Staff Writer
FORT KENT — Fifteen current University of Maine at Fort Kent students were inducted into the UMFK Nursing Honor Society during a special ceremony held on April 22, in the Nadeau Hall teleconference room at the university.
Fifteen nursing students from the University of Maine at Fort Kent were recently inducted into the UMFK Nursing Honor Society. In front, from left, are: April Miller, Ashley Picard, Darsey Plourde, Andrea Cyr, Sara Mulvey, Chloe Conaway and Amanda Daigle. In back are: Tyler Stoliker, Susan Lucey, Deborah Daigle, Emily Daigle, Lee Bossie, Myrna Ridenour, Margaret Mahoney and Antonio Mosquera.
Students officially welcomed into the nursing honor society include: Lee Bossie, a junior from New Canada; Chloe Conaway, junior, Leeds; Andrea Cyr, senior, Madawaska; Amanda Daigle, senior, Wallagrass; Deborah L. Daigle, junior, Madawaska; Emily Daigle, senior, China; Susan Lucey, senior, Bar Harbor; Antonio Mozquera, senior, Fort Kent; April Miller, senior, Houlton; Margaret Mahoney, senior, Fort Kent; Sara Mulvey, junior, Farmington; Darsey Plourde, junior, New Sweden; Myrna Ridenour, junior, Boston; Ashley Picard, senior, Jefferson; and Tyler Stoliker, a junior from Madawaska.
All students have excelled in the four-year bachelor of science in nursing program at UMFK and are very active in campus activities.
The UMFK Nursing Honor Society was formed in the spring of 1998 for the purpose of recognizing and fostering academic excellence and scholarship among students, alumni and community leaders in nursing.
Students with a grade point average of 3.0 or above and who represent the attributes of scholarship as defined by Boyer (1990) and Sigma Theta Tau, the International Honor Society for Nursing, were eligible for induction to the Honor Society.
In addition to the induction, the ceremony featured a keynote address by Lois C. Hamel, Ph.D, APRN, BC-Adult Nurse Practitioner who is director of distance nursing education at Saint Joseph's College in Windham.
