Five
honored with
Chancellor's Awards
They
are all University leaders, but together they prove that leadership
can be as diverse as imagination itself.
One has inspired his co-workers with his work ethic and talent
for 50 years while undertaking some of the most dangerous jobs
on campus.
Another has made his mark in much less time by dramatically improving
staff morale with his good humor and unselfish attitude.
One is crucial to the daily operation of the school in which she
works -- and to its special activities as well.
Another is a successful advocate for preschool and early school-aged
children -- and their programs -- in North Carolina and the nation.
A fifth nurtures the health of Carolina's student population,
working to ensure that their goals and lifestyles are not compromised
by physical conditions.
Together they comprise this year's recipients of the Chancellor's
Award:
* Jo Bass, School of Journalism and Mass Communication;
* Richard M. Clifford, Frank Porter Graham Child Development Center
and School of Education;
* Robert R. Gotwals Jr., Morehead Planetarium and Science Center;
* William J. Hubbard, Grounds Department; and
* Margaret B. Vimmerstedt, Student Health Service.
The five were recognized for meritorious or distinguished accomplishments
in the categories of devotion to duty, innovations, public service,
safety/heroism, human relations or other achievements. Recipients
also become Governor's Award nominees.
The winners, who receive a monetary award of $1,000 and a special
leave award of 24 hours, will be recognized with framed certificates
at an August luncheon with Chancellor James Moeser.
Bass
Assistant
to the dean in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication,
Bass has been described as "the key to the daily operation" of
the school. In daily operations she's detail-oriented and a master
of multitasking, and she manages to make the time to handle Dean
Richard Cole's most important annual project, his "Mass Communication
in Mexico and Cuba" class. According to her nominating materials,
Bass "keeps on learning and keeps on innovating and keeps on being
absolutely essential to the school's excellence. She is nothing
short of splendid." And she does it all with "good humor and a
quick wit and smile."
Clifford
Senior scientist
at the Frank Porter Graham Child Development Center and research
associate professor in the School of Education, Clifford's accomplishments
have dramatically changed services for young children in North
Carolina. In 1993-94, on a year's leave of absence from Carolina,
he served as the first director of the N.C. Division of Child
Development, where he helped to design and implement Smart Start.
In addition, he is co-author of early childhood and infant toddler
environment rating scales which are used "all over the world to
help evaluate and improve child-care classrooms and are now being
used throughout North Carolina in the new system of rated licenses
for child-care centers."
Gotwals
Associate
director of the Morehead Planetarium and Science Center, Gotwals
has garnered praise from students and employees alike for the
way he has improved morale, and brought new science classes and
seminars to the center and for the development of the new summer
camp program. In addition to motivating his employees "to work
harder by his example," he is "a true educator" who volunteered
in his free time to teach the first undergraduate sign language
class at Carolina. The class, originally intended for 15 students,
was opened up at Gotwals' request and ended up with 45 enthusiastic
students. One wrote, "He is truly everything that a professor
should be, and more."
Hubbard
Tree surgeon
in the Grounds Department of Facilities Services, Hubbard has
been with Carolina for 50 years, and that achievement was recognized
this year with a new Grounds building that, once completed, will
be named for him. "The trees of the campus ... serve as a testament
to his work," his nominating materials said. "Whether he is plowing
snow, or planting new trees, pruning boxwoods or re-shaping a
100-foot oak tree, it is all done with the same positive attitude,
tireless efficiency and dogged determination to quality work.
... And through it all, "he makes it look easy."
Vimmerstedt
Clinical
medicine physician with Student Health Service for 15 years, Vimmerstedt
has been involved in a number of programs that have improved health
care for the student population. She was instrumental in setting
up the International Travel Clinic and taking charge of the Code
Committee that helps assure that all staff are properly trained
to handle any emergent patient situation.
But it is her work with the complexity of care for diabetic students
that has garnered her the most praise. She has set up a program
that offers diabetic patients nutritional counseling, nursing
care and psychological counseling. In addition, she has developed
support groups and exercise groups for these students. "Her compassion,
dedication and initiative have gone above and beyond her job description"
to significantly improve the quality of care to the University's
students.
Wicker, government institution,
dies at 79
Warren
Jake Wicker, Gladys Hall Coates Professor of Public Law and Government,
emeritus, of the School of Government, died June 25 from complications
related to metastatic prostate cancer.
He was born in a log cabin in the Deep River community of Lee
County on Sept. 9, 1923, named for the president of the United
States who had died in office just six weeks before his birth,
and for his father's favorite dog, claimed to be the best foxhound
in North Carolina.
Wicker attended N.C. State University, Baylor University and Carolina,
from which he received undergraduate and master degrees in political
science. He served for more than three years in the U.S. Air Corps
during World War II.
After graduation from the University, he worked for five years
with the Farmers Cooperative Exchange of Raleigh. In 1955 he joined
the faculty of the Institute of Government --- now a part of the
School of Government -- and devoted himself for the next 47 years
to teaching, research and consulting in the legal, financial and
administrative aspects of local and state government. Within the
local government area, he developed specialties in public purchasing,
city and county organization and administration, local finance,
municipal incorporation and annexation, city-county cooperation
and consolidation, public personnel, water and sewer services,
and solid waste administration and finance.
His chief teaching assignments covered numerous courses in public
purchasing, directing the courses for newly elected mayors and
council members, and programs in municipal and county administration.
He was the editor of, and contributor to, several books and was
the author of some 300 articles, bulletins, monographs and special
studies. His work was recognized with special service awards and
honorary memberships in numerous state associations. He received
honorary memberships in the International City Management Association
and the National Purchasing Institute. Contributions from friends
and colleagues have supported the naming of a classroom in the
new building of the School of Government in his honor.
He was appointed to serve on a number of University-wide committees
and was elected to terms on the Administrative Board of the UNC
Library, on the Faculty Council and the Faculty Assembly of the
UNC system.
Wicker also was active in the community. He was a member of Binkley
Baptist Church and a member of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Kiwanis
Club for which he served one term as president. He was a member
of the Retired Faculty Association, where he served two terms
as president. In the 1960s he served on the boards of local agencies
concerned with the anti-poverty efforts and the integration of
the Chapel Hill public schools. He served on the Chapel Hill Human
Relations Committee during the period of the sit-ins and the lay-ins
in the streets, and rode with the police to be sure that civil
rights were not violated.
He is survived by his wife, Marie Peachee Wicker of Chapel Hill,
daughters Beth Wicker Walters of Cheraw, S. C., and Jane Fields
Wicker-Miurin of London; and son Thomas Alton Wicker of Carrboro.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the
University for the Jake Wicker Scholarship or for the School of
Government, or to a charity of choice.
Former
professor of psychology,
Carroll, dies at 87
John
Bissell Carroll, 87, died July 1 in Fairbanks, Alaska.
Carroll was the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Psychology and
director of the L.L. Thurstone Psychometric Laboratory at the
University from 1974 to 1982, and he made Chapel Hill his home
until 2001.
In 2002 he received the Gold Medal Award for Life Achievement
in the Science of Psychology from the American Psychological Foundation.
For more information about services held in Carroll's honor or
to send condolences, write his daughter, Melissa C. Chapin, 2158
Penrose Lane, Fairbanks, AK 99709.
Staff
promotions/Reclassifications
Information
provided by Human Resources with employees' permission. Entries
are listed by name, new title and department.
Jody
Bare, Accounting Technician II, Student Accts & UNC Receivables
Cindy
Chambers, Programs Assistant V, Maternal & Child Health
Dennis
Curtis, Construction Estimator I, Facilities Services Division
Megan
Esporas, Social Research Associate I, Cntr for Health Promotion
and Disease Prevention
Cheryl
Gerringer, Accounting Specialist I, Neuroscience Center
Katherine
Graves, Program Assistant V, Maternal & Child Health
Kathryn
Harville, Social Research Associate I, Frank Porter Graham
Child Dev. Center
Carrie
Johnston, University Administrative Manager, Health Policy
& Administration
Stephen
Lay, Administrative Officer I, Center for Maternal & Infant
Health
Rebecca
Lakey, Social Research Assistant II, Psychiatry
Jeffrey
Lewis, Administrative Assistant I, Public Safety Transportation
& Parking
Louanne
Long, Executive Assistant I, Vice Chancellor, Res & Economic
Dev
Freda
McClain, Administrative Assistant II, Health Affairs-Div.
Library
Lesa
McPherson, Administrative Officer I, Epidemiology
Alice
Moore, Accounting Technician III, Accounting Services
Eloise
Neebe, Applications Development Manager, Frank Porter Graham
Child Dev. Center
Donna
Norton, Information Processing Assistant, School of Medicine
Admin
Andrew
Ochs, Computing Consultant II, SPH Information Technology
Geraldine
Osborn, University Administrative Manager, Department of Genetics
David
Perry, Social Research Assistant II, Head and Neck Surgery
Ginger
Poindexter, Information and Communications Specialist, School
of Government
Linda
Turner, Computing Consultant I, School of Dentistry
Holli
Wilson, Administrative Assistant I, Vice Chancellor Res &
Economic Dev
Decorations
& Distinctions
Mark
Crowell
Associate
vice chancellor for economic development and director of the Office
of Technology Development, Crowell was a keynote speaker at the
International Council for Small Business' "48th World Conference
on Advancing Entrepreneurship and Small Business," held in June
in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Shelton
Earp
Earp, director
of the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center and Lineberger professor
of medicine and pharmacology, has been appointed to a five-year
term on the National Cancer Institute's Board of Scientific Advisers.
Among its functions, the board offers input on university, institute,
foundation and industry-based research.
Frederick
O. Mueller
Mueller,
chair of exercise and sport science, was given the Citation Award
by the American College of Sports Science at its annual meeting.
Mueller was honored for his more than 35 years of pioneering efforts
in athletic injury research which has resulted in cutting fatal
and severe injuries to U.S. athletes
Carol
Runyan
Runyan, director
of the Injury Prevention Research Center, has been awarded the
Secretary of Defense Medal for Outstanding Achievement -- the
second highest award the secretary of defense gives to private
citizens -- at a recent ceremony at Ft. Detrick, Md. William Winkenwerder
Jr., a Carolina alumnus and assistant secretary of defense for
health affairs, presented the medal to Runyan for her outstanding
service on the Armed Forces Epidemiological Board.
Judy
Jones Tisdale
Tisdale,
adjunct associate professor at the Kenan-Flagler Business School,
has been elected to the board of directors -- as a general public
representative -- of the United Network for Organ Sharing . Among
many accomplishments, in 2000 Tisdale developed a successful organ
donor awareness event, "Life Takes Guts," with 15 undergraduate
business school students at three N.C. universities.
Frank
C. Wilson
Wilson, Kenan
professor and emeritus chief of orthopaedics, received the second-annual
American Orthopaedic Association - Smith & Nephew Distinguished
Clinician - Educator Award at the group's June meeting. Wilson
was recognized for landmark clinical studies in replacement of
the knee, injuries of the ankle and surgical infection.
Star
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June:
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Berner
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