Coleman D. Ross
Eunice Morde Doty
School of Nursing
Endowed Scholarship
The Eunice Morde Doty Endowed Scholarship was established in 2003 by Carol M. Ross, BA ’64, RN, CNS, in tribute to her mother who was also a nurse. It is awarded to students in the School of Nursing based on academic achievement and financial need. The School of Nursing provided the following about the honoree in an article, Opening the Doors of Opportunity, in the Summer 2004 Carolina Nursing magazine.
This year undergraduate nursing students will immediately benefit from the gift that Carol Morde Ross recently made to show her deep affection and respect for her mother, Eunice Morde Doty.
Carol wanted to create a lasting tribute to honor her mother’s life with a scholarship that would enable nursing students to attend a baccalaureate degree program in the way her mother had wished to, but could not, in spite of having graduated as valedictorian of her high school class in 1936. Financial support for college was not an option for Eunice Doty during the Great Depression, yet through sheer determination she graduated from the diploma nursing program at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston in 1939.
Through the scholarship, Carol says she has found a way to tell her mother’s story – how strongly committed her mother was to the well-being of her family and to the principles of her profession – and to keep it alive into the future. She also tells us how Ms. Doty was a role-model during her 40-plus year nursing career and shares her mother’s values and ideals. Ms. Doty provided the foundation for learning and inquiry that shaped Carol’s life to prepare her to become a psychiatric clinical nurse specialist. Now Carolina nursing student-recipients will be able to tell others how the Eunice Morde Doty scholarship enabled them to attain their dreams.
In 1994, Ms. Doty moved to the Glenaire Continuing Care Retirement Community in Cary, NC. Today, she resides in the assisted living unit, provided with care and comfort by devoted and compassionate nurses like herself. Carol indicated that it was a tremendous privilege to be able to present this scholarship honoring her mother during her mother’s lifetime.
“The scholarship that I have established in my mother’s name is to express my deep love for her and to say thanks for being my mom,” says Carol. “It is also intended to acknowledge the wonderful contribution she has made to nursing and to tell the world that she was an outstanding nurse who truly cared about others.”
Eunice Morde Doty Scholarship recipients: Tneshia Sweat (’06), Danielle Lingle (’07–’08), Ryan Kerr (’09–’10), Bethany Hartness (’11), Hamda Awan (’12), Beth Coble (’13–’14), Ayan Musa (’15), Angela Johnson (’16), Tristan Jarrett (’17), Stephanie Betancur Grondona (’18—’19), Madison Heartley, Brianna Stubbs, Olivis Tseng, Maria Villafrance Espinoza (’21–’22), Nicole Dudash, Ally Fogleman, Janelle Izzard, Robert Stepniak, Olivia Tseng (’23–’24), and Joshua Jarvis, Arianna Russell, Charles White (’24–’25).
For Eunice Morde Doty’s published obituary from June 2022 click here.
For an article about Stephanie Betancur, one of the Doty scholarship recipients, published by UNC in its Graduate School Student Success in September 2020, click here.
