New Bloomfield Student Nominated

for MU Nursing Award

March 20, 2008

COLUMBIA , Mo. – Sara Landreth, of New Bloomfield, Mo., was recently nominated for the 2008 Nursing Alumni Organization's Accelerated Nursing Award for Overall Excellence from the Sinclair School of Nursing at the University of Missouri . The award recognizes potential for clinical proficiency, academic excellence and professional commitment.

Landreth, a 2001 graduate of New Bloomfield High School, is the daughter of Don Sundermeyer and Mary Sundermeyer.

“I chose nursing as a career because of my work with developmentally disabled clients,” said Landreth, who also holds an undergraduate degree in psychology. “I discovered that direct care was much more rewarding and fascinating to me than counseling. The individuals I serve are like an extended family to me. We have seen each other through happiness, illnesses, surgeries and just everyday living.”

MU is the largest and oldest campus of the state's major public research institutions. MU's primary mission in research and graduate education provides enhanced opportunities and challenges in the undergraduate areas of humanities, arts and sciences, and selected professional fields. The University provides a basis for service to the people of the state through outreach programs.

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