University honors faculty members
Archived article from Jan 19, 2001
The university held the sixth annual faculty service recognition luncheon Dec. 6 in the Neilson Dining Hall on the Cook/Douglass campus. In all, 234 faculty with 40, 30, 20 and 10 years of service were honored for their contributions to the university.
In opening remarks, Joseph J. Seneca, university vice president for academic affairs, noted that collectively, the faculty in the room had given 4,700 years of service to Rutgers. "Each component of that incredible number represents a career dedicated to this institution, and the collective total amount of time affirms the immortality of the transmission of learning and knowledge," he said.
"Learning is alive and eternal, and it is embodied in you and your students and their students forever," Seneca continued. "The university's single most valuable asset is the human knowledge and commitment to learning present in this room."
President Francis L. Lawrence, who spoke after lunch, thanked each person present for contributing to the university community.
"This faculty is one of the finest and most accomplished to be found anywhere in American higher education, and the quality of this professorate is constantly improving," he remarked. "This is happening partly because we have been able to hire some outstanding new faculty -- more than 300 in just the last three years -- and largely because the veteran members of the Rutgers faculty, such as yourselves, are constantly striving to new levels of excellence in your classrooms and laboratories, in your research and your work with students, and in your service to the people of this state and nation."
Also speaking during the noontime event were Rutgers College senior Rajiv Parikh, student member of the Board of Governors, and Newark history Professor Warren Kimball, celebrating three decades on the faculty.
"You, the educators of Rutgers University," said Parikh, "deserve more respect and honor than can be spoken, for the impact you have made upon my life and the lives of my peers. You have developed our education alongside a dynamic society by utilizing yourselves as cornerstones, showing that students and faculty alike care about each other."
Kimball, who also taught in New Brunswick over the years in a cooperative history faculty exchange, said his years teaching at both campuses could represent "the best of two possible worlds, Newark and New Brunswick, but are in fact one world -- Rutgers University."
This year's honorees are listed below.
40 Years of Service
Clifford W. Brown, Philosophy and Religion, C
Richard T. Bumby, Mathematics, NB
Wayne J. Crans, Entomology, NB
Emil J. Genetelli, Environmental Sciences, NB
George K. Horton, Physics, NB
Taras Hunczak, History, N
Sidney A. Katz, Chemistry, C
Noemie B. Koller, Physics, NB
Curt Leviant, Jewish Studies, NB
Irwin L. Merker, History, N
Elwin R. Orton, Plant Science, NB
Samson M. Rosenzweig, Mathematics, NB
30 Years of Service
Michael P. Adas, History, NB
Miguel Algarin, English, NB
David E. Axelrod, Genetics, NB
Darsene Baggett, Family and Consumer Sciences-Essex County, NB
Robert Harold Berk, Statistics, NB
Fred R. Bernath, Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, NB
Leonard I. Borack, Biological Sciences, N
Richard K. Brail, Urban Planning and Policy Development, NB
Maria J. Canino, Public Administration, N
Norman L. Cantor, Law, N
P. Dennis Cate, Fine Arts Collection, NB
Nelson Ling-Sun Chou, East Asian Library, NB
Roger Cohen, Journalism and Mass Media, NB
Noel G. Da Costa, Music, NB
Marian Da Vinci-Nichols, English, N
Steven G. Darian, Education, C
Henry K. Daun, Food Science, NB
John H. Davies, Law, C
Dorothy J. De Maio, Nursing, N
John G. Demaray, English, N
Neil J. Dougherty, Exercise Science and Sport Studies, NB
Ernest F. Dunn, Africana Studies, NB
Douglas E. Eveleigh, Biochemistry and Microbiology, NB
Susan S. Fainstein, Urban Planning and Policy Development, NB
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