Two UNL employees were recognized with
University Kudos Awards at the Nov. 22 meeting of the NU Board of
Regents.
Delton Dovel is a research technologist I in the department of agronomy.A university employee since 1967, he is responsible for conducting and supervising the overall wheat research program and the field research program, including planting, harvesting, data collecting and analyses. Dovel is highly regarded for his wealth of experience in agriculture, making virtually all the day-to-day decisions in the field program. "He determines when the grain is hard enough to thresh and we literally do not start harvest until Del says it is acceptable to start," wrote his nominator. Dovel's work and experience working with others has been called: respectful, caring, reliable, dependable, consistently accurate and cooperative. And, his nominator adds, he always does everything with a cheerful smile on his face.
Charles Daniel, a systems administrator
in the computer science and engineering department, has been with the
university
since 1988. Daniel is responsible for maintenance and upgrade of all the
computing facilities for the CSE department. Although he works with with
500 undergraduate and graduate students and the faculty and staff on a
daily
basis, Daniel is "very patient and deals with their problems with
speed",
according to his nominator. In addition to supporting the needs of the
CSE
department, Daniel is educating and training others in system
administration
and is designing a course in systems ddministration to be offered for
credit
at UNL. Because of Daniel's extensive background, his nominator writes,
"It is my belief that Mr. Daniel is the most knowledgeable systems
guru in the state of Nebraska".
E.J. Marmo, professor emeritus who retired in 1973 from the College of Engineering and Architecture, died Dec. 19 at the age of 90.
A native of Old Forge, Pa., Marmo earned bachelor's (1928) and master's (1934) degrees in architectural engineering at Penn State.
He came to Nebraska as an instructor in the department of applied mechanics and architectural engineering. When the department was divided into architecture and engineering mechanics in 1931, he stayed with the engineering side, which became one of the first engineering mechanics departments in the nation.
Marmo was appointed chair of the department in 1951 and presided over development of the first doctoral program in what was then the College of Engineering and Architecture.
He was active in many local and national professional, scientific and engineering organizations.
Kenneth Moler, professor of English emeritus, died in December at his home in Morehead, N.C. He was 59.
A Jane Austen scholar, Moler wrote extensively about the life and work of the 17th- and 18th-century English author. He also specialized in 18th- and 19th-century fiction and 18th-century poetry.
"We all knew Ken as a man of meticulous scholarship with an abiding interest in Jane Austen," said Linda Pratt, professor and chair of English. "But we also remember him as a thoughtful colleague and for all of the beautiful things that he grew in his flower garden that he shared with us."
Moler earned his bachelor's degree (1958) at Johns Hopkins University, then earned his master's (1960) and doctoral (1964) degrees at Harvard. He joined the Nebraska faculty as an assistant professor in 1964, and was promoted to associate professor in 1967 and professor in 1968. He retired in 1993 after 30 years at the university.
Fred T. Wilhelms, one of the pioneers in distance education in Nebraska and the nation, died in Lincoln Dec. 2 at the age of 90.
Wilhelms directed the production of courses in supervised correspondence study with the University of Nebraska extension division from 1935-41. From 1950-58, he chaired the division of education and psychology at San Francisco State College, where he directed a five-year program in teacher education, then was principal investigator for the Teacher Education Project (a program emphasizing mental health in teacher education) at San Francisco State from 1958-63.
From 1963-68, he was associate secretary of the National Association of Secondary School Principals, working with principals from across the nation on curriculum development. From 1968 until his retirement in 1972, he led the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development as its executive director. He wrote, edited and spoke on wide-ranging issues in education throughout his 40-year career, then consulted with Westside Community Schools in Omaha and collaborated with UNL Teachers College faculty after his retirement. He was an ardent member of the Lincoln Rose Society.
Wilhelms earned his bachelor's (1927), master's (1933) and doctoral (1941) degrees at Nebraska.
He is survived by daughter Marilyn Wilhelms of Lincoln; sister Therese
Hulse of Hebron; nieces, nephews, grandnieces, grandnephews, students and
friends. He was preceded in death by his wife, Beatrice, four sisters and
a brother.
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