{"id":88,"date":"2012-05-01T17:05:31","date_gmt":"2012-05-01T22:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lamp1.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/?p=88"},"modified":"2019-06-04T16:17:50","modified_gmt":"2019-06-04T21:17:50","slug":"mwsu-honors-award-winners-retirees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/2012\/05\/01\/mwsu-honors-award-winners-retirees\/","title":{"rendered":"MWSU Honors Award Winners, Retirees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>St. Joseph, Mo. <\/strong>&#8211; May 1, 2012 &#8211; Missouri Western State University and the MWSU Foundation presented awards to 10 faculty and staff members and 18 retirees were honored during the University&#8217;s 2012 Awards and Retirees&#8217; Recognition on May 1.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Awards presented were:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Presidential Citation Award-Service to Campus Colleagues: Cindy Spotts-Conrad, financial aid<\/li>\n<li>Presidential Citation Award-Service to University: Peggy Ellis, Western Institute<\/li>\n<li>Presidential Citation Award-Service to Western Students: Elaine Bryant, student success<\/li>\n<li>Jesse Lee Myers Excellence in Teaching Awards: Dr. Cary Chevalier, biology; Dr. Mary Still, psychology; Dr. Daniel Trifan, history, philosophy and geography<\/li>\n<li>Dr. James V. Mehl Award for Outstanding Faculty Scholarship: Dr. Matthew Edwards, music, and Dr. Shensheng Tang, engineering technology<\/li>\n<li>Dr. James J. Scanlon Service-Leader Award: Chad Elifrits, Western Reception Diagnostic Correctional Center (staff), and Dr. Nathanael May, music (faculty)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The 18 retirees honored contributed nearly 440 years of service to Missouri Western, an average of 24 years per person. They are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mona Bledsoe, physical plant<\/li>\n<li>Rhonda Brewington, registrar\u2019s office<\/li>\n<li>Dr. Kenneth Dagel, history, philosophy and geography<\/li>\n<li>Dr. Nancy Edwards, education<\/li>\n<li>Judy Fields, academic affairs<\/li>\n<li>Ramona Finley, criminal justice, legal studies and social work<\/li>\n<li>Dr. Jane Frick, English, foreign languages and journalism<\/li>\n<li>Rosalie Guyer, student services<\/li>\n<li>Alice Harless, physical plant<\/li>\n<li>Ken Lewis, physical plant<\/li>\n<li>Dan Nicoson, university advancement and the MWSU Foundation<\/li>\n<li>Sandra Phillips, library<\/li>\n<li>Dr. John Rushin, biology<\/li>\n<li>Dr. David Steiniche, economics, political science and sociology<\/li>\n<li>Dr. Ann Thorne, English, foreign languages and journalism<\/li>\n<li>Roger Voelkel, nursing and allied health<\/li>\n<li>Dr. Phillip Wann, psychology<\/li>\n<li>Beth Wheeler, external relations<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Missouri Western State University is a comprehensive regional university providing a blend of traditional liberal arts and professional degree programs. The university offers student-centered, high quality instruction that focuses on experience-based learning, community service, and state-of-the-art technology. Western is located in St. Joseph, Mo., and is committed to the educational, economic, cultural and social development of the region it serves. Visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/\">www.missouriwestern.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\u2014end\u2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St. Joseph, Mo. &#8211; May 1, 2012 &#8211; Missouri Western State University and the MWSU Foundation presented awards to 10 faculty and staff members and 18 retirees were honored during the University&#8217;s 2012 Awards and Retirees&#8217; Recognition on May 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[48],"tags":[148,337,661],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8422,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions\/8422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}