About Professor Emerita Paula Bouchard Jacques

A retired faculty member from SUNY Canton’s Nursing program has been selected as the 2023 Honors Convocation namesake.

"It is my great pleasure to announce the upcoming Paula Bouchard Jacques Honors Convocation at SUNY Canton," De Cooke said. "Professor Emerita Jacques developed a great camaraderie with, and earned tremendous respect from, her coworkers both in the Nursing program and college wide."

Jacques was hired in 1970 by her mentor and college legend Virginia M. McAllister following a brief post at Claxton-Hepburn Medical Center in Ogdensburg. She taught various courses, including medical-surgical, pediatrics, and fundamentals of nursing. She received the SUNY Canton College Council's Distinguished Faculty Award in 2000.

"I used to tell my students that there were three C's in Nursing," she said. "They are confidence, caring, and competence. I think that was essential because a student can't perform if they're not confident, and they can't perform well if they're not competent and caring.”

Jacques worked alongside previous Honors Convocation namesakes and college Hall of Fame members Linda Fay, Margaret Vining and several other close colleagues.

"The best thing about SUNY Canton was the Nursing faculty and my co-workers," Jacques said. "We respected each other and got along so well."

The Ogdensburg native was a member of the college's academic standards and student affairs committees. Since her retirement in 2007, she has remained active in the Ogdensburg Area Zonta Club. She is a Eucharistic Minister at Notre Dame Church. She volunteers for The Gabriel Project and Friends of the Ogdensburg Public Library.

She and her husband, Phillip, have traveled to all 50 states while visiting their four children and seven grandchildren.