School of Nursing
Alumni Association
Our officers are as follows:
Please email Alyce Duffus your current address to receive information in a timely manner.
Keep in touch - follow us on Facebook! If you would like to be a part of our group, please FB message us and provide the graduation year and maiden name.
For more information:
Please send feedback, comments, and questions to the President ~ and stay in touch!
Graduation will be at 6:00 pm on Friday, May 31 at Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hall at 4141 Fifth Avenue in Oakland. Alumni, wear your pin
All alumni are welcome to participate in the quarterly meetings of the West Penn Hospital School of Nursing Alumni Association. To receive a copy of meeting minutes, please email the Secretary with your name (include maiden name and married name) and class year.
Association Meetings
At the June 2, 2015, meeting it was decided to have a plaque made to honor Rosena "Rosie" Hummel Voelker, RN, who died April 15, 2015, at age 90. She made a very positive impact on generations of students as WPH's Employee and Student Health Nursing Director for 31 years.
Upcoming meetings are as follows:
Every time someone moves an alumni is lost unless we're given the new address.
Keep yourself and your classmates in the loop. If you or they don’t receive our annual newsletter you're not in our database.
Send all updated changes including maiden and married names and year of graduation to Alyce at ajduffus@comcast.net
Alumni Association dues help defray the cost of mailings and other activities. Please download the Alumni Association Dues Form, print it out, and send with your check made payable to "Alumni Association, West Penn Hospital School of Nursing" to:
Alumni Association
West Penn Hospital School of Nursing
4900 Friendship Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15224
Please consider a donation to the Memorial Endowed Scholarship Fund in memory of our special nurses. It's also a great way to recognize friends, classmates, mentors, and colleagues. To make a donation, click here to make a gift online or mail in your check made payable to "Allegheny Health Network" to:
Office of Fund Development
4818 Liberty Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15224
Alumni of West Penn Hospital School of Nursing were honored at an elegant Alumni Tea and open house to show off the renovated building on May 16, 2009.
Graduates from the Class of 1940 onward gathered from near and far for this "Celebrating Our Renaissance" event hosted by the Office of Fund Development.
Posing on May 16, 2009, before the Donor Wall recognizing contributors to West Penn School of Nursing renovations, are four classmates from the 1960s.
These School of Nursing graduates from the 1940s traveled from northern Ohio for the 2009 Alumni Tea.
West Penn School of Nursing roommates and graduates from the late 1940s pause for a photo at the 2009 Alumni Tea. Their first positions as graduate RNs paid 62 cents per hour!
School of Nursing alumni from the 1940s greet each other at the 2009 Alumni Tea and open house.
A 1940 graduate of the School of Nursing (left) chats with the Alumni Association's past president. The School's elegant silver tea service was used regularly for gracious gatherings early in the century."
