Texas Nurses Association contributes to Allen M. Hamilton Nursing Scholarship
A nursing scholarship established to honor longtime MCC Nursing instructor Allen M. Hamilton was bolstered this month with a $500 contribution from the Texas Nurses Association District 10.
Representatives of TNA District 10 gathered June 26 in the MCC Advanced Skills Nursing Lab to present the check to Foundation Executive Director Harry Harelik. While given in honor of their friend and fellow TNA member Allen Hamilton, who retired in 1999 after a 28-year career as a nursing instructor at MCC, the donation was also given in memory of former MCC Health Sciences division director Janice Roberson. Roberson was killed on Valentine's Day 2003 in an auto/bus crash on I-35. An already fully endowed scholarship fund in Roberson's name was established shortly after her death.
In total, TNA District 10 fundraising efforts have contributed $3,450 of the funds needed to endow the Allen M. Hamilton Nursing Scholarship. TNA District 10 comprises professional nurses and nursing educators from a 17-county region in Central Texas.
Gathering in the MCC Advanced Skills Nursing Lab to present a $500 donation to the Allen Hamilton Nursing Scholarship fund are, from left to right, 2nd year MCC nursing students Vanessa Torres, Bret Carroll and Twila Griffin, MCC Foundation Executive Director Harry Harelik, TNA District 10 Past President Anita Farrish, and TNA District 10 President Barbara Hills.