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Mortar Board honors five outstanding educators

Mortar Board has chosen five faculty members to receive Outstanding Educator Awards. The recipients will be announced at the Nov. 28 men's basketball game against Florida Atlantic University in Allen Fieldhouse. An Outstanding Educator ceremony and reception will be held at 1:30 p.m. Dec. 2 at the Malott Room in the Kansas Union.

This year's Mortar Board Outstanding Educators are: Paul Hanson, professor of chemistry; Mary Klayder, University Honors Lecturer in English; Scott Murphy, associate professor of music and dance; Ingrid Peterson, director of Kansas Algebra Program in the Department of Mathematics; and Amy Rossomondo, assistant professor of Spanish and Portuguese.

Mortar Board members nominate educators for their devotion to academia, teaching style, accessibility, knowledge of their subject and other special qualities identified by the KU chapter. Mortar Board's 39 members selected the winners.

Mortar Board membership is based on distinguished ability and achievement in scholarship, leadership and service. Students must have a 3.0 grade-point average and hold senior status during some or all of the academic year.

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In June 1945, Gertrude Sellards Pearson, a 1901 alumna, and her husband, Texas oilman Joseph R. Pearson, donated $200,000 to help build student housing. In the next 15 years, two residence halls and three scholarship halls opened. One residence hall, named for her, still houses women; the other, named for him, now is home to the School of Education. Pearson, Grace Pearson and Sellards scholarship halls were named for members of their families. For more, see www.buildings.ku.edu.