NTID Retirement Celebration - RIT · 42 years of service Professor, Department of Liberal Studies...
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Welcome2015-2016 NTID Retirement
CelebrationMay 17, 2016
Gerald (Jerry) Argetsinger
41 years of service
Associate Professor, Department of Cultural and Creative Studies
Served as chair of Performing Arts and General Education departments
Highly accomplished director of outdoor theater productions (Hill Cumorah Pageant and others)
Recognized authority with numerous publications on Danish playwright Ludvig Holberg, Mormon characters in dramatic literature, and LGBT issues
Taught a very broad and diverse array of theater and general education courses
Broke barriers and received rave reviews for directing the most profane production in NTID history, Tribes
Norene Chesterton
35 years of service
Senior Staff Assistant, Department of Visual Communication Studies
Began RIT career job sharing in the College of Science while being
home with 3 of her 4 children
Served as staff assistant for the Center for Student Resources in the
mid-1990s
Staff assistant for the Photo and Printing programs
Worked with 3 VCS chairpersons (John Cox, Ken Hoffmann and now
Kurt Stoskopf)
William (Bill) Clymer
41 years of service
Associate Professor, Department of Business Studies
Tutored General Business courses in the College of Business, including Management and Organizational Behavior
Began career as instructional developer and media specialist
Served as Interim Director of the NTID Center on Access Technology, 2010-2013
Director of Postsecondary Education Network (PEN) International, 2001-2013
Organized Biennial Technology Symposia in 2003, 2005, 2008, and 2010
Linda Iacell i
32 years of service
Assistant Director, NTID Employment Services
NAG Outstanding Service Award, 2002
Taught and advised deaf and hard of hearing students in job seeking
Consulted with and trained employers and prospective employers on
strategies for integrating deaf and hard-of-hearing employees in the
workplace
Established and maintained relationships with employers
Came to NTID from the Central Intelligence Agency, where she was
an HR Specialist and French Language Linguist
Charles (Chas) Johnstone
39 years of service
Data Center Operations Systems Analyst, NTID Client Services
NAG Outstanding Service Award, 1987
Manager of the NTID Help Desk, 2002-2006
Inventory Specialist through many revisions
Served on the NTID Vision Support Committee
Technical consultant to the Rochester chapter of the Hearing Loss Association of America [HLAA].
RIT Commencement Planning Committee (Original Member)
MS, Instructional Technology, 1977
Gary Long, Ph.D.
40 years of service
Associate Professor and Founding Associate Dean for Research
2011-2015: Co-PI of DeafTEC: Technological Education Center for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Students, a National Science Foundation-funded National Center of Excellence. DeafTEC’s original funding in August 2011 was for $4.5 million; renewal in August 2015 was for an additional $3.9 million.
1979-1982: Chair, Department of Educational Research and Development
Lifelong researcher on Deaf and Hard-of-hearing students in mainstream classes
Lisa Markidis
28 years of service
Staff Assistant, NTID Office of Admissions, since 1999
Interpreting Services, 1988-1990
Student Financial Services Office, 1990-1998
College of Liberal Arts, 1998-1999
Involved in NTID’s Business Studies Mentoring Program
Associate in Applied Science in Applied Arts & Sciences 2012
Sister of Jeanette Tydings, senior staff assistant, MSSE
J. David (Dave)McCloskey
25 years of service
Associate Interpreter, Department of Access Services
Learned American Sign Language to communicate with deaf
employee in his company
Outstanding Interpreting award from NTID Student Congress, 1998
Member of Golden Key National Honor Society, 1999
NAG Outstanding Service Award, 2005
Close affiliate with Santa Claus
Katherine (Kathy) Olsen
40 years of service
Associate Professor, Department of Visual Communication Studies
1976-198:1NTID Instructional Design and Development Department, Graphic Artist
1981-2016: NTID Visual Communications Studies Department
MS, Instructional Technology, 1984
Since 1977, primary curriculum development person in department
Since 1982, responsible for annual VCS Student Honors Exhibition
2014: Henrietta, NY, Chamber of Commerce Community of Excellence Award for Coordination of Publication Design course directory cover student project
John-Al len Payne, Ph.D.
34 years of service
Associate Professor, Department of Liberal Studies
Primary areas of pedagogical interest: reading and grammar instruction. Devoted NTID career to the developmental English program and authored many books for his English language development classes
2013-2015: Chaired NTID Curriculum Committee
1992-1994: Awarded two Fulbright Scholarships in Bulgaria
Certificate, Computer Graphics, 1998
Certificate, Basic Technical Communication, 1998
Certificate, Advanced Technical Communication, 1999
Stephanie Polowe, Ed.D.
42 years of service
Professor, Department of Liberal Studies
2013 recipient of RIT’s Four Presidents Distinguished Public Service
Award
1983-1985: President of TELA – Teachers of English and Language Arts
1991-93: President of Convention of American Instructors of the Deaf
Elected to service on Monroe County Legislature, 1998-2007; served
as Minority Leader
1992-97: Appointed to Monroe County BOCES I
1993-94: President of Monroe County School Boards
Linda Rubel, Ph.D.
31 years of service
Professor, Department of Liberal Studies
Chair of Liberal Arts Support Team, 1993-2005
Pivotal member on the RIT “Greater Expectations” committee that
included work on Gen Ed, Writing Requirement, Learning
Communities, First-Year Experience, Innovative Curricula,
Orientation/Reading book, in preparation for semester conversion,
2009-2011
Director of First Year Writing for COLA, 2008-2009
Served on the COLA Curriculum Committee for decades
Lissa Schaefer
19 years of service
2003 – 2016: Notetaker Coordinator, Department of Access Services
Graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration from RIT
Staff Excellence Awards Selection Committee – TWICE - 2007 – 2010 and 2013 – 2016
Staff Recognition Task Force – currently
Various committees within DAS – holiday, spring picnic
Volunteers and supports Imagine RIT
Volunteers for Brick City
Commencement Volunteer
Lawrence (Larry) Scott
36 years of service
Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Communication Studies and Services
Hired as an audiologist, served as department chair for 23 years
Chaired NTID Curriculum Committee through semester conversion
Very involved in administering and revising the Language Communication Background Questionnaire (LCBQ)
Set up Spoken Communication Techniques and Strategies workshops
Co-PI on the U.S. Department of Education Personnel Preparation Grant with Nazareth to prepare SLPs to work with deaf/hoh children.
New York State Speech-Language-Hearing Association leadership roles during the 1980s-1990s
Solange (Sal ly) Skyer
38 years of service
Academic Advisor, Business Studies Department
Began with 6-month internship in January 1978
Became permanent counselor that fall and is one of the only ones to
serve the same technical department her entire career
NAG Outstanding Service Award, 1996
Married to NTID alum Rick Skyer (deceased)
Mother to Melissa Skyer, lecturer in the Department of Science and
Mathematics, and Michael Skyer, lecturer in the Master of Science in
Secondary Education
Rose Marie Toscano
39 years of service
Professor, Department of Liberal Studies
Served on the original 1992 Strategic Planning Committee
Co-PI on the Rochester Bridges to the Doctorate program
Chairperson of the New York State Developmental Disabilities Planning Council, 2012-2014; served since 2000
Co-Chaired National Task Force on Health Care Careers for the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Community, 2011
2014 recipient of RIT’s Four Presidents Distinguished Public Service Award
Married to Antonio Toscano, retired