One Union professor, two high school teachers and three college presidents are to be honored by the College at the Founders Day ceremony on Saturday, Feb. 10, at 11:30 a.m. in Memorial Chapel.
The ceremony also will include an address by President Roger Hull.
Mary Carroll, assistant professor of chemistry, is to receive the Stillman Prize for Excellence in Teaching, established by Abbott L. Stillman '69, a member of the College's Board of Trustees. Carroll, a member of the Class of 1986 who rejoined her alma mater as a faculty member six years later, earned her Ph.D. from Indiana University.
Three college presidents will receive honorary degrees for their contributions in helping to establish foreign study exchanges with the College. They are Gordon McGregor,
former principal of the University College of Ripon and York St. John in York, England; Tan Feng Liang, president of Nanjing Normal University in Nanjing, China; and Sadato
Tanimato, president of Kansai Gaidai University in Osaka, Japan.
Two high school teachers — Michael Zulauf and Rita Livingston — are to receive the Gideon Hawley Teacher Recognition Awards. Zulauf, a history teacher at Gilford (N.H.) High
School was nominated by history major Catherine Bosiak '98. Livingston, a retired physics and mathematics teacher at Kelly Walsh High School in Casper, Wyo., was nominated by mathematics major Graham Bryce '98.
The Gideon Hawley award is named for the 1809 Union graduate who was distinguished historically for his leadership in education and his concern for teacher development during the 19th century. As the state's first superintendent of public education, he laid the foundations of the public elementary schools and was a founder of what is now the University at Albany, the first campus in the State University of New York system. He was
named secretary of the state Board of Regents, a post he held for 27 years.