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
More info may be available at www.vuconnect.com and in the Class Notes sections of Vanderbilt Nurse Magazine.
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1960
Carol Sadler Baker, BSN’60, of Silver Spring, Maryland, and Martinsburg, West Virginia, passed away July 29, 2023.
Harriet Hassler Bunn, BSN’60, of Smyrna, Tennessee, passed away November 2, 2023.
Erika Schulze Gerth, BSN’60, was featured in HER Magazine in 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 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 from a career as nurse executive, administrator and consultant, and residing in Bondville, Vermont (2020).
Betty Land Whigham, BSN’60, of Tampa, Florida, passed away July 2, 2022.
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1961
Poppy Pickering Buchanan, BSN’61, of Nashville passed away January 3, 2024. She and her husband, Richard, BA’57, MD’61, endowed a student research fund at the Vanderbilt University's Jean and Alexander Heard Library in 2018, and she received the Alumni Award for Excellence in Nursing from the VUSN Alumni Association in 2006.
Nori Komorita, MSN’61, of Champaign, Illinois, passed away February 8, 2023.
Carole Daly Learnard, BSN’61, of Honolulu passed away March 15, 2024.
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.
Nancy Harney McDaniel, BSN’61, of Nashville passed away September 15, 2023.
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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 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.
Mary Snowden, N’62, of Lebanon, Tennessee, passed away April 6, 2023.
Carolyn Whitaker, BSN’62, MSN’72, was memorialized in the May 2024 issue of Tennessee Nurse, which includes a reprint of her essay, “I AM TNA” from 2012 (page 9). She was quoted in the Cookeville, Tennessee, Herald-Citizen in 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.
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1963
Lolly Safford Bieri, N’63, of Arnold, Maryland, passed away November 30, 2022.
Ellen Durham Davis, BSN’63, authored the essay, “They Made Their Own Insulin: The Story of Eva and Viktor Saxl,” published by Hektoen International: A Journal of Medical Humanities in late 2024. She is a lecturer in the Duke University School of Nursing endocrinology nurse practitioner program and for Duke Medicine Endocrinology, both in Durham, North Carolina. She lives near downtown Chapel Hill.
Suzanne Woods Haight, N’63, of Tacoma, Washington, passed away September 29, 2023.
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.
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1964
Helen Sparkman Eastland, BSN’64, of Nashville passed away January 6, 2019.
Marilyn Zazzi Foster, BSN’64, retired in 2022 as lead nurse practitioner and manager of the Alexandria Health Department’s Teen Wellness Center in Virginia.
Sandy Farmer Goble, BSN’64, of Brevard, North Carolina, passed away June 12, 2024.
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.
Carolyn Polson Reynolds, N’64, of Old Hickory, Tennessee, passed away September 23, 2024.
Gwen Sweeney Shockley, BSN’64, MSN’94, of Franklin, Tennessee, passed away October 21, 2022.
Carrol “Ditto” Smith, BSN’64, retired from the
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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 50th “Quinq” reunion from Vanderbilt.
Barbara Begley Housman, N’65, of Staten Island, New York, passed away in February 2015.
Connie Keith Reid, BSN’65, retired in 2023 and lives in Bloomington, Indiana.
Ellen Jones Tenney, BSN’65, of Grand Haven, Michigan, passed away January 29, 2020.
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1966
Sharron Stewart Burch, BSN’66, of Brandon, Mississippi, passed away September 29, 2018.
Sally Reinhart Crowe, BSN’66, of North Liberty, Iowa, passed away May 31, 2024.
Carol Cousins Fruin, BSN’66, was mentioned in VUMC News in a story about her daughter, Candy Fruin Stefansic BS’94, MSN’95, who was featured among Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s “Pioneers of Hope.” Carol, who passed away in 2011, was also a nurse at VUMC.
Raleigh McDonald Hussung, N’66, of Nashville passed away June 9, 2024.
Ginger Trundle Manley, BSN’66, MSN’81, spoke at the Apron Museum’s 2019 symposium in Tishmingo, Mississippi, retired 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. Ginger wrote and published Proud Flesh in 2016 and Disarmed: An Exceptional Journey, in 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 2020 to mark the fiftieth anniversary of that innovation. (Roy passed away in 1974.)
Cindy Stone Monroe, BSN’66, and her husband celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary in 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 2016.
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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 2019.
Diana Dauksch Mick, BSN’67, of Chattanooga, Tennessee, passed away July 29, 2015.
Barbara Laws Mullinax, BSN’67, of Hixson, Tennessee, passed away January 12, 2024.
Diane Welch Vines, BSN’67, was honored by the city of Palm Desert, California, with Dr. Diane Vines Day and received the Alma Gault Award for Public Service presented by the VUSN Alumni Association during the school’s annual awards ceremony, both in 2023 (here in Patch and California State University, San Bernardino news). She is founder and director of the CSUSB Nursing Street Medicine Program in Palm Desert.
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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.
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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).
Marcia Nightingale Carlson, BSN’69, of Vienna, Virginia, passed away January 29, 2023.
Charlotte Mathias Covington, BSN’69, MSN’89, retired from VUSN and is associate professor emerita. She lives in Nashville (2022).
Barbara Callander Davis, BSN’69, of Amarillo, Texas, passed away March 11, 2020.
Dorothy Hinsch Gaskin, MSN’69, of West Columbia, South Carolina, passed away June 2, 2021.
Loyanne White Hardwick, BSN’69, of Spring Hill, Tennessee, passed away October 12, 2023.
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 a 2018 story in Tennessee’s The Wilson Post about her life and family.
Ellen Martin, BSN’69, received the Dorothea M. Lang Pioneer Award from the American College of Nurse Midwives in 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.