Obituary

  • VUSN Alumna, Camille Legeay Cook, has died

    VUSN Alumna, Camille Legeay Cook, has died

    It was with sadness that VUSN learned of the death of alumna Camille Legeay Cook. Camille joined the Foreign Service as the first nurse assigned to the American Embassy in Tokyo in 1952. She worked as a nurse consultant at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, and later for the US Public… Read More

    Mar. 8, 2021

  • Ginna Corts, BSN'70, MSN'73, one of VUSN's first FNPs, has died

    Ginna Corts, BSN'70, MSN'73, one of VUSN's first FNPs, has died

    It was with sadness that VUSN learned of the death of alumna Camille Legeay Cook. Camille joined the Foreign Service as the first nurse assigned to the American Embassy in Tokyo in 1952. She worked as a nurse consultant at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, and later for the US Public… Read More

    Feb. 19, 2021

  • Vanderbilt professor Tom Christenbery leans against porch rail in portrait for Summer 2020 Vanderbilt Nurse magazine.

    School of Nursing mourns loss of Tom Christenbery, beloved professor and champion of compassion in nursing

    It was with sadness that VUSN learned of the death of alumna Camille Legeay Cook. Camille joined the Foreign Service as the first nurse assigned to the American Embassy in Tokyo in 1952. She worked as a nurse consultant at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, and later for the US Public… Read More

    Feb. 17, 2021

  • Headshot of Vanderbilt's Kate Payne

    Kate Payne, Vanderbilt nurse and bioethicist, has died

    It was with sadness that VUSN learned of the death of alumna Camille Legeay Cook. Camille joined the Foreign Service as the first nurse assigned to the American Embassy in Tokyo in 1952. She worked as a nurse consultant at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, and later for the US Public… Read More

    Jan. 14, 2021

  • Headshot of Ken Wallston

    Ken Wallston, prominent nursing researcher and health psychology pioneer, has died

    It was with sadness that VUSN learned of the death of alumna Camille Legeay Cook. Camille joined the Foreign Service as the first nurse assigned to the American Embassy in Tokyo in 1952. She worked as a nurse consultant at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, and later for the US Public… Read More

    Nov. 11, 2020

  • Black and white photo of former VUSN faculty Sue Jones

    Former faculty and alumna Sue McConnell Jones dies

    It was with sadness that we learned that former faculty member and alumna Lenita "Sue" McConnell Jones, BSN’67, MSN’74, died August 29. A Double 'Dore, she was one of VUSN’s first nurse practitioner graduates as well as one of the first 100 NPs in the U.S. Jones was instrumental in the creation of the first certification process for NPs and enjoyed a long career as practitioner, professor and nursing director. Read More

    Sep. 2, 2020

  • Former Vanderbilt faculty Sara Hampshire

    Former faculty, alumna and trailblazer Sara Hutchinson Hampshire remembered

    Friends, former students and past colleagues were saddened to hear of the May 2 death of School of Nursing alumna and former faculty member Sara Hutchison Hampshire, BSN’71, MSN’75. Vanderbilt Magazine recalled the life and impact of this women's health trailblazer. Read More

    Aug. 7, 2020

  • Colleen Conway-Welch in apricot colored suit stands on stone steps

    Former Dean Colleen Conway-Welch has died

    It was with sadness that VUSN learned of the death of alumna Camille Legeay Cook. Camille joined the Foreign Service as the first nurse assigned to the American Embassy in Tokyo in 1952. She worked as a nurse consultant at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, and later for the US Public… Read More

    Oct. 12, 2018