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Member Profiles
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I am currently an RN Manager at Zurich Insurance Co....working with approximately 50 RNs who do telephonic nurse case management for workers compensation clients throughout the U.S. We have a great group of professional women who have many years of experience in hospital and home care nursing. As I have had a number of years of nurse case management and insurance work in my background, I have really enjoyed expanding these nurses professional capabilities.
I went to nursing school in Denver as a second career, graduating in 1981, and working at Swedish in ICU and on the neurosurgery floor. Prior to that I worked as an Interior Designer, utilizing my degree from University of NE (1969).
My folks still live in Denver...along with one daughter - recently married who is a 2nd grade teacher in Castle Rock. My Dad is a retired Army Colonel - growing up we traveled all over the world...I graduated from High School in Tehran, Iran - and we just had our first High School reunion last summer in Las Vegas (15 out of a class of 50 in the class of 1965...had a great time!). Our oldest daughter is a Lieutenant in the Air Force stationed in California.
After college in 1969, I joined the Red Cross and spent a year in Vietnam as a Recreation worker.....an incredible year. I met my husband in Cu Chi, Vietnam at the Barf Lounge (still happily married after all these years). Many of the Red Cross Donut Dollies are women with whom I remain friends, and I belong to an organization called American Red Cross Overseas Association...6 of us are having a girls getaway in Cancun this year.
I love to cook...garden (each year buying a number of plants which the deer eat)...shop, and of course travel. I still enjoy the interior design field - and helping friends out. Our friends are outgoing...partiers who like to eat, travel, and enjoy life. This year Jerry and I will go to the Caribbean in May...and Italy in Sept.
I heard about Zonta through Kate Brewster. Enhancing the status of women is something I do in my present job, and Zonta provides opportunities to expand that spectrum both locally and internationally. We have lived in Colorado Springs for the past 7 years, and Zonta also has given me an opportunity to meet professional women outside my work...I hope to contribute to Zonta by utilizing my organizational skills, and continuing to assist with fund raising opportunities.
Treating people as I like to be treated....is one of my guiding principles...a positive attitude and enjoying life are so important..because we are not here that long!