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ROGER READ NAMED FOUNDATION PRESIDENT
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| Roger T. Read |
Akron resident and UA alumnus Roger T. Read has been elected president of The University of Akron Founda-
tion Board of Directors. Read was vice president of the foundation under Hoyt M. Wells, who died on March 24.
Succeeding Read as vice president is Philip Lloyd, a partner with the Akron law firm of Brouse McDowell.
Read, long active at his alma mater, earned a B.S. in industrial management and an MBA here. He is a member of the College of Business Administration Advancement Council and the H. Kenneth Barker Center for Economic Education Advisory Committee. A retired Harwick Chemical Corporation executive, Read is a past recipient of the University’s Dr. Frank L. Simonetti Distinguished Business Alumni Award and an Alumni Honor Award. He also is a former member of UA’s Alumni National Board of Directors.
In 2002, Read received the Bert A. Polsky Humanitarian Award. In addition to serving as a director of FirstMerit Bank, he serves on the boards of B.W. Rogers Company and Smithers Group Corporation. He is a trustee for the Mary S. and David C. Corbin Foundation, Akron Automobile Club and Leadership Akron, and is chairman of the board for the Center for Nonprofit Excellence.
Read and his wife, Judy, a 1963 UA graduate, are members of The University of Akron Founder’s Club and Society for Tomorrow of the John R. Buchtel Society.
The foundation’s new vice president, Philip Lloyd, is a native of Youngstown. He earned a bachelor’s degree at Ohio Wesleyan University in 1969 and a Juris Doctor at UA’s School of Law in 1972. Lloyd joined Brouse McDowell that same year, becoming a partner in 1977. He is a past president of the School of Law Alumni Association.
Lloyd is a member of the Akron Art Museum's Board of Trustees, serving as president from 2000-02. The museum recently named him a co-chair of its Create a Masterpiece Capital Campaign. He serves on the boards of directors of FirstMerit Corp. and FirstMerit Bank. Lloyd is a past chairman and a current board member of Akron General Health Systems and Akron General Medical Center, a board member of the Legal Defenders Commission and president of the Akron Bar Scholarship Foundation.
He is married to the former Margaret (Peggy) McDowell.
The University of Akron Foundation was formed in 1966, exclusively for educational and charitable purposes to benefit the University. The Foundation and the University have realized significant gains in private support in recent years, most notably by increasing the University’s endowment to more than $200 million in 2000.
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INTERIM DEAN OF STUDENT LIFE APPOINTED
On July 30, Denine M. Rocco began a one-year appointment as interim associate vice president and dean of student life.
Rocco, who earned a M.Ed. in Higher Education Administration at The University of Pittsburgh, served as director of residence life there from 1998 to 2003. She also has experience in the areas of learning communities, judicial affairs, new student orientation, career services, enrollment management, academic advising and registration.
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PARKING SERVICES HAS NEW HOME
The Office of Parking Services has relocated to the new North Campus Parking Deck (Lot 26), and is no longer located in the Interim Student Administrative Services building on Mill Street. For more information, call ext. 8062.
However, the deck is not yet open for vehicle parking. Visitors to the Office of Parking Services must find an alternate place to park and enter the office from Buchtel Avenue.
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SYMPOSIUM HONORS JOSEPH KENNEDY
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| Joseph Kennedy |
A July 7 sympo-sium at the University on the topic of “macro-molecular engineering” was especially fitting. The event was held in honor of the 75th birthday of Joseph P. Kennedy, who coined the term.
The symposium — “Visions in Macromolecular Engineering: The Akron Legacy,” was hosted by UA’s Maurice Morton Institute of Polymer Science to honor Kennedy, a distinguished professor of polymer science and chemistry at UA.
Kennedy, who joined UA in 1970, is best known for his contributions to cationic olefin polymerization, which includes the living cationic polymerization of isobutylene and the controlled synthesis of cationically derived block copolymers.
The holder of 83 U.S. patents, Kennedy has written more than 650 professional publications and three books. He has been honored with numerous professional honors, including the Morley Award, Doebereiner Medaille, American Chemical Society (ACS) Award in Polymer Chemistry, ACS Award in Applied Polymer Chemistry, George S. Whitby Award, National Science Foundation Special Creativity Award and the Award for Distinguished Service in Polymer Science by the Society of Polymer Science in Japan. He has served as the editor of scientific journals and organized several international meetings.
Kennedy holds a doctorate from the University of Vienna in Austria, a MBA degree from Rutgers University and an honorary doctorate from Kossuth Lajos University in Hungary. In 1993, Kennedy was elected as a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
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LAW SCHOOL FACULTY MEMBER MOURNED
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| William Becker |
William Becker, professor emeritus of law and director of the School of Law’s Joseph G. Miller Institute for Professional Responsibility, died July 14.
A native of Erie, Pa., Becker received a B.A. at Harvard University in 1951, cum laude. He then served for three years in the U.S. Navy. In 1956, he earned a Juris Doctor with distinction at the University of Michigan Law School.
Becker, who joined The BFGoodrich Company in 1959 as assistant general counsel, retired in 1985 as a vice president for The BFGoodrich Chemical Group. That same year, he joined the School of Law faculty, where he generously volunteered his time to serve as the director of the state’s preeminent Joseph G. Miller Institute of Professional Responsibility.
“Bill loved the law school and he loved the students,” said Richard Aynes, dean of the School of Law. “He had his own education interrupted by the Korean War and had a special concern for evening students and others who followed a different path to law school.
"After he retired, Bill stopped coming to faculty meetings, but he still came to his office in the law school every day,” Aynes continued. “I used to tease him and say that he had forgotten that retirees didn’t have to come to work. Bill's life work left the world a better place than it would have been without him. He set a high standard and a bright example for us all.”
A recipient of the 1999 Ohio State Bar Foundation Honorary Life Fellowship Award, Becker also received the 2000 Thomas More Award and was the 1983 United Way Person of the Year.
He is survived by his wife, Judy, one son and three grandchildren.
The William C. Becker Memorial Fund has been established to further the professor’s work in the area of legal ethics and professional responsibility.
Individuals who wish to contribute to the fund should make their checks payable to The University of Akron Foundation — Becker Memorial Fund, and send them to the School of Law at +2603, attention: Alumni/Development Office.
For more information, contact Maureen Katanic at ext. 5260 or mgk@uakron.edu .
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WOMEN IN ENGINEERING PROGRAM HAS NEW DIRECTOR
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| Halle Jones Capers |
As a youngster, Halle Jones Capers demon-strated the classic characteristics of a future engineer — she liked science and math and loved to take things apart and put them back together. Her father saw the signs and guided her to engineering. Today, Capers is the new director of The University of Akron’s Women in Engineering Program (WIEP), succeeding Donna Hrko who is relocating to West Virginia.
Capers is not new to the University or to WIEP. She graduated magna cum laude with a B.S. in civil engineering in 1990. Since then she’s remained active in the College of Engineering — Capers is vice chair of its alumni board and has been a WIEP mentor for students since the program’s inception in 1993.
The return to her alma mater is a natural career progression, observes Capers, who most recently served as highway department manager for DLZ Ohio, Inc., in Cleveland.
“I’ve stayed close to the University and the College of Engineering since graduating,” says Capers. “I’m familiar with many of the programs and the students and am excited about playing a more active role. I want to continue the wonderful Women in Engineering Program and encourage girls to go into engineering and attend The University of Akron.”
WIEP was established to recruit and retain women in engineering disciplines by providing the tools and resources students need to successfully complete their degrees. Since then, WIEP has grown to include outreach programs, student and professional mentoring programs, orientation programs, and such community-based activities as an engineering day camps for girls every summer.
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LOOKING AHEAD TO NEW GRIDIRON SEASON
The Zips’ 2003 season opens Aug. 28 at 7:30 p.m. when the team squares off against the Kent State Golden Flashes.
Tickets are now on sale at the Zips Athletics Ticket Office in James A. Rhodes Arena. UA faculty and staff are eligible for a specially priced reserved season ticket — $45 for six home games.
For more information, call ext. 6920 or visit www.GoZips.com .
At that season opener, the Alumni Association host a Kick-off Tent Party, beginning at 5:30 p.m. at the Rubber Bowl, rain or shine. The cost of $15 per person provides reserved game seating and an all-you-can-eat menu of all-beef hot dogs, sirloin burgers, baked beans, chips, cookies and Pepsi products.
R.S.V.P. by Aug. 15 to the Alumni Association at ext. 7270 or by e-mail at alumni@uakron.edu .
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ZIP CARD PROGRAM EXPANDING
Local businesses can gain immediate access to nearly 27,000 new customers by joining the debit card program UA has established for its students, faculty and staff.
The 10-year-old Zip Card program offers the ability to purchase goods and services at locations on and off campus. Participants must maintain a positive balance in their Zip Card accounts to purchase items from vending machines, food service and bookstore operations or merchants, and to pay for a variety of services and activities on campus.
Dean Goumas, director of auxiliary business operations for the University, says expanding the debit card program to off-campus locations extends the program’s convenience for students while offering growth to merchants and businesses.
“We launched this new off-campus activity for our debit card program in February as a part of the natural expansion of services for our students based on electronic commercial transactions,” says Goumas.
Participating businesses invest about $200 to install a swipe card terminal and also pay transaction fees to the University.
Currently, the Zip Card is accepted at the following off-campus locations in Akron: Country Diner, 520 E. Market St., a 24-hour restaurant; Obee’s, 23 S. Main St., featuring soup, salad and sub sandwiches; Spaghetti Warehouse, 510 S. Main St., serving Italian fare; and The College Store, 282 E. Exchange St., which carries textbooks and supplies. The Zip Card also is accepted at Pinnacle Sports, 313 Medina Road, Medina, which is a multiple-sport facility.
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DISPLAY UA PRIDE WITH LICENSE PLATES
The Alumni Association is participating in the Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles Collegiate License Plate Program to offer faculty, staff, alumni and friends of the University the opportunity to buy special license plates featuring the name and seal of The University of Akron.
Those purchasing the UA plates will pay $35, in addition to their annual vehicle registration fee. Of that $35, the University receives $25. Funds raised through the license plate program support scholarships for students. To learn about the 2003-2004 scholarship awardees, click here.
These special ZIP license plates with three numbers and the letters “ZIP” are limited. For more information, or to order, click here.
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ALUMNI ASSOCIATION DEBUTS NEW WEB SITE
Former students at The University of Akron now can post class notes and follow University happenings by visiting the Alumni Association’s new Web site at www.uakron.edu/alumni .
While familiar items, such as “Alumni News” and the “Calendar of Events,” can still be found, new features have been added. Visitors to the site can now view the latest issue of Akron Magazine, as well as archived issues; search for products or services offered by University of Akron alumni; post class notes; discover volunteer opportunities; become a legislative advocate; and register for events online.
“Through this new Web site, University of Akron alumni can stay in touch with their classmates and learn all about the exciting changes in their lives — new jobs, weddings and birth announcements,” says Patrick Roberts, executive director of the association. “We encourage all UA alumni to register at the site.”
The new site was designed by Internet Association Corp., based in Akron. The legislative portion is maintained by Capitol Advantage of Fairfax, Va.
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