NEW LONDON, N.H. — The 2014 Grace Adella Sheldon Graves Baccalaureate Award in Nursing was awarded to Colby-Sawyer graduating senior, Brittnie Tardif.

The award is the department’s highest honor and is given to the graduating senior who best exemplifies the qualities and characteristics of a Colby-Sawyer nurse.

Tardif was chosen to receive the baccalaureate award for her consistently strong performance during her time at Colby-Sawyer. When arriving at Colby-Sawyer, she credited her family with the installation of her values which she described as essential to a nurse: caring, determination, hard-work, organization and passion. Her professors have repeatedly recognized these very qualities in Tardif’s classroom work, clinical care and mentoring of her younger colleagues in the lab, and used the words “calm” “focused” “open” and “intellectually curious” to describe her.

When she applied to the nursing major, Tardif indicated that she “seeks to better the health care system” and vowed to take the education at Colby-Sawyer and bring it back to Maine, which is exactly what she will do in her position in cardiac care at Central Maine Medical Center this summer.

Tardif is the daughter of Brenda Tardif of Auburn, Mike and Linda Tardif of Monmouth, granddaughter of Jim and Doris Daigle of Lewiston and Sonny and Silvia Tardif of Litchfield, and sister of Andrew Tardif of Auburn.

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