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¾¨Ó㴫ý honored 38 employees with a combined 578 years of service during the annual employee recognition luncheon attended by more than 250 current and retired employees May 9 in the Witherspoon Rooms of the McKelvey Campus Center.
Retiring from ¾¨Ó㴫ý are: Dr. James Hall, professor of mathematics; Robert Latta, director of financial aid; and Mary Ellen Ulmer, music librarian.
Other honorees were:
35 years of service – Dr. William Johnson, professor of physics.
30 years of service – Dr. Barbara Faires, professor of mathematics; Dr. Alan Gittis, professor of psychology; Dr. Darwin Huey, professor of education; Donald Shelenberger, business manager; and Dr. Richard Sprow, professor of English.
25 years of service – Dr. David Barner, associate professor of communication studies; Dorita Bolger, professor/reference librarian; Dennis Link, receiver for Sodexho Dining Services; Kathleen Suosio, Student Affairs secretary; and Paul Wallace, director of information services.
20 years of service – Linda Butler, bookstore clerk; James Kirkwood, custodian; and David "Craig" McCann, custodian.
15 years of service – Nick Ciavarino, custodian; Cynthia Dafler, coordinator of advancement events; and Patricia Lewis, McGill Library technical assistant.
10 years of service – Edward Cohen, associate professor of political science; Linda Domanski, assistant professor of education; Kati Edmiston, assistant director of the Career Center; Peggy Flynn, Music Department secretary; Jeff Gorze, manager for Sodexho Dining Services; Linda Hilton, Admissions Office data entry clerk; Russell Martin, associate professor of history; Jan Reddinger, head softball coach and assistant women's soccer coach; Susann Rudloff, director of advancement programs; and Dr. Virginia Tomlinson, associate professor of sociology and director of the Drinko Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning.
Contact Kim Christofferson, director of human resources, at (724) 946-7247 or e-mail chirstkk@westminster.edu for more information.
Eleven ¾¨Ó㴫ý elementary education majors attended a literacy workshop held at Connoquenessing Elementary School in October.
¾¨Ó㴫ý's Theta Chi Fraternity is organizing a "Greek Sweep" Saturday, Oct. 14 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
The Relay for Life held at ¾¨Ó㴫ý April 12 raised more than $30,000 for cancer research.
"We've raised about $130,000 over the past five years," said David DiDesiderio, president and philanthropy chair of Alpha Sigma Phi. "There were 617 people that participated, and we had major sponsors such as UPMC, Giant Eagle, and ¾¨Ó㴫ý. Our fraternity, Alpha Sigma Pi, has raised more than any other student organization at a Relay for Life."
This is a happy story of cooperation between the Field Station and a ¾¨Ó㴫ý alumna, Doreen Hoover. Doreen lives in Spokane, Washington but her family home was in Smicksburg, PA, near the famed Punxsutawney Phil.
Dr. R. Tad Greig, director of instrumental activities and assistant professor of music education at ¾¨Ó㴫ý, has been named vice president of the state chapter of Phi Beta Mu, the international school bandmaster fraternity.
Dr. David Swerdlow, ¾¨Ó㴫ý professor of English, will receive an Anna Davidson Rosenberg Award for Poems on the Jewish Experience for "Apples, Fathers."
¾¨Ó㴫ý's Bleasby Colloquium will host Slippery Rock University English professor Dr. Rachela Permenter Thursday, Nov. 13, at 7 p.m. in the Sebastian Mueller Theater of the McKelvey Campus Center. The event is free and open to the public.
Dr. Scott Mackenzie, ¾¨Ó㴫ý associate professor of theatre, attended the Association of Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) conference Aug. 8-11 in New York, where he presented a paper as part of a panel on "Risking Innovation: Using Community-Based Performance and Deriving Strategies for Production and Course Development."
¾¨Ó㴫ý will host Brain Awareness activities Wednesday and Thursday, April 14-15, from 9:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. in the Witherspoon Rooms of the McKelvey Campus Center for students from four local high schools.
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