LEWISTON — The Central Maine Medical Center College of Nursing and Health Professions graduated 49 nursing students in a ceremony at the Franco-American Heritage Center.

Having successfully completed the two-year nursing education program, the graduates were awarded associate degrees in the applied science of nursing. Erin Elizabeth Cady of Mechanic Falls and Sherryann St. Pierre of New Gloucester were named to the honor list. A number of graduating students received awards during the ceremony.

Cady was honored with the CMMC Board of Trustees Award, presented to the student who exhibits excellence in delivering nursing care. The recipient demonstrates gentleness, independence, understanding, caring, compassion and love in communicating with and caring for people. She was also presented the CONHP President’s Award for the senior student attaining the highest academic achievement.

St. Pierre was the winner of the Central Maine General Hospital-CMMC College of Nursing Alumni Association Award. The winner is chosen by members of the graduating class as the person they would most like to care for themselves or their family. She also garnered a CMMC Medical Staff Award for Excellence in Nursing for her work in pediatric nursing.

Erin Nancy Dodd of Naples was given the Samuel L. Singer and Ruth Small Award. This award is presented to a student who will become a credit to herself and her profession, who shows pride as a representative of the CMMC CONHP and who maintains good academic standing.

The Mary Ann Strout Memorial Award was presented to Rose Mary Poirier of Peru.

Winners of the CMMC Medical Staff Awards for Excellence in Nursing included Isabelle Babette Troadec of Greene, mental health nursing.

Other area students comprising the class of 2011 are Craig William Bender, Rachael Lee Lewis, Gail Ashley Palmer and Melanie Ruth Siegle, all of Auburn; Stacey Michele Wheeler, Bowdoin; Kelly Lynn Danielson, Buckfield; Michelle Denise Howard, Chesterville; Katherine Teresa Perkins and Victoria E. Triffin, Durham; Susan Frances Sebestyen, Gray; Ashlee Marie Madore, Greene; Bonnie Annola Trundy, Hebron; Lisa Jean Marshall, Hiram; Barbara B. Grant, Leeds; Lindsey Beth Anderson, Jamie Dawn Bannister, Eliza Ellen Burke, Ashley Marie Cioffa-Orr, Shannon Louise Craig, Lisa Marie Girouard, Adrianne Lee Mercier, Joshua Stephen Peters, Kasey Lynn Smith and Jordan Michael Stewart, all of Lewiston; Denise MarieDeAngelis, Lisbon; Lynne Marie Decesere, Lovell; Nicole Elizabeth Nason, Minot; Erin Elyse Swett, New Gloucester; Rebecca Lynn Leighton, Poland; Nicole Marie Roberts, South Paris; and Ryan James Berube, Christina Marie Lavoie and Cheri Kim Gagnon, all of Turner. 

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