NEAA Awards

Nursing Education Alumni Association

R. Louise McManus Medal

Achievement Awards

Nursing Hall of Fame

NEAA Research Award

How to Nominate a Colleague for an NEAA Achievement  Award

McManus Medal and Achievement Awards Criteria: 
1. Nominee must be an Active/Retired member (dues current) or Life Member of the 
Nursing Education Alumni Association (NEAA); 
2. Holds an advanced degree from Teachers College; 
3. Is a respected nursing leader in the specific area for which she/he is being nominated; 4. Has made significant contributions to the nursing profession; 
5. Has national reputation as evidenced by significant publications, consultation, 
service activities for national nursing organizations, and other recognition. 
Required Information for Award Nominations: 
1. Nominator’s letter of support and two additional support letters; 
2. Curriculum vitae of nominee; 
3. Nominator’s and Nominee’s contact information (Name, complete address, home 
and work phone, e-mail address).
Click here for Achievement Awards and R. Louise McManus Medal application

Theresa M Valiga, EdD, RN, CNE, ANEF, FAAN
2020 R. Louise McManus Medal Recipient

How to Nominate a Colleague for the TC NEAA Nursing Hall of Fame

TC Nursing Hall of Fame Criteria: 
1. The nominee must have demonstrated leadership that affected nursing education, 
health, and for social history through sustained contributions to nursing; 
2. The nominee must have completed course work and/or requirements for a degree 
representative of one of the nursing education programs at Teachers College; 
3. The achievements of the nominee must have enduring value to nursing beyond 
the nominee’s lifetime. (Note: Nominees for the TC Hall of Fame Award may be 
living or deceased.) 
4. Self nomination is allowed. 
Required Information for Hall of Fame Nominees: 
1. Name, address, telephone and E-mail address of the nominator; 
2. Name of the nominee at the time of graduation from TC and current name if different; 
3. Current name, address, telephone number and ways to contact the nominee; 
4. Nursing Program, date of graduation and years of study at TC; 
5. If available, the CV of the nominee; 
6. The nominator should present a written statement to document each of the three 
criteria listed above. 
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Research Award Information and application

TC Nursing Award Winners and Nursing Hall of Fame Inductees*

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Nursing Service

Mary E. Brackett
Dorothy Wilson
Hedwig Cohen
Laura L. Simms
none
none
Francis Frazier
Erline P. McGriff
Alice K. Smith
Eva Reese
Rachel Rotkovitch
Grace Davidson
none
Vernice Ferguson
Hazel W. Johnson
Mary J. Seivwright (Jamaica)
Wilma Minniear
Margaret L. McClure
Rena Murtha
Joseph Proulx
Medea Marella
Joan Taylor Carey
Gloria Hope
Elizabeth A. Shields
Deanna Pearlmutter
Joan Trofino
Mary Woody
Gail Weissman
Sylvia Barker
Audre J. McLoughlin
Charlotte Dison
Christine Coughlin
Carole Garabedian
Mary Jane Venger Cutler
Vincent Rudan
Alice Forsha Vautier
Bettie S. Jackson
Miriam Carasa
Sylvia Barker
Kim Mendez
Elaine Smith
none
none
Maria Vezina
Peggy C. Tallier
Carol Wanyo
Launette A. Woolforde
Angela Edwards-O’Brien

R. Louise McManus Medal

Kyllikki Pohjala (Finland)
none
Stella Goostray
none
none
Eugenia Spaulding
Eleanor C. Lambertsen
Mildred J. Montag
Bernice Anderson
Hildagarde Peplau
Martha Rogers
Jessie Scott
Mary K. Mullane
none
Rozella M. Schlotfeldt
Faye G. Abdellah
Lucile Petry Leone
Virginia Henderson
Vernice Ferguson
Helen Preston Glass (Canada)
Anne Kibrick
Lucille Notter
Lucie Young Kelly
Elizabeth Maloney
Ruth Watson Lubic
Dame Nita Barrow
Marie Seedor
M. Louise Fitzpatrick
Elizabeth Maloney
Erline McGriff
Robert V. Piemonte
Margret McClure
Cathryne Welch
Laura L. Simms
Eleanor Barba
Muriel A. Poulin
Shake' Ketefian
Margret Wolf Hirschberg
Lucille Joel
Helen K. Mussallem (Canada)
Keville C. Frederickson
Diane J. Mancino
Franklin A. Shaffer
Elizabeth Anne Mahoney
Sylvia Barker
Patricia Munhall
Barbara Krainovich-Miller
Nettie Birnbach
Connie Vance
Marianne Jeffreys
Eileen Zungolo
Elizabeth Speakman
Bernardine Lacey
Sandy Lewenson
Priscilla Limbo Sagar
Phyllis Shanley Hansell 
None
Theresa M. Valiga

Nursing Education

Agnes Gelinas
Katherine MacLaggan
        (Canada)
Florence G. Blake
Maria Rose Pinheiro (Brazil)
Frances Reiter
Margaret Shetland
not awarded
Virgina Allen
Lillian Harvey
        Elleanor Tourtillott
        Dorothy White
Joan Hoexter
Dorothy Mereness
Beatrice Ritter
none
Rebecca Bergman (Israel)
Muriel A. Poulin
Ruth White (Australia)
        Maria Palmira (Portugal)
Imogene King
M. Louise Fitzpatrick
Mary Dineen
Gean Mathwig
        Alice Rines
Esther Moyer
Mary Sue Infante
Mary Ramshorn
Mary Germain
Sr. Mary McCarthy
Janice Nelson
Carrie Lenburg
Toni J. Sullivan
        Margret S. Wolf
Theresa M. Valiga
Lenora McClean
Carla Mariano
none
Eileen H. Zungolo
Georgie Labadie
Elizabeth Mahoney
Susan Bastable
Gloria Gelfand
Connie Vance
Sheila O'Shea Melli
Harriett F. Karuhije
Shirlee A. Stokes
Caroline Camunas
Marita Frain
Bernardine Lacey
Maureen Creegan
Stella Robinson
none
none
Rory McGovern
Maria G. Rosario Sim
Robin Goodrich
Annmarie McAllister

Nursing Scholarship & Research

Helen K. Mussalem (Canada)
Helen L. Bunge
Marion Ferguson
Faye G. Abdellah
Ellwynne M. Vreeland
Lucille E. Notter
Phyllis J. Verhonick
Rita Chow
Anne Austin
Ada Jacox
Teresa Christy
Harriet Werley
none
Ketherine Kendall
Helen Nakagaua
Hanneke van Maanen (Netherlands)
Shake Ketefian
none
Marilyn Oberst
Elsie Bandman
Catherine Murphy
Patricia Munhall
Janie Brown
Regina Lederman
Alice Longman
Barbara Rottkamp
Connie Vance
Anie S. Kalaylian
Sandra Muir Reilly
Mathey Mezey
Charlotte McDaniel
none
Carol Reed Ash
Lillie Shortridge-Baggett
Barbara Krainovich-Miller
Barbara Carty
Constance Baker
Marie O. Pitts Mosley
Sylvia Fields
Phyllis Shanley Hansell
Sandra B. Lewenson
Marianne R. Jeffreys
Marianne Taft Marcus
Elise Lev
Judith Hupcey
none
none
none
Phyllis  Shanley Hansell
Medel Salvador Paguirigan
None
Deborah Koniak-Griffin
None

Nursing Practice

Vera Keane
Lydia E. Hall
none
Hildagarde Peplau
Virginia Henderson
none
Katherine Nelson
none
none
Claire Fagin
Genrose Alfano
Maria Phaneuf
none
Ingeborg G. Mauksch
Ruth W. Lubic
Wadad Haddad (Lebanon)
Ruth Satterfield
Lucille Joel
Carol Chenitz
Mila Aroskar
Mathy Mezey
Barbara Heller
Mary Patricia Lodge
Shirley Steele
Erline McGriff
none
Jeannette L. Sasmor
none
Ildaura Murillo‑Rohde
none
Toni Sullivan
Thomas Adamski
Carol Ann Mitchell
Kathleen Nokes
M. Alisan Bennett
Gloria Gilbert Mayer
Miriam Carasa
Maria L. Vezina
Sr. Theresa M. Graf
Mary X. Britten
Stephen Marrone
Ramon Lavandero
Amparo C. Kurtz
Sheldon Ornstein
none
Josiane Hickson 
Ann Marie McDonald
Kathleen T. Hickey
None
None
Caroline Camunas

Leadership in Professional & Allied Organizations

Effie J. Taylor
Ruth Sleeper
none
Judith G. Whitaker
none
none
Adele Herwitz
Dorothy Talbot
none
Dorothy Nayer
Eileen Jacobi
Dorothy Ozimek
none
Veronica M. Driscoll
Philip E. Day
Shirley Stinson (Canada)
Constance Holleran
Thelma Schorr
Virginia Paulson
Doris Krebs
Robert Piemonte 
Barbara Malon
Cathryne Welch
Elaine Beletz
Nettie Birnbach
Rita Wieczorek
Lucille Joel
Franklin A. Schaffer
Doris Lippman
none
Caryle Wolahan
none
Phyllis Collins
Sylvia Barker
Serrara Selelo-Mogwe
Johanna Roode (Netherlands)
Reynaldo Rivera
Cynthia Sculco
Diane J. Mancino
Dula F. Pacquiao
Wanda Hiestand
Eleanor Campbell
none
Priscilla Sager
Phyllis Shanley Hansell
none
Patrick Coonan
none
none
none
Terry Walsh Gottlieb

Founders who Established 
Nursing at TC

Anna Lowell Alline
Emma Maud Banfield
Mary E. P. Davis
Lavinia Lloyd Dock
Pauline Dolliver
Lucy Lincoln Drown
Annie Warburton Goodrich
Anna C. Maxwell
Isabel McIsaac
Isabel Merritt
Clara D. Noyes
M. Adelaide Nutting
Blanche Pfefferkorn
Linda Richards
Margaret Mary Riddle
Isabel Hampton Robb
Mary Alice Snively
Isabel Maitland Stewart
Lillian D. Wald
Lucy Walker

TC Nursing Program
Directors and Chairs

Anna Lowell Alline
Bernice E. Anderson
Barbara Stevens Barnum
Eleanor C. Lambertsen
Elizabeth M. Maloney
R. Louise McManus
Patricia A. Moccia
Mary Adelaide Nutting
Elaine La Monica Rigolosi
Marie M. Seedor
Isabel Maitland Stewart
Elizabeth C. Stobo

NEAA Honorary Life
Membership Awardees

Barbara Stevens Barnum
Mary Elizabeth Carnegie
Maxine Greene
Frederick D. Kershner, Jr.
Edith P. Lewis
Walter E. Sindlinger
Mary Wheeler

Distinguished Leaders TC Nursing Alumni

Distinguished Leaders
TC Nursing Alumni
Lydia E. Anderson
Margaret G. Arnstein
JoAnn Ashley
Nell V. Beeby
Ella Best
Genevieve Bixler
Sister Kathleen Black
Mary Breckenridge
Elizabeth C. Burgess
Sarah Lillian Clayton
Florence Coates
Ella Phillips Crandall
Mary Jane V. Cutler
Marcia A. Dake
Elnora Daniel
Rose M. Channing Danzis
Rita Miller Dargan
David Carl Davis
Frances R. E. Davis
Dorothy J. Del Bueno
Naomi Deutsch
Margaret Baggett Dolan
Sister Mary Domitilla
Permila Doty
Katherine J. Densford Dreves
Genevieve Dunworth
Adda Eldredge
Lorraine Emeghebo
Bertha Erdman
Ellen T. Fahy
Sandra B. Fielo
Alice Louise Fitzgerald
Julia Otteson Flikke
Shirley Fondiller
Ruth B. Freeman
Nina Diadamia Gage
Robin Goodrich
Terry Gottlieb
Alice Amelia Gorman
Rev. Cleo D. Graham
Amelia Howe Grant
Carolyn Elizabeth Gray
Susan E. Gordon
Carrie M. Hall
Phyllis Shanley Hansell
Florence Hargett
Bertha Harmer
Dorothy Doyle Harrison
Minnie Lee Hartsfield
I. Malinda Harvey
Lulu Wolf Hassenplug
Nellie Xenia Hawkinson
Eleanor Herrmann
Wanda C. Hiestand
Mary A. Hickey
Aileen I. Hogan
Ruth Weaver Hubbard
Vida Huber
Lillian A. Hudson
Marilyn Jaffe-Ruiz
Florence Johnson
Sally May Johnson
Harriet Karuhije
Elizabeth L. Kemble
Barbara Krainovich-Miller
John H. Krzemien
Yolanda Cortes Landrau

Eleanor Lee
Elise Lev
Laura R. Logan
Jannetta MacPhail
Mary Ann Maher
Diane J. Mancino
Marguerite Lucy Manfreda
Mary Lathrop Matthews
Ada Belle McCleery
Annabella McCrea
Alice McGill
Pearl McIver
Doris Moseley
Catherine Murphy
Maude B. Muse
Sophie Caroline Nelson
Diana M. L. Newman
Mary E. Norton
Agnes Ohlson
Maria Palmira
Sheldon Ornstein
Estelle G. Massey Osborne
Marion Gemeth Parsons
Sara E. Parsons
Helen Petit
Mary Geneva Phillips
Robert V. Piemonte
Amy Elizabeth Pope
Louise Mathilde Powell
Dorothy Ramsey
Christiane Reimann (Denmark)
Diane Rendon
Mary May Roberts
Stella Pecot Robinson
Gail E. Russell
Katherine A. Sanborn
Kathleen Costello Scher
Matilda Scheuer
Mildred Schmidt
Frances Schwartz
Alma Ham Scott
Marion Sheahan
Christine Silverstein
Patricia Sloan
Dorothy Smith
Elizabeth Dorsey Smith
Martha Ruth Smith
Mignon Smith
Virginia Stone
Helen J. Streubert
Bonnie Sturm
Gladys Sorensen
Elizabeth E. Sullivan
Ann Hervey Strong
M. Elaine Tagliareni
Shirley Carew Titus
Mary V. Tomaselli
Susan Tracy
Joan Trofino
Irene Trowell-Harris
Daisy Dean Urch
Geraldine Varrassi
Verle Waters
Carol Wanyo
Mary B. Willeford
Anna Dryden Wolf
Helen Wood
Mary Lou Yam
Laura Holloway Yergan

*All TC Award Winners are automatically inducted into the Nursing Hall of Fame. 

Nursing Education Alumni Association

R. Louise McManus Medal

Achievement Awards

Nursing Hall of Fame

NEAA Research Award

TC Nursing Award Winners and Nursing Hall of Fame Inductees*

Nursing Service

R. Louise McManus Medal

Nursing Education

Nursing Scholarship & Research

Nursing Practice

Leadership in Professional & Allied Organizations

Founders who Established Nursing at TC

TC Nursing ProgramDirectors and Chairs

NEAA Honorary LifeMembership Awardees

Distinguished Leaders TC Nursing Alumni

*All TC Award Winners are automatically inducted into the Nursing Hall of Fame.

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