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Pam Mammano, nursing instructor, is the first recipient of IVCC’s Faculty Excellence Award. She was selected in a college-wide faculty vote.
Mammano was nominated by fellow nursing instructor Kim Abel for her "genuine and caring" nature with students and for being an active volunteer both on campus and in the community. Mammano is the sponsor of the Student Nurses Association and is active in the LaSalle County Relay for Life and the Red Cross Bloodmobile.
Mammano exhibits "warmth, patience, empathy, flexibility and a lack of concern for financial reimbursement," Abel wrote in her nomination.
Mammano, who has been at IVCC since 1989, said: "It is an honor being recognized by your co-workers. I feel very fortunate to receive this award when IVCC has so many deserving faculty members. I will do my best to represent the caring and involved faculty that we have at IVCC."
She added: "I do love working with the students. I have come into contact with some amazing people who have been our students. They become just as important to me as I am to them as their instructor. I feel we learn from each other."
As SNA advisor, Mammano assists students in planning orientation activities with new nursing students, the Giving Tree, coat and toy drives, pinning ceremonies for graduates, health fairs, talks with grade school children, and working with the Chem Club on a Christmas Party for children.
She has served on a local grade school board, on the Lung Association of Northern Illinois Board, was one of the founders of the Lung Association Asthma Summer Camp for children, and served on many local Easter Seal Telethons.
Before coming to IVCC, she was a Relief School Nurse at both Ottawa Grade School and Ottawa High School, Relief Nurse for the TB Center, now called the Health Department, and was an RN/Nurse Manager in Neonatal and Pediatric ICU at the University of Illinois Medical Center and Loyola Medical Center.
She has a BSN from St. Xavier University and an MS in Nursing, with emphasis in maternal-child care, from Northern University.
Mammano will now be nominated for the Illinois Community College Trustees Association 2001 Outstanding Faculty Award.
