PORTLAND – Christie Erin Darcy of Harrison graduated with a bachelor of science in nursing from the University of Southern Maine in Portland on May 10. She is a graduate of Oxford Hills Comprehensive High School where she was a member of the National Honor Society, involved in student counsel, co-captain of soccer team and involved in community service work.

While at OHCHS, Darcy received the Nursing Student of the Year Award in the Allied Health Program her senior year. Upon completion of that program, she worked as a certified nurses assistant at the Maine Veterans Home, Clover Health Care and most recently in the Bridgton Hospital Emergency Department.

Darcy completed her nursing training and internship at Central Maine Medical Center, St. Mary’s Regional Medical Center, Maine Medical Center and Barbara Bush Children’s Hospital.

She graduated on the dean’s list with a 3.85 grade point average in her final semester. She was active in the Student Nurses Association, serving as secretary for three years and planning community service activities, fundraisers and the pinning ceremony for the graduates of USM nursing program at the Abromson Community Education Center on the Portland campus.

Darcy is the daughter of Ruth and Michael Darcy of Harrison. She was pinned by her mother, Ruth, an RN for the past 33 years as an operating room nurse at Bridgton Hospital. Darcy plans to begin her nursing career at Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston this summer.