Leadership society inducts new members

Two alumni-one a county official and the other a BGSU staff member-a faculty member and a number of students have been tapped for membership into the BGSU circle of Omicron Delta Kappa, the most prestigious collegiate leadership honor society in the nation. They were inducted during ceremonies held April 6.

The new members include BGSU alumnus Alan Mayberry, Wood County prosecuting attorney, Janet Parks, sport management, and Paul Krebs, director of intercollegiate athletics at BGSU.

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Mayberry has devoted his professional life to serving the citizens of Wood County, the state of Ohio and the legal profession. He received his bachelor's degree in political science at BGSU in 1975 and his law degree at the University of Toledo in 1978. He was named Wood County assistant prosecuting attorney in 1980 and was promoted a year later to chief assistant prosecuting attorney, a position he held until being elected to his current post for the first time in 1988.
Parks, who has taught at Bowling Green since 1965, is the author of numerous books and articles and a founding editor of The Journal of Sport Management. A former chair of the Sport Management Division of the School of Human Movement, Sport and Leisure Studies, she is now graduate studies coordinator for the school.

She has coached women's golf, women's track and women's tennis during her tenure at Bowling Green, and conducted numerous research projects in the areas of sexist language, gender issues in sport, and career development and job satisfaction in sport management.

Krebs became director of intercollegiate athletics at BGSU in the spring of 1999. A 1978 graduate of Bowling Green, where he earned a bachelor's degree in business administration, he completed a master's degree in athletic administration at Ohio State University in 1981. He began his career as athletic ticket manager for the University of Oklahoma. In 1985 he went to Ohio State, where he moved through the ranks to the post of senior associate athletic director and being responsible for managing the daily operations of the athletic department.
A supporter of community groups such as United Way, he also serves on the University's Crisis Intervention Committee, among others, and chairs the Student Affairs Training and Development Committee and the University's Licensing Committee.