A trailblazer in her field, Mildred “Millie” Loughlin Kahane ’49 credited her scholarship to Adelphi with enabling her to earn a degree and fulfill her career aspirations. That gratitude was the impetus for her to pay it forward, supporting Adelphi and its students by establishing several endowments in her lifetime.
The late Mildred “Millie” Loughlin Kahane was from humble means and was the first in her family to attend college. Her ability to attend Adelphi was made possible because of a scholarship. One of the University’s original U.S. nurse cadets, she went on to become the first executive director of the Alaska Board of Nursing. Kahane also worked for Kaiser Permanente in Sacramento, California, and served as a faculty member at UC Davis, where she helped develop the nurse practitioners program and was one of the early pioneers of community health nursing.
A trailblazer in her field, Kahane credited her scholarship for enabling her to earn a degree and fulfill her career aspirations. That gratitude was the impetus for her to pay it forward, supporting Adelphi and its students by establishing several endowments in her lifetime.
Kahane’s $1 million gift to support nursing education helps students of nursing who have financial need through three scholarships: the Mildred Loughlin Kahane ’49 Scholarship, the Kahane Adult Gerontology Nurse Practitioner Endowed Scholarship and the Peggy Ann Burleigh Memorial Scholarship, which provided support to Kahane herself as an Adelphi student.
Adelphi recently received a $1 million gift from our trailblazing nurse alumna, the late Mildred “Millie” Loughlin Kahane ’49. She was a first-generation scholarship recipient who became a leader—one inspired to “pay it forward.” The next generation of Adelphi nurses and our University are grateful for her generosity.