Department of Elementary and Early Childhood Education
RE:
Resolution for Emeritus Status for Dr. Dennis Denenberg
DATE:
April 15, 2002
Resolution for Faculty Emeritus Status
For
Dennis Denenberg
Whereas Professor Dennis Denenberg is retiring in August 2002 after 15
years of service to Millersville University in the Department of Elementary
and Early Childhood Education; and
Whereas Dr. Denenberg committed five years to arranging student placements in
local area classrooms as the Service Coordinator of Field Experience and
thereafter dedicated extensive time and energy to teaching, advising, and
mentoring students in the Department of Elementary and Early Childhood
Education, empowering college students to make connections to history and the
importance of content as evident by his active role in the Core Knowledge
Foundation and his stressing the words of a popular American Hero Will Rogers,
"You can't teach what you don't know anymore than you can come back from where
you ain't been"; and
Whereas Dr. Denenberg brought the importance of real heroes in the lives of
our elementary students to the attention of our teacher candidates through his
teachings, through the many articles he has had published, through his book,
Toward a Human Curriculum: A Guide to Returning Great People to Classrooms and
Homes, through his co-authored, Hooray for Heroes, and ultimately,
through his co-authoring of his book, 50 American Heroes Every Kid Should
Meet!; and
Whereas Dr. Denenberg founded and co-advised Phi Eta Sigma, a freshman
academic honorary society, recognizing the achievement of our promising
students, as well as served on many other university and community committees,
Therefore be it resolved that Dr. Dennis Denenberg, achieving his "life,
liberty and the pursuit of happiness", be granted the honorary title of
Professor of Elementary and Early Childhood Education Emeritus.
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