MANA History

The Maryland Association of Nurse Anesthetists was founded in 1946 and incorporated in 1975. The first State meeting was December 2, 1946.

The first officers of the Association were as follows:

President:  Marion Wark Thomas, CRNA
Vice President:
Olive Berger, CRNA
Secretary/Treasurer:            
Doris E. O'Malley, CRNA
Trustees:

Mary O'Brien, CRNA and Ruth S. Elliott, CRNA

MANA PAST PRESIDENTS

2022-2023 Kaia Finney, CRNA, MSN, DNP (c)
2021-2022 Natasha Hopkins, DNP, CRNA
2020-2021 Johnny Gayden, DNP, CRNA
2019-2020 Diane Dy, CRNA
2017-2018 Shawn Seifert, CRNA
2016-2017 Andy Benson, CRNA
2015-2016 Jacqueline Mitchell, CRNA
2014-2015 Cathleen Campbell, CRNA
2013-2014 Linda Goetz, CRNA
2012-2013 Lauren Freedman, CRNA
2011-2012 Kelly Nevins Petz, CRNA
2010-2011 Linda Goetz, CRNA
2009-2010 Gregory Taylor, CRNA
2008-2009 Ron Seligman, CRNA
2007-2008 Michelle Duell, CRNA
2006-2007 Cassandra Boyd, CRNA
2005-2006 Maribeth Massie, CRNA
2004-2005 John Bing, CRNA
2003-2004 Kathe Nugent, CRNA
2002-2003 John Bing, CRNA
2001-2002 Chris Romanowski, CRNA
2000-2001 Lisa LaCivita, CRNA
1999-2000 Carol Davis, CRNA
1998-1999 Ruby Mills, CRNA
1997-1998 Lisa LaCivita, CRNA
1996-1997 Christine Lutz, CRNA
1995-1996 Jack Hitchens, CRNA
1994-1995 Marvin (Martie) Howard, CRNA
1993-1994 John Connelly, CRNA
1991-1993 Karen McMahon Morrow, CRNA
1989-1991 Victor Rivera, CRNA
1988-1989 Clement Markarian, CRNA
1987-1988 Henry (Bill) Giles, CRNA
1986-1987 Barbara Jones Stevenson, CRNA
1985-1986 Martha Shepherd, CRNA
1984-1985 Danny McCarthy, CRNA
1983-1984 Robert Wehner, CRNA
1982-1983 Marjorie Bergemann, CRNA
1981-1982 Delila A. Hughes, CRNA
1980-1981 Margaret Frola, CRNA
1979-1980 Patricia Emerick, CRNA
1977-1979 Emma Soethe Nightingale, CRNA
1976-1977 Fern Healey, CRNA
1974-1976 James Galford, CRNA
1972-1974 Winifred Paris, CRNA
1968-1970 Dolores Carrigan, CRNA
1966-1968 Marion Arena, CRNA
1964-1966 Ann Rae Timanus Fincher, CRNA
1962-1962 Mary Rachuba, CRNA
1961-1962 Nicholas Halanych, CRNA
1959-1961 Margherita Powers, CRNA
1957-1959 Marie Litz, CRNA
1955-1957 Josephine Boyle, CRNA
1954-1955 Ella Smith, CRNA
1952-1954 Miriam Doneker, CRNA
1951-1952 Margherita Powers, CRNA
1949-1951 Madelyn Burns Knapp, CRNA
1947-1949 Olive Berger, CRNA
1946-1947 Marion Thomas, CRNA