May 2005 | Vol. 23, No. 5

Five Scholarships Awarded for SVU 28th Annual Conference in Chicago

Thanks to a generous $5,000 educational grant from Philips Ultrasound, Bothell, WA, SVU was able to award five $1,000 scholarships to five SVU members to attend the SVU 28th Annual Conference in Chicago, June 16-18, at the Hyatt Regency Chicago Hotel.

Earlier this year in an article in the February 2005 issue of the e-Spectrum online member newsletter, SVU members — who wanted to go to the Chicago Annual Conference but couldn’t afford to do so on their own — were invited to submit to the SVU national office by March 31, 2005 an essay of 350 words or less explaining why SVU should award them one of these $1,000 scholarships to the 2005 SVU Annual Conference.

In mid-April a panel of judges — Chair Judy Fried and SVU Fellows Kathy Carter, Pat Marques, and Donna Blackburn — met by conference call to discuss each of the 23 essays received and to determine the top 5 winning essay writers who each would receive from SVU a $1,000 scholarship check, funded by the generous $5,000 educational grant from Philips Ultrasound, to attend the Chicago Annual Conference.

The five SVU members who wrote the five selected AC essays and who each received a $1,000 scholarship to attend the SVU Annual Conference in Chicago are:

• Dusty Filliung, BSN, RN, RVT of Ann Arbor, MI
• Martin Orloski, RVT of Saint Albans, ME
• Laura Roper, LPN, RVT of Seffner, FL
• Suzanne Wilson, PA, AD, RVT of Bradenton, FL, and
• Colette Wilkey, RVT of Battle Creek, MI.

The five essays writers, who must register for and attend the SVU AC in Chicago, will use the $1,000 scholarship to help pay for their AC registration fee, travel expenses, hotel room expenses and meal expenses.

Special thanks again to Philips Ultrasound for their $5,000 educational grant which funded this SVU Annual Conference scholarship opportunity this year. SVU hopes to do this again next year and maybe offer even more scholarships to the 2006 SVU Annual Conference in Philadelphia, June 1-3, 2006, at the Philadelphia Convention Center.