MILESTONES

MILESTONES

HONORS

Nursing award

Karen Bankston, Ph.D., associate dean for clinical practice, partnership and community engagement for the University of Cincinnati College of Nursing, has been recognized by the American Nurses Association as a recipient of one of its 2016 national awards.

Bankston, a graduate of East High School in Youngstown and Youngstown State University, received the Mary Mahoney Award, which recognizes significant contributions by an individual nurse or a group of nurses to integration within the nursing profession.

Winners are honored for their outstanding service to the profession in a variety of categories.

Bankston’s award is named for Mahoney, the first black-American nurse to work professionally in the U.S. and the co-founder the National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses, which merged into the ANA in 1951 and also fought for women’s equality and minority rights.

A ceremony and reception to honor the 11 award recipients will be June 23 at the Grand Hyatt Washington, D.C., before ANA’s Membership Assembly.

DOCTORATE

Doctors of pharmacy

Donald Allison, son of Donald and Debbie Allison, has graduated from Ohio Northern University with a doctor of pharmacy degree.

He is a graduate of Canfield High School, and his undergraduate studies also were completed at ONU as part of a direct-entry program.

His honors and activities include graduating cum laude, serving as vice president of Pho Chi, a pharmacy academic honor society, membership in the ONU Men’s Chorus, membership in American Pharmacist Association-American Student Pharmacist Association and selection as 2014 Mr. ONU Pharmacy.

He also was a vice president of Christian Pharmacist Fellowship International. As a member of CFPI, he served as the group’s liaison to ONU’s Student Pharmacy Council, coordinated outreach events at the Kenton YMCA, and led a vitamin/over-the-counter drive for medical missions trips to Haiti and the Dominican Republic.

He will complete a residency with Kroger/West Virginia University in community pharmacy.

Kayla Szabo, daughter of Stephen and Shirley Szabo of Boardman, recently earned a doctor of pharmacy degree from Duquesne University.

She is 2010 graduate of Boardman High School. She graduated magna cum laude with a concentration in acute care, and received the Merck Award for Excellence in Medicinal Chemistry and the Wolters Kluwer Award for Excellence in Clinical Communication.

Sazbo has matched as a pharmacy resident with Option Care’s postgraduate residency program in Tempe, Ariz.

RETIREMENT

50 years of teaching

Marsha Jankowski is set to retire after more than 50 years of teaching.

Jankowski began her teaching career as a second-grade teacher at St. Rose School in 1963. She also taught at St. Luke School for two years, before returning to St. Rose to teach science for 15 years and K-8 computers for the past 25 years.

For the past three years, she also has taught K-8 computers at St. Joseph the Provider.

She and her late husband, Paul, also established and led the Youngstown Chapter of Southern Bible College of Atlanta for nine years, where she earned her master’s degree in Christian counseling and a doctorate in Christian education.

During retirement, she is planning to read and write, continue her Christian-counseling ministry, and spend more time with her seven children and 16 grandchildren. Send congratulations or memories of Jankowski’s teaching to 2071 Canfield Road, Youngstown, OH 44511.

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