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School of Education Honors Alumni, Staff

May 7, 1997

A Madison school administrator will be among those receiving alumni awards from the School of Education on Saturday, May 10.

Carolyn Stanford Taylor, the principal of Lincoln Elementary School, will receive the 1997 Lois Gadd Nemec Award, given to distinguished alumni in elementary education. Taylor was previously principal at Marquette Elementary and a teacher at Gompers Middle School and Allis Elementary.

Alumni achievement awards will go to:

  • Linda Bain, provost and vice president for academic affairs at San Jose State University. She is a prominent scholar in physical education, specializing in curriculum theory and development.
  • Robert Shafer, professor of English emeritus at Arizona State University. He held leadership positions with the National Council of Teachers of English and founded the International Assembly on the Teaching of English. Shafer died this past weekend, and the award will be presented posthumously.
  • Deborah Verstegen, associate professor at the Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia. She is a leading authority in school finance and policy.
  • Joan Woodbury, professor of dance at the University of Utah, where she helped develop one of the nation’s premier university dance programs. She is co-director of the internationally known Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company.
  • Phyllis McGibbon and Sara Penne will receive Outstanding Recent Graduate Awards. McGibbon is an assistant professor of studio art at Wellesley College, where she specializes in printmaking. Penne is a third-grade teacher at Oliver Wendell Holmes Elementary School in Milwaukee and a graduate student in UW- Milwaukee’s Urban Education Leadership Development Institute.

The presentation will take place May 10, 9:30 a.m., in 204 Educational Sciences, as part of the school’s alumni weekend. Chere Gibson, professor of continuing and vocational education, will discuss distance education.

SOE Distinguished Achievement Awards
Winners of Education’s Distinguished Achievement Awards, presented April 30, are: Sharon Brown, administrative assistant to the chair and departmental secretary in the educational psychology department; Minerva Coyne, director of the Comprehensive Regional Assistance Center Consortium in the Wisconsin Center for Education Research; Michael Duckwitz, program assistant in the department of rehabilitation psychology and special education; Carl Grant, Hoefs-Bascom Professor of Curriculum and Instruction; Joel Levin, Julian C. Stanley Professor of Educational Psychology; and Andrew Rubin, master printer at Tandem Press.