Distinguished Alumni Award
Yale School of Nursing’s Distinguished Alumni Award was created in 1973. Since then, over 100 alumni have been honored, with the earliest recipient having graduated in 1926. Recipients of the YSN Distinguished Alumni Award have demonstrated achievement or distinction in their career, their contributions to their communities or to YSN.
In 2013, YSN selected 90 outstanding Yale nurses to to commemorate the School’s 90th anniversary. Read the entire list of 90 nurses here.
Recipients
2020
Janet Parkosewich ‘85
Brenda Penner ‘76
Deborah Van Dyke ‘86
2019
Janet Constantino ‘89
Kris A. McLoughlin ‘88
Elisabeth “Brie” Thumm ‘01
2018
Rose Nanyonga Clarke ’15
Beth Esstman ’00
Barbara Shaw ’88
Wenn-Huey ‘Carol’ Shieh ’98
Barbara Wolfe ’87
2017
Ramón Lavandero ‘79
Luc R. Pelletier ‘82
Cynthia Perry ‘90
2016
Beth Cheney ‘89
Miriam Ford ‘88
Meredith Wallace-Kazer ‘93
2015
Adele Pike ’84
2014
Erin Loskutoff ‘09
Malia Davis ‘02
Carol Howe ‘74
2013
2012
Margaret Flinter ’80
2011
Danuta Bujak ‘81
2010
Ann Tietelman ’85
2009
Lois Sadler ’79
2008
Bernice Coleman ‘83
2007
Carolyn Jaramillo de Montoya ‘81
2006
Sharon Schindler Rising ‘67
2005
Judy Ahlheim Beal ‘75
2004
Stacey B. Young-McCaughan ‘89
2003
Rhoda Sun ‘58
2002
Deborah Huntington Ward ‘77
Nancy Margaret Wineman ‘77
Deborah A. Chyun ‘82
Theresa M. Friend ‘91
2001
Vera Venable Yordon ‘51
Joy Livingston Dodson ‘51
Patricia T. Becker ‘56
Joyce Cameron Foster ‘61
Maureen O’Keefe Doran ‘71
2000
Myriam Castro de Castaneda ‘55
Marvel King Davis ‘70
Kathleen Reilly Powderly ‘75
Sally Solomon Cohen ‘80
1999
Arne Bulkeley Beltz ‘42
Cheryl Tatano Beck ‘72
Poolsook Posyasvin Sriyaporn ‘73
Linda Spoonster Schwartz ‘84
1998
*Victoria Sellens Conn ‘48
Dorothea Halloran Edwards ‘48
Armentia Tripp Jarrett ‘59
Margaret M. McGrath ‘76
Nina Relin Adams ‘77
Cassy Deane Pollack ‘83
1997
Anne Hoff ‘77
Martha A. Q. Curley ‘87
1996
Betty Due Sullivan ‘46W (Outstanding Service)
Joan Elizabeth Mulligan ‘56
Saundra Thomson Bialos ‘71
Heather Reynolds ’80
1995
Charlotte Cram Elsberry ‘65
Mary-Vesta Marston-Scott ‘51
Fotine D. O’Connor ‘55
1994
Marjorie Funk ’84
Mary Lee Mantz ‘69
Deborah Welch-Boyle ‘79
1992
Nelliana Best ‘40
*Mary Ellis ‘47 (Service to School)
Mary Kathryn Knobf ‘82
Sylvia Drake Paige ‘47
Charlotte Shedd ‘46
1991
Phyllis Craig Graves ‘41
Jean Beattie Milligan ‘46W
*Marie Machell Milliken ‘51
Jane Stacy Mulaik ‘51
1990
*Sofia Pincheira de Ehrenberg ‘32
Alice M. Forman ‘45
Shirley A. Girouard ‘77
Helena T. McDonough ‘75
1988
Elaine McEwan Carty ‘68
Sally Solomon Cohen ‘80 (Outstanding Alum)
Mary Jane Kennedy ‘68
Josephine Beljan Lutz ‘46W
1987
Ann Tomaino Ameling ‘67
Mary Ellis ‘47
Roxy Bogigian Leiserson ‘52
*Evanita Pangburn Morse ‘27
Virginia Paulson ‘50
Carolyn Webster-Stratton ‘72
1986
Helen Chuan ‘52
Margaret Jane Cushman ‘76
Justine Rizinsky Glassman ‘51
Priscilla Dillingham Kissick ‘56
Judith Shindul-Rothschild ‘78 (Outstanding Alum)
1985
Virginia M. Brown ‘50
Betty Ann Kosters Countryman ‘44
Ann Miller ‘40
Evelyn Hamil Shopp ‘47W
*Patricia Walsh ‘35
1984
Priscilla Olson Anderson ‘47
*Grace Eckelberry ‘38
Alice Johnson Gifford ‘38
Judith Belliveau Krauss ‘70
Dorothy J. MacLennan ‘52
1983
Donna Kaye Diers ‘64
1982
Madelon O’Rawe Amenta ‘57
Doris Banchik ‘74
Gellestrina DiMaggio ‘47
Eleanor Hoffman Grunberg ‘46
Elizabeth Plummer ‘46W
1981
Ada Sue Cox Hinshaw ‘63
*Reva Rubin ‘46
Elizabeth Sager Sharp ‘59
Charlotte Corning Wright ‘41
1980
Helen Varney Burst ‘63
Elouise Collier Duncan ‘46W
E. Jean M. Hill ‘35
*Eileen Callahan Hodgman ‘68
Jean E. Johnson ‘65
1979
*Doris Bloch ‘54
*Anne Tilghman Boyce ‘44
Marion R. Fleck ‘46W
Ruth L. Burton Larson ‘72
*Margretta Madden Styles ‘54
1978
Angela McBride ‘64
Helen Sullivan Miller ‘57
*Katherine Buckley Nuckolls ‘41
*Eleanor F. Voorhies ‘40
1977
*Eleanor Gill ‘38
Charlotte Houde-Quimby ‘72
*Evelyn Sturmer ‘53
*Kathleen Thornton ‘36
1976
Retaugh Dumas ‘61
*Martha P. Jayne ‘36
*Jean MacLean ‘33
Florence Schorske Wald ‘41, ‘56
1975
*Lucy Houghton Conant ‘50
Janet Sanborn Hine ‘47W
Elizabeth Calhoun Logan ‘37
*Elizabeth Reichert Smith ‘45W
*Carolyn Ladd Widmer ‘29
1974
Ruth Landau Benedict ‘48
Elizabeth Anne Kilroy Dolan ‘69
Esther Luttrull Hoffman ‘49
*Drusilla Poole ‘47
1973
Elizabeth Smith Barrnett ‘48
*Margaret Mathews Field ‘44
*Helene Fitzgerald ‘26
*Anna Ryle ‘33
Jeanne Michaels Radow ‘45
*Elizabeth Bixler Torrey ‘27
*Deceased