CLASS NOTES
1950s Joan Bell Marden ’53, ’54N and her husband, Bill, recently moved to a new assisted living community near their family in Oceanside, California, where she was elected president of the resident’s council. Joan reports that she and Bill are both in good health and quite independent. Joan also works with second graders in a Title I school nearby. Dorothy Hendrick Dickman ’54N and her husband, Richard, are co-owners of Dickman Farms and Greenhouses, which was honored with a 2019 Multi-Generational Family Business Award from the Central NY Business Journal. The Auburn, New York, farm, opened in 1903, now is
in its fifth generation of family ownership and encompasses more than 1,500 acres. The greenhouse business supplies plants to growers, independent garden centers, and Wegmans Food Markets.
1960s Mabelle Pizzutiello ’63N is a trauma nurse consultant/registrar at NY Presbyterian Weill Cornell. She lives in Victor with her husband, Robert.
1970s Gloria Horsley ’79N, ’81N (MS) is an internationally known grief expert, psychotherapist, and bereaved parent. She is the founder
and president of the Open to Hope Foundation and member of the Forbes Nonprofit Council. The council recently posted an article on the Forbes website titled, “12 Ways to Differentiate Your Nonprofit When Others Share Your Mission.” Carol Seeger ’79N recently earned her post-master’s certificate as a psychiatric nurse practitioner from the Stony Brook University School of Nursing and is employed at Oswego Health at its Behavioral Health Services (BHS) facility. Seeger previously earned her master of science in nursing from Vanderbilt University and her doctorate from the University of California at San Francisco.
1980s Robin Davis ’85N is a clinical nurse at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center. Davis reflects on how much she has benefited from her nursing education at Rochester. It gave her the background to go in any direction, but she liked direct patient care more than anything else. She has worked in oncology at Dartmouth Hitchcock for the majority of her career. After a brief retirement, Davis has returned to work per diem.
1990s Stephanie Von Bacho ’90N, ’94N (MS) has been appointed to the board of directors of the Monroe Community
Katie Johnson ’77N Katie Johnson ’77N, an assistant professor of clinical nursing at the University Washington School of Nursing, was among the nurse leaders inducted as a fellow in the American Academy of Nursing in 2019. Johnson has more than 25 years of nursing experience, including 15 in school nursing roles at the local, state, and national levels. She has a doctorate in community health systems nursing and is board certified in both school nursing and advanced practice public health nursing. She was named a fellow of the National Academy of School Nursing in 2016, a Robert Wood Johnson Executive Nurse Fellow in 2014, and a Johnson & Johnson School Health Fellow in 2013. Johnson earned her undergraduate degree in nursing from the University of Rochester, her master’s in leadership focus from the University of Washington Bothell and her DNP from the University of Washington Seattle.
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