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Master of Ceremonies—Robert E. Van Atta
Invocation—Stephen H. Wurster
Dinner
Ars Musica String Quartet—George Leedham,
Patricia Tretick, Robert Slaughter, and Joseph Saunders
Recognition of Omegas—Richard W. Burkhardt
Recognition of Years of Service—John J Pruis
Recognition of Outstanding Faculty
Processional for Omegas
Informal Reception for Omegas—Music Lounge
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Richard H. Caldemeyer
W. W. Renke
Mildred W. Evans
Leon M. Reynolds
Rosemary B. Fisher
Josephine M. Richardson
Cecile F. Gilbert
Rex S. Rudicel
Ethel 0. Himelick
Helen T. Sargent
Robert F. Kershaw
William T. Sargent
E. Donald Lawrence
Mary M. Shannon
Henry A. Loats
Newton G. Sprague
Edith L. Pittenger
William H. Stevenson
W. Karl Rehfeld
Anthony L. Tovatt
C. Jane Whelan
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Gordon E. Smith
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Frances N. Douglas
Dorothy M. Harms
William R. Huffman
Forty-One Years of Service
John 0. Lewellen
Thirty-Five Years of Service
Alan W. Huckleberry
Thirty Years of Service
Dean B. Coen Amy Hinkle
Georgina L. Hicks
Beth Vail
Twenty-Five Years of Service
Merrill C. Beyerl
Malcom E. Hults
Louis E. Ingelhart
Richard F. Kishel
Robert E. Marsh
Lloyd P. Nelson
John R. Emens Distinguished Professors, 1977-78
Errol Glustoff
(Autumn Quarter)
William Jackson Lord, Jr.
(Winter and Spring Quarters)
George A. Ball Professor of Business, 1977-78
George E. Ferris
(Winter and Spring Quarters)
RICHARD H. CALDEMEYER
Scholar, teacher, friend to hundreds of students, your productive,
useful and significant career covered twenty-eight years at Ball
State University. Your competence and versatility were confirmed by the more than twenty-five new courses you introduced
in the History Department. Your tact, patience, diplomatic skill,
and ability helped immeasurably in your service as administrative assistant to two presidents. Your colleagues hold you in their
highest esteem.
MILDRED W. EVANS
Caring and dedicated educator, your impressive career spans
forty-five years of service as elementary teacher and teacher
educator. Throughout your career you have stressed humanistic
education and academic achievement. As a supervisor of student
teachers you provided wise counsel and direction. You inspired
students to seek new and effective teaching techniques. They
have honored you by maintaining contacts with you over the
years. In retirement you hold the respect of the children you
taught, of public school teachers and administrators, and of your
university colleagues.
ROSEMARY B. FISHER
Dedicated servant of Ball State University, the field of physical
education, and thousands of students, your impressive career
stretches from a time when you sold hot dogs to finance an
athletic trip to an era of grants-in-aid for women athletes. In your
thirty-two years here a teachers college grew into a university
and your dedication, your understanding, and your concern
helped untold numbers of students and colleagues survive the
rigors of learning, the frustrations of teaching. You have served
Ball State with dedication, compassion, and integrity.
CECILE F. GILBERT
Untiring mentor, you do not teach international folk dance, you
teach people. In your thirty-four years at Ball State University
thousands of dance students realized significant personal growth
because of your dedication, compassion, and skill. Pixie pilgrim,
you have been a world traveler in search of authenticity and have
made this University a mecca for dancing feet. Your faith in our
abilities, your concern for the human condition, and your devotion to bringing out the best in people have shaped our lives for
the better.
ETHEL 0. HIMELICK
Advocate of efficiency, fairness, and thoroughness, you have
served in almost every capacity relating to the financial affairs of
this institution in your forty-three-year career. The beneficiaries
of the outstanding qualities and countless hours of your service
have been students, faculty, staff, trustees, and the state and
federal governments. Director of Budgeting and Assistant Treasurer, Recording Secretary of the Board of Trustees, rarely has one
contributed so much to so many so well.
ROBERT F. KERSHAW
In your twenty-two years as director of the L. A. Pittenger Student Center your service and professional contacts thoughout the
nation contributed to the strong image of Ball State and to your
professional reputation. You were an evaluator of U.S. Army food
services throughout the world, a founder of the National Association of College and University Food Services. The Indiana Hotel
and Motel Associations, the Indiana Restaurant Association, and
Sigma Chi Fraternity benefited from your service. Our good
wishes go with you in retirement.
E. DONALD LAWRENCE
Thorough and understanding instructor, in your thirty years as
classroom teacher at Ball State University you started hundreds
of students toward successful careers in accounting and the business world. Your first and foremost concern for the welfare of
others is reflected in your generous gifts of time in counseling
students, and in guidance you provided for young, beginning
faculty members. Your loyalty to department, college, and university will be long remembered.
HENRY A. LOATS
You have served industrial arts and Ball State University well in
your significant career and your contributions at the state and
national levels are symbolized by the Laureate Citation you hold
from Epsilon Pi Tau Honorary Society. From humble beginnings
in the Administration Building, industrial arts education has
moved to a place of honor and you were instrumental in that
process. May your retirement years be long and enjoyable.
EDITH L. PITTENGER
Invaluable source of personnel-payroll information, facilitator
for those of us who are about to become Omegas, co-founder and
long-time treasurer of the Ball State University Credit Union,
your "first" retirement was a brief one. Less than two weeks after
you had thought you had closed your desk for the last time, you
were back on the job, filling in because of an illness. Your own
retirement papers had to be reprocessed and your first Social
Security checks returned. Now you can start your "second" retirement after thirty years of dedicated service and we wish you
the best as you do what you want to when you want to do it.
W. KARL REHFELD
An accredited social work program at Ball State University
stands as the symbol of your extraordinary leadership and farsightedness. During your years as coordinator of the social work
program it developed from a handful of classes to reach departmental status. In your eleven years of service to clients,
colleagues, and students you have made numerous professional
contributions and you have touched the lives of thousands.
W. W. RENKE
In this, your last quarter, you are teaching in the Ball State
University London Center. You are a modest man, not given to
ceremony, not fond of goodbyes. We know you would want this
farewell to be a simple one. You have a dedication to teaching and
to your students that is total and complete. You will be missed.
LEON M. REYNOLDS
Dedicated, considerate and friendly teacher and experimenter in
the field of nuclear science, you'tvere responsible for the development of our neutron generator facility which has been used
by students for significant research in a number of academic
areas. For your interest and support of our pre-engineering program and of the Sigma Pi honorary society, and for your generosity in gifts of time, you will be long remembered by your students
and your colleagues.
JOSEPHINE M. RICHARDSON
Conscientious, inspired teacher, hundreds of your students have
followed your lead in making art a meaningful part of the lives of
elementary school children. In your twelve years at Ball State
University your constructive curriculum changes have enriched
your classes. Your generous concern for others has gained our
respect and admiration. We wish for you a retirement that is as
rewarding as your professional career.
REX S. RUDICEL
For thirty years, as coach and athletic director at Burns Laboratory School, you have insisted upon hard work and fair play and
this has earned you the respect and admiration of students, colleagues, sports fans, and other coaches. History will recall you as
the indomitable floor general on the 1938 Ball State University
basketball team that upset powerful Indiana University. You
have served long and well and we honor you.
HELEN T. SARGENT
Model of professionalism and graciousness, your nineteen years
at Ball State University have been marked by your dedication to
the creation of an effective learning environment. Your versatility as an educator is acknowledged by your leadership roles in
Councils of English on the state and national level. Speaker,
researcher, writer-editor, workshop director, innovator, we
commend and honor you for your contributions to the learning
and lives of your students.
WILLIAM T. SARGENT
Your significant contributions to the teaching profession and
industrial education serve as a standard for all of us. You earned
the recognition and respect of industrial educators nationwide
through your services as chairman of the Department of Industrial Education and Technology and you have been a leader of
state and national organizations in your field. Even more significant is your concern for the human elements of our profession, which will stand as a hallmark in our efforts to serve the
needs of those entrusted to us.
MARY M. SHANNON
For twenty years you have made significant contributions to
Burns Laboratory School, and your commitment as a teacher and
professional colleague is a source of inspiration to students and
faculty. The influence of your work upon the lives of the many
students you have taught is incalculable. Your interest in children and the meaningful learning experiences you have provided
for them marks you as an outstanding teacher. We salute you in
retirement.
NEWTON G. SPRAGUE
Your continuing efforts in the development of original
planetarium presentations, based on materials gathered in all
parts of the world, have been deeply appreciated by students and
faculty on this campus and by the thousands of individuals who
visit the planetarium and observatory each year. Many of your
former students are now planetarium directors and they will remember your dedication as a teacher, your generosity in terms of
time given to them in the planetarium and in your office. Your
influence and inspiration will live, on in them.
WILLIAM H. STEVENSON
Yours is a teaching career that spans forty-seven years and
thirty-one of those years have been given in dedicated service to
the Department of Geography and Geology at Ball State University. You will be remembered for your operation of the University
Weather Station, for your teaching of off-campus classes, and for
services to the Muncie community. Your students and your colleagues wish you well in retirement.
ANTHONY L. TOVATT
Teacher, researcher, journalist, speaker, supervisor, author, and
advisor, you imbued your students and colleagues with the indelible imprint of a friend whose approach to teaching and learning is premised on the dignity, worth, and uniqueness of each
being. Your influence, through your creative, innovative, and
sensitive qualities will continue to flourish in those hundreds of
students you have influenced directly, from the ones you nurtured in the one-room school to the doctoral students you counseled. We are honored to honor you.
C. JANE WHELAN
A varied and outstanding professional career preceded your
twenty-three years of distinguished and dedicated service to the
Department of Business Education and Office Administration at
Ball State University. As teacher and as an editor of the Journal
for Business Educators and the Ball State Business Review you
were admired, respected, and emulated by students, faculty, and
staff. You enter retirement with our thanks and best wishes.
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GORDON E. SMITH
Your achievements in newspaper advertising, consumer affairs,
and higher education cover more than fifty years. Your years with
Chicago and Buffalo Better Business Bureaus made of you a
champion of consumer rights and your service with the Buffalo
Evening News saw it realize high marks in advertising. In your
eight years at Ball State as lecturer in journalism you developed
the advertising curriculum and founded the campus chapter of
Alpha Delta Sigma, advertising honorary. In retirement you continue to teach. We wish you the best.
FRANCES N. DOUGLAS
Your years in the Department of Nursing have been characterized
by your commitment to excellent clinical teaching. You are
known as an astute observer of the passing scene and your sharp
wit and dry humor cut through the superfluous to get to the core
of the problem. Cheerful, uncomplaining and industrious, you
have dedicated your talents to the department and its students.
Your respected text on pharmacology is one that has served your
students well. We will remember you because you neither gave
nor accepted less than the best.
DOROTHY M. HARMS
You have been a best friend to students. In your eight years at Ball
State University your office door was open at all times and students were always welcome to browse, to sit, and to study. Students brought you their personal problems and you did everything you could to be of help. We will miss you as a colleague and
students will find you impossible to replace.
WILLIAM E. HUFFMAN
You came to Ball State University five years ago with the challenging assignment of establishing and administering a Pharmacy in the Health Center. You more than fulfilled our expectations in carrying out these duties and the excellence of your
performance brought respect to your profession and to the University. In retirement you take with you the esteem and best
wishes of physicians, nurses, students and colleagues.
Chilled Fresh Fruit Salad
with Celery Seed Dressing
Beef Wellington
Buttered Broccoli Florettes
Cinnamon Rolls
Orange Rolls
Ice Cream
Beverage of Your Choice
BALL STATE UNIVERSITY
OMEGA AND RECOGNITION BANQUET COMMITTEE
David L. Costill, Chairman
Robert E. Van Atta, Co-Chairman and Awards
Charles H. Greenwood, Tickets and Invitations
John and Shirley Reno, Hospitality
Jean Wittig, Menu and Decorations
Tracy H. Norris, Citations
Marie Fraser, Publicity
Raymond W. Ashley, Plaques
Emmett C. Sponsel, Program Design
Stephen H. Wurster, ex officio
Our special thanks go to the Cardinal Corps,
to the Ars Musica String Quartet, and to the
Alumni Office for providing the plaques.