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The University of Lethbridge expresses its sincere condolences to the family and friends of the late Dr. Joanne Scholdra, a former Director of the University’s School of Nursing and longtime faculty member, who passed away on November 29, 2014 at the age of 83 years.
Scholdra came to the University of Lethbridge in summer 1980 when she was named to a five-year term as the director of the newly established School of Nursing. She continued to work as an associate professor in the school through the 1980s.
A native of Carman, Manitoba, Scholdra was chairman of the Lethbridge Community College nursing program from 1974 to 1980. She had joined the college in 1970 as an instructor of medical-surgical nursing. From 1966 to 1968, she was an assistant professor and coordinator of the BSc program in nursing at the University of Alberta.
Scholdra had extensive general nursing experience through appointments at Vancouver General Hospital, St. Mary Abbottis Hospital in London, England, Saskatoon City Hospital and the University of Alberta Hospital where she was supervisor of the pediatrics department and instructor in cardiothoracic nursing, gynecology, anatomy and physiology.
Scholdra received her diploma in nursing from Saskatoon City Hospital and her BSc in nursing from the University of Saskatchewan at Saskatoon. She obtained a masters degree in nursing from the University of Washington, Seattle before taking doctoral studies at the universities of California (San Francisco) and Washington.
An active faculty member, Scholdra produced a variety of papers and presentations and was granted numerous awards, including being named the winner of the Lethbridge Regional Hospital Award in 1988.
She is pre-deceased by her husband, the late Dr. Roman Scholdra, a charter member of the University of Lethbridge’s Alumni Association in 1967 and a Board of Governors member from 1979 through 1986.
A Funeral Service will be held at 10 a.m. on Saturday, Dec. 6, 2014 at IMMANUEL LUTHERAN CHURCH, 20 Rocky Mountain Blvd. W., Lethbridge, AB, with Pastor Nathan Fuehrer, officiating. Send condolences at Martin Brothers Funeral Homes.
Contact:
Trevor Kenney | trevor.kenney@uleth.ca | (403) 329-2710