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Vol. 15 Issue 12December 2009
 
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Local couple donates SimMan for Asheville campus Nursing students

SimMan Donation by the Maitlands

Nursing Instructor Jane Headland, Interim President Richard Mauney and Mrs. and Dr. Maitland with the SimMan manikin they donated to A-B Tech.

Dr. Alexander and Dorothy Maitland of Asheville have donated the funds for A-B Tech's Nursing Department to purchase a SimMan for training on the Asheville campus.

SimMan manikins provide simulation education to test students' clinical and decision-making skills during realistic patient care scenarios. SimMan's airway system allows mimics difficult airway management and patient care situations.

"The manikin can create the simulations our students may not get to see in clinical," said Ned Fowler, dean of Allied Health and Public Service Education.

It also allows realistic practice of chest tube insertion, and features an ECG library of more than 2,500 cardiac rhythm variants for cardiac monitoring, defibrillation and external pacing. An IV training arm provides practice for peripheral intravenous therapy.

A SimMan lab was created at the College's Enka Center several years ago, but the manikin funded by the Maitlands is the first for the Asheville Campus.

"We've always had an interest in A-B Tech. It's great for the community," said Dr. Maitland. As a physician, he said the most requested need for health care has always been nurses.

Mrs. Maitland was studying nursing at Yale, where Dr. Maitland earned his M.D., when they married. She put aside her studies until they moved to Asheville. "I always thought I would finish my degree and I did in 1975 here at A-B Tech. I was one of the oldest students in the class." She worked in Mission Hospital in the cardiac rehabilitation program and at the diabetes center at St. Joseph's before retiring.

Nursing Programs   A-B Tech Foundation

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Scholarship Donors and Recipients Honored at Foundation Lunch

Mary Louise Carpenter and Deborah Harmon

Mary Louise Carpenter, retired Director of Counseling, with current Director of Counseling Dr. Deborah Harmon, at the Foundation Scholarship lunch where it was announced a scholarship endowment had been established in Carpenter's honor.

Womansong and Lisa Konarske

Medical Sonography student Lisa Konarske, in blue uniform, with members of Womansong. Kornarske received the first Womansong New Start Scholarship at A-B Tech.

An A-B Tech retired Director of Counseling was honored with an endowed scholarship bearing her name during the Fall Foundation Scholarship Luncheon Nov. 12.

Mary Louise Carpenter, who retired from the College in 1997, "provided hope for students when challenges were high," said Dr. Deborah Harmon, the current Director of Counseling. "She saw unlimited potential in our students."

Students were recognized for receiving Foundation Scholarships for the 2009-10 academic year, including Lisa Konarske, a Medical Sonography student, who was once a high school science and math teacher. About 18 years ago, she developed type 1 diabetes and eventually had to resign because stress aggravated her illness.

A treatment Konarske received allowed her to be free of insulin injections for 2 1/2 years. "I enjoyed being a part of cutting-edge research. This scholarship gives me the opportunity to work in the medical field. I chose A-B Tech because of its outstanding program," she said.

Konarske's scholarship was made possible by a partnership between the Foundation and Womansong of Asheville, a 70-member women's chorus.

In 1987, Womansong created The New Start Program, a social services program designed to help Western North Carolina women in transition make a new start in their lives. The NSP fund is intended to "fill in the gap" when other short-term funding options are not available. Kornarske received the inaugural Womansong New Start Scholarship.

Other new endowments, scholarships and funds are: the Carol Paxton Computer Technologies Scholarship, the David and Helen Edwards Scholarship, the Jeri Freeman Endowment, the Miller-Boyette Endowment, the Max and Janie Queen Nursing and Emergency Medical Scholarship, the Flowers Never Fade Scholarship, the Carver-Lane Scholarship, the Walnut Cove Members Association Scholarship and the Bolton Construction Scholarship.

Five new Foundation board members also recognized at the luncheon: Tom Finger, Camille Metcalf, Eula Shaw, Brian Turner and Pat Wood.

The following recipients were recognized at the fall luncheon. The remaining recipients will be honored during a spring program.

A-B Tech AEOP Ray Bailey Endowed Scholarship

AT&T North Carolina Scholarship

Altrusa International of Asheville Scholarship

AvL Technologies Endowed Scholarship

K. Ray Bailey/A-B Tech Foundation Golf Classic Scholarship

K. Ray Bailey Endowment for Student Success Scholarship

Joseph Bell-Powell Endowed Scholarship

Bowers, Ellis & Watson Architects Endowed Scholarship

Joe and Janice Brumit Endowed Scholarship

Carver-Lane Scholarship

Children's Welfare League Endowed Scholarship

H.D. and Kay Crews Endowed Scholarship

Dr. Harold Crutcher Rotary Club of Asheville Endowed Scholarship

The Damore Family Healthcare Scholarship

Jack and Carolyn Ferguson Endowed Scholarship

The Grove Park Inn Resort and Spa Culinary Program Scholarship

Lacy T. Haith and James B. Miller Endowed Scholarship

Osborne M. Hart Endowed Scholarship

Peter Hofmann Memorial Scholarship

Madison County Scholarship Fund Scholarship

Roberta Manley Memorial Endowed Scholarship

Jan and Lary Schulof Scholarship

Square D Endowed Scholarship

Surgical Technology Scholarship

Winkenwerder Family Scholarship

The Womansong New Start Scholarship

A-B Tech Foundation

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Students building creative podiums for Arboretum

Podiums

Podiums created by A-B Tech advanced cabinetmaking students are being used in the N.C. Arboretum's latest exhibit.

John Andrew Bubany

John Andrew Bubany, curator for the traveling exhibit programs at the Arboretum, examines the folk art buildings that are supported by podiums made by A-B Tech students.

Students in Mike McCracken's advanced cabinetmaking class put their skills and creativity to the test when they received a request from the N.C. Arboretum. The Arboretum needed 58 podiums to display an exhibit, but had little space to keep them when not in use.

The solution was to build different sizes of cubes that could nestle inside one another to create five simple sets for easy storage. "They did a nice job," said John Andrew Bubany, curator for the traveling exhibit programs at the Arboretum. "We paid for the lumber and the students did all the labor. I estimated we saved $8,000."

The exhibit is a gathering of American folk art buildings, including houses and churches, Ferris wheels and factories, castles and carousels. Together, there are more than 200 structures from the country's largest collection made largely by anonymous people from about 1890 until about 1950. The exhibit will run through Jan. 3 at the Arboretum.

Carpentry Programs   N.C. Arboretum

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