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Honorary Members

The Honor Society of Nursing bestows honorary membership upon individuals of national or international influence who have furthered the course of health care. Honorary stature is conferred by the society’s board of directors on those who demonstrate superior achievement in a chosen field and who demonstrate a special commitment to the ideals and concerns of nursing.

Any active Sigma Theta Tau International member may nominate a person for honorary membership through a chapter. For further information, please contact Teresa Ransdell via e-mail, by calling 1.888.634.7575 (U.S./Canada) or +1.317.634.8171.


Honorary Members

1939
Dr. Dorothy Rood

1940
Ms. Adda Eldredge

1941
Ms. Nellie X. Hawkinson

1945
Ms. H. Phoebe Gordon

1948
Dr. Ruth V. Johnston

1954
Ms. Pearl McIver
Ms. Ruth Sleeper

1959
Dr. Ruth Freeman

1963
Dr. Leo Simmons
Dr. Elizabeth Soule

1967
Dr. Lulu Hassenplug

1969
Miss Jessie Scott

1975
Dr. Pauline Gratz

1981
Ms. Rosalie Abrams
Ms. Marilyn Goldwater
Dr. Ida V. Moffett
Dr. Donna Vredevoe

1983
Dr. Fred Davis
Ms. Barbara Jacobsen
Dr. Philip A. Kalisch
Dr. Gene E. Lynn
Dr. Jerome P. Lysaught
Dr. Geraldine V. Padilla
Ms. Mary L. Pekarski
Dr. Mary Ann Swain
Dr. Elizabeth Muse Tornquist

1985
Mr. W. Lee Conant, Jr.
Senator Daniel K. Inouye
Ms. Lucie Baines Johnson
Ms. Nellie Lee Powell

1987
Mr. Jose R. Coronado
Dr. Sandra G. Funk
Ms. Margaret E. Kuhn
Dr. Doris H. Merritt
Dr. Diane J. Skiba

1989
Ms. Nancy Evans
Dr. Lawrence H. Ganong
Mr. C. Wayne Hawkins
Dr. Doris A. Howell
Dr. Glenn W. Irwin, Jr.
Dr. Kathleen A. Knafl
Dr. John Phillip McGovern
Dr. Maryellen McSweeney
Dr. Mitchell T. Rabkin
Mr. Alan S. Trench
Dr. Kenneth A. Wallston

1991
Ms. Rosemary Berkel Crisp
Dr. Saul J. Farber
Ms. Margie Wolcott May
Dr. Leonard W. Poon
Dr. Marguerite Schaefer
Dr. Ursula Springer

1993
Dr. Jo Ann Crow
Dr. Alice J. Dan
Mr. John T. Dill
Dr. Patrick De Leon
Ms. Norma Matheson
Dr. Darlene Mood
Dr. Deborah H. Oakley
Dr. Steven V. Owen
Dr. Donna Shalala
Dr. David Wallace
Dr. T. Franklin Williams
Ms. Louise Woerner

1995
Dr. Roberta L. Bondar
Dr. Joy H. Carlson
Dr. Lynne A. Farr
Dr. Gary D. Hales
Dr. David Hamburg
Ms. Patti Kishline
Ms. Beatrice Renfield
Dr. Susan M. Reverby
Ms. Patricia Turner

1997
Mr. Gerald L. Bepko
Dr. Leighton Cluff
Mr. Dan Ent
Ms. Florence Nightingale
Dr. J. Kevin Nugent
Dr. Virginia Olesen
Ms. Patricia K. Scheerle
Mr. Robert Wolders

1999
Dr. William G. Bartholome
Ms. Monique Bégin
Ms. Beverly Friedson Bodker (deceased)
Ms. Suzanne Gordon
Ms. Adele Coryell Hall
Congresswoman, Carolyn McCarthy
Dr. Diana Natalicio
Ms. Margaret Wright

2000
Dr. Yuri Leonidovich Shevchenko

2001
Mr. Alex Attewell
Mr. Erik Edward Joh, Esq
Dr. Eugene Levine
Mr. James P. Smith

2003
Dr. Sandra Bertman
Ms. Nancy Lewin
Dr. Marion J. Ball

2005
Vice Admiral Richard H. Carmona
Ms. Diane Carlson Evans
Dr. Nancy Lorenzi
Ms. Barbara J. Safriet
Honorable Louis Stokes
John L. Wright
William E. Wright
Mr. R. Ernest Waaser
Ms. Mary Ann Tuft
Dr. Masato Tsukahara

 
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