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Retiring Faculty / 1 HONORING

Erna Alant Elin K. Jacob Gary Pavlis Professor of Special Education, Associate Professor of Library Professor of Earth and Atmospheric School of Education and Information Science, Sciences and Director of Graduate School of Informatics, Computing, Studies, College of Arts and Sciences Carolyn G. Begley and Engineering Professor of Optometry, School Randall L. Peper of Optometry Myron Kanning Senior Scientist, Research Senior Lecturer, Kelley School Administration Julie Bobay of Business Walden Librarian and Executive Mark Phelps Associate Dean, University Libraries Teresa Kubiak Assistant Professor of Opera Studies, Professor of Music (Voice), Jacobs School of Music John E. Bodnar Jacobs School of Music Chancellor’s Professor of History Maureen A. Pirog and Distinguished Professor of History, Marcia M. Laux Rudy Professor of Policy Analysis, College of Arts and Sciences Clinical Assistant Professor of Nursing, School of Public and Environmental School of Nursing Afairs Daniel O. Conkle Robert H. McKinney Professor, Shyh-Yuan Lee Stephen W. Pratt Maurer School of Law Professor of Physics, College of Arts Professor of Music, Jacobs School and Sciences of Music Frank Richard DiSilvestro Associate Professor of Adult Education Alice K. Lindeman Rudolf A. Raf and Adjunct Associate Professor, Associate Professor of Applied Health Distinguished Professor and Rudy School of Education Science, School of Public Health Professor of Biology, College of Arts and Sciences Alan W. Ewert John Louis Lucaites Professor of Environmental and Provost Professor of English, Alice R. Robbin Occupational Health, School of Public College of Arts and Sciences Associate Professor of Library and Environmental Afairs and Information Science, Tricia P. McDougall-Covin School of Informatics, Computing, Kathy Jean Fletcher Haeberle Professor of Strategic and Engineering Senior Lecturer, Kelley School Management, Kelley School of Business of Business Earl Singleton Frederick L. McElroy Clinical Professor of Law, Edward Gubar Associate Professor of African American Maurer School of Law Lecturer, Hutton Honors College and African Diaspora Studies, College of Arts and Sciences Joel Stager Russell L. Hanson Professor of Kinesiology and Director Professor of Political Science, Barbara V. Miller of the Counsilman Center, School College of Arts and Sciences Senior Lecturer, Kelley School of Public Health of Business Raymond Hedin Thomas Y. Steiman-Cameron Professor of English and Adjunct Taemin K. Park Senior Scientist, College of Arts Professor of American Studies and Librarian, University Libraries and Sciences Individualized Major Program, College of Arts and Sciences

2 / Indiana University Bloomington H. Wayne Storey Emeritus Professor of Italian, College of Arts and Sciences

Ron Wainscott Professor of Theatre, Drama, and Contemporary Dance, College of Arts and Sciences

Pam B. Walters Rudy Professor of Sociology and Chairperson of American Studies, College of Arts and Sciences

Susan Whiston Professor of Counseling and Educational Psychology, School of Education

David Zaret Vice President for International Afairs and Professor of Sociology, College of Arts and Sciences

Christina Zarifopol-Illias Senior Lecturer in Classical Studies and Slavic and Eastern European Languages and Cultures, College of Arts and Sciences

Miriam Zolan Professor of Biology, College of Arts and Sciences

Retiring Faculty / 3 4 / Indiana University Bloomington ERNA ALANT

Professor Erna Alant earned her seminar held annually in the spring. Each bachelor’s, master’s, and Ph.D. in the feld year, she guided the development of this of speech-language pathology at the day-long seminar by engaging faculty and University of Pretoria in South Africa. She doctoral students in a decision-making joined the University of the Witwatersrand process to identify and invite a keynote in Johannesburg in 1978, moving to speaker for the event. Doctoral students Durban, Kwa-Zulu, Natal, to work at the and their faculty advisors also present Open Air School for Children with Physical current research fndings during the Disabilities. In 1984 she was appointed as seminar; the resulting discussions provide a clinical tutor-lecturer in communication a much-needed forum for joint faculty and pathology at the University of Pretoria, and doctoral student engagement. The was later promoted to professor. In 1990 importance of this opportunity for she founded the Centre for Augmentative collaboration among faculty, students, and and Alternative Communication (CAAC) at the eminent scholars invited as keynote the University of Pretoria. speakers cannot be overstated. The CAAC graduate center focused Dr. Alant has been a consistently on conducting research and training to supportive mentor for doctoral students promote the use of augmentative and and is to be particularly applauded for her alternative communication strategies work with international graduate students, (i.e., strategies aimed at supporting with whom she developed strong rapport communication for children and adults interaction between people who have little and for whom she provided in-depth and who have little or no speech). In 1995 the or no speech and their communication much-needed support. She is very warmly CAAC received the Education Africa partners. In her latest book, Augmentative regarded as a colleague and developed a Presidential Award from Nelson Mandela and Alternative Communication: reputation for her contributions to the for its work in South Africa. Dr. Alant’s Engagement and Participation (2017), professional development of women project “Communication for Life” also she developed a theoretical framework for faculty, including those who were received the Rolex Award for Enterprise in understanding meaning-making in pre-tenured and those in leadership roles. 1998. Since then, the CAAC has received interpersonal interactions. In May 2017, The Department of Curriculum and numerous national and international she received the Neville Cohen Award Instruction recognizes Dr. Erna Alant for awards recognizing its impact within the from the University of Pretoria for her her strong advocacy for those who may be African continent and beyond. contributions to the feld of augmentative marginalized, both in society and in higher In 2005 Dr. Alant co-edited a and alternative communication. education. She will be sorely missed for book with Dr. Lyle L. Lloyd from Purdue Beyond the many achievements her warmth, generosity, passion, guidance, University entitled AAC and Severe and contributions noted above, Professor and wisdom. Disability: Beyond Poverty, which was the Alant’s impact at Indiana University has frst book on the topic of poverty and AAC been felt in her energy and commitment to Lara Lackey intervention. She also received an award promoting understanding of the feld of Gretchen Butera from the American Association for special education beyond traditional Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities academic realms. During her time at IU, in recognition of her international she was instrumental in establishing the contributions in the feld. AAC-in-Action project, a collaborative In 2009 Dr. Alant accepted a position venture between Monroe County as professor and Otting Endowed Chair Community School Corporation, Speech of Special Education in the Department and Hearing Sciences, and IU Special of Curriculum and Instruction at the Education faculty. In the months leading Indiana University School of Education up to retirement, she has been facilitating in Bloomington. Between 2009 and her an online training, discussion, and support retirement in spring 2018, she taught network for educators and families who undergraduate and graduate courses in teach or care for individuals with special education as well as in the augmentative and alternative Department of Speech and Hearing. communication needs. She has made a Dr. Alant also acted as coordinator for the point of bringing experts to campus who doctoral program in special education. She can speak about special education to a very served as president of the International broad audience that includes Society for Augmentative and Alternative undergraduate and graduate students, Communication from 2011 to 2012. academics, and the general population. Professor Alant’s research over One important contribution Dr. Alant the past 30 years has focused on made to IU’s special education program understanding the nature of symbolic was the establishment of a research

Retiring Faculty / 5 CAROLYN G. BEGLEY

Carolyn G. Begley is a native of Evansville, and notes that she “has been infuential in Indiana. After attending public schools nurturing some very successful young there, she enrolled at Indiana University, female scientists.” Robin Chalmers, one of pursuing an interest in the sciences. After Carolyn’s collaborators from outside IU, completing her undergraduate degree in observes that Carolyn thoroughly mentors biology in 1976, she started graduate her graduate students preparing talks work in biology, with an emphasis in “until their talks make sense and until they paleobotany, at Indiana University. The could feld important questions from the study of fossils allowed her to combine her audience.” Nicholas Port, with whom excitement for biology with the study of Carolyn has taught anatomy and geology. However, as she was approaching physiology to optometry students, says the completion of her M.S. degree in that she “is a very popular professor and 1979, she realized that job openings for good reason. She is organized and in paleobotany were not as numerous as keeps the course constantly clinically she had hoped. relevant.” After looking into various other Away from the hustle and bustle felds of study, Carolyn recognized that of corneal stains, manuscript deadlines, optometry would provide an opportunity and lecture preparation, Carolyn enjoys to mesh her enthusiasm for biology with regular exercise, baking bread and pies, outstanding prospects for employment. entomology, and time with family, She entered optometry school at IU in the on everyday life. To work toward the including her three grandchildren. She has fall of 1979 and completed her Doctor of development of better clinical tests for dry also traveled across the United States with Optometry degree in 1983. Carolyn then eye, Carolyn has done extensive studies of her husband, Jiri Dadok, to do bird practiced optometry for a year in tear-flm stability, looking at its dynamics, watching and nature photography. She can Mound, Minnesota. imaging characteristics, and relation afrm that bird watching is not the tame In 1984, Carolyn returned to Indiana to symptoms. avocation that some may think it is; she University to serve on the optometry Carolyn has taught courses in basic has been almost run over by a bufalo and faculty. She has been at IU since then, and advanced contact lens ftting, systemic has had to watch out for mountain lions. progressing through the faculty ranks and pathology, anatomy, and physiology to As the authors of this bio can attest, she became full professor in 2003. In 1987– professional optometry students and has even been a successful matchmaker, 88, she took a leave of absence for a courses on the physiology and cellular introducing one of her colleagues to her postdoctoral fellowship in the Department biology of the cornea and conjunctiva to sister. Those who know her best, of Ophthalmology at the University of M.S. and Ph.D. students in the vision family members and colleagues alike, Illinois. She credits that experience with science program. She served as the appreciate her sense of humor and kind, helping her to learn many of the research chairperson or committee member for supportive manner. methods that propelled her to the forefront more than 20 M.S. and Ph.D. students and in clinical cornea and contact lens research. the advisor for more than 90 optometry David A. Goss Carolyn’s research has advanced students completing their student research Diane Begley Goss the understanding of corneal and contact requirement. She also has many years of lens–related ocular disease, particularly experience as a clinical instructor for the complicated, confusing, yet highly third- and fourth-year optometry students prevalent condition commonly known as in the IU Contact Lens Clinic. dry eye. In her dry eye studies, she has Carolyn has received many awards for collaborated with many investigators from her work. In 1997, she was the recipient of optometry schools and private practices, the American Academy of Optometry’s often taking the leadership role in Garland Clay Award for her frequently organizing and maintaining those cited paper, “Characteristics of corneal collaborations. staining in hydrogel contact lens wearers.” Because of an apparent lack of In 1999 and 2007, she received IU’s correlation of symptoms and clinical test Teaching Excellence Recognition Award, results in dry eye, a signifcant emphasis of and she has been given Professor of the Carolyn’s research has been to address Year awards from many classes of better assessment of symptoms, along with optometry students. development of better methods of clinical Colleagues hold Carolyn in high evaluation. She has collaborated on the esteem. Arthur Bradley of the IU development of patient questionnaires to optometry faculty speaks of her “as an evaluate the frequency and intensity of exemplar of professional success based symptoms and the impact of dry eye purely on talent and accomplishment,”

6 / Indiana University Bloomington JULIE BOBAY

Julie Bobay’s career with the Indiana Julie had a long and distinguished University Bloomington Libraries has record of leadership and service to the spanned 36 years, beginning in 1981 when campus. Her peers elected her to the she was a visiting assistant librarian in the Bloomington Faculty Council (BFC) six business library. However, from 1979 to times; she served as secretary for three 1981, Julie was the frst secretary in the terms, and two terms on the BFC Agenda reference department, starting in a Committee. Julie was the co-chair of the half-time role. During that time, Ann infuential BFC Budgetary Afairs Bristow introduced Julie to Dr. Judy Committee for 10 years. She served on Serebnick, who inspired her to enroll in numerous university administrative the M.L.S. program. She was also a student committees, including twice (once as reference assistant while earning her M.L.S. co-chair) on search committees for the Julie concluded her career as dean of libraries. She has been a strong executive associate dean at the librarian voice for faculty governance, serving a rank. In between, she served in many term as president of the local chapter of positions and always left an indelible mark the Association of American University on the units and departments where she Professors, and as its treasurer for over worked—and ultimately, on the Indiana 20 years. University Bloomington Libraries and its In addition to her M.L.S., Julie earned collections and services. Julie was at the a Certifcate of Public Management and a forefront of many momentous changes in in 2007, when she became associate Master of Public Afairs from the IU School libraries, and specifcally in the IU dean for collection development and of Public and Environmental Afairs. She Libraries, as they moved from print-based digital scholarship. In that role, she was an adjunct professor for the School of to electronic resources, and from the oversaw the library’s transition to Library and Information Science, where twentieth century into the twenty-frst. becoming a publisher and repository for she taught classes on library automation. Julie was there: openly accessible research and Julie’s research, publications, and in 1984, as the frst full-time publications. Her many accomplishments presentations refect the innovative work instruction librarian in the Libraries. include, with colleagues in the libraries she did in the areas of usability; she She established the instruction ofce and and faculty, launching IUScholarWorks organized libraries for change, new developed a program to provide teaching Journals and the IUScholarWorks services development, electronic scholarly support and encourage best practices Repository. Julie was a leader in the publishing, and open access. across all public-facing library units. development of Open Folklore, a national It is hard to capture all of the ways in in 1991, as a leader in the NOTIS award-winning repository of openly which Julie contributed to the success of (Northwestern Online Total Integrated available folklore content developed and the IU Libraries. Julie’s thoughtful counsel, System) community in the development of supported by the IU Libraries and the her unwavering belief in the importance of IUCAT, the library catalog. She was called American Folklore Society. libraries to the research and teaching upon to provide input to NOTIS leadership in 2015, when called upon to be the mission of the university, and her about changes to the design of the catalog executive associate dean. In this role, Julie generosity and collegiality are missed, not at a time when systems were mainframe led the libraries’ work in launching the just in the libraries, but across the many only and did not provide the fexibility that ambitious $15 million Mass Digitization departments and organizations she worked web-based catalogs provided beginning in and Preservation Initiative (MDPI) to with during the course of her career at the 2000s. She used her expertise in screen digitize at-risk, time-based media. Prior to Indiana University. design to make strong recommendations her retirement, she led the recently that would make the catalog more usable launched MDPI-2, a $12 million project Carolyn Walters and user friendly. for digitizing flm. Julie served as the in 1994, as assistant automation dean’s designee for promotion and tenure ofcer for public services, when she and a issues and support, working with the colleague developed the libraries frst libraries’ Faculty Standards Committee Gopher site to distribute, search, and and the Ofce of the Vice Provost for retrieve documents over the Internet. Faculty and Academic Afairs to align IU Gopher was a predecessor of the World Libraries’ promotion and tenure process Wide Web. with the process used across campus. in 1995, when the Electronic Services This signifcant change led to voting on and Resources Department was created. promotion and tenure decisions by all As the frst head of the department and the tenured librarians rather than only libraries’ electronic resources ofcer, committee members, and to librarian Julie led the move to electronic journals representation on the campus promotion and indexes. and tenure committees.

Retiring Faculty / 7 JOHN E. BODNAR

I frst met John Bodnar several years review essays and extended comments.” after the 1992 publication of his book His books on immigration range from Remaking America: Public Memory, Immigration and Industrialization Commemoration, and Patriotism in the (1977) to Workers’ World (1982) to The Twentieth Century, which was nominated Transplanted (1985). The latter responds for a Pulitzer Prize. John had already critically to Oscar Handlin’s infuential published important books in labor history 1952 book, The Uprooted. Bodnar’s book and the history of immigration—and with understands the immigrant experience as Remaking America, he turned to projects far more than disorientation and that focused on the complexities of public powerlessness. Rather, ethnic communities memory. I had looked forward to meeting transplanted signifcant cultural traditions him, since we shared interest in the feld. I into their new communities. As one recall fondly a long and good conversation, reviewer noted, “These transplanted and I remember thinking, “It surely would cultures gave them confdence, resources, be wonderful to be just down the hall from and the ability to negotiate the terms of John, so we could talk about these things their entry into American society.” His often.” Happily, this wish came true, for in work on public memory includes the 2005, I joined the history department aforementioned Remaking America as faculty, and I thought it ftting that as well as Blue-Collar Hollywood (2003) and department chairperson, John Bodnar The ‘Good War’ in American Memory made the call ofering me a position. imaginatively to put us on the map. He (2010), which makes more complex the John’s memories of his youth: drew a wide range of stimulating visitors to popular template of “the good war” as the “(I was) raised in a dying coal mining the institute and did a great job facilitating best interpretive lens through which to town in Pennsylvania. I thought I had the their interactions with faculty and view the United States’ experience of good fortune as a young man to visit my students. John was honest and very World War II. He is currently at work on a uncle in Cleveland, where I grew attached modest; he was hard-working, dedicated, book titled Patriotic Optics and America’s to the city’s sports teams. It was a joyful and highly collaborative. And he loved his War on Terror. experience at the time. Little did I know hazelnut-favored cofee. I miss him.” Highlights of John’s many awards, that it would lead to an adulthood of sports John also served for more than two fellowships, and appointments include futility and emotional frustration as decades as co-director of the Center for the grants from the John Simon Guggenheim Cleveland’s teams embarked on a half Study of History and Memory. Barbara Foundation, two grants from the National century of losing and losing. Things have Truesdell began working with John in Endowment for the Humanities, and improved slightly in recent years, except 1990 as a graduate student and in 1992 appointment as a fellow at the Center for that the city’s pro football team has won became the center’s full-time assistant Advanced Study, Stanford University. He only once in its last 29 games. Sometimes I director. She notes that “working with occupied the Florence Chair in American wish my uncle had moved almost John has been the most infuential and History at the European University anywhere else when it comes to sports.” rewarding professional relationship of my Institute in Florence, Italy, was selected for Fortunately, John did not let these life. He has been my teacher, a member of a visiting lectureship at the John F. sports miseries derail his pathbreaking my dissertation committee, and a Kennedy Institute of the Free University work. He joined the faculty of the IU supportive, collaborative presence as my of Berlin, served as a member of the history department in 1981, receiving a supervisor at the center.” history jury for the Pulitzer Prize, and was Chancellor’s Professorship in 2000, and James Madison, former chairperson elected president of the Immigration a Distinguished Professorship in 2013. of the history department, recalls John’s History Society. John served eight years as department extraordinary service to the department: John will fnd retirement busy, as chairperson, director of the Institute for “In the midst of one of the more difcult of IU and others continue to make use of his Advanced Study for four years, associate his many committee duties, John was estimable talents. John and Donna will dean of the faculties for two years, and heard to say, ‘I just want to put my head also enjoy more time with their son, Eric, for more than two decades served as down and do my work.’ It became and long who lives in Bloomington, and their co-director of the Center for the Study remained a mantra for many of us.” daughter, Brenna, and son-in-law, Kipp, of History and Memory, working with John has helped shape two quite who live in Arlington, Virginia, with their assistant director Barbara Truesdell. diferent historical sub-felds: social three children: 14-year-old Sophie, Ivona Hedin, the institute’s associate history and the history of memory. The 12-year-old Francesca, and six-year- director, recalls: history department’s letter of nomination old John. “During my four years working with for IU’s Distinguished Professorship A ftting conclusion: something I have John, he had a compelling vision of what reported, “Since 1977, he has published six often said to John on the seventh foor of the institute should be and a clear-eyed single-authored books and four edited or Ballantine Hall, “You are the best, JB!” sense of how to advance its mission. He co-authored works. In addition, he has used the IAS’s meager resources over 36 scholarly articles as well as many Edward T. Linenthal

8 / Indiana University Bloomington DANIEL O. CONKLE

Dan Conkle’s frst career aspiration was to frequent election by his peers to the law be a milkman. I think he could have made school’s policy committee, to selling cofee it. But he let that dream go for a chance to and tea from the Conkle Cofee Shop (his join his father in a small-town, smaller- ofce) to support the impoverished village frm legal practice in Marion, Ohio. That of Posoltega, Nicaragua. Dan’s concern for goal required law school training; but law Nicaraguans arose out of a sister-church school changes plans, and it changed relationship started by the First Dan’s. In his second year at The Ohio State Presbyterian Church, for which he is an University College of Law, he began to elder. Since 1995, he has worked with the contemplate teaching law. After he people of Posoltega, leading numerous graduated frst in his class, his route to trips to Nicaragua and maintaining the legal academia included once-traditional relationship when back in the United stops at a prestigious federal clerkship, States. Dan has made his life about service with Judge Edward Allen Tamm, and a to his communities. prestigious law frm, Taft Stettinius & With his skills of planning and Hollister. He reached Indiana University organization and the salesmanship shown in 1983, partly due to our good luck that, in his cofee shop, Dan might have been an when he few in to Champaign, the outstanding milkman. But we’re glad he University of Illinois just looked too fat. rerouted his career to the law school, At the law frm, Dan had practiced where, despite his ofcial retirement, he civil litigation, and he was hoping to teach attendees learned that thoughts too hastily will continue his life’s work of teaching civil procedure at IU. The dean allowed voiced on either side of an issue would be and writing. him to do that, but only if he would also dissected and interrogated by Dan. He was teach constitutional law. Thus, somewhat always gentle and measured, but when he Jefrey Evans Stake randomly, was born a constitutional law was done the gaps in one’s reasoning scholar. By the mid-1990s, Dan’s teaching would be exposed. He is your frst choice if and research were focused solely on you need exacting analysis. constitutional law. He has authored two Students love him, too. For more than books on the subject: Constitutional Law: 30 years, Dan the Man has been known as The Religion Clauses and Religion, Law, one of the best—and to many the best— and the Constitution, along with many teacher at the IU Maurer School of Law. articles. His masterly examination of Reading the glowing evaluations by his constitutional issues won him a number students is a lesson in humility. They of fellowships, culminating with his appreciate not only his mastery of the appointment as the Robert H. McKinney material but also his organized, incisive, Professor of Law. and funny presentation of difcult Dan gives credit to two of his constitutional doctrine. He has twice Ohio State professors: Claude R. Sowle received the Leon Wallace Award for for inspiring meticulous planning, excellence in teaching—the law school’s organization, and clarity, and Michael highest faculty honor—as well as other J. Perry for inspiring passion and ofcial accolades, including two Gavel enthusiasm. Those of us who know Dan Awards for his outstanding contribution to fnd it hard to imagine him being anything the graduating class. He approaches the but meticulous and enthusiastic; it is hard most sensitive of legal subjects with a to conceive that he was not born that way. neutrality that allows students the freedom It seems more likely that Dan saw in those to reach their own conclusions, while at teachers some of his own potential for the same time demanding of them precise teaching greatness, and saw in law school a logic and careful attention to the facts and place where his wonderful talents would be law. He trains students to be great lawyers put to good use. In law teaching, his (of course) as well as deliberative legal precision and ability to expose the thinkers and policy makers. He models the assumptions in doctrinal and policy principled thinker. analysis would be prized. Dan’s service has gone far beyond No one thinks about law more teaching and writing, from deep carefully than Dan. For decades, law engagement in Indiana University’s faculty members gathered in the faculty Poynter Center for the Study of Ethics and lounge for brown-bag lunches; Dan American Institutions, to chairing many attended these lunches regularly. Other critically important committees, to

Retiring Faculty / 9 FRANK RICHARD DiSILVESTRO

Frank DiSilvestro has dedicated his career Frank’s career included numerous at Indiana University to the study and service contributions. He was president of practice of lifelong learning. He is a the Indiana Personnel and Guidance graduate of Rutgers University, where he Association in 1979 and was elected to the received his undergraduate degree in National University Continuing Education political science (1966) and his master’s Association (NUCEA) board of directors degree in counseling (1968). He then and executive committee, serving from served in the U.S. Army medical service 1981 to 1982. He served on the Indiana before continuing his graduate education, University Faculty Council and was a earning a doctoral degree in counseling member or chair of numerous committees and guidance from Indiana University in in the School of Continuing Studies and 1973. After working for the Indiana State School of Education, including academic Department of Education as a counseling policies committees and tenure and consultant, he joined the Indiana promotion committees. University School of Continuing Studies as In addition to his university service, an assistant professor in 1976. Frank served in numerous community Frank served in diferent capacities in service capacities. He was a member of the the school’s Division of Extended Studies, Monroe County Community School which administered the Indiana University Corporation board of trustees for eight Independent Study program and the years, where he served as president for university-wide General Studies Degree University School of Medicine, where three years. He served on committees for Program. He was associate director of the he taught in the Patient-Physician the First United Methodist Church in Division for Independent Study. During his Relationship course. He taught frst-year Bloomington. He was particularly fond of tenure with the division, when he worked medical students how to listen to and his service for the Bloomington North with Dr. Larry Keller and Jackie Clark, the communicate efectively with patients. Rotary Club, where he served as president Independent Study program won 27 With Dr. Sarah Tieman, he developed the and member of the board of directors and national awards for outstanding courses, Indiana Communication Skills Assessment chaired various service committees. In more than any other university in the Scale that is currently used in assessing recognition for his service, he received the country. During apartheid, he also led a medical students’ listening and organization’s highest distinction when he team of IU faculty to South Africa in 1986 communication skills. Frank was a was named a Rotary Paul Harris Fellow. under a Ford Foundation grant to allow regular guest speaker about active listening IU colleagues invited to share gifted black South Africans access to in the IU School of Optometry, the IU refections on working with Frank admired higher education through Indiana Police Academy, and IU Mini University. his professionalism and dedication to the University’s Independent Study program. He also taught a course titled Listening programs of the School of Continuing This special program, titled the Indiana Dynamics in Business in the IU Kelley Studies and the lifelong learners it served. University/Khanya College Program, won School of Business, where he received Frank is also described as unfailingly kind, the American College Testing Program multiple Teaching Excellence generous, thoughtful, and positive in Award and the National University Recognition Awards. outlook. Many described him as the best Extension Association Innovations in Frank became chair of the School of listener they ever met, practicing his area Continuing Education Award in 1987. Continuing Studies Graduate Program in of academic expertise. A colleague wrote: In 1998 Frank was named director of the Adult Education in 2009. Following the “When speaking with someone else, Frank university-wide General Studies Degree closing of the School of Continuing focuses completely on the other person, Program that enabled numerous adult Studies, he led the transition of the Adult whether old friend or new acquaintance, students to earn a general studies degree Education graduate program into the IU and then invariably follows up in from a distance. School of Education in 2012. There Frank appropriate, perceptive ways.” In addition to his administrative served as coordinator of the Adult Frank has received recognition for his responsibilities, Frank distinguished Education graduate program housed in the many achievements, but what is most himself as a very active faculty member. Department of Instructional Systems important to him is his family. He has been He published numerous articles related to Technology. He led the program to develop married to Ruth for 44 years and they have lifelong learning, taught graduate-level a Certifcate in Adult Education as well as a three children, Russell, Frank Anthony, courses, and participated in numerous doctoral minor in adult education. Frank and Elizabeth, and 13 grandchildren. service activities. He taught graduate-level was awarded the School of Education Frank looks forward to spending more adult education courses and was Trustees’ Teaching Award in 2014. In time with his family, continuing his particularly interested in the role of 2016, he and colleague Dr. Marge Tref consulting, and pursuing hobbies including listening and dialogue in learning. In were awarded the American Association of painting, reading, and golf. addition to his full-time faculty Adult and Continuing Education (AAACE) appointment, Frank held a part-time Malcolm Knowles Award for outstanding Henry S. Merrill faculty appointment in the Indiana adult education program leadership.

10 / Indiana University Bloomington A L A N W. EW ERT

Innovator, collaborator, consummate outlet to share ongoing research projects. researcher: These keywords describe the Alan worked collaboratively with professional accomplishments of Professor students, faculty, and others engaged in Alan Ewert. His educational background writing, program development, and includes a Bachelor of Science in natural service. His facility for engaging others is resource management from the University apparent in the number of his publications of Wisconsin (1972), a Master of Science and presentations, as well as the number in physical education and outdoor of new and innovative programs he has recreation from Eastern Washington fostered. For Alan, collaboration comes University (1977), and a Ph.D. in frst; research articles, presentations, recreation and park management from the projects, and learning activities emanate University of Oregon (1982). He also from that process. served in the U.S. Air Force as a survival Alan has made over 150 research instructor from 1973 to 1977, receiving an presentations (70 of them refereed); honorable discharge with Airman’s Medal. made 126 professional presentations Alan was born and attended high (18 refereed); published 104 research school in Wausau, Wisconsin. In 1984, he abstracts (52 refereed); and published married Alison Voight, Ph.D., and they 198 research journal articles (121 invited have two adult children, Alyssa and or refereed). In addition, he has authored Alanna. Throughout Alan’s career, he and or co-authored 36 textbooks. his family lived in various places across the As an innovator, Alan initiated He is recognized consistently for country, as well as internationally. He held over 25 projects involving curriculum scholarship, as evidenced by numerous positions as a research scientist in development, research, and departmental invited and keynote presentations and by southern California and as a research chief programs. While working with the U.S. his 2012 Outstanding Researcher Award in Washington, D.C., and the family Forest Service, he developed its Wildland- from Indiana University School of Public immigrated to northern British Columbia, Urban Interface Recreation Research Health-Bloomington. His grant attainment Canada, before coming to Indiana Project, resulting in cutting-edge research totals over $500,000. Further, he has University Bloomington in 1998. fndings regarding users of parks in the contributed his expertise as a reviewer and A combination of education Pacifc Southwest. He also developed the editor to over 40 research journals. and military training defnes Alan’s Aldo Leopold Wilderness Research What distinguishes Alan’s teaching, extraordinary expertise. Because of his Institute and created a Human Dimensions research, and service career is the number military survival training, he became Research Program for the Washington, of his service involvements (42), along outdoor instructor and programmer for the D.C., ofce of the U.S. Forest Service. with an efective publication and City of Spokane (Washington) Department Other innovations included presentation schedule. His service is of Recreation. From 1980 to 1998, he was development of a Research Hotline, recognized through many awards, assistant professor at Eastern Washington Research Connections newsletter, and an including Distinguished Researcher in University and The Ohio State University, online Adventure Research Cache that is Experiential Education from the and then director of professional available to a wide audience. Association of Experiential Education, the development for Pacifc Crest Outward At Indiana University, Alan developed J. B. Nash Scholar Award, and the Julian Bound (1987–88). From 1988 to 1994, he the CORE program, a semester-long Smith Award. He is certifed in all of his was a supervisory research social scientist outdoor learning experience for a cadre of areas of expertise: he is a Certifed for the U.S. Forest Service, then branch students who take a full course load Forester, a Certifed Member of the chief for Recreation, Wilderness, and together, experience a major expedition, Academy of Board Certifed Environmental Urban Forestry Research. From 1994 to and have many other experiential learning Professionals, and holds many other 1998, he returned to academia as professor opportunities. CORE has been available to certifcations in skill-specifc areas. and program chair in Resource Planning IU students for over 20 years, and is now In sum, Alan’s career is noted for the and Tourism at the University of Northern ofered by the National College of Physical strong impact of innovative projects, British Columbia in Prince George, Canada. Education and Sports in Taiwan. Alan is expanding lines of research, and extension Alan was hired in 1998 as IU’s frst also responsible for the graduate-level of student learning opportunities beyond Patricia and Joel Meier Endowed Outdoor Therapeutic Outdoor Programs Certifcate traditional curricular oferings. Leadership Chair in the Department of Program in recreation therapy in the In retirement, Alan plans to move Recreation, Park, and Tourism Studies outdoor setting. He also implemented the to the Bend, Oregon, area to continue his (RPTS) in the School of Public Health- Bradford Woods Research Team process outdoor pursuits, writing, and enjoying Bloomington, where he has remained. that involves undergraduate and graduate his family. During his tenure, he also served as students and faculty in important research associate dean for programs and planning projects at the 2,400-acre property Lynn Jamiesen (2001–03), graduate studies coordinator managed by RPTS. And he began an for RPTS, and chair of the Department of annual Adventure Research Symposium Environmental Health (2013–17). that provides students and experts with an

Retiring Faculty / 11 KATHY JEAN FLETCHER

If I were to knit a shawl of Kathy Fletcher’s There are two more special buttons on life, it would be full of earthy colors, a Kathy’s shawl. Jeremy was born 30 years zigzag design, and crazy creative edges, ago during Ron’s and Kathy’s stint in and it would be held together with three Towson, Maryland. Kendra was born heart-shaped buttons. 27 years ago in Lincoln, Nebraska. Jeremy I am honored to have the opportunity and Kendra are Kathy’s pride and joy. They to celebrate Kathy’s journey toward are, in so many ways, like Kathy. They are retirement. I have worked with her for down to earth, follow their hearts, and are 17 years. She has been my travel buddy to bright and creative. faraway lands and my roommate at every I wish I could knit. I would knit a academic conference I have attended, from shawl of Kathy’s life to show her how much Norfolk to Seattle. She has been my we appreciate all she has done for her colleague and my friend. Now, she will be colleagues and her students. Part of her relegated to “just” friend as she takes a will always be in CPCS, since she was one step out of academic life and into of the frst instructors hired when the retirement. But, back to the shawl I would department was created. We will miss her knit for her—if I could. but know that she will enjoy this new I have seen pictures of Kathy back in chapter in her life which will, without a the day. She looked like the iconic fower doubt, include theatre, knitting, and child—simple and sweet with a smile that spending time with her amazing family. suggested her spirit—her earthy spirit. She Dr. Fletcher. During that time, she also has aged a bit since those college days but found time to co-write two theatre Sue Vargo she has remained down to earth, although textbooks: Theatre: Collaborative Acts she is still attracted to unique and funky and Plays Onstage: An Anthology, both jewelry! Kathy is strong-willed and always co-written with Ron Wainscott. honest with feedback. This characteristic The edges on Kathy’s shawl would made her such an amazing teacher. She is have to be crazy and creative. She loved all someone my father would have called “the things performance-related even if they salt of the earth.” In fact, she told me what were a little avant-garde. I sat at a play in she wanted this bio to say. She wanted me Philadelphia at a small box theatre and to write “She came, she taught, she wrote a slept, only to wake up to Kathy’s exciting couple of textbooks, and she left.” replay of all that I missed. Kathy also The pattern in Kathy’s shawl would expressed her creativity with her spinning have a zigzag design all over, representing and knitting, a passion she discovered in the twists and turns she has taken in her 1995. For years, she drove regularly to career. After earning her M.A. in drama Sheep Street Fibers in Martinsville to knit from the University of Toronto and her with others and learn how to spin. She is Ph.D. from Indiana University in the part of a close-knit group whose members Department of Theatre and Drama, she travel together to knit, laugh, and share a zigzagged around the country to teach good martini or two! I expect we will see theatre courses at Towson University, the many more creations from Kathy, as her University of Maryland, Doane College, hands will be free from grading papers the University of Nebraska, and Indiana and speeches. University. In 1999 she took a sharp turn Warm colors, zigzag designs, and and joined the IU Kelley School of crazy edges will make a wonderful shawl, Business to teach Listening, Business but the real treasure of the shawl will be Communication, and fnally, Business the three heart-shaped buttons that hold Presentations. Teaching Business everything together. While Kathy was a Presentations was a perfect match for doctoral student at IU, she met the frst of Kathy. She has taught thousands of her buttons. Ron Wainscott was a students how to speak in a professional handsome and talented student who setting with a touch of drama and class. quickly saw the virtue of a beautiful young Her Communication, Professional, and woman. They married. They remained Computer Skills (CPCS) colleagues and together, and will retire together. She often all of her students in the Kelley school has commented how lucky she is to have were blessed to cross paths with someone who is her lover and her friend.

12 / Indiana University Bloomington EDWARD GUBAR

After 34 years of service to Indiana Andrea Ciccarelli, dean of the Hutton him from my frst moments at IU (as my University Bloomington and its students, Honors College, writes: college advisor), to my last (as a trusted Edward Gubar retires as a faculty member “Over the years, Edward Gubar has mentor and professor). Over those four as well as the director of publications and served in various additional administrative years we spent countless hours in his ofce the undergraduate grant program in IU’s capacities, including as acting dean of the talking about the Hutton Honors College, Hutton Honors College (HHC). Honors College in 2002 and as chair of the journalism, the Yankees and the Giants, Born and raised in New Jersey, he honors scholarship committee. Edward Boston and New York, dogs, and family earned his undergraduate degree in was not just a very popular teacher and a and friends. Lectures and stories still stand English from City College of New York, competent colleague who chaired for many out in my mind. Time together has led and an M.F.A. in fction and a master’s in years our vital grant committee, but also from where I was to where I am now. English from the University of Iowa. His an overall committed pedagogue, who Congratulations on your career Ed, and I fction, nonfction, and journalism have coordinated students’ creative activities wish you all the best—and want to send all appeared in a variety of magazines and such as Labyrinth, Hutton’s literary my thanks.” more than 25 newspapers. He has received magazine. His communicative skills and Former student Mo Siddiq writes: a National Endowment for the Humanities his natural way to involve students in “Professor Gubar was the National College Teaching Fellowship and working on creative endeavors were personifcation of the rare professor every numerous grants from the Indiana trademarks that will be difcult to replace.” college student hopes to fnd. Not simply Committee for the Humanities. Edward has been described by because he is an excellent teacher who Edward has taught writing and students as a “truly excellent professor,” a provokes critical inquiry, but because he is literature at IU since 1983, frst in the “good guy who genuinely cares about both steadfast in his conviction that students School of Journalism and then in the the students and the subject matter,” and a are a university’s most promising resource Hutton Honors College. He was awarded teacher who “gets to know each of his and most deserving of investment. I knew the 2013 Trustees’ Teaching Award by the students.” Such comments have been made Ed beyond the classroom because he Ofce of the Vice Provost for Faculty and in course evaluations and in impromptu, encouraged me to apply for several Hutton Academic Afairs. Students credit him with informal conversations, and they convey Honors College grants that allowed me to sharpening their reading, writing, and his commitment to encouraging the best in do research without interruption during speaking skills; deepening their each student. As one student wrote, “He my undergraduate years. Informally, and understanding of their own and other takes the time to work with students on perhaps more importantly, I began to times and societies; and sparking new their skills and their plans for the future. know Ed over several cofee breaks and interests. Recent courses he taught include He has had an enormous impact on me, occasional lunches as a compassionate Media, Politics, and Elections; Reading and I am very grateful to him.” mentor who believed that his job—and that and Writing Short Fiction; Journalists in As director of publications, of the Hutton Honors College—was to be Fact, Fiction, and Film; 1963–74— Edward has been responsible for ofcial the wind at the backs of young students Assassination to Impeachment; publications designed to reach current and as they develop intellectual passions, Transformations and Metamorphoses; future students and other constituencies in pursuits, and a purposeful sense of Global Identities; and the HHC core course and beyond the university, for the wonder about the world. Thanks for Ideas and Experiences II. program’s website, and, as faculty advisor everything, Ed!” In 2000, Edward set up the Hutton for Labyrinth, the 37-year-old, student- In retirement, Edward will be able to International Experiences Program edited honors literary magazine. spend more time with his children and (HIEP), the College of Arts and Sciences’ Mara Gonzalez Souto, a former grandchildren, and he hopes to write more signature grant program. The HIEP has student, recalls that Professor Gubar was and travel far. grown immensely from its initial awards to always supportive. She recalls the structure two students. Each year the HIEP and the of his lectures and his way of posing Charlene Brown mostly domestic Undergraduate Grant challenging questions to students, making Elaine Hehner Program award close to $1.7 million to his class interesting and enjoyable. She more than 600 IU undergraduates in and especially appreciated how much he beyond the Honors Program for research, encouraged the class to drive the pre-professional and teaching internships, conversations and debates and to think creative activity, service activities, through arguments. Following her professional travel, study abroad, and experience as his student in Ideas and other international experiences. Edward Experiences II, she remained in contact and his colleagues have put in place with him, and he mentored her during her requirements that preview processes career search and graduate school students will encounter post-graduation application process. when applying for grants in the Matthew Callahan, another former professional and academic realms, always student, recalls: endeavoring to encourage and support “Edward has been one of the most student ambition, initiative, and success. important infuences on my life. I knew

Retiring Faculty / 13 RUSSELL L. HANSON

After 37 years in the Department of co-author of an award-winning textbook, Political Science at Indiana University Politics in the American States, 7th–11th Bloomington, Russ Hanson retired on editions by Virginia Gray, Russell L. December 31, 2017. His friends, Hanson, and Thad Kousser (Congressional colleagues, and students salute his Quarterly Press, 2017). Russ has done distinguished contributions to research extensive outreach in the public schools; and teaching and his important service to he has played a major role in many rounds the College of Arts and Sciences, the of curricular revision at the department, university, and the feld of political science. College, and university levels; and he has Russ earned a B.S. in political science been a role model for both students at St. Johns College in 1975 and proceeded and colleagues. to graduate study in political science at the Russ has been a major contributor University of Minnesota, where he earned to the Indiana University intellectual an M.A. in 1978 and a Ph.D. in 1982. In community for a very long time. He will be 1991, Russ was awarded the Distinguished greatly missed as a full-time member of the Alumnus Award from Minnesota’s faculty, even as he will no doubt continue Department of Political Science. to be a valued colleague, friend, mentor, Although Russ served as a teaching and teacher to many of us. assistant at Minnesota and has held a variety of visiting professorships, he has Jefrey C. Isaac spent his entire career as a political science important moments in IU Bloomington’s professor at Indiana University recent history. His chairmanship of Bloomington. He started as a lecturer in important task forces and high-level search 1980 and was promoted to assistant committees is one sign of this; another is professor in 1982, associate professor his indispensable role as associate dean of with tenure in 1987 (after being named the School of Global and International the department’s frst winner of IU Studies during the 2014–15 academic Bloomington’s Outstanding Young Faculty year, when he helped the new school get Award in 1985), and full professor in 1995. of the ground. Russ has been an extraordinary Russ is a top scholar of democratic member of the IU Bloomington theory, American political thought, and community. He is exceptionally well American political development. His frst known and widely respected across the book, The Democratic Imagination in campus and beyond. He has served in a America: Conversations with Our Past wide array of top-level positions, (Princeton University Press, 1985), is a including: associate dean in the School of landmark study of the evolution of Global and International Studies from democratic ideas in U.S. political history 2014 to 2015, chair of the Department of that continues to be cited by scholars Political Science from 2009 to 2015, acting working in this area. Russ has published dean in the College of Arts and Sciences other important work on the history of from 1999 to 2000, executive associate political thought, on the evolution of the dean in the College of Arts and Sciences U.S. welfare state, and on contemporary from 1997 to 1999, and associate dean of welfare policy. He is currently working on undergraduate education in the College of a major social and intellectual history of Arts and Sciences from 1992 to 1995. Russ the transnational difusion of ideas about has excelled in these jobs because he civil disobedience centered on one of his combines a mastery of administrative intellectual heroes, Henry David Thoreau. detail and institutional procedure with a Russ’s scholarship and service both broad and deep commitment to core further a broad value—the pedagogical intellectual values, along with an even- and civic importance of public education. keeled, respectful, and collegial way of Both are inextricably linked to Russ’s deep dealing with all issues and all colleagues. commitment to teaching. Russ is a master Russ is one of a small number of teacher. He has taught thousands of colleagues who have reached across the undergraduate and graduate students, and campus and who have been able to bring for well over 30 years he has been one of people together in the pursuit of shared the political science department’s best and purposes. He has been a go-to guy at many most recognized teachers. He is the

14 / Indiana University Bloomington R AY MON D HEDI N

Ray was born in Chicago and raised by director of the College of Arts and Science’s strong Catholic parents in the western Individualized Major Program (IMP), suburb of Glen Ellyn. He spent nine years giving students a chance to learn in ways studying to be a priest—high school and unavailable to them through traditional college at St. Francis Seminary in channels. Taking over the program in a Milwaukee, where he received a B.A. in troubled time, Ray forged it into a premier philosophy, and one year of theology at unit within the College. Under his Catholic University in Washington, D.C. leadership, IMP served as the incubator After leaving seminary in 1966, he received for many majors that later became his M.A. in English literature from the independent within the university, such University of Wisconsin–Madison (1968) as women’s studies (later gender studies), and then his Ph.D. in American literature cognitive science, contemporary dance, from the University of Virginia (1974). musical theatre, and fashion design. Between degree programs, he taught at the According to those who directed the historically black Norfolk State College program after him, during his time as from 1968 to 1970, a formative experience director, Ray became a kind of “guru” in both for his pedagogical sensitivities and Individualized Major Program circles, for his later research interests. Ray’s hiring earning the program a national reputation. at Indiana University in 1974 was the In recent years, Ray has channeled his result of a search that elicited 1,500 appetite for learning into developing as a applications, a staggering number even by Robert Coles, “a poignant and powerful stage actor. Whether working with acting today’s highly competitive standards. truth… (as these men) struggle mightily to and voice coaches or attending workshops Ray’s early scholarship was focused live honorable and generous lives.” Ray in New York City, he has continued to on the African American narrative brings a deft and sensitive hand to telling nurture his inner student, his love of story, tradition. His frst published article, the tales of these men. The book is a work and his tireless creative impulse. He has “The American Slave Narrative: The of deep personal introspection as well as appeared in plays for Cardinal Stage Justifcation of the Picaro,” appeared in one flled with keen cultural insights and Company, Bloomington Playwrights his feld’s premier journal, American institutional critiques. Project, the IU theatre department, and Literature, where its editor called it a But at his very core, Ray is a teacher. two Indianapolis companies. In 2016, he “trailblazing” essay. Prominent African His students have made this clear over the won the Best Actor Award for his American scholar Mary Helen Washington years with seemingly endless comments performance in the Bloomington organized her entire course on African that testify to his energizing presence in Playwrights Project Playofs. His many American fction around Ray’s article, “The the classroom. Representative comments appearances include roles in You Can’t Structuring of Emotion in Black American include: “Professor Hedin is a brilliant Take It with You, The Music Man, The Fiction.” During this period, he spent a teacher who truly loves what he does” and Taming of the Shrew, Clifhanger, Willy year teaching in Warsaw, Poland, where he “just amazing.” From the outset, Ray not Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, and was instrumental in founding the only taught his courses at IU, but found Outside Mullingar. He hopes to continue American Studies Center, still active and other teaching outlets as well. He has acting in retirement, as well as traveling widely respected today, and where he met taught courses in fve Indiana prisons and and spending time with his wife, Ivona, his wife, Ivona. correctional facilities on topics such as son Mark, and daughter Paula, and Once Ray received tenure, his Black Leadership in America and Black three grandchildren, one of whom, interests changed focus. Infuenced, he American Autobiography. He served for Sadie (age fve), already shows her own acknowledges, by his seminary training, he seven years as the coordinator of the theatrical inclinations. became interested in the dilemmas and GROUPS program for at-risk students. He Ray has remained a model of possibilities of meaning-making at mid-life has worked as on-site advisor for Indiana professionalism in the classroom and on in the often uncomfortable context of high school teachers in the Advance the stage. His contributions to the IU social institutions such as the church—and College Project. For 25 years, he has also community are so numerous and profound the university. In 1995 he published his taught workshops on storytelling and that a brief bio cannot hope to do them book, Married to the Church. Born of some meaning-making in the executive justice. In the tradition of all truly gifted 2,500 pages of interviews conducted with education programs at the IU Kelley teachers, Ray has enriched countless lives his former classmates over fve years, the School of Business and for a wide range in innumerable ways. We here at IU are all book weaves together a vivid picture of the of professional and alumni groups. better people for having had the chance to range of satisfaction, alienation, and In 1995 he won the prestigious Herman enjoy his presence for so many years. creative adaptation in the contemporary Frederic Lieber Award in recognition of Catholic priesthood. The life experiences distinguished teaching accomplishments Paul Gutjahr of these men are by turns sad, aggravating, across all IU campuses. joyful, and even whimsical, but in every Finally, always aware of the tensions case they are also moving; they express, in between institutional strictures and the words of New York Times reviewer individual needs, Ray spent 13 years as the

Retiring Faculty / 15 ELIN K. JACOB

Elin Jacob retired from the Department Lab at SLIS. Their major focus was of Information and Library Science in the bookmarking/social tagging sites (for School of Informatics and Computing in example, descriptions of images on Flickr, the spring of 2017. Elin joined what was Delicious, and YouTube) as sources of then the School of Library and Information users’ own words for describing items of Science (SLIS) in August, 1995, after interest. Their work focused on social having been an assistant professor at tagging as representations of information Wayne State University for three years and content. In particular, they were able to a lecturer at the University of Wisconsin– develop an ontology of tagging to integrate Milwaukee. She has a bachelor’s degree data from several sites and also to align and a master’s degree in English, and her diverse tagging ontologies. doctoral work was at the University of Elin is well known for having been the North Carolina at Chapel Hill. head of the doctoral program at SLIS for a Elin’s work is in the philosophy number of years during the deanship of and techniques of knowledge organization. Blaise Cronin. She sat on 27 doctoral She has published in journals such as committees, chairing many of them. She International Journal of Science in developed innovative courses in knowledge Society, Journal of the American Society organization when knowledge organization for Information Science and Technology, courses were often simply cataloging and Library Trends. Elin was active in the courses. In addition to studying classic International Society for Knowledge documentary cataloging and classifcation, Organization and the Society for Elin’s students learned semantic web Information Science and Technology. standards such as Resource Description One of her best-known publications Framework (RDF). They also learned the is “Classifcation and Categorization: philosophical underpinnings and social A Diference that Makes a Diference” implications of classifcation and (Library Trends 52(3); Winter 2004), cataloging so that they could not only do where she argues that the structural and these tasks in a library, but also apply them semantic diferences of these two in other organizational settings and techniques make for diferent functional theorize upon their improvement. Elin was activities in an information system. She widely read in philosophy, linguistics, and also published widely on ontologies and other areas that are contributors to the semantic web. In her work on knowledge organization, and, in addition students is broadly acknowledged. Another boundary objects, she explored to her other work, she often led reading former student, Lai Ma, now teaching at classifcation structures as sociotechnical seminars on these topics with her students. University College Dublin, writes: structures that cross domains. In the Elin worked tirelessly on her students’ “Elin is a teacher, a scholar, and a semantic web lab, Elin studied tagging class work and dissertations. She woman of character and style. If you were patterns in social bookmarking and other published many papers with students and in her classroom, you would be in awe of web-based tagging systems. Another highly otherwise helped them in their career her knowledge in botany and of her cited work with co-author Debora Shaw, advancement. Elin won the SLIS teaching carefully read assignments marked by a “Sociocognitive Perspectives on award three times: in 1998–99, 1999– green pen. If you were in her ofce, you Representation,” reviewed the highly 2000, and again in 2008–09. would be impressed by her collection of important “cognitive” viewpoint in Elin is much appreciated by her ceramics, her interest in frogs, and the information science, which held sway for former students. She worked tirelessly on bookshelves not quite organized by the many years in library and information her assignments and her grading, awarding classifcation schemes she taught in class. science, and its infuence upon indexing rigorous marks. She was passionate about Elin’s love of knowledge and her eagerness and abstracting. her teaching and often taught class to debate are truly valued. But most The ongoing search for ways to overloads. A former student, Mara importantly, her attentiveness and organize access to web-based information Inglezakis-Owens, remembered, “When I tenderness to those around her remind forced designers to recognize the am tempted to steer my juniors towards us of the value of living a meaningful life.” importance of metadata—information choices that I think are best for them, I A lover of dogs, cats, and fowers, about other information. Efective use of remember in what grace Elin and I parted. Elin was presented with orchids upon metadata underlies the move toward the She inspires me to honor everyone who her retirement. semantic web. In the mid-2000s, Elin honors me by asking me for help or advice, collaborated with Ying Ding and Staša even (and perhaps especially) when they Ron Day Milojević to establish the Semantic Web don’t need it.” Her devotion to her Debora Shaw

16 / Indiana University Bloomington MYRON KANNING

Myron (Moe) Kanning will retire from (www.p4f.biz), which he has already Indiana University in 2018 after 13 years established but for which retirement will on the faculty of the Kelley School of enable greater time and attention. Business. Moe crafted an exceptional Above all, Moe is a man of great record of teaching and student mentorship integrity and character; he has represented at Kelley that will live on long after IU and the Kelley School in the most his retirement. professional way. His retirement is most Born and raised in tiny Napoleon, deserved—but he will be dearly missed. Indiana, Moe earned his B.S. in marketing from IU in 1969. Upon graduation he Tim Baldwin accepted a job with Hillenbrand Industries in Batesville, Indiana, and spent the next 33 years there, including 19 as vice president of logistics and human resources. Moe thrived in his time at Hillenbrand and was infuenced by many mentors, including former CEO Bob Raver. Raver counseled Moe to push beyond a comfort zone and run the business as if he were always thinking fve years in the future. Moe took that to heart, and his As a faculty colleague and chair of most satisfying moments as an executive at Moe’s department at Kelley, I am happy to Hillenbrand were when he learned that his add that Moe is a skilled executive and competitors were asking questions such as, master teacher, but also an even better “How did Kanning see that coming?” or person. He has been a unique role model “How was Moe able to do that?” Moe and mentor to a generation of Kelley ultimately translated that theme into his students and his shoes will be impossible teaching at Kelley, where he was notorious to fll. for emphasizing to students that, while it A signature element of Moe’s may be 2018 in the hallway, in Professor teaching, no doubt stemming from his Kanning’s classroom it was 2023. success in building organizational Moe’s teaching portfolio at Kelley commitment at Hillenbrand, was student included a diverse mix of classes in projects and assignments that demanded business fundamentals, corporate strategy, student commitment. One playful, but very and international commerce. He ultimately impactful, example was his encouragement taught over 9,000 students and won for students to paint their faces when multiple citations and awards for teaching attending IU sporting events—particularly excellence—including the campus-wide for teams that were not thriving or riding Student Choice Award in 2009. Perhaps high. His purpose was to help students get the most tangible element of Moe’s legacy beyond themselves and appreciate the is represented by the voices of the students value and importance of serving others. he taught and mentored, a few of which are Moe rightly takes great pride in noting that included below. over 1,800 students painted their faces in “Moe thinks and teaches the way response to his encouragement—and leaders think at Amazon. His course was thereby brought spirit and support that a great help to me in my frst year at otherwise would never have occurred. Amazon.” (Mitch Novak, Kelley 2016) Perhaps Moe’s proudest legacy, one “Moe’s teaching passion convinced me he shares with his wife, Linda, is his two business was my calling. I am the frst in daughters and seven grandchildren. In my family to not pursue a medical degree retirement, he plans to spend more time and Moe played a big part in that with family. He also plans to devote decision.” (Chad Thompson, IU 2018) attention to a small frm he co-owns and to “Moe is more than just a teacher. He continue to consult and speak publicly on is a mentor and friend and someone always preparing for the future of business. willing to ofer guidance, insight, and One particularly exciting project is his direction.” (Casey Deal, Kelley 2013) weekly blog, Preparing for FutureBiz

Retiring Faculty / 17 TERESA KUBIAK

What a wealth of operatic experience Women, the Annals of the Metropolitan soprano Teresa Kubiak brought when she Opera, and Who’s Who in Opera. joined the Indiana University faculty in Teresa is tremendously proud of her 1990! Praised for her expressive acting and Polish heritage, and her country of birth is warm timbre, Teresa enjoyed a busy career equally proud of her. In 2005 she was embracing a wide repertory. She won the awarded a Doctor Honoris Causa from the respect of many of the world’s leading Music Academy of Lodz, her alma mater, conductors and enjoyed a signifcant career and in 2012 returned to Poland to accept in America as well as in Europe. the Medal Fides Et Ratio (Medal of Faith She began her vocal studies with Olga and Reason) from the Warsaw University Olgina in her native city of Lodz, Poland. Association. This award—in recognition of In those days, a singer had to pass many artistic achievements, the celebration of auditions and win various competitions Poland, and the promotion of good and before the government would allow travel beauty in the world—was given by the outside the Eastern Bloc countries. Teresa Reverend Cardinal Joseph Glemp at the met all these challenges and was allowed Warsaw Arch Cathedral. the opportunity to launch her career in Teresa has shared 43 years of Europe. In 1965 she won second prize in marriage (and the same birthday!) with the Munich International Competition, her husband, cellist Janusz Kubiak. In and subsequently made her debut in the retirement they will enjoy many more title role of Stanislaw Moniuszko’s Halka Holländer), and Elisabeth (Tannhäuser) leisurely trips to sunny California to visit in Lodz. Shortly thereafter she was all benefted from the Italianate warmth of their beloved daughter, Margaret. engaged to perform in Warsaw. sound that made her an appealing Tosca A turning point in Teresa’s career was and Aida. Another title role in which she Mary Ann Hart in 1970, when she made her U.S. debut as made a great impact was in the tragic title Sulamith in a Carnegie Hall concert character of Janácek’s Jenùfa. performance of Goldmark’s Die Königin Various engagements took her to von Saba, an operatic rarity. The good Rome, Bulgaria, Russia, Lisbon, Madrid, notices she won led to eventual Barcelona, Venice, Warsaw, Prague, Korea, engagements with all three major China, Kuwait, Jordan, and the American companies—San Francisco, Philippines. Teresa has appeared with the Chicago, and the Metropolitan Opera in world’s major orchestras and conductors, New York. She made her U.K. debut at the including the New York Philharmonic, 1971 Glyndebourne Festival in one of her London Philharmonic, Montreal signature roles, Lisa in Tchaikovsky’s Pique Symphony, Munich Symphony, Puerto Dame. Her appearance that same year as Rico Casals Festival, Ravinia, Chicago Giunone in Glyndebourne’s successful Symphony, Glyndebourne Festival, production of Cavalli’s La Calisto Krakow, Katowice Orchestra, and Lodz (later recorded) added further impetus Symphonic Orchestra. to her career. Her London debut in 1972 She was the winner of fve national was Madama Butterfy at the Royal and international vocal competitions and Opera House. taught master classes throughout Europe, In 1973 Teresa made her debut the Middle East, the United States, and in both Vienna and at the Metropolitan New Zealand. She has recorded for Decca, Opera, where she would go on to sing EMI, BBC, Argo, Mondo Italy, and Polish 62 performances of 16 diferent roles in Muza. Among her recordings, she is best 14 seasons. In Chicago, Kubiak sang Tosca known for her Tatyana in Sir Georg Solti’s and the role of Ellen Orford in Britten’s recording of Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin, Peter Grimes alongside Jon Vickers’ which also provided the score for Petr legendary performance of Grimes. Her Weigl’s flming of the opera. versatility and integrity as an artist made Teresa adjudicated national and her valuable for the German and Italian international competitions and is listed in repertories as well. Her Chrysothemis the International Who’s Who of Music (Elektra), Senta (Der Fliegende and Musicians, Who’s Who in American

18 / Indiana University Bloomington MARCIA M. LAUX

Marcia Laux, M.S.N., R.N., clinical programs, evidence-based practices, assistant professor of the Indiana the use of e-portfolios for student University School of Nursing in demonstration of learning, the use of Bloomington, will retire in spring 2018 preceptors in undergraduate clinical after 14 years of service. With teaching nursing learning environments, and expertise in professional nursing, nurse simulation debriefng strategies and leadership, and executive nursing, applications to practice. She was invited to including the transition to the capstone present and consult to numerous nursing course, Marcia has dedicated her healthcare institutions, including private career in executive nurse leadership to the companies with a focus on competency of School of Nursing. Marcia began her nursing practice in the clinical setting. 45-year tenure in nursing with associate Marcia consulted in many areas for the IU and baccalaureate degrees from Colorado Division of Continuing Studies, including State University. Later, while working as staf and organizational development of nursing director for Acute/Critical Patient healthcare managers. She has presented Care Services at St. Mary Corwin Hospital numerous times for Mini University, in Pueblo, Colorado, she earned her Master bringing positive attention to the value of of Science from the University of Colorado nursing in healthcare and the vital role of Denver. She was always proud that simulation in nursing education. Dr. Jean Watson, renowned nursing Marcia’s service to the school includes theorist, was one of her faculty while at profession in a positive manner through serving on numerous faculty and staf Colorado University. involvement with the National Council of search and screen committees as a Marcia worked her way up through State Boards of Nursing. She successfully member or chair, as president of Faculty the ranks from staf nurse to vice president represented Indiana University School of Assembly and Faculty Council for two full of nursing services and was instrumental Nursing to the public. During her time as terms, in the School of Nursing in accomplishing major program vice president of the ISBN, Marcia toured Administration Leadership Group, as chair development for the Sisters of Charity numerous campuses and visited schools of the B.S.N. program expansion task Healthcare System in Pueblo, including of nursing to educate faculty and students force, on the Curriculum Committee of the establishing the open heart program and on legal parameters of practice and Nursing Faculty, as executive committee the frst freestanding dialysis unit, legal transition to practice within secretary, and as life sciences library expansion of medical and surgical healthcare systems. liaison. In 2012, Marcia received the intensive care units and operating surgical Marcia was instrumental in the University Trustees’ Teaching Award and services, and transitioning nursing from a implementation of the online R.N. to the prestigious Elizabeth M. Lion Award cost center to a proft center. In 1988, she B.S.N. program, which began in 2007 and for Service. married Thomas Laux, CEO and executive is now recognized as one of the top 10 Marcia has published numerous president of Florence Hospital, a member national online programs of its kind. She refereed articles on a range of topics in of the Sisters of Charity Healthcare System served as the chair of the R.N. to B.S.N. nursing, including regulation of the in Colorado. They spent the next several Curriculum Committee from its inception profession, use of electronic portfolios in decades of their careers in Wisconsin, until 2016, a committee that developed demonstration of competency, R.N. to Montana, and Colorado. His job brought and implemented the nationally B.S.N. online transition curriculum and them to Indiana. Marcia joined the Indiana recognized curriculum. She served on program development, and stress and University faculty in 2004 as clinical numerous university committees, self-care of the professional nurse. assistant professor. She received her board including the Bloomington Faculty Council Upon retirement, Marcia will move certifcation in nurse executive Policy Committee and the Social and back to her beloved Colorado home and administration from the American Nurses Historical Committee of the General spend her time hiking, biking, fshing, Certifcation Center in 2009. Marcia has Education Committee. Marcia researched taking care of her mom, visiting with served as interim assistant and associate and implemented a national licensure family and friends, cross country skiing, dean of the School of Nursing on many entrance exam for nurses (NCLEX) golfng, and looking at the mountains. occasions, most recently in 2017. Marcia’s assessment and preparatory program, goal was to keep the School of Nursing applied across the curriculum, to ensure Joyce Krothe functioning at a high level and to preserve student success in taking the national Mary Lynn Davis-Ajami the record of excellence the program had exam to maintain a pass rate for IU achieved throughout the school’s history. Bloomington nursing students that far In 2007 Marcia was appointed by exceeds national standards. Governor Mitch Daniels to the Indiana She is a member of the National State Board of Nursing (ISBN), where she League for Nursing and was invited to served for eight years, infuencing nursing make national presentations in 2007, policy, protecting the public from unsafe 2009, 2013, and 2016. The range of topics practitioners, and promoting the included R.N. to B.S.N. transition

Retiring Faculty / 19 SHYH-YUAN LEE

Shyh-Yuan (S-Y) Lee is retiring as textbooks in the feld: Spin Dynamics and professor of physics after a distinguished Snakes in Synchrotrons (1997) and career as one of the world’s most eminent Accelerator Physics (1999, with updated accelerator physicists. S-Y was born and editions in 2004 and 2012). He has played raised in Taiwan and received his B.S. in a leadership role in the U.S. Particle physics from National Taiwan University Accelerator School (USPAS), serving as its in 1966. He followed up his 1972 Ph.D. in director from 1998 to 2002 and overseeing theoretical nuclear physics from Stony the IU-USPAS master’s degree program. Brook University with short stays in During his 28 years at IU, S-Y Lee has Germany, Taiwan, France, and the United supervised 35 successful Ph.D. students. States, then returned to Stony Brook as a His personal contribution to the next faculty member in 1978. A crucial part of generation of accelerator physicists his career was spent on the scientifc staf represents about 20 percent of the entire of Brookhaven National Laboratory U.S. output during this period! During his from 1984 to 1990, where he developed frst decade at IU, most student theses state-of-the-art accelerator concepts in were centered on research at the IUCF collaboration with Ernest Courant and Cooler. But since the 2002 termination of other leaders of the international Cooler operations, S-Y has involved his accelerator physics community. We graduate students in cutting-edge research attracted S-Y to Indiana University in 1990 at most of the world’s leading accelerator to help establish a world-leading degree studies of quark-gluon matter under facilities. This included signifcant program in accelerator physics, which he conditions akin to those that were in place contributions to solving a longstanding has accomplished in spades! a microsecond after the Big Bang birth of instability problem with the proton storage Leading accelerator physicists seldom our universe, RHIC is the world’s only ring at the Los Alamos Neutron Sciences abandon senior posts at major national spin-polarized collider facility. It was the Center and the design of a new laboratories, which host the world’s most frst place to adapt innovative technology synchrotron in Asia. Many of his former advanced accelerators for physics research, to keep the spins of protons oriented students are now at national laboratories, to come to a university. But S-Y was preferentially during acceleration through several with leadership roles at institutions attracted by the opportunity to train the myriad energies. Essential aspects of that such as Brookhaven, Fermilab, and the GSI next generation of accelerator experts. At preservation technology are Siberian snake laboratory in Darmstadt, Germany. A few that time, IU hosted a national user facility magnet systems, which were frst of his former students have won (IUCF) in nuclear physics research that successfully demonstrated to overcome distinguished awards, including the was centered on a unique accelerator of its depolarizing resonances at the IUCF Cooler American Physical Society’s Outstanding own: the Cooler Ring, a synchrotron Ring, with S-Y’s participation. There are Thesis Award to Mei Bai in 1999 and the storage ring for proton and light-ion beams numerous types of such depolarizing Faraday Cup award for instrumentation to that applied the relatively new technique of resonances, several of which are understood Haixin Huang in 2006. electron cooling to deliver beams of thanks to S-Y’s theoretical analyses. S-Y’s contributions to research and unprecedented energy precision. That The implementation of the technology education have been recognized by machine allowed S-Y to advance two S-Y designed for RHIC facilitated a major numerous awards, including Lifetime research areas of great personal interest: research efort of the IU nuclear physics Achievement Awards from the Humboldt the properties and dynamics of intense group, using RHIC’s spin-polarized beams Foundation (2006) and the USPAS (2013), charged-particle beams with strong to unravel how the spin of a proton is for “extraordinary contributions to inter-particle electric forces, and the shared among its quark and gluon accelerator education including mentoring manipulation and interactions of beam- constituents. That example of synergy a large cadre of highly regarded students.” particle spin orientations at high energies. realizes one of the driving goals that the S-Y has consistently represented IU with S-Y and his students combined IU physics department had in launching an infuence and distinction as a distinguished experimental tests on the Cooler Ring with active accelerator physics degree program. visiting scholar or professor at a number of state-of-the-art theoretical analyses of the S-Y’s research in accelerator physics international institutions. efects demonstrated or discovered. has been prolifc and infuential, producing S-Y Lee’s professional interactions These topics have strong intrinsic well over 100 publications in refereed have always been marked by astounding interest as problems in complex nonlinear journals and three co-edited volumes energy, enthusiasm, and penetrating dynamics, but they are also crucial to of workshop proceedings. Of equal insight. These personal characteristics designing accelerator facilities. While at importance are his contributions to the were regularly noted by his students, and Brookhaven, S-Y made major contributions education of accelerator physicists. He we trust they will serve him well in a to the design of the Relativistic Heavy-Ion has developed and taught curricula for productive retirement. Collider (RHIC), a world-leading facility senior-level undergraduate and graduate- for high-energy nuclear physics research. level courses in accelerator physics. He has Steve Vigdor In addition to enabling award-winning written two of the most widely used

20 / Indiana University Bloomington ALICE K. LINDEMAN

With enthusiasm, commitment, and central to Alice’s teaching career. But she wide-ranging curiosity, Alice Lindeman also pioneered a course in complementary embodies the idea that the shortest and alternative medicine, an area of study distance between two people is a good new to dietetics at the time. Later in her story. Alice loves to tell good stories! career, she embraced the concept of She represents a network of shared team-based teaching, incorporating the celebrations and accomplishments, approach into MNT and her long-time joy, keeping in touch with former students, introductory nutrition. She embraced the friends, and co-workers who know the approach so wholeheartedly that she pleasure of having Alice afrm an joined the Team-Based Learning accomplishment or soften a Collaborative in 2012, complementing her disappointment. Her career has spanned long-standing involvement in the Academy years of clinical practice and enthusiastic of Nutrition and Dietetics, American teaching and research in nutrition and Academy of Sports Medicine, American dietetics, woven together with stories and Public Health Association, American pride in what her students and friends Society of Parenteral and Enteral have accomplished. Her interest, teaching, Nutrition, and the American Bariatric advice, and mentorship have played a Surgery Association. signifcant part in their successes. This sketch would be incomplete From her birth in Ohio in 1954, Alice without mentioning one other area of never strayed too far or too long from the she shouldered the responsibilities of expertise Alice contributed to the Midwest. Her career path in nutrition and assistant chair of the Department of department and the feld of dietetics—her dietetics came into focus early. She Applied Health Science, a leadership excellent writing skills. Such skill was no completed a coordinated dietetics position she held until 2008. doubt useful in the textbook chapters, program—a bachelor of science degree plus During her decades-long tenure at lectures, and research papers she wrote supervised practice—at The Ohio State IU Bloomington, Alice mentored nearly over the years. Her skill also gave her the University in 1976, majoring in allied 50 master’s students and 20 doctoral expertise to mentor students in the medicine, medical dietetics. She earned a students. Her research interests include importance of proper speech and master’s degree in agricultural education sports nutrition, the prevention of obesity, grammar. Many a student benefted from in 1979, also from Ohio State. Before and the promotion of fruit and vegetable her commentary, and from the completing a Ph.D. in human nutrition at intake. Living an active life herself, Alice recommendation letters she wrote over the Syracuse University in New York in 1986, found sports nutrition a natural ft. Her years—a total of 1,999,999 at last count (or Alice worked as a clinical registered research includes the role of chocolate milk so it seemed)! Recommendation letters are dietitian (RD) at Metropolitan Health in recovery from athletic exertion, body a crucial component for obtaining a Medical Center in Cleveland, The Ohio image concerns among women athletes, dietetic internship placement for students State University Hospitals in Columbus, and the intersection of nutrition and wanting to become RDs, and Alice and Medical College of Virginia in ftness. She contributed to a highly supported them with insight, advice, and a Richmond. She also applied her experience respected basic nutrition text in 2011 passionate opposition to the word passion in endocrinology and extended care as a (Contemporary Nutrition: A Functional (as in “I should get a dietetic internship consultant RD. After completing her Ph.D., Approach, Wardlaw, Smith, Lindeman, because I have a passion for nutrition”). As Alice was squarely back in the Midwest, 2nd ed., McGraw-Hill, New York, NY), and the current dietetics director, this writer is starting her professional academic career contributed the section on bariatric grateful for Alice’s mentorship in dietetics as an assistant professor at Indiana surgery for the Indiana Dietetic administration, and will do her best to University Bloomington in 1986, with a Association Diet Manual (2006). The keep the helpful red ink fowing. promotion to associate professor in 1992. latter refects a return to clinical dietetics Upon turning the page on her career Alice’s career at IU Bloomington is practice that Alice undertook from 2000 to at IU Bloomington, Alice plans to move to characterized by professional leadership 2003, serving as a consultant RD to local the East Coast, where her many talents and and advocacy for students. Along with a bariatric surgeon Dr. J. Bradley Ray. Her interests will take her to a new chapter of stint as undergraduate coordinator for the many years of clinical practice aided the stories and relationships. A hobby in Department of Applied Health Science students she taught in IU Bloomington’s preparing theater costumes may play a role from 1997 to 1999, Alice was essentially medical nutrition therapy (MNT) classes, in her new chapter while she continues to the original director of the Didactic enabling Alice to enhance their textbook be involved in clinical research in dietetics. Program in Dietetics, replacing a part-time learning with illustrations from real life. Whatever she does, we wish her peace, director when she was hired in 1986. At The classroom has been the hub of fulflling years, and happy stories. that time, the fedgling program consisted Alice’s career and enthusiasm. She has of fve students. When she stepped away as cared deeply about students’ success and Vicky Getty director in 2000, the program was nearly worked diligently to provide the best 10 times bigger! Did Alice step away in learning environment for their education. order to slow down? Certainly not. Instead, Teaching MNT, the core of dietetics, was

Retiring Faculty / 21 JOHN LOUIS LUCAITES

John Louis Lucaites arrived in the must-read bookshelf in the study of Bloomington in 1987 as assistant professor visual culture. The transformative impact of speech communication. He had been a of John’s scholarship has been recognized Henry Rutgers Scholar in intellectual and with many of the most prestigious honors cultural history at Rutgers University, and awards that can be bestowed by his from which he graduated in 1974, and he discipline and by IU, including being earned his doctorate in rhetoric from the named Provost Professor in 2016. University of Iowa in 1984. Prior to It might be said that John coming to IU, John served as instructor understands the obligations of civic and director of debate at the University of engagement as extending throughout his North Carolina at Chapel Hill, instructor professional life. Most of the many of rhetoric at the University of Missouri in opportunities that he has taken to serve Columbia, and instructor and then have centered on the cultivation of assistant professor of speech community in one form or another. He communication at the University of served as director of graduate studies in Alabama in Tuscaloosa. While at IU he has the Department of Communication and co-authored three award-winning books, Culture for many years. He serves on the co-edited three volumes, published over editorial board of many journals and 50 essays and book chapters, and delivered edited the fagship rhetoric journal, dozens of invited lectures both across the The Quarterly Journal of Speech. He has United States and abroad. As a scholar he Throughout his career, John directed and co-directed a dozen has sustained a focus on the analysis and consistently has been on the leading edge conferences and seminars. And he served critique of public discourse with an eye of emerging areas of study. He has not only as associate dean for arts and humanities toward contributing to the development of enriched existing scholarly conversations, in the College of Arts and Sciences from a robust and engaged public culture. This but has participated in initiating new 2012 to 2017, where he was a strong theme is evident across all facets of his conversations and scholarly communities. advocate for the liberal arts as a tradition illustrious career. Much of his early work focused on race, in which scholars and students of varied John has taught undergraduate for example, and particularly African backgrounds and interests come together courses in public speaking, persuasion, American public discourse. John’s to contribute their perspectives and argumentation, visual rhetoric, social scholarship both heralded and strongly expertise toward a common public good. confict, American public address, and infuenced a revival of interest in the Because John has contributed so many more subjects. These teaching subject, together with the development of much to his discipline, to his students, to experiences have provided him with an new critical approaches. This line of his colleagues, and to Indiana University, opportunity to share his knowledge and research is perhaps best represented by the these communities will be diminished expertise, of course. But more than that, award-winning book, co-authored with somewhat by his retirement. But still, they his undergraduate teaching has been an Celeste Michelle Condit, Crafting are, and will remain, stronger and more extension of his research, as he sought not Equality: America’s Anglo-African Word vibrant as a result of his continued, only to provide for his students the (University of Chicago Press, 1993). resonate infuence within them. conceptual tools and communication skills John has recently turned his attention that would enable them to participate to the pivotal role played by photographic Robert Terrill critically in public culture, but also, and journalism in contemporary public culture. perhaps more importantly, to instill in Again, he was among the pioneers in this them a passion for becoming engaged in area, publishing infuential early essays on civic life. visual rhetoric and organizing the frst In his graduate courses, John conference devoted exclusively to that trained a new generation of scholars who topic in the discipline of communication share similar passions for contributing to studies, in 2001. John’s second book, our understanding of public culture and with frequent co-author Robert Hariman, for inspiring their own students to become No Caption Needed: Iconic Photographs, active and engaged citizens. He has Public Culture, and Liberal Democracy directed nearly 40 master’s theses and (University of Chicago Press, 2007), is a Ph.D. dissertations over a remarkably foundational text. It would be difcult to broad range of topics. Many of these imagine a course in visual rhetoric taught students have achieved professional by anyone, anywhere, that did not include recognition in their own right, and his that book, in full or in part. Their 2016 graduate students now carry John’s energy, book, The Public Image: Photography and interest, and infuence throughout Civic Spectatorship (University of Chicago the discipline. Press), promises to join its predecessor on

22 / Indiana University Bloomington TRICIA P. McDOUGALL-COVIN

In 1999, Dr. Tricia P. McDougall-Covin most miss being around extraordinary arrived at IU from Georgia Institute of colleagues. I will deeply miss the Technology, where she was a professor. stimulation and the sharing of She received her Ph.D. in strategic accomplishments and life’s joys with management from the University of people whom I hold in high esteem.” South Carolina. Currently, she is the When asked what she had most enjoyed William L. Haeberle Professor of Strategic at IU, she responded: Management and faculty director of the “One of my greatest satisfactions is Institute for International Business at the entrepreneurship program that my Indiana University’s Kelley School colleagues and I built as a team. Our of Business. Johnson Center for Entrepreneurship and As she now retires (which is hard to Innovation is world-renowned—what a believe), her legacy will be an indelible rare opportunity it has been to be part of mark on Indiana University and the Kelley something so special. In addition, some of School of Business. She will forever be my most rewarding days have been remembered for her leadership, world- through my current role as faculty director class scholarship, and outstanding of the Institute for International Business teaching. Dr. McDougall-Covin received and the work I did in Australia, several teaching and research recognitions, Bangladesh, Barbados, China, Kenya, including Indiana University’s Trustees’ Myanmar, Russia, United Arab Emirates, Teaching Excellence Recognition Award developing countries, and sponsor special and Vietnam. I think Herman Wells would and the Kelley School’s Full Professor programs that bring international students be proud of what IIB has accomplished.” Research Excellence Award. She was also to our campus. Some of IIB’s projects The Kelley School of Business, the named as one of the 40 Best Undergraduate included a USAID-funded entrepreneurial Institute for International Business, and Business Professors in the U.S. by Poets development program in the Caribbean; Indiana University have all benefted and Quants. the Global Women’s Economic enormously from having Dr. Tricia She is widely credited with pioneering Empowerment Initiative, a partnership McDougall-Covin as one of our truly the feld of international entrepreneurship. with the Asia Pacifc World Economic inspirational leaders. We will all miss her, She and her co-author were recipients of Council (APEC) that teaches women but hope that she continues to be involved the Journal of International Business entrepreneurs in developing countries as an advisor and a dear friend. Decade Award for their 1994 article on the how to start and sustain their own early internationalization of new ventures. micro-ventures; and the Global Business Donald F. Kuratko The award honors the article that has had Institute–Middle East and North Africa, the most signifcant impact on international a one-month long immersive program that business research during the past decade. provides students from across the Middle She has also been honored as a fellow in East and Northern Africa the opportunity the Academy of International Business and to learn about business in the context of a 21st Century Entrepreneurship American culture. For all of this impressive research fellow. work, Dr. McDougall-Covin was honored During her tenure at Indiana with Indiana University’s prestigious University she served in a variety of John W. Ryan Award for Distinguished administrative roles, including chair of the Contributions to International Programs management department from 2000 to and Studies. 2003 and associate dean of the Kelley On a personal note, Dr. McDougall- School from 2004 to 2009. As associate Covin was responsible for recruiting me to dean for faculty and research, she worked IU, as she did for so many great faculty. to initiate new programs, attract the fnest It was a match made in heaven and I will research faculty, and sustain the valued always be deeply grateful to her. Her early collaborative culture of the Kelley School. vision for what could be a world-renowned Her eforts were visible in the top national entrepreneurship program has become a and global rankings that the Kelley School reality, with our current entrepreneurship received during her years there. program continually ranked as number In her most recent position as faculty one among public universities and director of the Institute for International recognized as the top research program in Business (IIB) at the Kelley School of the world. Dr. McDougall-Covin has much Business, from 2011 to 2018, she has to refect back upon and should feel worked tirelessly to develop and teach extremely proud! courses and to conduct seminars around When asked what she would miss the world, spur entrepreneurship in most in retirement, she responded, “I will

Retiring Faculty / 23 FREDERICK L. McELROY

Frederick L. McElroy retired from He won at least four Teaching Excellence establishment and development of the Indiana University Bloomington as an Recognition Awards ofered by the department in the context of an earlier admired and dedicated instructor and a department through the auspices of the national Black Studies movement in the deeply committed citizen of his department College of Arts and Sciences. late 1960s and early 1970s. He was adept and the university. He leaves a lasting A recent Ph.D. graduate ofered at tracing and evaluating the evolution of signature on the teaching and service the following: programs, departments, institutes, and escutcheon of the Department of African “The positive impact that Dr. McElroy graduate programs. In sum, he was able to American and African Diaspora Studies. had on me as a graduate student has demonstrate the uniqueness of the African Fred was born on January 16, 1950, inspired me to perfect my skills as an American and African Diaspora Studies in Louisville, Kentucky, and graduated in efective educator. I’ve always marveled at department in terms both specifc and 1972 from Brown University with a how Dr. McElroy empowered his students broad. In Richard Stengel’s Mandela’s concentration in American civilization. to follow the path of a lifetime of learning. Way: Fifteen Lessons on Life, Love, and He received his Ph.D. in English and I often compared Dr. McElroy to the late, Courage, Mandela said that servant American studies from Indiana University great (Brazilian educator-philosopher) leadership is expressed as Ubuntu, the idea Bloomington in 1987. He was appointed Paulo Freire and his ability to help tease that people are empowered by other assistant professor in (then) Afro-American out the embedded knowledge that exists in people, and that we become our best selves studies that same year. In 1993 he was every individual student.” through unselfsh interactions with others. promoted to associate professor. Fred has taught in a variety of venues. And so it was with Professor McElroy’s Early in his tenure as an associate In addition to traditional classroom gifts, which made the lives of so many instructor in a very young department, settings with undergraduates and graduate students and faculty larger. Fred created, advocated for, and supplied students, he has guided students in the undergraduate courses in African Individualized Major Program. He has John McCluskey American literature. Of special note was also given courses at the Collins Living- Carolyn Calloway-Thomas his course in early Black American writing. Learning Center. He co-taught courses to While many departments nationally rising high school sophomores in the dismissed 19th-century Black writing as Telluride Association Summer Seminar, as precious imitation or merely didactic— well as to rising college juniors in the Black preferring to ofer their introductory Atlantic Summer Seminars sponsored by literature courses with texts from just the Ford Foundation. Select pools of before the Harlem Renaissance (1918– students from around the country were 40)—through his tireless excavations Fred attracted to this campus by the latter revealed the roots of a powerful and two programs. In every setting, he moving literature to his students. demonstrated consistency as an able Undergraduate and eventually graduate lecturer and superb discussion leader. He students were fortunate in following displayed an easy grace and deft sense of pathways to early conversations among humor when an individual or small group culture, aesthetics, and power. These of students gathered in his ofce for the conversations could range widely, from patient unraveling of a modernist poem or close readings of texts to historical for listening to Fred’s take on the latest contexts for and connections among the basketball game. poems of Phillis Wheatley, Thomas Fred served on 22 graduate research Jeferson’s Notes on the State of Virginia, committees, eight as chair. He was at David Walker’s Appeal to the Coloured diferent times the director of Citizens of the World, the Narrative of the undergraduate studies, director of Life of Frederick Douglass, and W. E. B. graduate studies, and an invaluable DuBois’ Souls of Black Folk. contributor as member of the M.A. By the end of his tenure, Fred Planning Committee. In addition, he has had taught or developed nine diferent served on the department’s Curriculum courses ofered at the undergraduate and Committee and its Undergraduate Task graduate levels. The courses ranged from Committee. He was a member of the Afro-American Autobiography and Collins Living-Learning Center’s Introduction to Afro-American Studies Curriculum Committee and for 10 years he (an interdisciplinary graduate seminar) served on the selections committee of the through Black Intellectual Traditions. Individualized Major Program. Frequently, responding to departmental Fred was often called upon to give requests or his own intellectual interests, talks on department history in public Fred shouldered course overloads. settings. He was able to place the

24 / Indiana University Bloomington BARBARA V. MILLER

Barb Miller has been afliated with Outstanding Lecturer of the Year, the Indiana University for more than 40 years, most prestigious teaching award at the as a student, a staf member, and a faculty undergraduate level. She won the Teaching member. A native of Plymouth, Indiana, Excellence Recognition Award in 1997, she came to Bloomington in the mid-1970s 1998, and 2000, and the IU Trustees’ and earned a B.S. and an M.S. in Business Teaching Award in 2001, 2003, and 2015. Education from Indiana University. She was also honored for her teaching at After receiving her master’s degree, the University of Notre Dame. she was appointed as a faculty lecturer in Outside of the classroom, she has the Kelley School of Business in 1984, given her time as a sponsor for the Kelley teaching business communications and School’s Women in Business organization ofce systems. During the early 1980s, and for IU’s chapter of Delta Pi Epsilon, a business education started moving from a professional graduate society. She also highly quantitative-based curriculum to has been active in the Bloomington include more qualitative areas, such as community, including working with 100+ communications. Barb was there at the Women Who Care, PEO (Philanthropic beginning of this very important shift and Education Organization), Tri Kappa was instrumental in developing the feld of service sorority, Hoosiers Outrun Cancer, business communications into an integral Monroe County Youth Services Bureau part of the Kelley School curricula, Board, and Monroe County Parent charting a path that other business schools Operations and Decision Technologies Aid Board. would later follow. Department as a faculty lecturer in 1995 Barb is married to Dave Miller, who During the same period, two for K201 (The Computer in Business), graduated from the Kelley School. They are important developments were taking place. a required computer course for Kelley the proud parents of Patrick and Sarah, The frst was the personal computer and its undergraduates. K201 was also going both of Austin, Texas, and both Indiana use in business education, and the second through a major transformation—from a University alumni. Barb and Dave have was the transformation of teaching course in information systems to a course two grandchildren, Abby and Ben. through the use of instructional in the use of spreadsheets to solve business As business education has evolved technologies. Barb became involved in problems. Barb joined the team that over the years, Barb has played a major both of these developing areas and was developed K201 into a key course in the role in innovations that have changed the appointed manager of instructional Kelley undergraduate curriculum, and she way Kelley professors teach, and what technology services at the Kelley School in had an extensive role in doing so. In Kelley students learn. Those innovations 1990, with the explicit charge of addition to teaching K201, Barb was have helped make the Kelley School the transforming teaching using technology. responsible for developing teaching number one public business school in the The Kelley School of Business was the frst materials and training all instructors to use United States. She should be very proud of school on the Bloomington campus to do them in the 50–60 sections of K201 that her achievements and in the knowledge this. Over the next fve years, the school were taught each semester. She also that she has helped shape the careers of installed instructional technologies in developed online resources for students. thousands of Kelley School alumni. many of its classrooms. Her charge also In 2003, Barb returned to Plymouth Barb will certainly be missed, and will extended to working with faculty to help for family reasons and worked as a always be remembered for navigating them learn how technology could professional specialist at the University of uncharted waters and pioneering advances transform their teaching. These were Notre Dame, but she never lost her love for in business communications and pioneering times and, in many ways, Barb Bloomington and Indiana University. In technology. We congratulate her on a and her team set the agenda for the use of 2012, she returned to the Kelley School superb career and wish her all the best in instructional technologies at Kelley and and rejoined the K201 team as a senior her retirement. across the IU Bloomington campus. lecturer. Since then, she has been actively Without her leadership and dedication, the involved with K201 as a lead faculty Ash Soni school may not have become the leader in member. As coordinator of the teaching this area among peer business schools assistants and peer tutors, she has been across the country. responsible for hiring, scheduling, and The other big development during training 40 teaching assistants and more Barb’s early years at the Kelley School was than 250 peer tutors each semester. the introduction of computer classrooms. She also has been part of the team that With the increased access to computers developed the textbook for K201 and and her eforts to help faculty learn how K204, the honors version of the course. they can boost the efectiveness of their Barb is an outstanding teacher with classes, Barb started teaching an numerous honors, including the William occasional class. This renewed her passion G. Panschar Undergraduate Teaching for teaching, and she soon joined the Excellence Award presented for

Retiring Faculty / 25 TAEMIN K. PARK

Dr. Taemin Kim Park made signifcant She published extensive research in contributions in cataloging the Indiana the area of cataloging and technical University Libraries’ Korean, Chinese, and services in leading journals in the feld. Japanese collections and was noted for her In 2017, her latest co-authored article, dedication to cataloging education, “The Nature and Characteristics of research, service, and professional Bibliographic Relationships in RDA librarianship in over 34 years of service to Cataloging Records in OCLC at the Indiana University Bloomington. She grew Beginning of RDA Implementation,” was up in Korea, graduated from Ewha published in a top cataloging journal, Womans University, Seoul, and came to Cataloging & Classifcation Quarterly. the United States in 1976 with her Her well-received 2015 article “Wikipedia husband, Dr. Chaewon Park. After living in Research in Scholarly Publications in Asia Kalamazoo, Michigan, they moved to and the Pacifc Region” was published in Bloomington, where she attended the the Proceedings of the 6th International Indiana University School of Library and Conference on Asia-Pacifc Library and Information Science, earning her Master of Information Education and Practice Library Science degree in 1984 and her (2015). Over the course of her career, she Ph.D. in 1992. In November 1986, she was received many grants and awards from the appointed visiting assistant librarian in the libraries, the campus, and other Serials Department of Technical Services, professional organizations in recognition Herman B Wells Library. The following the Library of Congress. Taemin was and support of her research. She was also year, she began her appointment as an also a generous teaching colleague. She a frequent presenter at international, assistant librarian in the cataloging section collaborated on teaching cataloging national, and regional professional of serials. In 2002, she transferred to the beginning in 2003 with Andrea M. conferences, among them the American Area Studies Cataloging Section of Morrison, creating a fipped-classroom Library Association, Ohio Valley Group of Technical Services, cataloging both cataloging curriculum and an online Technical Services Librarians, Indiana monographs and serials and training new cataloging course. Library Federation, Asia-Pacifc staf catalogers, students, and interns. She In service to the profession, Taemin Conference on Library and Information was promoted to the rank of full librarian held leadership roles in the Association Education and Practice, and the in 2013. of East Asian Studies, Council on East International Conference on New Taemin was devoted to the education Asian Libraries, American Society for Information Technology. and mentorship of graduate students in Information Science and Technology, and Taemin has been a treasured the School of Library and Information North American Serials Interest Group. colleague and will be missed! Her Science (later the Department of She led and served in many capacities in contributions and hard work have had Information and Library Science in the the Association for Library Collections and lasting impact on the scholarship and School of Informatics, Computing, and Technical Services of the American Library practice of cataloging. She will now spend Engineering). She served on several Association. She was a member of the some time in Maryland, where her son and doctoral dissertation committees and, over editorial board and peer reviewer for daughter live. She is the proud (and busy) the course of her career, contributed in Serials Review and referee for Journal of grandmother of fve granddaughters. In many ways to teaching at Indiana the American Society for Information the future, she plans to continue to be University. Taemin taught as an adjunct Science and Technology. She served as professionally active in research faculty member of the school from 1993 to editorial member for Korean geographic and teaching. 2017, also serving as coordinator for names for the Columbia Gazetteer of the bibliographic and electronic access courses World (1997). She also served as external Andrea M. Morrison from 1995 to 2013. She specialized in reviewer for many colleagues for tenure Carl Horne teaching Cataloging, Advanced Cataloging, and promotion. Online Searching, Information and Society, On the state and local levels, she and Independent Reading and Research served on many committees of the Indiana courses. She taught many students the University Librarians Association, philosophy and intricacies of two leading Bloomington Library Faculty Council, and cataloging standards in the United States: the Indiana University Libraries, notably the revised Anglo-American Cataloguing as member and chair of the Continuing Rules (AACR2) and RDA: Resource Education Committee (1991–92, 1997– Description and Access, the global 99, and 2005–06); co-secretary of the IU standard adopted in 2013. Many of her Cataloging Congress (2001–05); member former students and interns now hold of the Dean’s Advisory Council (2013–14); cataloging positions at prominent and member of the Libraries’ Promotion university libraries and agencies such as and Tenure Committee (2015–16).

26 / Indiana University Bloomington GARY PAVLIS

Gary Pavlis is retiring after serving for emerging interdisciplinary computational 35 years as a faculty member at Indiana science programs, including IU’s School of University Bloomington. During his career Informatics, Computing, and Engineering at IU, Gary has distinguished himself as (where Gary is an adjunct faculty one of the nation’s leading scholars in member). He has mentored 35 M.S. and earthquake seismology. His research has Ph.D. students and served on research addressed an extraordinary array of committees for dozens of others. Gary has scientifc problems, ranging from nitty- been a mainstay of our geophysics gritty technical issues that have advanced program, teaching courses in applied the basic tools of the feld—earthquake geophysics, basic and advanced location, seismic imaging, and seismic seismology, geophysical inverse methods, array analysis—to profound problems of and exploration geology. He has served as Earth structure and dynamics of tectonic a model mentor for undergraduate plate boundaries. His scholarly record students, graduate students, and postdocs. includes contributions to seismology In his tenure at Indiana University, theory, state-of-the-art computational Gary has left an indelible mark on our tools, and practical issues of nuclear department, bringing vitality and monitoring, earthquake hazard mitigation, international visibility to our geophysics and science education and outreach. program, attracting a frst-rate group Gary’s research incorporates rigorous of graduate students, postdocs, and mathematical and computational methods publication of major research articles and visiting scientists. grounded in earthquake physics and some groundbreaking discoveries about Gary has also been a reliable and observational seismology. He brings a the thickness and complexity of the Earth’s engaged member of the geophysical unique intuition for geological problems crust beneath the central United States. research community. He helped to create and creative ways of addressing these Gary grew up on a farm in rural and continues to support the IRIS problems through geophysical observation. South Dakota, a fact he’ll gladly share with (Incorporated Research Institutions for His research legacy includes over 100 anyone interested in swapping a few Seismology). This consortium has provided major papers in leading peer-reviewed stories of early farm-childhood adventures. a new model for democratization of the journals and hundreds of presentations at These formative years are important to feld of seismology—sharing scientifc scientifc meetings. His research articles Gary’s career story because they shaped his equipment, state-of-the-art seismological are major works that often incorporate approach to the scientifc world he now data, and developing new scientifc cutting edge observational data, newly inhabits. His childhood on the family farm initiatives—with a growing global developed analytical methods, and creative aforded time for exploration of the natural community of scientists. Gary has served geodynamic interpretation. world; at the same time, it required on proposal review committees for the In addition to his contributions to practical skills to solve daily problems of National Science Foundation, the U.S. seismology theory and analysis, Gary is farm life. Gary’s mind can quickly grasp a Departments of Defense and Energy, and also known for leading successful feld- complex theoretical problem and then, the United States Geological Survey. based seismological experiments in diverse within a few seconds, his practical side Gary is a source of continual places such as California, Alaska, kicks in on a clever computational amazement to colleagues for his breadth Kyrgyzstan, Venezuela, Turkmenistan, and solution. He has an astonishing ability to of scientifc interest, his depth of even the “hollers” of central Kentucky. shift gears from something as mundane as understanding of seismological research Gary’s leadership in this arena was recently the mechanics of mixing concrete for problems, his technical creativity in fnding exemplifed in an ambitious collaborative construction of a seismic vault to innovative ways to address them, and his project to study earthquakes and Earth explaining near-incomprehensible theories generosity in sharing ideas and successes structure in the central United States. of seismic wave propagation in anisotropic with students, postdocs, and scientifc A National Science Foundation-funded media. Perhaps it is this combination of collaborators. We are lucky to have him experiment—creatively dubbed “OIINK”— theory and practice that has given him here as a delightful colleague, mentor, involved deployment of 140 seismic the unusual fuidity to move among research leader, and friend. In retirement, instruments across a broad swath theoretical, computational, and Gary will undoubtedly be extending the extending from the Ozarks through Illinois, observational levels of research that has work of his research career as well as Indiana, and Kentucky. Gary’s leadership been a hallmark of his research career. spending time with his children and of this six-institution, fve-year project was Gary joined our faculty in 1983 as a grandchildren in New York, Philadelphia, truly impressive. He coordinated every Ph.D. from the University of Washington. and Phoenix, traveling the country with his part of the project, from developing In his 35 years as a faculty member, he has wife, Mary Lynn, and hopefully, remaining scientifc research goals to managing made outstanding contributions to IU’s an integral part of his Earth and challenging feld deployments with research mission, undergraduate and atmospheric sciences family. military-style logistics, to leading graduate education, and professional and collaborative teams in data analysis and university service. He has been a critical Michael Hamburger interpretation. This project resulted in liaison between our department and

Retiring Faculty / 27 RANDALL L. PEPER

Randall Peper received a B.S. in biology and a D.V.M. from Colorado State University. After serving as a postdoctoral fellow in laboratory animal medicine in the Laboratory Animal Resources Program at Penn State for three years, Randy went on to receive a Ph.D. in pathobiology from Penn State in 1994. He then served the University of Illinois in various capacities, including associate director of the Division of Animal Resources. He was interim director of that division and interim attending veterinarian for the university at two diferent times. Randy was also an assistant professor of small animal medicine in the UI College of Veterinary Medicine, teaching laboratory animal medicine courses and instructing students during clinical rotations. Randy joined the IU Bloomington campus in 2007 as director of Laboratory Animal Resources (LAR), attending veterinarian, and senior scientist. In these roles, he flled a critical and vital function in the campus’s research enterprise. LAR provides high-quality, humane care for research and teaching animals at IU Bloomington and ensures compliance with federal laws and guidelines and campus policies related to animal use. LAR manages and provides oversight for all campus facilities in which animals are maintained for research and teaching. During his time at IU, Randy led a Science Building II. He also directed the IU Bloomington’s animal program were an phase of signifcant change and growth in renovation and upkeep of older campus inspiration to many. Lab Animal Resources the campus’s animal research programs facilities such as in the Department of Operations Manager Mauricio “Moe” Pazos and facilities. He led eforts to centralize Psychology, Jordan Hall, and the School of notes that Randy’s ethical and moral IU Bloomington’s six animal facilities and Optometry. Randy’s initiation of a standards were instrumental in his its animal program. He helped to develop complete remodel of IU Bloomington’s decision to leave research and join the LAR policies and procedures adhering to Animal Behavior Lab and his coordination operation. Likewise, Randalyn Shepherd, standards set by the Association for of other research-animal needs enabled clinical veterinarian with LAR, calls Randy Assessment and Accreditation of several signifcant faculty hires to be made a strong infuence on her career. “He was a Laboratory Animal Care. Under his on the Bloomington campus. great teacher, guide, and mentor to me,” guidance, LAR received accreditation from Randy demonstrated excellent fscal she says. “I will be forever grateful for his the AAALAC in 2012; accreditation and personnel leadership as well. He patience and kindness, and the knowledge recognizes high levels of commitment, efectively and continuously balanced costs I gained through his example as attending knowledge, and engagement with well- to users with costs for administrative veterinarian and director of Laboratory functioning animal care. IU Bloomington’s support to run LAR on a fnancially sound Animal Resources.” accreditation was renewed in 2016. With and sustainable basis. As director of LAR, After a career of many his extensive knowledge of animal care and Randy oversaw four professional level accomplishments, including exceptional use regulations, Randy created an overall appointees, eight support staf appointees, service to the research ofces of Indiana campus culture dedicated to the highest and various hourly employees, pushing University, Randy retired from standards of animal husbandry. continuously to raise the salaries of IU Bloomington in 2016. Randy ushered in a state-of-the-art animal care staf to levels competitive animal facility, now in operation in with peer institutions. Jef Zaleski IU Bloomington’s Multidisciplinary Randy’s vision and commitment to

28 / Indiana University Bloomington MARK PHELPS

Mark Phelps is assistant professor of opera singers, including James King, Gary Lakes, studies and has been preparing students Maria Kanyova, Elizabeth Futral, Marilyn for their roles in the Indiana University Mims, Timothy Noble, Mark Doss, Robert Opera Theater since 1980. For many years McFarland, and Lawrence Brownlee. he played rehearsals as well as provided Mark is a dedicated homebody. He is coaching, and more recently has done an accomplished cook, enjoys gardening, primarily individual and ensemble and is happy to ofer help and advice to his coaching, which involves much more than neighbors. He has served as president of helping students learn the music. Mark his homeowners association—a sings all the other roles (as he plays), commitment that certainly not many conducts cues from the piano, and uses neighbors will volunteer to take on. his advanced studies in Italian (and other We are all very happy for Mark to languages!) to help students shape have the ease of retirement and the chance their recitatives and make everything to travel, entertain, dig in the dirt, cook, sound idiomatic. He helps them with and generally just do whatever he wants to ornamentation and the operatic do whenever he wants to do it. Most conventions that have come down ecstatic about Mark’s retirement will through the ages. probably be his faithful canine companion, Though the students might not realize Snickers. We wish them sunny days, long it at the time, what he really teaches them walks, and all the treats they want. is the process of how one learns a role, a competitions, including the Metropolitan skill they will use for every role as long as Opera Auditions, the Pavarotti Mary Ann Hart they sing opera. International Voice Competition, and Mark is a great lover of singers as the MacAllister Awards. well as singing; his patience and support Mark is former music director of the of young singers have been a model of Michiana Opera Guild, Goshen Chamber generosity. Since rehearsal time for each Opera, and Opera Factory of Chicago. He production is shockingly short, and since has acted as vocal coach at DePaul and there are double casts to prepare in each Loyola Universities, and as assistant show, he even produces study recordings conductor for the South Bend Symphony, for them so that they can go home, put Des Moines Metro Opera, and Chicago in their earbuds, and work with him in Opera Theater. “music minus one” coaching sessions. I’m He has performed world premieres sure that his reputation will ensure that of piano pieces by Charles Wuorinen and even in retirement, a steady stream of Andrew Imbrie at the Art Institute of singers will fnd their way to his door, Chicago and has sung in the Chicago looking for his help and expertise. Symphony Chorus, performing under the Opera is not his only love—for a baton of Georg Solti at Orchestra Hall and number of years, Mark has brought James Levine at the Ravinia Festival. remarkable enthusiasm to his teaching of Awards he has received include First Prize the undergraduate song literature classes, at the Iowa Federation of Pianists and this year the master’s song literature Competition in 1975. He has been ofcial sequence, introducing many recordings accompanist and collaborator for many of gifted singers performing this vocal master classes, including those of great repertoire. Virginia Zeani, Nico Castel, Joan Mark is in demand as an accompanist Dornemann, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, and coach and has traveled throughout the and Elly Ameling. United States lecturing and teaching Mark has had the privilege of working master classes. He is active as a recitalist as a recital accompanist and/or vocal and an ofcial accompanist for many coach for many of America’s leading

Retiring Faculty / 29 MAUREEN A. PIROG

Dr. Maureen Pirog received a B.A. and an evaluated a quarter-billion-dollar M.A. in economics from Boston College in education intervention for the Inter- 1975 and a Ph.D. in public policy analysis American Development Bank, and directed from the University of Pennsylvania in a large-scale evaluation of the Indiana 1981. Born to a family who lived in a house welfare reform experiment. Her work on behind a gas station, Maureen considers child support guidelines was published by her path from a lower middle-class family the U.S. House of Representatives and has in an old mill town in Connecticut to some been instrumental in maintaining and of the best academic institutions in the increasing child support awards for country as governed by good luck and millions of children. Her interests in social sheer determination to prove wrong those welfare policies, poverty, and labor who thought it was comical for a young markets have led to several collaborations woman to set her sights on academia. with the U.S. Government Accountability After her Ph.D., Maureen taught in Ofce, U.S. Department of Health and the Finance Department of the Wharton Human Services, the Brookings School of the University of Pennsylvania Institution, the Ford Foundation, the before joining the faculty in the School of Rockefeller Foundation, the Woodrow Public and Environment Afairs (SPEA) at Wilson School at Princeton University, Indiana University in 1983. Maureen was and the Organization for Economic the only woman in her Ph.D. program, and Cooperation and Development (OECD). at one point also the only woman in research career; she has over 100 She has been a visiting scholar at the residence on SPEA faculty. Today, publications, including six books. Her Institute for Research on Poverty, the Maureen is the Rudy Professor of Public most recent book is coauthored with her John F. Kennedy School of Government Policy Analysis at IU. daughter, Emily Good, and entitled Public at Harvard University, and the Wagner In her ofce hangs a genealogy of her Policy and Mental Health: Avenues School at New York University. Ph.D. training that can be traced back for for Prevention. Maureen’s many international almost 800 years—starting with her Maureen’s current research focuses scholarly accomplishments add to her long doctoral advisors, to their doctoral on the evaluation of government programs list of titles. She holds an honorary advisors, and so on. This family tree, including the methodology of evaluation as professorship at the National Research created as a class project by one of well as the evaluation of various social University Higher School of Economics in Maureen’s former students, includes welfare policies. Recent publications Moscow. In Russia, she has actively illustrious scholars such as Robin Sickles include articles on big data as a driver of collaborated on a variety of projects related and Erasmus. When Maureen received it, innovation, the efects of performance to evidence-based policy making, work she studied it several times. It struck management in the child support funded by the U.S. State Department. In Maureen that she was the only female in enforcement program, the impacts of South Africa, she holds a Distinguished this line; there were also no female expanding public pension programs, Visiting Professorship at the University of teachers in her earlier degree programs. fnancial aid and online education, teenage Johannesburg and in China she holds a (“Well,” she adds, “except for the nuns in parenting, online education and for-proft Distinguished Visiting Professorship at my Catholic high school.”) Now, as she universities, homelessness prevention, and Northwest Polytechnic University. She has looks around at the feld of public afairs, the efects of income-contingent loans. also been a visiting scholar at the National she sees many gains. Maureen has served in many Institute for Development Administration We are all grateful for the part additional roles that have brought in Thailand, Fudan University, Bocconi Maureen has played in the transformation recognition to Indiana University and University, City University of Hong Kong, of the scholarly environment to one that is SPEA; she is an editor of Contemporary and the University of Warsaw. more open and inclusive of diversity. Economic Policy, serves on editorial Through sheer determination, hard Of Maureen’s many accomplishments, boards of other journals, has served as work, and a vision toward better social she is most proud of the over two dozen reviewer for 20 other journals and welfare programs for the most vulnerable Ph.D. students she has mentored and of grant-giving agencies, and has served as members of society, Maureen has been the decade she served as the editor-in-chief a mentor for several programs. instrumental in building the research, of the Journal of Policy Analysis and Those who know Maureen well analysis, and education in the feld of Management, the premier journal in the are not surprised that she also always policy analysis. There’s no word but feld, which grew substantially in impact practiced what she taught; she has awesome to sum up her career and under her leadership. In 2013, Maureen infuenced the efective design, contributions to Indiana University and received a Lifetime Achievement Award implementation, and growth of major the world beyond! from the Association for Policy Analysis social welfare programs in the and Management. United States. Kosali Simon In addition to mentoring many new During her career, Maureen headed branches of the academic family tree, two large demonstration projects for the Maureen has had an extremely productive U.S. Ofce of Child Support Enforcement,

30 / Indiana University Bloomington STEPHEN W. PRATT

Professor Stephen W. Pratt joined the Kevin Walczyk, David Ward-Steinman, faculty of the IU Jacobs School of Music in Dana Wilson, and Gregory Youtz. the fall of 1984 and retired in the spring of Professor Pratt also made a strong 2018, having enjoyed a decorated and efort to prominently feature Jacobs faculty distinguished 34-year career as a wind and other world-class musicians with the band conductor. He worked with every IU Wind Ensemble, including: Kevin Bobo, major ensemble in the Department of marimba; Bruce Bransby, double bass; Bands, including the Marching Hundred, James Campbell, clarinet; Chih-Yi Chen, the Big Red Basketball Band, the Concert piano; Anthony J. Cirone, timpani; Band, the Symphonic Band, and the Wind Thomas Drew, tenor; Peter Ellefson, Ensemble. Professor Pratt directed the IU trombone; Don Freund, piano; Ashley Summer Music Clinic for over 20 years, an Garritson, cello; Brian Horne, tenor; Steve annual event that has had a tremendously Houghton, percussion; Howard Klug, positive impact on thousands of students clarinet; Carl Lenthe, trombone; William across the country. His legacy is a deep Ludwig, bassoon; Kathryn Lukas, fute; one; he has inspired generations of young John McCabe, piano; Steven Mead, musicians toward musical excellence. euphonium; Otis Murphy, saxophone; Jef Professor Pratt was honored with Nelsen, horn; Daniel Perantoni, tuba; John several awards throughout his career, Rommel, trumpet; Jonathan Ruck, cello; including: the 1993 Distinguished Service M. Dee Stewart, bass trombone; Linda to Music Medal awarded by Kappa Kappa to a reputation as one of the fnest college Strommen, oboe; John Tafoya, timpani; Psi, the national collegiate band honorary bands in the country. Hundreds of Joey Tartell, trumpet; and Thomas organization; the 1998 Outstanding Marching Hundred alumni came back to Walsh, saxophone. Bandmaster Award of the Gamma chapter campus each fall to be under his direction Professor Pratt worked with high of Phi Beta Mu; the 2001 Outstanding again during Homecoming performances. school students all over the country as a University Music Educator Award, given From 2005–18, Professor Pratt served guest conductor at various all-state and by the Indiana Music Educators as director and chair of university bands, honor festivals. He also held residencies Association; and the 2014 James B. Calvert conducting the Wind Ensemble and at several universities. It is these activities Outstanding Music Educator Award. teaching graduate conducting students that he is eager to increase in frequency Professor Pratt earned a bachelor of who have gone on to lead prominent wind now that he is retired from IU. He and his music education degree from the Jacobs bands of their own. Under his direction, wife, Darlene, look forward to traveling School, studying fute with James Pellerite the Wind Ensemble received several and frequenting the major U.S. concert and conducting with Frederick Ebbs. Upon prestigious invitations, including a halls as they pursue their mutual love graduation, he became a music educator in showcase concert in Carnegie Hall; College of classical music. They also plan on the schools of Sturgis, Michigan, leading Band Directors National Conference visiting their son, Nathan, and daughter, the Sturgis instrumental ensembles to an (CBDNA); national conventions in Abby—both Jacobs graduates—with outstanding national reputation. During Nashville, Tennessee, and Ann Arbor, greater regularity. this time Professor Pratt completed a Michigan; a CBDNA regional convention Professor Pratt will be sorely missed master’s degree at the University of in Normal, Illinois; a Music Educators by his students and colleagues at IU; Michigan, where he worked with famed National Conference (now National however, the results of his decades of wind conductor H. Robert Reynolds. After Association for Music Education) national outstanding musical leadership will be felt nine years in Sturgis, he was recruited by convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin; and for generations. His career truly his former mentor, Ray Cramer, to be on an American Bandmasters Association exemplifed excellence, a standard that all the faculty at IU. convention in Indianapolis. who came in contact with him strive to Early on, Professor Pratt’s work Professor Pratt has always been a uphold to this day. centered on developing undergraduate strong advocate for new music written for music education students. His conducting the wind band medium, and was involved Eric M. Smedley and administration courses are still lauded in several commissioning projects with by alumni as some of the best educational prominent composers, including: Samuel experiences they have ever had. Professor Adler, Robert Beaser, James Beckel, Kevin Pratt inspired countless students with his Bobo, William Bolcom, Steven Bryant, extraordinary musicianship and dedication David DeBoor Canfeld, David Dzubay, to the highest professional standards—so Eric Ewazen, Don Freund, David Maslanka, much so that they often make the trek back Michael Mower, Cindy McTee, Clint to Bloomington to see him work. Professor Needham, Andre Previn, Joel Puckett, Pratt also worked with many non-music Andrew Rindfeisch, Chris Rutkowski, majors in his role as director of the famed Michael Schelle, James Stephenson, IU Marching Hundred, leading the group Benjamin Dean Taylor, Frank Ticheli,

Retiring Faculty / 31 RUDOLF A. RAFF

Rudolf (Rudy) Raf, recognized founding a new discipline in the process, internationally for his groundbreaking and inspiring a new generation of work on the evolution of organismal scientists along the way. development and as one of the founders of This new discipline, evo-devo, began evolutionary developmental biology to resolve a fundamental question neither (evo-devo), retired from the Department of parent discipline could on its own: how Biology on January 31, 2018, the same novel traits and organismal groups emerge department where he began his long and from within the confnes of ancestral accomplished career as an assistant variation. Rudy’s work overturned professor in 1971. Rudy was born in 1941 longstanding opinion that evolutionary in Canada, in the Quebec city of change should be restricted to the adult Shawinigan. His mother was the daughter stage (embryos turned out to evolve just as of a local physician and his father, a readily), or that developmental evolution polymer chemist with a Ph.D. from the relies primarily on changes in timing of University of Vienna, emigrated from developmental events. Rudy published Austria in 1938 to escape the worsening three highly infuential books in the political climate of central Europe. process (the frst with his IU colleague and Rudy’s family moved to Pittsburgh, friend Thom Kaufman) and founded and Pennsylvania, in 1949. Not knowing still serves as editor-in-chief of the fagship exactly how close to the equator he was journal Evolution & Development. Rudy’s headed, Rudy remembers watching as it involved exposing biological materials eforts enabled a discipline to be built by a through the train window searching for to radiation. It wasn’t until 1978 that Rudy generation of graduate students, postdocs, waving palms and coiled rattlesnakes, only learned that his position, and the entire and faculty, many of them his direct to be disappointed. That disappointment institute, served as an elaborate cover-up academic ofspring, all of them inspired by was quickly remedied, however, by his to mask the Cold War–era neutron bomb his pioneering work. Evo-devo is now discovery of the Carnegie Museum of development program. Rudy transitioned among the most vibrant biological Natural History and its collections, to a second postdoctoral position in 1969, disciplines, complete with conferences, especially dinosaurs, and the growing at the Massachusetts Institute of societies, and dedicated funding panels. realization that life on earth had gone Technology under Paul Gross. There he Rudy has received numerous awards through many changes, leaving traces of began his deep journey into the nature and honors, including the inaugural award past worlds recognizable to those who care of developmental biology, studying the role of the Pan American Society of to look closely. of maternally derived messenger RNA in Evolutionary Developmental Biology, a Rudy left Pittsburgh in 1959 to attend guiding early development of embryos. It Guggenheim Fellowship, and election to Penn State University, enrolling in the also marked Rudy’s frst use of sea urchins the American Association for the Navy Reserve Ofcer Training Corps. as a study organism, a relationship that Advancement of Science and the American During this time Rudy’s fascination with continues to this day. Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was all things biological blossomed—he spent Rudy joined Indiana University in named the James H. Rudy Professor of his time searching and collecting, rearing 1971, fnding himself drawn increasingly Biology in 2000, and promoted to and observing everything that slithered, to questions about how organisms develop Distinguished Professor in 2002. jumped, or swam. Dragonfies in particular during their lifetimes and how they evolve Rudy’s interests have expanded to became an object of afection, and they over eons. Rudy was among the frst to include the microbiological processes that remain so to this day. realize and articulate that because the underlie fossilization, the role science Graduate school at Duke University way organisms look and function emerges plays in society, and the increasing threats brought about foundational changes in his through development, evolutionary science faces. After 47 years at IU Rudy life. He met his wife, co-adventurer, and changes in looks and functions must has yet to slow down, except when he is closest colleague, Beth Raf, now also a require modifcations to the developmental out in nature, whether in Australia, where professor of biology at IU Bloomington. He processes that allow organismal he travels nearly every year, or at his also completed his Ph.D. in biochemistry complexity to come into being. At the same beloved Grify Lake Nature Preserve. He on bacterial surface proteins, and in the time, how organisms develop should, in seems to follow Yogi Berra, who famously process found himself drifting toward turn, bias in some ways—but perhaps also said that one can see a lot by just looking; questions focusing on evolutionary origins facilitate in others—how they diversify over for example, at dragonfies—especially and transitions. Completing his Ph.D. in evolutionary time scales. By the early when the adult form emerges from the last 1967 as a U.S. Navy ofcer carried with it 1970s, however, developmental and nymphal stage. the signifcant likelihood of service in evolutionary biologists had diverged in Vietnam; instead, Rudy was assigned to their research approaches to such a degree Armin Moczek the National Naval Medical Center in that neither thought much could be Bethesda, Maryland, with surprising learned from the other. Rudy became a freedom to carry out any research as long leading force in re-integrating both felds,

32 / Indiana University Bloomington ALICE R. ROBBIN

Alice Robbin is a political scientist. death, served as director or co-director Conference on Social Informatics, and She understands and works with the of the Rob Kling Center for Social International Conference on ICT for interpersonal and interinstitutional Informatics from 2004 to 2012. Sustainability. complexities of any situation in which she Robbin’s numerous refereed journal Her contributions at IU Bloomington is engaged. Throughout her career, she has articles and book chapters have appeared are campuswide, refecting her interests in brought this nuanced understanding to the in disciplinary venues for computer the social sciences, information analysis of the interaction between human science, public policy, library science, technologies, research methods, and institutions and information technologies. social informatics, information science, evaluation. In 2006 she and Assistant Her research has addressed information government information, and social Professor Lokman Meho presented the policy, communication, information science. Her research has been supported frst dean of faculties workshop on behavior in complex organizations, and by, among others, the National Science bibliometric tools, “Documenting Research social implications of the digital age. Foundation, the National Historical Impact.” Robbin served several terms as a Specifcally, she has addressed Publications and Research Commission, faculty advisor for the Hutton Honors bureaucratic decision making and the the Social Science Research Council, and College and for the IU Bloomington politics of privacy, the digital divide, and the Sloan Foundation. She serves or has Consortium for Education and Social classifcation of racial and ethnic data. served on editorial boards of several Science Research and its Workshop in Robbin earned her Ph.D. in political journals, including: Computers and the Methods. Within the School of Library and science, minoring in sociology, at the Social Sciences; Internet Research; Information Science, besides chairing the University of Wisconsin. There she began Journal of Information Technology & Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics, work with data from the U.S. Census Politics; Bulletin of Science, Technology & she served on the Doctoral Steering Bureau, in particular the Survey of Income Society; Journal of Information Science Committee, the Long-Range Planning and Program Participation (SIPP). As the Theory and Practice; and Triple C: Committee, the Promotion and Tenure bureau describes it, SIPP collects Communication, Capitalism & Critique. Committee, and several committees to “extensive information concerning family Dr. Robbin’s commitment to students develop and promote the Master of dynamics, educational attainment, housing has always been strong. High expectations Information Science Program. expenditures, asset ownership, health for herself and her students were a insurance, disability, childcare, and food hallmark of her teaching and she brought a Debora Shaw security. These data put the income and careful eye to any text. She has taken the program recipiency of individuals and lead in developing and teaching courses on households into the family and social research methods, organizational context.” The intricacies of large-scale, informatics, information policies, longitudinal data with multifaceted economics, and the law. Doctoral students, implications for social well-being were a and graduate students in general, who treasure for Robbin’s intellectual worked extensively with her emerged with engagement. This early version of “big a very frm understanding of the basic data” provided excellent challenges for principles of their discipline as well as evaluating data collection, use, storage, enough experience to deal with new and adaptation over time. challenges at the intersections of people The digital divide has been another and information technology. She served on theme in Robbin’s body of research. She 24 doctoral research committees, bringing views it as a confuence of information a detailed rigor to students’ analyses and policy, resource management, and presentations. She also worked with technology, taking a much broader librarians, developing students’ awareness approach than many of the early adopters of career opportunities and paths for of the term. Her historical and achieving career goals in settings within multinational analyses have enriched and beyond the typical library. understanding of the complexity of this Nationally and internationally, Alice contested research area. Robbin has served as president of the When she arrived at Indiana International Association for Social University in 2000, Robbin actively Science Information Services Technology, helped to develop the nascent feld of on the Executive Board of the International social informatics. Her academic Federation of Data Organizations, and on background in sociology and political program committees for several science complemented the work begun by international conferences, including: Professor Rob Kling in the (then) School of Information Communication Technologies Library and Information Science. Robbin in Organizations and Society, International became a fellow in the Center for Social Association for Development of the Informatics and, after Kling’s untimely Information Society, International

Retiring Faculty / 33 EARL SINGLETON

Earl Singleton has served almost 29 years accuracy in dispatching frozen pumpkins. In recognition of his impact, Earl has at the IU Maurer School of Law as a staf Earl’s ability to adapt to his received the Leonard D. Fromm Public attorney and the only clinical professor in surroundings while remaining Interest Faculty Award and the Thomas the Community Legal Clinic. In that time, authentically himself is what makes Earl Ehrlich Award for Excellence in Service he has mentored law students, represented Earl. He is open, humorous, and respectful Learning. Earl also has received a plaque clients, and touched the lives of many with people from all walks of life. One from a grateful client, a “Big Head” to use members of the IU and South Central longtime friend notes, “We are like oil and at IU basketball games, and a poster Indiana communities. water with political discussions; but we celebrating his 25th work anniversary. Growing up in the Bronx, Earl would learn a lot from each other, [and] Now, at 69, Earl jokes, “I considered not have predicted that he would become a whenever I am anywhere with Earl I am myself a basketball phenomenon when I lawyer and professor. His mother had a truly amazed at the large number of people was young and now just consider myself a tenth-grade education and was a domestic that stop to greet him. You have to phenomenon.” His students agree, noting worker. His father had an eighth-grade have touched a lot of people to have that “Maurer is losing an incredible mentor education and worked as a parking lot that happen.” and educator with Earl’s retirement; but, attendant. Of their fve children, only Earl As a teacher, Earl engages with all more importantly, the school is losing an and his youngest sister went to college. his students. He is direct and supportive, incredible person and irreplaceable Earl attended Oberlin College through challenging students to grapple with personality in Earl.” loans, work-study, and scholarships. He concepts of law and practice, and Earl, we agree 100 percent and will also captained his basketball team. critiquing them honestly. One student miss you dearly. Shortly after graduating, Earl needed explains, “[Earl] let you handle your cases a lawyer for the frst time, when his father the way you chose; he let you grow as an Carwina Weng died unexpectedly and their landlord attorney. He would take your calls any time attempted to evict Earl. Fortunately, Earl of day and be in the clinic as late as you found his personal knight in shining needed him.” At the same time, Earl taught armor, a free lawyer who used applicable his students to be human beings, not just rent control laws to preserve the family lawyers. The same student recalls, home. The seed for serving others who are “Through the hours you put in on your disempowered was planted. cases, Earl was there to remind you that Still, it took 12 years for Earl to begin there is always time for a laugh—he has an law school at IU. During that time, he unforgettable laugh—and there are more worked as a cab driver in New York City, important things in life, like IU basketball, a criminal court ofcer, and a college or reviewing his own stats as a forward administrator and admissions ofcer, [at Oberlin].” It’s no wonder that Earl’s and began a master’s program in political students thrive under his mentorship. science at IU. He also married Diane and As a lawyer, Earl takes on clients who had two children, Alexandra and Andrew, are downtrodden or ignored by the system. who since have blessed Earl with four His life experiences, his reassuring and grandchildren. forthright manner, and his righteousness When Earl moved to Bloomington, he and zeal on behalf of his clients make him adapted quickly. He is a longtime regular a formidable and trusted lawyer. at Scotty’s Brewhouse, the Bedford Golden Consequently, word of mouth brings Earl Corral, and the Litehouse Lunchbox in many clients. Judges often refer clients Bloomfeld, and he’s an IU basketball when they know Earl’s tenacity is needed season ticket holder. Earl also became to see justice done. Among the clients he interested in target shooting; he owns guns has helped are a woman whose husband and makes ammunition. However, when obtained custody of their son by claiming his interest began, Earl lived in university she had abandoned the family even as he housing, so he had to store his equipment was holding her as a domestic slave, a at a friend’s house. The friend remembers couple initially denied a divorce when one warning the neighbors not to call the police spouse underwent gender transition, and a should they see a tall black man entering noncustodial mother whose child support the house after dark, carrying a gun. Earl payments were bankrupting her because disappears annually to Camp Guns, has the father had hidden his multimillion- won individual and team awards, and has dollar net worth. This precept sums up introduced students to target shooting Earl’s approach to lawyering: “Lawyers through highly sought-after auction items don’t do enough to help people who cannot at school fundraisers. Earl also holds the aford them.” Not through any fault of title of the Great Pumpkin Assassin for his yours, Earl!

34 / Indiana University Bloomington JOEL STAGER

Dr. Joel M. Stager retired from the Public Health in 2003. Soon after, he Department of Kinesiology in the Indiana added a community-based Counsilman University School of Public Health– Center Indiana Swim Team (CCiST); both Bloomington in December of 2017. continue to thrive under his leadership. Dr. Stager was raised in northwestern Dr. Stager continues to contribute to Pennsylvania, where, when he was 10, his the science of swimming by co-editing with swimming ability (or lack thereof) caused Dr. Tanner the Handbook of Swimming. him to nearly drown in the Tionesta Creek He serves the American Swim Coach while on a weekend camping trip. Fast Association by acting as the editor in chief forward 55 years and Dr. Stager is not only of the Journal of Swimming Research. He the director of the Counsilman Center for serves on the advisory board for USA the Science of Swimming, but a highly Swimming and the United States Masters decorated competitive swimmer in his own Swimming Sports Medicine Committee. right. Dr. Stager also went on to forge a Perhaps Dr. Stager’s most lasting stellar career in exercise physiology with legacy will be his impact on his many application to high-level sport graduate students. Dr. Stager has been performance. Along the way Dr. Stager met the ultimate mentor to over 100 graduate and was infuenced by some of the most students, many of whom currently serve renowned individuals in the profession, as chairs, deans, and full professors who were all instrumental in shaping his throughout the country. He will be philosophy. Throughout his time at Bloomington. With the promise of a new remembered more not for his past Indiana University, he has paid this lab and the chance to work again with Doc accomplishments, which are many, but for forward many times over with his Counsilman, he made the move. Initial his infuence in the feld of exercise meaningful and heartfelt mentoring of research projects included several physiology through the accomplishments graduate students in kinesiology. pertaining to performance at altitude and of his former students. Dr. Stager received his Bachelor of acute mountain sickness. A number of With his legacy in the Department of Science degree in biology from the these projects took Dr. Stager to Mount Kinesiology, the School of Public Health, University of Miami in 1975. During that McKinley for applied research at high and the feld of exercise physiology frmly time, a chance meeting with the legendary altitude. From 1984 until 1989 Dr. Stager intact, we thank Dr. Stager for his Indiana University swim coach James was instrumental, in conjunction with enduring contributions to the profession “Doc” Counsilman infuenced his career department chair Dr. Hal Morris, in and the academy. We wish the best for when Counsilman convinced him that planning the creation of research Dr. Stager, his wife, Nan, and his family in Indiana University was where he needed to laboratories in the department. After much his retirement years. Since he is an avid be if he was really interested in studying efort the Human Performance Research afcionado of rock and roll music (he the physiology of human performance. Laboratories were established in 1989. plays guitar in a band), we close with an It was at Indiana University that Dr. Stager After the untimely death of Dr. Hal Morris appropriate verse from Neil Young as our met his second mentor, Dr. Sid Robinson, in 2004, Dr. Stager led the charge to wish for Dr. Stager in retirement, and to who was a graduate of the renowned rename these laboratories the Hal Morris congratulate him on a job well done: Harvard Fatigue Lab. At IU, Dr. Stager was Human Performance Research Long may you run, long may you run, fortunate to train with the swim team and Laboratories. although these changes have come, work for Doc Counsilman during the The focus of the research in with your chrome heart shining in the sun, summers. As anyone who knew Doc Dr. Stager’s lab shifted back toward long may you run! Counsilman can attest, there was never a applied physiology and the problems dull moment; Dr. Stager was fortunate to facing swimmers and coaches. This shift David M. Koceja ponder the endless research questions that was stimulated in part by his personal Doc Counsilman posed. Counsilman also friendship with one of Doc Counsilman’s introduced Dr. Stager to Dr. David Costill, former swimmers, Dr. Dave Tanner. arguably the top sport physiologist in the Throughout all this time, competitive United States. Dr. Stager saw in Dr. Costill swimming was reintroduced to Dr. Stager’s another role model, one who ultimately life. He won several national titles and top infuenced his unrelenting search for the world rankings over the next decade in the scientifc truth of how ordinary humans sprint events—occurrences that he could perform extraordinary athletic feats. never have envisioned as a 10-year-old Dr. Stager received his Ph.D. in 1980 struggling in the Tionesta Creek. and his passion for research took him As a consequence of his involvement to Colorado State University for in swimming as well as his respect for the postdoctoral work. work of Doc Counsilman, Dr. Stager In 1984 Indiana University called and founded the Counsilman Center for the ofered Dr. Stager a chance to return to Science of Swimming in the School of

Retiring Faculty / 35 THOMAS Y. STEIMAN-CAMERON

Dr. Thomas Y. Steiman-Cameron is of science papers. Tom gave a lengthy, a bona fde Hoosier astronomer. Born in straight-faced presentation titled “On the Evansville, Indiana, in 1950, one of his Pointedness of Stars,” complete with earliest memories is sitting on a porch illustrations from astronomical images. swing while his parents speculated about His colleague Jim Imamura (University of the nature of stars. At fve or six years of Oregon) also recalls amusingly tense age, he attended a planetarium show, moments as they tried to convince learned about the Evansville Astronomical Pinochet customs agents, in broken Society, and joined! He was the youngest Spanish, to allow them to bring an EAS member and the youngest Evansville “atomic” clock into Chile for their high- Museum volunteer for the next decade. speed photometric observations. Tom pursued his childhood passion Although not required to teach as a by joining the Department of Astronomy at research scientist, Tom exhibited IU Bloomington as an undergraduate incredible passion and empathy for astrophysics major in 1968, but the students as an instructor in a variety of Vietnam War delayed his graduation until undergraduate and graduate classes and 1975. Tom picked up a master’s degree in seminars. He taught A103 Search for Life physics at Wichita State University before in the Universe numerous times and returning to IU Bloomington as a doctoral received rave evaluations. In keeping with student in astronomy. For his dissertation, his dry wit, one gimmick for engaging completed in 1984, Tom investigated the Explorer satellite. By virtue of the latter undergraduates was to show a video of a dynamics and steady-state orientations of research, Tom became one of the world’s supposed alien spacecraft crash and then gas disks in galaxies with complicated experts on the arcane question of exactly introduce the “pilot” (his costumed mass distributions and rotation patterns. how many major spiral arms our galaxy graduate student A.I.) to the class. Tom He demonstrated that stable polar gas has. While at NASA, Tom also did also took on extensive committee work in rings were possible in some cases, as well theoretical work showing that polar rings support of graduate degree programs as transient but long-lived warped and were possible around Neptune, and he in astronomy. twisted disk structures. co-authored a frequently referenced Part of Tom’s professional life has After IU Bloomington, Tom enjoyed observational atlas of polar ring galaxies. been dedicated to public and educational postdoctoral positions at the Carnegie When applying his dissertation outreach. Particularly notable is his close Institute, the Joint Institute for Laboratory research to real galaxies, Tom ft one of his association, over nearly three decades, Astrophysics, and NASA-Ames Research theoretical twisted disk models to dust with the Summer Science Program, a Center. He then held a number of visiting lanes in the peculiar galaxy NGC 4753. In a residential summer program for talented and associate positions on the West Coast, 1991 video, he displayed the model disk, high school students. SSP counts many including at the University of California, rotated it to illustrate the twisted 3D distinguished astronomers among its Berkeley, the University of California, structure, and then superposed it on an graduates, including some IU Bloomington Santa Cruz, and the University of Oregon image of the real galaxy to show how faculty members. For community service, before returning in 1998 to his Hoosier dramatically good the ft was. A prominent one of Tom’s favorite fundraising ploys for roots as a research scientist at IU Italian astronomer remarked that the charities is to rafe of “An Evening with Bloomington. He was later named to the animation represented a new kind of an Astronomer.” IU graduate faculty. It was during Tom’s publication, and the video received notable Personally, Tom is a gentle, warm, time at the Carnegie Institute that he attention in the popular science literature. and soft-spoken person with a big heart picked up the afectionate moniker During his last decade at IU and a smile (or gufaw) for everyone. To “Dr. Dash,” which has been used by his Bloomington, Tom took over leadership of me, he’s not just a colleague with whom I students right up until his retirement. the NASA-funded Computational 3D have done some of my best and most Tom has always impressed his Hydrodynamics Group. Just this past interesting work, but also a friend whose colleagues and students with a broad academic year, Tom completed directing a company I always enjoy, especially when it knowledge of astronomical lore combined doctoral dissertation on the migration of involves good food and wine. Thanks, with skills in all aspects of astronomical planets in a massive protoplanetary disk. Tom, for the wisdom and wit you have research—hands-on observations, data His student, Dr. Karna Desai, testifes to contributed to astronomy, to IU reduction, and theoretical computations. Tom’s “unwavering” mentorship in all Bloomington, and to all your friends, He has, for example, done high-speed aspects of the dissertation work. students, and colleagues. photometry of millisecond pulsars, theory Tom is a delight as a person. One of and observations of quasi-periodic his most endearing features is an Richard H. Durisen oscillations in accretion fows onto extremely dry sense of humor. When he compact stars, and mapping of the Milky was an IU Bloomington graduate student, Way Galaxy’s spiral arms using far-infrared he organized a mock science meeting at data from NASA’s Cosmic Background which department members did parodies

36 / Indiana University Bloomington H. WAY N E STOR EY

H. Wayne Storey, professor of Italian and Magni (now a Mellon postdoctoral fellow, S. McRobbie Graduate Fellowship in medieval studies and adjunct professor of Center for Renaissance Studies, Newberry Medieval History; and established the comparative literature, retired January 1, Library), is “The Petrarchive Project 2.0: Medieval Studies Institute’s Journals 2018, after 17 years in the Department of A Digital ‘Rich Text’ Commentary and Initiative, which supports the editing of French and Italian at Indiana University. eBook of Petrarch’s Rerum vulgarium academic journals by MEST faculty and Professor Storey received his A.B. in fragmenta” (petrarchive.org). The provides a fellowship for an advanced English, with honors, from Texas Tech importance and implications of this graduate student to assist with University (1973). His training in Italian undertaking cannot be overstated. The editing responsibilities. and medieval studies includes an M.A. in Petrarchive Project changes the ways we Professor Storey’s contributions to the Italian from Brown University (1974), two read, experience, and understand the teaching mission of French and Italian and years at the University of Florence Rerum vulgarium fragmenta, a poetic medieval studies are signifcant. He taught (1975–77), and a Ph.D. in Italian from work that has shaped the tradition of the standard courses of the Italian major Columbia University in 1982. Storey Italian lyric poetry and impacted the and minor programs, and courses in arrived at IU in 2000 as an associate history of European and Western poetry. English such as Dante’s Divine Comedy, professor and was promoted to the rank By bringing together historical and Boccaccio’s Social Decameron, and of professor in 2004. Before joining IU, philological expertise and information Manuscripts and Early Printing. At the he taught at Fordham University (1986– technology, this project allows for a graduate level, his teaching and mentoring 2000), the University of California, dynamic approach to Petrarch’s have trained specialists in material Berkeley (1985–86), and the University of Fragmenta. For the frst time, scholars philology, textual studies, and digital Virginia (1982–85). At Fordham, he also and readers will have access not to a fxed editing who now hold tenured, tenure- served as director of the Institute for snapshot of Petrarch’s text, as has been the track, or postdoctoral positions at the Italian Studies (1999–2000) and director case with all modern editions, but to the College of the Holy Cross, the University of of medieval studies (1996–98). material and textual formation of the work Dallas, the University of Mississippi, the Professor Storey is a leading scholar in its various phases. This project received University of Washington, the University of medieval and early modern Italian an IU New Frontiers Grant in 2013, a of Wisconsin–Madison, and the literature with a distinguished record of three-year National Endowment for the Newberry Library. publications and accomplishments, often Humanities grant in 2014, and the 2016 On behalf of the department, I express carried out in collaboration with colleagues IU Outstanding Faculty Collaborative my sincere appreciation for Professor and students. These include six books and Research Award. Professor Walsh Storey’s substantial contributions as a editions—most notable among them describes the collaboration as “the most scholar, teacher, and mentor; to the felds Transcription and Visual Poetics in the rewarding of my career. My work on the of Italian and medieval studies; and to Early Italian Lyric (New York: Garland Petrarchive has been a true partnership. French and Italian as a whole. I also Press, 1993) and the facsimile edition of Wayne embraced the technologies wish him all the best for a happy and Petrarch’s Rerum vulgarium fragmenta necessary to create a digital scholarly productive retirement. (Padua and Rome: Antenore, 2003–04), edition and taught me a new vocabulary and over 70 articles and reviews. His and conceptual framework for discussing Massimo Scalabrini innovative work in material philology, my own interests in the relationship textual studies, and digital editing has left between the visual and the textual.” a mark on the scholarship of early Italian Professor Storey has served the and Occitan poetry, Dante, Petrarch, and Department of French and Italian, the Boccaccio; his contributions are recognized College of Arts and Sciences, and the nationally and internationally. Professor university as a long-standing member of Storey has given countless lectures in the Lilly Library Faculty Advisory North America and Europe; he has served Committee, as chair of the Library as vice president of the Dante Society of Committee for the Bloomington Faculty America (1999–2001); he has served as Council (2010–12), as resident director of board member or editor for top journals in the Bologna Cooperative Studies Program his felds, such as Italica, Letteratura (2002–03), as director of the Medieval Italiana Antica, Medioevo letterario Studies Institute (MEST) (2003–09), and d’Italia, Studi danteschi, and Dante again as acting director in the fall of 2012. Studies. He has also served as editor-in- His record of achievements as director of chief of Textual Cultures, the journal of the medieval studies is impressive. Former Society for Textual Scholarship, and is MEST director Rosemarie McGerr series editor of Textual Cultures: Theory (professor of comparative literature) notes and Praxis (Indiana University Press). that Storey helped to develop the annual His most recent major research spring symposium into a multi-day project, in collaboration with John Walsh program of faculty and graduate student (associate professor of information and speakers from many universities; library science) and Ph.D. alumna Isabella facilitated the establishment of the Andrea

Retiring Faculty / 37 RON WAINSCOTT

Ron Wainscott will be sorely missed by colleagues and students in the Department of Theatre, Drama, and Contemporary Dance. Raised in Alabama, he attended Samford University and the University of Alabama before being accepted into the Ph.D. program at Indiana University, where he received his degree in 1984. He then taught at a number of institutions before returning to IU to head the area of Theatre History, Theory, and Literature in 1995. Ron’s specialization is American theatre, although he also has encyclopedic knowledge of drama, in both practice and theory. He is a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow and multiple grant recipient. He is the author of four books: Theatre: Collaborative Acts, co-written with his wife, Kathy Fletcher (Allyn and Bacon, 2003 and 2007; currently in its third edition); Plays Onstage: An Topics; The Journal of American Drama Anthology, co-edited with Kathy Fletcher and Theatre; Theatre History Studies; The (Allyn and Bacon); The Emergence of the Eugene O’Neill Review; Theatre Research Modern American Theater, 1914–1929 International; The American Historical (Yale University Press, 1997); and Staging Review; and Theatre Journal. O’Neill: The Experimental Years, 1920– He has served on numerous 1934 (Yale University Press, 1988). He is executive boards, editorial boards, and currently writing articles and a new book committees for the American Theatre and on theatrical and dramatic struggles with Drama Society, American Society for decorum, immodesty, and censorship. Theatre Research, Association for Theatre He is the author of numerous in Higher Education, Mid-America chapters, articles, reviews, and entries Theatre Conference, and the Eugene appearing in The Cambridge History of O’Neill Society. American Theatre; The Cambridge For decades, Ron has been one Companion to Eugene O’Neill; The of the department’s most popular and American Stage: Social and Economic productive teachers. He rigorously Issues from the Colonial Period to the mentored generations of Ph.D. students Present; The Cambridge Guide to and taught undergraduate courses in American Theatre, Art, Glitter, and Glitz: theatre history. Ron’s impact on theatre American Theatre in the 1920s; Notable in America is profound and his students Women in the American Theatre; Women’s continue his legacy at colleges and Studies Encyclopedia; The Encyclopedia universities nationwide. of American Studies; Microsoft Encarta Encyclopedia; Theatre Survey; Theatre Jonathan Michaelsen

38 / Indiana University Bloomington PAM B. WALTERS

Pamela Barnhouse Walters, James H. in 2005, in which Pam collaborated with study education in the social sciences. Rudy Professor of Sociology, retires from Professor Julia Lamber from the IU Pam became director of the Liberal Arts Indiana University after 35 years, leaving a Maurer School of Law and Professor Jean and Management Program in 2010, legacy of eminent scholarship, outstanding Robinson from political science and gender where she built strong connections to mentorship, and dedicated service to studies to analyze racial, class, and gender undergraduates and reafrmed the power Indiana University. inequality in U.S. education. That project of the core value of a broad liberal arts Pam joined the IU faculty in 1983 analyzed both secondary and collegiate education for work in the business and fresh from Johns Hopkins University, practices across the nation, focusing on not-for-proft worlds. Pam was appointed poised to assume a position of leadership issues such as school fnance reform chair of American Studies in 2015, helping in research on the history of U.S. public and athletics under Title IX. Pam has to bring stability and a renewed education. She quickly advanced in the received additional grants for her commitment to studying and teaching feld, publishing articles in the top general research, including those from the about American values and institutions sociological journal, American Sociological National Science Foundation, the William within a context of critical analysis and Review, each of her frst two years on the T. Grant Foundation, and the Russell rigorous methodologies. faculty, and in the top specialty journal, Sage Foundation. Pam has never believed in the Sociology of Education, shortly Never one to rest on her laurels, and university as an ivory tower, and in her thereafter—a pattern that continued for committed to combining research with personal life she has tried to bridge the many years. Pam was appointed editor of impactful service, Pam coupled her divide between the academy and the Sociology of Education early in her career, academic interest in inequality with direct community. With her husband, Scott, who just 12 years after receiving her Ph.D., and advocacy to increase access and is active in philanthropy throughout was promoted to the rank of professor the opportunity at Indiana University. She Bloomington, she has joined in eforts to same year. The honorary Sociological mentored women faculty through the build strong communities, whether in the Research Association elected Pam to Ofce for Women’s Afairs (1995–96 and Bloomington Developmental Learning membership in 1997. Honors from 1998–99), convened a seminar on Women Center when her sons were young, or in Indiana University followed, including her in the Curriculum for the Institute for support for local eforts such as Middle appointment as Rudy Professor in 2000 Advanced Study (1999–2001), and Way House or Cutters Soccer. Pam enjoys and receipt of the Tracey M. Sonneborn convened the faculty committee of the spending time with her family, and was Award for exemplary teaching and Task Force on the Status of Women at strongly committed with Scott to raising research in 2004. Pam was named a Indiana University (1999–2002). She also her two sons as feminists who are Guggenheim Fellow in 2007. served as project co-coordinator for a Lilly thoughtfully aware of inequalities in daily Growing up in a working-class family, Endowment grant concerned with life. She has also pursued her own and recognizing the power of education to academic achievement and persistence inclinations to become an expert provide new opportunities, Pam’s primary among IU undergraduates. seamstress and a power lifter, most focus in her illustrious career was to Pam was encouraged to join the recently winning national awards in her uncover how the promise of public administrative ranks as soon as she was age class. In everything she has done, education has been stymied by the promoted to full professor. She became Pam has shown focus, discipline, and an persistence of racial, class, and gender associate dean for undergraduate unstoppable will to break through barriers. inequalities. Pam’s work has highlighted education in the College of Arts and how public education, although often Sciences in 1995. In that role, she led a Jane McLeod claimed to be a social right, nevertheless campaign to highlight the value of liberal Jean Robinson instantiates existing class, race, and gender arts education, at a time when it was divides by reproducing and legitimating denigrated in the public media. While existing social structures. in that position, she also became more In Pam’s earliest work, she focused aware of the pernicious strength of on race and public education in the deep inequality in higher education, especially South, showing the ways that public in the compensation patterns at IU and education reinforced racial inequality. elsewhere. She became a strong advocate Using newspapers and other publicly read for repairing the inequality in pay between documents as her evidence, she traced that men and women and has continued that persistence over time and place. She also fght through a long-term appointment to incidentally expanded the acceptance of the College’s committee on salary equity. qualitative approaches in social sciences Demonstrating her administrative through her careful and disciplined acumen and passion, Pam served in approach to content analysis. In her later positions that built new institutions to work, she continued to focus on education enhance learning and opportunity. She was and inequality through collaborative director of the Center for Education and projects. The most far-reaching was a Society, which bridges the gap between project funded by the Spencer Foundation professionals in education and those who

Retiring Faculty / 39 SUSAN WHISTON

Where can a career take you? If you are as program director of the master’s Dr. Sue Whiston, the answer is: A career program and training director of the can take you on a long and exciting journey doctoral program. Her steadfast from Wyoming to Nevada to Indiana and leadership, work ethic, commitment to then around the globe as a world-class mentoring students, and scholarly researcher and educator specializing in productivity are a model for all to follow. vocational psychology. Dr. Whiston’s As a researcher who has studied the journey began in the rugged Wyoming challenges of work-life balance, I can say landscape with three degrees from the that this tribute would not be complete University of Wyoming—frst a bachelor’s without mentioning that Dr. Whiston degree in psychology, followed by a accomplished all of this while raising three master’s degree in counseling and beautiful children. Jen, Michael, and Matt guidance, punctuated by a Ph.D. in are the light of her life, and they clearly counselor education with a minor in adore their mother. psychological assessment. Despite her many outstanding With her formal education completed, accomplishments, Dr. Whiston is a humble Dr. Whiston’s journey continued in the journeyer whose genuineness and grit form of an exemplary career in academia. make her a beloved colleague. Retirement Her frst stop was at the University of just means a new adventure awaits. Nevada, Las Vegas, from 1986 to 2000, where she rose from assistant professor to Dr. Whiston’s contributions to the Lynn Gilman full professor and then department chair. feld of vocational psychology and Barry Chung The next stop was as a professor at Indiana counseling include more than 60 refereed University Bloomington, where she has journal articles; a bestselling textbook excelled in teaching, research, and service (Principles and Applications of in the Department of Counseling and Assessment in Counseling, now in its 4th Educational Psychology from 2000 edition); numerous book chapters; and to 2018. countless conference presentations. She Dr. Whiston has distinguished herself has served as an editorial board member in the feld of vocational psychology, and for top-tier journals in her feld such as the was recognized by the prestigious John Journal of Counseling Psychology, Holland Award for Outstanding Journal of Career Assessment, The Career Achievement in Career and Personality Development Quarterly, and Journal of Research from the Society of Counseling Counseling and Development. Dr. Whiston Psychology (SCP), Division 17 of the has also held major leadership positions American Psychological Association. within the American Psychological The SCP and the American Psychological Association, including chair for the Society Association also recognized Dr. Whiston as of Counseling Psychology Section for the a fellow, indicating that she has made Promotion of Psychotherapy Science, chair outstanding and unique contributions in of the Society for Vocational Psychology, the feld of psychology on a national and/ treasurer and executive board member of or international level. Her expertise in the Council of Counseling Psychology vocational and career research has given Training Programs, and member of the her the opportunity to share her knowledge Committee on Psychological Tests globally, as evidenced by the many and Assessment. presentations she has been invited to As a valued colleague, Dr. Whiston deliver at conferences around the world. provided services above and beyond what It is a good thing that Dr. Whiston is an most can ofer. Somehow she made time intrepid traveler and culinary adventurer, for her students, colleagues, department, as her work has taken her to China, Japan, and various local, state, national, and Switzerland, Turkey, France, Canada, international professional organizations. Portugal, Italy, and Australia. In her department, Dr. Whiston has served

40 / Indiana University Bloomington DAVID ZARET

David Zaret may be the only faculty participating in a decades-long friendly member ever hired into IU’s Department game of chance with players from town of Sociology without an on-campus visit. and university. Camaraderie was always Ostensibly, the reason was a penurious the point, but David hates so much to lose chair or dean: in 1977, David was at poker that he would bring wadded up, completing his D.Phil. at Oxford torn, and otherwise disfgured dollar bills University, and the plane ticket round trip to throw in the pot just to unnerve others. from England cost too much. The real David is the longest-serving executive reason was David’s chutzpah, a disposition associate dean in the College of Arts and that has served him well throughout an Sciences (six years) and served as its accomplished career as scholar, teacher, interim dean twice. A few of David’s and administrator—and in life. decisions may have been unpopular with It’s no surprise that David is a New some faculty, but all were principled and Yorker. He grew up on Long Island and fair. He was senior advisor to the provost spent time in the city after earning a B.A. and has just completed seven years as vice magna cum laude from Amherst College in president for international afairs (opening 1973. His Oxford years were formative, not IU gateway ofces in Europe, India, and just because of the claret swiped from the China). The vast number of committees at common room at St. Antony’s College, but all administrative levels that David has because David acquired the skills of both served on defes belief: Who knew that sociologist and historian. He cultivated an kids, his two kids, and standing ready for there was a committee to investigate the enduring interest in early modern England the soft bottoms of the next generation. one percent tuition dedication plan? and the Puritans, and although David did David’s bibliophilic obsessions drew Among the dozens of administrative not share their ascetic lifestyle, he learned him naturally to the subject of his second and committee reports that David has enough about them to challenge the great book, Origins of Democratic Culture: authored so efciently, one stands out as Max Weber (daring for a young scholar). Printing, Petitions, and the Public Sphere required reading: “White Paper on His frst book, The Heavenly Contract in Early Modern England (Princeton Administrative Assistants in the College.” (University of Chicago Press, 1985), University Press, 2000). His meticulous David’s ever-present willingness to step in reverses the causal sequence in Weber’s analysis of how seventeenth-century print where needed has made life immeasurably famous Protestant Ethic theory: documents—broadsides, newspapers, better for IU faculty and students. Puritans’ engagement in nascent capitalist chapbooks, and pamphlets—fomented Neither his own scholarship and transactions gave rise to a covenant open discussions of political matters and teaching nor onerous administrative work theology that presupposed an enabled the bold and exciting conclusion kept David from participating in scholarly understanding of how contracts work. that a genuine public sphere appeared a communities beyond Bloomington. He A prominent review of the book describes century earlier and across the channel assumed editorial responsibilities at its argument as “imaginative, nuanced.” from the origin suggested by the great leading journals in sociology and served on David’s use of primary research Jürgen Habermas. David always goes for review panels for three federal funding materials led to a lifelong interest in big game. His paper on petitioning in the agencies. He prepared print reviews of 38 collecting dusty old documents. He is on a prestigious American Journal of Sociology books on social theory, culture, and social frst-name basis with sellers of rare books (just one of 26 published papers) won the history (each of them a little gem of and manuscripts on both sides of the Barrington Moore, Jr. Prize for Best Article interpretive critique), while presenting his Atlantic, and has worked with IU’s Lilly in Comparative-Historical Sociology scholarly work at professional conferences Library to augment its early modern (1997). Such accolades come easily to and invited lectureships over 40 times. collection. But he is hardly just a David, including department and What’s next for David? Fewer emails, bookworm. For many years, David, his university awards for teaching excellence less travel abroad, no more meet-and- wife, Julie Knost, and their children, Anna and fellowships from the Lilly Endowment, greets. In order to expand the woodshop in and Max, have decamped for the North the American Council of Learned Societies, his garage, David punched through an Carolina shore, where David digs clams and the National Endowment for the exterior wall forcing removal of the stone and spends hours surfcasting for fsh. His Humanities (thrice!). smoker, which surely did not come down skills with rod and reel are matched by David prepared himself for sustained easily. A new smoker must be built, bigger culinary talents. He and Max built a stone administrative work frst, by chairing the and better, the enlarged woodshop must be smoker in their backyard (for real Budgetary Afairs Committee (no one can put to good use, and that third book—on barbecue) that resembled a small Scottish decipher an IU budget sheet faster and the history and sociology of petitioning in castle. David is an ace woodworker. When more accurately); second, by learning how cultures throughout the world—must be my wife and I were expecting our frst to defuse tension or enliven boring written. No rest! child, David built the most solid changing meetings with perfectly timed wit and table ever (“if it’s worth doing, it’s worth bawdy limericks (usually involving a man Tom Gieryn overdoing”), secure enough for our three from Nantucket); and third, by

Retiring Faculty / 41 CHRISTINA ZARIFOPOL-ILLIAS

Professor Christina Zarifopol-Illias has her own classroom, are grateful for her Constantinescu was a guest at the contributed greatly to the Department of absolute commitment to them as students invitation of Professor Zarifopol-Illias just Classical Studies and the Department of and as individuals. days before announcing his candidacy for Slavic and East European Languages and Professor Zarifopol-Illias has also president in the election that he Cultures, which have had the good fortune been the heart and soul of Romanian subsequently won. to share her for nearly three decades. language studies at Indiana University for In 2000, Professor Zarifopol-Illias In her own words, “Teaching, whether it is almost three decades. She was appointed helped bring to light an impressive Latin or Romanian, has always been a at a time when interest in Eastern Europe collection of letters between the most way of life for me: my vocation is my was growing in the United States and when prominent poet of Romania, Mihai avocation.” Her two departments can travel became easier to places like Eminescu, and his best-known love attest to this and to her impact on Romania, allowing her to use the country interest, Veronica Micle. The volume generations of students. as a site for research and learning about brought great accolades to Professor In classical studies, Professor that part of the world. Professor Zarifopol- Zarifopol-Illias and much-deserved Zarifopol-Illias has made her mark both Illias ofered generations of undergraduate visibility in every type of mass media in as instructor of elementary Latin and as and graduate students the opportunity to Romania. For her eforts to support teacher of, and mentor to, graduate learn the language and at the same time Romanian culture, she was awarded the students teaching in the Elementary Latin become immersed in the cultural Romanian National Order of Faithful program. As a teacher of Latin, she has specifcities of Romania. Her courses were Service the same year. Her service to always sought to bring out the best in each as much a political and literary salon, making Indiana University better known in of her students by providing a nurturing especially for students in the more Romania is equally notable. and stimulating classroom environment in advanced classes, as they were an As Professor Zarifopol-Illias retires, which expectations are high. Professor opportunity to understand and master she leaves behind a legacy of achievement Zarifopol-Illias has worked hard to help Romanian grammar, vocabulary, and accomplishment not only to the two her students not only to master the and syntax. departments she has served, but to the complexities of the Latin language, but to Her students’ backgrounds have wider College of Arts and Sciences and sharpen their critical thinking skills and to ranged from linguistics to political science, university communities. become responsible, productive, and anthropology, and history. Many of them successful members of society. Her success came to IU initially during the summer, as Matt Christ in achieving these goals is evident in the students in the Summer Workshop in Maria Bucur teaching awards she has won and in the Eastern European Languages. They hailed testimonies of the many students who from Georgetown, University of Illinois, express deep appreciation for her personal Harvard, Oberlin, and many other public eforts to help them achieve their potential. and private universities in the United As a skilled teacher herself, Professor States. Some returned for more language Zarifopol-Illias has been an ideal training or to pursue graduate studies supervisor of the many graduate students here. Professor Zarifopol-Illias played in classical studies who have taught in the an essential role in shaping their Elementary Latin program. Teaching academic paths. others how to teach requires patience, Starting in the early 2000s, Professor wisdom, and strong communication skills, Zarifopol-Illias took a leading role in and Professor Zarifopol-Illias has developing a Romanian studies fellowship demonstrated all of these in her training of at Indiana University, as a means to graduate instructors of Latin. She has further advance her school’s appeal for supported these instructors not only exceptional graduate students. After through workshops, class visitations, and several years of negotiation with the one-on-one consultations, but by making Romanian government, the fellowship was herself available to them whenever they approved and four recipients of this encounter a new problem or challenge. fellowship completed either an M.A. or a She has provided many of them with Ph.D. with a focus on Romanian studies. advice and letters of recommendation that On campus, she has been active in have helped them fnd employment as inviting prominent scholars, politicians, teachers of Latin, whether in high schools and cultural fgures from Romania, or colleges and universities. The graduate opening wonderful networking students who have been trained by her, opportunities for our students in their like the Latin students she has taught in professional development. Emil

42 / Indiana University Bloomington MIRIAM ZOLAN

Miriam (Mimi) Zolan, a world-renowned with instructors from other departments scholar and teacher, retired from the and the Center for Teaching and Learning, Department of Biology after 42 years as a publishing papers on teaching, giving scientist and 29 years as a professor at teaching workshops, mentoring other Indiana University. Mimi is internationally faculty in teaching, and leading a graduate recognized for her work on the functions of seminar in which students were able to DNA repair genes in meiosis, using the discuss and practice various approaches to mushroom Coprinus cinereus for her engaging students in active learning. She studies. As a teacher, she has inspired won numerous teaching awards including thousands of undergraduate and graduate the Department of Biology Teaching Award students in a range of courses from (1990), the Senior Class Award for introductory biology to advanced Teaching Excellence in Biology (1991), the molecular genetics. Faculty Academy on Excellence in Mimi grew up in Fairfeld, Teaching Award (1993), the Teaching Connecticut. Her mother was a teacher, Excellence Recognition Award (1997, and Mimi always knew that teaching would 1998, 2000), and the Trustees’ Teaching be a part of her own life. Becoming a Award (2001, 2008). scientist was more of a surprise. Mimi Science has always been a family entered Smith College with the intention of afair for Mimi. She met her husband, Jef becoming a lawyer. However, she took a Palmer, in her frst year of graduate school. genetics course, fell in love with make research central to her career. They have shared the academic lifestyle chromosomes, and embarked on a new Upon establishing her lab, she focused on and provided support to each other path. After getting her A.B. degree in understanding the defects of radiation- throughout their careers. Jef is also a biology (1976), she spent a year as a sensitive mutants to determine the member of the Department of Biology as a technician before entering graduate school mechanisms of DNA repair and Distinguished Professor. Although they at Stanford University. There she found the recombination in meiosis. Throughout her worked in diferent research areas, their perfect environment in the lab of Phil career, she gained an international labs were side-by-side, connected both Hanawalt, a leader in the feld of DNA reputation for her beautiful and careful physically and, on one occasion, by repair, whose collaborative style of running work on understanding meiotic collaboration between doctoral students a lab became the model for Mimi’s own chromosome behavior, linking DNA from the two labs. Together, they have career. In Phil’s lab, Mimi worked closely replication, chromosome pairing, raised two boys, Nick and Mike. Nick and with Allen Smith, a senior research synaptonemal complex formation, and his childhood best friend were often found scientist, who infuenced her approach to recombination. Having strong standing in doing their homework behind the freezer research and to mentoring others. As a the feld, Mimi was chosen to organize the alcove between the two labs. Both boys third-year graduate student, Mimi made Gordon Research Conference on Meiosis, enjoyed having a scientist mother who an exciting discovery of diferential repair, the top meeting in the feld (2004, 2006). would come to their schools to set up in which diferent types of DNA sequences In addition, she was elected as a fellow of demonstrations and lab experiments. are repaired at diferent rates and to the American Association for the In retirement, Mimi will continue difering extents. Her results were Advancement of Science (2007). She making contributions to the feld of published in top journals including Cell trained 10 Ph.D. students and one M.S. meiosis. She will fnish writing some and Nature. After receiving her Ph.D. in student. Mimi’s graduate students exciting manuscripts and possibly get back 1983, she wanted to switch from working recognize her as a brilliant mentor who to the bench to do more research. I am with cultured cells to an organism more provided a supportive environment that most looking forward to Mimi’s attendance amenable to genetic manipulation. By allowed them to grow as scientists. Mimi at my lab’s group meeting and our meiosis fuke, she was introduced to Pat Pukkila at fondly remembers that the best times in her brainstorming sessions over lunch, the University of North Carolina at Chapel lab were when she would collaboratively because she always asks the most Hill, and made an instant connection. Pat’s interact with her students, research insightful questions. Always a teacher, love of the mushroom C. cinereus to study associates, and postdoctoral fellows. Mimi also plans to tutor undergraduates in meiosis was infectious. During her Mimi chose to move to Indiana genetics. She has a strong desire to help postdoc, Mimi identifed radiation- University because it was a top research engage undergraduates in politics and will sensitive mutants that provided a wealth of university that valued teaching, a strong volunteer in voter registration. She also future projects for her own lab. Mimi chose interest of hers. Throughout the years, she plans to frequently visit her son who lives her advisors well; Phil, Allen, and Pat have appreciated the support of Indiana in Europe, to further travel the world, and all provided advice, encouragement, and University for fostering teaching. She to rediscover her kitchen at home. friendship throughout her entire career. frequently used the Center for Teaching Mimi started her independent career and Learning to acquire new teaching Soni Lacefeld as an assistant professor at the University techniques to further engage students. of Michigan-Dearborn (1985–89) but As she developed her teaching program, moved to Indiana University in order to she shared her strategies by collaborating

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