NSU Horizons Spring 2013

The following is a sampling of recent donor-funded scholarship gifts to support NSU students. AROUND NSU Continued from page 33 n Dan Madden (B.S. ’09) established the Madden Family Changing Lives Scholarship for students in the Division of Math, Science, and Technology at the Farquhar College of Arts and Sciences. n The Stuart and Jill Siegel Charitable Foundation estab- lished the Siegel Family Criminal Justice Scholarship to support undergraduate students seeking a degree in criminal justice. n Frank and Maureen Zappala funded a scholarship for a student from Martin County who is pursuing a doctoral degree in osteopathic medicine. n Mary L. Botter, Ph.D., R.N., associate dean in the College of Nursing, established the Betty Jane Botter Changing Lives Nursing Scholarship to encourage nursing students who demonstrate continued improvement. n Don Rosenblum, Ph.D., dean of the Farquhar College of Arts and Sciences, established the Rosenblum Family Honors Program Changing Lives Scholarship designat- ed for undergraduate students in the Undergraduate Honors Program. n Marcella Rutherford, Ph.D., M.B.A., M.S.N., dean of the College of Nursing, established the James H. Kuebler Nursing Changing Lives Scholarship to support nursing students who are in financial need and who have completed their first year. n Susanne Marshall, Ph.D., senior associate dean of the Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, established the Marshall Family Changing Lives Schol- arship for students in the Institute for the Study of Human Service, Health, and Justice. n The American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA) Fort Lauderdale Chapter established the ABOTA Annual Scholarship at the Shepard Broad Law Center for second-year law students. 35 HORIZONS “It was a totally different experience, professional top to bottom,” Hathcock said. “And that was my experience at NSU. I got an excellent education and it was professional. The professors went out of their way to help the working person to facilitate getting an M.B.A. while holding down a career. NSU is a very high-quality institution.” Hathcock attended classes at nights and on the week- ends, while continuing to work full time at Siemens. She recalled with particular fondness an advertising class, and she is proud that she met the challenge of a statistics course she took in her final semester. “I was scared to death of that class,” she remembered. Her classmates were computer sci- ence and math majors, but with her characteristic determi- nation, she made up her mind to do well. “For that entire course, the only thing I focused on was statistics. I would come home from my work at Siemens and sit down at the table and do problem after problem,” she said. “At the end of the day, I got an A in the class.” The lesson she learned went beyond that of statistics: Work hard and you’ll be rewarded. With her M.B.A. in hand, more doors opened. She was recruited to join US Airways as vice president of human resources, and then was recruited to Humana, where she worked for 13 years. The M.B.A. degree not only opened doors to new opportunities, she said, but also boosted her confidence in being able to do the job once hired. As head of human resources, she faced difficult days of corporate downsizing at several companies. At other times, she needed to find ways to help employees who had lost their homes or loved ones, as well as those facing military deployments. “We made decisions with our hearts as well as our heads,” she said. In December 2012, she retired from Humana to spend more time with her husband. The view from her retirement home is far different from the sights she saw as a child on the fire escape in her old apartment house. She is writing a mem- oir from an antiques-filled home office that looks out on a lot filled with magnolias and crape myrtles in the Tennessee Val- ley. She also is exploring ways to help disadvantaged young men and women. “I am in a new chapter,” she said. “I don’t know exactly what I will do, but I know the direction and it will be giving back.” n