She had been a teaching professor of nursing at Duke University.
Life Member of the Indiana University Alumni Association.
Life Member of Kahler School of Nursing Alumnae Association Rochester, Minnesota.
Life Member of Nursing Education Alumni Association Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, NY.
Life Member of Pi Lambda Theta.
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The Independent, Long Beach, California, Saturday, 28 September 1957 page 6, column 1 -- -- Willamay Whitner, 1260 E. 2nd St., has received a nursing education trainingship at Indiana University.
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Durham Intercom 1 September 1969 Durham North Carolina -- -- Appointed to an associate professorship in the School of Nursing was Dr. Willamay Whitner, formerly associate professor of nursing research at the University of Florida in Gainesville.
Dr. Whitner received her B.S. degree from Indiana State University in 1949 and her M.S. in nursing education from Indiana University in 1958 before earning her doctorate in education at Columbia University Teachers College
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Published in 'The Gator Nurse' Spring 2007, Volume XI, Number 1. page 13 -- --
In Memoriam
The College of Nursing recently bid a sad goodbye to two members of our Gator Nurse family----a veteran faculty member and alumna who both made a tremendous impact both personally and professionally. Our thoughts are with their families and loved ones. They will be missed by all of us.
Willamay Whitner
(died in late 2006; birthdate unknown)
Willamay was one of the founding research faculty at the College of Nursing. She was doctorally prepared at Teacher’s College in Columbia and came to UF in the early 1960s to help lead the new graduate program and coordinate the beginning efforts of nursing research. Willamay had a continuing career in nursing education and retired as a faculty member at the University of Mississippi. She moved to North Carolina following her retirement, where she lived until she passed away.
As a testament of her impact on students, below is a memory from alumna and College historian Ann Smith (MN 1967).
When insecure graduate students learned we had to take “statistics” as a required course in 1966, it made the entire class insecure at the word alone. Willamay reassured us with the instruction that we would learn enough at the master’s level to be intelligent consumers of research. She told us that a normal curve was three-dimensional like a mound of sand.
When I knew her better and was involved in doing a study, I shared with her that I had been teased about working all weekend on the project in which I was so involved. She told me that if I loved doing it-or anything, for that matter-it was not work. I took that beyond my project and have applied it many times to things that I love doing, regardless of the perception of others.
I thank her for demystifying research and statistics for us. She helped us gently wade into foreign waters.
19 December 2019 Memories shared from -- -- Here is an article [ See above] from U of Fla College of Nursing about Willamay. She was a beloved mentor and teacher for my wife as well as my Sister, a Master candidate at UF at that same time. The author of this article, Ann Smith, was a contemporary of my Sister. Curiously, Willamay’s time in Burlington, and I presume Alamance Regional Hospital (now part of the ConeHealth System), was not too far from where we live in Greensboro NC. That would have been an exceptional encounter had we known. Here is the UF article, a memorial to Willamay by Ann. My sister Ellen remembered her well.
Ray Sullivan MD for Marjorie Hegel Sullivan
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Posted 17 December 2019
Contributor: Anonymous (50219021)
Willamay Whitner RN PhD was a newborn pediatric researcher at the University of Florida Gainesville, Florida around 1966-68. She employed me as a secretarial assistant for her research in newborn temperature regulation. Under her guidance I left Gainesville to study Nursing in another city then returned to continue my nursing training in Gainesville and worked in the UF ICU where I met my husband. I lost track of Willamay after leaving Gainesville in 1969. Do you have any information about her life in Gainesville or thereafter?
Thank you for your diligence and interest in genealogy. Please advise me if you are related to her to devote this time and energy in such a wonderful endeavor. (The website info suggests you are a 1/2 cousin).
Marjorie Hegel Sullivan/rcs
Greensboro, NC
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The official cause of death was CVA (cerebrovascular accident) in other words a stroke. Willie originally went into the hospital there at Twin Lakes because she had fallen and her leg wasn't healing like it should, while in there, they could see that she was in the first stages of Alzheimers, she was in a little over 4 weeks and then suffered a seizure and 2 days later she died.
Life Member of the Indiana University Alumni Association.
Life Member of Kahler School of Nursing Alumnae Association Rochester, Minnesota.
Life Member of Nursing Education Alumni Association Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, NY.
Life Member of Pi Lambda Theta.
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The Independent, Long Beach, California, Saturday, 28 September 1957 page 6, column 1 -- -- Willamay Whitner, 1260 E. 2nd St., has received a nursing education trainingship at Indiana University.
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Durham Intercom 1 September 1969 Durham North Carolina -- -- Appointed to an associate professorship in the School of Nursing was Dr. Willamay Whitner, formerly associate professor of nursing research at the University of Florida in Gainesville.
Dr. Whitner received her B.S. degree from Indiana State University in 1949 and her M.S. in nursing education from Indiana University in 1958 before earning her doctorate in education at Columbia University Teachers College
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Published in 'The Gator Nurse' Spring 2007, Volume XI, Number 1. page 13 -- --
In Memoriam
The College of Nursing recently bid a sad goodbye to two members of our Gator Nurse family----a veteran faculty member and alumna who both made a tremendous impact both personally and professionally. Our thoughts are with their families and loved ones. They will be missed by all of us.
Willamay Whitner
(died in late 2006; birthdate unknown)
Willamay was one of the founding research faculty at the College of Nursing. She was doctorally prepared at Teacher’s College in Columbia and came to UF in the early 1960s to help lead the new graduate program and coordinate the beginning efforts of nursing research. Willamay had a continuing career in nursing education and retired as a faculty member at the University of Mississippi. She moved to North Carolina following her retirement, where she lived until she passed away.
As a testament of her impact on students, below is a memory from alumna and College historian Ann Smith (MN 1967).
When insecure graduate students learned we had to take “statistics” as a required course in 1966, it made the entire class insecure at the word alone. Willamay reassured us with the instruction that we would learn enough at the master’s level to be intelligent consumers of research. She told us that a normal curve was three-dimensional like a mound of sand.
When I knew her better and was involved in doing a study, I shared with her that I had been teased about working all weekend on the project in which I was so involved. She told me that if I loved doing it-or anything, for that matter-it was not work. I took that beyond my project and have applied it many times to things that I love doing, regardless of the perception of others.
I thank her for demystifying research and statistics for us. She helped us gently wade into foreign waters.
19 December 2019 Memories shared from -- -- Here is an article [ See above] from U of Fla College of Nursing about Willamay. She was a beloved mentor and teacher for my wife as well as my Sister, a Master candidate at UF at that same time. The author of this article, Ann Smith, was a contemporary of my Sister. Curiously, Willamay’s time in Burlington, and I presume Alamance Regional Hospital (now part of the ConeHealth System), was not too far from where we live in Greensboro NC. That would have been an exceptional encounter had we known. Here is the UF article, a memorial to Willamay by Ann. My sister Ellen remembered her well.
Ray Sullivan MD for Marjorie Hegel Sullivan
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Posted 17 December 2019
Contributor: Anonymous (50219021)
Willamay Whitner RN PhD was a newborn pediatric researcher at the University of Florida Gainesville, Florida around 1966-68. She employed me as a secretarial assistant for her research in newborn temperature regulation. Under her guidance I left Gainesville to study Nursing in another city then returned to continue my nursing training in Gainesville and worked in the UF ICU where I met my husband. I lost track of Willamay after leaving Gainesville in 1969. Do you have any information about her life in Gainesville or thereafter?
Thank you for your diligence and interest in genealogy. Please advise me if you are related to her to devote this time and energy in such a wonderful endeavor. (The website info suggests you are a 1/2 cousin).
Marjorie Hegel Sullivan/rcs
Greensboro, NC
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The official cause of death was CVA (cerebrovascular accident) in other words a stroke. Willie originally went into the hospital there at Twin Lakes because she had fallen and her leg wasn't healing like it should, while in there, they could see that she was in the first stages of Alzheimers, she was in a little over 4 weeks and then suffered a seizure and 2 days later she died.
She had been a teaching professor of nursing at Duke University.
Life Member of the Indiana University Alumni Association.
Life Member of Kahler School of Nursing Alumnae Association Rochester, Minnesota.
Life Member of Nursing Education Alumni Association Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, NY.
Life Member of Pi Lambda Theta.
-----------
The Independent, Long Beach, California, Saturday, 28 September 1957 page 6, column 1 -- -- Willamay Whitner, 1260 E. 2nd St., has received a nursing education trainingship at Indiana University.
----------
Durham Intercom 1 September 1969 Durham North Carolina -- -- Appointed to an associate professorship in the School of Nursing was Dr. Willamay Whitner, formerly associate professor of nursing research at the University of Florida in Gainesville.
Dr. Whitner received her B.S. degree from Indiana State University in 1949 and her M.S. in nursing education from Indiana University in 1958 before earning her doctorate in education at Columbia University Teachers College
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Published in 'The Gator Nurse' Spring 2007, Volume XI, Number 1. page 13 -- --
In Memoriam
The College of Nursing recently bid a sad goodbye to two members of our Gator Nurse family----a veteran faculty member and alumna who both made a tremendous impact both personally and professionally. Our thoughts are with their families and loved ones. They will be missed by all of us.
Willamay Whitner
(died in late 2006; birthdate unknown)
Willamay was one of the founding research faculty at the College of Nursing. She was doctorally prepared at Teacher’s College in Columbia and came to UF in the early 1960s to help lead the new graduate program and coordinate the beginning efforts of nursing research. Willamay had a continuing career in nursing education and retired as a faculty member at the University of Mississippi. She moved to North Carolina following her retirement, where she lived until she passed away.
As a testament of her impact on students, below is a memory from alumna and College historian Ann Smith (MN 1967).
When insecure graduate students learned we had to take “statistics” as a required course in 1966, it made the entire class insecure at the word alone. Willamay reassured us with the instruction that we would learn enough at the master’s level to be intelligent consumers of research. She told us that a normal curve was three-dimensional like a mound of sand.
When I knew her better and was involved in doing a study, I shared with her that I had been teased about working all weekend on the project in which I was so involved. She told me that if I loved doing it-or anything, for that matter-it was not work. I took that beyond my project and have applied it many times to things that I love doing, regardless of the perception of others.
I thank her for demystifying research and statistics for us. She helped us gently wade into foreign waters.
19 December 2019 Memories shared from -- -- Here is an article [ See above] from U of Fla College of Nursing about Willamay. She was a beloved mentor and teacher for my wife as well as my Sister, a Master candidate at UF at that same time. The author of this article, Ann Smith, was a contemporary of my Sister. Curiously, Willamay’s time in Burlington, and I presume Alamance Regional Hospital (now part of the ConeHealth System), was not too far from where we live in Greensboro NC. That would have been an exceptional encounter had we known. Here is the UF article, a memorial to Willamay by Ann. My sister Ellen remembered her well.
Ray Sullivan MD for Marjorie Hegel Sullivan
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Posted 17 December 2019
Contributor: Anonymous (50219021)
Willamay Whitner RN PhD was a newborn pediatric researcher at the University of Florida Gainesville, Florida around 1966-68. She employed me as a secretarial assistant for her research in newborn temperature regulation. Under her guidance I left Gainesville to study Nursing in another city then returned to continue my nursing training in Gainesville and worked in the UF ICU where I met my husband. I lost track of Willamay after leaving Gainesville in 1969. Do you have any information about her life in Gainesville or thereafter?
Thank you for your diligence and interest in genealogy. Please advise me if you are related to her to devote this time and energy in such a wonderful endeavor. (The website info suggests you are a 1/2 cousin).
Marjorie Hegel Sullivan/rcs
Greensboro, NC
----------
The official cause of death was CVA (cerebrovascular accident) in other words a stroke. Willie originally went into the hospital there at Twin Lakes because she had fallen and her leg wasn't healing like it should, while in there, they could see that she was in the first stages of Alzheimers, she was in a little over 4 weeks and then suffered a seizure and 2 days later she died.
Life Member of the Indiana University Alumni Association.
Life Member of Kahler School of Nursing Alumnae Association Rochester, Minnesota.
Life Member of Nursing Education Alumni Association Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, NY.
Life Member of Pi Lambda Theta.
-----------
The Independent, Long Beach, California, Saturday, 28 September 1957 page 6, column 1 -- -- Willamay Whitner, 1260 E. 2nd St., has received a nursing education trainingship at Indiana University.
----------
Durham Intercom 1 September 1969 Durham North Carolina -- -- Appointed to an associate professorship in the School of Nursing was Dr. Willamay Whitner, formerly associate professor of nursing research at the University of Florida in Gainesville.
Dr. Whitner received her B.S. degree from Indiana State University in 1949 and her M.S. in nursing education from Indiana University in 1958 before earning her doctorate in education at Columbia University Teachers College
----------
Published in 'The Gator Nurse' Spring 2007, Volume XI, Number 1. page 13 -- --
In Memoriam
The College of Nursing recently bid a sad goodbye to two members of our Gator Nurse family----a veteran faculty member and alumna who both made a tremendous impact both personally and professionally. Our thoughts are with their families and loved ones. They will be missed by all of us.
Willamay Whitner
(died in late 2006; birthdate unknown)
Willamay was one of the founding research faculty at the College of Nursing. She was doctorally prepared at Teacher’s College in Columbia and came to UF in the early 1960s to help lead the new graduate program and coordinate the beginning efforts of nursing research. Willamay had a continuing career in nursing education and retired as a faculty member at the University of Mississippi. She moved to North Carolina following her retirement, where she lived until she passed away.
As a testament of her impact on students, below is a memory from alumna and College historian Ann Smith (MN 1967).
When insecure graduate students learned we had to take “statistics” as a required course in 1966, it made the entire class insecure at the word alone. Willamay reassured us with the instruction that we would learn enough at the master’s level to be intelligent consumers of research. She told us that a normal curve was three-dimensional like a mound of sand.
When I knew her better and was involved in doing a study, I shared with her that I had been teased about working all weekend on the project in which I was so involved. She told me that if I loved doing it-or anything, for that matter-it was not work. I took that beyond my project and have applied it many times to things that I love doing, regardless of the perception of others.
I thank her for demystifying research and statistics for us. She helped us gently wade into foreign waters.
19 December 2019 Memories shared from -- -- Here is an article [ See above] from U of Fla College of Nursing about Willamay. She was a beloved mentor and teacher for my wife as well as my Sister, a Master candidate at UF at that same time. The author of this article, Ann Smith, was a contemporary of my Sister. Curiously, Willamay’s time in Burlington, and I presume Alamance Regional Hospital (now part of the ConeHealth System), was not too far from where we live in Greensboro NC. That would have been an exceptional encounter had we known. Here is the UF article, a memorial to Willamay by Ann. My sister Ellen remembered her well.
Ray Sullivan MD for Marjorie Hegel Sullivan
----------
Posted 17 December 2019
Contributor: Anonymous (50219021)
Willamay Whitner RN PhD was a newborn pediatric researcher at the University of Florida Gainesville, Florida around 1966-68. She employed me as a secretarial assistant for her research in newborn temperature regulation. Under her guidance I left Gainesville to study Nursing in another city then returned to continue my nursing training in Gainesville and worked in the UF ICU where I met my husband. I lost track of Willamay after leaving Gainesville in 1969. Do you have any information about her life in Gainesville or thereafter?
Thank you for your diligence and interest in genealogy. Please advise me if you are related to her to devote this time and energy in such a wonderful endeavor. (The website info suggests you are a 1/2 cousin).
Marjorie Hegel Sullivan/rcs
Greensboro, NC
----------
The official cause of death was CVA (cerebrovascular accident) in other words a stroke. Willie originally went into the hospital there at Twin Lakes because she had fallen and her leg wasn't healing like it should, while in there, they could see that she was in the first stages of Alzheimers, she was in a little over 4 weeks and then suffered a seizure and 2 days later she died.
