Ellen Fuller passed away on November 16, 2015. She was an educator and
Beverly Specht Gammage, HUP'56, passed away on
November 8, 2015. She is survived by her daughters Kelly and Cindy and son Rick and their families. Bev was a loyal military wife to her U.S. Air Force husband Stuart. Beverly treasured her HUP education and felt it was those years that helped her efforts at the University of Maryland as well as the Maryland State Health Dept. Beverly's life was focused on faith, family, and friends. Sara Dunlap, Nu’59, passed away on
February 11, 2015.
1960s Lois Hertz Adler, HUP’60, passed away on
January 26, 2015. She is survived by her daughter Elizabeth and son Dave, four grandchildren and her brother Bob Hertz. Gail Patricia Irvine, HUP’60, passed away on July 14, 2015. She was an RN in New York City and in Philadelphia, later becoming a medical audit analyst for 20 years. Janet Mowers Dragnett, Nu’61, passed away
on September 19, 2014. She was a retired school nurse. Mary E. Holden, Nu’61, passed away on
January 22, 2015. She graduated Reading Hospital School of Nursing in 1940 and received her BSN at the University of Pennsylvania in 1961. She worked at John Hopkins Hospital, Lawrence Memorial Hospital, and the Pottstown Hospital. Mary also worked for the State Department of Health and the Pottstown School District. Lois Casho Shultz, Nu’61, passed away on September 10, 2015. Lois worked as a nurse, nursing instructor and nursing supervisor. She helped write Pennsylvania’s Child Protective Services Law, helped found Reading is Fundamental in Berks County. Lois was the past president of the Staff Physicians’ Wives Auxiliary of the Reading Hospital and Medical Center and served on the Berks County Board of Assistance for 30 years. She was a member of First Presbyterian Church, Reading, and the Daughters of the American Revolution. Emma L. Byron, GNu’62, passed away on
October 8, 2015. Emma taught Nursing at USC LA County Medical Center and at Bluefield State College School of Nursing. A member of Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority, she loved good desserts, spending time with family and friends, and traveling
research physiologist whose career spanned more than a half-century. While raising her two boys and two girls in Atlanta, Dr. Fuller returned to school in 1960. After receiving a BSN from the medical college of Georgia, she continued her education at Emory University, where she earned an MSc and then her PhD in physiology in 1968. Her teaching career in Atlanta included appointments as an associate professor in applied health sciences at Georgia State University, assistant professor of physiology at Emory University, visiting fellow at Hershey Medical Center in Pennsylvania, and associate professor in physiology at Emory. Ellen joined Penn in 1980 as an associate professor of nursing and became the first director of the Center for Nursing Research at Penn’s School of Nursing. She was also an associate professor of physiology, a joint appointment in Penn’s School of Nursing and Perelman School of Medicine, in 1985, she was promoted to professor of physiology. Ellen was an active member of Penn’s community, she served on Penn’s Faculty Senate, first as secretary and then as an at-large member and on the University Council. She was also editor of the School of Nursing’s Nursing Research Newsletter before retiring in 1988. Penn Nursing faculty remembered Dr. Fuller as a woman who was both fun and feisty. She expected nothing but the best and was able to impart wisdom to everyone she met. She is survived by daughter Cynthia Fuller and husband Bill Cotterell of Tallahassee, Fla.; son Mark D. Fuller of Florence, S.C.; daughter Marion Fuller Aller and husband Charles Aller of Crawfordville, Fla.; son Andrew Y. Fuller of Smyrna, Ga.; and daughter-in-law Mary L. Fuller of Florence, S.C. In honor of Ellen’s contributions to Penn Nursing, the School’s Research Committee announces the Ellen Fuller Student Research Pilot Award, to be awarded beginning in fall 2016 to the top scoring student pilot proposal in each cycle.
Elizabeth S. Harding, GNu’63, passed away
Patricia C. Bonan, Nu’72, GNu’79, passed
on January 7, 2015. She was a retired director of nursing at Bryn Mawr Hospital.
away on September 4, 2015. Patricia worked as a psychiatric nurse specialist at Jefferson Hospital and other area facilities.
Jane Klineburger Wentzinger, HUP’64, passed
away on November 15, 2015. Her classmate, Jackie Haney Kahn, related that, a resident in a nursing home for several years, Jane used her nursing skills to help other residents in identifying and solving problems related to long-term care and helped make improvements in the facility. The Jane K. Wentzinger Scholarship at CCIS, Northeastern University in Boston, Mass. has been established in her name. Elizabeth Koliopulos Quinlan, GNu’65,
passed away on August 1, 2015. Mary M. Maloney, GNu’65, passed away on
December 27, 2014. Aaron Joel Poller, C’69, GNu’91, passed away on July 28, 2015. A retired psychiatric nurse, he taught at Surry County Community College and Winston Salem State University. Patricia A. Rizzo, Nu’69, passed away on
March 8, 2015.
1970s Martha M. Lamberton, GNu’70, passed away
on July 29, 2015.
Andrea L. Mengel, GNu’74, GR’87, died February 2, 2016.
Andrea strongly believed in the power of education and wanted to ensure that opportunities were available for first-generation college students. She worked as a nursing professor at Community College of Philadelphia for 40 years, where she received the Lindback Award for Excellence in Teaching. She was also the director of the college’s nursing department for 15 years. Dr. Mengel was dedicated to creating new ways to educate nursing students, developing programs to attract minorities for advanced degrees and improve nursing care for seniors. She wrote and published various articles and books on nursing and education, served for 18 years as a board member of the Independence Foundation, a philanthropic organization that invests in healthcare and human services in the Philadelphia area. Dr. Mengel is survived by her daughter Ann Ritter, two granddaughters, mother and husband of 44 years, George Ritter. Debra Schwartz, HUP’77, passed away on
May 25, 2015.
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