Class Notes 1970-1979

Marie Annette Brown, BSN’70, was inducted into the Washington State Nurses Association Hall of Fame in 2016.

Ginna Oldfield Corts, BSN’70, MSN’73, of Nashville, passed away February 15, 2021. 

Ann Baile Hamric, BSN’70, of Richmond, Virginia, passed away February 9, 2020. She was recognized during VUSN’s Centennial celebration in 2008 as one of the School’s Top 100 leaders. 

Cheryl Driver Levine, BSN’70, was inducted as a fellow of the American Association for the Study of Liver Disease. She is the director of clinical research at the Texas Clinical Research Institute near Dallas (2018).

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.

Ginna Trotter Betts, MSN’71, was photographed for the June 2018 issue of Vanderbilt Magazine for an article about the university’s ’Dores of Distinction program. 

Carolyn Keith Burr, BSN’71, of Pompton Plains, New Jersey, passed away October 30, 2020. She was featured in Rutgers Today in February 2015, for her determination to help pregnant women infected with human immunodeficiency virus avoid sharing the illness with their newborns.  

Gloria Weber Calhoun, MSN’71, retired from Vanderbilt University Medical Center, her private practice and VUSN, where she was at one time the director of the nursing administration graduate program (2019). 

Jill Fishback Chambers, BSN’71, of Nashville, passed away January 17, 2019.

Sara Hutchison Hampshire, BSN’71, MSN’75, of Nashville, passed away May 2, 2020.

Susan Loeser Howington, BSN’71, retired from Jewish Hospital in Louisville, Kentucky, after more than 41 years as in the intensive care unit and then as a postanesthesia care nurse (2015).  

Karen Schumacher, BSN’71, co-authored “Initial Psychometric Testing of the Head and Neck Cancer Patient Self-management Inventory (HNC-PSMI),” published in the European Journal of Oncology Nursing in August 2020.

Avo Haile Chambers, MSN'72, of Shelbyville, Tennessee, passed away April 4, 2019.

Melissa Coate Hauck, BSN'72, and husband, Christie, BA'70, opened a branch of their restaurant, Goozy, in Nashville's Mall at Green Hills in 2019. They launched the first location of Goozy, a restaurant featuring grilled cheese, dessert and wine, in 2014.

Leslie Jones Higgins, BSN'72, MSN'75, presented "Nursing: Managing Chronic Pain Using the TDH Guidelines," in February 2019 at a Belmont University (Nashville) homecoming event about the opioid crisis and trauma informed care. She was named professor emerita of nursing at Belmont that May. Leslie received the Tennessee Nurses Association Nursing Excellence–Nursing Education Award in October 2015.

Joan Michael King, BSN'72, MSN'75, PhD'84, co-authored "Improving Efficiency within a Trauma Nurse Practitioner Team," published in the Journal of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners in May 2020, and was named professor of nursing, emerita at Vanderbilt University in May 2019. Joan was appointed to the Nurse Practitioner Residency/Fellowship Standards Committee for the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education in 2018. That year, she received the American Association of Heart Failure Nurses Distinguished Member Award and the VUSN Sara K. Archer Excellence in Teaching Award from students in the Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner specialty. Joan is on the advisory board of Nursing in Critical Care: The Journal of the British Association of Critical Care Nurses.

Amy Conklin Pettigrew, BSN'72, received the Lulu Wolf Hassenplug Alumni Award for Distinguished Career in Nursing presented by the VUSN Alumni Association during the school's annual awards ceremony in October 2022.

Mary Kay Sauder, MSN'72, of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, passed away January 26, 2018.

Susan Steadman Sparks, BSN'72, is on the staff at Heritage Medical Associates in Nashville (2020).

Mary Elizabeth Stephenson Stilson, MSN'72, of Davenport, Iowa, passed away April 2, 2017.

Claudia Reaves Stoffel, BSN'72, retired in May 2020 from West Kentucky Community and Technical College in Paducah, where she was professor and practical nursing program coordinator. She was honored with a video on the school's website.

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.

Julie Anderson, BSN'73, is an attorney with Lapin & Landa in Houston, Texas (2022).

Evelyn Manoogian Biles, N'73, is founder and president of Global Mosaic International, a non-profit Christian organization created in Yorktown, Virginia, to train people in counseling, conflict resolution, mentoring and servant leadership (2017).

Ginna Oldfield Corts, BSN'70, MSN'73, of Nashville, passed away February 15, 2021.

Jade Van Meter Forlidas, BSN'73, MSN'90, and her daughter, Jessica Van Meter, MSN'07, DNP'15, were profiled in the Vanderbilt University Medical Center's VUMC Voice in November 2017.

Margie Nicks Gale, BSN'73, MSN'76, was a panelist for "Compassion Fatigue during COVID-19: How Nurses and NPs Can Stay Grounded," in November 2020, part of the VUSN Dore to Dore Alumni Forum. She co-presented "Burnout and Compassion Fatigue and Essential Interventions," in April 2018 during Vanderbilt University Medical Center's advance practice grand rounds and at VUMC Octoberfest. In 2017, she was interviewed for "Beating Clinician Burnout," in Media Health Leaders and co-presented "Burnout and Compassion Fatigue," during VUMC's Aprilfest. Margie presented "Green Dot: A Bystander Initiative to Prevent Lateral Violence," at the 2015 National Magnet Conference. She is a nurse wellness specialist at Vanderbilt Work/Life Connections.

Brenda Thomas Harris, BSN'73, received the Tennessee Governor's Volunteer Star Award for Monroe County in February 2021 in recognition of her volunteer work at the Monroe County Animal Shelter, Monroe County Friends of Animals and the Cherokee National Forest, where she is a trail maintainer.

Abby Braxton McCarthy, N'73, of Saint Louis, passed away June 10, 2020.

Diane Coty Roberts, BSN'73, co-authored "Suicide Prevention for School Communities: An Educational Initiative for Student Safety," published in NASN School Nurse in April 2018, and participated in a related podcast. She is a school nurse in the Spring Branch Independent School District in Houston.

Faye Hilley Shaffer, BSN'73, of Birmingham, Alabama, passed away March 26, 2016.  

Melinda Mayfield Stone, BSN'73, of Cincinnati, passed away August 6, 2022.

Jo McKee Wright, BS'65, MSN'73, of Franklin, Tennessee, passed away November 8, 2021.

Carolyn Hilton Aubrey, MSN'74, received the Patient Experience Award from Vanderbilt University Medical Center in November 2022.

Jean Couts Bigger, MSN'74, and her husband, Bill, were featured in the Tennessean in April 2020 for a story about their experience as COVID-19 patients at TriStar Skyline Medical Center in Nashville.

Victoria Henderson Burslem, BSN'74, received the 2022 Culture of Caring Award from Frontier Nursing University in Versailles, Kentucky, where she is an instructor in the nurse-midwifery program.

Kathy Baldridge Byington, BSN'74, was featured on the Vanderbilt University Medical Center's website in its Advanced Practice Provider Spotlight. She is a case manager at Monroe Carrell Jr. Children's Hospital (2018).

Janet Darfus, BSN'74, received the 2014 Fleming A. Thomas Faculty Information Literacy Award at Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, Louisiana.

Mary Fran Gorman Hazinski, BSN'74, co-authored "P-COSCA (Pediatric Core Outcome Set for Cardiac Arrest) in Children: An Advisory Statement from the International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation," and "Part 2: Evidence Evaluation and Guidelines Development: 2020 American Heart Association Guidelines for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Emergency Cardiovascular Care," published in Circulation in October 2020.

Beth Colvin Huff, BSN'74, MSN'79, received the American Society for Colposcopy and Cervical Pathology Distinguished Service Award in 2016.

Beth Inman Jordan, BSN'74, of Sea Island, Georgia, passed away October 25, 2016.

Sue McConnell Jones, BSN'67, MSN'74, of Nashville, passed away August 29, 2020.

Betsy Flitcraft Larsen, BSN'74, of Dayton, Ohio, passed away June 3, 2020.

Janie Capps Macey, BSN'54, MSN'74, PhD'85, of Nashville passed away December 25, 2022.

Deborah Wade Price, BSN'74, of Spartanburg, South Carolina, passed away January 19, 2019.

Vaughn Gaston Sinclair, BSN'74, MSN'78, PhD'82, retired as professor emerita from VUSN in August 2021. She is lead author of "Associations between Changes in Resilient Coping and Post-traumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms," published in Research in Nursing and Health in February 2020, and co-author of "A Randomized Clinical Trial Comparing the Impact of a Web-based Multimedia Intervention Versus an Educational Pamphlet on Patient Outcomes in Breast Cancer Survivors with Chronic Secondary Lymphedema," published by Journal of Women's Health in July 2019.

Wendy Wolf, BSN'74, is an attorney with Lashly & Baer in Saint Louis (2022).

Adrienne Ames, MSN'75, received the Elizabeth Jacobs Service Award from the Nashville Council on Aging, in December 2016.

Mary Day, MSN'75, retired after a career that includes director of the nurse midwifery program at the University of California Los Angeles, faculty member at UC San Diego and certified nurse-midwife with Kaiser (2015).

Karen Degerberg, BSN'75, retired after 31 years as a nurse practitioner at George Washington University Student Health Center in Washington, D.C. (2018).

Carol Etherington, MSN'75, was chosen as an ex-officio member of the Vanderbilt University Public Health Advisory Task Force, formed in March 2020 by Interim Chancellor and Provost Susan Wente as a resource during the COVID-19 pandemic. She was named to the Tennessee Health Care Hall of Fame in May 2018 and serves on the Metropolitan Nashville Board of Health.

Chita Cisneros Farrar, BSN'75, MSN'80, co-authored "Pain Management," in the December 2017 issue of Critical Care Nursing Clinics. She served as president of District 3 of the Tennessee Nurses Association.

Joan Furman, MSN'75, is a nurse practitioner and clinical experiential therapist offering counseling, experiential therapy and a variety of healing services in her private practice in Nashville (2017).

Sara Hutchison Hampshire, BSN'71, MSN'75, of Nashville, passed away May 2, 2020.

Deborah Hart-Bowley, BSN'75, of Richmond, Virginia, passed away December 28, 2018.

Leslie Jones Higgins, BSN'72, MSN'75, presented "Nursing: Managing Chronic Pain Using the TDH Guidelines," in February 2019 at a Belmont University (Nashville) homecoming event about the opioid crisis and trauma informed care. She was named professor emerita of nursing at Belmont that May. She received the Tennessee Nurses Association Nursing Excellence–Nursing Education Award in October 2015.

Becky Moreland Hoffmeister, N'75, of Saint Petersburg, Florida, passed away January 28, 2020.

Sally Tucker Jasper, BSN'75, MSN'83, retired in June 2018 after 43 years of nursing. She taught at Chemeketa Community College in Salem, Oregon, for 20 years and established the school's simulation lab.

Joan Michael King, BSN'72, MSN'75, PhD'84, co-authored "Improving Efficiency within a Trauma Nurse Practitioner Team," published in the Journal of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners in May 2020, and was named professor of nursing, emerita at Vanderbilt University in May 2019. Joan was appointed to the Nurse Practitioner Residency/Fellowship Standards Committee for the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education in 2018. That year, she received the American Association of Heart Failure Nurses Distinguished Member Award and the VUSN Sara K. Archer Excellence in Teaching Award from students in the Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner specialty. Joan is on the advisory board of Nursing in Critical Care: The Journal of the British Association of Critical Care Nurses.

Jeanne Latimer, BSN'75, was appointed in 2015 to the Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission for a six-year term.

Diane Lauver, BSN'75, co-authored "How Could Nurse Researchers Apply Theory to Generate Knowledge More Efficiently?" which became a top downloaded item on the Journal of Nursing Scholarship website in 2020. She was an organizer of and presented at the Student Health Coalition event "Looking Back, Looking Forward," in May 2017 at Vanderbilt University. Diane is former director of the PhD program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and recipient of the Norma Lang Excellence in Nursing Research Award from the Wisconsin Nurses Association.

Rebecca Bruning Manyak, BSN'75, of Chevy Chase, Maryland, passed away October 19, 2017.

Deborah McMillan, N'75, retired from the U.S. Army in 1992 as a lieutenant colonel. She has since served as hospice nurse in Dayton, Ohio, taught nursing in Fairborn, Ohio, worked in home care and adult daycare in Columbus, Ohio, and been a private duty nurse in Delaware, Ohio (2018).

Ginny Place Myer, BSN'75, was appointed to the Vanderbilt University Alumni Board in 2016 for a three-year term.

Sherrie Raby Nichols, BSN'75, is senior medical analyst and advisor at Overbook Medical Review Company in Nashville (2020).

Catherine Nweke, N'75, of Austin, Texas, passed away May 17, 2021.

Trish Trangenstein, BSN'75, is co-author of "Education to Improve Point of Care Documentation in Home Care Nurses: A Quality Improvement Project," published in CIN: Computers, Informatics, Nursing in July 2021, and of "Using Contemporary e-Learning Tools to Teach Staff How to Use New Online Documentation Systems," published in July 2019 in Studies in Health Technology and Informatics. She received the VUSN Dean's Award for Faculty Achievement in Informatics Endeavors in May 2018 and retired from her position as professor at Vanderbilt later that year.

Patsy Trimble Yarbrough, BSN'75, was a finalist in the Tennessean's 2015 Salute to Nurses for her work in the Vanderbilt Eskind Pediatric Diabetes Clinic in Nashville.

Sally Samoriga Cherner, BSN'76, retired in September 2017 after a career in the pediatric operating room and psychiatry.

Angie Berry Donahue, BSN'76, was elected secretary of the Texas Medical Association Foundation board of directors in August 2019. TMA is the largest state medical society in the U.S. and she is the only non-physician on the board.

Marilyn Dubree, MSN'76, was inducted as a fellow by the American Academy of Nursing in October 2022. She was a panelist for "What COVID-19 Taught Us about Full Practice Authority for Nurse Practitioners...and Their Patients," in May 2021, part of the VUSN Dore to Door Alumni Forum, and is co-author of "Development and Testing of an Advanced Practice Clinical Advancement Program within an Academic Medical Center," published by the Journal of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners in September. In October, she celebrated her 45^th year at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, where she is executive chief nursing officer, and was a speaker for "The Future of Nursing Education," hosted by the VUSN Dean's Office. Marilyn spoke on behalf of nurses at a press conference in May 2020, where Nashville Mayor John Cooper issued a proclamation honoring Nurses Week. In June, she received the Advocate State Award for Excellence for Tennessee from the American Association of Nurse Practitioners. She co-authored "Development and Testing of an Advanced Practice Clinical Advancement Program within an Academic Medical Center," published in the Journal of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners in July, and "Empowering Nurses: Creation of a Peer-reviewed Journal as a Catalyst for Innovative Nursing Research and Enhancing Evidence-based Nursing Practice," published in The Journal of Nursing Administration in July/August. Marilyn co-authored "Assessing and Addressing Practitioner Burnout: Results from an Advanced Practice Registered Nurse Health and Well-being Study," published in November 2019 in the Journal of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners. She was published in The Empowered Nurse: Peer-Reviewed Journal for Innovative VUMC Nursing Research, Volume 1, Issue 1, in May 2018. She received the VUSN Dean's Award for Outstanding Service to Faculty and Students in May 2016, and was inducted into the YWCA Academy for Women of Achievement in Nashville that October.

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.

Margie Nicks Gale, BSN'73, MSN'76, was a panelist for "Compassion Fatigue during COVID-19: How Nurses and NPs Can Stay Grounded," in November 2020, part of the VUSN Dore to Dore Alumni Forum. She co-presented "Burnout and Compassion Fatigue and Essential Interventions," in April 2018 during Vanderbilt University Medical Center's advance practice grand rounds and at VUMC Octoberfest. In 2017, she was interviewed for "Beating Clinician Burnout," in Media Health Leaders and co-presented "Burnout and Compassion Fatigue," during VUMC's Aprilfest. Margie presented "Green Dot: A Bystander Initiative to Prevent Lateral Violence," at the 2015 National Magnet Conference. She is a nurse wellness specialist at Vanderbilt Work/Life Connections.

Betsy Kerr Hay, MSN'76, was named president of the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Vanderbilt University in 2016.

Shirley Feldkamp Lowman, MSN'76, PhD'84, of Nashville, passed away March 21, 2019.

Anne Atkinson Moore , BSN'76, MSN'81, is assistant vice president of women's health services at Peppy, headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware. She was director of medical affairs, women's health at Mayne Pharma, senior medical science liaison for AMAG Pharmaceuticals, and Mid-Atlantic liaison with national thought leaders and various health care professionals (2022).

Lesley Mortimer, MSN'76, is a contributing author of the book, Pandemic Home Care, revised for COVID-19, published in 2020.

Christine Benz Smith, BSN'76, was interviewed in July 2019 by the Chattanooga Times Free Press for an article about the shortage of nurses in that city. She is the director of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga School of Nursing.

Judy Stone, BSN'76, works with children ages three to 22 at the Tennessee School for the Blind in Nashville (2016).

Rumay Harrell Alexander, MSN'77, was the inaugural speaker for the Gunter-Gooding Lecture Series at Pennsylvania State University's Ross and Carol Neese College of Nursing in October 2022, and presented, "Health Equity...Growing in Understanding by Design Not Default," as the VUSN Dean's Diversity Lecture in November. She was selected in March 2021 to be an American Nurses Association Scholar-In-Residence, dedicated to addressing systemic racism in the nursing profession, and elected as a board member of the Leapfrog Group in September. She received the Alumni Award for Diversity and Inclusion presented by the VUSN Alumni Association during the school's annual awards ceremony in October 2020. Rumay presented "Diversity at VUSN: An Open Discussion," in February 2019 at Vanderbilt. She co-authored an article for a June 2018 USA Today supplement featuring men in nursing, and presented "Equity of Opportunity: Beyond the Rhetoric," at VUSN in May 2017. She was appointed to the Nurse-Family Partnership board of directors in 2015. Rumay has served as professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Nursing, special assistant to the dean of the Adams School of Dentistry at UNC-CH, associate vice-chancellor for diversity and inclusion/chief diversity officer at UNC-CH, and president of the National League for Nursing.

Wendy Baker, BSN'77, of Yakima, Washington, passed away June 12, 2022.

Susanne Fisher Berger, BSN'77, of Raleigh, North Carolina, passed away July 31, 2021.

Helen Byers Brown, MSN'77, of Bowling Green, Kentucky, passed away July 26, 2021.

Susie Welden Caro, BSN'77, MSN'82, is director and nurse practitioner at Family Cancer Risk Services in Nashville, where she provides risk assessment, facilitation of genetics testing and education (2017).

Patty Chaffin Hofstetter, BSN'77, retired in July 2018 from her role as a senior quality and safety advisor for Vanderbilt University Medical Center's accreditation and standards team. She had been at VUMC for over 40 years.

Lorella Crago Howard, MSN'77, is associate professor at Southern Adventist University School of Nursing in Collegedale, Tennessee (2020).

Patricia LeDrew Jones, MSN'77, is a professor at the Loma Linda University School of Nursing in California (2016).  

Cathy Madigan, BSN'77, received the Lulu Wolf Hassenplug Alumni Award for Distinguished Career in Nursing presented by the VUSN Alumni Association during the school's annual awards ceremony in October 2019. She is chief nurse executive for the University of North Carolina Health Care System and associate dean for practice at the UNC at Chapel Hill School of Nursing.

Eula Lee Marable, MSN'77, of Detroit, passed away April 14, 2021.

Robin Fowler Mauer, BSN'77, is a nurse practitioner in nephrology at the Everett Clinic near Seattle (2017).

Donna Behler McArthur, MSN'77, served as co-chair of VUSN's Reunion held in October 2022, and co-presented "Needs Assessment for Using a Stroke Scale in Urban and Rural Kenyan Hospital Settings" at the Sigma Theta Tau Congress in July 2019. She is an adjunct clinical professor at the University of Arizona College of Nursing and associate in the U of A department of neurology in Tucson, as well as an adjunct professor at VUSN and member of the Alumni Board.

Beth Pulliam Meador, MSN'77, received the Patient Experience Award from Vanderbilt University Medical Center in November 2022, and an Excellence in Patient Experience Award from VUMC in October 2021.

Sandy Spellings Myers, BSN'77, MSN'93, of Nashville, passed away in September 2017.

Elena Economou Saclarides, BSN'77, of Northfield, Illinois, passed away July 18, 2015. Her husband, all five of their children and her sister graduated from Vanderbilt University.

Joyce Grimes Safley, BSN'77, MSN'83, was a candidate for judge of the Davidson County General Sessions Court in Tennessee in May 2018. She joined the Law Office of Melinda Jacobs in Franklin as an attorney in August 2016.

John Stepulis, MSN'77, of Honolulu, passed away November 20, 2021. He was married to classmate, Ruth Smalley Stepulis, MSN'77.

Ruth Smalley Stepulis, MSN'77, is a volunteer for the Hawai'i Community Foundation in Honolulu as a scholarship ambassador (2016).

Claudia Davis, MSN'78, is assistant professor at the Jeanette C. Rudy School of Nursing and Health Professions at Cumberland University in Lebanon, Tennessee (2020).

Jane Dempster, BSN'78, wrote a letter to the editor about civilian volunteers in the wake of Hurricane Harvey, published by Dallas Morning News in August 2017. She is the hepatobiliary clinical coordinator at Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas.

Flora Simpkins Duke, MSN'78, of Nashville, passed away May 26, 2022.

Charlotte Francis, BSN'78, of Florence, South Carolina, passed away November 3, 2021.

Judy Gunter, MSN'78, is an instructor at the Jeanette C. Rudy School of Nursing and Health Professions at Cumberland University in Lebanon, Tennessee (2016).

Alice Howze Martin, BSN'78, presented, "HealthSouth—The Road to Ruin & Resurrection—A $2.8+ Billion Accounting Fraud," at the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners Middle Tennessee Chapter conference in March 2022, and spoke to the Opelika Kiwanis Club in Alabama in January 2018. She announced in 2017 that she would run for attorney general of Alabama after leaving her position among the staff of her state's Department of Examiners of Public Accounts. In April 2015, Alice was named chief deputy attorney general for the State of Alabama. She is an executive consultant for Pinnacle Enterprise Risk Consulting Services.

Katherine Power McCrea, BSN'78, is a certified post-anesthesia nurse at the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Nashville (2017).

Thayer Wilson McGahee, BSN'78, was named dean of the University of South Carolina Aiken School of Nursing in 2015.

Christina Nyirati, MSN'78, is chair of the department of nursing and director of the nursing program at Heritage University in Toppenish, Washington (2020).

Vaughn Gaston Sinclair, BSN'74, MSN'78, PhD'82, retired as professor emerita from VUSN in August 2021. She is lead author of "Associations between Changes in Resilient Coping and Post-traumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms," published in Research in Nursing and Health in February 2020, and co-author of "A Randomized Clinical Trial Comparing the Impact of a Web-based Multimedia Intervention Versus an Educational Pamphlet on Patient Outcomes in Breast Cancer Survivors with Chronic Secondary Lymphedema," published by Journal of Women's Health in July 2019.

Bob Spencer, MSN'78, was quoted by the Tennessean in September 2016, about the nursing program at Freed-Hardeman University in Dickson, Tennessee, where he was named director earlier that year.

Becca Sander Walters, MSN'78, is owner and provider at Choose Life 2 Live clinic in Castle Rock, Colorado (2020).

Ed Blackman, MSN'79, of Murfreesboro, Tennessee, passed away December 8, 2021. He retired in August 1996 from the Alvin C. York Veterans Affairs Medical Center.

Betsy Brach, BSN'79, MSN'81, has an experiential psychotherapy practice for individuals, couples and groups in Bethesda, Maryland (2020).

Susan Roberts Cooper, BSN'79, MSN'94, was featured in the June 2016 issue of Memphis Medical News. She is senior vice president and chief integration officer at Regional One Health in Memphis, Tennessee.

Nonie Fain, BSN'79, of Houston, passed away December 19, 2022.

Beth Colvin Huff, BSN'74, MSN'79, received the American Society for Colposcopy and Cervical Pathology Distinguished Service Award in 2016.

Deborah Knauer, BSN'79, is an elder law attorney with her private practice in Jacksonville, Florida (2022).

Nancy Greer Lagrew, BSN'79, of Irvine, California, passed away in February 2015.

Lissa King Madigan, BSN'79, of Little Rock, Arkansas, passed away July 26, 2021.

Marie Phillips, BSN'79, was a finalist for the Tennessean's Salute to Nurses awards in 2015, for her work at VUSN's school-based health clinic at Park Avenue Elementary School in Nashville.

Randy Rasch, MSN'79, co-sponsored a challenge gift in memory of late professor Tom Christenbery, MSN'87, PhD'04, during Vanderbilt Giving Day and presented at the National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties conference, both in April 2022, and was the keynote speaker at the Tennessee Nurse Practitioner Association statewide conference in July. He was a panelist for "Leadership in the Time of Coronavirus: Stories from the Top," in April 2021, part of the VUSN Dore to Door Alumni Forum, and a speaker for "The Future of Nursing Education," hosted by the VUSN Dean's Office in October. Rangy was appointed by Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer to lead a state-wide effort to reduce health disparities for people of color, and was elected board member-at-large of the American Association of Colleges of Nursing, both in February 2020. He was inducted as a fellow into the American Academy of Nursing that October, and was interviewed for "Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and the NP Role," an episode of NP Pulse: The Voice of the Nurse Practitioner, a podcast hosted by the American Association of Nurse Practitioners. Randy was highlighted in a June 2018 USA Today supplement featuring men in nursing, and received the Lulu Wolf Hassenplug Alumni Award presented by the VUSN Alumni Association during the school's annual awards ceremony in October. He was named dean of the Michigan State University College of Nursing in Lansing in 2015.

Jim Rhudy, BSN'79, is an assistant professor of neurology at the University of Tennessee-Health Science Center College of Medicine in Memphis (2020).

Cindy Selleck, MSN'79, was named a Visionary Leader by the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Nursing in April 2021.

Christine Patrick Sharpe, MA'71, BSN'79, MSN'88, of Nashville, passed away February 24, 2021.

Carol Masters Stoltz, MSN'79, EMBA'89, of Nashville, passed away January 28, 2018. 

Margaret McAvoy Trimpey, MSN'79, of Signal Mountain, Tennessee, passed away December 10, 2016.