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Position: Administrative assistant in the McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning. Serving as the office manager and providing administrative support to the staff of the center and the English Language Program.
Quote: "I've found a wonderfully supportive and friendly environment since I started working here this summer. It's exciting to be part of the McGraw Center because it's new and I can help get it on its feet."
Other interests: Spending time with her husband and her cat. Playing oboe in the Westminster Community Orchestra. Going to aerobics at Dillon Gym.
Retirements
Effective Nov. 1: In building services, sanitation equipment operator Joseph Driver, after 36 years, and janitor John McCarthy, after 26 years; and in dining services, senior food service storekeeper Dominick Marrazzo, after 10 years.
Obituaries
Retired employees
April: Newell Brown, 82 (1964-1979, career services).
July: Marion Kuhlthau, 86 (1963-1974, real estate development).
August: Doris Lake, 93 (1953-1975, chemistry).
September: Edith Willis, 96 (1938-1969, telecommunications).
October: James Carter, 71 (1973-1994, utility plant); Geraldine Hancock, 63 (1955-1960; 1962-2000, population research); and Charlotte Harrison, 75 (1964-1991, Plasma Physics Lab).
November: Eleanor Schmitt, 70 (1966-1994, Plasma Physics Lab).
Briefs
Joseph Williamson, dean of religious life and of the chapel, has received a lifetime achievement award from the Association of College and University Religious Affairs.
He was one of three people who were presented with the awards, the first ever made by the organization, at its annual meeting in October. The honor is intended to recognize the long and distinguished leadership and service that each of the individuals has demonstrated in the realm of higher education.
"The exercise of their offices on the campuses of several of America's truly great institutions of higher learning has included, but led far beyond, the personal qualities of integrity and compassion often associated with 'good' college chaplains," according to the association. "Each of these leaders has profoundly deepened the humanity and extended the hospitality of their institutions and thereby the vision of higher education. Each has developed a kind of collegiality with faculty and students that has led to productive synergy, great programs, worthy risks."
The others honored were Robert Johnson, chaplain and director of Cornell United Religious Work, and Robert Watts Thornburg, dean of Marsh Chapel at Boston University.
Andrew Wiles, the Eugene Higgins Professor of Mathematics, is the subject of a new musical that opens in New York City Nov. 21.
Wiles is widely celebrated for his proof of Fermat's Last Theorem. The musical by Joanne Sydney Lessner and Joshua Rosenblum is titled "Fermat's Last Tango."
"What happens when a competitive, arrogant 17th-century mathematician just won't stay dead?" says a promotional piece on the musical. "Combining styles from operetta to blues to the tango of the title, this musical is a whimsical and provocative look at the true story of the Princeton professor who took on the world's most notorious math problem, and got more than he bargained for."
Performances will be staged Tuesday through Sunday from Nov. 21-Dec. 30 by the York Theatre Company.
John Gillham, professor of chemical engineering, emeritus, has been elected a fellow of the Society of Plastics Engineers in recognition of his long-term contribution to the industry.
He was one of 14 senior members to acquire the distinction this year. Since the award's inception in 1984, only 168 of the society's current 32,000 membership have been so honored.
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