Dean’s Diamond Circle Dinner Honors Alumni, Donors The UR School of Nursing handed out its highest honors at the Dean's Diamond Circle dinner Sept. 7 at Monroe Golf Club, recognizing five of its most distinguished alumni, faculty, and philanthropists. Read on to learn more about this year's class of honorees. Humanitarian Award When Elizabeth Sloand ’75N made her first medical missionary trip to Haiti in 1999, she thought it was a one-time shot to make an international contribution. Little did she suspect she would end up returning to the poverty stricken nation several times a year for the next two decades. “I grabbed the opportunity and really enjoyed the whole experience,” said Sloand, an associate professor at Johns Hopkins School of Nursing. “It grew organically from me volunteering quietly on the side to become something I’ve done on a regular basis and has incorporated other students and faculty members.” A pediatric nurse practitioner, Sloand has worked in Haiti as a clinician, nurse educator, and researcher. She has served as the East Coast team leader at the Leon Medical Mission and led health promotion and educational activities at Haitian elementary schools. She even did her dissertation there, studying child health and survival in rural Haiti. The work dovetails with her domestic experience, which has been dedicated to 28 NURSING 2018 Volume 2
The School of Nursing recognized five of its most distinguished alumni, professors, and philanthropists at the Dean’s Diamond Circle dinner on Sept. 7 at Monroe Golf Club. The 2018 honorees were (pictured left to right with Dean Kathy Rideout): Elizabeth Sloand ’75N, Nancy Dianis ’85N (MS), Jane Tuttle, ’79N, ’84N (MS), Susan Young, and Steven Young.
caring for underserved and low-income children. She teaches students interested in community health and focuses on the health and well-being of uninsured or underinsured children and youth in East Baltimore. She was recognized for her commitment to others in 2017 with the Audrey Hepburn Award for Contributions to the Health and Welfare of Children from Sigma Theta Tau International, and she was selected as a fellow of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners in 2018. Sloand began her nursing career at Strong Memorial Hospital. She earned her master’s in nursing from the University of Maryland in 1986 and joined the Baltimore City Health Department, where she became involved in its school-based health center program. She was named director of the program in 1994 and joined the Johns Hopkins faculty in 1995, earning her PhD
from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in 2007.
Legacy Award Though neither one joined the profession, Steven Young and Susan Young have carried on their mother’s work of recruiting new generations of nurses. Their scholarship in the name of Anna Bater Young supports and encourages students to broaden their horizons and pursue education at the University of Rochester School of Nursing. Anna Bater Young earned her nursing diploma at the University of Rochester in 1941 and subsequently joined the Emergency Department staff at Strong Memorial Hospital. She was later chosen to represent the school as a nursing instructor at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center during World War II. She returned to the
University of Rochester after the war and earned her bachelor’s degree in nursing. After taking time off to raise her family, she returned to Strong in the 1960s to help combat the ongoing nursing shortage. She also began recruiting students from area high schools to join the UR nursing program. She became a trusted assistant to the school’s director Eleanor Hall and then the school’s first dean, Loretta Ford, mentoring students and reconnecting alumni with the university. She received the University Citation to Alumni in 1965 and the Sam Havens Award for distinguished service to the Alumni Admissions Program in 1988. Steven and Susan Young established the Anna Bater Young Endowed Scholarship Fund in 2007 in her memory, providing an everlasting tribute to her contributions to the school.
