ALUMNI NOTES

Kellie Dean, (at left, with Dean Carole Ames), a 1982 master’s graduate of the college and an award-winning special education teacher and principal, received the MSU Alumni Association’s Alumni Service Award at a banquet held at the Kellogg Center during Homecoming week festivities this year.

Dean, who now runs a successful Lansing transportation company, was lauded for his support of the Lansing Police Department, the Police Athletic League and the Michigan Special Olympics. He provided transportation for those groups for 25 years as well as transportation for the Early Childhood Development Program for at-risk children.

Dean has had broad success as a fundraiser for children’s charities. He helped to raise $1.5 million for Lansing’s first Ronald McDonald House in 1999, and he was co-chairman of a campaign for the St. Vincent’s Home for Children in Lansing that raised $3 million. Currently, he is involved with his former MSU football teammate John Shinsky in building an orphanage for more than 100 children in Matamoros, Mexico.

Promotions

Christie Montgomery-Boronico, a 1993 doctoral graduate, was named director of career services at the University of New Haven in West Haven, Conn.

Stanley Cahill, a 1981 doctoral graduate in student affairs administration, was promoted to executive vice president at Salem State College in Massachusetts. Cahill had been serving as the college’s vice president for student affairs.

John Halstead, a 1972 master’s graduate, was named the sixth president of SUNY College in Brockport, N.Y.

Rene Shingles, a 2001 doctoral graduate and currently an associate professor and program director of the athletic training and education program at Central Michigan University in Mt. Pleasant, received the Great Lakes Athletic Trainers’ Association Dedicated Service Award.

Boyce Williams, a 1982 doctoral graduate, and currently the vice president of institutional relations for the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education, received the association’s Teacher Educators President’s Service Award. Williams received her master’s degree from MSU in 1975.
 

Awards

Diane Spence, a seventh-grade math teacher at Lansing’s Gardner Middle School, received in September a $10,000 award as Wal-Mart’s Michigan Teacher of the Year. Spence, who had taught for 25 years for the Michigan Department of Corrections before joining the faculty at Gardner five years ago, received her master’s in education from MSU in 1974 and her bachelor’s degree in education in 1973.

Georges Bordage, a 1982 doctoral graduate and currently a professor in the department of medical education at the University of Illinois, Chicago, received the Association of American Medical Colleges’ Abraham Flexner Award for Distinguished Service to Medical Education.

Karen Myers, a May 2006 graduate with a double major in art education and fine arts, received the Louis Sudler Prize in the Arts, awarded annually to the top college seniors from across the nation who have demonstrated outstanding achievement in an area of the performing and creative arts. Myers worked at MSU’s “Saturday Morning Art Program” in developing, designing and implementing a seven-week curriculum for children ages 12–18 to develop their artistic talents.

Passings

Scott Vaughn, 63, an assistant director emeritus of the Honors College at MSU, died July 2. He received his doctorate in education in 1976. He retired in 2004 and is survived by his wife, Catherine.

Juliet McQueen Dagbovie, a spring 2005 graduate of the MACT program, died July 15. Dagbovie, a mother of three sons, was an assistant principal at MacDonald Middle School in East Lansing at the time of her death and had taught at East Lansing High School for 10 years prior to her promotion. She is survived by husband Pero Dagbovie, an MSU professor.
 

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