Barnes-Jewish College Goldfarb School of Nursing Alumni Association and the 2019 Homecoming Planning Committee hosted their annual homecoming event on Friday, Sept. 27. The theme for this year’s celebration of school and community was Shine Through Service. Barnes-Jewish College Goldfarb School of Nursing Alumni Association and the 2019 Homecoming Planning Committee hosted their annual homecoming event on Friday, Sept. 27. The theme for this year’s celebration of school and community was Shine Through Service.
To honor the theme, 326 attendees including staff, faculty, administration, alumni and friends spent most of homecoming day as volunteers at campus and community-based service projects. On-campus projects included creating unique postcards with messages of inspiration and assembling care packages for families with children in the NICU at St. Louis Children’s Hospital and for Barnes-Jewish Hospital staff working through weather emergencies. Volunteers also made colorful fleece blankets for Evelyn’s House, a BJC HealthCare hospice home for adults and children.
Service Projects
Working off-campus, volunteers joined residents at the Barnes-Jewish Extended Care facility in their weekly social activity, prepared baked goods for patients at Evelyn’s House and their families, and assembled care packages for patients seeking treatment at the Cancer Center at Missouri Baptist Medical Center.
Homecoming celebrants also attended a luncheon that honored Mary Frances Masters, ’58, Susan Grinslade, ’69, and Ruth Buckhannon Wellborn,’58, with the school’s Alumni Association 2019 Distinguished Alumni Award. Each of these women is a leader in service and the nursing profession. And each exemplifies a commitment to community that underscores Caring Ways, one of Goldfarb’s core values.
Homecoming Luncheon
Additionally, Penny Bari, ’61, received the first-ever Inaugural President’s Alumni Award, which was presented by Nancy Ridenour, PhD, RN, APRN, BC, FAAN, the Maxine Clark and Bob Fox President at Goldfarb.
Homecoming 2019 ended with a celebration that included food, dancing and prizes.
“Hosting homecoming for our alumni is a valued engagement strategy,” said June Cowell-Oates, EdD, LPC, LCSW, CEAP, director of alumni affairs and the program office of student affairs and diversity at Goldfarb. “And we can all feel proud that we are part of a college that is a thriving and vital destination for nursing education. It is rewarding to watch the Goldfarb community work together for its own benefit and the benefit of the St. Louis community.”
Check out more photos of the 2018 homecoming event, and see other alumni event photos.
Goldfarb's 2020 Homecoming is scheduled for Friday, Sept. 25, 2020. We hope you will make plans to attend.
