1990

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McMullan, Keen named top EC instructort Mathematics instructor Mrs. Lois McMullan and Wallace Keen, who teaches Automated Manufacturing Technology, have bern selected 1990 Outstanding Academic and Vocational-Technical instructor, respectively, at East Central Com– munity College in Decatur. She added she continuously tries to improve her teaching and she is "always available" to provide assistance to all tudent~. mathematics teacher at Northwest Rankin High School.

Mrs. McMullan ' 10 has 28 years teaching expertcnc ·• bt:gan her career at Newton Htgh School in 1962. After two yl!ars' servtce, she taught math a t Oec:uar High School for six years before ~.:orning to East Central in 1970. Al D:~::uur, she was twice named Star f~.:acher Receiving the outo;tanding academic instruc.11r a" ard during 1990 obviously ha~ <,pedal mt:anang, as she was recognttctl for com– pleting her 20th year on the com– munity college campu-. m the ~pring of 1990. Her classroom a~'ignmems in– clude teachlllg a lgeb ra, trigonometry, differ<.'ntial questions, the real number W\tem. and infor– mal geometry and algebra. She serves as spon~or lor Mu Alpha Theta, na tio nal honorary mathematics society. Mrs. McMullan i-. active in vanous organization' mcludtng the Decatur Women':. Progr~ ...sive Club and Delta Kappa G 1mma, serving as president for each dub. She has also served as prc~iclcnt or the East Central Commun:t)' College Facul– ty Club, as secretary· rea~urcr of the Mississippi Communny and Junior College Faculty A''C"I~iation. and as East Central's rcprc nt l ~·c to the MisSISSippi Assol n 1.11 \\'omen in Higher Edut.lll m. she is a member of the Mt •s,ippt Council of Teachers of M lthcm:ttll.! and Clarke-Venable Ha 11 t Church, where she ha~ ..,, r ed as Sunday School teacher and u .A. leader. The Union H1gh S~ohool graduate attended East Central Community College and recei' cd a ba~.helors degree from Missb,tppi College. She obtained a mastt~l '>degree From the University of Southern Mt~\tSStppi and she has also d '>t.e po · graduate work at USM an I 11.., j<;,tppi State University. While a sLUdent at Ea'tt Central, Mrs. McMullan wu., a member of Phi Theta Kappa .11111 Stgma 'i1gma Mu Tau. At MC, ..h wa., act1ve in Alpha Chi and K..tppa Delta Pi . Mrs. McMullan ' husband, Ray– mond, serves a' L1st Central's Director of Adml,)ton... Records and Research The} ha\e a ~on, Mike, who is married and I'> a senior medical student at the University Medical Cer:. ·r; , nd a daughter. Sherri Mc!\Iulla n Ru'isell , a

The two East Central faculty members will be honored along with " Alumni of the Year" recipients and Athletic Hall of Fame inductees during the college's Homecoming activities which are scheduled Satur– day, October 13.

WALLACE KEEN Automated Manufact uring Technology instructor Wallace Keen a id he was simply "flabbergasted and shocked" after being named as the "Outstanding Vocallonal– Technicallnstructor" for 1990. Keen, 60, is in his first year as in- t ructor in the recently created Automated Manufactur ing T ech nology program , which represents the second "new" pro– gram o f study in which he has helped start and organize. Keen first came to East Central in 1983 and a!>~ISted in implementing the col– lege'!> Electromcs curriculum. The Mendenhall native has an ex– tcn'iive background in his field, as he ,erved 17 ~ years for the IBM Corporation before reun~g a s Senior Engineer in 198 1. Pnor to joining IBM, Keen was employe? as an Engineering Group Supervtsor for the Phiko Corporation from 1957-64. At IBM, i.:.t;en worked al~ost 10 years on h.: :lutomated dcs1gn and manufacturing of components used for the Apollo Space Program. On three sepa rate occa:.ions IBM presented Keen with awards fo r •' Outstanding Accomplishment. '' Recognition of outstanding ser– VICe also came from the U.S. Army Guided Misstlc School wh1ch twice honored Keen, who was rated in the upper 10 percent at all Guided 'AI'>l>ile School instructors. Keen also received two awards from the Philco Corporation for "Outstanding Accomplishment." While most people his age would normally be thinking about retire-

LOIS McMULLAN Ever since she was a young child, Lois Foster McMullan bas been " fascinated" with solving math pro– blems and she credits her dedication as a mathematics instructor to her father, the late Ray Foster. " My dad loved math and I really enjoyed working problems and puzzles with him. He encouraged me to become a math teacher even though there weren't too many girls who majored in mathematics at that time. I always liked the logic involv– ed in working math problems," she said " and, since I wanted to work with' people, teaching mathematics seemed t o be the perfect combination." As East Central's " Outstanding Academic Inst ructor, , Mrs. McMullan, a Union native, said she is "thrilled" to receive the honor. " It is obviously a great honor to be chosen an outstanding instructor and 1 am Vtf'Y proud of the recogni– tion. But my greatest reward in teaching is seeing students succeed and do well in their chosen vocation. 1 also enjoy seeing former students who come back and visit," Mrs. McMullan said.