Donna (Stroud) Martin-Netherton:  

Updated July, 2013............ Life after CUHS.............. After graduating from CUHS in 1960, my family moved to Riverside, Ca. where I graduated from Riverside City College. In November 1961, at the age of 19, I married Russ Martin in Riverside, 7 months later I joined him in the Philippine Islands at Clark Air Force Base, where our first son, Russell Jr. was born in August, 1962; after two years overseas, we were sent to McChord AFB in Tacoma WA, where we lived until 1973. During this time, we had a second son, Del-Wayne in 1964. We were also foster parents for several years, taking care of newborns until they could be adopted. During this time, we also adopted a foster daughter , Carla, who had been physically abused as an infant. In 1969, I entered nursing school at Tacoma(Wa) General Hosp. School of Nursing and graduated in 1972 with my RN (six weeks after the birth of my 3rd son, David Scott Martin). In 1973, we moved back to Riverside, CA, where I worked in a 450 bed hospital in the Neonatal Intensive Care unit as Asst. Head Nurse- then I was promoted to 3-11 Nursing Supervisor, a position I held for the next 5 years. In 1976, I also enrolled in the first Nurse Practitioner program at Univ. of CA at San Diego and graduated in 1979. I became Board Certified as a Certified Pediatric Nurse Practitioner (CPNP) in December, 1979. I was also the first Nurse Practitioner in private practice in Riverside County. I got divorced the same year I graduated as an NP and remained single for the next 15 years, building a career and somehow, getting my four kids raised. During my career, I held several interesting NP & Administrator positions in Saudi Arabia, California, Oregon, Arizona and Iowa. In 1994, I finally settled down and married Dale Netherton (a native Iowan) who had retired after 22 years with General Mills. Dale has an...Expand for more