Philanthropy.
Notable Fundraising News Celebrating Meaningful Support for Nurse Practitioners
Don ’67 and Mary Jo Allen ’67 Carlos (seated) with Carlos Otterbein/James Nurse Practitioner Scholarship recipients (standing, from left to right): Raejeanne Nutter Powers MSN/ FNP ’20; Laura Beth Adorni MSN/FNP ’16; Amanda Urban Butters ’11, MSN/FNP ’1; Otterbein Nursing Professor and Advanced Practice Director Dr. Joy Shoemaker ’00, MSN/FNP ’02, DNP ’13; and Ann Oliva MSN/FNP ’17. (Not pictured: 2019-20 recipient, Tonja Fearn.)
Otterbein alumni Don ’67 and Mary Jo Allen ’67 Carlos made a five-year commitment starting in 2015 to support an outstanding graduate student who is a registered nurse or an OSU-James Cancer Hospital nurse enrolled in Otterbein’s family nurse practitioner program. The Mary Jo and Don Carlos Otterbein/James Nurse Practitioner Scholarship celebrates Mary Jo’s triumphant remission of cancer, the couple’s gratitude for the superb treatment and care she received from nurse practitioners at The James, and the Carlos’ lifelong partnership which began at Otterbein. The Carlos Scholarship has benefited the four recipients pictured above, plus recently named 2019-20 recipient Tonja Fearn.◆
Estate Gifts Make a Lasting Impact Benjamin Carlson of Jacksonville, FL, who passed away in January, left a generous bequest of more than $45,000 for the DellingerCarlson Scholarship endowment fund. A member of a distinguished Otterbein legacy family, he was the son of Dr. Ben ’22 and Edna Dellinger ’22 Carlson. His sister, Dr. Mary Cay Carlson Wells ’47, who passed away in July, was a professor of education at Otterbein and co-founded the DellingerCarlson Scholarship in 1988, honoring her parents and other family members, including her three children, Kay Wells Landis ’74, Gwen Wells Blair ’76, and Philip Wells ’77. 30
Mark Peters ’70 passed away
in December 2018 and left a generous bequest to Otterbein that will impact countless students in the future. Over the years, Mark devoted many volunteer hours to Otterbein University, scanning and cataloging archival material and serving as a member of Otterbein’s Theatre Advisory Board. He was recognized as one of Otterbein’s outstanding alumni volunteers in 2012.
OTTERBEIN TOWERS FALL/WINTER 2019
Otterbein has received a generous bequest from Robert ‘51 and Joyce Enoch ‘51 Pillsbury of Ewing, NJ, following Joyce’s passing in 2017. Joyce and Robert attended Otterbein together, married in 1951, and raised a daughter and three sons. Robert and Joyce made the generous decision to include Otterbein University in their estate plans; their shared foresight will have a lasting impact on our University and its students. Robert’s mother, Helen Weinland Pillsbury, was a member of the Otterbein Class of 1911.◆
