ’01
Holli Steelman Socin, BSN ’11
Linda Ayers Southard, BS BEDU ’60
Wanda Talarico Spargur BSN ’77
Tracy Grace Spears, BSN ’13
Beth Brawley Stanley, BSN ’01
Kathleen L. Stauffer, MSN ’96
Sherri Stewart
Teresa Jean Stocum, BSN ’79
Lynn Cossart Stogner, BSN ’88
Deborah W. Stokeley, BSN ’83
Gladys Phillips Suggs, AAS ’63
Robert V. Suggs
Marue Summerlin, BA BIOL ’48, MED
GUID ’71*
Betty Pringle Sunding, BSN ’88
Pamela Brooks Sweeney, BSN ’89
Karlin H. Talerico, MSN ’12
Josie Taunton, BSN ’06
Dr. Catherine Taylor, PHD ’10
Kaitlyn Morgan Taylor, BSN ’13
Dr. Anita Star Tesh, MSN ’81, PHD
EDRM ’90
Debra W. Thayer, BSN ’74
Jesalyn Kearns Thomas, BSN ’84
Joan Thomasson-Waters, MSN ’02
Alma Boyd Thompson, MSN ’96
Andrea Jones Thompson, BSN ’86
John A. Thompson
Cynthia McCree Thorp, BSN ’75
Lewis S. Thorp, III
Naomi Y. Tipton, BSN ’87
Jacqueline C. Todd
Elizabeth Tornquist
Cheryl Miller Trapp, BSN ’81
Robert A. Trapp
Kevin Peter Treiber, BSN ’98
Christy King Trippett, BSN ’11
Rheagan J. Turner, BSN ’12
Kaitlyn Michelle Utley, BSN ’13
Dr. Elizabeth Van Horn, MSN ’98
Mark R. Van Horn
Christine Lawrence Vaughn, BSN ’93
Wendy Mitchell Veasey, BSN ’89
Sharon Ford Verdu, BSN ’79
June B. Vernon
Gary Walter VonCannon, MBA ’80
Lois L. VonCannon, MSN ’85, CERT ’99
Shana M. Voss, BSN ’03
Jana Welch Wagenseller, BSN ’76
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Kirk William Wagenseller, Jr.
Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center
Dr. Debra C. Wallace
Jacqueline Potter Warner, BSN ’59
Art Warner
Jane Warren
Neilsa Mesimore Warren, BSN ’76
Steve F. Warren
Alene Watson, BSN ’76
Connie Weant, BSN ’81
Robert David Weant, BSN ’76
Kristi Hall Webster, BS SOWK ’92,
BSN ’98
Debbie Stroud White, BSN ’78
Marshall L. White
Mary Morris White, BSN ’76
Nancy Swan White, MSN ’82
Lynn Whitener, BSN ’71
Kay Whitt-Fecher, BSN ’73
Kristin L. Wike, BSN ’06
Theresa Smith Wilder, BSN ’88
Chris Wilhelm, BSN ’73
Nancy Nolan Wilkinson, BSN ’82, MSN ’94
Tammie Lefler Willard, BSN ’81
Ashley Willas, BS TEDF ’03
Ann Fredrickson Williams, BSN ’77
Carol Williams
Catherine Williams
Eddie Williams
Francis Williams
Megan Elizabeth Williams, BSN ’09
Michelle Rose Williams, BSN ’87
Tomika Michele Williams, MSN ’03
George L. Winchester, Jr.
Johanna P. Winchester, BSN ’80, MSN ’90
Jacquelyn McKoy Wolfe, BSN ’71
Dr. Walter G. Wolfe
David L. Wood
Frances Jackson Wood, BSN ’88
Gregory Glenn Wood, BA ENGL ’92
Jennifer Ingram Wood, BSN ’97
Linda Wood, MSN ’85
James E. Workman, Jr.
Martha Reeves Workman, BSN ’72
Robin C. Wright, BSN ’92
Ida Lauck Wysor
Germaine Blanche Yahn, BSN ’02
Gregory H. Yahn, MBA ’82
Joyce Moretz Young, BSN ’79
Kimberly Nicole Yount, BSN ’10
Barbara Morrisey Yow, BSN ’78
Dr. Carol J. Ziel
Patricia S. Zippay
* Deceased
Every effort has been made to ensure
the accuracy of the SON Donor Lists.
However, if you notice an error, please
notify MaryK McGinley at 336-256-1054 or
maryk_mcginley@uncg.edu so that we may
appropriately recognize your support.
Mission Trip to Peru Puts
Spotlight on Health Care Needs
H
PERU
“They really welcomed us and helped
us understand their day-to-day lives and
problems so that we could do everything
we could for them,” Hensley-Hannah said.
“You leave there very humbled by the things
you see and very grateful for the healthcare
access we have in the United States and
often take for granted.”
During a second, cultural leg of the trip,
the group explored Cusco, a mountainous
city that was the capital of the Inca Empire
from the 1200s to the 1500s.
For some of the participants, the trip was
life-changing.
Before arriving in Peru, Christy Millican
BSN ’13 had her heart set on becoming a
nurse-midwife. By the time she returned
home, her interest in women’s health
remained– but her horizons had broadened.
“The scope of what we saw in Peru shifted me toward a more
global view of healthcare,” Millican says. “It opened my eyes to
serving in a different kind of way. It had an impact I still feel in my
work today.”
Millican, now a nurse in the maternity admissions unit at
Women’s Hospital of Greensboro, plans to join more mission trips
in the years to come. In the meantime, she will start studying this
fall at Vanderbilt University to become a family nurse practitioner.
Eventually, she hopes to explore ways to make the delivery of
healthcare more efficient and effective – not just in the U.S. but
overseas as well.
“Peru opened my eyes to serving in a different kind of way,”
Millican says. “It had an impact I still feel in my work today.”
aving already joined a service learning
trip to the Dominican Republic, Susan
Hensley-Hannah knew that the team of
UNCG students she led to Peru last year
would face long days caring for hundreds of
sick people.
But she still wasn’t prepared for
everything during their 11-day visit.
“We had breakfast one morning in a
village in the Amazon,” says HensleyHannah, clinical assistant professor in the
Parent Child Nursing department. “There
was a tarantula climbing up the tree right
next to us. It was as rustic as you can get!”
Hensley-Hannah and Robin Cunningham,
former clinical assistant professor in Adult
Health Nursing, brought three RN to
BSN and nine pre-licensure students with
them, hosted by the nonprofit People of Peru Project. In the city
of Iquitos, at the headwaters of the Amazon River, they spent a
week conducting a community health assessment and holding two
impromptu medical clinics – one in a suburban neighborhood and
the other in a village in the Amazon Jungle.
The city’s residents have limited access to government healthcare,
and their needs are significant in a region where tuberculosis,
malaria and parasites are not uncommon. At the clinics, the UNCG
team treated a wide range of ailments, including dehydration,
hypertension and bladder infections.
By the end of the visit, the team had served more than 300 people.
They had also learned more about the city’s healthcare and social
services through touring a hospital, nursing school, mental health
facility, an institute of indigenous medicine and an orphanage.
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MOLDOVA
New Initiative Helps Moldova
Transform Nursing Care
T
he School of Nursing has a proud history of serving the world
through student study abroad trips and partnerships that have
taken faculty and students around the globe. In the fall of 2013, it
had the opportunity to play host instead.
Greensboro has a “sister city” relationship with Chisinau, capital
of the eastern European country of Moldova, which is sandwiched
between Romania and Ukraine in a region that was once controlled
by the former Soviet Union. In 2013, a delegation of health and
nursing officials from Chisinau visited UNCG, North Carolina A&T.
Guilford Technical Community College, and Cone Health as part of
an effort to enhance health care in their home country. The group
included the nation’s deputy minister of health, a senior oncology
nurse representatives from the Moldova Nursing Association and
nursing faculty.
The visit to UNCG started serious conversations about how the school
could help. Those talks continued when Dr. Louise Ivanov, a professor in
the School of Nursing, paid a visit in the spring of 2014 to Moldova.
“Their health care had been under the Soviet system of health
care, and they’re trying to move away from that,” Ivanov says. “It’s a
new frontier where they really want to transform how they structure
and deliver health care. They’re very eager to make changes, and I
believe positive change is very possible there.”
Having previously visited medical facilities in Belarus, Russia and
Ukraine, Ivanov is well-versed in the challenges these countries
face as they seek to modernize their approach to medicine. She
accompanied Greensboro dentist Stephen Mackler and a team of
dental students from the University of North Carolina to Moldova
to see the situation first-hand.
Over the course of a week, she visited the nation’s college of nursing,
met with the head nurse at an oncology hospital and toured geriatric
facilities as well. Together, Ivanov and these officials identified ways in
which UNCG might help advance nursing education in general and
share best practices in palliative, geriatric and oncology care.
Moldova delegates with Dr. Anita Tesh, MSN ’81, Associate Dean (standing 2nd left),
Dr. Louise Ivanov, (seated center), Maj. Christina Henderson, BSN ’97 (seated right)
Next steps are still being decided, but Ivanov sees an opportunity
to share expertise by sending more School of Nursing faculty to the
country as advisers and by hosting more leaders and nurses from
Moldova in Greensboro.
“It’s an exciting opportunity for Greensboro to help Moldova and its
citizens along in a number of ways,” Ivanov says. “As their sister city, we
can help make a significant difference in the lives of patients there, and
we look forward to being part of that.”
Photo taken at 2014 Stakeholders Luncheon
Rachel Dawn Llewellyn
Memorial Nursing Scholarship
in International Service Learning
Carolyn Llewellyn, Demarcus Steward,
James Llewellyn
The Adelaide Russell Bell and Paul
Hadley Bell Scholarship in Nursing
Jenny Sandoval (2nd left)
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2013
2013 Class Speakers
Alumni Association – MSN: Delzora Able
SON Alumni Association Awards
Tia Exline, RN to BSN Representative
Eileen Weston, MSN Representative James Camp, BSN Representative
SPECIAL
Alumni Association – BSN: Tyler Eudy
Representing the Alumni Association – Tamara Caple, BSN ’99, MSN ’06
EXERCISES
Congratulations to our 2014 Nursing Graduates!
Over 200 graduates plus their families and friends joined Dean Robin Remsburg and faculty at Special Exercises on May 8, 2014.
2014 Class Speakers
Ila Mapp, MSN Representative, Binta Diallo, RN to BSN Representative
Matthew Beasley, BSN Representative
SON Alumni Association Awards
Representing the Alumni Association–
Linda Newton, BSN ’90, MSN ’94, President
Alumni Association –
BSN: Shanna Hintz
Alumni Association –
MSN: Heather Goodwyn
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Alumni Association –
PhD: Courtney Brown
Smith High School Health Fair
Punch & Cookies
The School of Nursing Alumni Association hosted a punch and cookies reception
following the ceremony for graduates, their family and friends, and faculty.
Nursing students promote better
health behaviors at Smith High
School Health Fair
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Nursing students designed a health promotion activity
for Smith High School students and families who
attended the Health Fair. They focused on risk factors
for adolescents such as drug and alcohol use and
the rise in obesity. The students created a display
with information on smoking cessation, the effects of
marijuana use and binge drinking, healthy eating and
vaccinations. The students worked with over thirty
people offering them blood pressure checks, heights
and weights along with calculating their BMI.
The BSN Class of 2014 presented Dean Remsburg with flowers at her
first UNCG Special Exercises.
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Susan Hensley-Hannah, Julie Kordsmeier and other faculty conducted a Mass Casualty
Simulation in October 2013 at the Faculty Teaching Learning Center. UNCG senior nursing
students had the opportunity to put their classroom knowledge into practice when an
“explosion” occurred at the Faculty Teaching Learning Center. Approximately 40 victims
(played by UNCG junior med surg/psych students), sustained significant injuries such as
pneumothorax, PTSD, impalement of a foreign body, burns, multiple fractures, etc.
Local EMS, campus Emergency Management,and
volunteer nurses from Cone Health participated as
well. After debriefing, everyone adjourned to the soccer field
where a medical helicopter landed as part of a training exercise.
Students were able to talk to the crew, tour the helicopter, and
learn about the med-evac process.
Smoking Cessation classes provided by UNCG students
According to the CDC, around 69% of adult smokers wanted to quit in the past year with many having tried multiple times to quit. In
2014 fall semester, faculty Jayne Lutz oversaw the teaching of smoking cessation classes within the high risk population of Hampton
Homes where one of SON’s health centers is located. Using “Quit For Life” information provided by two former RN to BSN students,
a group of pre-licensure and current RN to BSN students taught a session of 4 weekly classes. Later in the semester, a second group
offered classes in the Moore building for the UNCG students and the campus community plus their families and friends
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ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
ANNUAL MEETINGS
And BACK TO SCHOOL we came on Saturday November 1, 2014
More than 60 alumni, faculty, students and staff braved the cold and wet
weather to return to the Moore Nursing building for the Welcome Back
annual meeting, lunch and tours of the new sim lab: S.C.E.N.E. (Simulation
Center for Experiential Nursing Education).
The first Lifetime Achievement Award was presented posthumously to
Dr. Hazel Nixon Brown, EDD ’81, MSN ’84. Dr. Brown’s family members
were there to accept the award. 4
Dr. Debbie Green, Post Masters Certificate ’01, became the twenty-third
Distinguished Alumni Award Recipient and afterwards gave a presentation:
Courage, Resiliency and Happiness. (see page 30)
David Brown, Mona Ketner, Charles Brown. Anita Tesh (faculty), Leonard Brown
Distinguished Alumni Award Recipients4
Bobbi Osguthorpe (1997),
Elizabeth Woodard (2009), Jo Winchester (2001),
Daria Kring (2012), Elaine Scott (2013)
3Distinguished Alumni
Award Recipients
Bobbi Osguthorpe (1997),
Daria Kring (2012),
Cindy Jarrett-Pulliam (2007),
Debbie Green (2014),
Jo Winchester (2001),
SueBeeson (1999)
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UNCG School of Nursing
2013
Distinguished Alumna Award
ELAINE S. SCOTT
PHD, RN, NE-BC, BSN ’77, MSN ’91
Elaine Scott (2nd left) with Annette Osborne, LInda Newton
and Elizabeth Woodard
UNCG School of Nursing
2014
Distinguished Alumna Award
DEBORAH L. GREEN
DNP, RN
POST MASTERS CERTIFICATE 2001
D
r. Elaine Scott received both her BSN ’77 and MSN ’91 from the University of
North Carolina at Greensboro with a MSN focus in nursing administration. Elaine
began her career as a Staff Nurse at Moses Cone, and after practicing for several years
found her passion in community nursing. In 1980 she joined Upjohn Health Care
Services and in 1985 formed her own company, Community Care, Inc. becoming its
first Chief Executive Officer. The company grew and prospered and Elaine sold it in
1996. She then traveled the country as an executive consultant in home health and
hospice care. Feeling the pull for something new, Elaine joined the faculty at East
Carolina University, and in 2005 became the first graduate of their PhD program.
Elaine is an Associate Professor at ECU where she serves as the Director of the East
Carolina Center for Nursing Leadership whose mission is to mobilize nurses to be effective partners and leaders in creating healthier communities in eastern North Carolina. She
is a prolific writer, having published more than 15 articles in professional journals, is a
regular on the national nursing circuit, and highly sought after motivational speaker. She
is effective in securing grant funding for innovative nursing research. Her research interests
include leadership development, administrative theory and philosophy, polarity management, mentoring, and new graduate nurse transition. She is currently the President of the
National Council of Graduate Educators in Administrative Nursing (CGEAN), the nursing
organization that seeks to advance leadership education and research for nurses.
Elaine is known by her energy and her passion not only for nursing, but for life. She
is the wife of Bill, the mother of two daughters, Sara and Anna, both UNCG graduates,
and the human mother for Bogart (her beloved Scottish Terrier), an avid quilter and
regular beach comber. She is a true friend, an inspirational colleague, a proud bearer
of the UNCG School of Nursing credentials, and highly deserving of this award.
D
r. Debbie Green has been with Cone Health for 21 years and serves as
President of Annie Penn Hospital & Behavioral Health Hospital. She
has almost 38 years of experience in nursing leadership and received her
Bachelor of Science in Nursing from West Virginia University, a Masters of
Science in Nursing from the University of Virginia and a Doctorate of Nursing Practice from the University of Alabama. Green also holds a Post-Masters
Certificate as an Adult/Gerontological Nurse Practitioner from the University
of North Carolina at Greensboro.
During her 7 year tenure as Vice President of Annie Penn Hospital, Green
helped transform the hospital’s culture which has resulted in national leadership in patient, employee and physician engagement and dramatic increases in
quality of care.
As a result of her leadership, Green has helped Annie Penn Hospital become one
of the best performing hospitals in the region, earning the 2013 and 2014 Guardian of Excellence Award from Press Ganey. Also in 2013, Annie Penn Hospital
achieved the Top Hospital designation by The Leapfrog Group, an award the hospital received for having exceptional clinical safety.
Green has spoken on national and local levels, most recently presenting at
the Press Ganey National Conference in Washington, D.C. In 2013, Green was
selected as a Robert Woods Johnson Foundation Executive Nurse Fellow, an honor
she shares with only 10 other colleagues from around the country. Green has published a number of articles and is very involved in the local community.
Debbie Green (left) with Dean Robin Remsburg
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SON ALUMNI ASSOCIATION BOARD OF DIRECTORS
2013 - 14
Standing: Bobbi Osguthorpe, Phyllis Griffin, Tamara Caple, Jeanne Jenkins, Mary Swantek (UNCG Alumni Relations), Lori Hubbard, Roxanne Pecinich, Livina Eshiet
Seated: Debbie Green, Linda Newton, Robin Remsburg (incoming dean), Lynne Pearcey (outgoing dean), Micqui Reed, MaryK McGinley
President
Immediate Past President
Vice President/Program Chair
Secretary
Treasurer
Membership
Member At Large
Member At Large
Member At Large
Member At Large
Linda Rogers Newton, BSN 1990, MSN 1994
Dr. Debbie Green, CERT 2001
Annette N. Smith, BSN 1990, MSN 1999
Tamara Johnson Caple, BSN 1999, MSN 2006
Dr. Jeanne Brown Jenkins, MSNM 2003, PHD NU 2010
Cheryl Ann Somers, MSN 1999
Mary Bannon, MSN 1997
Livina Eshiet, BSN 2012
Phyllis Stroud Griffin, BSN 1975, MSN 1997
Lori Hubbard, BSN 1998, MSN 2011
Member At Large
Member At Large
Member At Large
Nominating Chair
Historian
Honorary member
By-Laws Chair - ad hoc
Susan Lynn Anderson, MSN 2007
Tim Nichols, Jr., BSN 2011
Joan Thomasson-Waters, MSN 2002
Roxanne Pecinich, BSN 2005, MSN 2008
Bobbi Osguthorpe, BSN 1983
Dr. Micqui Reed
Johanna P. Winchester, BSN 1980, MSN 1990
Ex Officio:
Dean
Director of Development
Dr. Robin Remsburg, MSN 1982
MaryK McGinley
2014 - 15
Standing: MaryK McGinley, Lori Hubbard, Livina Eshiet, Roxanne Pecinich, Phyllis Griffin, Jo Winchester, Debbie Green, Cheryl Summers, Jeannie Jenkins, Tamara Caple,
Cindy Smith, Bridgett Sellars, Bobbi Osguthorpe Seated: Linda Newton, Annette Osborne, Micqui Reed, Robin Remsburg
President
Immediate Past President
Vice President/program Chair
Treasurer
Secretary
Membership Chair
Nominating Chair
Member-at-Large
Member-at-Large
Member-at-Large
Member-at-Large
Member-at-Large
Annette Osborne, BSN 1990, MSN 1999
Linda Rogers Newton, BSN 1990, MSN 1994
Tamara Caple, BSN 1999, MSN 2006
Lori Hubbard, BSN 1998, MSN 2011
Livina Eshiet, BSN 2012
Cheryl Ann Somers, MSN 1999
Roxanne Pecinich, BSN 2005, MSN 2008
Mary Jo Abernethy, BSN 1977
Matthew Beasley, BSN 2014
Phyllis Stroud Griffin, BSN 1975, MSN 1997
Dr. Jeanne Jenkins, MSNMBA HEMG 2003, PHD 2010
Tifani MacEachern, BSN 2014
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Member-at-Large
Member-at-Large
Member-at-Large
Member-at-Large
Member-at-Large
Historian
Honorary Member
Honorary Member
Bylaws Chair (ad hoc)
Tim Nichols, Jr., BSN 2011
Dr. Bridgett Sellers, BSN 1995, MSN 2009
Cynthia Smith, MSN 2001
Joan Thomasson-Waters, MSN 2002
Lexi Tisher, BSN 2013
Bobbi Osguthorpe, BSN 1983
Dr. Micqui Reed,
Dr. Lynne Pearcey
Johanna P. Winchester, BSN 1980, MSN 1990
Ex Officio
Dean
Director of C.A.M.A.R.E.
Dr. Robin Remsburg, MSN 1982
MaryK McGinley
School of Nursing W
Alumni Association
Needs You!
hen she became president of the School of Nursing Alumni
Association in late 2013, Linda Rogers Newton BSN ’90, MSN ’94
was eager to “bring attention to what alumni can do for the future of
nursing by supporting us with their time and finances.”
She had one goal in particular: preparing today’s SoN students for eventual
leadership roles in the Alumni Association by getting them more involved right
now. Under Newton’s leadership, students began attending Alumni Association
meetings over the past year. They shared their perspectives on nursing
education – and learned about how the relationships the Alumni Association
offers can help advance their careers and keep them connected to UNCG.
“We want students to be an important part of what we do,” says
Newton, who recently retired as director of the emergency department
at High Point Regional Health System. “Otherwise, we’re working in a
silo where our new graduates don’t understand the contributions of our
association and what it can do for them and our university.”
The Alumni Association is showing its commitment to current students
in other ways, too. It is, for example, raising funds to help
support the Student Passport Program, a new initiative that
provides out-of-the-classroom experiences for SoN students.
Activities range from volunteering in local immigrant clinics
to traveling internationally to provide health services to
impoverished residents.
Annette Neal Osborne BSN ’90, MSN ’99, who succeeded Newton
as Alumni Association president in November 2014, will continue
leading efforts to fund the Student Passport Program. Building on the
progress made with involving current students, Osborne also wants to
widen the Association’s network of past students.
With SoN alumni spreading out across the country and the
world, it is imperative to stay connected with them, Osborne
says. “As our alums grow and develop, the Alumni Association offers them a
great opportunity to network with peers, find mentors, recruit talent to their
organizations and help new generations of students,” she says.
The quality of her experience at the SoN motivated her to give back
through her service on the Alumni Association board. “My education
made possible a career that I never would have envisioned,” says
Osborne, who is vice president of nursing at Cone Health. She is
especially grateful for the flexibility the SoN offered while she was earning
her MSN as a full-time employee and mother of three.
Similarly, Newton, who furthered her education through the SoN’s
Hickory Outreach Program while working full-time as a nurse at High
Point Regional, felt called to serve the alumni association. “Because of
the support of the institution, it felt like a family,” she says. “We were
respected as practicing nurses, and they helped us juggle our jobs with
our academics.”
Osborne and Newton urge alumni to update their contact information
on the SoN’s online alumni portal at http://nursing.uncg.edu/Alumni/
welcome.php. Alums are also encouraged to volunteer for service on the
Alumni Association board and to join the board’s meetings every other
month by phone.
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Congratulations
Class of 1973 and
1974 on your
Congratulations
Class of 1964 on
your 50th
Reunion
40th
Anniversaries
5 Is this you or someone you know?
Please help us identify who’s who in this photo. Email
maryk_mcginley@uncg.edu or mail to UNCG School
of Nursing, Attn: MaryK McGinley, PO Box 26170,
Greensboro, 27402-6170
AL U M N I
Associate Degrees
Claudia Taylor Lewis, AAS ’64, Havelock,
NC. Retired and works part time doing chart
audits at Carteret Home Health Services
Morehead City, NC.
BSN Degrees
Carolyn Campbell Johnson, BSN ’50,
Birmingham, AL. One of the first nursing graduates
from UNCG (then Woman’s College) and now retired.
Previously, worked for pediatric and orthodontic
offices, taught at Presbyterian Hospital nursing
school in Charlotte. Also worked part time at Oschner
Hospital in New Orleans, LA, and was Central Supply
Supervisor for a new hospital in Birmingham, AL.
N E W S
Pediatrics for the last 7 years. Plan are to enjoy
being a full time grandmother and traveling.
Barbara Barnes Brennan, BSN ’74,
Hendersonville, TN. COO and CNO at Alive
Hospice, Nashville, TN.
Marcia Leola Brafford, BSN ’75, Columbia,
SC. Neonatal NP at Palmetto Health Richland,
Colombia, SC.
Martha Helper Musselman, BSN ’75,
Thomasville, NC. Director, Clinical Improvement
at Novant Health, Winston Salem, NC. Worked
at Thomasville Medical Center which merged
with Novant Health in ’95. Responsible for 2
hospitals since ’09. Received MSN from Walden
University (’10).
Alice Alexander Skinner, BSN ’73, Mint Hill,
Catherine Kluttz Hile, BSN ’76, Creedmoor, NC.
NC. Retired from Novant Health in 2014 after 27
Recipient of the Long Leaf Pine Award in 2013.
years’ service. Worked as a triage nurse at Dilworth
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Karen Priest Ritter, BSN ’77, Greensboro,
NC. Retired in Feb ’14 after 35 years in public
health working as PA in Women’s Health Clinics of
Guilford County Public Health.
Donna Summers Steele, BSN ’77,
Greensboro, NC. Consultant and owner of
Community Based Consultants. Received 2013
Great 100 in Nursing Award.
Cindy Jarrett-Pulliam, BSN ’81, MSN ’84,
Greensboro, NC. CNO and VP at Novant Health,
Winston Salem, NC.
Dr. Elizabeth K. Woodard, BSN ’81,
Wilmington, NC. Received the Triangle Business
Journal 2013 Women in Business Award.
Jean Powell Moore, BSN ’82, Charlotte, NC. Staff
Nurse at Hospice and Palliative Care Charlotte Region.
continued on page 34
Recent Graduate Deanna Griffie Finds New Calling as Nurse
S
ome people grow up knowing they want to be
a nurse.
For others, like Deanna Griffie, the realization
sneaks up on them gradually.
When Griffie ‘BSN 14 earned her degree
in May through the School of Nursing’s
Hickory Outreach Program, she
took another big step in a personal
transformation that continues to
surprise her—and proves the
continuing appeal of the nursing
profession to those in search of
new careers.
After spending a few years at home
when her two children were very young,
Griffie embarked in the late 1990s on a
decade of work as preschool and kindergarten
teacher in Lincolnton. By 2007, she was feeling
ready for a change but wasn’t quite sure what to do.
Her experiences as an educator showed that
she liked working directly with people and finding
ways to help them. It slowly dawned on her that she
could have that same kind of impact as a nurse.
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“I really resisted that idea at first,” Griffie
says. “No one in my family had ever worked in
healthcare. I didn’t know if it was the right fit. What
if I fainted at the sight of blood?”
So she signed up for a phlebotomy
course, figuring that would be a quick
way to test her mettle. The class went
better than she’d hoped – so well,
actually, that she decided to go
all-in on a career in nursing. That
meant taking some pre-requisite
classes and then enrolling in the
RN program at Gaston College. It
also meant waiting tables to pay the
bills and still finding time to stay closely
involved with her teenage children.
“We all pulled together,” she says. “It was good
character building.”
She became an RN in 2011 and started working
full-time at Catawba Valley Medical Center,
eventually settling into the outpatient infusion
area. She also planned to study in an RN to BSN
program, and the UNCG Hickory Outreach Program
A L U M NI
Monie Holt Nuckles, BSN ’83, Ballinger, TX.
Adjunct Faculty, University of Phoenix Online
College of Nursing. She and husband, Rick, teach
online courses. Rick retired in 2007 from 26 years
of federal service as a Senior Special Agent for DEA,
US Customs and Homeland Security Investigations.
They live on small ranch near the middle of Texas.
Maria Hundley Harrison, BSN ’85, Gibsonville,
NC. Occupational Health Nurse at Copland
Fabrics, Inc. in Burlington, NC.
Sherry Leak Dixon, BSN ’93, Walkertown, NC. Staff
RN at Baptist Hospital, Winston-Salem, NC. Selected
by the Susan G. Komen Northwest NC affiliate to be
one of the Faces of Breast Cancer for Forsyth County
for 2014. Responsible for breast cancer awareness
projects including speaking engagements, fund-raising
and team organization for Race for the Cure.
Kimberly Gann Burkhart, BSN AHEC ’95, MSN
’12, Madison, NC. NP at Optum CarePlus for
United Health Group, Greensboro, NC.
immediately jumped to the top of her list.
She liked the program’s mix of face-to-face and
online instruction. What really sold her, though, was the
example of Dr. Donald Kautz, director of the program.
“His energy and his passion stood out,” Griffie
recalls. “He exuded real professionalism.”
With scholarships from UNCG and financial
contributions from Catawba Valley Medical Center,
Griffie enrolled in the program in August 2012.
“My employer was very, very supportive of this
partnership with UNCG,” she says. “And the
program itself worked seamlessly. The professors
were very understanding that we’re juggling a lot of
balls with school, and families and careers.”
With her degree now in hand, Griffie is moving
into a newly created role with Catawba Valley Medical
Center as an oncology nurse navigator. She will work
with lung and colon cancer patients and their families
to ensure that the process runs as smoothly as
possible from diagnosis through treatment.
“I had so many ideas about how to do this
particular job, so I’m really excited to start it,”
Griffie says. “This is something I feel called to do.”
NEWS
Jamie O. Fowler, BSN ’96, Linwood, NC. RN
in Labor & Delivery at NH Rowan Medical Center.
Married 17 years with daughter (13) & son (11).
Brenda Hendricks Kulp, BSN ’01, Raleigh,
NC. Certification Specialist at American Board of
Orthopaedic Surgery, Chapel Hill, NC.
Kathleen Anne McNutt, BSN AHEC ’96,
MSN ’00, Marion, NC. NP and owner of Marion
Wellness & Disease Management, PLC.
Dr. Ashley Leak Bryant, BSN ’03, MSN ’05,
Durham, NC. Assistant Professor at UNC Chapel
Hill. Married Owen Bryant, III (June ’13.).
Melissa Angela Reavill, BSN ’98, North
Wilkesboro, NC. Became Certified Pediatric Nurse
National in March 2014.
Patty Combs, BSN ’06, Nashville, TN.
Consultant for clinical research budget
for Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
Received MSN from George Washington
University in 2012.
Rebecca Bernhagen Jones, BSN ’99, MSN ’04,
Fuquay Varina, NC. RN Clinical Data Specialist Quality Reporting at WakeMed, Raleigh, NC. Third
child, Ian Bailey Jones, born 12/8/13.
Ramesh C. Upadhyaya, BSN ’00, MSNMBA
HEMG ’03, Robbins, NC. Promoted to Nurse
Consultant with NC State Department of Health
& Human Services, Division of Health Service
Regulation, Licensure and Certification Section,
Acute and Home Care Team.
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Susan Streitman Manz, BSN ’06, Charlotte,
NC. RN at School Health at Carolinas Healthcare
System in Mecklenburg County.
Kathleen K. Boss, BS PEDG ’90, BSN ’07,
Greensboro, NC. Trauma Program Manager, Cone
Health, Greensboro. Received MHA from Pfeiffer
University (May ’13).
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Dr. Kathryn M. Lanz, a Rising Star in Gero-palliative Care
I
Determined to drive even broader systemic change, Lanz
began commuting regularly to Nashville, where she earned a
Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) at Vanderbilt University. Her
studies focused on health system analytics and evidence based
implementation science for palliative care.
Along the way, she met a Pittsburgh resident whose grandmother
was dying. As Lanz counseled him via email about how to care
for her, their relationship blossomed. She married and moved to
Pittsburgh. She and her husband Matthew Lanz now have a young
daughter, whom she proudly calls “my greatest accomplishment.”
At UPMC, Lanz played a critical role in pursuing a $19 million, multiyear grant to improve the quality of care in 19 skilled nursing facilities
around Pittsburgh. She now serves as co-project director of the Center
for Medicare and Medicaid Services Innovation Award to Reduce Re-
n the complex and rapidly changing world of palliative care, Dr.
Kathryn M. Lanz BSN ’01, MSN ’05 is a rising star. She oversees
gero-palliative care programs at the University of Pittsburgh Medical
Center (UPMC). She co-directs a major, multi-million federallyfunded nursing initiative in western Pennsylvania. She also received
the national Nursing Leadership Award in Palliative Care from the
Project on Death in America at the American Academy of Hospice
and Palliative Medicine Annual Assembly.
Much of the credit for her success, she says, goes to the UNCG
School of Nursing.
“I truly believe UNCG helped prepare me for everything that’s happened
– not just being a good clinician but also being a leader,” Lanz says.
That special relationship started during her senior year of high
school when Lanz was being recruited by several universities as
a volleyball player. Having watched her grandmother care for her
ailing grandfather, Lanz knew she wanted to become a nurse.
But playing a varsity sport while also studying to be a nurse
wasn’t going to be easy. Many of the universities she visited said that
it was not feasible to do both.
“That’s why I chose UNCG,” Lanz says. “They told me right up
front that we could make this marriage work between athletics and
academics – and, in the end, it worked really well!”
Still uncertain of what kind of nurse to become, Lanz was asked
by a professor to help care for 29-year-old man who was dying of
stomach cancer. It proved to be a turning point in her life.
“I immediately found purpose in that room,” she says. “It was
natural and didn’t feel uncomfortable, and, from that moment on, I
knew I wanted to help people in palliative crisis.”
After graduation, she began her career as a hospice nurse. Before
long, she found herself frustrated by processes that made it difficult
to respond quickly to the needs of patients and their families.
Returning to UNCG for her MSN and nurse practitioner degree, she
gained the scope of practice and confidence to help start a palliative
care program in Greensboro that strengthened communication
between families and providers to ensure value-based care.
Kathryn Lanz (3rd right) and colleagues from the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Palliative and Supportive Institute (UPMC PSI) receive The Fine Foundation team award for the
“Palliative Care Integration Across the Continuum”
hospitalizations – an effort aimed at identifying best practices that can
enhance geriatric-palliative care in skilled nursing facilities nationally.
The North Carolina native still maintains her ties to home. Her
sister, Leslie McNeill Thomas (who is a UNCG MBA grad) and her
loving parents Phil and Nancy McNeill reside in Greensboro. “I’m
always looking for reasons to return to the area,” she says.
More recently, Lanz traveled home to complete studies to become a
Duke Johnson & Johnson Advance Practice Nurse Fellow. “I’m grateful
to UNCG every day,” she says, “for giving me opportunities to figure
out the next steps in my nursing journey and how to act on them.”
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Lynn Kendrick Erdman A
Named to National Nursing
Leadership Role
career that has taken Lynn Kendrick Erdman BSN ’77 from bedside nurse to the
executive ranks of several major health organizations reached another milestone
in January 2014. That’s when she was named CEO of the Association of Women’s
Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN) in Washington, D.C.
It’s the newest challenging role for Erdman, who started out in North
Carolina as a neonatal intensive care nurse, served as founding director of the
Presbyterian Cancer Center in Charlotte and later held senior positions with
the American Cancer Society, American College of Surgeons and Susan G.
Komen Global Headquarters.
She can pinpoint the moment her leadership journey in healthcare began in
earnest: It was when she met School of Nursing Dean Eloise Lewis as a sophomore in college.
“I remember thinking, ‘This is a woman who has it together!’” Erdman says.
“She was an amazing nursing leader who earned respect, and she’s the reason
I ended up at UNCG. It was a great choice because my experience at UNCG
was probably as diverse as my career has been.”
With clinical training that exposed her to nursing in rural, community and
hospital settings, Erdman says she learned a great deal more than just the
science of nursing. She was also schooled in the art of understanding patients
and their personal and emotional needs.
She recalls visiting a farmer during her student days to assess his health. He
was a bit standoffish at first but he began to warm to her. During a follow-up
visit, he said he’d fixed a meal for her. Erdman followed him to the kitchen to
find that he’d prepared a delicacy – cow’s tongue.
“I couldn’t believe I was eating this!” says Erdman, who grew up a city dweller
in Charlotte. “But it was one of those early lessons in figuring out how to get
close to patients even when they’re from a background that I’m not familiar
with. There’s always a story behind every person, and you’re a more effective
nurse when you know it.”
Erdman later earned her MSN at the University of South Carolina and
steeped herself in a wide array of nursing roles, from labor and delivery
to oncology and hospice care, before embarking on a career in healthcare
administration. Though she has filled executive and board roles for numerous
national organizations, she maintains close ties to North Carolina. In 2013,
she and her husband, David Erdman, endowed the Lynn Kendrick Erdman
Scholarship Fund in Nursing at UNCG.
She recently finished a four-year term as chair of the N.C. Advisory
Committee on Cancer Coordination and Control and has served as consulting
faculty for Duke University’s Graduate School of Nursing since 1994. She still
spends weekends in Charlotte with her husband, commuting to Washington
D.C., each week.
She relishes the opportunity to focus once again on nurses and their patients
in her new role at AWHONN.
“Caring for women and infants and advocating for their health and well-being
has been the foundation of my professional career,” Erdman says. “It’s a great
privilege to represent AWHONN’s 25,000 nurses.”
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A L U M NI
NEWS
Boo Young Jun Bardeles, BSN ’09, Culver City,
CA. RN at UCLA Hospital.
Francis Sterling Penland, BSN ’12, Morganton, NC.
RN at Catawba Valley Medical Center, Hickory, NC.
Melissa Michelle Browning, BSN ’09,
McLeansville, NC. Assistant Director of ER at
Moses Cone Hospital.
Abby Marie Slagle, BSN ’12, Atlanta, GA. RN at
Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta.
Aubrey Parker, BSN ’09, Newton, NC. Serves
as a nurse on a cruise ship for Norwegian Cruise
Lines and treats crew and patients. Also works in
ER when not at sea.
Byron Haddock, BSN ’10, Greensboro, NC.
RN in Critical Care, Alamance Regional Medical
Center, Burlington, NC.
Jennifer Lynn Beason, BSN ’11, Shelby, NC.
Bedside RN at Cleveland Regional Medical Center.
Ivy Paige Burgos, BSN ’11, Harker Heights, TX.
Stay at home mom with son (born June ’11) and
daughter (born August ’13). Husband stationed at
Ft. Hood.
Bethany Marie Stringer, BSN ’11, Kernersville,
NC. RN II at Cone Health.
Kimberly Ackerman Emory, BSN ’12,
Creedmoor, NC. Director of Surgical and
Progressive Care Units at Maria Parham Medical
Center, Henderson, NC. Currently enrolled in the
MHA executive program at UNC Chapel Hill.
Melissa Butcher Holt, BSN ’12, Chapel Hill,
NC. Nurse navigator at UNC Cancer Hospital,
Chapel Hill, NC. Recipient of 2013 Oncology
Nursing Excellence Award at UNC Cancer Hospital.
Kaylee Ann-Paige Kopp, BSN ’12, Fayetteville,
NC. Staff RN in ER at FirstHealth of the Carolinas Hoke Campus, Raeford, NC.
Jessica Lorraine Peake, BSN ’12, Greensboro,
NC. RN at Forsyth Medical Center General
Surgical Unit. Currently pursuing MSN at East
Tennessee State University in Johnson City, TN,
with expected graduation date May 2015. Named
to both Dean’s and University Honor list.
Shauna Gadson Brady, BSN ’08, Durham, NC.
RN, BSN, CCRN, CN III, PALS at Duke University
Medical Center, Durham, NC. Married with 3 year
old son. Pursuing MSN to become neonatal NP.
Caitlin Marie Lofton, BSN ’13, Indian Trail, NC.
RN I at Carolinas Medical Center University, part of
Carolinas HealthCare System in Charlotte, NC.
Lexi Tisher, BSN ’13, High Point, NC. New
graduate RN at High Point Regional Hospital.
Completed GNOSIS program and department
orientation in the ER. Recently received ENPC,
TNCC, ACLS, and PALS certifications.
Jason E. Upham, BSN ’13, Greensboro, NC.
Assistant Director in ER at Cone Health.
Jessica Anne Barrett, BSN ’14, Lincolnton,
NC. RN at CaroMont Regional Medical Center,
Gastonia, NC.
Ryan Terrell Hill, BSN ’14, Trinity, NC. RN at
Novant Health, Thomasville, NC.
Hannah Marie Jackson, BSN ’14, Sanford, NC.
RN at Rex Hospital, Raleigh, NC.
Sarah Elizabeth Moore, BA PSYC ’12, BSN
’14, Elon, NC. New Grad RN at Cone Health,
Greensboro, NC.
Binta Diallo, BSN ’14, Cary, NC. Published
article in 2014 with faculty Dr. Don Kautz: Better
pain management for elders in the intensive care
unit, Dimensions of Critical Care Nursing.
Angela Noel Thompson, BSN ’14, Greensboro,
NC. ED Staff RN at Cone Health.
Certificates
Dr. Deborah Green, CERT ’01, Greensboro, NC.
President of Annie Penn Hospital and Behavioral
Health Hospital, both Cone Health. Selected by
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation as one of 20
Executive Nurse Fellows for 2013.
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MSN Degrees
Debra Elaine Abee, MSN ONUR ’10, Connellys
Springs, NC. Student Mentor at Western
Governors University, Salt Lake City, UT.
Pauline Lucille Desjarlais, MSN ’99, West
End, NC. Clinical Support Specialist, Uniform
Data Systems for Medical Rehabilitation based in
Amherst, NY.
Dr. Clifford Gonzales, MSN ’06, PHD NUR
’12, Winston Salem, NC received UNCG’s Fisher
Gerontological Dissertation Award in 2013.
Ernest Grant, MSN ’93, Chapel Hill, NC.
Received UNCG 2013 Inclusiveness Award.
Received the B.T. Fowler Lifetime Achievement
Award at the 2013 NC Public Fire Educators
Conference. In 2014, elected as board chair,
National Fire Protection Association.
Rhonda W. Lucas, MSN ’13, Reidsville, NC.
Hired as a community provider with the House
Calls program of Caswell Family Medical Center
in Yanceyville to make making home visits mostly
to geriatric patients with chronic diseases with the
goal of helping them stay in their homes.
Dr. Nancy Scroggs, MSN ’94, PHD NURS ’10,
Moravian Falls, NC. Selected as first scholar
in residence of the National League for Nursing
(NLN)/Chamberlain College of Nursing Center
for the Advancement of the Science of Nursing
Education in 2014.
Dr. Sharon Starr, MSN ’99, PHD NUR ’08,
Crouse, NC. Dean, Gardner-Webb University SON,
Boiling Springs, NC.
Sally Tapp Williford, MSN ’84, Cary, NC.
Nursing instructor at Wake Technical Community
College, Raleigh, NC. Enjoys the family rescue
Walker hound dog, Karl. Daughter Mary is UNCG
graduate student and married (May ’14).
Passages
Nancy Carol Hoerning Brown, BSN ’87, of Pittsboro, NC died on
November 4, 2013 at age 48. Originally from NY before moving
to Gastonia, NC in 1970, she worked as a registered nurse at
Duke Medical Center for 26 years. She is survived by her husband
and family.
Dr. Ruby Gilbert Barnes from Cary, NC died on April 30,
2013 at age 95. Ruby gained a BSN from Duke University,
her MSN at UNC-Chapel Hill, and her EDD from NC State
University. After a 50-year career in nursing education,
Dr. Barnes retired in 1986 as Professor and Director of the
MSN Program at UNCG SON. Previously, she taught at UNC-Chapel
Hill, Eastern Carolina University, and Atlantic Christian College. She
developed the continuing education program at ECU SON and at UNCG
she helped develop, teach and direct the MSN program. She established
support for graduate nursing students at UNCG through the Ruby
Gilbert Barnes Fellowship. Throughout her career and in retirement,
Ruby continued active membership and served in leadership positions in
several civic, church and professional organizations. She was a Recipient
of the Great 100 Award for nurses in 1989 and one of five Women of
Distinction in NC by the Council of Women’s Organizations in 1991.
Ruby was a recipient of the 1998 Excellence in Nursing Education Award
presented by the N.C. League for Nursing. She is survived by her sister
and family and step son and family.
Hazel Nixon Brown, EDD ED ’81, MSN ’84, of
Yadkinville, NC died on October 31, 2013 at age
73. Hazel served on the UNCG faculty for 37 years,
during which she received numerous awards for
teaching and research excellence, and for outstanding university
service. She retired in 2011 as the Eloise R. Lewis Excellence
Professor of Nursing. She was awarded the Order of the Long
Leaf Pine in 2011 in recognition of her many years of exemplary
service to the State of North Carolina. Hazel served on the Yadkin
County Board of Education, was Deacon at First Baptist Church
of Yadkinville, and enjoyed knitting, walking, and quilting. She
loved traveling to international nursing conferences, writing, and
helping others in countless ways, large and small. She is survived
by her husband and family who established a scholarship in 1998
in her honor.
Dr. Carol Blue of Jamestown, NC died May 12, 2013
at age 65. She joined UNCG School of Nursing in
2004 as a professor of Community Practice Nursing.
She taught in the PhD and MSN programs, with a
focus on health promotion and prevention research
and theory. She was a Certified Health Education Specialist, a longtime member of the American Public Health Association, co-editor
of the book Public Health Nursing: Policy, Politics and Practice and a
thirty year member of Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society
of Nursing. She received her BSN from Ball State University in
1969, her Masters in Health Education/Health Promotion in 1978,
MSN from Indiana University in 1985 and her PhD in Nursing from
the University of Illinois in 1996. Prior to joining the UNCG faculty,
Dr. Blue served as a faculty member at Purdue University and a staff
nurse in various Indiana communities.
Janet White Daigle, BSN ’75, of Alpharetta, GA died on May 12,
2014 at age 61. She worked as an RN in Raleigh, NC, Brunswick,
GA and Atlanta, GA. She began Christian mission work in Peru and
co-founded with her husband a non-profit Face to Face Missions in
2010. She is survived by her husband, 3 children and family.
Peggy Hall, BSN ’96, of Greensboro died on October 24,
2014 at age 62. She retired from Wesley Long Hospital
as an RN in the Critical Care and Heart unit following
28 years of service. She was a member of Nurses
National Honor Society. In retirement, she was active in
bible study classes and enjoyed playing tennis and taking care of her
grandchildren. She is survived by her husband, children and family.
Joyce Shepherd Hershberger of Greensboro, NC
died on December 21, 2014 at age 82. Joyce was born
in Bowersville, GA and graduated from the University
of Georgia. She taught English at Guilford Technical
Community College in Greensboro and was a dietitian
for the Guilford County Jail. Joyce enjoyed travel, scuba diving,
gardening and taking flying lessons. In 1987, she established a
scholarship in SON in memory of her daughter, Katie B. Shepherd.
She is survived by her son and family.
Sandra Kay Brackett, BSN ’73, of Jacksonville, FL died December
22, 2013 at age 62. She was an RN at VA Medical Center in Dublin,
GA, Cone Hospital in Greensboro and 38 years in Memorial
Medical Center in Jacksonville before retiring in 2010. She is
survived by 3 brothers and family.
Mary Helen Stone Brodish, of Clemmons, NC died
on November 7, 2013 at age 78. She graduated from
Wellesley College in 1948, earned a MA in art history
from New York University then her MSN from Yale
University. She practiced nursing at Yale University
Medical School where her husband served on faculty. After being
a stay-at-home mom, she restarted her career and served on the
faculties of the University of Cincinnati and UNCG. She educated
hundreds of student nurses and received several awards for
teaching excellence in maternity and neonatal nursing. She was
instrumental in developing the nursing research program at UNCG.
She was active in her community, supported the arts and was a
longtime active volunteer for the organization Stop Child Abuse
Now (SCAN). Mary is survived by her husband and family.
Jenn Rallings Jones of Southern Pines, NC died on
June 18, 2014 at age 97. Jenn was trained as a secretary
with her last job being at The School for the Deaf in
Greensboro. She was a past member of the American
Business Women’s Association, a volunteer at Wesley
Long Hospital in Greensboro, and an active member of Grace United
Methodist Church in Greensboro. She was an avid gardener and lover
of nature. A scholarship in her honor was established by her daughter
Rita Menzies and husband in 2011. Jenn was sister to the founding
dean of UNCG SoN, Eloise Rallings Lewis.
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of Nursing from UNCG SON in 1994. Over the course of
her career, she made significant contributions to the field
of gerontological nursing. In 1992, she was elected as a
Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing, the highest
professional honor.
Sylvia Kleck, BSN ’73, of Lakehills, TX died on May
22, 2014, at age 65. She served as a captain in the
Army as a surgical nurse and received an honorable
discharge in 1982. After her service, Sylvia returned
to school earning an MSN and Bachelor of Public
Administration from University of Texas San Antonio. While
earning her degrees, she worked as an administrative assistant for
the cities of Leon Valley and Helotes. In 1997, Sylvia returned to
nursing as a rehabilitation nursing supervisor at Audie Murphy VA
Hospital before being medically retired in 2006. She is survived by
her husband, step children and family.
Jane Farish Ray Plaskie, BSN ’73, of Raleigh, NC
died on July 4, 2014 at age 63. Jane worked as an
RN for the DHHS in the Medicaid Division for 18
years. She is survived by her step-son, sister and
other family members.
Susan Peluso, MSN ’93, of Manassas, VA died August
25, 2013 at age 68. She spent 28 years as a nurse in
the US Army including active duty in Vietnam and
retired from the, NC National Guard as Chief Nurse
for NC. She earned a total of 3 bachelor and 5 master
degrees. She is survived by 2 daughters and family.
Bernice Vestal Martin, AAS ’63, of Southern Pines, NC
died on January 13, 2014 at the age of 71. She worked
as a nurse while her husband, the late Dr. Robert Gale
Martin, was in medical school. She traveled the country
and most of the world supporting his career. She loved
gardening, cooking, sewing and any do-it-yourself home projects.
Auctions and estate sales were a passion that she shared with her
husband. Most of all, she loved tennis and the friends she played
with. She is survived by her three sons and family.
Terry Dean Schlucter, BSN ’93 of Raleigh, NC died
on February 9, 2014 at age 58. His career included
nursing and drug research. He is survived by his
partner and family.
Joan Miller Mathews, EDD ED ’97, of Greensboro
died on April 30, 2013 at age 76. She held faculty
positions at Lincoln Hospital School of Nursing, NC
Central University and UNCG SON. She was a 44
year member of the Chi Eta Phi Sorority and received
the highest honor given to a member by the Southeast Region in
2009. She served on the Southeast Region Scholarship Committee
as the Sigma Chi Chapter’s Scholarship Chairman and as a delegate
to regional and national meetings. She also served in leadership
positions on numerous boards in Guilford County.
Helen Spriggs, PHD NU ’13, of Greensboro died
on November 3, 2014 at age 64. She served as
adjunct instructor at UNCG SON. She is survived
by her son.
Rosellen “Rosie” Staples, BSN ’75, of Smyrna, NC died on July
18, 2013 at age 62. Rosie worked as an RN at Forsyth Hospital,
Carteret General Hospital and Snug Harbor on Nelson Bay. She
loved being at the beach and on the water. She is survived by her
husband, son and family.
Katherine Keller “Katy” Maultsby, MSN ’82, of
Burlington, NC died on March 27, 2013 at age 78.
She taught nursing at Nash Technical Institute and
Alamance Community College, and also enjoyed a
50-year nursing career in Albemarle, Rocky Mount
and Burlington, including work as Assistant Director of Nursing
at Alamance County Hospital. Following her retirement, she
worked part time in Student Health at Elon University. Her hobbies
included knitting, art, reading and music. She was an ardent
supporter of Duke University, an avid Chicago Cubs fan and a
proud member of the Daughters of the American Revolution. She is
survived by her husband, sons and family.
Janet Marue Summerlin, BA AS ’48, MED ED ’71,
of Summerfield, NC died July 19, 2013 at age 86.
Marue was a pioneer in developing the modern
hospital laboratory in Greensboro. She worked in
the labs of several hospitals before joining Moses H.
Cone Hospital in 1954. There, over 32 years, she rose from lab
technologist to chief medical technologist and administrative
director of laboratories. She served as both a teacher and
mentor to those entering the health services field. A specialty
of hers was blood banks, a 20th invention that saved the lives
of millions of people. Marue will be remembered by the many
UNCG students who will benefit from the Summerlin Family
Scholarships and the science students working in UNCG’s
Summerlin lab. She is survived by cousins and best friend and
caregiver, Opaleene Beamer.
Kaitlin Elliott Morelli, BSN ’09, of Greensboro died
on October 12, 2014 at age 27. She was an RN at
Wake Forest Baptist Hospital and was awarded the
Nursing Excellence Award in 2009. Kaitlin had a
passion for photography, was an avid traveler, and a
member of the Blazing Soles running family in Chapel Hill, NC. She
is survived by her parents and family members.
Judith Snyder Williamson, AAS ’60, of Greensboro died on
February 20, 2014 at age 73. She worked as an RN for over 20
years in the Pediatric Unit at Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital.
She loved roller skating and ice skating and was an avid hockey
fan and team nurse for the Greensboro Generals. She is survived
by her 2 sons and family.
Dr. Virginia Bell Newbern of Greensboro died October
21, 2014 at age 87. Virginia retired as Professor Emeritus
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UNCG Homecoming
SON alumni, faculty, students and staff joined university academic
units and programs in hosting a nursing community service tent on
Kaplan Commons in 2013 and in 2014, a nursing booth in the Campus
Rec Center due to the inclement weather. Free flu vaccines were
administered to more than 215 Homecoming attendees. In community
partnership, Cone Health provided the flu vaccines.
School of Nursing’s
NIGHT OUT
UNCG Spartan games at Greensboro Coliseum
School of Nursing faculty, staff, students and advisory board
members cheer the Spartans at games in 2013 and 2014.
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UNCG SCHOOL OF NURSING
MISSION
UNCG School of Nursing is a learner-centered community
preparing nurse generalists, advanced practice nurses,
educators, and researchers to make a difference in the lives of
individuals, families, populations, and communities.
STRATEGIC VISION
To create exceptional learning experiences to transform the
profession of nursing, one learner at a time.
VALUES
• Innovation • Community Engagement • Scholarship
• Leadership • Diversity • Interprofessional Care
• Healthy Nurses
Dr. Robin Remsburg, Dean, School of Nursing
Dr. Linda P. Brady, Chancellor
Dr. Dana Dunn, Provost
The University of North Carolina at Greensboro
2013-2014 Outcomes
for the UNCG School of Nursing
BSN Program
• Enrollment for Upper Division Generic BSN and RN-BSN Program: 318
• Graduation Rate for BSN Program: 74.7% within 4 years and 95.6% within 6 years
• Graduation Rate for RN-BSN Program: 87.7% within 7 years
• Program Satisfaction Rate for All BSN Graduates: 95% (54 of 57)
• NCLEX Passage Rate for First Time Writers: 92%
• Job Placement Rates for Generic BSN Students: 100%
• Job Placement Rates for RN-BSN Students: 97%
MSN (Administration, Education, ANP/GNP, Anesthesia)
and MSN/MBA (Health Management) Programs
• Enrollment for Master’s Programs: 293 plus 11 Visions Students
• Graduation Rate for Master’s Programs: 89% within 5 years
• Program Satisfaction Rate for All Master’s Graduates: 83% (10 of 12)
• Certification Passage Rate for Nurse Anesthesia Students: 89%
- Wake Forest Baptist Health School 100%
- Raleigh School of Nurse Anesthesia 83%
• Certification Passage Rate for A/GNP Primary Care Graduates: 92% AGP
• Job Placement Rate for All Master’s Graduates: 100%
PhD Program
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School of Nursing Faculty and Staff
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• Enrollment for PhD Program: 31
• Program Satisfaction Rate for PhD Graduates: 100% (4 of 4)
• Job Placement Rate for All PhD Graduates: 100%
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2% Hispanic, 1% Non Resident Alien, 1% Multiracial
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