INTERNATIONAL ADULT CONTINUINGand EDUCATION HALL of FAME INDUCTIONth 25CEREMONY Where the spirit of learning is the lasting legacy MARCH 11, 2020 | PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA “If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.” – John Quincy Adams TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction ...................................................... 1 History ................................................................. 1 Funding ............................................................... 1 Location .............................................................. 1 2020 INDUCTEES Philip C. Candy ................................................. 3 Jean Fleming ..................................................... 4 Louis Martini ...................................................... 5 Amy Moorash .................................................... 6 Linden West ....................................................... 7 James Witte ....................................................... 8 Donors ................................................................. 10 Previously Inducted Members ..................... 12 Board Members ............................................... 14 Acknowledgments .......................................... 15 “If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people.” – Chinese proverb HOW IT BEGAN INTRODUCTION vision and recognition of the need to the Hall of Fame, the Board of The freedom to learn lies at the heart of provide a mechanism to recognize and Directors will establish qualifications all great civilizations. It is a prerequisite honor, in perpetuity, living and deceased for induction. Three categories are to our other freedoms of speech, adult and continuing educators who had currently specified: assembly and worship. Indeed, distinguished themselves as scholars · Regular members education is the shield that arms and practitioners that the concept of the · Honorary members individuals against political tyranny Hall began to take on form and meaning. · Posthumous honors and economic impoverishment. Anyone may nominate a candidate for Learning is an instinct. It is one that The IACEHOF was formally established induction. Following review of the must be nourished and cultivated, and in 1993 with White as the chair of its nominee by a screening committee, it is in this garden of the mind that board. A significant moment in the members are elected by the Board the inductees of the IACEHOF unfolding of the Hall’s development of Directors. have labored. was realized in March 1996 when Dr. James Pappas, in a letter to Dr. John B. FUNDING This Hall of Fame has been created not Holden (then IACEHOF Board Chair), The expenses related to the only to honor leaders in the fields of invited the Board of Directors to establishment of the Hall of Fame and continuing education and adult consider the University of Oklahoma the inductions have been met by cash learning but to serve as a record and College of Continuing Education and in-kind contributions. It is hoped inspiration for the next generation of as the permanent site for its that the ongoing, modest expenses of continuing education leaders. Election official headquarters. the Hall of Fame will be met by similar to the Hall of Fame acknowledges that gifts in the future. Contributions are these men and women have made The years 1994, 1995 and 1996 were tax deductible. distinguished contributions to the field signature years for the Hall in that its of adult and continuing education. Each organizational functions, culture, and LOCATION has provided a crucial nexus between mode of operations would be defined. The official home for the International resources and learners. These The IACEHOF would be incorporated Adult and Continuing Education Hall of innovative leaders have believed as a nonprofit corporation, become Fame is the University of Oklahoma’s passionately in the evolutionary power located at the University of Oklahoma, University Outreach, Thurman J. White of education. All are themselves develop bylaws to govern its operations, Forum Building, Norman, Oklahoma. exemplary lifelong learners and have formulate guidelines and criteria for The virtual Hall of Fame may be found left lasting impressions on the the selection of persons to be inducted at halloffame.outreach.ou.edu. students, institutions, and for membership in the Hall, and induct organizations they have served. the Hall’s first class in Charlotte, First opened in 1962, the Oklahoma North Carolina. Center for Continuing Education is This booklet commemorates the 25th recognized as one of the nation’s induction ceremony and, more Beginning with its inaugural induction leading university-based residential importantly, records some of the major in Charlotte, North Carolina, in 1996, conference centers. As part of accomplishments of the inductees. 24 classes have been inducted into the University Outreach, CCE annually Their contributions to adult learning IACEHOF. Its membership includes serves more than 35,000 individuals provide the foundation for continuing more than 300 members. A first was who attend conferences, workshops, education scholarship and teaching in achieved by the Hall in 2006 when meetings and other activities at the the century to come. a special induction ceremony of the center, one of 11 W.K. Kellogg 2006 European Class was held at Foundation-funded continuing HISTORY the University of Bamberg in education centers in the world. Discussions leading to the founding of Bamberg, Germany. the IACEHOF can be traced to the mid-1980s. Dr. Thurman J. White is universally acclaimed as the founding father of the Hall. It was throughWhite’s According to the corporate bylaws of 1 JAMES P. PAPPAS SCHOLARSHIP International Adult and Continuing Education Hall of Fame Established 2015 The James P. Pappas Scholarship honors Dr. James P. Pappas for his tireless dedication to and support of the International Adult and Continuing Education Hall of Fame and for his far- reaching contributions to the field of continuing education. The scholarship is an annual award made by the Hall of Fame to an adult education major who is working toward the completion of a higher education degree. Dr. Pappas, executive director of the Hall of Fame and a member of the 1997 Induction Class, has been a member of the Hall of Fame’s board of directors from its beginning. He is an international leader in adult and continuing education with some 50 years of experience transforming the lives of nontraditional students. As vice president for Outreach at the University of Oklahoma, he led a lifelong learning organization that serves more than 250,000 participants with degree programs, distance and online courses, business and executive programs, and conferences and workshops. Outreach also administers many large federal and state education and training grants and contracts. In addition, Dr. Pappas was dean of the College of Liberal Studies and a professor in Educational Psychology and Liberal Studies. In 2014, he was awarded the prestigious Professor Honoris Causa from the University of Bucharest, Romania. In addition to his academic work, Dr. Pappas has served as an officer on numerous community service and professional association boards, president of both the University Professional and Continuing Education Association and the Association of Graduate Liberal Studies Programs, and executive vice president of the Association for Continuing Higher Education. Scholarship Committee Members Nina Barbee, Committee Chair Grey Edwards Gary Eyre Coordinator, IACEHOF Hub Chief, Army Continuing Advance Associates and University of Oklahoma Outreach Education System (ACES), Consultants (Ret.) U.S. Army Garrison (Ret.) Phoenix, Arizona Board Member, IACEHOF James Pappas, Ex-Officio Vice President, University Outreach (Ret.) Dean, College of Liberal Studies (Ret.) Mortimer Neufville Executive Director, IACEHOF President/CEO 1890 Universities Foundation Dian Stoskopf Director of the Army Continuing Mary Alfred Education System (ACES) (Ret.) Professor, Adult Education and Chair, IACEHOF Human Resource Development Texas A&M University 2 PHILIP C. CANDY in Adult Education in 1991 and is Candy has consulted with institutions among the most cited works in the SDL throughout Australia, New Zealand, field. A subsequent national report on Canada, the United States, the United which he was lead author helped to Kingdom and South Africa, as well establish lifelong learning as a priority as the Australian Development in Australian higher education. Assistance Bureau (now AusAid), and international organizations including In 1994, he co-authored co- UNESCO, OECD, the World Bank, authored the book Pioneering Culture: the Japan National Institute for Mechanics' Institutes and Schools of Educational Research, the Colombo Arts in Australia, based on extensive Plan Staff College for Technician research not previously undertaken. Education in Singapore and Manila, and the Commonwealth Fund for His 1994 report, Developing Lifelong Technical Cooperation in London. Learners Through Undergraduate Education, for the Australian National He has served as professor and director Dr. Philip C. Candy is one of Australia’s Board of Employment, Education and of academic staff development at the most distinguished and respected Training (NBEET), spurred universities Queensland University of Technology, scholars in the areas of