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Commencement speakers announced BOWLING GREEN, O. — Two distinguished educators will speak at Bowling Green State University graduation exercises.
The Graduate College commencement speaker will be Dr. John “Jack” Noonan, a BGSU alumnus and president emeritus of Bloomfield
College in New Jersey. BGSU 2002 Master Teacher Irina Stakhanova will speak at graduation for the undergraduate colleges.
Commencement for the Graduate College will be held at 7 p.m. Dec. 19. Commencement for all undergraduate colleges will be
held at 10 a.m. Dec. 20. Both events will be held at Anderson Arena in Memorial Hall. More than 1,100 students are candidates
for degrees. In addition, the University will present an honorary doctor of public service degree to George L. Mylander of
Sandusky.
pNoonan, a former faculty member at what is now Findlay University, retired last May after 16 years as president of Bloomfield
College. His presidency was highlighted by the development of an Advanced Technology Institute and exemplary programs in animation,
graphics for digital media, fine arts, multimedia and Web design, music technology and digital video.
Prior to joining Bloomfield, Noonan served as dean of the School of Arts and Sciences at Iona College and, from 1973-83, directed
the Center for the Improvement of Teaching Effectiveness, one of the earliest faculty development programs in the country,
at Virginia Commonwealth University. Prior to that, he was director of the Liberal Studies Program and an associate professor
of English at Findlay College.
He serves on the boards of several professional organizations and earlier this year was elected board chair of the Association
of American Colleges and Universities. A graduate of Wheeling Jesuit College, he earned both his master’s degree and doctorate
in English literature from BGSU.
Stakhanova, an instructor in Bowling Green’s Department of German, Russian and East Asian Languages, was named Master Teacher
by the University’s Student Alumni Association in 2002. The award, considered one of the highest honors for faculty, recognizes
excellence in teaching and a caring attitude toward students.
Stakhanova, who joined the faculty in 1990, is undergraduate adviser in the Russian program and adviser to the Russian Club.
She enhances students’ educational experience by encouraging them to participate in the Ohio Foreign Language Conference,
where students share ideas and research with other education professionals.
Director of the semester and summer education-abroad programs at St. Petersburg, Stakhanova also has been active in developing
the Russian curriculum and revising the “Russian Novel” and “Russian Film” courses, while supervising a new course titled
“Individual Translation Projects.”
Because of the large number of undergraduate degree candidates, tickets are required for admission to commencement on Dec.
20. Each graduating student is allotted five tickets for family and friends.
(Posted December 04, 2003 )
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