A memorial service was held on September 28 in the Cortelyou-Commons for Sally Ballenger, professor emeritus of nursing. The service was sponsored by the Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing, the Nursing Alumni Association and the department of nursing.
Sally Ballenger died on June 6, 2000, after a courageous battle with pancreatic cancer. Ballenger was born July 5, 1929, and grew up in Hutchinson, Kansas. At the age of fourteen she moved with her parents to Chicago, where she attended the Presbyterian Hospital School of Nursing and receiving her diploma in nursing in 1950. She earned her bachelor’s degree from DePaul University in 1959 and her master’s degree in 1967. Also that year Ballenger joined the faculty in the department of nursing at DePaul and stayed until her retirement in 1993. During her tenure at DePaul, she taught in the RN completion, the generic nursing and the master’s programs in nursing. She served as acting chair of the department from 1976 to 1977. She was also involved in the development of the Women’s Studies Program and taught several courses in that program.
Ballenger was a charter member of the Zeta Sigma chapter of the Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing at DePaul University. She served as chapter secretary (1986-1991), first vice president (1990-1992) and president (1994). She was also the co-author of a textbook on neurological nursing.
DePaul University, LA&S Communiqué, Autumn 2000-2001, pg 32
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