Northeastern Junior College Alumni Association recognizes retired faculty

NJC Alumni Association board memeber Carol Keil, right, presents the Honorary Member Award to Joleen Rinaldo, at the association's annual Awards Luncheon, Saturday, Feb. 22, 2014. (Callie Jones/Journal-Advocate)

The Honorary Member Award is given to members of the college administration and faculty who have retired. This year's recipients were Joleen Rinaldo and Darrel Parker.

Joleen Rinaldo

Rinaldo was born and raised in Pretty Prairie, Kan. She graduated from Pretty Prairie High School, where she was a member of the speech and debate teams, in 1966 and then attended Bethel College in Kansas for one year and received necessary liberal arts classes.

That summer she volunteered to work in a children's mental health facility in Pennsylvania, which created more interest in nursing. Rinaldo then attended Bethel Deaconess School of Nursing and graduated in 1970.

Her first job was a staff nurse and diabetic teaching program coordinator at what is now the Northern Colorado Medical Center.

Rinaldo moved to Sterling and was a medical surgical nurse at Sterling Regional MedCenter. She also worked as a nurse for the Northeast Colorado Health Department; Sterling Eye Center; Valley View Villa, in Fort Morgan; and as a home care staff nurse.

From 1998 to 2013 she was the secondary med-prep instructor and Health Occupations Students of America (HOSA) advisor at NJC.

Rinaldo served as secretary of the NJC Faculty Association and was a member of American and Colorado Technical Education and Health Occupations Students of America.

Under her instruction students qualified for national contests for 12 years.

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