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Leadership honor society inducts
five faculty, one administrator
Five faculty members and one administrator were inducted
March 19 into BGSU's Beta Tau Circle of Omicron Delta
Kappa, the nation's most prestigious leadership honor
society.
Joining ODK were A. Rolando Andrade, ethnic studies;
Rebecca Ferguson, assistant vice president for human
resources; Robert "Bud" Hurlstone, art; Brent
Nicholson, chair of legal studies; Michael Ogawa, chair
of chemistry, and Melissa Spirek, journalism, School
of Communication Studies.
Also honored March 19, with alumni/retiree awards, were:
• Zola Buford, retired associate registrar and
director of records, for community service;
• Eloise Clark, Trustee Professor Emeritus of
biological sciences and former vice president for academic
affairs, for scholarship;
• Ramona Cormier, Trustee Professor Emeritus of
philosophy and former dean of continuing education and
summer programs, in the creative and performing arts
category;
• Stuart Givens, professor emeritus of history
and University historian, for scholarship;
• Joyce Kepke, retired director of conferences
and training programs and former Bowling Green city
council member and president, for community service;
• Genevieve Stang, associate professor emeritus
of educational foundations and inquiry, for community
service, and
• Thomas Stubbs, assistant professor emeritus
of health, physical education and recreation and former
BGSU swimming coach and aquatics director, for athletics.
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A. Rolando
Andrade |
A. Rolando Andrade
Andrade has the longest BGSU tenure among this year's
inductees, having come to Bowling Green in 1977 as an
assistant professor. He was promoted to associate professor
in 1982 and, since 2001, has also taught in the Chapman
Learning Community/Chapman Community at Kohl.
Andrade developed "A Summer in Mexico," a
program which has taken nearly 100 BGSU students to
Mexico. He established—and remains the liaison
for—a cooperative program between the University
and the Universidad Autónoma de Guadalajara.
Founder of Educators in College Helping Hispanics Onward,
he organized the Latino Network Committee of BGSU and
has chaired the University's Human Rights and Cultural
Diversity committees. He is also former chair of the
Bowling Green Human Relations Commission, and its 1992
Citizen of the Year, and was president of the Bowling
Green Rotary Club in 2001-02.
Andrade, a pastor in Kansas and Oklahoma prior to his
academic career, holds two bachelor's degrees from Phillips
University in Enid, Okla. His master's and doctoral
degrees are from the University of Oklahoma, where he
taught for two years before coming to Bowling Green.
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Rebecca Ferguson |
Rebecca Ferguson
The lone administrator in this year's class of ODK inductees,
Ferguson has been at BGSU since 1997.
Her campus memberships include the President's Advisory
Council and the Friends of the University Libraries,
which she served as president in 2002-03. A volunteer
for the University's annual convocation, campus picnic
and Presidents' Day open house, she has established
policies to encourage volunteerism in the human resources
office.
Ferguson is also a member of numerous off-campus organizations,
among them the Society for Human Resource Managers,
the College University Personnel Association-Human Resources,
the Wood Lane Industries Board of Trustees and the Wood
County Democratic Party. The 1981 University of Iowa
graduate volunteers for the Wood County Humane Society
and other community groups as well.
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Bud Hurlstone |
Bud Hurlstone
Hurlstone came to BGSU in 1978 after completing his master
of fine arts degree from Southern Illinois University.
The nationally known glassblower subsequently developed
a specialization in glass within the MFA program at Bowling
Green, where he also designed and supervised installation
of glass facilities.
Hurlstone's work has appeared in international exhibitions,
including "New Glass," a touring exhibit that
was shown at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York
City, the Smithsonian Institution and European museums,
among others. Participating artists were honored at a
reception hosted by Joan Mondale, wife of then-Vice President
Walter Mondale.
Hurlstone's creations are on display at the Corning Museum
of Contemporary Glass—the nation's leading museum
of modern glass art—and in other permanent public
collections. Two major sculptures by the Chicago native
can be found in Jerome Library.
A 1974 graduate of Illinois State University, Hurlstone
has also fashioned gifts for University donors and retiring
faculty, and in 1980, made a glass slipper that was raffled
in conjunction with the production of "Cinderella,"
the first opera staged in the Moore Musical Arts Center's
Kobacker Hall. The following year, he organized "Emergence:
Art in Glass 1981," a national invitational exhibition
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Brent Nicholson |
Brent Nicholson
For Nicholson, induction into ODK joins a list of honors
that also includes the Undergraduate Student Government
Faculty Excellence Award, which he has won twice, and
the Undergraduate Teaching and Marie Hodge Advising awards,
both from the College of Business Administration.
In addition to chairing the legal studies department,
he is director of Entrepreneurship Academic Programs and,
off campus, vice president and chair of the Entrepreneurship
in the Arts Division of the U.S. Association of Small
Business and Entrepreneurship.
A BGSU graduate, Nicholson earned his law degree from
Ohio State University in 1979. Returning to Bowling Green
in 1984 as an adjunct professor, he was promoted to assistant
professor in 1989 and to associate professor in 1995.
He remains of counsel to a Toledo law firm and has published
several law review articles on federal income tax, corporate
law and corporate environmental liability issues.
Michael Ogawa
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Michael Ogawa |
Ogawa came to BGSU in 1991 as an assistant professor
of chemistry and principal member of the Center for
Photochemical Sciences. Retaining the latter position,
he became an associate professor in 1997 and a full
professor in 2002, the same year he received the Olscamp
Research Award.
He had previously won the Sigma Xi Distinguished Young
Scientist Award and the National Institutes of Health
National Research Service Award. NIH is also among the
agencies, as is the National Science Foundation, that
have awarded Ogawa research grants totaling more than
$2 million.
Holder of a bachelor's degree from Oberlin College and
master's and doctoral degrees from Northwestern University,
he has authored more than 30 peer-reviewed papers that
have appeared in leading scientific journals, such as
Science and the Journal of the American Chemical Society.
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Spirek |
Melissa Spirek
Spirek has also generated more than $2 million in grant
funding and has received 15 awards for research on emotional
responses to the media. Among her honors are the Wilbur
Schramm Award of Excellence, co-sponsored by centers within
two national telecommunications groups; the Association
of Educational Technology Crystal Award, and the Frank
Luther Mott-Kappa Tau Alpha Research Award, presented
by the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass
Communication.
She has written or co-authored roughly 15 journal articles
and has presented more than 25 refereed or invited conference
papers. She has also served on numerous BGSU committees,
at the department, school, college and University levels.
Spirek has bachelor's and master's degrees from Cleveland
State University. She came to Bowling Green in 1992
after receiving her Ph.D. from Purdue University. She
was promoted to associate professor in 1998.
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