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MARNIE
AND KERN WILDENTHAL, M.D, PH.D. TO RECEIVE 4th ANNUAL VIRGINIA
CHANDLER DYKES LEADERSHIP AWARD, PRESENTED BY TEXAS WOMAN’S
UNIVERSITY
Award honors
Dallas leaders with a lifelong commitment to improving the
quality of life in the community and to furthering the importance
of education
1/25/06
DALLAS —
Marnie and
Kern Wildenthal, M.D., Ph.D. will receive the 4TH Annual Virginia
Chandler Dykes Leadership Award, presented by Texas Woman’s
University on Thursday, Feb. 2, 2006, at noon, at the Dallas
Country Club, 4100 Beverly Dr.
Established in
2002, the Virginia Chandler Dykes Leadership Award is given
annually to Dallas leaders with a lifelong commitment to improving
the quality of life in the community and to furthering the
importance of education. The award recognizes the life work
of Virginia Chandler Dykes as an outstanding health care provider,
whose professional and civic achievements represent a lifetime
committed to helping others. Past award recipients are Gretchen
Minyard Williams and J.L. “Sonny” Williams, 2005;
Geraldine “Tincy” Miller, 2004; and Susan and
Charles Cooper, 2003.
“Texas Woman’s
University is so pleased to honor two such distinguished individuals,
whose combined commitments to education excellence and improving
the lives of others have made a lasting impact on this community
and beyond,” said TWU Chancellor and President Dr. Ann
Stuart, who will present the award.
Marnie and Kern
Wildenthal’s collaborative work in the community has
significantly impacted this region’s educational and
health care institutions. For the past 25 years, Marnie Wildenthal
has been a teacher at the Episcopal School of Dallas. She
is currently president of the TACA Board of Directors and
president-elect of Charter 100. A graduate of Rice University,
Mrs. Wildenthal earned a M.A.T. from the University of Chicago,
and an M.A. from SMU. Kern Wildenthal, M.D., Ph.D., is the
president of The University of Texas Southwestern Medical
Center Dallas. Prior to becoming president in 1986, he served
as dean of the medical school for six years. He first joined
the staff in 1970 as assistant professor of internal medicine
and physiology. During his administrative tenure, UT Southwestern
has more than quadrupled in size and emerged as one of the
leading medical institutions in the world.
A graduate of Sul
Ross College, Dr. Wildenthal earned an M.D. from The University
of Texas Southwestern Medical Center of Dallas and a Ph.D.
from the University of Cambridge in England, where he later
was named to its international Advisory Board and elected
to an Honorary Fellowship. His medical and educational accomplishments
have garnered him international honors, including election
to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences.
As dedicated arts
supporters and civic leaders, Dr. and Mrs. Wildenthal have
collectively held key roles in The Dallas Opera, Dallas Symphony
Orchestra, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas Business Committee
for the Arts, Greater Dallas Chamber of Commerce, Dallas Citizens
Council, Dallas Assembly, Vickery Meadow Learning Center,
Friends of WRR, Science Place, and Dallas Center for the Performing
Arts. The Wildenthals have two daughters, Pamela (Mrs. Steven
G. Kernie) and Catharine (Mrs. Steven A. Cummer), and five
grandchildren.
“Marnie and
I are touched and grateful to receive this distinguished honor
named for such an outstanding woman, whose life work in Occupational
Therapy is known both nationally and internationally,”
said Dr. Kern Wildenthal. “It is with a spirit of celebration
of higher education and collaboration and, in Marnie’s
case, a celebration of the mutual dependence partnership between
schools like Episcopal School of Dallas preparing students
for success at institutions like TWU, that we are pleased
to accept.”
This award’s
namesake, Virginia Chandler Dykes, has spent a lifetime committed
to helping others through her work as a health care provider
and numerous civic activities. She is known internationally
for her work in occupational therapy. Locally, she is known
for her leadership in many cultural and charitable organizations.
In 2005 she was appointed by Gov. Rick Perry to serve on the
Texas Woman’s University Board of Regents.
“I am so
very honored to have Marnie and Kern accept this award,”
said Virginia Chandler Dykes. “It means so much to TWU.
These are two tremendously outstanding people whose accomplishments
and dedication to this community have literally been life-changing
for countless individuals.”
Mrs. Dykes completed
the graduate occupational therapy program at TWU in 1954 after
earning her bachelor of arts in art and psychology from Southern
Methodist University. She was the director of the Occupational
and Recreational Therapy Department at Baylor University Medical
Center for 27 years, and she has served on the board of directors
for Baylor Health Care Systems Foundation. She also founded
the Boomerang Club, the first support group for stroke patients
and their families. She is well known for her leadership in
organizations such as the Dallas Arboretum, The Dallas Opera,
the Fort Worth Opera, Theatre Three, and many more.
Mrs. Dykes and her husband Roland also helped to establish
the Fanny B. Vanderkooi Endowed Lectureship for the School
of Occupational Therapy at TWU, which has grown to be one
of the premier continuing education offerings in Texas. In
2002, she established The Virginia Chandler Dykes endowed
scholarship fund for occupational therapy students, which
has been extended this year to include a graduate level nursing
scholarship. Recipients of the two $1,500 scholarships must
be successful TWU graduates students in the designated fields
of Occupational Therapy and Nursing, with strong potential
to contribute to these professions and demonstrated commitments
to their vocations.
The recipient of
the 2006 Virginia Chandler Dykes Leadership Award Scholarship
for Occupational Therapy is Gail Poskey. Gail Poskey, B.S.,
M.O.T., is a doctoral student in Occupational Therapy at TWU,
focusing on pediatrics with a research emphasis on injury
and violence prevention, specifically the prevention of Shaken
Baby Syndrome. Upon completion of her degree in 2007, she
plans to become more involved in academia – teaching
and/or conducting research. Poskey recently celebrated her
15th year anniversary of working at Baylor University Medical
Center, where she is currently a Senior Occupational Therapist
in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. Poskey received her Bachelor
of Science Degree in Health Care Administration from East
Central Oklahoma State and her Master’s in Occupational
Therapy from TWU.
The first recipient
of the Virginia Chandler Dykes Leadership Award Scholarship
for Nursing is Patrice Caldwell. Patrice D. Caldwell, BSN,
is a graduate student in the College of Nursing at Texas Woman’s
University in the subject of Nursing Education with plans
to complete her degree in the fall of 2006. Caldwell’s
chosen area of focus is pediatrics as well as community health.
Presently she is a school nurse at Universal Academy, a charter
school in Irving, Texas, where she cares for children, ages
3 to 17. In addition to her current studies at TWU, she is
assisting Susan Sheriff, Ph.D., R.N., Associate Professor
of Nursing, in teaching practicum in simulation activities
and community health classes for undergraduate nursing students.
Caldwell currently maintains a 3.4 grade point average. Caldwell
received her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Indiana University
in 2000. She is a single mom with three children: Sylvester,
18, Ruth, 15, and Rochelle, 5.
The Virginia Chandler
Dykes Luncheon Advisory Committee members are Joel Allison,
Dr. and Mrs. Lawrence Barzune, April Box, Sis Carr, Howard
Chase, Louise Gartner, Ebby Halliday Acers, Doug Hawthorne,
Caroline Rose Hunt, and Mr. and Mrs. Martin J. Weiland.
Sponsors include:
Platinum: Baylor Health Care System, Sis Carr, Mr. and Mrs.
Roland Dykes, and University of Texas at Dallas; Gold: Geraldine
“Tincy” Miller, Ebby Halliday, Realtors, JPS Health
Network - Partners Together for Health, Minyard Founders Foundation,
Mr. and Mrs. Peter O’Donnell & Mr. and Mrs. Duncan
Boeckman; Silver: CIGNA HealthCare, Communities Foundation
of Texas, Episcopal School of Dallas, Inc. and UT Southwestern
Medical Center, The Hirsch Family Foundation, Methodist Health
System, Northern Trust, Deedie and Rusty Rose, Mr. and Mrs.
William T. Solomon, Tenet Healthcare Corporation, Texas Health
Resources, Texas Woman’s University - Chancellor, TWU’s
Institute for Women’s Health/College of Health Sciences,
and TWU’s College of Nursing, Sharon Venable; and Patron:
Mrs. Kirtman C. Anton, Dr. and Mrs. Ronald R. Blanck, C.M.
and Eunice Bonar, David Burgher, Sr., Cissy and Plack Carr,
Jr., Ron L. Chandler, Chuck L. Chandler, Christian F. Clausen,
Patti Cody, Patricia Cowlishaw, Patricia and Rad Crocker,
Diana P. Cunningham, Ph.D., Mr. and Mrs. William A. Custard,
The Dallas Opera, Lyra and Ed Daniels, Dr. and Mrs. Jewel
S. Daughety, Arlene and John Dayton, James R. Dykes, Jr.,
Mrs. Richard D. Eiseman, Joanne M. Fay, Louise Gartner, Carol
Glendenning, Abe and Barbara Goldfarb, Mr. and Mrs. James
W. Goss, Kelly Green, Carolyn S. Gunning, Ph.D., Nancy Strauss
Halbreich, Mrs. T.A. Hamra, Dr. Linda H. Hester, Kaki Hopkins,
Mr. and Mrs. Allen Huffhines, Linda R. Hughes, M.D., Robert
L. Hull and Myra Barker Hull, Caroline Rose Hunt – The
Rosewood Corporation, Linda and Steve Ivy, Ken Klaveness-Bank
of Texas, David G. Luther, Dr. Jennifer Martin, Tom and Phyllis
McCasland, Victoria A. McGillin, Ph.D., Carl and Patricia
McKee, Nancy M. O’Neil, Mildred M. Oppenheimer, Kenney
Marie Pickens, Tegwin Pulley, Glenda Brock Simmons, Ann Q.
Staton, Sharon and Jack Tolbert, Mr. and Mrs. Jere W. Thompson,
Dr. and Mrs. G. Weldon Tillery, and Ann Williams.
Individual tickets
are $100 and patron tickets (name in program) are $150. Sponsorships
are available.
For more information,
contact TWU Development Officer Sheila Marlow, at 940-898-3865
or smarlow@mail.twu.edu.
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Woman's University is a public university located in Denton,
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decade, TWU has earned a reputation for graduating outstanding
women and, since 1972, outstanding men. TWU offers a comprehensive
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and doctoral degrees. Now in its tenth decade, the University
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