Scholarship opportunities are available for Sussex County Community College nursing students.

Contact the SCSNA President for details: jfrank@stanhopeschools.org.

Sussex County School Nurses Association scholarships are awarded in memory of Jean Sheldon Krauss.  Jean was inducted into the 2001 Vernon Township School District Hall of Fame. According to an article appearing in the April 16, 2001 edition of the New Jersey Herald, 

“A true child advocate, Jean Sheldon Krauss served the district as school nurse from 1963 until her untimely death in 1982 of breast cancer.  Krauss served her...18 year career as a school nurse for the Vernon Township Public Schools.  She assisted in the opening of three of the six current schools in the district.  Krauss is remembered for developing and implementing the first Health Education program in the Vernon Schools.”  Catherine McGrath, a former school nurse colleague said, “We...worked together to teach adolescents growth and development and we set up the pre-school vision program.”  In Vernon, when some residents did not even have telephones or cars, “Jean used to visit the new families to determine their children’s health and transportation needs”

     “Krauss became the district’s first nurse practitioner... and medical presence at sporting events.  Krauss also served as president of the Vernon Township Education Association, as a member of the Sussex County School Nurses Association, Vernon Methodist Church, and Vernon Fire Department Ladies Auxiliary.      

     McGrath stated, “Jean was an excellent nurse, a true friend, and a wonderful person...She is probably up there right now putting some ice on a saint’s sprained ankle.”  Krauss’ daughters remembered how involved their mother was while she worked full-time and raised four children. “My mother loved everybody, and she loved what she did...She knew all of the country back roads and their potholes.”

      Jean’s superintendent George Iannacone stated that Jean, “radiated light, lit up a room and really possessed a warmth, She was a marvelous health practitioner.”