Posted on Tuesday, September 11, 2007
Three Westminster alumni-Paul Rice, Dr. Tuesdae Rodgers Stainbrook, and Susan Akerstrom Tarr-will present Distinguished Alumni lectures Friday, Sept. 28.
Rice, a 1978 Westminster graduate, will speak at 1 p.m. to the Department of Education on the third floor of Old Main. While a student at Westminster, he was tri-captain of the 1977 National Championship football team. He received his master's degree in education from Youngstown State University and has been a mathematics teacher at Boardman High School for 30 years. In addition to his teaching responsibilities, Rice was an assistant football coach, an assistant baseball coach, president of the teacher's union, and is an elder in the Presbyterian Church.
Contact Dr. Linda Domanski, chair of the education department, at (724) 946-7182 or e-mail domanslp@westminster.edu for additional information about Rice.
Stainbrook, a 1991 Westminster graduate who received honors in research, will address the Department of Biology at 4 p.m. in Phillips Lecture Hall. She earned a doctorate from the Ohio University College of Osteopathic Medicine, and a master's of public health in epidemiology from the University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health. She served an internship and a residency in internal medicine at Doctors Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, and a fellowship in infectious disease at the University of Pittsburgh. She currently holds several positions: infectious disease consultant, infection control chairman, and medical director of DuBois Regional Wound Center; HIV specialist with the Northwest AIDS Alliance; board member of the Clearfield and Jefferson County Drug and Alcohol Commission; board member of the Clearfield and Jefferson County Heroin Task Force; and medical director of DuBois Regional Hyperbaric Medicine. She has written a number of articles and continues research in the areas of infection control, wound care management, and drug abuse.
Contact Dr. Joseph Balczon, chair of the biology department, at (724) 946-7215 or e-mail balczojm@westminster.edu for additional information about Stainbrook.
Tarr, a 1970 Westminster summa cum laude graduate, will address the Department of Modern Languages at 2 p.m. in Mueller Theater. She received a master's in library science from the University of North Carolina and a master's in legislative affairs from George Washington University. She is currently a master's candidate in the theological studies program at Wesley Theological Seminary. She is the former executive director of the Federal Library and Information Center Committee, and the former director of FedLINK, the Federal Library and Information Network. Both organizations are headquartered in the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. During her 31-year career, Tarr served as executive director of the former Processing Services Department and chief of the Cataloguing Distribution Service, where she managed the introduction of the Library's first CD-formatted cataloguing products.
Contact Dr. Ann Murphy, chair of the modern languages department, at (724) 946-7265 or e-mail dammroa@westminster.edu for additional information about Tarr.
