From left, PEF Region 12 Coordinator Bill Holthausen, 2023 PEF Convention nursing scholarship winners Lauren Gross, State Insurance Fund, and Joane Phanord, Pilgrim Psychiatric Center, and PEF Statewide Nurses Committee Chair Amy Lee Pacholk. Absent from picture is scholarship winner Jared Majeed, SUNY Stony Brook.
From left, PEF Region 12 Coordinator Bill Holthausen, 2023 PEF Convention nursing scholarship winners Lauren Gross, State Insurance Fund, and Joane Phanord, Pilgrim Psychiatric Center, and PEF Statewide Nurses Committee Chair Amy Lee Pacholk. Absent from picture is scholarship winner Jared Majeed, SUNY Stony Brook.

January 11, 2024 — At the 2022 PEF Convention, the Statewide Nurses Committee raffled baskets to raise money for scholarships that were presented at the 2023 Convention in Syracuse. 

The raffle yielded $1,200 and each of the three randomly selected recipients received $400. In order to be eligible, entrants needed to attend Convention, and show proof of attendance in an advanced nursing curriculum.