Recipient of the 2004 Distinguished Nursing Alumni Award, Kathleen Wheeler, '76 (right), with Alumni Association board member Evelynn Clark Gioiella, '59.
The Cornell University-New York Hospital School of Nursing Alumni Association held its 47th annual Alumni Day at the Griffis Faculty Club on May 1.
Honored as the 2004 recipient of the Alumni Association's Distinguished Alumnus award was Kathleen Wheeler, R.N., Ph.D., '76. Dr. Wheeler is currently the director of the Psychiatric Graduate Program at Fairfield University School of Nursing.
The Alumni Day lecture included two presentations: Margaret Eckert-Norton, M.S., A.P.R.N., B.C., '74, presented "Advanced Nursing Practice: Research, Clinical Practice and Future Trends in Diabetes" and Doris Glick, M.P.H., R.N., '64, vice president of Patient Care Services at Weill Cornell, presented "Update: Nursing at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital." Linda Vecchiotti Saal, M.A., R.N., B.C., '71, program director of Continuing Education and Affiliations at Weill Cornell, was elected president of the Alumni Association.
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 Linda Saal.