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1966 Master's Grad publishes book - Mary Huntley, MA 66, and her colleague Edna Thayer, self-published a book last year entitled "A Mirthful Spirit: Embracing Laughter for Wellness." The book is already in its second printing, and has received the 2008 Best Humor Book Award from the Association for Applied and Therapeutic Humor. Iowa Alum president of STTI - Grads Go Global - Rafat Jan, 2004 PhD graduate, aids earthquake victims in South Asia Sandy Pollack Katz, class of 1961, spends last 45 years as an operating room nurse in Jerusalem |
Round-Robin Reunion -
63-Year-Old Friendship Bonded by Letters
Class Notes -
1945
Edith Henningsgaard Miller, GN 45, former longtime mayor of Astoria, OR, was honored in September with the unveiling of the Edith Henningsgaard Mezzanine as part of the restoration of the historic Liberty Theater in downtown Astoria.
1960
Cam (Camilla) Camburn, BSN 60, is a member of the ANCC Gerontological Nursing Content Expert Panel. She served a four-year term as chair, during which the group enabled the development of two CBT certification exams which debuted July 1.
1961
Reva Cohen Plofsky, BSN 61, originally from Des Moines, passed away Aug. 14 from ovarian cancer. She had been living in Deerfield, IL. According to classmate Sandy Katz, Reva was very happy to have been able to be at the recent 45th reunion.
1964
Jane (Nichelson) Lithgow, BSN 64, "retired" from a faculty 10 years ago, but continues to work part time in continuing education.
Jean Fuller Deliganis, BSN 64, PhD, works full-time with the University of the Incarnate Word in San Antonio. The School of Nursing began a Health Ministry program in 1999 in partnership with a local Catholic parish in an underserved part of San Antonio.
1965
Jeanne (Berg) Abrons, BSN 65, MA, Minneapolis, has earned her Doctor of Education in Educational Leadership, with a focus on creativity and higher education. She has been a public health nurse/visiting nurse, taught critical thinking, and spent 15 years helping families whose member[s] have special needs learn non-adversarial advocacy skills.
1968
Rebecca (Fountain) Bianchi, BSN 68, is a Certified Case Manager for Crawford Insurance and CorVel Corporation, as well as a Certified Nurse Life Care Planner, assisting persons with work-related injuries.
1969
Ann Peacock Cook, BSN 69, MS, PhD, is director of Assessment and Evaluation, at Columbia College of Nursing in Milwaukee July 1, 2007. She has been on faculty since 1985.
Cheryll (McLane) Jones, BSN 69, Bloomfield, was elected chair of the Iowa Board of Health.
1970
Marcia Goldsborough, BSN 70, is the nurse case manager in Out Patient Psychiatric Care at Veteran’s Hospital in Iowa City. She teaches Prevention and Management of Disruptive Behavior , is on the Violence Prevention Team, and the parasuicide aggregate review committee.
Alleene "Anne" Ferguson Pingenot, BSN 70, MA 79, PhD, is an ARNP Research Fellow, Department of Nursing and Midwifery, University of Stirling, Stirling, Scotland. Her article “Quantitative method of medication system interface evaluation,” was published in the July/August 2007 issue of Computers, Informatics, Nursing.
1971
Doris Schoneman, PhD 71, APRN, BC has "retired" from Marquette University College of Nursing and serves as clinical associate professor at University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee.
1972
Julie C. Novak, BSN 72, MA 76, DNSc, CPNP, FAANP, is professor and head of the Purdue University School of Nursing; associate dean of the College of Pharmacy, Nursing, and Health Sciences.
1973
Kate Caston, MA 73, PhD 94, transitioned to Long Beach, CA after Hurricane Katrina. She works as a nurse educator at VA Long Beach Healthcare facility.
1975
Susan Schmidt (Esslinger), BSN 75, has retired as a clinical assistant professor at Purdue University and plans to winter in Florida.
1979
Laurie Vasquez, BSN 79, was featured on ABC's World News Tonight in a feature on womb rooms at Phoenix Children's Hospital.
John Walker, BSN 79, works half-time at the Adolescent Dual Diagnosis Unit at Iowa Lutheran in Des Moines and is an instructor of the University of Oklahoma's Management of Aggressive Behavior program.
1987
Carla Rosenblum, BSN 87, MSN, graduated with her second master's degree in anesthesia nursing in December 2006 from Texas Wesleyan University. She works in a rural hospital in Summit County, Colorado.
1992
Kristin Province, BSN 92, MN, OCN, recently graduated from the University of Washington - Seattle, with a master of nursing as an adult acute care NP. She works at Harrison Medical Center in Bremerton, WA., and is the first NP in their radiation oncology clinic.
Jan Drury, BSN 92, works at the Iowa Medical & Classification Center in Oakdale and is charge of hiring the statewide corrections administrators of nursing who direct nursing care at the nine Iowa corrections facilities.
2000
Monica Crim, BSN, MSN 00, has worked as an APN in LaHarpe, IL. for the past 10 years. She has purchased the Family Rural Health of LaHarpe, PC practice, a rural health clinic in which a physician is on site once every two weeks.
2002
Majd T. Mrayyan, PhD 02, is dean of the Faculty of Nursing at the Hashemite University-Jordan.
2006
Danica Roach, BSN 06, works in a med/surg critical care unit at Virginia Mason Medical Center in Seattle, WA. She hopes to enroll in graduate classes at the University of Washington, as well as take the critical care registered nurse certification test.
