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PRESIDENTIAL

TRAVELS Susie Adams Maroon „87 keeps a watchful eye on

the health of the 44th President of the United

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Table of Contents

3 Steps from the President

5 Graduation

7 Making the List

9 Upcoming Alumni Events

10 Alma Matters

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Outside The College Doors

When the dream didn’t “fade with age”, Alumni Assn. Board Member Cathy Davis ’04 followed it. At 40, the mother of three entered GSC and took on the role of student. Within a few years, she had graduated, passed boards and began working as a nurse. For the past five years, she has been an optional case manager at Hospice of Cincinnati.

We caught up with Cathy to get her take on her career, being an Alumni Board member, and driving a bus!

THE NURSING BUG:

I have dreamed of being a nurse since I was in elementary

school. But I was encouraged by friends and counselors to

pursue a degree in business. I earned that in 1985;

however, the nursing dream didn’t go away. I finally went

back to school at GSC and graduated in 2004 with my

nursing degree.

WHY YOU BECAME A HOSPICE NURSE:

After graduating from GSC I just knew in my heart that I

wanted to be a Hospice nurse. Working with patients and

their families in their homes has been a privilege. It allows

me to share my personal faith and learn life lessons from

the amazing families in our community. Lessons such as

the importance of the gift of family, love, time with our

loved ones, care, respect, dignity and forgiveness.

LEARNING LIFE LESSONS:

I have met patients who, in their short life, have made a

long lasting difference in this world. Life truly is about

quality, not quantity. I am thankful for the moments of

faith and love that I have been witness to simply because I

am a nurse.

YOUR BOARD INVOLVEMENT:

We have quarterly meetings to help decide activities of the

Alumni Association. I’m also in charge of the Cheer Up/

Cheer On committee – personal notes we write to alumni to

congratulate them or send condolences or get well wishes.

HOW A COMMERCIAL DRIVERS LICENSE

FITS IN THE PICTURE:

I just received my CDL so that I can drive our church bus.

WHAT DID YOU HAVE TO LEARN IN THE

TRAINING:

█ KINDS OF COOLANTS █ HAZMAT REGULATIONS

█ DRIVING SAFETY █ HOW TO BACK UP THE

MONSTER

It is not easy! I have great respect for the truck drivers and

school bus drivers on the road. I wonder how many licensed

nurses also have their CDL license? Great combination,

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College Calendar

May 12 Graduation, Strawberry

Breakfast 13 Semester Ends 15 Arthritis Walk 24 Summer Session Begins 30 Memorial Day Holiday June 30 Summer Session Ends July 4 Fourth of July Holiday 5 Interim Session Begins 29 Interim Session Ends August 22 Fall Semester Begins

Reception Desk

Hours

Mon.-Thurs. 6:30am-9:00pm Friday 6:30am-6:30pm Closed Weekends

May 16 Summer Hours Begin Mon.- Fri. 7:00am – 5:00pm Closed Weekends

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Good Samaritan College Board of Trustees 2010-2011

Morris Cohen, Board President President, Good Samaritan College

John Prout, Board Chief Executive Officer President, TriHealth Inc.

Todd Gray, Board Chair President, The Midland Company

Steven L. Dumbauld, MD, FACP The Kidney & Hypertension Center

Edward G. Harness, Jr. Private Banking and Insurance Consultant

Rich Homan Vice President/Regional General Manager, Turner Construction Company

Harold Klink Senior Vice President/Head of Personal Trust, US Bank

Meg McCann Associate Director, External Business Development, Procter & Gamble Company

Elaine Holloway McGuire ‘66 Chief Nursing Officer (Retired), TriHealth

Myrtis H. Powell President/CEO (Retired), Cincinnati Youth Collaborative; Vice President, Student Affairs (Retired), Miami University

Sister Jeanne Roach S.C President/CEO (Retired), Bayley Place

I wish you a happy spring and, perhaps, by the time

you read this issue of The Blue Streak, the weather will have finally changed for the better. As we approach the end of the academic year I want to share just how extraordinary this year really has been.

First, let’s talk about our students. In December, we graduated 42 and coming up in May, another class will earn their degree. I hope you know just how hard they all work to get through our program, juggling work, families, and school. We are very proud of them. Our mission is to educate women and men for careers in nursing and everything we do academically and co-curricular is focused on that purpose. That is what makes the next announcements so rewarding.

I am very proud to announce that the college has received continuing accreditation until the year 2020-2021. Yes, that’s right, ten (10) years. After nearly two years of preparation and planning and the writing of an extensive self-study, the college was evaluated by a team of consultant/evaluators from the Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association. They came to our campus in November for the first step of the evaluation process. This review was very positive with the team recommending the full ten-year cycle; but also

importantly, only two minor considerations for institutional attention. Final confirmation of our continuing accreditation was received in early March. This was an extraordinary effort by administration, faculty, staff, and students.

I am just as proud to tell you about our National League for Nursing Accrediting Commission visit in February. This is a specialized accreditation for nursing. The nursing faculty, in particular, were primarily involved, but very much everyone in the college participated in this on-campus review. The review team was very complimentary of our program and recommended the maximum eight (8) years re-accreditation. Though this process is not over, we expect final confirmation sometime this summer. This, too, took extraordinary effort from everyone in the college.

I hope you will join me in celebrating these promising outcomes for the future of Good Samaritan College.

On a sad note, Nursing III student Kelly Beerman was tragically killed in an automobile accident on Dec. 27. The College held a memorial service on Jan. 27 to celebrate her life.

I n December of 2010, when President Obama gave Purple Hearts to deserving

military personnel at Bagram Air Force Base in Afghanistan; Susie was there. When the first family traveled on Air Force One to Arizona in January to attend the Memorial Service for victims of the Tucson shootings; Susie went with them. And a few years ago, when President Bush’s dog Beasley went to the veterinarian; Susie accompanied her.

Wait a minute, back up! What was that last one again? Yes, Susie (Beverly) Adams Maroon ’87, Maj. USAF, NC never knows what she’ll be doing on any particular day as the Senior Presidential Nurse for

the White House.

Susie is one of seven nurses who serve in the White House Medical Unit (WHMU). She and her fellow officers are from all services of the military. Susie, a US Air Force Major has been on the WHMU staff since 2007.

The 25 physicians, nurses and physician’s assistants serving at the WHMU are responsible for the 24-hour per day medical care of the President and Vice-President and their families, for the White House Staff, and anyone else who is on the 18 Acres (the White House grounds). That can include official visitors or tourists.

The WHMU clinic in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building provides emergency and acute care to people on the 18 Acres. It also is responsible for providing or administering immunizations to White House Staff traveling around the world. During nighttime hours, a staff member is on-call on the 18 Acres of the White House, ready to respond to any emergency. Another WHMU duty is medical advance planning for Presidential and Vice-Presidential travel. A medical team, usually consisting of a nurse, physician or physician’s assistant, visits the destination before the official trip – determining emergency medical procedures should an unexpected situation arise.

Whenever the President leaves the 18 Acres, a physician, nurse and physician’s assistant travel with them to be available for any medical request.

“Our motto is available, but invisible,” Susie said, “We’re always there and we carry with us the medical supplies we’ll need to care for the “principal” we’re traveling with, but you’d rarely notice us.”

Last June, she was named the Senior Presidential Nurse. Susie is now responsible for coordinating all of the nursing care for the First Family and travels with President Obama when he leaves the White House. When he is on Air Force One, she’s there with him and is responsible for maintaining the medical unit on the jet. Her most recent international trip was in November when the President traveled on a 14-day journey around the world. They visited five countries - Japan, Indonesia, South Korea, India and Portugal. When she is in other countries, Susie says she feels she represents the White House, medicine in the United States, and the nurses of the US. Sometimes, that’s daunting.

“I get to quietly observe the most amazing places and events,” Susie said. “I’ve been so many places, I can’t even count. But when you’re out there, it’s a huge sense of responsibility. The weight of the job, knowing that it’s me that will have to step up if anything happens…. I know I’m qualified, I know I’m well trained and that goes back to my affinity to Good Sam. The base I got at Good Samaritan Hospital School of Nursing, it was a true foundation.”

While in other countries, Susie has observed that nurses in the US are so much more respected than in many places. In Russia, for instance, nurses in the wards don’t hold high status. Most continue to wear special uniforms, including nursing caps, and do not receive the level of respect that you see in the US.

The types of medical facilities she sees can vary from cutting edge to basic and austere. “You can be in a modern New York hospital one day and in a volunteer-run medical facility in Arusha, Africa, the next,” she notes. “You just never know what you’ll find.”

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It’s a job that gives lasting memories. Like the time she was part of the medical team assigned to care for the medical needs of Pope Benedict XVI while he was in the US, spending a week in Washington, DC, and New York as part of his traveling party. Or the emotions she experienced watching the faces of the service personnel who received those Purple Hearts from the President in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Susie comes from a Good Sam family; several family members have graduated from the nursing program over the years. It was natural choice for her to seek her nursing diploma at GSHSN. When she graduated in 1987, she worked as an Emergency Room nurse for several years.

“I joined the Air Force in 2000 because of their great educational benefits. That’s what drew me in,” Susie said.

She worked in Emergency Services for a few years and then went to Flight School in 2003, learning how to move and care for large numbers of patients during air transport. “Flight School was fascinating. We learned how a person’s body is affected by flight transport and how to care for patients in the air. We could be caring for as few as a dozen people or up to 70 … generally with two nurses and three medics doing everything,” she explained.

Hours after Hurricane Katrina swept through the Gulf Coast, Susie arrived at

the New Orleans International Airport with the first aero medical evacuation crew. She was instrumental in the evacuation of

more than 2,500 patients in 96 hours, the largest patient movement in aero-medical evacuation history. She was cited for her efforts with the Air Force Commendation Medal with two Oak Leaf Clusters, one of many awards and decorations she has received for her service in the Air Force.

Susie served in three deployments as a Flight Nurse, including a tour in Africa. When she returned from that deployment, an email listing the White House opening piqued her interest. She realized she met all of the requirements and officially submitted for the position. After an interview process, Susie was offered the

position and she began her work as a White House Nurse in April, 2007.

Her first night on the White House team is another lasting memory. Working on the overnight shift, she received a call from a voice that sounded a bit under the weather. The caller said he was Vice-President Cheney and he wasn’t feeling well. Susie thought at first that it was a staff member playing an initiation gag on her because the Vice-President being sick on her first night at the White House just couldn’t be happening. But, Susie says, something told her to take the caller seriously and it really was Vice-President Cheney and he really was ill.

And her most unusual assignment as a White House nurse? Susie cites her stint as a triage nurse

for Beasley.

“Because we’re medical, I guess we’re thought of first when the dog needs

to go to the vet. And since I’d grown up on a farm in Kentucky, well, somehow they decided it was natural to ask me,” she said. “It was an interesting lesson. Nothing is off limits when you’re working here.”

Susie has now worked under two administrations – the Bushes and the Obamas. She calls both families cordial and respectful to the staff. She says it’s been fascinating to have witnessed the change in administrations and to see the first African American president preside in the White House. Of course, the environments of the families are different too. With the Obamas having children, she said, it livens things up a bit from the quieter setting of the Bush household. “There’s a swing set now, and a lot of chatter when the children are around. It’s an active place,” she notes.

Susie’s tour will end in 2012 and then she’ll go wherever the military sends her next. Ultimately, she would like to teach and work with young nurses.

“I want them to know you really can and should have big dreams. I never would have thought I’d end up taking care of world leaders or observing history as it happens in front of me. Our GSC nursing students should remember - you can’t dream big enough!”

Editor’s Note: Plans are being

made for Susie to speak at a Good

Samaritan College Nursing Forum in

the Fall of 2011. Look for information

in future publications, on the website,

through Twitter, Facebook or emails.

Susie (right) was Troop Commander for one of the first aeromedical flight crews that responded to Hurricane Katrina. She worked with the Disaster Medical Assistance Teams to triage patients for evacuation. She received an Air Force Commendation Medal with two Oak Leaf Clusters for her efforts.

“I know I‟m qualified, I know I‟m well trained and that goes back to my

affinity to Good Sam. The base I got at the School,

it was a true foundation.”

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Good Samaritan College

of Nursing and Health

Science Associate of

Applied Science in

Nursing

Jenna Marie Alsip Erica Marie Baden Jill Renee Baker Mallory Kay Baker Katie Cecelia Barnes Nichole Annette Biehl Ashley Marie Bosse+* Laura Marie Bryan Kelly Danielle Cagney Courtney Michelle Carson Cara Nicole Dickson Kelly Renee Eastham Dana Renee French Constantino Gavilan Natoya Tonsan Hall Deborah Lee Halsey Emily Rose Helmers Michelle Renee Hoeting Shaundra Maria Izzo Katelyn Anne Jacobs Stephen Brightwell Jones Erik Ewald Korst Lauren Nicole Lipps Connie Jeannette Lunsford Laura Anne Massey+ Katie Ann McIntyre Samantha Nicole Morgan+ Jessica Marie Nies Heather Connie Osborne Brittany Marie Renzenbrink Melissa Marie Rieder Rheda Jo Robeson Erika Lynn Rosenbauer Heather Marie Schmidt Cecily Caitlin Shay Carrie Elizabeth Sprague+ Julie Alyssa Statzer Amanda Jo-linn Stout Samantha Lynn Swedersky Wendisha Kay Turnage Marie Ann Ward** Brittany Nichole Weidner

+Academic Honors *Alumni Award to the Outstanding Graduate

Not an End... but a Beginning

December ‘10 Graduation

Recipient of the Alumni Award to the

Outstanding Graduate Ashley

Bosse and the Alumni Exemplary

Service Award recipient Marie Ward

with Alumni President Betty

Anderson ‘51.

Dean of Student/Alumni Services Mary Jo Kathman BSN, MAEd, and Alumni Coordinator Tisha Bruemmer, MBA, BA, presented a session on “How a Small Shop Can Reach/Engage its Alumni” at the Chicago CASE V (Council for Advancement and Support of Education) Conference in December 2010. Tisha also hosted a Roundtable on “Small Alumni Shops.”

Assistant Professor Michele Roa MSN, BSN has had three articles

accepted for future publications: “Is Managed Care an Oxymoron?” Nursing Ethics; “Healthcare Organizations Benefit by Promoting BSN Education” Nurse Education Today; “The Costs of NCLEX-RN Failure” Nurse Education Today.

Instructor JoAnn Bergman Sommer ’80, MSN, BSN; Professor Joann Sullivan-Mann MSN, BSN, RNC and Lisa Niehaus of Xavier University presented at the METI HPSN (Human Patient Simulation Network) 2011 Conference in February. They discussed the findings of their study on, “Addressing the Gap between Theory and Clinical Knowledge in Nursing

Education with Simulation.” It was funded by an Ohio Board of Nursing grant, and provided additional human patient simulation time to GSC students during spring semester and at a GSC summer camp.

Instructor JoAnn Bergman Sommer ‘80 MSN,

BSN, Diploma, received her Masters of Science degree with an education concentration from Xavier University in December, 2010. Her scholarly project and poster presentation was on “Summer Simulation Camps at Good Samaritan College of Nursing and Health

Science”. She accepted a fulltime faculty position at GSC in July 2010 and is currently teaching Nursing II.

Assistant Professor Melani Stallkamp, MSN, BSN, was recently selected as "Role Model of the Day" by Blossoms, a non-profit organization that empowers young women to make good choices. She was the guest speaker at Dater Montessori School, a Mt. Healthy Public School.

She met with nine- to thirteen-year-old girls to discuss her nursing career.

C O L L E G E

The following students have filled open positions on the Student Organiza-tion for the 2011 Spring Semester Assessment Committee Rep: Alyssa Enderle Library Committee Rep: Chris Halcomb Student Services Committee Reps: Nicole Feldman, Sally Strange, Seth Watson

GSC Curriculum Revised

to Include More Active

Learning Strategies

In response to changes in health care, trends in nursing education, and the gap between nursing education and nursing practice, the GSC nursing curriculum has been revised. The new curriculum should be completely phased-in by 2012.

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Alumni Association Scholarship Boeckman, Jennifer Bolling, Jessica Bova, Angela Bowen, Natalie Brown, Andrea Burrow, Desiree Clifford, Chelsea Florea DiTullio, Joanna Dunn, Stephanie Engler, Vanessa Fleckenstein, Lindsey Franz, Mary Gillespie, Abby Hasse, Cynthia Hayes, Kendra

Hogue, Sarah Hoog, Sarah Hughes, Sean Kimbrell, Holly Kinne, Bridget Lotz, Brenda Lucas, Cortney Narwold, Nancy Osie, Kathryn Parsley, Ellen Perazzo, Emily Perry, Catherine Pierce, Carrie Pruitt, Jennifer Reno, Rachel Sayne-Meyer, Rebecka

Sontag, Dylan Soto, Jenna Stegeman, Shannon Stewart, Jessica Taylor, Evan Trabel, Jennifer Voet, Deborah Voet, Laura Wallace, Anita Walter, Marjorie Warren, Kristin Sage Wurzelbacher, Jessica Young, Emilee The Good Samaritans Scholarship Stephanie Dunn

Phonathon Callers

Faculty Leah Boerger Paula Gough Beatty Hodovanic Dave McCowan Judy Patterson Jason Slayton

Friend Marty Lamb

Alumni Betty Anderson ‘51 Ed Anderson ‘91 Rita Bramkamp ‘57 Cathy Davis ‘04 Donna Findley ‘76 Nancy Hellmann ‘80 Molly Hodapp ‘63 Zita Jeanmougin ‘58 Diane Motz ‘65 Jane Niehoff ‘58 Ruth Ravenna ‘61 Norma Rieder ‘62 Jan Roenker ‘71

Roger Zutterling ‘08

Students Emma Argo Lila Banks Sabrena Bedwell Marquisse Betts Natalie Bowen Chelsea Clifford Mary Diop Amber Dula Sarah Fisher Mary Alice Franz Millissa Gattiker Chris Halcomb Stephanie Hodapp Alex Holcomb Sarah Lockwood Kristina Loredo Brenda Lotz Alex Mathes Betsy McNeese Anne Nagengast Nancy Narwold Emily Perazzo

Catherine Perry Jennifer Pruitt Sam Raleigh Rachel Reno Caroline Romanchek Rebecka Sayne-Meyer Shannon Stegeman Jessica Stradtman Sally Strange Jacqueline Toney Jennifer Trabel Deborah Voet Laura Voet Anita Wallace Marjorie Walter Kristin Warren Seth Watson Rachel Wein Jake White Cheryl Wilson Lisa Woolfork Emilee Young

Fall Semester 2010

Honors

Students recognized for achieving GPA of 3.25 or above for the semester. Kristopher Anderson Tara Bagford Mallory Baker Morgan Berggren Ashley Bosse Robyn Cayton Rachel Champlin Brandice Current Jesaka Ephron Jennifer Fassler Kendal Fette Krystle Holland Jill Malay McKenzie Mason Melissa Norris Emily Perazzo Holly Phillips Tracey Rogers Teresa Ruman Patsy Russell

2011 Annual Fund Phonathon raises $23K+ Toward $115,000 Campaign Goal

Sixty-five alumni and students volunteered at the four-night Phonathon, making more than 2500 calls. The campaign ends June 30. If you have not yet sent your donation please help our future students and fellow alumni reach their education goals. Return your donation form or contact Kelly Smith (Kelly_smith@trihealth.com) 513-862-3742.

Student Scholarships Totaling more than $32,500

Awarded for Spring 2011

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It’s Academic

GSC students spend

hours in the classroom, science labs, study groups,

and skills labs before ever reaching the clinical floor.

A L U M N I E V E N T S

Alumni President

Elizabeth Evans Anderson ‘51 It has been a very rewarding year for me, serving as President of the Alumni Association. Not only was it challenging, but satisfying and fun to work with all the board members and staff. I want to thank all the people who work behind the scenes for being so kind and helpful to me. We have worked to make necessary changes for the Homecoming, started new events and updated our educational programs. Our yearly Phonathon was a great success and we are most grateful to all who were able to be generous and made it successful. Our December and May graduations

are held at the Cathedral, where I was honored to welcome many happy new graduates into the alumni. Four graduates received monetary awards from the alumni for excellence in academics and service to the college and the community. Please check through The Blue Streak for our upcoming social and educational events, some are new and others have changed. Always remember to keep in touch whether you are young or not so young. Let us know when you reach milestones in your life – marriages, births, new positions or degrees. And send us your new addresses if you move and your emails if we don’t have them. Every nurse from Good Samaritan College/

What’s Coming

May 12 Graduation/ Strawberry

Breakfast Class of May 2011,

Graduates Inducted into Alumni Assn.

18 Mandatory Update on Law And Rules Governing

Nursing Practice in Ohio 19 Alumni Board Meeting June 1 Scholarship Golf Outing 2 Summer Seminar at GSH 30 2011 Annual Fund Campaign

Ends July 1 2012 Annual Fund Campaign

Begins October

Educational Seminars Update on Law and Rules Governing Nursing

Practice in Ohio: When You Are on the Web Wednesday May 18 6:30-7:30pm 6pm registration GSH Auditorium

Speaker: Terri Schumacher ’69, MSN, RN

This CE Activity, OLN-01-2011, has been approved by the Ohio Board of Nursing

through the approver unit at the Ohio League

for Nursing (OBN-006-92) and this program is valid through Jan. 13, 2013

Alumni Assn. Summer Educational Seminar Modern Advances in Care: Female Sexual Dysfunction & Urogynecological Disorders

Thursday, June 2 7:30am registration Seminar: 8am - noon GSH 4

th Floor Conference Center

For information about the approval status for contact hours, call 513-862-3727.

Speakers: Dr. Steven D. Kleeman, M.D.

Dr. Rachel N. Pauls, M.D.

It’s Social!

2011 Arthritis Walk - Cincinnati Ohio Help GSC Articulators take on the Christ College – who can bring the most walkers this year?

Sunday May 15 10am Sawyer Point Go to www.2011cincinnatiarthritiswalk.kintera.org Join GSC articulators

Sign up by the day of the event.

Last year, we had 128 walkers, just two shy of beating Christ College. Like last year, TriHealth will match any

money we raise for the Arthritis Foundation.

3rd ANNUAL GSC Scholarship Golf Outing Wed., June 1 Tee-off 11:30am The Bruin Golf Center Kings Island in Mason, Ohio

9 Hole Scramble and Grill Out Buffet $45 per/person $18 buffet only

Whether you’ve never swung a golf

club or you play every week, you’ll

have fun at the Golf Scramble! Pull together your foursome or sign up

yourself and we’ll add you to a team!

Nota golfer, join us for the buffet! Spots are limited.

Sign up by May 23!

For Reservation form:

Jason Slayton, Jason_slayton@trihealth.com 513-862-1678

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In Memoriam

Lois Trester Schmarr ‘32 Anna Bova Hoerst ‘37 Genevieve Marcheski Maj ‘48 Ann Schuler Nolting ‘50 Mary Jo Huschart Skahan ‘51 Carol Thomas Rolfes ‘56 Elaine Knueven ‘76 Jessica Howell-Goldenstein ‘05

Connect! Connect! Connect! We want to hear from YOU! Send us your latest news and address changes so we can keep in touch! To share in Class Notes: donna.karda@email.gscollege.edu; www.gscollege.edu and select Alumni, News; Donna Karda, Good Samaritan College, 375 Dixmyth Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45220 Include graduation name/year, address, phone, email and news. Address will appear In Blue Streak unless otherwise requested.

Get College updates on Twitter: www.twitter.com/gsstu Check out pictures and events on Facebook: Search on Good Samaritan College Get College news on our web site: www.gscollege.edu To Receive Email Event Updates, send email address to: Tisha.bruemmer@email.gscollege.edu To Contact the Foundation: Kelly Smith (Kelly_smith@trihealth.com) 513-862-3742

Susan Ricke Wallace ’64, Alumni Board 2004-2010 and President 2009-2010; recently achieved Clinical Ladder IV status at Cincinnati’s University Hospital. Susan also has completed nursing research, “Using Dialogue to Enhance Trauma Resilience in Adapting to Their Current Surgery, with several colleagues.” There was a group poster presentation of their research at the University of Cincinnati Evidenced-Based Practice Day.

Patricia Zinser Koral ’68 has been accepted into the Quality and Safety in the Education of Nurses Faculty Development Institute. Pat is an Associate Professor at Good Samaritan College.

Misty Richmond ’85 is a Patient Placement Specialist at Good Samaritan Hospital and was recently accepted into the PhD in Nursing Program at the University of Cincinnati.

Tamara Siemer ’86, Nurse Practitioner at TriHealth, has received certification as a

Geriatric Nurse Practitioner. Lori Dardio Johnson ’91 was among

the Good Samaritan Hospital employees recently recognized by a Spirit of Compassion donation from a grateful patient.

Michele Duerre` Benson ’83, Janet Jaspers Ginn ’69, Sherri Haynes Joyce ’88 and Carol Jung Louderback ’92 were recipients of the December, 2010 Mary Ann McGrath Nursing Education Endowment Award. It was established in 1992 in memory of Mary Ann LaEace McGrath ‘57.

Regan Clark Gallagher’99 is Manager Patient Services at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. She and a colleague presented a poster on Organizational Situation Awareness for the National Nursing Patient Safety Education Conference and were awarded First Place in the Leadership Category.

These alumni have recently received

their Batchelor of Science in Nursing: Lisa Dowers Berning ’87; Karla Walden

Bolton ’05; Lisa Cuntz ’99; Teresa Curtis ’85; Sheila Dugger ’02; Debra Fricke ’08; Susan Brodwolf Hanselman ’81; Jennifer Kortekamp ’07; Amanda Merkel ’06; Pamela Plummer ’94; Denise Reid ’99; Lori Schwab Reid ’91; Misty Richmond ’85; Pat Teeter ’05; Julie Mason Van Curen ’85.

Alumni have received the following certifications:

Jamie Eilers ’07, Orthopedic Certification; Patricia Zinser Koral ’68, Certified Nurse Educator; Dawn Naticchioni Shende ’89, Clinical Documentation; Chris Gilbert Visalli ’88, Registered Nurse Infusion Certification.

Amy Eckert ’98, Susan Morgan Hill ’94, Trish Hogg Lutterbie ‘79, and Thomas Young ’94 have received Dialysis

Young at Heart was held in November, 2010. More than 60 alumni attended the complimentary luncheon which celebrates Alumni who graduated 50 or more years ago.

We need your pics!

We’re adding photos to our Facebook page.

Have a few from your years here or from alumni events you’ve

attended? Send in your best three between now and June 30

beth.moores@email.gscollege.edu

If we use your pics, you’ll win a Good Sam Momento!