Omega and Recognition Dinner
Six-Thirty, Wednesday, May Seventh, Nineteen Hundred and Eighty-Six
Cardinal Hall, L. A. Pittenger Student Center, Ball State University
Program
Master of Ceremonies—John Klem
Invocation
Dinner
Musical Arts Woodwind Quintet
Recognition of Outstanding Faculty—Warren Vander Hill
Recognition of Years of Service—James V. Koch
Recognition of Omegas and
Retirement Recognition JohnE. Worthen
Processional of Omegas
Informal Reception for Omegas—Music Lounge
Omegas
Jean L. Arrasmith
Betty J. Arthur
Larry D. Boye
D. Patricia Brown
Elizabeth S. Caylor
Mary E. Gerhart
Leroy H. Getchell
Ethel-Mae Haave
Betty L. Harrah
Laurence H. Harshbarger
John J. Hinga
Florence M. Houghton
Robert S. Huston
Nancy H. Linson
Raymond A. Louthen
Claudia McConnell
Frank 0. Wellnitz
Robert E. Marsh
George L. Mihal
Charles W. Myers
Dolores E Nelson
Betty L. Newcomb
Robert H. Newcomb
Louise F. Prage
Jack E. Reak
John 0. Reed
Robert J. Robbins
Joseph N. Satterwhite
Robert W. Sherman
Charles D. Shipman
Hubert A. Shroyer
James L. Smith
Robert E. Van Atta
George W. Welker
Recognition of Years of Service
Forty Years of Service
Edward Strother
Thirty-Five Years of Service
Doris Lawhead
Thirty Years of Service
Donald Barnes
Joe Bertrand
Elizabeth'Caylor
Ethel-Mae Haave
Robert Hill, Jr.
John Klem
Robert Klinedinst
Grace Laxson
George Mihal
Jake Reams
David Richmond
Shelby Smith
Twenty-Five Years of Service
Norman Beck James McElhinney
James Danglade Margaret McElhinney
Duane Diedrich Donald Mikesell
Donald Foss Joseph Mumpower
Marie Fraser Charles Parish
Charles Greenwood Morton Rosenberg
Gloria Griner Hubert Shroyer
Ned Griner Harry Taylor
Peggy Holman Robert Weiss
Donald Jones Charles Wise
Omegas
JEAN L. ARRASMITH
Your professional career in physical education has been a concert of
involvements—as scholar, writer, educator, administrator. For thirteen
years at Ball State University, service to the university and your profession has been your recurring theme. You have dedicated your intellectual
and leadership abilities to the Department of Women's Physical Education, teaching and staff colleagues, and students. You have served with
distinction the University Senate and University Department Heads. You
have influenced the direction of the profession and prompted public
safety in aquatics through offices held at the national level. We who will
continue to benefit from the achievements you have won for the profession salute you.
BETTY J. ARTHUR
You devoted twenty-four years to Ball State University libraries as cataloguer and head of two separate divisions. You carried out your responsibilities competently and efficiently, always with an eye for standards and
for ensuring that change be an improvement. You were a book of knowledge on the history of our cataloguing practices. You are best known for
your humanity—for creating an environment that allowed your unit's
faculty and staff room for growth, achievement, and independent expression. We will miss your presence and your spirit. Our spirit goes with you,
and we wish you Godspeed.
LARRY D. BOYE
For seventeen years you served Ball State University as director of the
University Singers, a group proclaimed by the Indiana General Assembly
as Indiana's Ambassadors of Goodwill. During those years the University
Singers were judged the "number one collegiate pop group in America:'
Nationally and internationally acclaimed, the University Singers traveled
through twenty states and to eastern and western Europe. You directed
the University Singers' Spectacular, a major annual event. In 1978 it attracted more than 10,000 people—the largest turnout for any single event
in Emens Auditorium history. We wish you well in your retirement as you
continue your association with Walt Disney Productions.
D. PATRICIA BROWN
For twenty years you have served the Department of Women's Physical
Education and Ball State University with distinction. Your dedication,
expertise, and competence will be deeply missed. Colleagues respect your
dependability and warmth; students salute your knowledge and genuine
concern for their welfare. Your dedicated service to the American Red
Cross has enriched our community and has shown the way for others
who follow. With warmth in their hearts, thousands of students and
hundreds of colleagues will remember your friendship. You have left your
mark upon us all. Be well and happy in retirement.
ELIZABETH S. CAYLOR
Your thirty years of dedicated service to Ball State University began when
you accepted the position as an assistant professor and as Home Economics Education Supervisor in the Indiana State Vocational Office.
Later, when you became a full-time faculty member, your expertise positively influenced numerous students. Your concern for the welfare of students is evidenced by the number of courses you taught on an individual
basis so that students could resolve scheduling problems. Your commitment to home economics is well recognized by the university and by the
community. You leave behind a rich and valuable heritage. Our sincere
good wishes go with you as you look forward to another chapter in your
life.
MARY
ELIZABETH CANNELL GERHART
In your forty-two-year career, you have witnessed numerous societal
changes that have influenced the evolution of modern nursing. You
sought a collegiate-based nursing program well before it became the entry
point into the profession. After graduate education, you became a pioneer
in writing competencies for nurse educators and curricula for nursing programs in Illinois and Wisconsin. Your tenure at Ball State University began in 1968 as an administrative assistant in the Department of Nursing.
You have worked diligently on numerous assignments within the university and the School of Nursing. You have used your experience, wisdom,
and compassion for the good of your students and peers. Your loyalty and
honesty will long be remembered and cherished.
LEROY
H. GETCHELL, JR.
For twenty-five years you served the Department of Men's Physical Education as teacher, coach, and a staunch advocate of lifetime fitness. Through
your promotion of an active life-style, literally thousands of Americans
have experienced the joy of exercise. You were instrumental in developing
the adult fitness program, which still thrives as a testimony to your work.
Your service to Ball State is greatly appreciated, "Bud:' and we wish you
well as you seek other challenges.
ETHEL-MAE HAAVE
In your thirty years of teaching in the Ball State University Department
of English, you have proved many times over the value of good teaching.
Your students speak of the clarity and insight characteristic of your lectures. In addition to helping them understand, however, you also helped
them to learn to value the sustained and elevated pleasure that literature
offers. Your colleagues have depended over the years on your absolute integrity, your devotion to the highest principles of professional behavior.
Both your teaching and service will be sorely missed in years to come in
this department and this university.
BETTY L. HARRAH
Your contributions over the past seventeen years brought national recognition to you and to Ball State University's residence hall program. The
programs that you initiated and developed have made residence hall experiences an important and meaningful aspect of college life for students.
When facing a decision, you always ask: "How will this contribute to the
welfare of the students and the goals of Ball State?" You have served as a
role model for hundreds of professional and para-professional staff. And
you found time to contribute significant service to such community
groups as the Family Services organization. We are pleased that you will
continue to be a part of the Muncie and Ball State communities in
retirement.
LAURENCE H. HARSHBARGER
Larry, you have "grown on us" during your twenty-seven years in our
midst. You will be remembered by countless students in human development and adult psychology as a quality instructor with a low-key approach. You will be missed by faculty, staff, and student secretaries
because you faithfully supplied us with homemade cookies and cakes at
departmental parties and because of your friendly demeanor and genuine
concern for all. Those who served as department chairs will remember
you as a "soft touch" when last minute schedule changes or faculty reshuffling became necessary. We hope your retirement years will be enjoyable
ones, for you were an excellent faculty member and you deserve the best.
JOHN J. HINGA
Since 1954 you have served Ball State University as basketball coach,
teacher, manager of physical education and athletics facilities, and administrative assistant to the school chair. New and veteran faculty and
coaches looked to you for assistance and counsel. Your sense of humor,
your insatiable quest to help others, and your uncompromising humanism positively affected all of those with whom you came in contact. The
visibility you brought to the university as commissioner of the Heartland
Conference, your involvement with the IHSAA and the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame, and your service as an official for countless high school
athletic events are all appreciated. You have our best wishes in your retirement years.
FLORENCE M. HOUGHTON
During your nineteen years in the Ball State University School of Nursing, you have influenced and assisted both students and fellow faculty
members to achieve a high degree of excellence. Under your leadership
the graduate program in nursing received National League for Nursing
accreditation—the highest recognition a nursing program can receive.
Students speak highly of you and your assistance, particularly in the clinical area, where you provided incentive and encouragement. You have
been a dedicated person, pouring all of your abilities into improvements
in programs and in teaching, and we will all walk a little faster to keep
pace with your example.
ROBERT S. HUSTON
For twenty-eight years you have served Ball State University as historian,
teacher, and educator of educators. You have combined knowledge gained
from your research wiiith a wealth of personal experience to enlighten
thousands of students on America's role in the wider world. Your selfless
commitment to the supervision of prospective teachers assured us that
they feel the same love of teaching that you do. Your students and your
colleagues will miss that rare blend of humor and dedication with which
you have so blessed us. For all of this, and much more, we thank you.
NANCY H. LINSON
During your twenty-three years of service at Ball State University you
have been an outstanding teacher, with patience, dedication, and commitment as your hallmark. Your professional talents and genuine interest
in their welfare have enriched the lives of thousands of students. Your
leadership in women's physical education as program and dance director
and at the state and regional levels in your chosen profession has been exemplary. Teacher, adviser, colleague, and friend, you have offered all of us
support and understanding. Lady with the dancing feet and effervescent
heart, you will be missed. We thank you for having been one of us.
RAYMOND A. LOUTHEN
You served as head football coach and head baseball coach from 1958 to
1970, at which time you assumed a leadership role as athletic director until 1981, when you returned to full-time teaching. You coached the first
Ball State University football team to appear in a post-season bowl game,
created the Ball State Hall of Fame, and nurtured the entrance of Ball
State into the Mid-American conference. Your accomplishments on the
field are clear, but an even greater honor is the respect and friendship of
fellow coaches, athletic directors, students, athletes, alumni, and colleagues throughout the nation, who recognize that Ball State is a better
place because you did it your way.
CLAUDIA M. MCCONNELL
For thirty-two years you have served Ball State University with distinction. You have generously contributed your time and talents in our institution's evolutionary changes. Your knowledge and wisdom in curricular
development have been influential throughout the university. In the
midst of change you remained steadfast in your dedication and devotion
to students. You have been more to them than a teacher. You were first
helpful to students in Student Affairs, where your psychometric expertise
was blended with counseling and advising skills. In subsequent years as
an instructor you continued as a warm and concerned person to whom
students turned. Your dependability, loyalty, and dedication will remain
in our memories.
ROBERT E. MARSH
Your dedicated service to Ball State University over thirty-three years has
been an inspiration to all. Your performances and those of your students
have provided countless hours of musical pleasure for the campus and
community. You were one of the founding members of the International
Horn Society, served on its council of advisers, and were host to the Sixth
Annual International Horn Society Workshop. Through your efforts the
society's archives were established in Bracken Library. You served the
School of Music as a department chairman and as acting director. We
hope your retirement will provide you with a well-deserved change of pace
and an opportunity to expand your service to your musical ideals.
GEORGE L. MIHAL
Teacher, football coach, head wrestling coach, and driver and traffic safety
specialist, you have served your thirty years at Ball State University with
distinction, consistency, and a willingness to respond to the programmatic
ROBERT H. NEWCOMB
Over the past twenty-eight years, you have served Ball State University
well as a teacher, scholar, and colleague. Your students speak with affection and respect of your personal warmth, your knowledge, and your ability to communicate your understanding of and pleasure in literature. Your
many years of service on the most important committees in the Department of English and the university reflect your colleagues' faith in your
judgment and fairness. While we will miss these strengths, we wish you
many years of well-earned freedom and contentment.
F. LOUISE PRAGE
In eleven years you taught many Ball State University students (and
faculty members) the physical assessment skills in nursing that now constitute a major curriculum entity. Your dedication to student education
involved assigning students to small groups, even though this meant that
you would be working beyond your assigned load. You are an excellent
nurse practitioner and have worked many years for Gateway Clinic in the
community, as well as with other community health agenices. Your concern for students is reflected in your requirements for quality work in
your courses. Your kindness to students and your excellence in teaching
will be missed.
JACK E. REAK
You were a valued colleague during your twenty-eight years of service to
Ball State University as a respected scholar and excellent teacher. Your intellectual stimulation helped students to see, as you did, issues from a
holistic perspective. Your professional contributions extended beyond this
campus in your coordinator's role with the North Central Association of
Schools and Colleges and through your work with the American Federation of Teachers. Your advice on academic and campus governmental matters was often sought and your judgment valued. You directed the
doctoral dissertation in 1985 judged as outstanding by the National
Council for the Social Studies, and it was an appropriate capstone for
your outstanding career. We wish you well in your retirement.
JOHN 0. REED
For thirty-seven years you have served the youth of Indiana in several
professional capacities—twenty-six years as teacher, principal, and assistant superintendent of schools, and eleven years as the assistant director
of Ball State University Placement Services. You have influenced thousands of our students and alumni. You touched their lives with your
leadership, teaching, and wise counsel. Your ability and willingness to
work with special groups of students instilled in us an awareness of the
need to reach out to such students. The university is a better place because you were here. Your warm humor and affable personality will be
missed. We wish you the very best as you enter a new phase of life.
ROBERT J. ROBBINS
First director of Radio and Television at Ball State University and first
designer of facilities for those disciplines, you have contributed your
leadership with uncomplaining generosity. Your roles in curricular development; your leadership in the community theatres of Muncie and
throughout Indiana; your academic outreach through world travel, the
London Centre Steering Committee, and International Programs; your
dedication to sound principles in university governance—these contributions that absorbed thirty-four years of your life will remain a monument
to your judgment and yqur scholarly dedication.
JOSEPH N. SATTERWHITE
In your thirty-one years of teaching in the Ball State University Department of English, you have stimulated students and colleagues with your
passionate love of the literature that you teach. You taught us all to read
with more care, to strive for greater insight, and—most of all—to value the
truth and beauty to be found in the best literature. You have asked your
students to join you in the intelligent pursuit of knowledge and understanding. No teacher can do more. We will continue to benefit from your
example as you enjoy a well-earned retirement.
ROBERT W. SHERMAN
During your twenty-nine years at Ball State University you have been an
outstanding member of the faculty of the School of Music in teaching, administration, research, and creative endeavor. Your scholarly studies and
publications in teaching music theory through composition have received
national attention, as have your own prize-winning compositions. As an
administrator you have played a vital part in the development and continuing growth of the School of Music. Your leadership on faculty councils and committees has been one of dedication and commitment. You
have served Ball State with excellence, and we wish you well in your
retirement.
CHARLES D SHIPMAN
Your twenty-eight years of service to Ball State University serve as a
model of excellence. You are recognized as a national leader in education,
having served as acting director of the National Right to Read Program
and as an advisory board member for the Fund for the Improvement of
Postsecondary Education. You are respected in the Teachers College for
your careful attention to financial and personnel matters. Your dedication, patience, and friendliness will be missed. We appreciate your contributions and wish you great joy in your retirement.
HOBERT A. SHROYER
For more than twenty-five years you have provided sound advice to administrators, faculty, and students concerning teacher licensing and certification. Your quiet, thoughtful, informed manner has inspired
confidence in all who have sought your advice. Your concern for detail
and commitment to students have contributed significantly to the reputation of teacher education at Ball State University. We thank you for making a difference and wish you the best in your well-deserved retirement.
JAMES L. SMITH
You have been a valued colleague to Ball State University faculty, staff,
and students throughout your twenty-nine years of service. You were instrumental as the university entered the age of data processing and served
the university in many roles during the years of expansion of University
Computing Services. Your counsel and dedicated service have been invaluable as Ball State grew from its earliest unit-record machines to the
current computer intensive environment. We will miss your willingness to
serve, your smile, and your sense of humor. We thank you for all you have
done and wish you the best.
ROBERT E. VAN ATTA
For seventeen years you have served Ball State University, eleven of those
years as head of the Department of Chemistry and six more as professor
of chemistry. Your steadfast dedication has been a major force in making
analytical chemistry what it is at Ball State today. Your colleagues respect
your attention to detail, and former students have praised you for your
hard work for their benefit. Recently you have led the way by developing
software that helped us incorporate computer usage into our curriculum.
You have served on numerous university and departmental committees.
We hope your retirement will be everything that you wish it to be.
GEORGE W. WELKER
For thirty-six years you served the Department of Biology and its
predecessor, the Science Department, with a strong personal commitment
to students and colleagues. You taught such courses as parasitology,
microbiology, and bacteriology with distinction and effectiveness widely
recognized by your students. Your distinguished service exemplifies the
tradition of personal and professional commitment that have built a
strong Ball State University. Your devotion to department and colleagues
led to your election as chairman of the department and a strengthening of
your colleagues' commitments to each other and the university. Your
ideals and record of service will continue to inspire us. We wish you the
best in a well-deserved retirement.
FRANK 0. WELLNITZ
For more than thirty years you served effectively as a newspaperman before deciding you were ready for something else. You earned a master's degree in journalism, and opportunities for college teaching followed. In
1975 you came to Ball State University, and for eleven years you have
taught advertising and news-editorial classes. Affectionately known by all
as "Blackie," you considered the classroom a performing arena before this
concept was in vogue. Your colleagues and students will miss your cheerful whistle, light touch, and friendly disposition. Most of all the students
will miss your genuine concern for their welfare, in and out of the
classroom.
Recognition of Outstanding Faculty
Outstanding Teacher Award
1972 Helen Sornson
1973 William H. Middleton
1974 Scott E. Fisher, Jr.
1975 John Barber
1976 Charles R. Carroll
1977 Richard H. Artes
1978 Duane 0. Eddy
1979 Padmini Joshi
1980 Donald Shondell
1981 Anthony Costello
1982 Anthony 0. Edmonds,
Jon R. Hendrix
1983 Whitney H. Gordon
1984 Herbert Jones
1985 James Kirkwood
Outstanding Young Faculty Award
1972 Anthony J. Costello
1973 Andrew Seager,
M. Kay Stickle
1974 Rebecca S. Nelson
1975 Duane Eddy,
Daniel Ball
1976 David T. Nelson
Charles Payne
1977 Bruce F. Meyer
1978 Paul L. Bock
1979 Donald W. Gilman, Jr.
1980 Nancy T. Ellis
1981 Wayne M. Zage
1982 W. Herbert Senft
1983 Wes D. Gehring
1984 David Marini
1985 Cecil Bohanon
Outstanding Research and Creative Endeavor
1973 Gordon R. Rosene
1972 David L. Costill
1974 Russell E. Siverly
Outstanding Research Award
1975 John A. Beekman
1976 Chu-yuan Cheng
1977 T. K. Puttaswamy
1978 Dwight W. Hoover
1979 Juan Bonta
1980 Joseph F. Trimmer
1981 Tetsumaro Hayashi
1982 Alice Bennett
1983 John T. A. Koumoulides
1984 Linda Annis
1985 M. M. Ali
Outstanding Creative Endeavor Award
. 1975 Linda Arndt
1976 Leslie Leupp
1977 Craig S. Kuhner
1978 Thomas R. Thornburg
1983 Patricia A. Nelson
1979 James K. McDougall
1980 Arthur William Schaller 1984 David Shawger
1985 Jean Murphy
1981 Robert Hargreaves
1982 Kenneth W. Preston
Outstanding Faculty Service Award
1972 Duane E. Deal
1973 John W. Hannaford
1974 Robert H. Koenker
1975 John 0. Lewellen
1976 Everett Ferrill
1977 Leslie J. Mauth
1978 Robert Hargreaves
1979 Alan W. Huckleberry
1980 John R. Craddock
1981 Thomas R. Mertens
1982 Jerry J. Nisbet
1983 Richard Wires
1984 Paul Errington
1985 Celia Dorris
Outstanding Administrative Service Award
1975 Ethel 0. Himelick
1976 Robert H. Showalter
1978 Edith Pittenger
1979 Norman E. Beck
1980 Robert P. Bell
1981 N. Nell Young
1982 Gertrude M. Kane
1983 John W. Hannaford
1984 Thomas Spangler
BALL STATE UNIVERSITY
OMEGA AND RECOGNITION
DINNER COMMITTEE
Charles Greenwood, Chairman
Jean Wittig and Sue Whitaker, Menu and Decorations
Robert and Elaine Fisher, Hospitality
Marie Fraser, Publicity
Joe L. Alford, Plaques
Jean Heffron, Entertainment
Ronald 0. McVey, Program Design
George Swafford, Tickets and Invitations
Our special thanks go to
the Alumni Association for providing the plaques
and to the Cardinal Corps.
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