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| Dr. Dorothy L. Pethel |
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Dorothy L. Pethel received her associate's degree from Valley College in
1953 where she completed the school's licensed vocational nursing program.
Subsequently, she shifted her educational and career goals from vocational
to professional nursing, earning an associate's degree in registered nursing
at Riverside City College, a bachelor's of science degree in nursing at
California State University, Los Angeles, an M. A. at California State University,
Sacramento, and a Ph.D in health education at California National University.
Pethel joined the Sierra College faculty as a vocational nursing instructor
in 1969 and subsequently became the college's Director of Vocational Nursing
(1979-1986). She assumed the position of Director of Nursing and Health
Sciences in 1986 and continued in that capacity until her retirement in
1988. In addition, Pethel produced and directed audio-visual tapes on Death
and Dying and Heart Attack and published articles on subjects in the field
of public health and nursing. Since retiring from Sierra College, she works
as a Licensed Marriage, Family and Child Counselor and as a freelance writer.
Dr. Pethel was inducted into the Valley College Alumni Hall of Fame in 1989.
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