Recipients of the 2003 Distinguished Alumnus awardsRuth Fischbach, '63 (far left) and Margaret Elder Wines, '58 (center)with Alumni Association president Pamela Bennett Santoro '77.
The Alumni Association of the Cornell University-New York Hospital School of Nursing held its 46th annual Alumni Day at NewYork Weill Cornell on May 3.
Honored as the 2003 recipients of the Alumni Association's Distinguished Alumnus awards were Margaret Elder Wines, Ph.D., R.N., '58, and Ruth Zeitlin Fischbach, Ph.D., R.N., '63.
A nursing educator, Dr. Wines is president of the Helen Fuld School of Nursing, (affiliated with North General Hospital in Central Harlem). She has been associated with the school for the last 23 years, serving previously as director and dean. She received her Ph.D. in 1980 from Fordham University's Graduate School of Education, Administration, Policy, and Urban Education.
Dr. Fischbach, who earned a Ph.D. in sociology from Boston University in 1983, has pursued an interest in bioethics. Currently professor of bioethics at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, she previously held appointments as professor of medical ethics at Harvard and senior advisor for biomedical ethics at the National Institutes of Health.
Ruth Merkatz, Ph.D., R.N., '61, presented the Alumni Day lecture on the "Impact of Feminism on Health, Research and Politics."
The CU-NYH School of Nursing, which closed in 1979, was one of the leading baccalaureate nursing programs in the U.S. It was founded as the New York Hospital Training School for Nurses in 1877, the school affiliated with Cornell University in the 1940s, awarding the Bachelor of Science in nursing degree. The school was forced to close in 1979 when federal financing for nursing education was curtailed.
Photo by Amelia Panico.