KU to honor faculty, academic staff retirees May 23
LAWRENCE — The University of Kansas will honor retiring faculty and academic staff members with a lunch at noon May 23 in the Kansas Union Ballroom. Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little and Vice Provost Mary Lee Hummert will recognize the employees during the lunch.
Retirees and one guest will be guests of the chancellor. Cost for additional guests is $20. For reservations, send a check payable to KU to Debra Bia, Chancellor’s Office, 230 Strong Hall. The reservation deadline is May 16.
Retirees:
David Alexander, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, 29 years
Philip Barnard, English, 27 years
Tom Beisecker, Communication Studies, 50 years
George Bittlingmayer, Business, 17 years
Martha Blue-Banning, Beach Center on Disability, 14 years
Richard Branham, Design, 42 years
Rex Buchanan, Kansas Geological Survey, 38 years
Robert Coffeen, Architecture, Design, and Planning, 25 years
Anthony Corbeill, Classics, 26 years
Jim Daugherty, Music, 18 years
Phillip DeLaTorre, Law, 37 years
Denise Del Pico, Journalism, 31 years
John Doveton, Kansas Geological Survey, 45 years
John Gaunt, Architecture, 23 years
E. Gaele Gillespie, Libraries, 36 years
Sivaprasad Gogineni, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets, 32 years
Stephen Grabow, Architecture, 44 years
John Gronbeck-Tedesco, Theatre, 37 years
Mary Lynn Hamilton, Curriculum and Teaching, 28 years
Marsha Haufler, History of Art, 26 years
Shirley Hill, Sociology, 26 years
Rudolf Jander, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, 46 years
Debra Kamps, Juniper Gardens Children’s Project, 39 years
Jeanne Klein, Theatre, 30 years
Burdett Loomis, Political Science, 38 years
Beverly Mack, African/African American Studies, 24 years
Glen Marotz, Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering, 46 years
Paul Meier, Theatre, 29 years
Adrian Melott, Physics and Astronomy, 31 years
James Orr, Molecular Biosciences, 42 years
Julie Petr, Libraries, 9 years
Deborah Peterson, East Asian Languages and Cultures, 17 years
Charles Rapp, Social Welfare, 36 years
James Rowland, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 32 years
Elinor Schroeder, Law, 40 years
Paul Schumaker, Political Science, 45 years
Joey Sprague, Sociology, 33 years
Valentino Stella, Pharmaceutical Chemistry, 44 years
Fusao Takusagawa, Molecular Biosciences, 33 years
Robert Timm, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, 31 years
Donna Tucker, Geography and Atmospheric Science, 24 years
William Westerbeke, Law, 42 years
Donald Whittemore, Kansas Geological Survey, 39 years.