KU will honor retiring faculty and unclassified staff members with a dinner at 6 p.m. May 25 in the Kansas Union Ballroom.
Chancellor Robert Hemenway and Senior Vice Provost Kathleen McCluskey-Fawcett will recognize the employees during the annual dinner.
Retirees may bring one guest. Cost for additional guests is $15. For reservations, send a check payable to KU to Debra Bia, ProvostŐs Office, 250 Strong Hall. Reservation deadline is May 19.
Honorees, their departments and years of service are:
- Jan T. Barron, continuing education, 26
- Sharon Bass, journalism, 23, Stella Bentley, University Libraries, 4
- Surendra Bhana, history, 19
- Lelon R. Capps, teaching and leadership, 44
- Don Coppage, physics and astronomy, 27
- Leslie Dienes, geography, 38
- John M. Dillard, information services, 17
- Darwin Eakins, life span studies, 35
- Ellen Gold, communication studies, 33
- Nancy Harper, Institute for Educational Research and Public Service, 14
- Lawrence Hathaway, Kansas Geological Survey, 31
- Jean Hershey, Student Health Services, 18
- N. Ray Hiner, teaching and leadership, 39
- Charles Hoag, music and dance, 38
- Jean Jorgensen, life span studies, 4
- Jill Kleinberg, business, 17
- Diane Lazzarino, journalism, 37
- Joe Lee, civil, environmental and architectural engineering, 35
- George Lottes, health, sport and exercise science, 17
- Kenneth Mackenzie, business, 33
- Roger Martin, KU Center for Research, 30
- Carmen Mayer, life span studies, 21
- Carol Prentice, Office of the Provost, 34
- H. Joseph Reitz, business, 18
- Alice Roberts, Kansas Memorial Unions, 4
- Janet Roth, Center for Research on Learning, 17
- Joan Stone, music and dance, 18
- Kenneth Stoner, student housing, 21
- Susan L. Suhler, Kansas Space Grant Consortium and Kansas NASA EPSCoR Program, 4
- Sonja Vicker, information services, 9
- Carol von Tersch, student housing, 23
- Donald K. Watkins, linguistics, 37
- Ann Weick, social welfare, 30
- Nancy Yacher, English, 16
- Norman R. Yetman, sociology, 40
- Carole J. Zebas, health, sport and exercise science, 33