Susan “Susie” L. Tasker-Weaver, of the Allegany College of Maryland Class of 1977 is the third recipient of its Distinguished Alumni Award. A former nursing instructor at ACM and Frostburg State University, she is the director of nursing at Southeastern University and known in the greater Cumberland region as co-founder of Covenant Counseling Ministries, Inc. She graduated from Fort Hill High School in 1968, and from ACM in 1977. She then began a nearly two-decade career at Cumberland’s Memorial Hospital, rising to become its assistant director of nursing. She is presently at Southeastern University in Lakeland, Florida, where she is developing an online Master of Nursing program with tracks in administration and education.