...and so has she!The 1999 J.V. Sotejo Medallion of Honor Awardee is Phoebe Dauz Williams, BSN ’62, MA (Psychology) ’69, MN, Ph.D., RN, FAAN, a Professor at the University of Kansas School of Nursing (KU-SON). This award is given to a nursing alumna of the University of the Philippines who has (a) attained national and international prestige which has brought honor and distinction to the nursing profession, university, and country; and (b) made a significant, unique, and innovative contribution to the nursing profession. Dr. Williams will receive the award and present the keynote address at a seminar in Anaheim, CA on "Exploring New Horizons as UPNAAI enters the New Millennium" to be held on August 7, 1999 as UPNAAI celebrates its 20th Annual Grand Reunion. In 1948, Dean Julita V. Sotejo, RN, MA, LLD, established the University of the Philippines College of Nursing (UPCN) based on her master’s thesis at the University of Chicago. Although hospital nursing schools were in existence in the Philippines since 1903, the UPCN was the first school that offered a BSN degree, and subsequently (with graduate programs, masters in 1955, and Ph.D. in 1981) educated the nursing educators, practicing nurses, researchers, and leaders of the country. Along with founding Dean J.V. Sotejo ("going strong and charming in her 90’s", UPNAAI News, 1999) and the late Minda Luz Quesada (BSN, ’58), she was on a pictorial exhibit as one of the "Natatanging Nagsipagtapos sa UP Manila at Naging Bahagi Para sa Kaunlaran". A recipient of several other honors in the nursing profession, Dr. Williams joined the KU-SON in January 1992 after teaching at the University of Florida for 10 years, and at the University of the Philippines Health Sciences Center in Manila for 20 years. A majority of her time is dedicated to pediatric studies, teaching research courses (graduate and undergraduate), as well as history, philosophy, and ethics, and pediatric nursing courses at the graduate level (masters and Ph.D. level). –Adapted from Press Release |
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