SON Home | UW Home | MyUW | UW Bothell | UW Tacoma | HealthLinks | Contact the School | Search SON | Internal Headlines | Briefly | From the Deans Desk | Alumni News Alumni News Heather Clarke, '72 M/MA, '85 Ph.D., was elected secretary of Sigma Theta Tau, the honor society of nursing and the second largest nursing organization in the world. 2000 WSNA Hall of Fame awardee Elizabeth Thomas was honored by the Seattle Post Intelligencer as one of six statewide recipients of the prestigious Jefferson Award for outstanding community service. Thomas was the first African-American to complete the pediatric nurse practitioner program and the first to work as an ARNP in Seattle. She was nominated for her many years of work at the Odessa Brown Children's Clinic. Veteran actor James Earl Jones posed for a photo with Jacquelyn M. Belcher'71 MA., president of Georgia Perimeter College, and Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Yusef Komunyakaa at the college's sixth annual Martin Luther King Jr. Birthday Celebration on January 15. Jones was keynote speaker and Komunyakaa was commissioned poet for the event. Belcher was recently elected to the Rockdale (Georgia) Chamber of Commerce Board of Governors. IN MEMORIAM Master's of nursing student Kevin Morgan, a 1996 graduate of the RN-BSN program, died in April. Morgan worked at Harborview Medical Center in the Burn/Pediatric Trauma unit. He entered the Independent MN program with Dr. Cathy Lindenberg as his advisor this past fall, focusing on pediatrics on the graduate level. Susan Majeski McKnight '82, 53, died January 28. An avid outdoors enthusiast, she and two friends were killed in an avalanche while skiing the backcountry of British Columbia. McKnight earned a B.A. in psychology from Bates College before moving to Seattle and entering nursing. She most recently worked as a Resource Team nurse at UW Medical Center. McKnight is survived by her husband, Stan McKnight, professor of pharmacology at the UW; daughter Sarah McKnight Steinberg, husband Scott, and their daughter, Katherine; and daughter Liza McKnight. The family has established a memorial gift in McKnight's name at the School of Nursing. Sylvia Eastham '32 died January 14. Headlines | Briefly | From the Deans Desk | Alumni News   Copyright © 2008 University of Washington 1959 NE Pacific Street, Seattle, Washington 98195