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From
the Alumni President
Kicking it up a Notch
A Philatelic Fan of Nursing
A
Hospital Room with a View
Friends of Nursing |
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Dr.
Annelle Brown Tanner, 69N, is the Louisiana Nurse of the
Year for 2006. The Louisiana Association of Nonprofit Organizations
also named her a Louisiana Heroine for 2006 for coordinating United
Way efforts to assist evacuees of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Last
but not least, Annelle was inducted as president of the Nu Tau Chapter
of Sigma Theta Tau International Nursing Honor Society. |
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Cynthia
Leahy Belcher, 71N, retired in May 2006 as Assistant Professor
of Nursing from Clemson University after 35 years of service. |
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Andrea
(Andy) Lewyn Kravovsky, 76N, and Robin Burch Domm,
81N, worked at Camp Seafarer in Arapohoe, NC, a YMCA sailing
camp for 650 girls. They served as nurse practitioners in the health
clinic there last summer. They worked at the camp with friend and
colleague Judy Carson, 76B. |
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Dr.
Susan Sweat Gunby, 77N, dean and professor at Georgia Baptist
College of Nursing at Mercer University in Atlanta, received the
National Student Nurses Association Leader of Leaders Award at the
April 2006 annual meeting. Sponsored by Elsevier Publishing, the
award recognizes distinguished support and service to nursing students. |
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From
the Alumni President
his
academic year has been very exciting. We have 208 BSN students
and 166 MSN students enrolled in our programs, representing
a rich diversity in background and life experience. Our current
junior class members come from all
over the United States and from countries around the world,
including Ghana, Guyana, and Nigeria. There are eight men
and 98 women. The average age is 26.
As a member of the Admissions
Committee, I had the privilege of reading many of the essays
that accompanied their admission applications. I am continually
struck by how many students decide to pursue nursing because
of their own experiences with a nurse or nurses who made a
remarkable difference in their lives. They have watched the
example you have set, and they want to continue the tradition
of caring and making a difference for others.
Another tradition they are now
immersed in is the commitment to professional values. For
the past several years, a Gallup Poll has found nursing to
be the public's most trusted profession. In keeping
with this tradition, our students recently partnered with
faculty and alumni to create what is to become an annual program
to celebrate the affirmation of our values. This past fall,
students, faculty, alumni, administration, and supporters
from Emory Healthcare gathered at the school for an inaugural
program that included the signing of a new pledge book proclaiming
their personal commitment to professional values. The program
was followed by the Woodruff Tea, a tradition begun by Nell
Hodgson Woodruff at her home many years ago.
Watching students interact with
alumni was touching and inspirational. We can all be assured
that the torch will be passed to a great new generation of
nurses.
Sally T. Lehr, 65N, 76MN
President, Nurses Alumni Association
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Mary
Elizabeth "Mimi" Jenko, 81N, published "Transcultural
Nursing Principles: An Application to Hospice Care" in the
May-June 2006 issue of the Journal of Hospice and Palliative Nursing.
Mimi is a clinical nurse specialist with the Watson Clinic in Lakeland,
FL. |
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Captain
Kitty MacFarlane, 81N, 92MSN-MPH, received a grant from
the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to study women's health
resources and health care issues in Afghanistan. A nurse-midwife
and member of the U.S. Public Health Service, Kitty regularly travels
to Afghanistan. She currently serves with CDC's Division of
Reproductive Health. |
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Dr.
Ganga Mahat, 87MSN, a clinical associate professor at
Rutgers College of Nursing at the State University of New Jersey,
recently published two articles. "HIV/AIDS Knowledge, Attitudes,
and Beliefs Among Nepalese Adolescents" was published in
the March 2006 issue of the Journal of Advanced Nursing. "Nepalese
School-age Children's Self-Reported Fears and Coping Strategies"
appeared in the Spring 2006 edition of the Journal of Cultural
Diversity. |
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Lucy
C. Willis, 87MSN-MPH, was elected to a three-year term
on the executive board of the South Carolina Daughters of the
American Revolution. |
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Kicking
it up a Notch |
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hen
Hurricane Katrina hit in 2005, Jim Deshotels, 95MSN-MPH, went
to work with the New Orleans Health Department in the Superdome.
"Like most people, I went into the Dome on Sunday, before
the storm hit. I was one of the lucky ones who got out on
Thursday, although I was angry that they evacuated us before
the rest of the people."
Deshotels began helping people
long before Katrina. An ordained priest with the Roman Catholic
Church, he is vice president for mission with the Daughters
of Charity Services of New Orleans. "This job has offered
some exciting, and frustrating, opportunities to be part of
one small force for system change in New Orleans and Louisiana,"
he wrote to a friend on the School of Nursing faculty. "Katrina
kicked up both the opportunities and the complexities by several
notches. It's been a wild ride."
The Daughters of Charity Services
treat underserved people who fall outside the health care
safety net, including homeless and migrant patients. Many
are Hispanic, especially since the storm. "We get them
into primary care, since most people who don't have
insurance have no idea how to negotiate the health care system,"
he says.
Before Katrina, the charity
had a beautiful clinic less than 10 years old. The building
was destroyed by the storm, and operations moved out to the
Jefferson Parish Health Unit in Metairie. "I'm
hardly ever there because I'm out seeing patients,"
Deshotels says.
Though few federal dollars have trickled
in, the government has promised that the Daughters of Charity
clinic will be replaced. Three locations are planned, including
a mobile clinic. One location, a geriatric clinic, opened
in August near the Lower Ninth Ward, one of the neighborhoods
devastated by Katrina, so that patients don't have to
travel to the suburbs for care. "We're still operating
on a very limited cash flow," Deshotels notes.
As a young staff nurse, he was
angered by the number of low-income patients who went unserved.
He also admired how public health nurse practitioners worked
with them. His dual interest in nursing and public health
led him to Emory. After graduating, he returned to New Orleans
to work as a nurse practitioner but had trouble fitting into
the system. "Public health nursing in New Orleans has
traditionally been run by black women, and very capably,"
he says. "So they weren't quite sure what to do
with a white male nurse."
Life smoothed out when he combined
his work with the Catholic Church and health care. He was
serving both missions and ministering to the needs of the
poor in more ways than one.
Recently, Deshotels rode back
from a meeting in Baton Rouge accompanied by three nurses
and some representatives of the United Methodist Church (UMC).
"We think UMC will fund some medications and personal
hygiene supplies for women who are homeless, and eventually
more prenatal care," he says.
The nurses with whom he traveled
serve on the faculty at Louisiana State University. "We
do different work, but we're all involved with improving
things in the long run."
—Carol
Pinto
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Born:
To Beth Young Hew, 91OX, 93N, and husband, Maurice,
a daughter, Sarah Elizabeth, on July 23, 2006. She joins big brother
Joshua. |
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Dr.
Diane Padden, 94MSN, received a PhD in nursing from The
Catholic University of America in Washington, DC, in May. Dr. Padden
is an assistant professor at the Uniformed Services University of
the Health Sciences in Bethesda, MD. She also serves as acting chair
of the Department of Health, Injury, and Disease Management. Additionally,
Dr. Padden was awarded the Janet Rexrode Southby Prize in Nursing
Research for her study on the health and well-being of women separated
from active-duty military spouses during deployment. |
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Born: To Jenna Culbertson Carpinello, 98MSN-MPH,
and her husband, Chris, a son, Joshua Logan, on April 14, 2006.
Born: To Jennifer
Grass Durbin, 98N, 98MPH, and husband, Randy, 97MPH, a
daughter, Joanna, on Nov. 18, 2005. She joins her siblings, Audrey
and Riley. |
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A
Philatelic Fan of Nursing |
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hese
colorful stamps are part of a collection that belonged to
the father of John Webster, 72C. Webster donated the collection
to the School of Nursing after his father died. The stamps
date from the 1920s to the 1990s and represent many countries.
Webster and his mother are acquainted with nursing, having
both worked at Emory University Hospital. |
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A
Hospital Room with a View |
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he
head architect needed to know if the design for a patient
room at the new neuro-critical care unit at Emory University
Hospital (EUH) would better suit how nurses work. So while
he lay on the hospital bed in the full-scale model, he had
himself intubated. Well, a nurse pretended to intubate him.
The drill was videotaped and later used in a feedback session
to refine the design.
The nurse was Michelle Ossmann,
98N, 01MSN, who works at EUH and is currently a PhD student
in architecture at Georgia Institute of Technology. In December,
along with other students, she presented her final project
in a collaborative Emory/Georgia Tech course that for the
first time incorporated the disciplines of nursing, industrial
design, architecture, computer science, systems engineering,
and human computer interaction to design the patient room
of the future.
Gerri Lamb, a visiting scholar
at the School of Nursing and one of the instructors for the
course, took students on hospital tours to see rooms and talk
with nurses about what works and what doesn't in the
hospital environment. The students saw plenty of what fails
to work, Lamb
says—bathtubs that are inaccessible, awkward arrangements
of patient beds, and limited space for family members and
for nurses to work.
School of Nursing Dean Marla
Salmon says patient care and design are intrinsically linked,
as the physical and emotional environment of the hospital
contributes to patient safety and healing. She hopes the class
will lead to a joint nursing and architecture degree between
the two universities.
Will Ossmann continue to work
as a nurse after earning her architecture degree? "Of
course. My nursing practice provides inspiration for new designs,"
she says.
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What
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- A
large, widescreen computer monitor hangs on the wall facing
the bed. Doctors access it to videotape an update for
the patient's medical records or leave a message
for the family.
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A smaller screen sits in front of the patient, which can
play the radio and television or display a clock when
not in use. It also serves as the nurse call system with
video chat capability.
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the bed is a wall of cabinets and drawers for clothing
storage, a Murphy twin bed with a privacy screen for a
family member, and a fold-down desk for a computer.
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The shower is equipped with a seat that slides on a support
rail that wraps around the perimeter of the bathroom.
A vinyl screen can be pulled out from the wall to provide
privacy for showering but is only waist high to enable
help from a caregiver. A narrow drain snakes around the
floor for easy cleaning.
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A care cart stocks gloves, linens, and trash bags, and
encases a plastic bin for needle disposal with a peek-a-boo
window on the side to see when it's full. The cart
splits into two so the mobile section can be extended
over a patient bed to serve as a table.
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Laura E. Gallagher, 00MSN, received the Palmetto
Gold Award from the South Carolina Nurses' Association. She
is a clinical nurse specialist in emergency services at the Medical
University of South Carolina.
Born: To Alison
Walter Kyle, 00N, and her husband, David, their first child,
Margaret Katharine ("Maggie"), on April 20, 2006. Alison
currently works as a family nurse practitioner at the Ponce de Leon
Center in midtown Atlanta. Part of the Grady Health System, the
Ponce Center provides primary care and chronic disease management
services for HIV/AIDS patients.
Married: Erin
Toburen, 02N, and John Burkhalter on Sept. 9, 2006 at Mount
Vernon Baptist Church in Atlanta. She is a clinical consultant with
Welch Allyn.
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Emily
Mason, 04N, is the new clinical director at the Feminist
Women's Health Center in Atlanta. The nonprofit organization
caters to the reproductive health needs of women throughout the
Southeast. Emily oversees operations at the Cliff Valley Clinic
in DeKalb County, which includes the departments of reproductive
medicine, gynecology and wellness services, research, and community
outreach.
Emily also was named an Outstanding
Atlanta Honoree for 2006. Outstanding Atlanta honors leadership
and community service in Atlantans between the ages of 21-36 who
live or work in metro Atlanta and have distiniguished themselves
in their careers or by community service. She was recognized along
with nine others at the 38th Annual Outstanding Atlanta Awards in
the Georgia-Pacific Auditorium in November. |
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Amy
Parker, 05MSN-MPH, recently co-authored a study on the
2005 measles outbreak in Indiana that was published in the New England
Journal of Medicine.
Parker joined the Epidemic Intelligence
Service (EIS), a little known division of the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention responsible for solving public health puzzles,
after graduation. The EIS is a premiere training and service assignment
in epidemiology. |
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IN
MEMORIAM |
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Sudie
Nolan-Baker, 32N, on March 12, 2006, at 98. She was one
of the original four visiting nurses in the Atlanta area and one
of the original members of the March of Dimes collections campaigns
in DeKalb County. She also served as director of the Central Presbyterian
Baby Clinic for 25 years. Survivors include a daughter, Barbara
J. Nolan. |
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Friends
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Eleanor
Low Richardson of Decatur, GA, on Feb. 21, 2006,
at 92. A longtime member of the Georgia House of Representatives,
Richardson championed many causes on behalf of women, children,
the elderly, and the disabled. Among her many interests, she
served with the Associates, the community group that promotes
Emory's School of Nursing and provides scholarships
for its students.
Richardson served in the Georgia
House from 1975 to 1990. During that time, she established
insurance coverage for pregnancy complications, which she
considered her proudest achievement. She also succeeded in
having sexist language removed from state laws, reforming
rape laws, improving legislation regarding child protection
services and the disabled, and tightening professional standards
for psychologists and speech pathologists. Beginning in 1989,
she pushed for legislation requiring insurance companies to
pay for tests to detect breast, cervical, and prostate cancer,
which finally became law in 1992.
Survivors include her husband,
Merlyn Eldon Richardson, a daughter, two grandchildren, and
two great-grandchildren.
Anne
Register Jones of Atlanta, on April 4, 2006, at 80.
Her husband, the late Boisfeuillet Jones, was a longtime Emory
leader and the first president of the Robert W. Woodruff Foundation.
Mrs. Jones served on the board of the Emory Woman's
Club and continued the family's endowment of the Boisfeuillet
Jones Scholarship. The Boisfeuillet Jones Medal, also established
in the family's honor, is awarded to students from each
Emory undergraduate school, including the School of Nursing,
for outstanding citizenship, leadership, and service to Emory
and the community, academic performance, and the potential
to become a "change agent" in their chosen profession
and society at large. Nursing students Rachel Shaw, 03N, Denise
Morris, 04N, Audrey Ezeike, 05N, and Nancy Hatcher, 06N, are
past recipients of this award.
Mrs. Jones was a trustee for
Agnes Scott College, her alma mater. Her daughter, Laura Jones
Hardman, 67C, is an officer on Emory's Board of Trustees
and her son, Boisfeuillet Jones Jr., is publisher and chief
executive officer of The Washington Post. Other survivors
include a brother and five grandchildren. |
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Miriam
"Mim" Virginia Smith Egolf, 43N, of Franklin,
TN, on March 16, 2006, at 74.
Mary Ann Beall, 45N, of Tampa, FL, on May 28, 2006,
at 83. She retired from Willis A. Smith, Inc., after 29 years of
service and was one of the original founders of Gulf Contracting,
Inc. She is survived by her daughter and son.
Jane Murphy Fielder, 45N, of Half Moon Bay, CA,
on Oct. 20, 2005, of ovarian cancer.
Wilma Cross DePaz, 46N, of Bluffton, SC, on Oct.
7, 2005, at 80. Survivors include a daughter, two sons, a brother,
a sister, two grandsons, and one granddaughter.
Joan A. Jackson, 46N, of Elberton, GA, died March
21, 2006. She is survived by her husband, James.
Barbara G. Moss, 46N, of Richmond, VA, on October
6, 2006, at 81. She served as a nurse to her husband, Dr. John Langdon
Moss, Sr., for most of her career. She was a long time member of
the Seventh Street Christian Church, the Tuckahoe Women's
Club, and the Richmond Academy of Medicine Auxillary. She is survived
by her four children and two grandchildren. |
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Patricia
Ann Waller Chambers, 47N, of East Point, GA, on Nov. 30,
2006. She worked as a registered nurse for 40 years in the newborn
nursery at Georgia Baptist Hospita in Atlanta. She is survived by
her three children and eight grandchildren. |
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Janice
Sams Cole, 47N, 73MSN, of Fayetteville, GA, on March 31,
2006, at 82. She was a teacher and registered nurse and volunteered
at Piedmont Fayette Hospital and at the Christian City Alzheimer's
Cottage. She is survivied by her three children and six grandchildren.
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Barbara
Virginia Fox, 47N, of Atlanta, on Oct. 27, 2006, at 79.
After graduating from Emory's nursing school, she served as
a second lieutenant in the Korean War. Later, she worked at Piedmont
Hospital in Atlanta and at Kennestone Hospital in Marietta, GA.
She is survived by her husband, Lionel, three children, and five
granddaughters. |
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Mary
Louise Deaton Strickland, 47N, of Decatur, GA, on July
20, 2006, at 79. A graduate of Oviedo High School in Florida before
graduating from Emory's nursing school, she taught nursing
at Miami-Dade Junior College. Survivors include three daughters,
three sons, six grandchildren, and one great-grandchild.
Betty G. Eubanks, 48N, on April 13, 2005, at 77.
Peggy S. Caldwell, 49N, of Augusta, GA, on August
13, 2006, at 78. Her last nursing assignment was as the assistant
to her husband in his surgical practice before they both retired
in 1990. She served as a hospice volunteer and was a member of the
Richmond County Medical Society Alliance, where she founded the
Physician Wellness Fund. Surivivors include five sons and two daughters.
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Betty
Pilcher Spence, 51N, of Albany, GA, on March 12, 2006,
at 75. She pursued her nursing career at Emory University Hospital
and at St. Mary's and Athens Regional hospitals in Athens.
After her family moved to Albany, she worked at Phoebe Putney Memorial
Hospital and was an instructor for the practical nursing class at
Albany Vocational School. She founded a program in Albany to fight
drug abuse among teens and young adults. She also chaired the Georgia
Council Against Drug Abuse during the administrations of Governors
Jimmy Carter and George Busbee. Survivors include her husband, C.
Norman Spence, two daughters, two grandchildren, and a sister. |
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Helen
S. Smith, 52N, of Cartersville, GA, on July 29, 2006, at
74. She is survived by her husband, Carl.
Aileen S. Prevost, 57N, of Anderson, SC, on July
29, 2005, at 81. Survivors include her husband, William.
Jean Ray, 57N, of Andalusia, AL, on Jan. 8, 2006.
Survi-vors include her daughter, Carissa Ray.
Elizabeth G. Green, 58N, of Chattanooga, TN, on
Jan. 22, 2006. She taught medical and surgical nursing, beginning
at Erlanger Hospital in Chattanooga. She was known for a lifetime
of service in nursing and for her legendary teaching methods at
Chattanooga State Technical Community College. She joined the faculty
at Chattanooga State after the Erlanger nursing program closed in
the 1970s.
Patricia Ann Hardman, 59N, of Atlanta, GA, on Sept.
9, 2006, at 69. After earning her nursing degree at Emory, she completed
advanced classes at Columbia University in New York to become a
rehabilitation nursing specialist. She then joined Liberty Mutual
Insurance Company, where she worked for 30 years as a rehab nursing
specialist until she retired in 1992. She also served as a member
of the United States Air Force Reserve, attaining the rank of lieutenant
colonel before her retirement from the reserve in 1996. As an Air
Force officer, she performed a variety of nursing and supervisory
duties and taught nursing classes. She earned the Air Force Meritorious
Service Award and was appointed to the Dobbins Air Force Base Advisory
Council as an officer representative from the 94th TAC Hospital.
Patricia was appointed to the Georgia
Workmen Compensation Advisory Board by then Governor Jimmy Carter
in 1974, where she was instrumental in the enactment of the Subsequent
Injury Fund. She also served on the board of directors of the Georgia
chapter of the American Rehabilitation Nurse Association and volunteered
at Grady Memorial Hospital. Survivors include a niece and nephew.
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Dr. Virginia Murphy Harmeyer, 61MSN, of Valdosta,
GA, on March 9, 2006, at 90. An expert in public health and maternal-child
nursing, she served as professor and director of the Division of
Nursing at Valdosta State University from 1972 to 1981. Prior to
serving on the faculty there, she taught at Northwestern Louisiana
State College, Southeastern Louisiana College, and Murray State
University in Kentucky. She also served as a maternal-child health
nursing consultant for the State of Utah Department of Public Health.
Early in her career, she was an instructor with the Visiting Nurse
Society in Washington, DC, a public health nurse in Lafayette, GA,
and a U.S. Navy staff nurse during World War II.
Virginia was active in a number of
organizations in the Valdosta area and received several service
awards, including the Distinguished Senior Georgian from the Georgia
General Assembly in 1997 and the Aging Service Award from the South
Georgia Council on Aging in 1995. Survivors include two daughters.
Reba Hayes, 65N, of Brentwood, TN, on October 23,
2006, at 83. |
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Helen
Rasberry Jones, 70MSN, of Brandon, MO, on Dec. 5, 2005,
at 65.
Nancy Ruth Luper McInnis, 71MSN, of Pfafftown,
NC, on July 27, 2006, at 60. She was an associate professor of nursing
at Winston-Salem State University and taught nursing for 37 years.
Survivors include her husband, Campbell, a daughter, and a son.
Thomas O. Clark, Jr., 72N, of Westwood, AL, on
Dec. 2, 2006. Survivors include his wife, Lloyd Clark, and four
children.
Dr. Katherine L. Momeier, 73N, of Sullivan's
Island, SC, on Feb. 9, 2006. She was a graduate of the University
of Georgia Veterinary School, where she received the Patricia Lynn
Burton Award and the Merck Veterinary Clinical Award. She was active
in the American and South Carolina veterinary medical associations
and served as secretary of the Trident Veterinary Medical Association.
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Gloria
Jean McCormick-Davis, 81MSN, 83MPH, of Decatur, GA, on
March 6, 2005, at 52. |
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