Purdue Notebook
Purdue Notebook
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Appointments and promotions-- Pamela S. Ritter has been appointed director of corporate and foundation relations in the University Development Office. Ritter has worked for Purdue since 1987 as director of class gifts for three years and director of development and alumni relations for the School of Technology for nine years. She holds a bachelor of science degree from Western Michigan University and a master's degree from Purdue. Ritter also has been a district representative for the American Cancer Society for six years.
Campus activities-- The Army, Navy and Air Force ROTC programs will conduct their spring tri-commissioning ceremony at 11 a.m. Friday, May 14, in the South Ballroom of the Purdue Memorial Union. During the ceremony, 25 graduating seniors will receive their commissions as second lieutenants and ensigns. The guest speaker will be Maj. Gen. Richard E. Brown III, a highly decorated combat pilot and current director of joint matters for the Deputy Chief of Staff for Air and Space Operation. More information about the ceremony is available from Capt. Paul Driessen, Purdue Air Force ROTC, (765) 494-2042.
Faculty and staff honors-- Barbara H. Dixon, assistant dean for the School of Liberal Arts, was named the 15th recipient of the Frederick L. Hovde Faculty Fellow Award. She has been a Faculty Fellow at Windsor Halls since 1997. Selection criteria included positive attitude, initiative, participation in hall programs, creativity and contribution to hall morale. The Faculty Fellows program was initiated by former Purdue President Frederick L. Hovde to give students and faculty opportunities for out-of-class contact. There are 184 faculty and staff involved in the program.
Alumni honors-- Eight School of Agriculture graduates received 1999 Distinguished Agricultural Alumni Awards at ceremonies today (Friday, 4/23). Four live in Indiana: Joann K. Green, president, Claire Bennett Associates, Indianapolis; David L. Miers, president, Miers Farm Corp., Greensburg; David K. Mueller, owner and president, Fumigation Service and Supply Inc., Westfield; and Donald E. Orr Jr., president, United Feeds, Sheridan. The other recipients are Walter J. Armbruster, managing director, Farm Foundation, Oak Brook, Ill.; William T. Boehm, vice president, logistics, The Kroger Co., Cincinnati; Daniel J. Cantliffe, chairman, Horticultural Sciences Department, University of Florida, Gainesville; and Barbara A. Kohn, vice president, Vicam, Watertown, Mass.-- The School of Consumer and Family Sciences recently honored eight distinguished alumni. Patricia French Eddleman, Indianapolis, received the Community Service Award for her 25 years of leadership in Wayne Township 4-H in Indianapolis. Receiving Distinguished Alumni awards for significant career advancement, leadership and professional achievement were Frederica L. Kramer, Lewis, Ind., a professor and chairwoman of the Department of Family and Consumer Sciences at Indiana State University, Terre Haute, who has received more than $2 million in grant money during the past 12 years to hold workshops for teachers around the state; Cate J. Erickson, Evanston, Ill., an account supervisor for Leo Burnett Co., a Chicago advertising agency; Richard R. Higgins, Cincinnati, president of the seasoning division at Mane-Seafla, Milford, Ohio; and Janet M. Johnson, Blacksburg, Va., dean of the College of Human Resources and Education at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Receiving Outstanding Young Professional Awards were Amy J. Elliott, Chicago, a senior associate brand manager in the New Meals Division of Kraft Foods in Glenview, Ill.; Karen Plawecki, Champaign, Ill., director of the didactic program in dietetics in the Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition at the University of Illinois; and Joanna Schlegel Schiferl, LaGrange, Ill., nutrition support team dietitian for the Columbia Michael Reese Hospital and Medical Center in Chicago.
Purdue News Service: (765) 494-2096; e-mail, purduenews@purdue.edu
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