University Daily Kansan / Friday. April 28, 1989
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Dinner will honor retiring KU faculty, staff
by Scott Achelpohl
Kansan staff writer
Kansan staff writer
Retired and retiring KU faculty and staff members will be honored for their work at the University of Kansas at a dinner May 3 sponsored by the Kansas University Endowment Association.
Chancellor Gene A. Budig and his wife, Gretchen, will host the dinner honoring the 28 retirees in the Kansas Union Ballroom.
Among those who will be honored and have already retired are James Connellly, former associate professor of art history and Robert Smith, former professor of civil engineering.
Connolly taught at the University for 25 years and retired in July. Smith taught for 30 years at KU and
retired in November.
Howard Baumgartel, former professor of psychology and communication studies and former associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences retired in December after 35 years at KU.
outer December retirees were Bruce Linton, former professor of journalism, theatre and film; Ronald McGregor, former professor of Botany; Virginia Seaver, chief editor at the University Press of Kansas; Dean Milroy, former associate director of student housing; Don McConnell, former assistant director of student housing and Vernon Geisler, former director of the University Placement Center.
Placement center Linton taught for 33 and a half years at KU after arriving in 1955
The recognition ceremony will be May 3. Twenty-eight retired or retiring employees will be honored at the dinner, which will be held in the Kansas Union Ballroom.
year. McGregor said he would continue field work for the University.
February retirees who will be honored are George Jerkvork, professor of Slavic languages and history, and a former scientist for the Kansas Geological Survey;
Richard Perkins, associate director of utilities at facilities operations and Catherine Cox, administrative assistant for student housing.
Jerkovik was at KU for 28 years; O'Connor was at KU for 42 years; Perkins was at KU for 37 years; and Cox was at KU for 25 years.
Faculty and staff who will retire in May include Mel Adams, associate professor of journalism; Robert Cobb, professor of English and former executive vice chancellor; Grant Goodman, professor of history
and Charles Michener, distinguished professor of entomology.
Adams has been at KU for 29 years; Cobb has been at KU for 32 years; Goodman has been at KU for 27 years; and Michener has been at KU for 41 years.
Other May retirees are Vincent Murhead, professor of aerospace engineering; David Paretsky, professor of microbiology; Glenn Price, assistant professor of theatre and speech; language and hearing of speech, language and hearing and James Seaver, professor of history.
Schiefelbusch also is director of the KU Bureau of Child Research and works with the Beach Center for
Families and Disabilities, 4138 Haworth Hall. He has spent 43 years at KU.
Muirhead has spent 28 years at the University; Paretsky has been at KU for 38 years. Pace has been at KU for 50 years. Seaver has been at KU for 42 years.
June retirees will include Maynard Brazeal, director of the Kansas Law Enforcement Training Center; James Drury, professor of political science; Sakari Sartola, professor of sociology; Sara Schaefer, professor of anthropology; and Charles Judson, director of the Mass Spectrometry Laboratory.
"I don't want to grade any more examinations," Drury said.
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