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Honoring a Colleague: Wendy Shupp

5/1/2015

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Yesterday, I was pleased to be included on the guest list for a former colleague's retirement.

How I happened to be included illustrates that retiring puts one out of sight and out of mind.  In any event, I ran into another faculty member in a store.  She assumed I'd been invited and mentioned she'd see me at the party on Thursday.  The resulting conversation resulted in the invite. 

Wendy Shupp, one of the faculty members who provided my orientation by fire--don't judge harshly because that's how it was back then--was the guest of honor.  She taught at Broward College for 33 years, taught nursing a total of 45 years, has been a nurse for 50 years, and rose to the rank of Senior Professor.  That's huge in terms of knowledge, skill, and experience.  It is also huge in terms of departmental history, legacy, and continuity.

Not only did Wendy participate in my orientation, she helped orient me to my role as full-time faculty when I moved into that position.  I could always rely on her to review an exam, help with a disciplinary issue, explain a policy, or offer sage advice about committee responsibilities or accreditation.

I'm delighted to welcome Wendy into the ranks of retired nursing faculty.  Knowing her plans—hopefully she'll sign on and provide that information—I suspect she'll provide her own orientation by fire to retirement.

To me it means that yet another link is severed and another punctuation mark is added to the you-can-never-go-back mantra. Things change.  That's good.  Things change.  That's sad.  (Don't interpret this as my saying I miss my teaching responsibilities.  I don't—well maybe 1 % of the time.  I miss people, and I miss payday, but I enjoy this phase of my life.)

Later.

GEB

14 Comments
Barbara Sherman
5/1/2015 11:01:23 am

Nice tribute Gregg! Slowly North Campus as we knew it is disappearing

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Gregg E. Brickman
5/1/2015 11:53:10 am

Time marches on, as do we. 😃

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Mary Costantino
5/1/2015 11:05:19 am

Congratulations, Wendy, and thank you for all you have contributed to the Nursing profession.

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gregg
5/1/2015 11:53:51 am

thanks for commenting.

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Great tribute Gregg. You are still the best and greatly missed
5/1/2015 11:20:35 am

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Gregg
5/1/2015 11:54:24 am

Thank you.

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Jennifer Lunny
5/1/2015 12:27:09 pm

Yes North Campus has changed! I miss all my buddies!

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Gregg
5/1/2015 12:45:39 pm

That's why we need to go out to lunch. I liked the Greek place. :-)

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Wendy Shupp
5/1/2015 03:57:22 pm

Thank you Gregg. That was so very special. Wonderful to see you yesterday and discuss the 99% good things about retirement. I will certainly miss teaching and my awese colleagues but I'm ready for a new routine and some new adventures. We will certainly have to have BC nursing faculty reunions - I'll even do the Greek food. Love to all and farewell till I return

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Gregg
5/2/2015 01:15:08 am

😀 Better stay tuned. People are posting messages for you.😀

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Ron Attaway
10/28/2020 11:50:35 pm

Are you the Wendy Shupp, former FJC instructor?

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Tracy Walsh
5/1/2015 09:50:16 pm

Good luck Prof. Shupp and congrats!! Enjoy! Well deserved! I'm still working on CSCU at BHN!

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gregg
5/2/2015 01:16:11 am

Thanks for posting.

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Stephanie Levine
5/2/2015 05:56:32 pm

A lovely tribute. Wishing Wendy the best.retirement is a wonderful thing!

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