Nursing Alumni
Sue Petrvich, Jinnie Drake and Pauline Merry laughed over memories from their time at the School, which wrapped up in 1959.
The MU Nursing Alumni Organization's members are graduates, students, faculty and friends of the MU Sinclair School of Nursing. As the school and its alums succeed in achieving goals and making a difference in the nursing profession, our mission continues to be spreading the word.
As in past years, we currently support students through various activities — the graduating seniors send off, a brunch celebrating students' acceptance to the clinical nursing major, Nursing Alumni Endowed Scholarships as well as the selection of student recipients for the School's Excellence Awards.
Nursing Alumni Reunion 2009
Honoring the classes of 1999, ’89, ’79, ’69, ’59, ’49 and ’39
Since 2004, the director of alumni relations and the Nursing Alumni Organization's board members have made it a personal goal to reconnect classmates through an annual reunion.
"Those personal connections we had as classmates were strong ones and although the ties might fade through time, I don't want them to become permanently broken," says Donna Otto, BSN '72, MS '81.
As it is for many of us, after graduation life gets busy - career, family, going back to school, moving. Otto realizes the many realities of life and why classmates lose touch; however, she also sees and feels what it means to those who choose to come back.
"I have seen laughter, tears and many memories brought back to life during the four years I've been involved in the reunion," Otto says. "But no matter the size of the group that comes back to Mizzou, they all say it was worth it."
If you would like to get your class members together with our help, contact Donna Otto at (573) 884-7293 or OttoD@missouri.edu
Communication
Nurses Notes
Nurse’s Notes feature 10 different historic photos from the MU Sinclair School of Nursing’s archives depicting students throughout the last 100 years. All funds raised from sales will support the Organization’s efforts to create and foster new traditions for nursing students.