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Students inspired by outreach assembly

Posted on Mar 31, 2006

On March 29, the Lauralton community was exceptionally privileged to welcome to Lauralton Hall two remarkable women…professional nurses whose compassion and skill have been helping others, not only in Connecticut, but around the world. These women have traveled to Brazil, Peru, Columbia, Nepal, Burma, Vietnam, Philippines, Thailand, Bangladesh and other regions.

Ingrid Crocco, mother of two recent Lauralton graduates, is the charge nurse at Yale New Haven Hospital where she is also a member of the transplant team. Sheri Witkins, a staff nurse at Yale, also has experience there as a charge nurse. Both women travel around the globe with two internationally recognized surgical teams, Healing the Children and Interplast, providing life altering surgeries such as cleft lip and palate repair for the world’s children, especially those in underdeveloped countries.

These dedicated, selfless women generously gave up even more of their time to describe their experiences to Lauralton’s student body. Their work abroad is exciting, demanding and challenging. They are changing lives, one patient at a time. The students were inspired by what they saw and heard, and most were convinced that to be called a healer is to bear a holy name.

Sister Dorothy Synkewecz, RSM, presented Mrs. Crocco and Mrs. Witkins with an $800 check, Lauralton’s donation to Healing the Children. The donation was collected from students as the result of a dress down day fund raiser held on St. Patrick’s Day, March 17.



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