Purdue Notebook
Purdue Notebook
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July 7, 2000 Appointments and promotions– Craig D. Martin is the new director of Purdue Galleries. He replaces Mona Berg, who retired earlier this year. Martin has served as the galleries coordinator for Wright State University since 1995 and began his duties at Purdue on July 3. He received a Master of Fine Arts degree from Illinois State University in 1987 and has taught art appreciation, drawing and printmaking at the college level. The Purdue University Galleries feature four exhibition spaces and currently mount 10 major exhibitions annually, a biennial national juried print exhibition "60 Square Inches," as well as numerous faculty and student exhibitions. The university has more than 5,000 objects in the permanent collection and approximately 3,000 prints, photographs and works on paper. Alumni honors– The School of Liberal Arts recently honored three alumni. The 2000 Distinguished Alumni Award winners are Marilynn Bottomley Dammon of West Lafayette, William S. Hicks of Indianapolis, and Leslie L. Martin of Versailles, Ky. Dammon received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Purdue in 1968 and served as a social studies teacher at Clinton Prairie Junior High School from 1969 to 1973. Since 1969 she has owned Kings Hill Stable, when she also works as a riding instructor for competition riders. Dammon helped establish THE CHAPS (Therapy, Health and Education through Children and Horses as Partners) therapeutic horseback riding program for individuals with disabilities. Hicks earned both Bachelor of Arts and Master of Science degrees from Purdue and has been working as a high school speech teacher since 1967. He has co-authored a high school debate textbook and was inducted into the National Forensics League Hall of Fame in 1994. This year his students from the Brebuef Jesuit Prepatory School's speech team won the 2000 Indiana High School Forensic Association Speech Championship. Martin is a retired professor of psychology and administrator from the University of Kentucky. He earned both Bachelor and Master of Science degrees from Purdue in 1937 and 1942, respectively. Among his career highlights are initiating the Disabled Veterans Counseling Service at the University of Kentucky in 1949 and helping to facilitate the integration of the student body there in the mid-1950s. He currently counsels Alzheimer's patients and serves as an advisor to several programs for developmentally disabled adults.
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