17, 2013. Armstrong
and Hodges were the only two students in the Clarkson CRNA
program who attended this national conference.
             4. AANA Political Action Committee
                  Potomac Cruise Fundraiser
   The AANA conference was 4 days long, Sunday through
Wednesday. The conference on Sunday featured discussions on
the legislative and political issues facing the nurse anesthetist
profession. Hodges arrived on Saturday, the day before the
conference, while Armstrong arrived on Sunday afternoon. The
two stayed in the same hotel room.
   On Sunday night, AANA’s political action committee hosted
a fundraiser event for the conference attendees. The fund-
raiser was a boat cruise on the Potomac River.         ARMSTRONG v. CLARKSON COLLEGE
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on the bus was Nancy Gondringer, the federal political direc-
tor and past president of the Nebraska Association of Nurse
Anesthetists and a member of the “Small States Committee”
of the AANA. Glidden was on the bus, as was another UNMC
CRNA and also a Clarkson CRNA instructor. Dennis Bless, the
then-incoming president of the AANA, was also on the bus.
Other students in CRNA programs and CRNA’s from Nebraska
and other states rode on the bus as well.
   There was some conflict in the witnesses’ testimony at trial
about what happened on the bus ride.