USC Nursing loses founder (The State)


When the 16 new fellows of the Amy V. Cockcroft Nursing Leadership Development Program arrive at USC today, they’ll be the first class in the 11-year-old program that will not be welcomed by the matriarch of the university’s 50-year-old nursing school. Amy Viglione Cockcroft, the founding dean of the University of South Carolina’s College of Nursing, died Saturday at age 97. A memorial mass will ...

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