Class Notes 1960-1969 - 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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1960

Erika Schulze Gerth, BSN'60, was featured in HER Magazine in July 2019, for her volunteer work in the outpatient surgery waiting room at Capital Region Medical Center in Jefferson City, Missouri.
Phoebe Giffen Hood, BSN'60, is a family nurse practitioner at Consults in Wellness in Wilmington, North Carolina, and owner of Bed and Breakfast at Mallard Bay in Hampstead, N.C. (2020).
Nancy Ice, BSN'60, of Atlanta, passed away January 15, 2020.
Cynthia Hastings LaBonne, BSN'60, MA'68, exhibited her artwork at the Harpeth Hall Alumnae Art Exhibit in Nashville in February 2020.
Joanne McBride Rawson, BSN'60, of Davidson, North Carolina, passed away July 29, 2020.
Kay Crawford Russell, BSN'60, of Franklin, Tennessee, passed away March 7, 2022.
Gail Kuhn Weissman, BSN'60, is retired in Bondville, Vermont, from a career as nurse executive, administrator and consultant (2020).
Betty Land Whigham, BSN'60, of Tampa, Florida, passed away July 2, 2022.
1961

Poppy Pickering Buchanan, BSN’61, and her husband, Richard, endowed a student research fund at the Vanderbilt University's Jean and Alexander Heard Library, in January 2018. (He has since passed away.)
Donna Townsend Maddox, BSN’61, is president of Marketing and Business Consultants Inc. in Sarasota, Florida (2018).
Margo Smith McCaffery, MSN’61, of Marina Del Ray, California, passed away January 8, 2018.
1962

Dorothy Silvis Guidry, BSN’62, of The Villages, Florida, passed away September 9, 2018.
Carol Bruno Komara, BSN’62, was quoted in Kentucky Health News in May 2022 regarding her efforts to address the nursing shortage as a member of the Kentucky Nurses Association’s school nurse task force.
Elizabeth Light, BSN’62, of Buna, Texas, passed away September 5, 2022.
Nancy Gunnell Perry, N’62, of Maryville, Tennessee, passed away June 27, 2022.
Carolyn Whitaker, BSN’62, MSN’72, was quoted in the Cookeville, Tennessee, Herald-Citizen in November 2016, for a story about nurse practitioners. In 2015, she received the Tennessee Nurses Association Lifetime Achievement Award.
Barbara Fullerton Wood, BS’62 (Peabody), of Moreno Valley, California, passed away January 30, 2022.
Toni Fasano Youngblood, BSN’62, of Lakeland, Florida, passed away November 27, 2015.
1963

Lolly Safford Bieri, N'63, of Arnold, Maryland, passed away November 30, 2022.
Ellen Durham Davis, BSN'63, is a consulting associate at Duke University School of Nursing in Durham, North Carolina (2015).
Marty Keith Heflin, BSN'63, of Franklin, Tennessee, passed away March 29, 2022.
Nancy Barden Junkin, N'63, of Franklin, Tennessee, passed away July 25, 2020.
Katie Wolff Nelson, BSN'46, MSN'63, of Maryville, Tennessee, passed away March 24, 2018.
Nancy Penrod, BSN'63, of Columbia, Tennessee, passed away November 24, 2022.
Ann Rickman Purser, BSN'63, of Allons, Tennessee, passed away September 6, 2019.
Carol Thomas, BSN'63, of Sacramento, California, passed away September 3, 2016.
1964

Helen Sparkman Eastland, BSN'64, of Nashville, passed away January 6, 2019.
Judy Gehres Hulse, BSN'64, of Old Hickory, Tennessee, passed away November 13, 2019.
Liz Davis Johnson, N'64, of Watkinsville, Georgia, passed away June 14, 2018.
Ann Jones McCurdy, BSN'64, of Orlando, Florida, passed away August 21, 2015.
Gwen Sweeney Shockley, BSN'64, MSN'94, of Franklin, Tennessee, passed away October 21, 2022.
Carrol "Ditto" Smith, BSN'64, retired from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1995.
1965

Jan Donaldson, BSN’65, of Helena, Montana, passed away March 22, 2019.
Barbara Buchholz Dorman, BSN’65, of Houston, passed away March 17, 2018.
Linda Tittsworth Harrell, BSN’65, of Ocala, Florida, passed away December 29, 2015, months after leading her classmates to celebrate their 50^th “Quinq” reunion from Vanderbilt.
Barbara Begley Housman, N’65, of Staten Island, New York, passed away in February 2015.
Ellen Jones Tenney, BSN’65, of Grand Haven, Michigan, passed away January 29, 2020.
1966

Sharron Stewart Burch, BSN’66, of Brandon, Mississippi, passed away September 29, 2018.
Ginger Manley, BSN’66, MSN’81, spoke at the Apron Museum's June 2019 symposium in Tishmingo, Mississippi, on "An Apron is a Document that Tells a Story and Connects Us All." She retired in September from her role as associate in psychiatry at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, and was featured as a panelist for the Nashville Public Television documentary, Companionship & Intimacy: Aging Matters, which aired in December. Ginger wrote and published Proud Flesh (with a book launch and signing in March 2016 at Parnassus Book Store in Nashville), and Disarmed: An Exceptional Journey, in March 2015, which is about her 48-year marriage.
Roy Moncrief, BSN’66, was interviewed by The Tennessean in 1970 regarding Nashville nurses being allowed to wear pants on the job. He was assistant director of nursing at Vanderbilt at the time. The quote was used by The Tennessean in August 2020 to mark the fiftieth anniversary of that innovation. (Roy passed away in 1974.)
Cindy Stone Monroe, BSN’66, and her husband celebrated their 50^th wedding anniversary in June 2016.
Anne Teutenberg Richardson, BSN’66, of Webster Groves, Missouri, passed away September 12, 2018.
Sally Coles Yeagley, BSN’66, MSN’86, received the Alumni Award for Clinical Achievement in Nursing presented by the VUSN Alumni Association during the school’s annual awards ceremony in October 2016.
1967

Gigi Grossman Eley, BSN’67, of Saint Louis, passed away August 31, 2021.
Sue McConnell Jones, BSN’67, MSN’74, of Nashville, passed away August 29, 2020.
Candy Luckhardt LeMay, BSN’67, of Knoxville, Tennessee, passed away December 14, 2017.
Charlotte McDaniel, BSN’67, published a book, Stories Untold: Oral Histories of Wives of Vietnam Servicemen, in December 2019.
Diana Dauksch Mick, BSN’67, of Chattanooga, Tennessee, passed away July 29, 2015.
1968

Karen Fishman, BSN’68, volunteers for an emergency department in Saint Louis (2019).
Trish Palmore Westmoreland, BSN’68, of Henderson, Nevada, passed away January 18, 2019.
1969

Carolyn Bess, BSN'69, MSN'71, of Hendersonville, Tennessee, passed away November 20, 2019. She retired from VUSN in 2014 and was named associate professor emerita.
Laura Gerow Bramlette, BSN'69, of Houston, passed away November 25, 2017.
Sandy Jones Campbell, BSN'69, retired and lives in Saint Petersburg, Florida (2019).
Charlotte Mathias Covington, BSN'69, MSN'89, is associate professor emerita at VUSN (2022).
Barbara Callander Davis, BSN'69, of Amarillo, Texas, passed away on March 11, 2020.
Dorothy Hinsch Gaskin, MSN'69, of West Columbia, South Carolina, passed away June 2, 2021.
Pat Hickman, BSN'69, is acting operations manager of ITNMemphis, a nonprofit in Tennessee that provides rides to seniors and people who are visually impaired (2016).
Ann Keidel, BSN'69, of West Newton, Massachusetts, passed away July 4, 2016.
Judy Jackson Lea, BSN'69, was the focus of an April 2018 story in The Wilson Post (Tennessee) about her life and family.
Ellen Martin, BSN'69, received the Dorothea M. Lang Pioneer Award from the American College of Nurse Midwives in May 2019.
Susan Applegarth Murphy, BSN'69, is a keynote speaker, author and business consultant living in Rancho Mirage, California (2017).
Carol Kersting Spalding, BSN'69, of Sarasota, Florida, passed away January 29, 2017.
Vivian Cantrell Stock, N'69, of Smithville, Tennessee, passed away November 20, 2022.