Helen Moore, professor of sociology, has been selected as this year's winner of the Outstanding Contribution to the Status of Women Award, conferred by the chancellor. She will be presented the award at a reception from 3:30 to 5 p.m. April 23 in the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery. The presentation will take place at 4 p.m.
Verdon H. "Pete" Petersen, retired district extension director, died March 16 in Lincoln at the age of 91.
Petersen earned his bachelor's degree in animal science at the University of Nebraska (1931). He was a member of the agriculture honorary fraternity, Gamma Sigma Delta and Epsilon Sigma Phi and was a host on the Backyard Farmer radio program.
Petersen was county extension agent in Franklin County (1931-32), Boone County (1932-40) and Lancaster County (1944-54) before becoming district director. He also served as president of the Nebraska County Extension Agents association. He retired Oct. 31, 1975.
He is survived by his wife, Ruth, son, Dan, and daughter, Patricia Bryant, all of Lincoln, plus grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
Tony Sharpe, Nebraska's baseball coach for 31 years before his retirement after the 1977 season, died March 26 in Lincoln of complications from pneumonia. He was 80.
Sharpe had the longest tenure of any head coach in Nebraska history and compiled a record of 394-388-3. His last team went 29-13 and set a then-school record for wins.
He also had a hand in the school's last conference titles in either baseball or basketball. His baseball teams won Big Seven titles in 1948 and 1950 and he was an assistant men's basketball coach under Harry Good and Jerry Bush from 1947-63, helping the Cornhuskers share Big Seven titles in 1949 and 1950.
Sharpe's best-known players were Bob Cerv, a first-team All-America outfielder in 1950 who had a 12-year major league career and played in four World Series, and pitcher Stan Bahnsen who was the American League Rookie of the Year for the New York Yankees in 1968. He coached two other first-team All-Americans, Don Brown in 1955 and Gene Stohs in 1972. Frank Solich, now NU's head football coach, was one of hundreds who played for Sharpe.
A native of Rushville, Ind., Sharpe graduated from Indianapolis University (then Indiana Central College), played two years in the Cincinnati Reds organization and served three years in the U.S. Navy before coming to Nebraska in 1947. He is a member of the Indianapolis University Hall of Fame, the Nebraska State Semipro Baseball Hall of Fame and the Nebraska Basketball Hall of Fame.
He is survived by his wife, Ruth, sons Tony Jr. and Sam, daughters Connie and Becky and six grandchildren.
Dorothy T. Kozak, professor emeritus in the School of Music, died April 4 in Seattle at the age of 80.
A nationally and internationally known music educator, Kozak was the founder of the Nebraska Elementary Music Educators Association and a member of several local, national and international music education associations. She was a music consultant to the Nebraska Department of Education and as a volunteer music therapist, was a teacher in the Headstart and Follow-Through programs, and was named 1970 Teacher of the Year by the Nebraska Supplementary Training Program. Kozak also served on the Nebraska Arts Council, the Lincoln Community Playhouse board and Theatre Arts for the Young.
After retiring from the university in 1985, she was a partnership facilitator for the Blandin Foundation, a board member of the Itasca Orchestral Society and Myles Reif Performing Arts Center, and presenter for the elder hostel program, all in Grand Rapids, Mich.
Her survivors include seven children and 13 grandchildren.
-Tom Simons, Public Relations
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