2024 DSU Nurse Pinning Ceremony – photos

The 2024 graduates of the DSU Nursing Program were celebrated during its annual Nursing Pinning Ceremony.

The May 8 ceremony, held in the Dr. William B. DeLauder Education and Humanities Theatre, represented the academic completion of the class of 41 nursing graduates. The ceremony celebrated the academically excellent, their tenacity to meet the nursing requirements, and even included a set of twin sisters who completed the program together.

For images of the Nurse Pinning Ceremony, click on the below link.

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During the ceremony, the following nursing graduates were honored:

• The Academic Excellence Award – Surmyah Jean Baptist
• The Clinical Excellence Award – Ariel Mason
• The Professional Growth Award – Katelynn Porter
• The Tau Beta Chapter Nursing Honor Society Award – Omiliya Lawrence

A unique aspect of the Nurse Pinning Ceremony for the gathering was seeing twin sisters Megan Gene Anderson and Misty Marie Anderson receive their nursing pins, affixed to their uniform collars one after the other by their mother, Shari Keller.

The twins – Dover, Del., natives and graduates of Polytech High School – decided together in middle school that nursing would be their chosen career, according to Megan. “(After high school) we did two years at Delaware Tech and then came to DSU,” she said.

Misty said being twins attracted a lot of good-natured jokes from their fellow DSU nursing students. “One said that ‘this would be so much easier if I had a twin,’” Misty said. “We studied together.”

Tamekia  L. Chisholm, the Nursing Professional Development Director at Christiana Care, gave the keynote address at the ceremony.

The Department of Nursing also took a moment to honor Dr. Carol Sando, who recently retired as an Associate Professor of Nursing after teaching for 16 years at DSU.