To:	Board of Trustees
From:	Department of Educational Foundations
Date:	May 20, 2004
Re:	Faculty Emeritus status for Dr. Richard Frerichs

Please consider the following request for emeritus status for Dr. Richard Frerichs, who is retiring this spring. Dr. Frerichs, who graduated from Millersville in 1964, has been a faculty member at Millersville since 1968, and a faculty member of the Department of Educational Foundations since 1995. Some of his numerous accomplishments include:

• Serving the University in numerous departments, including Resident Life, Financial Aid, and Educational Foundations as a teaching faculty member,
• Serving as Dean of Men and Dean for Resident Life during times which were marked by controversial issues such as co-ed dorms, loosening of parietal rules and the demise of the House Mother system, and handling these issues with good humor and grace,
• Continually accepting significant assignments for the Department and for the School of Education, first as Coordinator of Field Experiences, an area of service to the University and Student Teachers that grew and blossomed under his leadership, and, most recently, as Department Chair,
• Establishing wide-ranging professional and academic connections since becoming a member of the teaching faculty in 1995, named Treasurer of the SSHE Field Directors Forum and named to the Executive Committee of the Pennsylvania Association of Colleges of Teacher Education,
• Serving the local community and maintaining professional visibility by being elected (more than once!) to the Penn Manor School Board, and
• Serving the Millersville Community in governance (e.g. as Chair of the Teacher Education Committee), in advancement (e.g. on the MEDAL Fund Board of Directors), in celebrating community life and accomplishments (e.g. as Commencement Coordinator), and in ancillary programs (e.g. as the Director of Millersville Elderhostel)

It is widely understood that a person of such wide-ranging talents and love of the University is irreplaceable; Richard Frerichs has served the Educational Foundations Department and Millersville in ways too numerous to list here. His energy, enthusiasm, organization, and spirit will be sorely missed by those who had the privilege of seeing him every day. The Department of Educational Foundations strongly supports the status of Professor Emeritus being granted to Dr. Richard Frerichs.

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