Purdue Notebook
Purdue Notebook
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October 2, 1998
Campus activities-- Registration for spring semester classes begins Monday, Oct. 12. Students should make appointments with their academic advisers, unless the school they are enrolled in has special registration instructions. The 1999 spring semester starts Jan. 11 and ends May 8.-- Residents of Wiley Hall will kick off Red Ribbon Week by sponsoring the Jay Severson Memorial Walk/Run at 8 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 17, rain or shine. Participants can run a five-kilometer route or walk one and a half miles. Persons who register by Friday, Oct. 9, will receive a T-shirt on the morning of the walk/run. The entry fee is $10 and forms are available from Purdue residence halls, Marsh and Smitty's supermarkets, Wal-Mart, Project Bike Shop, Mulhapts, Sports Etc., county libraries, Wabash Runners Club, YMCA and YWCA. All proceeds go to the Jay Severson Memorial Fund that supports drug education and counseling at the university. Severson, a graduate student and hall counselor from Fair Oaks, was shot and killed by another student at Wiley Hall in October 1996.
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Faculty and staff honors-- Dr. C. James Callahan, recently retired professor of veterinary clinical science, received the Alumni Faculty Award for Excellence from the School of Veterinary Medicine. The award recognizes academic excellence and scholarship among the faculty of the school. The $1,000 award and a plaque were given to Dr. Callahan during the 1998 Purdue Fall Conference for Veterinarians. Also, special recognition was given to Larry Bohl, professor of agricultural economics, who had taught a practice management course to veterinary medicine students for nearly 30 years prior to retiring this past spring.-- Susan Terpstra has been named director of the Purdue University pharmacy, located within the School of Pharmacy and Pharmacal Sciences. Terpstra graduated from Purdue in 1980 with a bachelor's degree in pharmacy, and has since practiced community pharmacy in Lafayette and Otterbein. She joined the professional staff at Purdue as a staff pharmacist in 1991, and was promoted to assistant director in 1993.
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Alumni honors-- Dr. Susan Brown, Downers Grove, Ill., received the School of Veterinary Medicine's Distinguished Alumnus Award Sept. 18 during the 1998 Purdue Fall Conference for Veterinarians. Dr. Brown earned her doctor of veterinary medicine degree from Purdue in 1976. She was selected to receive the award on the basis of her excellence in clinical practice. Dr. Brown co-founded the first exclusive avian and exotic animal hospital in the United States and is internationally recognized as an expert in ferret, rabbit and rodent medicine. The School of Veterinary Medicine established the Distinguished Alumnus Award in 1978 to recognize graduates for exemplary performance and outstanding contributions to the veterinary medical profession.
Purdue News Service: (765) 494-2096; e-mail, purduenews@purdue.edu
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