Dr. Patricia Stockert ’76

Illinois Wesleyan University’s School of Nursing will honor alumna Patricia Stockert, Ph.D., RN, with the annual School of Nursing Distinguished Alumna Award.  Patricia is the president of the Saint Francis Medical Center College of Nursing in Peoria, Illinois.  She will receive her Award during Homecoming festivities.

Dr. Stockert ’76 will be honored during a social and awards ceremony Oct. 18 at 9 a.m.  After the social, she will present “Nursing: Embrace the Unexpected Journey.”

Following her graduation from Illinois Wesleyan, Patricia began working as a surgical nurse with OSF Saint Francis Medical Center in Peoria.  Later she served as an instructor at Saint Francis Medical Center College of Nursing—then called Saint Francis Hospital School of Nursing—while pursuing her master’s degree.  Dr. Stockert has also served as an assistant professor and dean of the undergraduate program at the college.

Patricia earned a doctorate in nursing from Saint Louis University.  Dr. Stockert has also co-authored two nursing textbooks: Fundamentals of Nursing and Basic Nursing. 

Message from Ann Harding, Director of Alumni Relations

Thank you for reading and contributing to your class newsletter.  What a great way to build class loyalty and to stay connected.  Reading about each other is great, but coming back to homecoming is the BEST way to reconnect with IWU.

This year, homecoming is October 11-13.  You will be receiving the homecoming brochure in the mail very soon. Plus you can review all the details and get yourself registered on titanpride.org

Our theme this year is A Class Act.  I think you’ll see that everything we have planned this year will offer you a fun filled weekend with most activities free for everyone!!  Class years ending in 3 and 8 are reunion years.

Besides registering for homecoming; I have one more request of you.  I would like each of our 565 incoming first year students to have a welcome letter in their mail box when they arrive on August 20.   Would you please write a note and send it to me at 1001 N. Main St., Bloomington, IL  61702-2900?  Offer this new Titan a piece of advice, something to look for on campus or in the Bloomington Normal community or a fond memory you had of your first semester on campus. Be sure to sign it!  If you’re able, please make several copies of your letter. I need 565 letters!!!

Lastly, thanks to all of you who  made a gift to IWU this year.  I’m sure you have read President Wilson’s messages about the increased need for financial aid to attract the best and the brightest to fill our classes.  Without your generous support to the Wesleyan Fund, we will lose young people who really want to be a Titan, but need more help, financially.

My best~

Ann