SC Halls of Fame to Open Doors to
Past and Present Community Members
Winfield, Kan., April 4, 2023 — The upcoming Founders Day weekend, April
20-22 at Southwestern College, will celebrate several community members that
will be enshrined into various halls of fame.
Meals
and refreshments will be served for the hall of fame entrants and their friends
and families. Reservations are required by April 10. For more
information, contact Ashlee Mayo, director of alumni engagement, at (620)
229-6155.
Hall
of fame festivities will begin at 5:30 p.m. Friday, April 21, with a dinner in
Deets Library for those entering the Leaders in Service Hall of Fame for the
Social Sciences. The induction ceremony will begin at 6:15 p.m. The cost
is $25, limited seating is available, and RSVP is necessary.
On
Saturday, April 22, the Business Hall of Fame reception will begin at 8:30 a.m.
in the Christy lobby, followed immediately by the induction ceremony at 8:45
a.m., in Richardson Performing Arts Center; RSVP is appreciated.
At
10:15 a.m., a reception will be held for the inductees of the Fine Arts Hall of
Fame in the Christy lobby followed by the induction ceremony at 10:30 a.m., in
Richardson Performing Arts Center; RSVP is appreciated.
A
luncheon will be held for the Educators Hall of Fame in Deets Library at noon,
with the induction ceremony to begin at approximately 12:45 p.m. Lunch
cost is $25, seating is limited, and RSVP is needed.
Area inductees include:
- Barbara
(Chapman) White ’80. White, a 2020 inductee into the Kansas Teachers’
Hall of Fame, will enter the Southwestern College Educators Hall of
Fame. She is a 1980 graduate of Southwestern College, earning her
bachelor of arts degree in elementary education. She also earned a master
of arts degree in educational psychology with emphasis in gifted education
from Wichita State University. She has earned numerous awards
including being a Kansas Teacher of the Year (KTOY) Congressional Region
IV Awardee and state Finalist and member of the state KTOY team in 1995.
She was a Presidential Award of Excellence in Science and Mathematics
Teaching state finalist in 1996. She received the Richard LeMaster
Teacher of Excellence Award USD 353 in 1996 and the Friends of Special
Education USD 353 Golden Apple Award in 2015.
- Brent
Wolf ’03/’15, will enter the Educators Hall of Fame. Wolf is the Principal
at Derby Hills Elementary School in Derby, as well as being a member of
the board of education for USD 465 Winfield. Prior to becoming
principal, Wolf taught elementary and middle school for 16 years. For
approximately 10 years, he has taught as an adjunct professor at Baker
University, Southwestern College, Wichita State University, and Cowley
College. Wolf has been recognized with several honors including making the
first-ever website for Winfield Public Schools with his students through
the GenY program. In 2015, he was named the KAKE News Golden Apple Award
Recipient. In 2017, Wolf was Derby Public School’s Secondary Teacher of
the Year.
- Tabatha
(McMullen) Rosproy ’09, will enter the Educators Hall of Fame. She
is a 13-year early childhood educator, and the first pre-school teacher to
ever be named National Teacher of the Year. She was awarded this honor in
2020 and has spent the last several years speaking for organizations
around the country, elevating the work of early childhood educators and
the students and families they serve. Rosproy has transitioned into a new
role with Kansas Parent Information Resource Center where she travels the
state training schools on best practices in Early Childhood Education and
Family Engagement.
- Roger
Moon ’70 (posthumous) and Allyson (Stark) Moon ’76 will enter the Fine
Arts Hall of Fame. In the summer of 1987, the Horsefeathers and Applesauce
Summer Dinner Theatre was brought back into production, and the Moon’s
assisted in the process. As a follow-up to that return, Southwestern
offered them positions in theatre starting in the summer 1988. Roger
became the director of theatre and Allyson became a member of the theatre
faculty and the managing director of the summer theatre program. For the
next 30 years the Moon’s collaborated on class and degree offerings,
student advising, recruitment, theatrical productions, and summer theatre
programming. In the summers, they acted, designed lights, built sets,
served dinners, and did whatever was needed to get the show up. In
1999 and 2006, productions directed by Roger were selected to perform at
the Region V Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival (KCACTF).
Roger and Allyson’s work as a directors and educators resulted in numerous
commendations from KCACTF for their students and for them. In 2007, Roger
and Allyson were honored with the KCACTF’s highest honor, the Gold
Medallion. Throughout the 2010 school year, Roger advised the process of
the Richardson Auditorium renovation which re-opened in 2011 as the
Richardson Performing Arts Center. He continued his work as advisor
guiding the renovation of the TOMARI Technical Center which opened in
2014. In 2012, Allyson was honored with the Charles H. and Vera R. Kopke
award for Distinguished Teaching. Her work with creativity theory and
improvisational acting contributed to this honor. In the spring of 2016,
Southwestern sent Roger to China as a visiting professor where he taught
English to college students and strengthened relationships with a
cooperating university in Huangshan. After returning, Roger taught for two
more years and retired in the spring of 2018. Allyson continued as
director of theatre until the fall 2021 and as a member of the theatre
faculty through the spring of 2023. In the fall of 2020, both Roger and
Allyson were recognized for their teaching on both the high school and
college levels with the receipt of the Mary Jane Teal Award for
Outstanding Theatre Educators.
- Tim
Shook will enter the Fine Arts Hall of Fame. Shook has been a
Southwestern College faculty member since 1988 and served as chair of the
performing arts division for 13 years. He collaborated with faculty
members and administration on Southwestern College projects such as
forming the Cole Family Summer Music Festival, creating the Community
Music School, producing the Fine Arts Hall of Fame, and renovating the
Richardson Performing Arts Center. Tim’s heart is in exceptional teaching,
confirmed by receiving the Charles H. and Verda R. Kopke Award for
Distinguished Teaching at Southwestern College and the United Methodist
Exemplary Teaching Award.
- David
Nichols ’60 (posthumous) will enter the Leaders in Service Hall of Fame.
At SC, Nichols taught economics, became chair of the business division,
and then moved on to the development office, where he oversaw a major
capital campaign. From there, he became academic dean of Southwestern
College and served in this role for 11 years. As academic dean, Nichols
had many accomplishments including adding tenure for faculty, reworked the
college’s accreditation evaluation, and started the program for giving
undergraduate students access to laptop computers. During his retirement,
he established himself as one of the leading scholars on Dwight D.
Eisenhower’s presidency. He published three books during this time, all of
which are considered groundbreaking within scholarship on Eisenhower’s
presidency: “A Matter of Justice: Eisenhower and the Beginning of the
Civil Rights Revolution” (Simon & Schuster, 2007); “Eisenhower 1956:
The President’s Year of Crisis—Suez and the Brink of War” (Simon &
Schuster, 2011); and “Ike and McCarthy: Dwight Eisenhower’s Secret
Campaign Against Joseph McCarthy” (Simon & Schuster, 2017). These
three books continue to be debated amongst U.S. presidential historians
and taught in both graduate and undergraduate classes throughout the
United States, including the criminal justice and political science
departments at Southwestern.
The weekend celebration will conclude with the inauguration of President
Liz Frombgen at 3 p.m. on Saturday, April 22, in Richardson Performing Arts
Center.
