Purdue Notebook

Faculty and Staff Honors:

-- George E. Kerner was named the 13th recipient of the Frederick L. Hovde Outstanding Faculty Fellow Award. Members of Purdue's Residence Hall Council selected Kerner for his work in the McCutcheon Hall Faculty Fellow Program. Kerner is a firefighter and emergency medical technician with the Purdue Fire Department. The award recognizes the work of individual Faculty Fellows. Former Purdue President Hovde implemented the program in 1966 to give students and staff members an opportunity for out-of-class contact. Almost 200 faculty and staff are involved in the program.

-- Purdue's Council on the Status of Women has named three Violet Haas Award winners for 1997. The award recognizes a department, program or individual for demonstrated efforts in promoting the advancement of women in the university. This is the first time that all three areas have been recognized in a single year. Winners are:

• Joan L. Marshall, associate dean of the School of Liberal Arts, 1997 Violet Haas Award for developing affirmative action initiatives in the School of Liberal Arts, participating on advisory groups for the Spousal Relocation Assistance Program and the University Task Force on Women's Issues, and helping to prevent sexual harassment at the university.
  
• Purdue's Health Promotion Program, 1997 Violet Haas Program Award for the Eating Disorders Awareness and Prevention Program. "Celebrating EveryBODY" was designed to lobby for social change by celebrating the diversity of body shapes and sizes.
  
• Patricia A. Carlisle, director of student support services at Purdue North Central, 1997 Violet Haas Regional Campus Award for her work with the Women's Programming Committee and the "Return to Learn" program, which targets women who are returning to school after a long absence.

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Alumni Honors:

-- Jack C. Crim of Cave Creek, Ariz. has been named the School of Technology's 1997 Distinguished Alumnus. Crim, a member of the Class of 1954, earned degrees in industrial technology and industrial arts education, and he now is president and chief operating officer for Talley Industries with headquarters in Phoenix. The company designs, manufactures and supplies specialized industrial and commercial aerospace products and services. It was a pioneer in the automotive air bag industry and is developing new air bag technologies. Talley Industries employs 3,500 people in 10 states.

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-- Eleven outstanding graduates of Purdue's Schools of Engineering will receive Distinguished Engineering Alumnus Awards on Friday, April 25. The awards were established in 1964 and are conferred each year by the faculty of the Schools of Engineering to recognize a graduate's contributions to engineering and related fields. Including this year's honorees, 340 of the more than 60,000 living Purdue engineering alumni have won the award.

The 1997 recipients are:

• Donald W. Banner, partner with the law firm Banner and Witcoff Ltd., Washington, D.C.
  
• Frank C. Becker, Libertyville, Ill., vice president of chemical manufacturing and research and development for the chemical and agricultural products division, Abbott Laboratories, North Chicago, Ill.
  
• Rear Adm. Thomas A. Dames, Honolulu, commander of the Pacific Division of the U.S. Naval Facilities Engineering Command, and commander of the Third Naval Construction Brigade (Seabees), Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
  
• Hichull Kim, chairman and chief executive officer of the Byucksan Group, Seoul, Korea.
  
• Craig M. McLaughlin, Stamford, Conn., vice president and manager for licensing at Bechtel Corp., Houston.
  
• William J. O'Neil, Sierra Madre, Calif., manager of Project Galileo at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
  
• Greenwood, Ind. , native Charles C. "Rocky" Rhodes, Los Altos, Calif., co-founder and chief engineer at Silicon Graphics Inc., Mountain View, Calif.
  
• Richard Wayne Skaggs, Distinguished University Professor and the William Neal Reynolds Professor of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, N.C.
  
• Dennis W. Sullivan, Willoughby Hills, Ohio, executive vice president for worldwide industrial and automotive products at Parker Hannifin Corp., Cleveland.
  
• Dick Teater, Plano, Texas, group president for power and government at Fluor Daniel Inc., Irving, Texas.
  
• Indianapolis native Robert F. Widmer, Bloomfield Hills, Mich., performance and luxury vehicle line director at Ford Motor Co., Dearborn, Mich.

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-- The School of Education has conferred Outstanding Alumnus Awards on four graduates for 1997.

• Harlan R. Day of West Lafayette is the recipient of the Career Achievement Award for his work as an economic education consultant for the Indiana Department of Education.
  
• William A. Jenkins of Nashville, Tenn., has been presented the Award of Distinction for innovative leadership in higher education and business administration. He is a vice chancellor at Vanderbilt University.
  
• George W. Miller of Medaryville has won the Community Service Award for his work in agricultural education. The retired foreign service specialist assisted in the agricultural development of seven countries; Burma, Germany, Japan, Liberia, North Yemen, the Philippines and Thailand.
  
• Jill Fuller of Morton Grove, Ill., is the recipient of the Outstanding Young Educator Award for her work as a fifth-grade teacher at Park View School in Morton Grove.

Compiled by J. Michael Willis, (765) 494-0371; e-mail, mike_willis@purdue.edu
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