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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.

KU HISTORY

This month’s observation of Veterans Day and the recent success of the football team perfectly demonstrate the spirit behind the creation of KU’s Memorial Stadium. The athletic arena was officially dedicated on Armistice Day, Nov. 11, 1922, four years after the fighting stopped in the First World War. The project provided a home for sporting events and serves as a memorial to the 130 students, faculty and alumni who died in the war.