Onondaga Community College: Welcome To The Nursing Family

Syracuse NY

23 May, 2022

2:14 PM

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Press release from Onondaga Community College: May 20, 2022 The accomplishments of graduating students in Onondaga Community College's Nursing degree program were celebrated during a Nurse Pinning ceremony. The event was held May 20 in the Frederick Marvin and Ernst Schuh Recital Hall. The Nurse Pinning ceremony is a symbolic welcome into the Nursing profession. The pin represents the hard work and dedication students displayed while completing their coursework and clinicals. Usually students are "pinned" by one of their professors. However, during this ceremony two students were pinned by a parent who also chose the nursing profession. Rachel VanSlyke was pinned by her father, Brett VanSlyke who is a 2012 graduate of OCC's Nursing program and a cardiac nurse at St. Joseph's Hospital. Also pinned by a parent was Gregory Kranz, who was met on stage by his mother Catherine who worked as a nurse for 42 years before retiring from the VA Emergency Department last December. The VanSlyke and Kranz family stories were highlighted in television news stories broadcast by Spectrum News 1 and WSYR TV, Newschannel 9 which you can view by clicking on these links. Congratulations to the Nursing students in OCC's class of 2022! Their names are listed below. Cassandra Andersen Heather Barber Gwenyth Bennett Megan Buchanan Kelsie Burke Melissa Burke Kendall Carroll Chenfei Cheng Ashley Dickson Nicole Frank Mary Godin Iryna Gura Paige Harding Amy Harmsworth-Morrissey Ethan Hoffman Lillian Ingalls Anastasia Karandeyev Greg Kranz Callie Lalor Selena Lupkowski Jenna Masello Tracey Milazzo Carolyn Mondo Jenny Nguyen Amy Pauldine Shannon Priest Hannah Robles Bianca Sanchez Kylee Scobell Stacy Sickler Alison Smith Connie Taylor Viktoriia Tereshchuk Iva Perez Torres Brett Trainor Aurela Ujkaj Andon Usev Kira Vanhoeven Rachel VanSlyke This press release was produced by Onondaga Community College. The views expressed here are the author's own.