Louise Bradford, RN, MSN - Associate Professor Jim C. Citty, MD, FAAFP - Adjunct Professor Da'Lyn Clayton, RN, MS - Assistant Professor Charlotte W. Gibson, RN, MS - Assistant Professor Michael Justus, MD, FAAFP - Adjunct Professor Helen C. Lambert; RN, MS - Assistant Professor Kathy H. Marcussen, RN, MSN - Assistant Professor Elissa L. Miller , RN, MNSC - Associate Professor Carol Nicholson, RN, MS - Assistant Professor Nancy l. O'Brien, RN, MS - Associate Professor Tawna Pounders, RN, BSN- Associate Instructor Cathleen M. Shultz, RN, PhD- Associate Professor & Dean Sam Laurence Shultz, MD, FAAP - Adjunct Professor Susan Smith, RN, BSN- Associate Instructor David Staggs, MD, FAAFP- Adjunct Professor Jeff Sutton, RN, BSN - Associate Instructor William D. White, MD, FACG -Adjunct Professor 282 School of Nursing Nursing celebrat tenth anniversary November 2, 1985, was a "redletter" day for the School of Nursing as it celebrated during ---- Homecoming week-end the tenth anniversary of the enrollment of its first class which numbered 54 students, 47 of whom graduated in May 1977 and passed the National Council Licensure Examination for Registered Nurses in July 1977. The reception was planned by Louise Bradford. She and Elissa Lane Miller are the only faculty members still with the School of Nursing from the original faculty in the fall of 1975, although Pat Rice, school nurse , was on that first faculty. The reception was held appropriately in the nursing skills laboratory where every class has learned the fundamentals of nursing care . Over 125 B.S.N. graduates and several former faculty members were welcomed by Dr. Cathleen M. Shultz, dean of the School of Nursing, who joined the faculty in the fall of 1976 along with Nancy Leslie O 'Brien . Each graduating class was represented and the three members of the Alpha Class present were honored as special guests. Because of the highly technical and professional nature of a program of nursing , some months were required by a nurse educator to make the preparations for the beginning of the program. A. Michele Warren was employed as chairman of the Department of Nursing in the fall of 1974 while she was completing course work for the doctorate at the University of Michigan. The heavy task of hiring a faculty and developing the initial curriculum prevented work on the dissertation. After the graduation of the first class in May of 1977, Mrs. Warren resigned to devote full time to the dissertation. Dr. Shultz was then named as chairman and became the first Dean of the School of Nursing in the fall of 1979 when, on August 27, Harding College became Harding University with the College of Arts and Sciences, the School of Business, the School of Education, the School of Nursing, and, in Memphis, Tennessee, the Graduate School of Religion. Under the leadership of Dean Shultz the School of Nursing received accreditation by the National League for Nursing Accreditation in 1979 and a chapter of Sigma Theta Tau , the national honor society in nursing, in 1982, both in almost record time. The Epsilon Omicron Chapter was chartered on February 9 I 1982. On May - ·· I
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