Carolyn Antonides Williams

For all her skills as nurse, teacher, scholar, and administrator, however, it is her much-respected leadership in the profession that the University of Portland particularly wishes to laud and celebrate today, with the conferral of a doctorate of public service; the Uni­versity as a whole, and especially the faculty, staff, students, and alumni of the University’s School of Nursing, expresses gratitude and a quiet awe at the creative energy Dr. Williams has lent a profession dedicated to healing and hope — values at the very heart of the University’s life and work. No one can count the thousands of hours, miles, meetings, conversations, ­debates, ideas, and moments of ­ferocious attention Dr. Williams has given to the American Academy of Nursing, the American Nurses Association, the American Public Health Association, the American Association of Colleges of Nursing, Appalachian Regional Healthcare, the National Research Study Sections at the National Institutes of Health, the National Institute for Nursing Research, the U.S. Depart­ment of Health and Human Services, the Pan American Health Organization, Sigma Theta Tau International, the universities she has served with grace, the thousands of colleagues she has taught, mentored, befriended, and inspired. Suffice it to say that in American nursing there has been one Carolyn Williams, and what a brilliant, generous energy she has been to her profession and her nation.