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November 5, 1998 Resolutions for Retiring Faculty, 1997-98 Professor Richard H. Dittman has had a distinguished career in his 32 years at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He joined the Department of Physics in 1966 after a post-doctoral appointment at Fritz Haber Institute in Berlin. Students remembered him best for his extraordinary teaching abilities, even in large lecture settings. He is one of only four UWM Professors to have twice won the UWM Foundation Undergraduate Teaching Award. Professor Dittman had equally warm interests in the continuing education of adult students, especially teachers. He won grants to teach science to licensed middle school and elementary school teachers. He also played a key role in teaching astronomy and physics to pre-service teachers. The mutual respect fostered in these classroom settings gave rise to hundreds of invitations for him to visit K-12 classrooms and give science presentations. Professor Dittman earned for UWM a reputation as a teacher-friendly institution. In 1997, he was given a Career Service Award as a "Teacher of Teachers" by the Wisconsin Society of Science Teachers. Professor Dittman was one of the first UWM faculty members to supervise undergraduate research participation sponsored by National Science Foundation grants. He is best known, nationally, for two books he has co-authored. One of them, a classic thermodynamics textbook, has been translated into four other languages. Professor Dittman has written invited articles for American Journal of Physics and Encyclopedia of Physics. Professor Dittman has contributed heavily to the University's service mission. In addition to many, many school visits, he has given several presentations in the famous Science Bag program at UWM. He also has toured several states giving lecture-demonstrations with a group known as "Wizards of Wisconsin." He has served as department Chair, as an Associate Dean in the College of Letters and Science, and on numerous university committees and task forces. The Department of Physics and the College of Letters and Science congratulate Professor Richard H. Dittman on his many accomplishments since 1966 and wish him a happy and prosperous retirement. WHEREAS, Professor Sidney Greenfield has been a valued member of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee since 1963 when he joined the faculty with a joint appointment in Anthropology and Sociology, and WHEREAS, over the past 34 years he has made significant contributions to the Anthropology department, the University and the profession with his research, teaching and service, and WHEREAS, his productivity as a scholar has earned him an international reputation for his significant research in the Caribbean; his study of Brazilian society, including its complex political history and African-derived religions; and his contributions to the growing field of medical anthropology and the study of altered states of consciousness, and WHEREAS, he has worked throughout his career to instill in his students an appreciation of other cultures and has sought to maintain the highest standards for anthropological scholarship, and WHEREAS, his leadership of the Department of Anthropology as Chair and his service on numerous University committees benefited his colleagues, and WHEREAS, Professor Greenfield is retiring to New York City to continue his interaction with colleagues, pursue fieldwork in Brazil, and be near his beloved children and grandchildren, BE IT RESOLVED, that his colleagues express their deep appreciation and gratitude for his many contributions and his insight over the years and wish him and his wife, Ellie, a creative and productive retirement. WHEREAS, Professor Roger H. Sundell has been a member of the Department of English at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee for 30 years, AND WHEREAS, his outstanding performance in the classroom has been recognized by the prestigious Amoco Award for Teaching Excellence and by two generations of UWM students, AND WHEREAS, his scholarship on the works of John Milton has been shared with his Renaissance colleagues as well as with his students, AND WHEREAS, he has served the Department of English as a gifted and versatile administrator, and for three decades has been a warm and wise colleague, BE IT THEREFORE RESOLVED, that his departmental colleagues and the faculty of the College of Letters and Science wish Professor Emeritus Sundell a long and happy retirement. WHEREAS, Associate Professor Robert Christopher Ross has enhanced the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee with 31 years of his superb scholarship and professional achievements, and WHEREAS, he has undeviatingly and thoroughly upheld the true mastery of classical Greek and Latin and intensified its reception at this university to such an extent that a characteristic evaluation of his teaching by dedicated students has been "Quid plura?," and WHEREAS, his research has carried him into significant areas of Mediaeval Latin and has resulted in important publication thereto, and WHEREAS, his participation in archaeological expeditions to the Near East and in educational programs in major institutions of the U.S.A. and England has brought substantial credit to this university, and WHEREAS, his unexampled bibliographical competence has produced an outstanding library collection in Classical Philology, sustaining for a generation the research in Classics by UWM students and faculty members, BE IT RESOLVED that we, his admiring and deeply appreciative colleagues in Foreign Languages and Linguistics, combine our congratulations of his successful career with our heartfelt good wishes for the productive and gratifying retirement that he has patently merited. |
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