Director Of Nursing

George William Mason, a nurse and hospital administrator who helped establish a Baltimore hospice, died Monday of respiratory illness at Glen Meadows Retirement Community in Glen Arm. He was 86. After a lengthy career at the former Baltimore City Hospitals, Church Hospital and Dundalk Medical Center, he became a founder of Joseph Richey Hospice on North Eutaw Street. Born and raised in Massachusetts, where he graduated from a nursing school in 1939, he worked for a year at Boston's Massachusetts General Hospital.

Dr. Rose C. Kurz, a retired psychiatric nurse and educator who had been a consultant to the Pan American Health Organization, died Aug. 3 of complications after surgery at Upper Chesapeake Medical Center in Bel Air. The Forest Hill resident was 85. Rose C. Kurz, whose father was chairman of the biology department at Florida State University, and whose mother was a homemaker, was born and raised in Tallahasse, Fla., where she graduated from...

Margaret Jane Wall, a registered nurse who had been assistant director of nursing at Union Memorial Hospital for two decades, died Sunday of lung cancer at Gilchrist Center for Hospice Care. The Baldwin resident was 77. Margaret Jane Shelton was born and raised in Moores Springs, N.C., and graduated in 1947 from Nancy Reynolds High School, where she was a star player on the girls basketball team. She earned her nursing degree in 1951 from the old City Memorial Hospital, now known as Forsyth Medical Center, in Winston-Salem, N.C. After she married Hugh B. Wall Sr., a Westinghouse Electric Corp.

Elizabeth S. Trump, former longtime director of nurses at Maryland Shock Trauma Center who played a pivotal role in its establishment with Dr. R Adams Cowley more than 50 years ago, died Wednesday of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis at her home in the Hampton neighborhood of Baltimore County. She was 78. "Liz and R A. started and matured what is considered by everyone the most sophisticated trauma center in the United States, if not the world," said Dr. Thomas M. Scalea, Shock Trauma's physician-in-chief.

For 17 years, Evelyn Lee has fought the good fight.She's called dozens of meetings to rally the troops. She's made tons of phone calls. She's gathered hundreds of signatures on petitions, in rain and snow.She's used every tactic she could think of achieve her goal, and now, after 17 years of battling the bureaucracy, she's finally won.On Sept. 3, a Mass Transit Administration bus will run down Hammonds Lane in Brooklyn Park.With the roar of the first bus through her community, Lee will see her dream come true.

The board of directors of Carroll Lutheran Village appointed John B. Moores acting executive director effective Sept. 1.Mr. Moores, a certified public accountant, has been director of finance since 1989 and will also continue to perform those nTC duties. The board has named a search committee to begin the process of receiving resumes and evaluating candidates for executive director.Carla E. Mille has assumed the duties of director of nursing at the Carroll Lutheran Village Health Care Center, a 99-bed skilled-care facility in Westminster.

Bronwen R. Edgett, a registered nurse and former director of nursing service at Union Memorial Hospital, died of respiratory failure April 22 at St. Luke's Hospital in Jacksonville, Fla. She was 75. Mrs. Edgett, a Cockeysville resident, spent her entire career at Union Memorial. She started there as a nurse in the nursery in 1947. She later was a head nurse, assistant director of nurses, and finally director of nursing service. She retired in 1986. Born and raised in Frostburg, Bronwen Reese graduated from Beall High School in 1944 and entered the old Union Memorial Hospital School of Nursing.

On January 27, 2005, ESTHER V. KING, of Spotsylvania, VA. During the last twenty years of her lifelong service to Johns Hopkins Hospital, she was Assistant Director of Nursing and was specifically in charge of Marburg Pavilion, the private nursing wing of the renowned hospital. A memorial service will be held at 11 A.M. Friday, February 4, 2005 at Tabernacle United Methodist Church in Spotsylvania Co., Va. Covenant Funeral Service, Fredrericksburg, VA is in charge of arrangements. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to The Johns Hopkins Hospital School of Nursing.

Carroll Lutheran Village has named Linda Lewis director of nursing for the Health Care Center and emergency response services for the Independent Living section.She will be responsible for the nursing care of residents of the 99-bed Health Care Center and 325 independent residents of the village.Lewis, a longtime Carroll resident, has a bachelor's degree in nursing from Towson State University and a master's in adulthood and aging from the College of Notre Dame of Maryland.Pub Date: 12/22/96

New positions* The Becker Group, which creates, markets and manages Christmas and other seasonal decor programs for the shopping center industry, announced the following appointments: John D. Seyffert vice president, chief operating officer and general manager; Jeff Bell executive vice president of sales and Joseph P. Babinski senior vice president of its materials resource sector.* Episcopal Ministries to the Aging Inc. appointed Louise M. Franklin director of nursing at Fairhaven, a residential retirement community in Sykesville.

Frances D. Tompkins, a registered nurse who had been vice president and director of nursing at Union Memorial Hospital, died Tuesday of complications from pneumonia at the Oak Crest Village retirement community. The longtime Stoneleigh resident was 92. Frances Dillaway was born in Baltimore and raised on Stuart Avenue in the city's Forest Park neighborhood. After graduating in 1937 from Forest Park High School, she earned a bachelor's degree in 1941 from what is now McDaniel College.

Roberta L. "Bobbie" Himes, a registered nurse who specialized in hospice care and had served as director of nursing at Joseph Richey Hospice before joining the Peace Corps, died of multiple myeloma Friday at her Catonsville home. She was 73. Roberta Louise McCleary was born in Pittsburgh and raised in Silver Spring, where she graduated in 1954 from Montgomery Blair High School. After graduating from the Union Memorial Hospital School of Nursing in 1957, she married Thomas Edmund Himes, a mechanical engineer.

Advertising *MGH announced the appointments of Lauren Hoffman to junior copywriter, Marilyn Korzybski as a proofreader and Peter Milkman to Web developer for the Owings Mills-based marketing communications agency. Banking and finance *The Patapsco Bank appointed William C. Wiedel Jr. as senior vice president and chief financial officer. He formerly was with Provident Bank of Maryland. *BCSB Bancorp Inc. selected George Engle as vice president/audit manager for Baltimore County Savings Bank.

Margaret Jane Wall, a registered nurse who had been assistant director of nursing at Union Memorial Hospital for two decades, died Sunday of lung cancer at Gilchrist Center for Hospice Care. The Baldwin resident was 77. Margaret Jane Shelton was born and raised in Moores Springs, N.C., and graduated in 1947 from Nancy Reynolds High School, where she was a star player on the girls basketball team. She earned her nursing degree in 1951 from the old City Memorial Hospital, now known as Forsyth Medical Center, in Winston-Salem, N.C. After she married Hugh B. Wall Sr., a Westinghouse Electric Corp.

Renee Joyner has been named director of nursing at Baltimore's Keswick Multi-Care Center. Joyner will oversee all aspects of the facility's nursing services department. Previously, she spent eight years at Good Samaritan Nursing Center in Baltimore as both the director of resident care services and director of nursing. Joyner earned a bachelor's degree from the College of Notre Dame and a nursing degree from the Maryland General Hospital School of Nursing. W. Brian McGowan, senior vice president of administration at W.R. Grace, has been elected chair of the Howard County General Hospital's board of trustees.

EVELYN was the loving and devoted daughter of Ellsie Holliday and granddaughter of Carrie Warner. Born in Baltimore, MD on May 5, 1933, Evelyn, aka "Sugar" graduated from the Freedman School of Nursing in Washington, D.C. Evelyn then went on to receive her Bachelors degree from Howard University. Her life travels had her become one of the first black Head Nurses at Franklin Square Hospital in the 1960's. She then went on to become the Director of Nursing at Crownsville State Hospital. Farthing her education she received her Masters degree from the University of Maryland.

Renee Joyner has been named director of nursing at Baltimore's Keswick Multi-Care Center. Joyner will oversee all aspects of the facility's nursing services department. Previously, she spent eight years at Good Samaritan Nursing Center in Baltimore as both the director of resident care services and director of nursing. Joyner earned a bachelor's degree from the College of Notre Dame and a nursing degree from the Maryland General Hospital School of Nursing. W. Brian McGowan, senior vice president of administration at W.R. Grace, has been elected chair of the Howard County General Hospital's board of trustees.

Beatrice Miller, a former director of Nursing at Sinai Hospital and instructor at the College of Notre Dame in Baltimore, died of congestive heart failure Thursday at Levindale Hebrew Geriatric Center & Hospital. The Mount Washington resident was 87. Born in Chicago, Beatrice Stern grew up in Hammond, Ind. She graduated from St. Margaret's School of Nursing there before earning three degrees from Indiana University, including an education doctorate in nursing. "Her big thing was education," said her husband of 51 years, Dr. David I. Miller, a retired internist.

Ferelene E. Bailey, a nurse and health administrator for a state agency, died of complications after surgery Sunday at Kernan Hospital, where she was being treated for a knee condition. The Forest Park resident was 75. Born Ferelene Ellington in Hagerstown, she studied nursing at the former Hampton Institute in Hampton, Va. She then lived in Japan and France with her husband of 31 years, Vernon Moss Bailey Sr., an Army master sergeant. After moving to Baltimore in 1964, she earned a nursing diploma at the old Provident Hospital.