Beaurivage and Smith Receive Universitywide Kudos

Frances Beaurivage (left) and Cheryl Smith (right) received the University Kudos Award at the April 7 meeting of the NU Regents.

Beaurivage is interpreter coordinator for Services for Students with Disabilities. With the university since 1993, Beaurivage works primarily with students, interpreting nine to 10 courses a semester. She also interprets speeches, presentations, and plays for the university community.

"The opportunity for Frances and her staff to assist students to grow academically is very significant to the educational process. Frances is the consummate professional and has earned the respect of students, faculty and staff. She is a tremendous asset to our campus and department," said her nominator.

Smith is a custodian II with Facilities Management and Planning Custodial Services. She has been with the university since 1993. On the night of Feb. 28, while working on the night shift in Manter Hall of Biological Sciences, Smith discovered some vandalism in the basement area. Liquid had been splashed on many of the office doors and hallway walls. From the odor of the liquid, Smith suspected the liquid might be a type of acid. She immediately called Campus Police, who found three people leaving the building with items under their coats. Through investigation, the officers not only cleared the vandalism case with the arrest of the three individuals, but also cleared seven burglaries involving thousands of dollars of computer equipment that had occurred over several nights in that area of the campus.

"Ms. Smith's actions in this event demonstrated her dedication to providing a safe and healthful environment for the university community," said her nominator.

More Names Added to Service Awards Listings

The list of recipients for Employee Services Awards tht appeared in last week's Scarlet was incomplete. Several names were omitted from the list. They are: Paul Johnsgard, School of Biological Sciences, 40 years of service; Jack Siegman, Sociology, 35 years of service; Donald Pursell, College of Business Administration, 25 years of service; Ron Lee, Communication Studies, 10 years of service; and Deloris A. Pittman, Agricultural Research and Development Center, 5 years of service.

On April 25, employees will be honored with service awards at an event hosted by Chancellor Harvey Perlman at the Lied Center for Performing Arts. The Service Awards event will run from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. with refreshments being served prior to a formal program with Richard Alloway as Master of Ceremonies.

Those whose names were not included on last week's list but who believe they are eligible for an award should contact Rosalinda Barajas-Ramirez. Also, if you have any questions about the awards program, call Rosalinda at 472-5250.

Congratulations to University of Nebraska-Lincoln employees who will reach a service anniversary during the 2001 calendar year.

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Banerjee Memorial Service April 22

A memorial service for Mihir Ranjan Banerjee, emeritus professor of biological sciences, will begin at 1 p.m. April 22 in the Nebraska Room of the Clifford Hardin Nebraska Center for Continuing Education. Banerjee died April 7.

During his 25-year career at UNL, his research was dedicated to the understanding of cancer biology. He retired at the end of the 1991 fall semester. Memorials are suggested to the School of Biological Sciences or to the Alzheimer's Association Research Foundation.

Faculty and Staff Recognized for Volunteer Service

By Maggie Miller, Student Involvement

A number of faculty, staff and students were recognized as recipients of the the McDonald's® Spirit of Service Award at the Chancellor's Leadership Recognition Reception April 10.

The award honors volunteers that have dedicated time and energy to improving the UNL and Lincoln communities.

The recipients of the award in the faculty division are Professors Rita Kean and Wendy Weiss, College of Human Resources and Family Sciences. Kean and Weiss were instrumental in the organization of the Matt Talbot Kitchen mural project on 19th and R streets. A beginning textiles and design class taught by Weiss created the mural.

Mike Leupold, facilities operation manager of the Nebraska Unions, is this year's staff recipient. Leupold has arranged for the staff of the Nebraska Unions and himself to serve a noon meal at the Matt Talbot Kitchen once a month.

Two individuals and two student groups are recipients in the student division.

o Mike Lyon, a freshman economics major, has volunteered with student groups, but also as an individual with the YMCA and at McPhee Elementary School, where he spends up to seven hours a week volunteering.

o Doug Shannon, a sophomore, is a member of the Service Council, a service group at the university and was instrumental in the UNL Vote 2000 campuswide campaign, where he registered over 60 new student voters in a three-hour period.

o Campus Outreach Opportunity League (COOL), has devoted numerous hours to the F Street Recreational Center with its after school program and has helped to provide underprivileged children with positive role models and the Center's staff with much needed assistance.

o The Latino Achievement Mentoring Program mentors devote their time to the encouragement of Latino youth in the Lincoln community to strive for high standards and goals in their hopes for future careers and education. Not only do the mentors spend time with their protégé's and the protégés families, but they also spend time learning how to be better mentors.

The award selection committee is composed of student service organization representatives, past winners, the Student Involvement Director and the Volunteer Services student staff. The nominees and recipients of the 2001 McDonald's® Spirit of Service Awards were also honored guests at the annual Volunteer Recognition Luau April 3.

McDonald's® of Lincoln recently agreed to work with UNL's Student Involvement office as a corporate partner to increase the awareness and prestige of the Spirit of Service Award on campus. McDonald's® also helped to sponsor the recognition ceremony.

Preservation Group Lauds Richards Remodeling Efforts

The Preservation Association of Lincoln has given its Commercial/Institutional Rehabilitation Award to UNL for the recenlty completed Richards Hall renovation project. This award was presented for the rehabilitation or adaptive reuse of a commercial or institutional Property. The Architecture firm was Bahr, Vermeer and Haecker; the Contractor was Builders, Inc. and the project was managed and inspected by UNL Facilities Management and Planning's Barry Shull, project manager, and Harold Crisler, construction inspector.

Family Honored for 5 Generations of Alumni

The Nebraska Alumni Association will present the Alumni Family Tree Award to the Kenner/Moore family of Hebron during its salute to alumni achievement May 4.

The Alumni Family Tree Award honors a family that has a tradition of attending the University of Nebraska. The recipient family must include a minimum of three generations of graduates. At least two of the family members must have records of outstanding service to the university, the alumni association, their community or their profession.

At least nine members from five generations of the William Clinton Kenner family have attended the University of Nebraska since he graduated from the NU Medical College in 1894. Kenner practiced medicine for more than 40 years and raised a family in Utica.

His son, James R. Kenner, served in the U.S. Navy during World War I and later earned a bachelor's degree in economics from NU in 1918. He moved to Hebron in 1928 and became president of the Thayer County Bank. An active volunteer, he was president of the Nebraska Bankers Association, the Nebraska Conservation Foundation and chairman of the Association of 4-H Development.

Like his father, James R. Kenner Jr. served in the Navy - this time in World War II. He earned a degree in business administration in 1948 before being recalled by the Navy to serve in the Korean War. He returned to Hebron after the war and became a city councilman and two-term mayor. He became president of the Thayer County Bank in 1979 and served until his retirement in 1993.

James Jr. married Janice Ryman, granddaughter of Jay Curran Moore, who graduated from NU's Law College in 1897. Their son, Patrick W. Kenner, graduated from NU in 1980 with a bachelor's degree in business administration. This fourth-generation Kenner descendant is president of the Thayer County Bank and a past president of the Hebron Chamber of Commerce.

Patrick's daughter, Rhiannon M. Kenner, will be the fifth generation to graduate from NU in May. She plans to pursue a master's degree in speech pathology at Nebraska.

Alumni Association Honors Young Grads

The Nebraska Alumni Association will recognize four outstanding young alumni during its annual awards banquet May 4. The event will be a universitywide celebration to salute alumni achievement.

Young Alumnus Awards are presented every year to NU alumni who have provided exceptional service to the university through volunteer efforts or have distinguished themselves in their career or community.

This year's winners are Doug Carr of Lincoln; Laura Schabloske-Ilg of Omaha; Robert Stuckey of Vienna, Va.; and William Wardrope of Austin, Texas.

Carr is vice president of Snitily Carr Production Group, a Lincoln-based multimedia marketing services company. After earning a broadcasting degree from UNL in 1990, Carr started the firm with fellow UNL alumnus Dave Snitily in 1992. Since its inception as a video and animated graphics company with three employees, Snitily Carr has expanded to 32 employees with hundreds of local, regional and national clients. The firm was one of the first in the Midwest to create big-screen animations for professional and college sports teams.

Schabloske-Ilg is vice president of corporate sales for GiftCertificates.com, an e-commerce company based in Omaha. She graduated from UNL in 1988 with bachelor's degrees in English and communications. She worked in a variety of posts before moving into the healthcare field and joined GiftCertificates.com in 1999. There, she helped add more than 40 sales and technology positions and increased business-to-business sales from $4 million in 1999 to $38 million in 2000.

Stuckey is a real-estate investment executive in Washington, D.C., with the Carlyle Group, a global private equity firm that specializes in buy-outs and venture capital investments. As head of the real estate division, the Lexington native directs investing activities and manages a portfolio valued at more than $4 billion. During his career in real-estate investments, Stuckey has overseen more than 300 transactions totaling $6 billion.

Wardrope is on the management faculty at Southwest Texas State University in San Marcos, where he teaches courses in business communication and graduate research methods. He earned a doctorate in communication studies from UNL in 1995. Before joining the Southwest Texas State faculty last year, Wardrope taught at Central Oklahoma, Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, Texas, and Baruch College at the City University of New York. His research examines business communication and cultural practices in Latin America. He is working to establish an exchange program with the University of Puerto Rico and an MBA program in Latin American Business Studies at Southwest Texas State.

Brooke Coordinating State's Writing Awards Project

The National Council of Teachers of English announces Robert Brooke, UNL professor of English and director of the Nebraska Writing Project, as state coordinator for the 2001 NCTE Achievement Awards in Writing. Through this nationally recognized competition, now in its 44th year, approximately 700 high school seniors are cited for excellence in writing and are recommended to colleges and universities for admission and for financial aid, if needed. More than 2,000 students were nominated for NCTE Achievement Awards in 2001. Results of the contest are announced in October.

Students are nominated for Achievement Awards in Writing by their high school English departments and are chosen for recognition by state judging committees. The regional judging committees are composed of both high school and college teachers who work under the direction of state coordinators.

The National Council of Teachers of English is composed of more than 77,000 individual teachers and institutional members at all levels of instruction, from elementary school through graduate college. Its goal is more effective teaching of English language arts and literature in the nation's schools and colleges. NCTE publishes journals, books, and recordings to aid teachers in the classroom and in their professional development.

UNL Students Pen Top Research Papers

Students were honored for outstanding scientific papers during the joint Midwest section annual meeting of the American Society of Animal Science and the American Dairy Science Association on March 19-21 in Des Moines, Iowa. Awards were given for three divisions: undergraduate, masters and doctoral levels.

UNL's Kristin Nollette had the winning paper in the undergraduate division, sponsored by Land O' Lakes. Her topic was, "Conjugated Linoleic Acid and Body Fat Reduction in Mice."

Tara McDaneld won the Master of Science division, sponsored by DeKalb Feeds, Inc. Her paper was titled, "Effect of Uncoupling Protein - Knockout in Mice Divergently Selected for Heat Loss." She recently completed her master's degree at UNL and is pursuing a Ph.D. at Purdue University.

The joint Midwest section annual meeting of the American Society of Animal Science and the American Dairy Science Association is the largest of the sectional meetings held by the associations. Some 356 scientific abstracts summarizing research on dairy, beef, swine and sheep were presented during the meeting.