The Gift of Opportunity: Bequest Ensures Enduring Student Support

Susan Flow ’81N

With the assistance of a scholarship, Susan Flow received her nursing degree in 1981, embarking on a career that would span more than four decades—from the medical-surgery unit to serving as a nurse in the United States Air Force during Desert Storm to becoming a pioneer in wound care and establishing a statewide program in her home state of Colorado.

But for Susan, who was named Denver’s 2007 Nurse of the Year, none of these accomplishments would have been possible without the foundational support she received from the University of Rochester School of Nursing. And that education might have remained only a dream without the life-changing scholarship that made her vision for a career in health care a reality.

To honor her student experience and pay her gratitude forward in a meaningful way, Flow committed to establishing the Susan A. Flow ’81 Nursing Endowed Scholarship Fund with a bequest intention—naming the University in her estate plan as a beneficiary of her will. “I wanted to recognize the gifts that were given to me that allowed me to go forth and to do things that made a difference for people. My education is what allowed me to participate in the innate dance of joyful existence. And isn’t that what everyone wants?—To be themselves and to participate in a way that makes you happy and other people happy.”

Explore Susan’s quest to give back for what she received as a student: everbetter.rochester.edu/flow

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