Retiring faculty, staff honored at dinner

Almost a thousand years of service to KU were honored when the University recognized retiring faculty and unclassified staff members at a dinner last month.

Honorees are listed below with their KU class information (if applicable), their departments and years of service:

• Jan T. Barron, continuing education, 26
• Sharon Bass, journalism, 23
• Stella Bentley, University Libraries, 4
• Surendra Bhana, g'68, PhD'71, history, 19
• Lelon R. Capps, teaching and leadership, 44
• Don Coppage, physics and astronomy, 27
• Leslie Dienes, geography, 38
• John M. Dillard, c'63, information services, 17
• Darwin Eakins, c'71, g'75, life span studies, 35
• Ellen Gold, g'65, communication studies, 33
• Nancy Harper, d'65, g'74, PhD'96, Institute for Educational
   Research and Public Service, 14
• Lawrence Hathaway, PhD'63, Kansas Geological Survey, 31
• Jean Hershey, Student Health Services, 18
• N. Ray Hiner, teaching and leadership, 39
• Charles Hoag, music and dance, 38
• Jean Jorgensen, life span studies, 4
• Jill Kleinberg, c'67, business, 17
• Diane Lazzarino, g'69, journalism, 37
• Joe Lee, civil, environmental and architectural engineering, 35
• George Lottes, health, sport and exercise science, 17
• Kenneth Mackenzie, business, 33
• Roger Martin, g'73, KU Center for Research, 30
• Carmen Mayer, life span studies, 21
• Carol Prentice, d'69, g'79, Office of the Provost, 34
• H. Joseph Reitz, b'60, business, 18
• Alice Roberts, b'85, Kansas Memorial Unions, 4
• Janet Roth, '77, Center for Research on Learning, 17
• Joan Stone, '82, music and dance, 18
• Kenneth Stoner, student housing, 21
• Susan L. Suhler, j'63, Kansas Space Grant Consortium and
   Kansas NASA EPSCoR Program, 4
• Sonja Vicker, information services, 9
• Carol von Tersch, f'79, student housing, 23
• Donald K. Watkins, linguistics, 37
• Ann Weick, social welfare, 30
• Nancy Yacher, '79, English, 16
• Norman R. Yetman, sociology, 40
• Carole J. Zebas, '85, health, sport and exercise science, 33