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June 4, 2006
Lake Forest Hospital Women’s Auxiliary Awards ,000 in Scholarships
The Lake Forest Hospital Women’s Auxiliary today announced this year’s
recipients of its health career scholarships. A ,000 Marion Warner
Hodgkins Scholarship was awarded along with 25 A.B. Dick Jr.
scholarships, ranging from to ,000 each. The recipients are
students pursuing health-care careers or professionals continuing their
education in a health-care field. They’re selected on the basis of such
criteria as outstanding academic achievement and exceptional promise in
the field of health care.
This year’s Marion Warner Hodgkins Scholarship winner is Beth
Simpson, RN, BSN, CAPA, a clinical educator at Lake Forest Hospital,
where she has worked the past 12 years. Simpson, of Wadsworth,
co-chairs the hospital’s Pain Committee and is a member of its Policy
and Procedures Committee. She’ll use the scholarship money to help
pursue a master’s degree in nursing with a focus on education from the
University of Phoenix online program, which she expects to complete in
February 2007. Mary Brown, co-chair of the Women’s Auxiliary Board
Health Careers Scholarship Committee, said Simpson has been described
as a lifelong learner.
In expressing her gratitude for the “generous gift” she was
awarded, Simpson said, “I’ve never gotten anything like this in my life
before.”
Last years’ recipient, Nancy Slone, RN, spoke at the June 13
presentation and encouraged all the scholarship winners to be “proud of
health care and proud of what you’re doing.”
The ,000 scholarship is named for the first president of Lake
Forest Hospital’s Women’s Board, who also volunteered for more than 50
years at the hospital.
The winners of the 25 scholarships named in honor of A.B. Dick Jr.,
whose family donated the land for Lake Forest Hospital and who was an
active chairman of the Board of Directors, are Kathleen Brej, Buffalo
Grove; Sharmistha Dev, Buffalo Grove; Cassandra Gorospe, Gurnee; Henry
Robert Govekar, Gurnee; Robert Joseph Hartman Jr., Lake Forest; Janet
Lee, Lake Forest; Kim Lee, Libertyville; Brenda Moechoe, Antioch;
Margaret Mueller, Lake Forest; Staci Mustari, Vernon Hills; Carrie
Nieman, Lake Forest; Kristen Noe, Winthrop Harbor; Christina Noetzel,
Lake Forest; Andrew Pendley, Chicago; Christopher Pettineo, Lake Bluff;
Anthony Pudlo, Itasca; Sarah Rau, Vernon Hills; Heather Smith,
Grayslake; Megan Smyrniotis, Chicago; Justin Sobinsky, Lake Forest;
Edgar Staren, Lake Bluff; Ann Marie Tschanz, Libertyville; Larissa
Vadeboncoeur, Lake Bluff; Kelly Wuchter, Elkhorn, Wisc.; and Dana
Zbyszynski, Grayslake.