1999 Alumni Awardees

Outstanding Alumni K-12 Administrator

Brian P. Wolcott
He has spent nearly 20 years as a teacher, coach and administrator. Mr. Wolcott infuses his work as director of athletics, health and physical education at Plymouth-Canton Community Schools with a passion for teaching, coaching and physical fitness.

Mr. Wolcott has coached varsity boys track and field and cross country, and girl's basketball. Over the years, he also has coached volleyball and baseball. From 1986 to 1995, he was a health, natural resources and physical education teacher at W.E. Groves High School in Beverly Hills, Michigan. At Groves High School, he developed the physical education and health curriculum, and chaired the district's Health Education Committee. He also has served as a summer school principal in the Birmingham School District. A leader in the state of Michigan, he served as president of the Michigan Association of Heath, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance from 1994 to 1998. He also is member of the Michigan Interscholastic Athletic Administrators Association, and was a 10-year member of the Michigan Interscholastic Track Coaches Association. He has been a member of the American Association of the Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance since 1986.

A Spartan through and through, Mr. Wolcott received his bachelor's degree in health, physical education and recreation from Michigan State University in 1981. He earned a master's degree in athletic administration from MSU in 1988.

Distinguished Alumni Award

Dale J. Rosene
To his colleagues, he is known simply as an extraordinary teacher. With 30 years of experience as a middle school teacher, Mr. Rosene is an innovator whose projects have energized and enriched his students' understanding and appreciation of science, mathematics and technology. Among his many accomplishments is the Alaska Great Lakes Project in which more than 40 students from Marshall Middle School travel to Alaska every year as part of a comprehensive science experience that deals with such topics as glacial formations and growth patterns of rain forests.

Honors and awards for his teaching are numerous and impressive. In 1996, he was presented the Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching. He also is a past Michigan Middle School Level Science Teacher of the Year, Marshall Teacher of the Year, and the recipient of the Calhoun Area Intermediate School Board Association Professional Award. The National Science Teachers Association presented Mr. Rosene its Distinguished Teaching Award in 1987 and its Middle Level CIBA-GEIGY Creative Teaching Award in 1990. In addition to his teaching, he has authored many educational materials over the years, including three issues of the teachers' guide to the Scientific American television program.

Mr. Rosene graduated from Michigan State University in 1969 with bachelor's degree in general science. He received a master's degree from MSU in 1971.