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WESTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY MACOMB, ILLINOIS 36th Annual Initiation Banquet Sunday, April 13, 2008, at 12:00 noon Grand Ballroom, University Union

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WESTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY MACOMB, ILLINOIS

36th Annual Initiation Banquet Sunday, April 13, 2008, at 12:00 noon

Grand Ballroom, University Union

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The Phi Kappa Phi Permanent Display is Located in the University Union Opposite Lincoln Room.

Website: www.wiu.edu/PhiKappaPhi/ E-Mail: [email protected]

Western Illinois University Chapter of The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi

Executive Committee, 2006-2008

President: Steven Rock President-Elect: Paul K. Kreider Secretary: Tej K. Kaul Treasurer: Judith M. Dallinger Membership Coordinator: Lisa Wen Public Relations Committee Ellyn Bartges Co-Chairs: Cathy Couza National Fellowship and Scholarship Committee Chair: C. S’thembile West Undergraduate Research Award Committee Chair: Michael Romano Faculty Initiates Committee Chair: Heidi Clemmens Past Presidents: Fred J. Ebeid Judith M. Dallinger Members-At-Large: K. Dale Adkins C. S’thembile West Vice Presidents: Annette Glotfelty (Student Members) Melissa Yeast

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Western Illinois University Chapter of The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi

Executive Committee, 2008-2010

President: Paul K. Kreider President-Elect: Sharon Evans Secretary: Jennifer Allen Treasurer: Robert Intrieri Membership Coordinator: Steven Rock Public Relations Committee Chair: Ellyn Bartges National Fellowship and Scholarship Committee Chair: Katherine Pawelko Undergraduate Research Award Committee Chair: Michael Romano Faculty Initiates Committee Chair: K. Dale Adkins Webmaster: In Lee Past Presidents: Steven Rock Fred J. Ebeid Members-At-Large: Virginia Leonard Nancy Desulis Vice Presidents: (Student Members)

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Fellowship/Scholarship Committee

C. S’thembile West, Chair; K. Dale Adkins; Mary M. Jensen; Chung-ha Kim; Julie S. Mahoney; Susan Martinelli Fernandez;

William P. McCamey; and Sandra L. McFadden

Undergraduate Research Award Committee Michael Romano, Chair; Richard Anderson;

Robert Intrieri; and Lisa Wen

Faculty Initiates Committee Heidi Clemmens, Chair; K. Dale Adkins;

Tej K. Kaul; and Valerie Smead

Charter Members Western Illinois University Chapter

June 3, 1972 M. Wayne Alexander Mary Rengo Munik Irving Berg James F. Niss John T. Bernhard Larrance M. O’Flaherty James R. Conner Robert G. Palmer Bob J. Davis Maurice G. Porter Robert E. Elkin Fred J. Pumper F. F. Gardner Desmond A. Robbie Roland Grass Gregory R. Schreiner Jane L. Hopkins Beth Mackey Stiffler Richard H. Jesse George D. Townsend Clyde F. Mead Lewis Wall David P. Morse

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Western Illinois University Chapter of The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi

36th Annual Initiation Banquet Noon, Sunday, April 13, 2008

(Pianist: John Simmons)

PROGRAM

Welcoming Remarks by the WIU Phi Kappa Phi Chapter President

Steven Rock

Remarks by the Student Speakers Melissa Yeast, Vice-President

Annette Glotfelty, Vice-President

LUNCH

Keynote Speaker “Civic Engagement in the 21st Century”

Dr. Lynette Danley

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AN IMPORTANT REMINDER ALL ADMINISTRATIVE/FACULTY INITIATES/

FELLOWSHIP NOMINEE/SCHOLARSHIP WINNERS/ UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH AWARD WINNERS/

EXECUTIVE BOARD MEMBERS PLEASE STAY BACK FOR A GROUP PHOTO

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PROGRAM (continued)

Introduction of the PKP National Fellowship Nominee

and the PKP Scholarship Award Recipients C. S’thembile West

Introduction of the Undergraduate

Research Award Recipients Michael Romano

Introduction of the Administrative Initiates

Paul K. Kreider

Introduction of the Faculty Initiates Heidi Clemmens

INITIATION CERMONY

Reader: John Simmons (with Paul Krieder, Michael Romano, Lisa Wen,

Cathy Couza, Dale Adkins, and Tej Kaul)

Remarks by the Incoming Chapter President Paul K. Kreider

Closing Remarks

Steven Rock

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THANK YOU FOR YOUR PARTICIPATION AND HAVE A SAFE TRIP BACK HOME

PLEASE CONTINUE TO KEEP

THE WIU CHAPTER OF PHI KAPPA PHI IN YOUR THOUGHTS

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National Phi Kappa Phi Fellowship Nominee Melissa Yeast – Agriculture

Student Scholarship Recipients

Sheila and Paul Nollen PKP Scholarship

Skylar Patridge - Art Roland Grass PKP Scholarship

Christin Alterie - Elementary Education WIU PKP Chapter Scholarship

Nicole Peter - Music WIU PKP Presidential Scholarship

Viola I. Marrs - Comm. Sciences and Disorders & Psychology

Undergraduate Research Awards

Lowell Grabill First Place Undergraduate Research Award Emily DiIulio, Music Therapy major

Title: “The Effects of Preferred Music on Enjoyment, Motivation, and Exertion During Individual Aerobic Exercise”

Advisor: Jennifer Jones in Music Therapy Second Place Award

Ashley Szechowycz, Psychology major Title: “Psychological Profiling of Offenders”

Advisor: Jill Myers in LEJA Third Place Award

Krista Winters, Biological Sciences major Title: “Size Matters: Factors affecting Pinworm Parasitism in the

Australian Cockroach, Periplaneta australasiae” Advisor: Ken McCravy and Sean Meagher in Biological Sciences

Fourth Place Award Alex Heuer, History major

Title: “Chief Mokohoko and His Band's Trail of Peaceful Resistance: 1869-1886”

Advisor: Virginia Jelatis in History

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Faculty Initiates Dr. Roberta A. Davilla Roberta A. Davilla (Ph.D., Ohio Univesrity) is Professor and Chair of the Department of Communication at Western Illinois University. Previously, she was an associate professor of communication at the University of Northern

Iowa. Davilla, who started at Northern Iowa in 1994, also served as UNI's graduate coordinator from 2001-2005. She served as president of the Central States Communication Association (2003-2004); she has served on several editorial boards including The Journal of Family Communication, Communication Teacher and Communication Studies; and she was editor of the Iowa Journal of Communication. Her latest research has involved researching how couples communicate about personal finances and how children learn about money and its use. She has presented papers and has been a panelist and respondent at more than 40 conferences, has authored four and co-authored four instructors' manuals and workbooks, has written several articles for professional journals and authored and co-authored seven book chapters. Davilla's teaching areas include interpersonal and small group communication, family communication, communication theories, qualitative research methods and the basic communication course. Davilla's previous teaching roles include faculty associate Monmouth (IL) College speech communication and theatre arts department (1982-1989); graduate assistant and adjunct faculty in the School of Interpersonal Communication at Ohio University (1989-1992); assistant professor in the department of communication and creative arts at Purdue University Calumet (1992-1993); and visiting assistant professor in the department of communication at Miami University (1993-1994). Born in Burlington, IA, and raised in west-central Illinois, Davilla earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in general studies, with an emphasis in sociology, political science and communication from Monmouth (IL) College (1977); her Master's of Science degree in broadcast journalism from Boston University (1979); and her Ph.D. in Interpersonal Communication from Ohio University (1992).

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Dr. Farideh H. Dehkordi-Vakil

Farideh Dehkordi is an assistant professor in the Department of Information Systems and Decision Sciences in the College of Business and Technology at Western Illinois University. She has a Ph.D. (received in 2001) in statistics with a specialization in Biostatistics from the University of Iowa. She was a postdoctoral research fellow at Dow's Institute for Dental Research at the University of Iowa in 2006/2007 academic year. She is interested in interdisciplinary research as well as research directed towards the development of new statistical methodology. With respect to the latter, she has done creative work in applying the Bayesian methodology to questions of regression in general and monotone smoothing in particular. With respect to the former she has collaborated with researchers in such fields as business, health education, oral health, nursing, and health policy and outcomes. She has presented the results of her research in national and international conferences, and she has published several papers in professional, peer refereed, national and international journals.

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Mr. Samuel Edsall

Samuel Edsall grew up on public broadcasting. His father was Chief Broadcasting Engineer at several public television stations, designing and planting many of them. Since Sam was old enough to answer the phone, he worked at pledge drives and auctions to help raise funds for the local PBS station and continued to serve various volunteer roles until graduation. After a six-year tour of duty in the Navy, Mr. Edsall completed his Bachelor’s Degree in Mass Communication at SUNY Plattsburgh with honors in 1986. Shortly after, he received a graduate assistantship from Miami of Ohio and received his MS in Mass Communication in 1988. He went back to work in public television for about a year before he accepted a faculty position in the Department of Communication – Broadcasting at Western Illinois University. In 1999 Mr. Edsall took a year-long sabbatical to complete his M.F.A in Computer Graphic Design at Rochester Institute of Technology. Samuel Edsall specializes in new technologies in mass communication and teaches television production, online and multimedia journalism, and computer graphics for television. He has recently published the textbook ‘Computer Graphics for Television – A Reference Manual’ and has won several regional and national awards for his television and multimedia productions. He has received the College of Fine Arts & Communication Scholarly Activity Award and the Teaching with Technology Award. He has presented numerous papers at regional and national conferences. Mr. Edsall keeps active at his local church, enjoys composing electronic music, travel and riding his bike.

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Dr. Daniel Lee Hendricks

Dan Hendricks, who began his tenure as vice president for advancement and public services at Western Illinois University on Aug. 15, 2005, oversees Western's Foundation and Development, Alumni Programs, University Relations, the Visual Production Center, the Scholarship Office and University Marketing. He earned his bachelor’s degree with honors from DePauw University and his master’s and Ph.D. degrees from Duke University with honors. A proven successful fundraiser at major universities, Dr. Hendricks came to Western Illinois to help plan the University's largest ever comprehensive capital campaign, which is nearing its public introduction. He has added prospect research and campaign support services staff in the Office of the Vice President for Advancement and Public Services; and development directors have been hired in each college, as well as for the WIU-Quad Cities and the University Libraries. Major gifts during his tenure include the University receiving the largest planned gift in Western's history when WIU was named as a beneficiary of a $20 million trust established by Dr. Norman C. Teeter and his wife Dr. Carmelita B. Teeter of Memphis, TN; the establishment of a new Donor Advised Fund by Recreation, Park and Tourism Administration (RPTA) Professor Emeritus A. Gilbert Belles; and the acquisition of 77 acres of donated land approximately 2.5 miles west of the WIU-Macomb campus known as the Rodney and Bertha Fink Environmental Studies Field Laboratory and Conservancy, which bears the names of the donors. Under Dr. Hendrick's guidance, Western Illinois' Annual Fund campaign brought in $1.6 million in 2007, more than 30 percent better than the previous year; and Alumni Programs launched an online social network in 2006. Previously, Dr. Hendricks was vice president of the Louisiana State University Foundation and the director and chief operations officer for The University of Kentucky's $600 million campaign from 1999 to 2001. He is the author of numerous articles on institutional advancement; he has written eight campaign feasibility and training manuals; and he is a novelist, having published “Tobee and the Amazing Bird Choir” under the pen name, Chloe Canterbury.

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Dr. W. Garry Johnson

W. Garry Johnson was named vice president for student services May 19, 1998. In this capacity, Johnson provides administrative leadership for the educational and service activities and programs provided by the following areas: Athletics, Beu Health Center, Campus Recreation, Career Services, Casa Latina Cultural Center, Disability Support Services, Electronic Student Services, Financial Aid, GoWest Transit, Gwendolyn Brooks Cultural Center, Student Activities, Student Assistance and Parent Service Center, Student Development and Orientation, Student Judicial Programs, Student Legal Services, Student Publications, Undergraduate Admissions, University Counseling Center, University Golf Course, University Housing and Dining Services, University Union, WIU Childcare, Women’s Center, and the Auxiliary Facilities System. Johnson served as the University’s interim vice president for student services from 1997 to 1998. Prior to this appointment, he served as associate vice president for student services from January 1997-September 1997, and as assistant vice president for student services – student life from 1983 to 1996. He was Western’s director of residence life from 1980 to 1983. Johnson also serves as an associate professor of counselor education and college student personnel and teaches graduate classes in Organization and Administration of Student Services, History of Higher Education, and Budget and Finance. Johnson has over 38 years of professional experience in higher education including administrative positions at Southern Colorado State (1969-1970), University of Missouri-Columbia (1970-1980), and WIU (1980-present). He earned his bachelors degree in physical education and history from Southern Colorado State College in 1970, his masters degree in counseling and personnel services at the University of Missouri-Columbia in 1972, and his doctorate in counseling psychology from the University of Missouri-Columbia in 1982. He has held regional, national, and international offices in several professional associations, including serving as President of ACUHO-I (Association of College and University Housing Officers-International). Additionally, Dr. Johnson has been actively involved in community activities. He has served on the Board of Directors of the Macomb Chamber of Commerce and is involved in The Rotary Club of Macomb, currently a Past-President. He has served on the Performing Arts Society Board and was Co-Chair of the 2003 United Way Campaign. Johnson’s wife Marilyn retired from Western Illinois University in 2005 after completing 38 years of service to WIU and 30 years of service as executive secretary to four presidents while also serving as the secretary to Western’s Board of Trustees since the Board’s establishment in 1996. Johnson has two sons, Christopher and Colin.

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Mr. Bill Kincaid Bill Kincaid is Associate Professor and Head of Acting in the Western Illinois University Department of Theatre and Dance. He came to WIU from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, where he was Head of Performance in the department of theatre for five years. Prior to that, he taught at the University of California, Davis. Bill has worked as an actor, director and musical director for numerous theatres around the country, including the Williamstown Theatre Festival, New England Shakespeare Festival, Chicago’s Vitalist Theatre, the Brown County Playhouse in Indiana, New York's Cortland Repertory Theatre, Seacoast Repertory Theatre in New Hampshire, Johnny Appleseed Outdoor Drama, Theatre Works of Sarasota Florida, and McLeod Summer Playhouse. Bill’s particular interest in original performance practice of Elizabethan scripts led to him to found Macomb’s “Bard in the Barn” project with the support of the Macomb Area Convention and Visitors Bureau and grants from the Performing Arts Society and the University Research Council. At WIU, Bill played Benjamin Franklin in 1776, directed productions of Fuddy Meers and Henry IV, Part One and Bach at Leipzig and The Visit. Recently he received a Faculty Directing Fellowship from the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival, and was honored by the National Partners of American Theatre with a Classical Acting Coach Award. Bill is actively involved in regional leadership of the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival, serving frequently as a production respondent and also as the Illinois State Chair.

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Dr. William Louis Knox William Knox, Professor of English, is Director of the Centennial Honors College at Western Illinois University. He earned his B.A. in English and later, after being awarded one of two teaching internships, his M.A. in Special Studies in English at from Illinois State University. After five years of university teaching as a full-time instructor, he returned to ull-time study to earn his Ph.D. in English and Education from the University of Michigan. While at Michigan, he received one of eight Outstanding Teaching Assistant Awards, from a field of 1200

eligible (1983). Dr. Knox began his full-time career in higher education in 1976, teaching composition and English as a Second Language at Western Illinois University, where he also was a charter faculty member of the WESL Program. In 1978 he moved to Illinois State University as an Instructor-Tutor in the High Potential Students Program, teaching in the summer Collegiate Headstart Program as well as during the regular academic year until 1981. As a doctoral student at the University of Michigan from 1981 until 1988, he accepted several positions in the Pilot Residential-Learning Program, serving as a Teaching Fellow; Resident Director for Academics, supervising the in-house graduate teaching assistants, overseeing course development, and assessing instruction; and Acting Assistant Director. He also served as a tutor of writing in the School of Social Work and Lecturer for the English Composition Board. As a Professor of English at Northern Michigan University from 1988 until 2006, he taught twenty-five undergraduate courses ranging from Basic Composition and other undergraduate writing and literature courses to Teaching Writing, the Beat Generation, Modern Art: Theatre, and the First-Year Experience Seminar. He also taught graduate courses in teaching composition and literature as well as served as reader and director for masters theses. Variously, he served six years as Director of Freshman English (1990-1996), Chair of the Composition Committee (1990-1996), Chair of Thesis Committee (2005-2006), and Chair of the department Executive Committee (2005-2006). Professor Knox was honored with the Faculty Merit Award (1992) and Outstanding Service Award (2004). He began honors involvement in 1997 when the provost at Northern Michigan University selected him to chair the implementation committee for the new honors program. The next year he began a six-year tenure as its first director (1998-2004). Under his leadership, the program grew from 12 to over 100 students. During that time, he involved students in state and regional-level conferences, co-sponsored the chartering of the campus chapter of Alpha Lambda Delta, the nation’s second oldest freshman academic honorary, and quadrupled the program budget for courses and programs. In July 2006, Dr. Knox was appointed Director of the Centennial Honors College. In addition to curriculum and programming, he has overseen increased participation in the annual Undergraduate Research Day and Pre-Law Symposium; supervised the re-chartering of the campus chapter of Phi Eta Sigma, the nation’s oldest freshman academic honorary; supported the chartering of Phi Alpha Delta, the national pre-law and law fraternity; and hosted the 2008 Spring Student Research Conference of the Honors Council of the Illinois Region, which he serves as president (2008-2009). During his career, he has presented over 50 papers on writing, writing pedagogy, undergraduate research, student life, and honors education. His publications range from feature articles in local newspapers to essays in The National Honors Report and English Journal. He co-edited Students Write about College (with David Schoem), and authored Writing Our Way.

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Ms. Jill Joline Myers Jill Joline Myers joined Western Illinois University as an Assistant Professor in 2004 in the Law Enforcement and Justice Administration Department. She earned her Juris Doctorate degree in 1981 from the University Of Baltimore School Of Law and served as a prosecutor in Maryland for over twenty years. While there, she was the division chief of the Special Investigations Division which focused on employing wire, electronic and oral surveillance techniques. Currently, at WIU she teaches both graduate and undergraduate courses primarily addressing legal issues concerning the privacy and Constitutional rights of victims, offenders and citizens. In addition, she regularly teaches law related courses to lawyers, police, federal agents and legislators. She also serves as a consultant to state and federal law enforcement agencies providing expertise regarding surveillance technologies and applications under the USA PATRIOT ACT and various state and federal statutes. Furthermore, on occasion she served as a script consultant for the Home Box Office, Inc.’s production of “The Wire”. Her research interests include the collection of information and data through technology and its impact on privacy rights, Fourth Amendment protections, Constitutional due process, and witness intimidation legislation and policy. She was the advisory editor and author of numerous articles published in the peer reviewed reference books entitled the Encyclopedia of Privacy by Greenwood Press. She is also the author or co-author of several other publications including articles entitled, “Our Panoptical Society Where the Invisible Becomes Visible,” The Legality of Converting Information into Actionable Intelligence by Law Enforcement, “Inside the Fishbowl: The Fourth Amendment’s Application to Vehicle Searches and Seizures,” “Illinois Legislation Preserves Privileged Communications; Countering the Stop Snitching Movement. Crime Stoppers versus the ‘Omerta’” and “A Collection of Traffic Stop Information and Biased Enforcement: The Research and Legal Perspective.”

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Dr. Abdul-Rasheed Na’Allah Abdul-Rasheed Na’Allah was born in multicultural and multilingual Ilorin in northern Nigeria. He received Quranic education, and later attended elementary schools in Ilorin and Sokoto. He was a Boy Scout in elementary school, and Troop Leader of the 1st Birnin Yauri Troop in the 1979/80 session. Later, he trained as a Grade II Teacher at the Government Teachers College in Birnin-Yauri, now Federal Government College

Birnin-Yauri, where he graduated in 1981. Both as a student and in his professional life, Dr. Na’Allah actively engaged in civic activities. He was President (Head Student) of the Student Government at GTC Birnin-Yauri, 1980-1981; President, Progressive Unity Club, Ilorin, 1980 – 1983, General Secretary and later President, Nigeria Union of Students at the University of Alberta, 1994-1995; 1995-1997 respectively; co-founder and first Coordinator of The Africa Society of the University of Alberta, 1997-1998. He also founded the Creative Writers Society at Western Illinois University in the fall of 1998. Among awards he has won included the Gold Key Society Recognition award (1998); the Graduate Students Association award (1998); the Alberta Heritage Charles Noble Awards (for student leadership), 1998; the Alberta Black Achievement Society Award, 1999; The Province of Alberta Graduate Fellowship, 1999; the Regional Africanist Fellowship of the Center for African Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, summer 2000; the Outstanding Faculty Award by the WIU Minority Student Association, 2005; the Outstanding Excellence in Multicultural Teaching Award of the WIU College of Arts and Sciences, 2006; the Intel Corporal Grants for ethnographic research in Nigeria, 2007; Nominated for the 2007 Carnegie Scholars Program grant, 2007. Dr. Na’Allah is listed in Marquis’s Who is Who in America, and in Contemporary Authors. Dr. Na’Allah’s book publications include Ogoni’’s Agonies: ken Saro-Wiwa and the Crisis in Nigeria; The People’s Poet: Emerging Perspectives on Niyi Osundare; Ahmadu Fulani; Almajiri and more. He is currently working on a book on Elaloro, an indigenous African discourse paradigm. Among journals where his articles have appeared are Language International, Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics, Language Learning Journal, Journal of Religion in Af-rica, Canadian Journal of African Studies, Frankfurter Afrikanistische Blätter, Neohelicon, and Atlantic Literary Review, among others. Dr. Abdul-Rasheed Na’Allah has been chair of the Department of African American Studies since July 2004.

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Dr. Nancy Parsons Dr. Nancy Parsons is a professor of Health Sciences at Western Illinois University. She received her M.S. Ed. and Ph.D. in health education from Southern Illinois University-Carbondale. Her bachelor’s degree is from Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, MN with double majors in physical education and school health education. She also holds a master of public health degree from the University of Illinois-Springfield. In addition to her academic degrees, Dr. Parsons holds a

graduate certificate in Social Marketing and Public Health from the University of South Florida. Since coming to WIU in 1988, Dr. Parsons co-authored one book and several national refereed journal articles, and authored or co-authored several state and national refereed presentations. She has served on the WIU Faculty Senate and has chaired the Council on Curricular Programs and Instruction. She has chaired or served on several national, state, and local professional committees for Eta Sigma Gamma (the national professional health education honorary), the American Association for Health Education, the American School Health Association, the Illinois Public Health Association, the Illinois Society for Public Health Education, the McDonough County Chapter of the American Red Cross, and the McDonough County Tuberculosis Sanitarium Board. She is a manuscript reviewer for the American Journal of Health Education, and served as editor of the Illinois Public Health Association’s newsletter, Viewpoint. She also serves as the department’s internship coordinator. Dr. Parsons has served as a consultant to local government to assess local health concerns and design coordinated community health plans. These plans have utilized social marketing principles in analyzing health priorities and health data, prioritizing community health problems, conducting a detailed analysis of community health problems, developing a community health plan, and inventorying community health resources to effectively and efficiently meet the health needs of a community.

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Dr. Rajeev Sawhney

Rajeev Sawhney received his Bachelors and Masters degrees in Economics (Honors) from Delhi University (India). Later, he was awarded a fellowship by Boston University to complete his M.B.A. degree. He re-ceived numerous scholarships while working on his Ph.D. in Supply Chain and Operations Management from Ivey Business School, (London, Can-ada). Dr. Sawhney’s research is in the areas of supply-chain management including negotiations, lean supply-chains, global sourcing, environmental greening, quality management, transportation, and warehouse management – where he has published and presented numerous papers and cases. Dr. Sawhney has also served as a consultant/ researcher in these areas to Fortune 500 companies and non-profit organizations. In addition, Dr. Sawhney has been involved with the American Production and Inventory Control Society (APICS), the Canadian Institute of Management, and the Indian Chamber of Commerce in designing and developing their training and certification programs for practitioners. In conjunction with Prof. Mike Leenders, he designed the “Business Condition Index” for the Purchasing Managers Association of Canada (PMAC) – which is now published monthly by leading Canadian newspapers. Since 1999, Dr. Sawhney has been teaching at Western Illinois University in the areas of Negotiations, Transportation and Logistics, Warehouse Management, Global Purchasing and Supply Management, Total Quality Management, and Operations Management and Strategy. During this period, he was inducted multiple times to Who’s Who in the World (2006), Who’s Who in America’s Teachers (2005, 2004, 2002), Who’s Who in Science and Engineering (2004), and Who’s Who in Higher Business Education (2003).

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Student Initiates

Classification of students corresponds to the time of election based on records at the

end of the Fall semester 2007

GRADUATES Julie Armstrong John Arrington Ramesh Basukala Chad Beam Andrew B. Berlinski Christian Lortz Brix Justin David Buchholz Susan Buktenica Prem Bahadur Chanda Emily Cherry Christine Renee Ciasto Mandi Lynne Clark Matthew James Crull Patricia Mary Druckenmiller Miranda Lynn Edler Jed Alan Engberg Mary Diane Enz Catt Foy Evonnda Lynn Fulton Donald Joseph Gasparini Gary Goins Gemma Louise Halliday Andrea Denise Henderson Jonathan David Hill Robert Burton Hodgson Andrew James Huck Elizabeth Langley Kantner Michelle M. Koewler

Anna M. Lorenz David Lueck Ryan C. Messinger Nurahmed Hamid Mohammed Sara Anne Morby Julie Ann O'Brien Theinhtay Oo Bridgette Marie Parsons Scott Rasso Christie Sierra Reynolds Pamela Jo Ritter Anna Sitkiewicz Tammy Lyn Stewart Melissa M. Vail Teresa S. VandeWiele Bernadine Marie VanHyfte Holly Renae Van Vlymen Emily Marie Walter David William Weaver Jane Marie Wheeler Louis Wittmer Sylvester Robert Wood Kerry Yadgar 

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SENIORS Miranda Nicole Baker Jeremy Bauer Aaron Scott Becker Scott Alan Beenes Angela Benham Kiah Marie Berg Karen Elise Blatchley Laura Lee Booth Wardatou Boukari Jenna Lee Cazel Mallorie Clark Ryan Timothy Curry Jessica Dawn Entrekin Heather Marie Fielder Miranda Kay Frohling Kathryne Gehrke Spencer Philip Graham Traci Sue Griffith David P. Hamling Brian Robert Harness Reilly Louise Hendricks Katherine Ann Herbst Ashley Marie Hess Jamie Lee Hunzinger Jason Robert Hurt Mark Hurty Rosanna Ibarra Diana Johnson Abby Elyse Lagemann Keith Aaron Leiting Steven Craig Lemming Erika Wallace Lindebraekke Amanda Kathleen Lopez John Henry Lurquin

Sheri Ann Manovski Susan Mae Miller Christina S. Monson Jamie Lynn North Sara M. Oakland Katherine Elizabeth Oberg Jacqueline Jo Perdun James Charles Peterson Kirsten A. Quinn Daniel David Reem Seth Riley Heath A. Roush Kyle Anthony Schulte Terra Hailey Seidel Allison Renee' Southwood Mark Jason Stanley Danielle Sullivan Angela Rebecca Swanson Thomas A. Warfield Carla Mae Webb Jacob Charles Webb-White Walter Charles Willis Marybeth Wilson Robert Scott Wilson Jeffrey Carl Yerkey 

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JUNIORS Christin Elaine Alterie Taylor Lynn Anderson Holley Kathleen Begyn Michelle Lynn Billings Matthew Earl Boester Elaine M. Bruhn Devin Buswell Jennifer Nicole Chmielowski Christine Coughlin Robert Charles Day Jason DeLong Ryan Scott Deushane Karen D. Durst Rebecca Ashley Flock Kelly Flynn Joseph Patrick Glenn Mary Kate O'Brien Jackson Nathaniel Brian Kessinger Erin Killey Johnathan Michael Kuhn Kelsey Carmichael Bohn Marty Craig Lamb Kathryn Elizabeth Lyphout Andrew Stephen Mannino Viola I. Marrs Doris Jean Nanninga Claire Victoria Overton Kandy Lashey Owens-Partida Skylar Elizabeth Patridge Nicole Christine Peter Raaj Ranjini Remesh Bradly Rigdon Sarah Pauline Roman

Kayla J. Shipman Aaron C. Simonton Anna Marie Smith Beverly Jane Thompson Michael Scott Tucker Bethany Belle Whitacre Patricia Ann Wiley Brett Thomas Winters

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FACULTY INITIATES 1974-2008

1974 Paul Blackford Charles Hanna Everett Morris Walter Olson

Rulon Smithson

1975 Jerome Kaufman Leslie Malpass

Paul Nollen1, 2,3,4,8 Robert Sibbing

Sylvesta Wassum

1976 Lewis Dove4

James Wehrly Paul Weller

1977

Victor Hicken1 Joel Smith

Benton Stidd Norman Walzer1, 4

1978

Donald Roach Keith Robers

Jay Stein

1979 Edwin Franks

John Hallwas1, 2, 6 Katherine Hoyenga1

Lois Mills1

1980 Nicholas Pano1 William Risley Evelyn Schroth John Sekora1

1981

William L. Burton1 Charlene G. Callison4

Tanya L. Carey Patricia Hutinger

F. Gene Miller

1982 Syndy M. Conger4 Judy G. Hample David C. Rine

Eric M. Stiffler4 Thomas H. Watkins 4

1983

Richard V. Anderson Charles E. Neblock Samuel M. Parker Michael T. Pledge

Richard T. Schaefer

1984 Cheryl J. Cohen 4

Suzanne M. Fleming Lawrence A. Jahn John G. Savage David R. Taylor

1985

Larry T. Balsamo1 Charles J. Helm4

Elizabeth A. Kaspar John S. Klasner1, 4

Janice Welsch

1986 Thomas C. Dunstan1, 4

Timothy C. Frazer Sterling J. Kernek1

Karen B. Mann Kathleen M. Pearson1

1987 Stephen R. Axley Mona P. Johnston

Te-Hsiu Ma

1988 Bem P. Allen1

Rosemary Aten David Wayne Ballew

Jared Brown1 Ralph H. Wagoner Beatrice L. Wehrly1

1989 John Conrad Steven Cox

Maurice Kellogg1 William Maakestad1, 4

John Mann Charles Potkay

1990

Frank E. Fulkerson Kermit T. Hoyenga Jo Ann Hummers

Frederick G. Jones1, 7 Gordon W. Kirk Siyoung Park

1991

P. James Nielsen4 Richard Rieck Nick DiGrino

Giri Raj Gupta James Ackil

Vaman Rao1, 2, 4, 5, 6

1992 Sharon Evans

Thomas E. Helm5 Tej Kaul4,10 John Wade

1993

J. Q. Adams George Gunzenhauser

Michael Hazlett Kenneth Keudell

David Patrick Jeanette Thomas1

1994 Thomas Drinka Robert Fischer Robert Gessner Virginia Leonard

Raymond Majeres Donna Phillips

Donald Spencer

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1995 Ann Collins

Pamela Terry Godt John Simmons1, 4

Subhashish Samaddar Marilyn Ward

Burton Witthuhn Dean Zoerink

1996

M. David Beveridge James Brakefield Judith Dallinger

Kenneth Hawkinson Steven Rock4

Michael Romano1 Eric Ward

1997

Dilip K. Das1 Timothy J. Kupka

Netkal Made Gowda Avril M. von Minden

1998

James M. Butterworth Fred Ebeid

Thomas Green Rolf Hackmann

Richard Hattwick Christopher Merrett1

Daniel Wise

1999 Laura Barden

Heidi Clemmens Valerie Smead Lee H. Tichenor Larry C. Wall

2000

Dale Hample Claudia McCain

Paul Thistlethwaite Lisa Wen

2001

Michael Campbell Randall Faust7, 9 Kathleen Joswick Melanie Rawlins Danny E. Terry

2002 K. Dale Adkins

Shawn A. Meagher Stephany Joy-Newman

Hugh M. Shane C. S'thembile West

2003

Alvin Goldfarb5 Andrea Redcay Graves

Scott M. Holt Jenq-Kuen Huang

Kathleen A. Neumann Dennis F. Sigwart

2004

Joseph C. Rallo

2005 Jennifer M. Allen Martin Dupuis

Charles C. Gilbert Robert C. Intrieri Paul K. Kreider7,9

Susan A. Martinelli-Fernandez Lawrence C. Mortier

Polly F. Radosh1

Bonnie J. Smith-Skripps Ann D. Walsh

2006

Gloria Ann Delany-Barmann Virginia Diehl

In Lee Inessa Levi

Timothy J Piper Mandeep Singh

2007

Chandra Amaravadi Jack Bowman Bailey Thomas L. Erekson

egla Birmingham Hassan James L. Patterson

Phyllis C. Self T. K. Vinod

2008

Roberta Anne Davilla Farideh H. Dehkordi-Vakil

Samuel Harmon Edsall Daniel Lee Hendricks

William Garry Johnson Bill Kincaid

William Louis Knox Jill Joline Myers

Abdul-Rasheed Na’Allah Nancy Parsons

Rajeev Sawhney

1Western Illinois University Distinguished Faculty Lecturer; 2Western Illinois University Distinguished Professor; 3Board of Governors Universities (BGU) Distinguished Professor; 4Past President of the WIU Chapter; 5WIU Phi Kappa Phi Fall Distinguished Lecturer; 6WIU Chapter Nominee for the National PKP Scholar Award; 7WIU Chapter Nominee for the National PKP Artist Award; 8PKP Emeritus Member; 9WIU Phi Kappa Phi Fall Distinguished Artist; 10PKP Distinguished Service Award Recipient.

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www.wiu.edu/PhiKappaPhi/ E-mail: [email protected]

Sales of Phi Kappa Phi Honor Cords to be worn at WIU Graduation Ceremonies will be available for purchase immediately following

the ceremony at the tables adjacent to the stage. Cost is $10.

1972 Fred J. Pumper 1973 Fred J. Pumper

1974 Roland Grass 1975 Roland Grass

1976 Mary R. Murnik 1977 Mary R. Murnik

1978 Virgil K. Howe 1979 Virgil K. Howe

1980 George D. Townsend 1981 George D. Townsend

1982 Michael J. Evans 1983 Lewis D. Dove

1984 Lewis D. Dove 1985 Beth M. Stiffler

1986 Norman C. Walzer 1987 Charlene G. Callison

1988 Paul M. Nollen 1989 LaVonne Straub

1990 Eric Stiffler 1991 Thomas Dunstan

1992 Virginia Helm 1993 John Klasner

1994 Kevin Finson 1995 Syndy Conger

1996 William Maakestad 1997 P. James Nielsen

1998 Thomas H. Watkins 1999 John Simmons

2000 Cheryl Cohen 2001 Vaman Rao

2002 Tej Kaul 2003 Charles Helm

2004 Judith Dallinger 2005 Fred J. Ebeid

2006 Fred J. Ebeid 2007 Steven Rock

Past Presidents of the WIU Chapter of Phi Kappa Phi