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Nursing Division Awards Outstanding Graduate
(Press Release 05-19-06)
Hank Mooney, Office of Public Information

Sondra Menasco from Wilburton received the Division of Nursing Outstanding Graduate award from Nursing Division Chairperson Zella Stone during the 97th Eastern Oklahoma State College spring commencement recently on the Wilburton campus. Menasco is a member of the OSNA and Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society, listed on the President’s and Dean’s Honor Rolls, received the Puterbaugh Award and Scholarship, the E Award in Nursing and nominated to Manchester’s Who’s Who. She is a volunteer coach for the 3rd, 4th and 5th grade girls softball teams, volunteer nursery worker and manager of the Java Café of the King’s House Church in McAlester.

Eastern spring graduates are among 28,400 Oklahoma students from 25 state colleges and universities estimated to earn degrees this year. This academic year Eastern will have granted just over 325 degrees and certificates of completion not counting other agencies including the Department of Corrections Academy and the Oklahoma Miner Training Institute also located on the Wilburton campus. Eastern graduates ranged in age from 19 to 57 this year.