Fall 2021 Class News

Dynamic trio: Jessica Gill, left, Jason Farley, and Sarah Szanton, classmates in the PhD Class of 2007, have respectively become Bloomberg Distinguished Professor, Endowed Chair for Leadership and Innovation, and dean at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing.

Introducing new alumni fellows of the American Academy of Nursing (FAAN): Jemma Ayvazian, DNP ’13; Deborah J. Baker, BSN ’92, MSN ’97, DNP ’11; Irene Bean, Post-Master’s Certificate ’18; Peggy E. Daw, DNP ’15; Pandora Hardtman, BSN ’96; Brett T. Morgan, BSN ’02, DNP ’09; Rhoda Redulla, DNP ’11; Laura Samuel, PhD ’13; Amanda Stefancyk Oberlies, MSN ’05; Laura J. Wood, DNP ’12.

Congratulations to all.

2021 Top Nurses

Named as Baltimore magazine’s top nurses of 2021: Lora Clawson, MSN ’98; Yaffa Elefant, MSN ’17; Karen Lyons, BSN ’08; Marlene Meyer, BSN ’13; Beth Onners, MSN ’95; Clifton Thornton, BSN ’13, MSN ’14; Vanessa Velez, DNP ’15. (More winners from Johns Hopkins Hospital and its affiliates)

2021 Alumni Awards

Alumni Association Awards:

Outstanding Recent Graduate—Timian M. Godfrey, DNP ’19; Distinguished Alumnus—Jason E. Farley, MSN ’03, PhD ’08; Global Achievement—Anna Bell Haizlip Illien, UC ’56; Community Hero—Sarah L. Szanton, BSN ’93, PhD ’07, and Katherine “Katie” Phillips, BSN ’10, MSN/MPH ’12; Heritage Award—Jane W. Ball, UC ’69, BSN ’74, MPH ’79, DrPH ’80 and Gail Ochs, UC ’65.

Dean’s Awards:

Nurse Researcher—Binu Koirala, PhD ’19; Nurse Clinician—Tammy Slater, DNP ’11; Nurse Educator—Dauryne L. Shaffer, MSN ’09; Nurse Educator—Elizabeth “Betty” Jordan, Certificate ’98, DNSc ’04; Nurse Leader—Lisa M. Grubb, DNP ’18.

More News

Daniela Terrizzi, PhD, RN (Accelerated BSN ’93), has been awarded a Fulbright Scholarship and will teach qualitative research methods to graduate nursing students at the University of Rome in 2022.

Rhoda Redulla, DNP ’11, published her second book. The Nurse Journal: A Guided Journal for Nurses to Spark Joy, Positivity & Fulfillment “is organized into the special phases of your professional nursing career such as nursing school, first nursing job, your nursing career, you and your patients, and aspirations.”

In Memoriam

Joan Sleeper Bandeen, ’51
Birdella Michelson Bergeron, ’48
Patricia Bladek Brown, ’91
Patricia Wilson Dean, ’58
Nancy Niesz Funk, ’07 Accel.
Florine “Sue” Harowitz, ’47 (Sinai)
Martha Toole Harvey, ’56
Barbara Whaley Landers, ’45
Maureen Claire Maguire, ’98
Phyllis Anne Naumann, former faculty
Marian Price, ’34 (Sinai)
Ruth Samet Rosenberg, ’49
Melissa Evonne Rossi, ’95
Rose Mary Burroughs Schulte, ’51
Donna Honsowetz Simanton, ’47
Bernadette Trujillo, ’95

We deeply regret our error in posting of the passing of Reshma V. Jhaveri ’11 in the 2019 issue. We sincerely apologize to Reshma and her family for this incorrect announcement.