Carolyn Weber

is honored with a Brick from the WSU School of Nursing.

Carolyn Weber, instructor and coordinator for the Clinical Learning Center, WSU School of Nursing, said she is thankful for the educational opportunities she's had and she is gratified to have helped others with career opportunities.

She has taught students for 19 years at WSU, and before that was a nurse at several hospitals in Wichita, Denver and Washington, D.C., where she received her master's degree in nursing from the Catholic University of America. She also taught nursing seven years at Marquette University in Milwaukee before moving back to Wichita.

Weber is proud of the high motivation level that WSU nursing students demonstrate. And it is rewarding, she said, to see WSU graduates practicing in health-care settings.

Weber has won several nursing awards and she also won the college's Dolores, Etta and Sidney Rodenberg Award for Excellence in Teaching in 1992. She's involved in many professional organizations including American Nurse's Association and Sigma Theta Tau, Epsilon Gamma chapter, serving as archivist, newsletter editor and faculty counselor.

Now that Weber is retiring, she plans to focus on genealogy research, traveling to the site her ancestors lived, and studying history, especially about Kansas. She also will devote some time completing lots of unfinished projects. Weber has been granted emeritus status upon her retirement.

August 10, 1999