Claudia Bartz inducted into Suring Alumni Hall of Fame

By: 
Rhoda Ebersole
Special to NEW Media

Claudia C. Bartz is the recipient of the 2020 Suring High School Alumni Hall of Fame award, presented during the Aug. 8 graduation ceremony.

A member of the Suring High Class of 1965, Bartz received a Bachelor of Science in nursing from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1969.

She joined the U.S. Army during her junior year at Madison, and she was commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant in February 1969. Her Army assignments took her to Colorado Springs, Colorado; Tacoma and Seattle, Washington; Washington, D.C.; Tucson, Arizona; San Antonio, Texas; Asmara, Ethiopia; Augsburg and Munich, Germany; and Mons, Belgium.

Bartz earned a Master of Nursing from the University of Washington (1979) and her Doctor of Philosophy in Nursing from the University of Arizona (1986). She attained the rank of colonel in the Army Nurse Corps in 1991 and graduated from the Army War College in 1993.

Retiring from the Army in 1999, she began working as an associate clinical professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee College of Nursing in 2000. She taught undergraduate students and was the project director for three research grants. In 2005, she took a position as professional staff for the International Council of Nursing, where she coordinated program development and the telenursing network.

Since her retirement in 2015, Bartz has lived in the Town of How. She participated in the Healthy Oconto County program over several years. She continues to advocate for telehealth and nursing, and she is currently on the board of directors for the International Society of Telemedicine and eHealth. Her hobbies are reading and traveling worldwide.