Awards

IU Indianapolis Spirit of Philanthropy Award - 2008

About Carol Ritchie

Carole Ritchie has been taking care of Indiana’s children since 1973. An IU School of Nursing graduate – B.S.N. in

1973 and M.S.N. in 1975 – she’s had the opportunity to affect many lives. A child of the Depression, she grew up in Lebanon, Indiana, working in her family’s grocery store and restaurant as soon as she was able. These early years had a profound effect on her work ethic, leading her to a lifelong nursing career dedicated to children.

She worked at Witham Memorial Hospital and then was an office nurse for Dr. Jack Lenox. She also worked for Dow Chemical Company as a nurse, the Department of Crippled Children for 15 years, and was the retired supervisor of Nursing with the Indiana State Department of Public Welfare.

Mrs. Ritchie, a member of the Nightingale Society, named a classroom in the new Resource Center for Innovation in Clinical Nursing and established an endowed scholarship that will exist in perpetuity to support graduate nursing students interested in pediatrics.