Print Issue: November 7, 2002

St. Joseph Nurses, Class Of '69, Meet In Mountains

GATLINBURG, Tenn. - The St. Joseph's Infirmary Nursing School graduating class of 1969 recently held its 33 and 1/3-year class reunion at the mountain home of Peggy Murphy Witt in Gatlinburg. Of the class of 30 who graduated at Sacred Heart Church, Atlanta, 19 attended the weekend, including a midwife, pediatric nurses, emergency room nurses, engineers, auditors and more. Nurses came from as far as California and Colorado to attend. Pictured (l-r) are: (front row) Deanna Blanton Simmons, Mandy Donohue McGregor, Margi Middleton Thrift, Dorothy Tully Mullican, Inge Hut DeGraan and Peggy Murphy Witt; (second row) Pam Hendley Rowe, Denise McLaughlin Rabinowitz, Dot Geist Wilson, Cheryl O'Donnell Stanton, Sue Burgess O'Sheasy and Beth O'Loughlin Meyers; (back row) Kathleen Jackson Hudson, Italia Carpenter Bright, Margi Broder Scruggs, Kim Keating, Kay Rundquist Faglie and Susan Miller Roof. Sharon Williams Magruder, not pictured, also attended. St. Joseph's Nursing School closed in 1971.