Reflections Magazine Issue #87 - Fall 2018 | Page 11

Campus Feature
2018 SHU Award Winners
from Honors Convocation:
Outstanding Undergraduate Student Award:
Senior Andrea “Sissy” Phillips of Attica, Mich.—
Phillips, who graduated with honors in May with a
bachelor’s degree in communications. During her
time at Siena Heights, she was involved in SPARC,
Student Support Services, Habitat for Humanity,
Adopt A Sister, Spectra and many other organiza-
tions on campus.
Outstanding Undergraduate Student Award:
Senior Purity Mitu of Kenya—Mitu, who came
to Siena Heights through the Adrian Dominican
Sisters, earned a bachelor’s degree in business
administration with honors. She was active in the
business club, the international club, the HOPE
Community Center and Habitat for Humanity.
Husband was also involved in the
math club on campus.
“The students who are involved both
with the school and mathematics as their
discipline, it's nice to see that group
growing as an organization, as peers, as
a club and supporting the school and
each other,” he said. “It's real nice.”
When he was younger, Husband
would run in 5Ks and triathlons. Today,
he prefers a good book, especially related
to math, and working on his yard at
home.
“One of my hobbies is consulting,
so I enjoy working with others on new
problems that they might have,” he said.
“If they have issues in statistics, I like to
work on them with them.”
One of his math colleagues, Professor
Jeff Kallenbach, reflected on Husband’s
retirement.
“Tim and I met at the 2006 MAA Job
Fair in San Antonio,” Kallenbach said.
“The attitude and enthusiasm that he
brings to his classroom was apparent
right away. … Besides all of the extra
work that Tim does outside of our re-
quired duties, he is extremely helpful to
me on a day-to-day basis. Pretty much
every day we discuss the class we both
teach (Statistical Reasoning In Sports)
to share ideas and stay on pace. … He's
obviously been the backbone of the math
program for 40 years now, and is prob-
ably the only person I know who could
do that much work, capably, for such
a long time. SHU as a whole will miss
him of course, but I'll be losing a great
mentor and colleague.”
When asked what he is most looking
forward to about retirement, Husband
said, “Just fewer responsibilities and
being home with the family, the kids.
It's going to be exciting.”
When asked what Siena means to
him, Husband was not lost for words.
“One of the things that first sort of
excited me about Siena, when I first
came here, was its environment. Its
people,” he said. “I just felt it was a really
nice place to work. It was a really good
fit. I enjoyed the people and its part
of the Adrian Dominican tradition.
Their mission. It just sort of is lived
here. And so every day when you come
to work, it's very enjoyable.
“It's nice to come to a place where
you feel comfortable, you feel valued,
you feel there is a mission being honored
by the faculty, the students, the sisters.
So it's just been a nice experience. Siena
has been like a family, a home.” u
Thomas A. Emmett Award:
(Outstanding Junior Scholar-Athlete)—
Taylor Mulder, Brent Rodden
Team Academic Award: Women’s Golf
Division Outstanding Student Awards:
Business and Management: Purity Mitu
Computing, Mathematics, and the Sciences:
Pradeep Ranaweera, Nathanael Tuckerman
Education: Ronnie Bechtol, Kayla Herold
Humanities: Alyssa Dail, Andrea “Sissy” Phillips
Nursing: Megan Macek, Shannon Richardson
Social and Behavioral Sciences: Lauren Cojei,
Keegan Pabst
Visual and Performing Arts: Braelen Bader,
Brittany Essen
St. Catherine of Alexandria Medal:
Sharmaine Wills
Graduate College Outstanding
Student Awards:
Clinical Mental Health Counseling:
Maria Nickell
Teacher Education: Alicia Simmons
Organizational Leadership:
Dennis Bruce Wood II
Faculty and Staff Awards:
Staff Excellence: Sharese Mathis,
Deanna Kuebeck
Jack Bologna Award for Innovative Teaching:
Stephen Ball
Sister Jean Cecile Hunt Outstanding Advisor
Award: Mary Roberts
Sister Eileen K. Rice Award for Outstanding
Teaching: Tim Husband
Above: Tm Husband converses about "The Faces
of Calculus" with Michael Morgan '83.
Professors Emeriti: Kathy Burke, Kerry Graves,
Tim Husband
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