Shannon Perry with Miriam Neidhardt McPhee, the recipient of the 2002 Shannon Perry Achievement Award, a new San Francisco State University Child and Adolescent Development program award that recognizes academic achievement in the CAD major. The award includes a $250 stipend. Dr. Shannon E. Perry is Professor Emerita from the School of Nursing, San Francisco State University. She served as Coordinator of the Child and Adolescent Development Program in the Marian Wright Edelman Institute from 2000-2002. She has accompanied groups of students to the United Kingdom and Ireland on several occasions, to Ghana, Italy (May/June 2003), and Thailand in August, 2003. Dr. Perry’s doctorate is in Educational Psychology with a specialization in Child Development; her clinical specialty is maternal-newborn nursing. She has taught maternity nursing and child and adolescent development courses. She is co-author of three maternity nursing textbooks and numerous articles on maternal-child topics as well as legal aspects of nursing and the nurse as an expert witness. Dr. Perry is a member of ANA/California, the American Academy of Nursing, Sigma Theta Tau, International, AWHONN, National League for Nursing, California League for Nursing, International Lactation Consultants Association, American Association for the History of Nursing, the American Association for the History of Medicine, various alumni associations, and the Oregon-California Trail Association.