 August 31, 2002
Aimee McFalls, a student at the University of Alaska Southeast, Ketchikan Campus, received the $1,500 scholarship to be applied towards books and tuition. McFalls is studying to be a Registered Nurse by beginning pre-requisites this fall and hoping to enter the RN program beginning at UAS in the fall of 2004. After obtaining her education she plans to work as a RN at Ketchikan General Hospital. McFalls was born in Ketchikan, and grew up in Vernonia and Forest Grove, Oregon. She and her family recently returned to live in Ketchikan. The Joseph A. Shields, Jr.
Memorial Scholarship has been established from a donation in
memory of KGH physician Joseph A. Shields, Jr. Doctor Shields
was a talented and gifted orthopedic surgeon who devoted 17 years
of his career to Ketchikan and Southeast Alaska. Not only was
he a doctor to the community, but also a friend to many in Ketchikan.
He arrived in Ketchikan in 1975 to start the first orthopedic
surgery practice in town. For many years, he was the only orthopedic
surgeon in southern Southeast Alaska. After his death in 1996,
his father - Joseph Shields, Sr. - made a generous donation in
his name to be used for scholarships.
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