BLOOMINGTON, Ill. – Illinois Wesleyan University alumna Barbara Nathan was honored Tuesday, March 9, with the 2010 Gale Keeran Spirit of Success Award at the annual Women’s Health Night at the Interstate Center in Bloomington.
According to the award sponsor, the Illinois Heart & Lung Foundation, the recipient of the award possess a “spirit of success” that has made this community a better place to live. The honor was named after the late Gale Keeran, a community leader and former chair of the Bloomington Cultural District.
A 1980 graduate from Illinois Wesleyan, Nathan spent 15 years in nursing and hospital administration with BroMenn Healthcare in Normal. In 1996, she became the executive director of the Community Cancer Center and its Foundation, which has raised more than $9 million for a continuum of cancer care from community education on prevention and early detection, to treatment and survivor services.