A native of Guthrie, Okla., Mecca graduated from St. Mary’s College in Indiana and earned master’s and doctorate degrees from the University of Wisconsin. She held nurse-instructor positions at hospitals in Indiana and Oklahoma, before joining the faculty at the University of Wisconsin in 1972. She was professor and associate dean for academic affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Nursing when the State University of New York at Buffalo’s School of Nursing recruited her as their dean in 1991.
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