Marie
Bednar, cataloging coordinator, has retired from
the University Libraries after 25 years of service.
Marie
Bednar, cataloging coordinator, has retired from
the University Libraries after 25 years of service.
Bednar joined the Libraries in 1974 as a Slavic acquisitions assistant.
Bednar holds undergraduate and master's degrees from Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, and a master's degree from Penn State. Her research interests include automation and management of cataloging, contemporary Czech literature and translation from Czech to English. While at Penn State, she was active in the American Library Association, American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies and Czechoslovak Society of Arts and Sciences. In 1994, Bednar won an American Library Association Fellowship to launch a cataloging automation project at the Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic.
In her retirement, Bednar plans to continue her involvement with libraries in the Czech Republic, as well as travel, write and translate. She and her husband will be dividing their time between Bellefonte and Prague.
Melvin Westerman has retired from the University Libraries after 30 years of service. He joined the Libraries in 1969 as a reference librarian, and later became a business librarian.
Westerman's career at Penn State included several visits abroad to study or teach. He won a Fulbright Scholarship to England in 1990, and was an exchange librarian at a graduate business school in Lima, Peru, in 1973. In 1998, he was the UMI distinguished speaker at the European Business School Librarians Group's annual meeting, held at the University of Warick in England. He was a founding member of the Academic Business Libraries Directors Group, the American equivalent of the European group.
Westerman also was active in the Special Libraries Association (SLA). He headed a team of librarians who won SLA's Meckler Award for Technology in 1993.
Westerman's retirement activities include running Information Bridges International Service, an exchange program for librarians who want to visit other countries. He is also teaching graduate library science courses at Clarion University.
Bruce Bonta, history/area studies librarian in the University Libraries, will retire Feb. 28, after more than 28 years of service at Penn State.
Bonta joined the Libraries in 1971 as assistant head of the Reference Department and became head of the General Reference Section in 1977. He held this position until 1989, when he became the history/area studies librarian. Before coming to Penn State, he was a readers' services librarian at Colby College in Maine and a reference assistant at the Library of Congress.
Bonta has been active in the American Library Association (ALA) and the International Federation of Library Associations. He has published articles on a variety of library topics, including the automation of the reference room and CD-ROMs. He co-edited The Role of the American Academic Library in International Programs, published in 1992.
Over the past 10 years, Bonta has been researching peaceful societies. While on sabbatical in 1992-93, he compiled Peaceful Peoples: An Annotated Bibliography, which was published in 1993. When Bonta retires, he plans to continue his research in this area and finish a book that defines the nature of a nonviolent, peaceful society.
Bonta' s other retirement plans include maintaining his 648-acre property in Snyder Township, near Tyrone, and continuing his volunteer work for the Pennsylvania Forest Stewardship Program.
Roger
Zellner, associate professor emeritus of visual
arts, has retired from Penn State Altoona.
For 28 years, Zellner taught a variety of classes in drawing, design and ceramics. He received his undergraduate degree in art education from the State University College at New Paltz, N.Y., where he graduated with honors.
Zellner received the National Education Art Fellowship to complete master's and doctoral degrees in art education at Penn State. For many years, he has exhibited his ceramics throughout the United States. In the past four years, his work has been shown at the Adam and Art Gallery in Bellefonte, and at the Blair County Arts Foundation Office Gallery in Altoona. In 1996, he organized an exhibition of masks for Penn State Altoona.
In 1994, he received the George W. Atherton Award for Excellence in Teaching from Penn State. Zellner served on numerous committees, including Faculty Advisory Council, tenure review committee and the College of Arts and Architecture screening committee for faculty teaching awards.
Zellner plans to continue his involvement with the arts in State College.
Elizabeth
Pierce, better known to Penn State Hospitality
Services staff as "Betsy," retired Sept. 30 after 27 years of service.
She began her career with Penn State in the accounting department of The Nittany Lion Inn.
Pierce has been recognized for her outstanding performance, particularly in support of the financial aspects of the unit, working with accounts payable and payroll. She also played an influential role in the unit in 1997 when The Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel became a part of Hospitality Services.
Edward C. Bissell, systems programmer in Computer and Information Systems -- Administrative Systems, from Oct. 1, 1971, to Oct. 1, 1999.
Shirley L. Brown, residence hall utility worker in Housing and Food Services, from March 7, 1982, to Nov. 9, 1999.
Harold M. Brumbaugh, electrician in the Office of Physical Plant, from Sept. 25, 1978, to Sept. 25, 1999.
Carol A. Daniels, nutrition adviser in the College of Agricultural Sciences, from Jan. 20, 1975, to Oct. 1, 1999.
Jerome L. Duck, supervisor of the tennis complex in Intercollegiate Athletics, from Nov. 1, 1964, to June 30, 1999.
Harry L. Gunter, waste and water treatment plant operator in the Office of Physical Plant, from Sept. 15, 1955, to July 17, 1999.
William L. Henson, assistant professor of agricultural economics in the College of Agricultural Sciences, from Sept. 1, 1984, to Oct. 1, 1999.
Margaret B. Hindley, library assistant III at Penn State Abington, from Oct. 30, 1978, to Oct. 30, 1999.
J. Denise Hosterman, group leader, photo-typesetting in Business Services, from Feb. 26, 1973, to Oct. 1, 1999.
Raymond L. Lewis, senior scientist in the Eberly College of Science, from Dec. 1, 1982, to Dec. 1, 1999.
William Meister, assistant professor of engineering at Penn State Berks, from Sept. 16, 1967, to June 30, 1999.
Alletta M. Schadler, extension agent in the College of Agricultural Sciences, from Dec. 1, 1969, to Dec. 1, 1999.
Cheryl L. Sharpe, staff assistant in the College of Engineering, from Nov. 4, 1974, to July 31, 1999.
Helen S. Yashinsky, senior accountant in the College of Medicine, The Hershey Medical Center, from March 30, 1981, to Dec. 1, 1999.
Francis Zucco, construction quality representative in the Office of Physical Plant, from July 15, 1974, to July 31, 1999.
The following individuals have earned emeritus rank from the University for their longstanding and productive years of service:
Ernest F. Hauessler, associate professor emeritus of mathematics at Penn State Hazleton, from Sept. 1, 1967, to June 30, 1999.
Thomas A. Ryan, associate professor emeritus of statistics in the Eberly College of Science, from July 1, 1969, to June 30, 1999.
Richard W. St. Pierre, professor emeritus of nutrition and health education in the College of Health and Human Development, from Aug. 1, 1974, to Aug. 1, 1999.
William D. Taylor, director emeritus of intercollege research programs and professor emeritus of biochemistry and biophysics in the Eberly College of Science, from May 1, 1963, to June 30, 1999.
Peter D. Usher, professor emeritus of astronomy and astrophysics in the Eberly College of Science, from Dec. 1, 1968, to Aug. 1, 1999.