FACULTY AND STAFF NOTES

Pat Williams-Boyd's paper, "Social Services, Public Schools, and the Poor: A Dialectic of Empowerment, Collaboration and Communitarianism, Historical Perspectives, Contemporary Response," was chosen to be presented as one of four keynote papers during the opening session of the Fifth Annual Athens Institute for Education and Research conference, Athens, Greece.  Williams-Boyd was also named to chair the session which followed.

"School Safety for All: Using the Coordinated School Health Program to Increase Safety for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgendered or Questioning Students," by Kay Woodiel, Lisa Angermeier-Howard, and Suzanne Hobson has been accepted for publication by the American Journal of Health Studies.

Valerie Polakow will be in Washington, D.C. this week attending the Institute for Women's Policy Research.  She will present a paper (coauthored with Peggy Kahn) on "That's Not How I Want to Live" during a symposium focused on their forthcoming book, Shut Out: Low Income Mothers and Higher Education in Post-Welfare America. 

Ron Williamson recently attended the National Forum to Accelerate Middle Grades Reform, held in Alexandria, VA.  He is a member of the steering committee of this group.  Williamson was elected co-chair of the group for the 2003-2005 period.

Irene Allen has been reappointed to the EMU Women's Commission for a three-year term.

ALUMNI NOTES

Frances Berger '66, '73 teaches in the Detroit schools.

Larry Tabor '67, '71, '76, is retiring from his position as superintendent of the Van Buren public schools.

Jack Crabtree '67 has retired from coaching football at Saline High School. 

Jim Feldkamp '70, '73 was named the 2002 Athletic Director of the Year by the Michigan Interscholastic Athletic Administrators Association.  He was also honored as the 2002 Oakland County Athletic Director of the Year.

Gary Matsche '70, '74 has retired from his position as superintendent of the Fraser Public Schools.  He previously served that district as a coach, teacher, and principal.  He is currently teaching at Oakland University.

Janette Jackson '72, '77 is retiring from her position as principal of Ann Arbor's Allen Elementary School.

Linda Stock '72, '75 has retired from Bedford High School after 30 years of teaching.  She resides in Temperance where she and her husband operate a small business.

Terry Walters '73 is the associate superintendent for curriculum for the Saline Area schools.  He began his career as a mathematics and science teacher at Wylie Middle School in Dexter and later served as the school's assistant principal.  He has served on the Village of Dexter council and planning commission.

Timothy Lentz '74, '78 has been named the superintendent of the Sandusky  Community Schools.  He was formerly the principal of Maple Valley Elementary School.  He is an EMT specialist and instructor as well.

Norma LaVoy '74 has retired from her position as a fifth-grade teacher at Ida Middle School after 28 years of teaching.  She lives in Erie Township.

Helen Oliver '76, a teacher at Clague Middle School in Ann Arbor, received that district's "Celebrating the Excellence" award.

John Rose '76, '83, '93 is the principal of Ojibwa Elementary School in Macomb Township.  He was previously the assistant principal at Seneca Middle School.  He has been with the Chippewa Valley School District for more than 20 years.

Diane Skinner '76 has retired from her position as principal/director of Career and Technical Education at South and West Washtenaw Consortium. 

Stan Olson '77, '80 is the superintendent of schools for the Independent School District of Boise, Idaho.

Leit S. Jones '77 is assistant principal of Walled Lake Western High School.  He has almost 20 years of administrative experience in the Westwood district.

Hurley Coleman, Jr. '77 is director of the Department of Parks and Recreation for the City of Detroit.

Mary Ann Jaeger '84 has been named as principal of Ann Arbor's Dicken Elementary School.  Jaeger has been serving as principal of the Pittsfield Elementary School.

Susan Lewis '88 has been named principal of Ann Arbor's Pittsfield Elementary School.  She was former at Mitchell Elementary.

Geoff Adams '02, a secondary science teacher in Scottsdale, AZ, was named "teacher of the year" for his building.

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Wilma Gummerus, age 78, died recently in Ann Arbor.  She began her career as one of the first five women police officers in Detroit, then taught business courses at Farmington Hills High School for 32 years, retiring in 1990.

STUDENT NOTES

Casetta Brown, the valedictorian of the Cherry Hill School of Performing Arts, plans to attend EMU to become a teacher.

Nic Cooper will defend his dissertation "A Case Study of One Principal's Role in the Transformation of a Junior High School to a Middle School in an Affluent Suburban Community" on June 23, 10:00 a.m., Porter 301 B/C.  Ron Williamson is the chair.  The public is invited.

Catherine Ceglarek is the superintendent of the Allendale Public Schools.  Her son, Nick Ceglarek, is the superintendent of the Baldwin Public Schools.  Both are enrolled in EMU's doctoral program in educational leadership.  Nick Ceglarek was 29 years old when he accepted the superintendency last December.  The mother-son duo are the 2003 co-recipients of the Outstanding Administrator Award presented by the School of Education at Grand Valley State University.

The master's program in speech/language pathology has accepted students for this fall who have undergraduate degrees from such out-of-state institutions as Xavier University (New Orleans), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Calvin Coolidge College of Liberal Arts, Iowa State University, Ouachita Baptist University, Ohio University, Florida State University, and the University of Florida.

SHORT NOTES

Black Issues in Higher Education has identified EMU as being the 28^th largest producer of Black students in the field of education.

The COE Office of Collaborative Education has submitted forms to all COE faculty/staff members requesting information for the "Outside the Classroom" resource publication.  The deadline for responding is September 12.

A delegation from Cleveland State University toured the Porter Building in detail a few days ago.  That institution is in the early stages of planning a new Education building.

The COE Advising Center provided services to 1,144 students (excluding many post-baccalaureate students) during the August to May period.

The call for nominations for awards from the Association of Teacher Educators has been issued.  Nomination deadlines are at various times, depending on the category, in July. 

Award categories are "distinguished research in teacher education" (contact catsls@Mail1.Hofstra.edu), "distinguished clinician in teacher education" (contact jsnyder@coe.wayne.edu), "distinguished teacher educator" (contact johnm@siu.edu), "distinguished dissertation in teacher education" (contact ckelly@mail.uccs.edu), and "distinguished program in teacher education" (contact jreinhartz@uta.edu).

SPONSORED PROJECTS

Ellen Hoffman has received $96,479 from the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research for "Collaborative Project: Core Integration-Leading NSDL Toward Long-Term Success."  The purpose of this subcontract is to provide policy and design support for those Core Integration areas specifically addressing the K-12 community, taking advantage of EMU's importance as the largest producer of K-12 educators in the nation.

DEVELOPMENT NOTES

The John W. Porter Scholarship has been established through the generosity of former EMU president John W. Porter.  The recipient must be a full-time,  African-American (preferably male) student in the EMU initial teacher preparation program, with preference given to a student with a 3.2 GPA or higher.  The first award will be made for this coming fall.

The Fuller Foundation of Pasadena, CA has provided the funding for the Delores Soderquest Brehm Scholarship, which is for an undergraduate student preparing to become a special education teacher.   Selection of the recipient, according to the donor criteria, will be made within the Department of Special Education.