Contributions (or gifts), dues and fees to IANA are not tax deductible as charitable contributions for federal income tax purposes. However, payments may be deductible as ordinary business expenses.

6% of your AANA dues payment is not deductable for lobbying expenses. This percentage only applies to the Illinois portion of your dues and does not include the percentage that AANA provides for its lobbying expenses.

Contributions (or gifts), dues and fees to IANA are not tax deductible as charitable contributions for federal income tax purposes. However, payments may be deductible as ordinary business expenses.

6% of your AANA dues payment is not deductable for lobbying expenses. This percentage only applies to the Illinois portion of your dues and does not include the percentage that AANA provides for its lobbying expenses.

Are you a SRNA interested in applying for a scholarship? Are you a CRNA who wants to nominate a colleage for an award? Or are you a CRNA interested in receiving a research grant? If you answered yes to any of those questions, please go to the AANA Foundation website for a chance to earn up to $14,000!

Are you a SRNA interested in applying for a scholarship? Are you a CRNA who wants to nominate a colleage for an award? Or are you a CRNA interested in receiving a research grant? If you answered yes to any of those questions, please go to the AANA Foundation website for a chance to earn up to $14,000!

Mattilou Sexton Catchpole, Ph.D., CRNA - 1923-2012

Mattilou Sexton Catchpole, PhD, CRNA, Professor Emerita at the University of Illinois, Springfield, died March 24, 2012 in Mineral Ridge, Ohio at age 88, from Alzheimer’s disease.  Her husband, Kenneth Catchpole preceded her in death on January 24, 2004.  She was born on Halloween day in Chicago to Floyd Sexton and Nancy Garred Sexton, but grew up in Texarkana, Arkansas.  She was a daughter of liberal parents who reported a lynching and were actively involved in the Arkansas civil rights movement.  Dr. Catchpole supported social justice, equal education opportunities, and equal rights for all.

Having skipped a few grades, she entered college at age 16 and studied nursing prior to enlisting in the Army Air Force in 1945.  She served as a medical technician stateside, administering to wounded soldiers.  Although Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome had not been named yet, she learned to awaken a soldier by shaking his foot and learned the importance of quiet conversations and touch.

After the war, she entered Charity School of Nursing in New Orleans to become a Registered Nurse.  She bought a sailboat and began a lifelong love affair with water, sailing on Lake Pontchartrain.  She continued on to the University Hospital School for nursing in Cleveland, Ohio, where she became a Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist (CRNA).

She worked part-time as a CRNA while raising three children and dealing with back problems resulting from an untreated injury she received as a child during the great depression.  After her second child, she was put in a body cast and told she would wear it for the rest of her life.  It took her several years to gradually wean herself from it.  She learned that swimming was excellent rehabilitation for her back.  Dr. Catchpole dealt with back problems for the rest of her life, but was determined that they would not slow her down.  Along the way, she got to know and respect many chiropractors.

One of her prouder moments during this time was giving anesthesia for artificial heart transplants at the Cleveland Clinic, which was the second hospital in the world to perform this surgery.  She also became involved with the Sierra Club and the family began canoeing and teaching in the Cleveland Sierra Club’s canoe school.  Later she helped found the Sangamon Valley, Sierra Club’s canoe school in Illinois.  The family also joined the Cleveland International Program, hosting foreign students who were taking university courses to learn how Americans dealt with social issues.

While the children were little, Mattilou felt the need for more adult conversation, so she decided to go back to college.  She took one course per semester at Case Western Reserve University and ended up with a Bachelor’s Degree (double major in Chemistry and Biology) and a Master’s Degree in Biology.  Once she had the B.S. degree, she began teaching the chemistry and physics of anesthesia at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation School for Nurse Anesthesia.

SSU required her to finish the Ph.D. she had begun at Case Western Reserve, so she made the long drive to Southern Illinois University and acquired a Ph.D. in Health Education in 1983.  Dr. Catchpole became Director of the Nurse Anesthesia Program and Nurse Anesthesia Completion Program at SSU.  After the Nurse Anesthesia Program closed, she joined the Women’s Studies Program and taught the ever-popular course, “Your Body, an Owner’s Manual,” as well as many others, usually with some health emphasis. Dr. Catchpole published over 14 articles in peer-reviewed journals during this time, while maintaining her CRNA certification by doing some anesthesia at area hospitals each year.

While a professor, she became very active in a number of organizations.  Dr. Catchpole was President of the Illinois Association of Nurse Anesthetists (IANA) from 1983-’84 and Director of the American Association of Nurse Anesthetists (AANA) from 1985-‘87.  When the AANA passed a requirement that nurse anesthetists who had been out of practice for a certain number of years must pass a recertification exam, Dr. Catchpole saw the need for a recertification program and began the Nurse Anesthesia Refresher Program (NARP), the first program of its type in America.  NARP was a highly successful distance learning course (1983-2008) that provided the information needed to pass the recertification exam.  In 1999, Dr. Catchpole taught the first all-online course at the University of Illinois, Springfield.

Dr. Catchpole volunteered for so many organizations, that there is not space to list them.  But her life changed in 1990, when she volunteered to go to Costa Rica to evaluate clinical anesthesia practices there and to recommend improvements.  While there, she also gave pharmacology lectures at the university and hospitals.  This inspired her to look for further opportunities to improve the quality of medical care overseas and led to her work with Health Volunteers Overseas (HVO).  HVO became her volunteer passion for ten years.  She took near-annual trips overseas as Co-Director of the HVO Anesthesia programs in Kampala, Uganda and Asmara, Eritrea, and as Director of the HVO Anesthesia program in Georgetown, Guyana. The intent of each of these programs was to create ongoing educational programs that could be run by the local people in the future. 

Sometimes the issues were daunting.  In Uganda, the nursing students did not have access to the medical library.  When Dr. Catchpole discovered this, she marched the students into the library, told the staff that the library was for everyone and that they were to provide assistance to the students, just like they would for doctors.  She then informed the university that this is how it must be, and succeeded.  When she went back in 2002, students still had library access. 

Another life-changing event occurred in 1995.  Dr. Catchpole attended the Fourth International United Nation’s Meeting on Women, representing the Women’s Studies Program at the University of Illinois, Springfield.  She felt the Platform of Action that was developed there and later adopted by many countries, moved the world closer to equality for women.  The Chinese government tried to isolate the attendees, providing them with tour guides that restricted their movement and kept them eating and traveling apart from others.  On the third night, Dr. Catchpole angered the guides by informing them that she was going to walk in the park before breakfast.  They said she couldn’t do this, because she must be ready to leave at 8 A.M.  She assured them that she would be ready at 8, but until then “my body is mine.” 

Another activity in China was surveying other participants.  Dr. Catchpole realized that participants would be spending hours on public transport every day during the Conference, so she developed a survey to give to attendants during travel time.  Dr. Catchpole became concerned when Chinese observers became interested in her survey and asked to take her picture and for her to sign a postcard, so she let other attendees know to watch out for her and make sure she didn’t disappear.  However, there were no problems and the Chinese did not interfere with anyone leaving.

Dr. Catchpole will be missed by the many people her life touched: students, colleagues, friends and family.  And she was much honored by the people she touched, receiving numerous awards for her hard work and dedication.  She was the first recipient of the Naomi B. Lynn Award for Outstanding Contribution to Women at UIS in 1997.  No more will the sight of a gray car with a kayak on top announce her presence to the community. Survivors include: children Julia Ann (Robert) Catchpole, Youngstown, Ohio; Nancy Catchpole Ikeda, New York, New York; and Floyd (Janine) Catchpole, Joliet, Illinois; and eight grandchildren and seven great grandchildren. She is also survived by a sister, Sally Sexton Trottman of Denver, Colorado and brother U.A. Garred Sexton of Los Angeles, California.

Nancy Anne Walsh, 57, of South Beloit, IL, died Thursday, January 26, 2012 in OSF St. Anthony Medical Center, Rockford, IL.

She was born October 8, 1954 in Chicago, IL, the daughter of Albert and Marian (Slusinski) Neuman. Nancy received her nursing degree from St. Mary of Nazareth School of Nursing, Chicago, IL and later went on to receive her degree as a nurse anesthetist. She married Christopher Walsh on July 23, 1988 in Chicago, IL.

Nancy was employed as a Registered Nurse Anesthetist with Rockford Anesthesiology and Associates until her illness in 2007.

Helen Louise Lewis, 88, of Jacksonville, passed away on Sunday, Jan. 22, 2012, at Heritage Healthcare in Jacksonville.

Mrs. Lewis was a registered nurse anesthetist and served as head of the Anesthetist Department at Passavant Hospital for over 20 years. She also worked for Worldwide Anesthesia providing relief anesthetics throughout the country, including Native American Reservation Hospitals. Additionally, she owned and operated Allergy Lab in Jacksonville, providing treatment for patients suffering from allergies and environmental diseases.
 

Mattilou Sexton Catchpole, Ph.D., CRNA - 1923-2012

Mattilou Sexton Catchpole, PhD, CRNA, Professor Emerita at the University of Illinois, Springfield, died March 24, 2012 in Mineral Ridge, Ohio at age 88, from Alzheimer’s disease.  Her husband, Kenneth Catchpole preceded her in death on January 24, 2004.  She was born on Halloween day in Chicago to Floyd Sexton and Nancy Garred Sexton, but grew up in Texarkana, Arkansas.  She was a daughter of liberal parents who reported a lynching and were actively involved in the Arkansas civil rights movement.  Dr. Catchpole supported social justice, equal education opportunities, and equal rights for all.

Having skipped a few grades, she entered college at age 16 and studied nursing prior to enlisting in the Army Air Force in 1945.  She served as a medical technician stateside, administering to wounded soldiers.  Although Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome had not been named yet, she learned to awaken a soldier by shaking his foot and learned the importance of quiet conversations and touch.

After the war, she entered Charity School of Nursing in New Orleans to become a Registered Nurse.  She bought a sailboat and began a lifelong love affair with water, sailing on Lake Pontchartrain.  She continued on to the University Hospital School for nursing in Cleveland, Ohio, where she became a Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist (CRNA).

She worked part-time as a CRNA while raising three children and dealing with back problems resulting from an untreated injury she received as a child during the great depression.  After her second child, she was put in a body cast and told she would wear it for the rest of her life.  It took her several years to gradually wean herself from it.  She learned that swimming was excellent rehabilitation for her back.  Dr. Catchpole dealt with back problems for the rest of her life, but was determined that they would not slow her down.  Along the way, she got to know and respect many chiropractors.

One of her prouder moments during this time was giving anesthesia for artificial heart transplants at the Cleveland Clinic, which was the second hospital in the world to perform this surgery.  She also became involved with the Sierra Club and the family began canoeing and teaching in the Cleveland Sierra Club’s canoe school.  Later she helped found the Sangamon Valley, Sierra Club’s canoe school in Illinois.  The family also joined the Cleveland International Program, hosting foreign students who were taking university courses to learn how Americans dealt with social issues.

While the children were little, Mattilou felt the need for more adult conversation, so she decided to go back to college.  She took one course per semester at Case Western Reserve University and ended up with a Bachelor’s Degree (double major in Chemistry and Biology) and a Master’s Degree in Biology.  Once she had the B.S. degree, she began teaching the chemistry and physics of anesthesia at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation School for Nurse Anesthesia.

SSU required her to finish the Ph.D. she had begun at Case Western Reserve, so she made the long drive to Southern Illinois University and acquired a Ph.D. in Health Education in 1983.  Dr. Catchpole became Director of the Nurse Anesthesia Program and Nurse Anesthesia Completion Program at SSU.  After the Nurse Anesthesia Program closed, she joined the Women’s Studies Program and taught the ever-popular course, “Your Body, an Owner’s Manual,” as well as many others, usually with some health emphasis. Dr. Catchpole published over 14 articles in peer-reviewed journals during this time, while maintaining her CRNA certification by doing some anesthesia at area hospitals each year.

While a professor, she became very active in a number of organizations.  Dr. Catchpole was President of the Illinois Association of Nurse Anesthetists (IANA) from 1983-’84 and Director of the American Association of Nurse Anesthetists (AANA) from 1985-‘87.  When the AANA passed a requirement that nurse anesthetists who had been out of practice for a certain number of years must pass a recertification exam, Dr. Catchpole saw the need for a recertification program and began the Nurse Anesthesia Refresher Program (NARP), the first program of its type in America.  NARP was a highly successful distance learning course (1983-2008) that provided the information needed to pass the recertification exam.  In 1999, Dr. Catchpole taught the first all-online course at the University of Illinois, Springfield.

Dr. Catchpole volunteered for so many organizations, that there is not space to list them.  But her life changed in 1990, when she volunteered to go to Costa Rica to evaluate clinical anesthesia practices there and to recommend improvements.  While there, she also gave pharmacology lectures at the university and hospitals.  This inspired her to look for further opportunities to improve the quality of medical care overseas and led to her work with Health Volunteers Overseas (HVO).  HVO became her volunteer passion for ten years.  She took near-annual trips overseas as Co-Director of the HVO Anesthesia programs in Kampala, Uganda and Asmara, Eritrea, and as Director of the HVO Anesthesia program in Georgetown, Guyana. The intent of each of these programs was to create ongoing educational programs that could be run by the local people in the future. 

Sometimes the issues were daunting.  In Uganda, the nursing students did not have access to the medical library.  When Dr. Catchpole discovered this, she marched the students into the library, told the staff that the library was for everyone and that they were to provide assistance to the students, just like they would for doctors.  She then informed the university that this is how it must be, and succeeded.  When she went back in 2002, students still had library access. 

Another life-changing event occurred in 1995.  Dr. Catchpole attended the Fourth International United Nation’s Meeting on Women, representing the Women’s Studies Program at the University of Illinois, Springfield.  She felt the Platform of Action that was developed there and later adopted by many countries, moved the world closer to equality for women.  The Chinese government tried to isolate the attendees, providing them with tour guides that restricted their movement and kept them eating and traveling apart from others.  On the third night, Dr. Catchpole angered the guides by informing them that she was going to walk in the park before breakfast.  They said she couldn’t do this, because she must be ready to leave at 8 A.M.  She assured them that she would be ready at 8, but until then “my body is mine.” 

Another activity in China was surveying other participants.  Dr. Catchpole realized that participants would be spending hours on public transport every day during the Conference, so she developed a survey to give to attendants during travel time.  Dr. Catchpole became concerned when Chinese observers became interested in her survey and asked to take her picture and for her to sign a postcard, so she let other attendees know to watch out for her and make sure she didn’t disappear.  However, there were no problems and the Chinese did not interfere with anyone leaving.

Dr. Catchpole will be missed by the many people her life touched: students, colleagues, friends and family.  And she was much honored by the people she touched, receiving numerous awards for her hard work and dedication.  She was the first recipient of the Naomi B. Lynn Award for Outstanding Contribution to Women at UIS in 1997.  No more will the sight of a gray car with a kayak on top announce her presence to the community. Survivors include: children Julia Ann (Robert) Catchpole, Youngstown, Ohio; Nancy Catchpole Ikeda, New York, New York; and Floyd (Janine) Catchpole, Joliet, Illinois; and eight grandchildren and seven great grandchildren. She is also survived by a sister, Sally Sexton Trottman of Denver, Colorado and brother U.A. Garred Sexton of Los Angeles, California.

Nancy Anne Walsh, 57, of South Beloit, IL, died Thursday, January 26, 2012 in OSF St. Anthony Medical Center, Rockford, IL.

She was born October 8, 1954 in Chicago, IL, the daughter of Albert and Marian (Slusinski) Neuman. Nancy received her nursing degree from St. Mary of Nazareth School of Nursing, Chicago, IL and later went on to receive her degree as a nurse anesthetist. She married Christopher Walsh on July 23, 1988 in Chicago, IL.

Nancy was employed as a Registered Nurse Anesthetist with Rockford Anesthesiology and Associates until her illness in 2007.

Helen Louise Lewis, 88, of Jacksonville, passed away on Sunday, Jan. 22, 2012, at Heritage Healthcare in Jacksonville.

Mrs. Lewis was a registered nurse anesthetist and served as head of the Anesthetist Department at Passavant Hospital for over 20 years. She also worked for Worldwide Anesthesia providing relief anesthetics throughout the country, including Native American Reservation Hospitals. Additionally, she owned and operated Allergy Lab in Jacksonville, providing treatment for patients suffering from allergies and environmental diseases.