Paul Niell, assistant professor of art education and art history, received a $2,500 grant from the Kress Foundation to help support a symposium on art in Latin American in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The symposium will be in September 2010.

 

The Center for Spanish Language Media, with support by Arbitron media rating company, has published a research report, History of Spanish Language Radio, that chronicles Spanish language radio's rise in the United States. The center is directed by Alan Albarran, and is in the Department of Rado, Television and Film. Find a copy of the report.

Six political science students — Rehan Ali, a senior from Carrollton; April Brown, a junior from Carrollton who was named the tournament’s Top Mediator; Erin Clegg, a senior from Denton; Ceci Hutchings, a sophomore from Austin; Austin Ross, a sophomore from Stafford and Drew Robertson, a sophomore from Crowley — received the first-place team trophy in the Mediation Division of the National Intercollegiate Mediation Tournament. The tournament, held  at John Marshall School of Law in Chicago, attracted 30 teams.

Cambalache Teatro en Espanol, a Dallas performing arts group, premiered La Familia, monologues for adults, Nov. 6-8. The work is based on stories by Teresa Marerro, associate professor of Spanish. Adapted from a series of eight stories, the life-affirming, dynamically dramatized monologues first appeared in Marrero’s book Entre la Argentina y Cuba: cuentos nómadas de viajes y tangos (Between Argentina and Cuba: Nomad Stories of Travels and Tangos), published by Corregidor in Buenos Aires. The group’s mission is to promote Spanish language in the performing arts throughout Texas. Marrero also is co-editor of a recently published anthology, Out of the Fringe, Contemporary Latina/Latino Plays and Performance.

Richard Deter, chief of police, is serving a two-year term as chair of the University and College Police Section of the International Association of Chiefs of Police. The U&CP section consists of the chief law enforcement officers of nearly 500 university and college police departments. The IACP has over 20,000 members from 89 countries and is the oldest non-profit membership organization of law enforcement chief executives of international, federal, state, and local agencies.

Marcelo Ostria, left, has received a $25,000 Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship for study abroad during the 2010-11 academic year. Three other students and an alumnus were named alternates:
• Juan Facio, a May 2009 graduate from Garland who received a bachelor of fine arts degree in communication design and is now working in the Dallas office of Tribal DDB, an interactive advertising agency.
• T. Lane Ingram, a master’s student in counseling from Keller.
• Ursula Johnson, a doctoral student in education research from Houston.
• Samuel Muwanguzi, a doctoral student in information sciences from Denton.
Ostria, a senior international studies and political science major from Flower Mound, will  study in Santiago, Chile. As president of the UNT chapter of UNICEF, Ostria successfully led the Help Us Save Some Lives Campus Challenge in spring 2009. The challenge was set by UNICEF, the Association of College Unions International and the George Harrison Fund for UNICEF, with a goal of raising $150,000 to provide assistance to children in Darfur, Sudan. Under Ostria’s leadership, UNT students contributed more than $4,000 to the Campus Challenge, raising more funds than students from any other college or university.

Suzanne Sears, head of the Government Documents Department of UNT Libraries, has been elected chair of the Federal Depository Library Program’s Depository Library Council to the Public Printer. Her term begins Oct. 1, 2010. The Federal Depository Library Program, or FDLP, was established by Congress in 1813 to ensure access to U.S. government information. More than 1,200 libraries throughout the United States participate.  The Depository Library Council to the Public Printer was created in 1972 to provide advice on policy matters relating to the FDLP. Sears is the seventh person from a Texas institution to be named to the council, and the second from UNT. Cathy Hartman, UNT Libraries’ assistant dean for digital and information technologies, served on the council from 2000-03. She received her bachelor’s degree from the University of Tulsa and her master of library science degree from the University of Oklahoma.

Eddie Reyes, left, was recognized by the Hispanic Heritage Foundation as one of the most decorated Vietnam Veterans in North Texas. Reyes was awarded three Bronze Stars, Army Commendation Medal with Valor, Air Medal, Vietnam Cross of Gallantry with Palm, Vietnam Wound Medal, Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal with Device. He will participate with the Foundation in the Veterans Day parade in downtown Dallas. The Diversity Business Alliance also has recognized Reyes with the Small Business Diversity Advocate Award for his dedication, guidance and successful accomplishments with HUB certified companies winning diversity business.

Paul Goebel, director of the award-winning Student Money Management Center, is Outstanding Financial Counselor of the Year. Goebel was selected by the Association of Financial Counseling, Planning and Education national professional organization. Goebel will be honored at the association’s annual conference Nov. 20.

 

Casey Barrio Minton, assistant professor and coordinator of the counseling program, in the Department of Counseling and Higher Education, discusses crisis interevention in a profile in the November issue of the American Counseling Association's monthly publication, Counseling Today. This publication reaches the association's nearly 45,000 members in the U.S. and worldwide.

William Booth Warde, Jr.

William Booth Warde Jr. died Oct. 29 in Denton.

Warde, an associate professor of English, was a faculty member at UNT from 1965 until retirement in 2005. He was director of the Student Use of English Program, which later became the University Writing Center, from its inception in 1978 until 2005. He was a member of the Faculty Senate and served on several departmental, college, and university committees.

Warde also held leadership positions with the South-Central Modern Language Association and the Southern Humanities Conference.

He attended public schools in Minnesota and received a bachelor of arts degree from the University of Minnesota and master’s and doctoral degrees from the University of Arkansas.

Warde also was an artist and sculptor who received awards from the Greater Denton Arts Council and the Visual Arts Society of Texas. He was on the board of directors of the MADI Museum of Geometric and MADI Art in Dallas, and was also a member of the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth.

He was born in 1933 in Minneapolis to William B. and Anna Agatha Hodik Warde. He served in the United States Army and was honorably discharged in 1955.

He was preceded in death by his wife, Patricia, who retired from UNT in 1992. She worked with the Center for Continuing Education and Conference Management and was a president of Friends of UNT Libraries. 

Warde is survived by companion Linnie McAdams; daughter Anna P. Warde of Austin; son Samuel W. Warde of Buenos Aires; sister Kathi Kreatz of Plymouth, Minn.; niece DeeAnn Rosen and husband Steward of Minneapolis; nephews Michael Kreatz, David and Mary Kreatz; great nieces Shauna and Vanessa Rosen; and great nephew Leo Kreatz of Minnesota.

(A memorial service for C. Neal Tate, former chair of the Department of Political Science and dean of the Toulouse School of Graduate Studies, will be at 2 p.m. Nov. 20 in the University Union, Diamond Eagle Suite. Memorials may be given in his name to the Department of Political Science, 1155 Union Circle #305340, Denton, TX 76203-5017.)

C. Neal Tate

Neal Tate, 65, died Sept. 13 in Nashville. Tate was formerly dean of the Robert B. Toulouse School of Graduate Studies and Regents Professor of political science. He taught at UNT from 1970 to 2003.

In 1994, Tate was a Fulbright-Hays Senior Research Fellow at Ateneo de Manila University’s College of Law in the Philippines. He also served from 1994 to 1996 as director of the Law and Social Science Program at the National Science Foundation while on leave from UNT.

Tate served as editor of The Law and Politics Book Review, published by The Law and Courts Section of the American Political Science Association, from 1996 to 1999. In 2005 he was editor-in-chief for Governments of the World: A Global Guide to Citizens’ Rights and Responsibilities.

He was a co-author of Deepening Our Understanding of U.S. Foreign Assistance on Democracy Building Final Report, prepared for the United States Agency for International Development in 2008, and co-authored, Is the Law a Mere Parchment Barrier to Human Rights Abuse? published in the April 2009 issue of the Journal of Politics.

He was chairman of Vanderbilt University's political science department, and was awarded the Alexander Heard Distinguished Service Professor Award, given annually to a Vanderbilt faculty member for contributions to the understanding of problems of contemporary society. He also was president of the Southern Political Science Association. Tate earned a bachelor’s degree from Wake Forest University, and master’s and doctoral degrees from Tulane University.

Survivors include his wife, Carol, of Nashville; daughter Erin Tate of Dallas; mother, Pearl Tate of Gastonia, N.C.; brothers Michael Tate of Gastonia, Donald Tate of Mount Pleasant, S.C., Richard Tate of Fulshear, Texas; and several nieces and nephews.

(Photo courtesy of Vanderbilt University)

Candy King

Candy King, 62, died Oct. 7 in Ponder. She worked at UNT from 1990 to 2009 in the Department of Biological Sciences.

She is survived by her husband, Darryl King of Ponder; sons, Jeff and wife Kim King of Argyle, Joel King and Christine Peck of Ponder; grandsons, Nick and Jak King of Argyle; brother, Don and wife Sarah Lou Galvin of Ojai, Calif.; sister-in-law, Carla King of Albuquerque, NM; three nephews, a niece and countless friends.

She was a member of Ponder Baptist Church.

Margie Ann Jimmerson

Margie Ann Jimmerson passed away Sept. 16. She was a building operations coordinator and had worked at UNT since 1983.

She was born in Salem, Oregon, and graduated from Corvallis High School, Corvallis, Ore. She was a long-time employee of Oregon State University.

Jimmerson was preceded in death by parents, John and Vernice Jimmerson; brothers, James, Marvin, Norman and Glenn. Survivors include brothers, Gene, Bob, Larry, Michael, and Patrick; sisters, Judith Van Nice and Mary Tobako; stepmother, Ellen Jimmerson; numerous nieces and nephews and friends.

C. Neal Tate

Neal Tate, 65, died Sept. 13 in Nashville. Tate was formerly dean of the Robert B. Toulouse School of Graduate Studies and Regents Professor of political science. He taught at UNT from 1970 to 2003.

In 1994, Tate was a Fulbright-Hays Senior Research Fellow at Ateneo de Manila University’s College of Law in the Philippines. He also served from 1994 to 1996 as director of the Law and Social Science Program at the National Science Foundation while on leave from UNT.

Tate served as editor of The Law and Politics Book Review, published by The Law and Courts Section of the American Political Science Association, from 1996 to 1999. In 2005 he was editor-in-chief for Governments of the World: A Global Guide to Citizens’ Rights and Responsibilities.

He was a co-author of Deepening Our Understanding of U.S. Foreign Assistance on Democracy Building Final Report, prepared for the United States Agency for International Development in 2008, and co-authored, Is the Law a Mere Parchment Barrier to Human Rights Abuse? published in the April 2009 issue of the Journal of Politics.

He was chairman of Vanderbilt University's political science department, and was awarded the Alexander Heard Distinguished Service Professor Award, given annually to a Vanderbilt faculty member for contributions to the understanding of problems of contemporary society. He also was president of the Southern Political Science Association. Tate earned a bachelor’s degree from Wake Forest University, and master’s and doctoral degrees from Tulane University.

Survivors include his wife, Carol, of Nashville; daughter Erin Tate of Dallas; mother, Pearl Tate of Gastonia, N.C.; brothers Michael Tate of Gastonia, Donald Tate of Mount Pleasant, S.C., Richard Tate of Fulshear, Texas; and several nieces and nephews.

(Photo courtesy of Vanderbilt University)

Paul R. Jones

Paul R. Jones, 68, died Aug. 16 in Denton. Jones was a faculty member in the Department of Chemistry from 1968-2006.

Jones attended The Pennsylvania State University and Purdue University where he earned a doctorate in chemistry in 1966.

He was born in York, Penn. to Robert L. Jones and Lavona Yvonne Dorish. He met his wife of nearly 40 years, Priscilla, during post-doctoral studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

He was preceded in death by his parents, wife, and sister, Mary Lou Polk. Survivors include daughter, Anne Carmel Martinez of Mesquite; son, Kevin Jones of Quinlan; and grandchildren, Kevin Paul Jones and Jessica Lee Atchley.

Claudia Mosley

Claudia Barger Mosley, 90, of Denton, died July 4. She was an instructor in the Department of English from 1962 to 1981.

She was born in Alpine to Claude Franklin and Nora Alice Stevens Barger. She attended public schools and was a graduate of Sul Ross State University with a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree.

She was married to Joseph Walton Mosley in 1937 in Mertson. Survivors include daughter Madeline Terry of Dallas, and son Michael Joseph Mosley of Highland Village; sister, Myra Sue Lewis of San Angelo; two grandchildren, Tracey Holman and Michael Mosley; and great-grandchildren Alex Kenneally and Jaed Holman.

Coretta Gray

Coretta Gray, 95, died May 14 in Lewisville. She worked in custodial services from 1973 to 1990. Survivors include eight grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren.

Brian Keith Leavell

Brian Keith Leavell, 47, died May 23 in Denton.

He was a lecturer in teacher education and administration at UNT from 2002 to 2006. Leavell also earned a doctorate from UNT.

Leavell received a bachelor’s degree in music and a teaching certificate from Wichita State University and a master’s degree in jazz pedagogy from the University of Miami. He taught at New England Conservatory of Music in Boston. He was director of music at The Selwyn School in Denton and an assistant professor in the College of Professional Education at Texas Woman’s University.

Survivors include his wife Alexandra Glaskowsky Leavell, associate professor of teacher education and administration at UNT; daughters, Amanda and Mia; mother Mildred Frances Luvin Leavell of Kansas City, Kan.; brothers, Kenneth Leavell of Kansas City, Kan., and Michael Leavell of St. Louis, Mo; in-laws Nicholas and Elizabeth Glaskowsky of Denton, and brother-in-law, Peter Glaskowsky of Cupertino, Calif.