Commencement Honors for Six - 08/12/98

SIX RECEIVE SPECIAL COMMENCEMENT HONORS AT OHIO STATE

COLUMBUS -- The accomplishments of six leaders in the fields 
of science, business, higher education and psychology will be 
recognized with special honors during The Ohio State University's 
summer quarter commencement Sept. 3 in St. John Arena.

Honorary doctorates will be presented to businessman Don 
Shackelford, scientist Vera Cooper Rubin, environmentalist Ismail 
Serageldin and psychologist Marie Clay.

The Distinguished Service Award will be presented to Frank 
W. Hale Jr. and Richard J. Solove.

       
       Don Shackelford, Doctor of Business Administration

Don Shackelford, chair of Fifth Third Bank of Columbus, 
previously served as chair of State Savings Bank of Columbus for 
25 years.

An alumnus of Ohio State, Shackelford is a 12-year member of 
the Ohio State University Hospitals Board, where he has served as 
chair for the past five years.  During his tenure, he has helped 
the hospitals develop outreach services to extend their care and 
mission, and assisted in the transition to managed care, ensuring 
that quality patient care is preserved.

He is a member of the Fisher College of Business Dean's 
Advisory Council and the National Major Gifts Columbus Committee. 
He also served as co-chair of the campaign for the John Pfahl 
Executive Education Building and serves on a number of boards, 
including The Limited Inc., Intimate Brands Inc., The Progressive 
Corp., Midland Life Insurance Co., Worthington Foods, the Jeffrey 
Co. and Fifth Third Bancorp.  For two years he served as chair of 
the thrift industry trade association that merged during his 
tenure into a new entity called America's Community Bankers.

Long involved in local community and civic activities, 
Shackelford is a member of the Columbus Foundation's Governing 
Board, a trustee of Children's Hospital and Children's Hospital 
Foundation, and a trustee of Denison University.

Shackelford is a graduate of Denison University and earned 
his Master of Business Administration degree from Harvard 
University, where he was a Baker Scholar.  He is a 1991 recipient 
of the Fisher College of Business Pace Setters Executive Award 
and the 1997 Master Lifetime Achievement Award from the 
Entrepreneur of the Year Award Program, which is sponsored by 
major national and local businesses.


             Vera Cooper Rubin, Doctor of Science

An internationally renowned astronomer, Vera Cooper Rubin 
has been a member of the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism at 
the Carnegie Institution of Washington since 1965. 

She earned her undergraduate degree from Vassar College, her 
graduate degree from Cornell University and a doctoral degree 
from Georgetown University.  She spent 10 years on the faculty of 
Georgetown University before joining the Carnegie Institution, 
where she devoted her professional career to the study of motions 
of gas and stars in galaxies and motions of galaxies in the 
universe.  

Her observational work with Kent Ford on spiral galaxies 
during the 1970s demonstrated for the first time that 
gravitational mass, now known as dark mass, exists throughout 
galaxies, not just in their central regions.  The amount of dark 
matter is many times greater than the matter that makes up 
planets, stars and interstellar gases.

Rubin also played a major role in characterizing the range 
of galaxy properties and the connections between these properties 
and the larger scale environment in which the galaxies formed.  
The study of large-scale motions in the universe has now become a 
major field of research.

She received an appointment to the President's Committee on 
the National Medal of Science in 1995 and served as committee 
chair in 1997-98.  In 1996, she became the second woman to win 
the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in London.  From 
1982 to 1985, Rubin served as president of Commission 28 
(Galaxies) International Astronomical Union.  She actively 
promoted the role of women in science through her service with 
the American Physical Society's Panel on Faculty Positions for 
Women Physicists and Astronomers, the American Astronomical 
Society's Committee on Women and the American Women in Science 
Council.


            Marie M. Clay, Doctor of Humane Letters

Marie M. Clay is professor emerita at the University of 
Auckland in New Zealand and a fellow of the Royal Society of New 
Zealand, the New Zealand Psychological Society and the New 
Zealand Educational Institute.

A former Senior Fulbright Scholar in Residence at Ohio State 
in 1991, Clay taught primary and special classes and worked as a 
clinical child psychologist during her career in the New Zealand 
education system.  Her interest in child development and clinical 
problems resulted in a program of intervention to help children 
at risk for literacy problems.  The program, Reading Recovery, is 
now being delivered to some 150,000 children worldwide and was 
introduced in the United States in 1984-85 when Clay was a 
Distinguished Visiting Professor in Ohio State's College of 
Education.

Her book Reading Recovery: Guidelines for Teachers in 
Training has sold more than 8 million copies worldwide, and her 
books The Patterning of Complex Behavior and its later edition, 
Becoming Literate: The Construction of Inner Control, are 
considered classics in the literature on learning.

She is the recipient of the David H. Russell Award from the 
National Council of Teachers of English and the International 
Citation of Merit from the International Reading Association, and 
is a Dame Commander of the British Empire.  She served as 
president of the International Reading Association in 1992-93, 
and was the first non-American to hold that office.


   Ismail Serageldin, Doctor of Natural Resources Management

Ismail Serageldin is the vice president for environmentally 
sustainable development for the World Bank, and is 
internationally known for his contributions to international 
agricultural research development.

A native of Egypt, Serageldin has special interest in and 
understands the problems of scarcity of freshwater resources in 
the arid regions.  He has developed administrative channels to 
facilitate sustainable use and management of this precious 
resource.

Serageldin oversees the World Bank's environmental and 
agricultural policies and lending, as well as urban development, 
transportation, water and sanitation lending.  He has spearheaded 
the cause of environmentally sustainable development, especially 
in developing countries.  He has made investments in 
international agriculture a priority as chair of the Consultative 
Group on International Agricultural Research.  Under his 
leadership, CGIAR increased its budget by 10 percent, to $330 
million, and was instrumental in the Green Revolution of the 
1970s in South Asia.

Serageldin earned his undergraduate degree from Cairo 
University, and his graduate and doctoral degrees from Harvard 
University.  He is a member of the Syndicate of Professional 
Engineers, the American Planning Association and the American 
Academy of Political and Social Science.


        Frank W. Hale Jr., Distinguished Service Award

Frank W. Hale Jr. is vice provost for minority affairs and 
professor emeritus at Ohio State, where he served for 17 years 
before his retirement in 1988.

Hale began his career in higher education as chair and 
professor in the Department of English at Central State 
University.  He then served as president of Oakwood College in 
Huntsville, Ala., before coming to Ohio State in 1971 as 
professor of communications and associate dean and chair of the 
Fellowship Committee of the Graduate School.  In 1978 he was 
appointed the university's second vice provost for minority 
affairs.  Following his retirement, Hale served for three years 
as special assistant to the president at Kenyon College.

During his tenure as vice provost, Ohio State became a 
national leader in graduate education for minorities with the 
largest and most successful Office of Minority Affairs in the 
nation.  Through his efforts, approximately $15 million in 
graduate fellowship awards were granted to some 1,200 minority 
students, 80 percent of whom went on to earn master's and/or 
doctoral degrees.  He was also instrumental in establishing a 
Minority Scholars Program to award full tuition scholarships to 
minority high school students.

Hale earned his undergraduate and graduate degrees from the 
University of Nebraska, a doctoral degree from Ohio State and a 
certificate in English Literature from the University of London.  
He sits on numerous national and regional boards and commissions, 
including the United Negro College Fund, Operation PUSH, the 
Seventh-Day Adventist Commission on Higher Education and the Ohio 
Martin Luther King Commission.  

Upon his retirement, Ohio State named the Frank W. Hale Jr. 
Black Cultural Center in his honor, designating the building in 
which it is housed as Hale Hall.


        Richard J. Solove, Distinguished Service Award

Richard J. Solove is managing general partner of R. J. 
Solove and Associates, Columbus-area developers of shopping 
centers, apartments and office complexes.

A 1948 graduate of Ohio State, Solove earned his degree in 
pharmacy and owned three drugstores before he sold them in 1963 
to devote himself full time to real estate development.

Solove was a founding member of The Arthur G. James Cancer 
Hospital and Research Institute Foundation, formerly known as the 
Ohio Cancer Foundation, serving as the foundation's president 
from 1989 to 1994.  He remains an active member of the 
foundation.  He also serves on the James Cancer Hospital Board's 
governing board, assisting in guiding the hospital's day-to-day 
activities.

He established the Richard J. Solove Chair in Cancer Medical 
Therapeutics at the Comprehensive Cancer Center at the James, and 
sits on the board of the Columbus Bloch Cancer Survivors Park.  
He is also a past board member of the American Cancer Society and 
the Shepard Hill Hospital Foundation.  


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