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Chair's Remarks
Rich Paselk
2001 has turned out to be a year for reflection for
me. The 2001-2 AY will be the last year that John Hennings and Merv
Hanson teach in the Department - John will finish his pre-retirement
and Merv has decided to end his early retirement after two years.
And now Tom Borgers has also announced that he will enter the faculty
early retirement program (FERP) beginning Fall 2002. Suddenly Bill
Wood and I are tied for senior member of the department! Certainly
the times are different. When Bill and I came in 1976 we remained
the junior faculty members for 17 years before another tenure track
position came up. In contrast, Kjirsten Wayman was our junior permanent
faculty member for only a year before we hired our latest new permanent
faculty members, Bill Golden and Josh Smith. If things go well, they
in turn should remain junior only a year as we hope to again be able
to hire a tenure track position to replace the half-time positions
of John and Merv.
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