Class Notes 1950-1959 - School of NursingSchool of Nursing

Every VUSN graduate has exciting things happening in her or his life, both professionally and personally. Class Notes – printed twice a year in the Vanderbilt Nurse Magazine and available online on this page – is an opportunity for you to not only learn what other alumni are doing but also share news about your life. We would love to hear what you've been up to! Please contact us at vusn-alumninursing@vanderbilt.edu or call 615-322-4836. And, when posting on social media please tag us! #VUSN

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1950

Bette Harris Barto, BSN’50, of Springfield, Massachusetts, passed away December 28, 2022.
Rose Marie Hulse, BSN’50, of Bowie, Texas, passed away in January 2015.
Connie Carter Sundermann, BSN’50, of Little Rock, Arkansas, passed away February 14, 2017.
Prudence Stearman Whitlow, N’50, of Hodgenville, Kentucky, passed away April 20, 2017.
1951

Martha Bishop Anderson, BSN’51, of Athens, Georgia, passed away February 3, 2017.
Margaret Lisby Melville, N’51, of Lexington, Kentucky, passed away January 3, 2018.
Laura Beatty Rosser, N’51, of Sanford, North Carolina, passed away November 22, 2020.
Eleanor Caslick Scott, BSN’51, of Jackson, Mississippi, passed away April 21, 2017.
1952

Martha “Copie” Copeland Likins, BSN’52, of Eureka, California, passed away July 17, 2016.
Shirley Martin, N’52, of Knoxville, Tennessee, passed away September 21, 2015.
Louise Dunham Milyko, BSN’52, of Albuquerque, New Mexico, passed away October 8, 2022.
Katherine Oetgen Woods, BSN’52, of Midway, Georgia, passed away April 29, 2016.
1953

Sylvia Farrell Alderson, BSN’53, of Taneytown, Maryland, passed away November 14, 2017.
Ann Demonbreun Charltan, N’53, of Knoxville, Tennessee, passed away May 4, 2018.
Phyllis Hayes Coker, BSN’53, of Henryville, Indiana, passed away February 21, 2017.
Frances Upton Cooper, BSN’53, of Lexington, Kentucky, passed away February 20, 2020.
Frances McGaughy Edwards, BSN’53, MSN’76, was interviewed for the front cover of Tennessee Nurse in August 2022 for “What Aspect of My Career am I Most Proud Of?” and for the Me and My Friends podcast in September 2021, which was featured in Main Street Nashville that November.
Mary Butts Keil, BSN’53, of Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, passed away January 28, 2018.
Betty Biddy Maddox, BSN’53, of Little Rock, Arkansas, passed away October 12, 2019.
Ernestine Nance Newman, BSN’53, of Fayetteville, North Carolina, passed away February 24, 2020.
Emma Hutto Reiss, BSN’53, of New Haven, Connecticut, passed away August 17, 2017.
1954

Myrtice Cooper Demonbreun, BSN’54, of McMinnville, Tennessee, passed away July 9, 2022.
Janie Capps Macey, BSN’54, MSN’74, PhD’85, of Nashville passed away December 25, 2022.
Mary Walley McCoy, BSN’54, of Tampa, Florida, passed away July 18, 2016.
Ruth Puckett Speirer, BSN’54, of New Orleans, passed away November 26, 2019.
1955

Evelyn Igarashi Blaylock, BSN’55, of Tulsa, Oklahoma, passed away December 6, 2020. She and her husband, James, were featured in Tulsa World in December 2015 for celebrating their 60^th wedding anniversary. The couple met on a blind date while attending Vanderbilt University.
Carolyn Woodard Fleet, BSN’55, and her late husband, Bill, were featured in Tennessee’s Franklin Home Page in a February 2018 story about how their marriage had lasted for over 60 years.
Edwyna Howard Griscom, BSN’55, of Nashville, passed away December 14, 2018.
Liz Buchanan Hauer, BSN’55, MLS’66, of Huntsville, Alabama, passed away June 7, 2019.
Margaret “Bubs” Pumphrey Tobey, BSN’55, of Roanoke, Virginia, passed away January 20, 2021.
Carol Ammons Vance, BSN’55, of Blowing Rock, North Carolina, passed away August 14, 2018.
1956

Sandy Travis Collier, BSN’56, of Highlands, North Carolina, passed away June 5, 2017.
Jane Carter Kern, BSN’56, of Palatine, Illinois, passed away September 5, 2020.
Ruth Bishop Limehouse, BSN’56, celebrated her 90^th birthday in her hometown of Harleyville, South Carolina, in May 2017.
Kathryn Summer Skinner, BSN’56, of Memphis, Tennessee, passed away December 28, 2022.
Patricia Patterson Tennent, BSN’56, of Grosse Pointe Woods, Michigan, passed away May 30, 2016.
1957

Janet Krause Buehler, BSN’57, of Bakersfield, California, passed away June 23, 2021.
Mary Reagan Butler, BSN’57, is the president of South County Democratic Club of San Luis Obispo, California (2016).
Sally Clark Green, N’57, of Mobile, Alabama, passed away February 26, 2017.
Mary Sue Miller Heldman, Peabody Nursing ’55, N’57, of Nashville, passed away May 4, 2016.
Wilma June Putman Kaufman, N’57, of Ozark, Missouri, passed away October 4, 2017.
Sandy Griffin Minor, BSN’57, retired from the faculty of Murray State University in Kentucky in fall 2016 at age 81, and was featured on KFVS-TV and KYForward and in the West Kentucky Star.
Carolyn McKelvey Moore, BSN’57, MSN’59, is a nursing education and philanthropy consultant for two-year colleges. She retired in 2010 as senior vice president for institutional advancement for Sparks Health System in Fort Smith, Arkansas.
Kitty Temple Silverman, BSN’57, of Spartanburg, South Carolina, passed away December 18, 2020.
1958

Judith James Coleman, N’58, of Lebanon and Franklin, Tennessee, passed away July 21, 2020.
Susan Hurley DeConcini, N’58, of McLean, Virginia, passed away April 29, 2016.
Anita Raines Elliott, BSN’58, of Madison, Tennessee, passed away February 9, 2021.
Sandra Chachere McGrew, N’58, of Lakeway, Texas passed away September 29, 2022.
Erna McAninch Pelok, N’58, of Wauseon, Ohio, passed away July 14, 2017.
Margie Mayo Poore, N’58, of Union, Kentucky, passed away April 18 2017.
1959

Connie McKay Adams, BSN’59, of Oak Ridge, Tennessee, passed away May 29, 2021.
Kathleen Gainor Andreoli, MSN’59, of Chicago, passed away August 3, 2022. She received the VUSN Distinguished Alumna Award in 1984.
Bonnie Weaver Battey, MSN’59, was listed in Marquis Who's Who in August 2018.
Jo Ann Faulkner Davis, N’59, of Hixson, Tennessee, passed away December 17, 2020.
Gwen Lapham Efird, BSN’59, of Little Rock, Arkansas, passed away June 24, 2022.
Shirley Carmichael Feese, BSN’59, of Maysville, Kentucky, passed away in November 2015.
Barbara Kiel Kaley, N’59, of Palm Desert, California, passed away August 3, 2016.
Carolyn McKelvey Moore, BSN’57, MSN’59, is a nursing education and philanthropy consultant for two-year colleges. She retired in 2010 as senior vice president for institutional advancement for Sparks Health System in Fort Smith, Arkansas.
Ann Wheeler Wagner, BSN’59, of Hillsboro, Illinois, passed away August 3, 2020.