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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.
Click here for Hall of Fame application
Research Award Information and application 

TC Nursing Award Winners and Nursing Hall of Fame Inductees*

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Nursing Service
1966 Mary E. Brackett
1967 Dorothy Wilson
1968 Hedwig Cohen
1969 Laura L. Simms
1970 none
1971 none
1972 Francis Frazier
1973 Erline P. McGriff
1974 Alice K. Smith
1975 Eva Reese
1976 Rachel Rotkovitch
1977 Grace Davidson
1978 none
1979 Vernice Ferguson
1980 Hazel W. Johnson
1981 Mary J. Seivwright (Jamaica)
1982 Wilma Minniear
1983 Margaret L. McClure
1984 Rena Murtha
1985 Joseph Proulx
1986 Medea Marella
1987 Joan Taylor Carey
1988 Gloria Hope
1989 Elizabeth A. Shields
1990 Deanna Pearlmutter
1991 Joan Trofino
1992 Mary Woody
1993 Gail Weissman
1994 Sylvia Barker
1998 Audre J. McLoughlin
1999 Charlotte Dison
2001 Christine Coughlin
2002 Carole Garabedian
2003 Mary Jane Venger Cutler
2003 Vincent Rudan
2004 Alice Forsha Vautier
2005 Bettie S. Jackson
2006 Miriam Carasa
2008 Sylvia Barker
2011 Kim Mendez
2012 Elaine Smith
2013 none
2015 none
2016 Maria Vezina
2017 Peggy C. Tallier
2018 Carol Wanyo
2019 Launette A. Woolforde
2020 Angela Edwards-O’Brien

R. Louise McManus Medal
1965 Kyllikki Pohjala (Finland)
1966 none
1967 Stella Goostray
1968 none
1969 none
1970 Eugenia Spaulding
1971 Eleanor C. Lambertsen
1972 Mildred J. Montag
1973 Bernice Anderson
1974 Hildagarde Peplau
1975 Martha Rogers
1976 Jessie Scott
1977 Mary K. Mullane
1978 none
1979 Rozella M. Schlotfeldt
1980 Faye G. Abdellah
1981 Lucile Petry Leone
1982 Virginia Henderson
1983 Vernice Ferguson
1984 Helen Preston Glass (Canada)
1985 Anne Kibrick
1986 Lucille Notter
1987 Lucie Young Kelly
1988 Elizabeth Maloney
1989 Ruth Watson Lubic
1990 Dame Nita Barrow
1991 Marie Seedor
1992 M. Louise Fitzpatrick
1993 Elizabeth Maloney
1994 Erline McGriff
1995 Robert V. Piemonte
1996 Margret McClure
1997 Cathryne Welch
1998 Laura L. Simms
1999 Eleanor Barba
2000 Muriel A. Poulin
2001 Shake' Ketefian
2002 Margret Wolf Hirschberg
2002 Lucille Joel
2003 Helen K. Mussallem (Canada)
2004 Keville C. Frederickson
2005 Diane J. Mancino
2006 Franklin A. Shaffer
2007 Elizabeth Anne Mahoney
2008 Sylvia Barker
2008 Patricia Munhall
2009 Barbara Krainovich-Miller
2010 Nettie Birnbach
2011 Connie Vance
2012 Marianne Jeffreys
2013 Eileen Zungolo
2014 Elizabeth Speakman
2015 Bernardine Lacey
2016 Sandy Lewenson
2017 Priscilla Limbo Sagar
2018 Phyllis Shanley Hansell
2019 None
2020 Theresa M. Valiga
Nursing Education
1966 Agnes Gelinas
1967 Katherine MacLaggan
(Canada)
1968 Florence G. Blake
1969 Maria Rose Pinheiro (Brazil)
1970 Frances Reiter
1971 Margaret Shetland
1972 not awarded
1973 Virgina Allen
1974 Lillian Harvey
Elleanor Tourtillott
Dorothy White
1975 Joan Hoexter
1976 Dorothy Mereness
1977 Beatrice Ritter
1978 none
1979 Rebecca Bergman (Israel)
1980 Muriel A. Poulin
1981 Ruth White (Australia)
Maria Palmira (Portugal)
1982 Imogene King
1983 M. Louise Fitzpatrick
1984 Mary Dineen
1985 Gean Mathwig
Alice Rines
1986 Esther Moyer
1987 Mary Sue Infante
1988 Mary Ramshorn
1989 Mary Germain
1990 Sr. Mary McCarthy
1991 Janice Nelson
1992 Carrie Lenburg
1993 Toni J. Sullivan
Margret S. Wolf
1994 Theresa M. Valiga
1995 Lenora McClean
1996 Carla Mariano
1997 none
1998 Eileen H. Zungolo
1999 Georgie Labadie
2000 Elizabeth Mahoney
2001 Susan Bastable
2002 Gloria Gelfand
2003 Connie Vance
2004 Sheila O'Shea Melli
2005 Harriett F. Karuhije
2006 Shirlee A. Stokes
2007 Caroline Camunas
2010 Marita Frain
2011 Bernardine Lacey
2012 Maureen Creegan
2013 Stella Robinson
2014 none
2015 none
2016 Rory McGovern
2017 Maria G. Rosario Sim
2018 Robin Goodrich
2019 Annmarie McAllister

Nursing Scholarship & Research
1966 Helen K. Mussalem (Canada)
1967 Helen L. Bunge
1968 Marion Ferguson
1969 Faye G. Abdellah
1970 Ellwynne M. Vreeland
1971 Lucille E. Notter
1972 Phyllis J. Verhonick
1973 Rita Chow
1974 Anne Austin
1975 Ada Jacox
1976 Teresa Christy
1977 Harriet Werley
1978 none
1979 Ketherine Kendall
1980 Helen Nakagaua
1981 Hanneke van Maanen (Netherlands)
1982 Shake Ketefian
1983 none
1984 Marilyn Oberst
1985 Elsie Bandman
1986 Catherine Murphy
1987 Patricia Munhall
1988 Janie Brown
1989 Regina Lederman
1990 Alice Longman
1991 Barbara Rottkamp
1992 Connie Vance
1993 Anie S. Kalaylian
1994 Sandra Muir Reilly
1995 Mathey Mezey
1996 Charlotte McDaniel
1997 none
1998 Carol Reed Ash
1999 Lillie Shortridge-Baggett
2000 Barbara Krainovich-Miller
2001 Barbara Carty
2002 Constance Baker
2003 Marie O. Pitts Mosley
2003 Sylvia Fields
2004 Phyllis Shanley Hansell
2005 Sandra B. Lewenson
2006 Marianne R. Jeffreys
2010 Marianne Taft Marcus
2011 Elise Lev
2012 Judith Hupcey
2013 none
2014 none
2015 none
2016 Phyllis Shanley Hansell
2017 Medel Salvador Paguirigan
2018 None
2019 Deborah Koniak-Griffin
2020 None

Nursing Practice
1966 Vera Keane
1967 Lydia E. Hall
1968 none
1969 Hildagarde Peplau
1970 Virginia Henderson
1971 none
1972 Katherine Nelson
1973 none
1974 none
1975 Claire Fagin
1976 Genrose Alfano
1977 Maria Phaneuf
1978 none
1979 Ingeborg G. Mauksch
1980 Ruth W. Lubic
1981 Wadad Haddad (Lebanon)
1982 Ruth Satterfield
1983 Lucille Joel
1984 Carol Chenitz
1985 Mila Aroskar
1986 Mathy Mezey
1987 Barbara Heller
1988 Mary Patricia Lodge
1989 Shirley Steele
1990 Erline McGriff
1991 none
1992 Jeannette L. Sasmor
1993 none
1994 Ildaura Murillo‑Rohde
1995 none
1996 Toni Sullivan
1997 Thomas Adamski
1998 Carol Ann Mitchell
1999 Kathleen Nokes
2000 M. Alisan Bennett
2001 Gloria Gilbert Mayer
2002 Miriam Carasa
2003 Maria L. Vezina
2004 Sr. Theresa M. Graf
2005 Mary X. Britten
2010 Stephen Marrone
2011 Ramon Lavandero
2012 Amparo C. Kurtz
2013 Sheldon Ornstein
2014 none
2015 Josiane Hickson
2016 Ann Marie McDonald
2017 Kathleen T. Hickey
2018 None
2019 None
2020 Caroline Camunas

Leadership in Professional & Allied Organizations
1966 Effie J. Taylor
1967 Ruth Sleeper
1968 none
1969 Judith G. Whitaker
1970 none
1971 none
1972 Adele Herwitz
1973 Dorothy Talbot
1974 none
1975 Dorothy Nayer
1976 Eileen Jacobi
1977 Dorothy Ozimek
1978 none
1979 Veronica M. Driscoll
1980 Philip E. Day
1981 Shirley Stinson (Canada)
1982 Constance Holleran
1983 Thelma Schorr
1984 Virginia Paulson
1985 Doris Krebs
1986 Robert Piemonte
1987 Barbara Malon
1988 Cathryne Welch
1989 Elaine Beletz
1990 Nettie Birnbach
1991 Rita Wieczorek
1992 Lucille Joel
1993 Franklin A. Schaffer
1994 Doris Lippman
1995 none
1996 Caryle Wolahan
1997 none
1998 Phyllis Collins
1999 Sylvia Barker
2000 Serrara Selelo-Mogwe
2001 Johanna Roode (Netherlands)
2002 Reynaldo Rivera
2003 Cynthia Sculco
2004 Diane J. Mancino
2005 Dula F. Pacquiao
2007 Wanda Hiestand
2011 Eleanor Campbell
2012 none
2013 Priscilla Sager
2014 Phyllis Shanley Hansell
2015 none
2016 Patrick Coonan
2017 none
2018 none
2019 none
2020 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.

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