An Official Employee Publication From the Office of University Relations

KU will honor 41 unclassified staff and faculty who are retiring this academic year. Chancellor Robert Hemenway and Provost David Shulenburger will host a dinner at 6:30 p.m. May 23 in the Kansas Union ballroom.

The Retirees’ Club will host a reception for the new retirees prior to the dinner. Retirees will be guests of the chancellor; tickets for other guests cost $15. For reservations, send a check payable to the KU Endowment Association to Bev Mater, 230 Strong Hall. Reservations should be made by May 15.

The chancellor’s office and the association sponsor the event through the generosity of the late Walter Bohnstengel, a 1910 KU graduate. Honorees, their years of service and departments are:

Jim Choate, 5, facilities operations;
Richard Cole, 36, philosophy;
Richard H. Colyer, 33, English;
Alita Y. Cooper, 44, human development and family life;
Don G. Daugherty, 37, electric engineering and computer science;
David A. Dinneen, 39, French and Italian;
Joe R. Eagleman, 39, physics and astronomy;
Warner Ferguson, 39, Kansas and Burge unions;
Marvin Fine, 35, psychology and research in education;
John Garland, 21, business;
Albert C. Gerken, 37, music and dance;
Rose L. Greaves, 32, history;
Sharon Kay Hagen, 37, biological sciences;
Edward J. Heck, 33, psychology and research in education;
Thomas A. Hedrick, 33, journalism;
Richard H. Himes, 37, molecular biosciences;
Julian C. Holtzman, 31, engineering management;
E. P. Johnsen, 32, psychology and research in education;
Alfred E. Johnson, 35, Museum of Anthropology;
J. Theodore Johnson Jr., 33, French
Bob Lockwood, 37, Recreation Services;
Lee Mann, 23, design;
Jadwiga Maurer, 31, Slavic
languages and literatures;
Thomas W. McCoy, 28, architecture;
Mary Ross Moran, 27, special education;
Marion O’Brien, 12, human development and family life;
W. John O’Brien, 29, ecology and evolutionary biology;
Norman Paige, 32, music and dance;
Daniel T. Politoske, 26, music and dance;
Carole Ross, 31, fine arts;
Elizabeth Schultz, 34, English;
Gary K. Schwartz, 12, athletics;
Earl J. Schweppe, 32, electrical engineering and computer science;
Robert J. Senecal, 32, Continuing Education;
Elizabeth F. Soppelsa, 21, Applied English Center;
T.P. Srinivasan, 32, mathematics;
Pawel Szeptycki, 40, mathematics;
Dick B. Tracy, 31, psychology and research in education;
Nick D. Vaccaro, 38, art;
Bob Wiseman, 28, geography;
Kai-Wai Wong, 37, physics and astronomy.