FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
May 4, 2005  
Contact: Shirley Melikian Armbruster
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39 Emeriti Faculty Honored

Thirty-nine faculty members of California State University, Fresno who were awarded emeritus status at last year’s Commencement ceremony were honored at a luncheon today (May 4) hosted by President John D. Welty and Provost Jeri Echeverria.

Welty thanked the faculty “for what you have contributed to your university and the lives you have touched.”

       He and Echeverria told the honorees that their efforts helped Fresno State secure a 10-year extension on its accreditation, a significant affirmation of the academic excellence of the institution. In its report announced earlier this year the Western Association of Schools & Colleges commended the university “as a mature institution deeply committed to student learning.” The commission also praised Fresno State for “building a culture dedicated to improvement and institutional learning that was supported by both administrative and academic leadership, and many faculty.”

The emeriti faculty honored are:

Judith A. Allender (Nursing),  Andrew J. Alvarado (Social Work Education), Vincent L. Bloom (Communication, posthumously), Earl H. Bowerman (Plant Science), Kathryn L. Bumpass (Music), Frederick Childers (Social Work Education), Moses E. Cohen (Mathematics)

Luis F. Costa (College of Arts and Humanities).

M. C. Drake (Theatre Arts), Bonnie L. Dutton (Literacy and Early Education), Samuel S. Franklin (Psychology) June M. Gill (Foreign Languages and Literatures) David E. Grubbs (Biology), Victor D. Hanson (Foreign Languages and Literatures), Harold B. Haslam (Mathematics), Adrienne L. Herrell (Literacy and Early Education).

Mahlon M. S. Hile (Plant Science), Marilyn M. Hsu (Library Services), Ruth Kallenberg (Library Services), Michele M. Kilner (Child, Family and Consumer Sciences), Karen Kinney (Library Services) Phyllis A. Kuehn (Educational Research, Administration and Foundations),

Robert D. Merrill (Earth and Environmental Sciences), William E. Minschew, Jr. (Art and Design), Purushottam “P. J.” Mistry (Linguistics), Carlos J. Muller (Viticulture and Enology), Arthur J. Olney (Plant Science), Manuel Peña (Music), Carl L. Pherson (Agricultural Operations and Agricultural Economics).

Jean E. Pickering (English), Robert D. Regier (Electrical and Computer Engineering), Bertina Richter (Library Services), Juan Serrano (Music), Charles Sherwood (Marketing and E-Business), David K. Smith (Agricultural Economics), Vincent J. Smith, Jr. (Library Services), Gail E. Tompkins (Literacy and Early Education), and Raymond S. Weitzman (Linguistics).

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