BARBARA SEXTON OLSON, 1957, and her husband, Charles, have lived in Modesto, Calif., since 1965. Charles was an intern at St. Luke’s Hospital from 1957 to 1958, and Olson writes that the couple “have many fond memories of our years of training at St. Luke’s.” She is a retired ER nurse, and he is a retired surgeon. The couple has four grown children.

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DARLENE SHARP STELZRIED, 1959, of Hot Springs, Ark., is semi-retired, but writes that she stays busy by “counseling, gardening, doing water aerobics, singing in two choirs, lovin’ on my grandsons — ages 10 and 8 — and keeping up (well, almost) with professional journals. Would love to hear from you!”

Presbyterian-St. Luke’s

MARY WALSH HEBDEN, 1965, of Arlington Heights, Ill., has retired as a clinical coordinator and now is a per diem nurse with Advocate Medical Group in Glenview, Ill.

Rush

RUTHANNE TAYLOR, BSN 1983, MSN 1989, DNP 1996, left for Antarctica in August to work as one of the medical providers at McMurdo Station. Taylor has previously worked in Chad, Africa; Votkinsk, Russia and Kathmandu, Nepal.

BRANDON BENNETT, MSN 1984, of Denver is president and CEO of Brandon G. Bennett, LLC, providing health care consulting and interim leadership services.

TOM MURPHY, BSN 1984, of Mokena, Ill., has transitioned from his previous role as vice president of surgical services at MacNeal Hospital in Berwyn, Ill., to start Murphy Medical Consulting. His new business venture is focused on improving the financial and clinical outcomes of surgical services.

KOBY F. AYLOR, BSN 1991, is clinical coordinator of hospital services at Oaklawn Hospital in Marshall, Mich.

SUSAN O’CONNER-VON, DNSc 2001, of St. Paul, Minn., associate professor at the University of Minnesota School of Nursing, is serving as an expert faculty member of a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration, Rural Health Workforce Development Program grant entitled “Minnesota Health Net’s Palliative Care Initiative.” The goal of the program is to educate, support, recruit and retain primary care providers and other health care professionals who are committed to providing palliative care in the Minnesota health network.

LINDA WINKE, MSN 2005, of Chicago is a nurse practitioner with NorthShore University HealthSystem in Evanston, Ill.

CHERIE L. TUBEILEH, Cert . 2007, of Ottawa Hills, Ohio, spent the last three years working in Monroe, Mich., as a psychiatric registered nurse and nurse practitioner. She is excited about her new job as a psychiatric-mental health nurse practitioner with Unison Behavioral Group in Toledo, Ohio. She writes, “A great opportunity — and closer to home!”

DANA MERK, MSN 2010, of Chicago is a labor and delivery registered nurse at Evanston Hospital.

JAUNA D. PATTERSON, DNP 2010, of McDonough, Ga., is a cardiology nurse practitioner in ambulatory care with Atlanta Heart Associates in Stockbridge, Ga.

ADAM SPURLOCK, MSN 2010, spent the summer working as a site nurse for Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Talented Youth Program at the University of California Berkeley, where he was responsible for all medical care of students and staff during this summer-long civil leadership program. He has accepted a position as a registered nurse in the Emergency Department at Rush Oak Park Hospital beginning this fall.

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