Browning Receives Donkin Award

3-28-96
UNIVERSITY PARK -- Dr. Barton W. Browning, associate professor of German at Penn State, is the winner of the McKay Donkin Award. The award was established in 1969 in honor of the late McKay Donkin who served as Vice President for Finance and was Treasurer of the University from 1957 to 1968. It is presented to the full-time member of the faculty or staff or the retiree who has contributed most to the "economic, physical, mental, or social welfare of the faculty" of the University.

The award will be presented during the annual Faculty/Staff Awards ceremony on Sunday, March 31 at 2 p.m. at the Nittany Lion Inn.

Browning is the immediate past chair of the University Faculty Senate. Prior to that appointment he was Vice Chair of the Senate Committee on Academic and Athletic Standards; the Liberal Arts representative to the Senate Council; Chair of the Academic and Physical Planning Committee; and, served as an elected member of the Faculty Rights and Responsibilities Committee.

He has also served as the faculty Fulbright advisor and is credited with initiating measures that led to Penn State's rise to the top national levels of Fulbright awards.

In 1986-88 he served as a faculty representative on the President's Planing and Budget Advisory Committee and was appointed to the Univerity Future Committee for 1992-93. As a member of the University Future Committee, he was intensively involved in the review of University-wide financing issues that had a direct influence on the faculty. He also serves as advisor to the Penn State Squash Club, whose membership includes numerous faculty members.

Four years ago, Browning chaired the successful drive to initiate and implement the Penn State Faculty/Staff Club. A nominator said that club has helped define the sense of the institution, adding, "the Club has become the vehicle to share the collegial exchange of ideas and has become representative of the fact that all faculty and staff of any background can join together in camaraderie. It was Browning's express intent to make the Club as inclusive as possible, and he thus contributed significantly to the ideals of the University."

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