Millersville University, Faculty Senate
Attachment F
Faculty Senate Minutes
13 June 1995
Whereas Associate Professor of Mathematics Charles Van
Gorden has retired after twenty six years of service to
Millersville University; and
whereas recognitions of Van Gorden's teaching excellence span four
decades, from being selected as Lancaster County "Teacher of the Year" by
the Kiwanis Club of Lancaster in 1962 to being selected on of the three
finalists for the "Excellence in Teaching Award" by the United Campus
Ministry in 1995; and
whereas Van Gorden in 1994 was inducted by former students as an honorary
member of the National Honor Society; and
whereas Van Gorden, long before the implementation of A.D.A. guidelines,
was one of the first advocates on campus for physically challenged
students;
whereas Van Gorden has worked individually with dozens of Millersville
University students with learning disabilities and visual impairments,
including a legally blind student who went on to graduate school; and
whereas Van Gorden has directed the Millersville University Mathematics
Department's High School Math Contest for the last three years; and
whereas prior to the creation of the Computer Science Department Van
Gorden retrained in computer science, taught eight computer science
courses, and chaired for two years the Mathematics Department's Computer
Science Committee; and
whereas Van Gorden voluntarily contributed his time and talent to serving
as a mentor for many new faculty; and
whereas for one quarter of a century Van Gorden's wisdom, humanity, and
integrity have been an inspiration and a model for the faculty of the
Mathematics Department;
therefore be it resolved that Charles Van Gorden be named Associate
Professor of Mathematics Emeritus.
unanimously adopted by the Department of Mathematics the
third day of May in the year nineteen hundred ninety five;
and unanimously adopted by the Department of Computer Science the twenty
ninth day of March in the year nineteen hundred ninety five.
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