MANCHESTER, N.H. — Ashley Giddinge of Gray graduated from Saint Anselm College on May 17, following a distinguished college career of service and leadership and earning the 2014 Student Nurse Leader Award.
The nursing major received the award in memory of Dr. Joyce Clifford, for embodying the qualities of Dr. Clifford, who was a compassionate, dedicated, visionary leader in the nursing profession, at the college’s nurse pinning ceremony on April 26.
During her four years at Saint Anselm, Giddinge was an orientation leader, captain of the women’s soccer club and led a freshmen trip to the Adirondacks.
Giddinge also recently received the Sr. Pauline Lucier Campus Ministry Award in recognition of exemplary community service and involvement in the Office of Campus Ministry. She helped develop the office’s Interval Retreat Program as a sophomore, has participated in retreats and service trips and led service trips to the Dominican Republic in 2012 and to Philadelphia in March 2014. Campus Ministry staff said Giddinge is a natural leader and a role model to many students.
As a nursing major, she completed her clinicals at various hospitals around the state including her most recent practicum experience in the intensive care unit at Catholic Medical Center in Manchester, N.H.
Giddinge has accepted a graduate position in the intensive care unit at Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston.
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