Professors retire after 30+ years
Natasha Vu
Issue date: 4/29/09 Section: DSC News
Dixie State College will retire three professors who have served for more than 30 years.
Those being honored at commencement on May 1 include music professor Ronald Garner, psychology professor Nolan Ashman, and graphic arts professor Jay Slade. They will each receive emeritus status from DSC upon their retirement.
Division deans over each department made recommendations for those they felt qualified to receive emeritus status.
According to the DSC Policies and Procedures Manual 38.1, emeritus status is a "mark of distinction granted only to those faculty members whose service has been characterized by high professional achievement and who have given long outstanding service to the institution."
Recipients of emeritus status receive several privileges and honors from DSC, including participation in academic processions and tuition waivers for emeriti, their spouses and qualified dependents.
Garner will retire after being a member of the music faculty at DSC for 54 years. Garner began teaching at DSC in 1955 when the college consisted of approximately 300 students and 20 faculty members. Since his first year teaching, Garner founded the DSC marching band and jazz ensemble and was the founder of the Dixie Fine Arts Series (now Celebrity Concert Series).
"One of his students is presently a DSC music faculty member, others are performers in the Southwest Symphony, and still others teach music in high schools throughout the state and so on," wrote Donald Hinton, the dean of arts and letters, in his emeritus status recommendation letter.
Garner said the greatest accomplishments of his life were being able to teach the highest caliber of students who have been under his tutelage.
Ashman has been teaching since 1965 and estimates having taught more than 20,000 students during his 44 years at DSC.
Before teaching, Ashman served in the Republic of South Korea during the Korean War for more than two years, where he achieved the rank of Sergeant E-5.
Those being honored at commencement on May 1 include music professor Ronald Garner, psychology professor Nolan Ashman, and graphic arts professor Jay Slade. They will each receive emeritus status from DSC upon their retirement.
Division deans over each department made recommendations for those they felt qualified to receive emeritus status.
According to the DSC Policies and Procedures Manual 38.1, emeritus status is a "mark of distinction granted only to those faculty members whose service has been characterized by high professional achievement and who have given long outstanding service to the institution."
Recipients of emeritus status receive several privileges and honors from DSC, including participation in academic processions and tuition waivers for emeriti, their spouses and qualified dependents.
Garner will retire after being a member of the music faculty at DSC for 54 years. Garner began teaching at DSC in 1955 when the college consisted of approximately 300 students and 20 faculty members. Since his first year teaching, Garner founded the DSC marching band and jazz ensemble and was the founder of the Dixie Fine Arts Series (now Celebrity Concert Series).
"One of his students is presently a DSC music faculty member, others are performers in the Southwest Symphony, and still others teach music in high schools throughout the state and so on," wrote Donald Hinton, the dean of arts and letters, in his emeritus status recommendation letter.
Garner said the greatest accomplishments of his life were being able to teach the highest caliber of students who have been under his tutelage.
Ashman has been teaching since 1965 and estimates having taught more than 20,000 students during his 44 years at DSC.
Before teaching, Ashman served in the Republic of South Korea during the Korean War for more than two years, where he achieved the rank of Sergeant E-5.
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