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Fink, three administrators among 11 ODK inductees

One of the largest initiation classes in recent memory has been tapped for membership into the University circle of Omicron Delta Kappa, the most prestigious collegiate leadership honor society in the nation.

New members will be inducted during ceremonies Friday afternoon (Dec. 11).

The inductees include this year's Master Teacher Award recipient, three administrators, one retired administrator, two alumni and 11 students.

The students, all of whom are either juniors or seniors, were selected on the basis of excellence in one of five categories: creative and performing arts; social, service, religious and campus government activities; scholarship; athletics, or journalism, speech and mass media.

Bonnie Fink, English and this year's recipient of the Master Teacher Award, is the faculty member selected.

Administrators chosen are Charles "Joe" Cranny, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences; Lorna Gonsalves-Pinto, director of the Office of Diversity Initiatives, and Charles Middleton, provost and vice president for academic affairs.

Larry Miles, a retired executive with Marathon Oil in Findlay and a 1956 BGSU graduate, was selected for membership under the alumni category.

The other Bowling Green graduate, Julie Broadwell, is coordinator of the Sexual Assault Awareness For Empowerment (SAAFE) program operated through Behavioral Connections of Wood County. She was selected under the community involvement category. Also selected under that category was Fayetta Paulsen, a student affairs administrator at the University for more than 27 years before her retirement in 1990.

Fink, who became the 17th recipient of the Master Teacher Award this fall, earned both her bachelor's and master's degrees from Bowling Green. She joined the faculty as a part-time instructor in 1987 and became full time in 1989.

Fink was named to "Who's Who of American Women" in 1997 and Adviser of the Year by the University's Student Organizations Leadership Development Program in 1995. In 1985, she was named Teacher of the Year in the Otsego School District.

Cranny joined the University faculty in 1966 as an instructor of psychology. In 1988, he was named chair of the department and the following year was promoted to full professor. He was named dean of the college in 1993.

During his academic career, he has gained national prominence for his research in industrial and organizational psychology. He has written extensively, most recently co-editing the book Job Satisfaction with faculty colleagues Patricia Smith and Eugene Stone.

Gonsalves-Pinto earned master's and doctoral degrees from the University before joining the faculty as an assistant professor of ethnic studies in 1991. Five years later, she was appointed director of Diversity Initiatives, where she organizes workshops, seminars and other educational programs on multicultural issues.

A native of India, she earned her bachelor's degree at the University of Bombay. In 1996, she was presented with both the Hollis A. Moore Outstanding Faculty Award by the Undergraduate Student Government and the Adviser of the Year Award by the Student Organizations Leadership Development Program.

Middleton came to Bowling Green in 1996 as provost and vice president for academic affairs. He previously served as dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Colorado at Boulder, where he received two awards for exceptional achievement.

A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Florida State University, he was named to "Who's Who in America" earlier this year. He is also a member of the American Historical Association and the author of the textbook The Administration of British Foreign Policy, 1782-1846.

Miles, one of the most active members in the history of the University's Alumni Association, is a member of the University's Presidents Club, the Falcon Club and the Heritage Society. He is also past president of the Alumni Association Board of Trustees and a member of the College of Business Administration's Alumni Advisory Board.

He is currently in the midst of his second term on the board of directors for the Bowling Green State University Foundation Inc., serving this year as chair elect.

After earning her bachelor's degree at Bowling Green, Broadwell earned a master's degree at Indiana State University. She previously worked for the children services departments of both Allen and Lucas counties, the Regional Family Counseling Center in Lima and the Family Resource Center in Findlay.

As coordinator of SAAFE, Broadwell directs all aspects of the program, including the assessment and assignment of cases and the recruitment and training of volunteers.

Paulsen joined the University in 1963 as the then-Dean of Women. During her 27-year career, she held a number of positions within the student affairs area, retiring in 1990 as associate vice president for student affairs. A member and leader in more than a half dozen professional organizations, Paulsen is the only person to be elected state president of three student affairs professional organizations: the Ohio Association of Student Personnel Administrators, the Ohio College Personnel Association and the Ohio Association for Women in Education.

In 1996, the University named a conference room in the Saddlemire Student Services Building in her honor. She is currently involved in the Bowling Green Meals on Wheels program.

Omicron Delta Kappa was founded in 1914 at Washington and Lee University.