Ohio State honors five at summer 2005 commencement
COLUMBUS – Five individuals will be honored at The Ohio State University's summer 2005 commencement for their contributions to society and academics, and their dedication to the university. Ceremonies begin at 2 p.m. Sunday (8/28), at the Jerome Schottenstein Center.
Honorary doctorates will be presented to Frank M. Bass, a leading scholar in marketing and brand evolution; Roger O. McClellan, an internationally recognized expert in the field of inhalation toxicology; and Grayce McVeigh Sills, professor emeritus of nursing at The Ohio State University College of Nursing and an internationally recognized leader in the field of psychiatric nursing.
The Distinguished Service Award will be presented to Anne S. Pruitt-Logan, professor emeritus of educational policy and leadership at The Ohio State University; and Richard Ramsay Stander, Sr., an enthusiastic supporter of his alma mater.
Jodie T. Allen, senior editor at the Pew Research Center, will deliver the commencement address.
Frank M. Bass, Doctor of Business Administration
Frank M. Bass is the Eugene C. McDermott University of Texas System Professor of Management at the University of Texas at Dallas. He has gained international renown as a leading scholar in marketing and brand evolution and as a pioneer in refocusing business education on core social science disciplines.
Bass received his bachelor in business administration in 1949 from Southwestern University, his master's in 1950 from the University of Texas, and his doctorate from the University of Illinois in 1954. He began his academic career at the University of Texas, moving to The Ohio State University in 1957 as a tenured associate professor. In 1961 he joined Purdue University's faculty, becoming the Loeb Distinguished Professor of Management in the Krannert Graduate School of Management until 1982, when he moved to the University of Texas.
Throughout his career, Bass has been a prolific researcher, but he is probably best known for a 1969 paper published in Management Science on diffusion of innovations that has become known as the Bass Model. The paper, named one of the "Top Ten Most Influential" papers published in the journal's 50-year history, had an enormous impact on both the academic community and industry and is still used to predict category sales of new durables in their early stages. He has also been a leader in applying science to marketing by using an econometric model for determining the impact of marketing spending on sales.
He is a former president of the Institute of Management Science (now INFORMS, the Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences) and was named a Fellow of INFORMS in 2002. He has served as associate editor of Management Science and editor of the Journal of Marketing Research and has won best paper awards for publications in the Journal of Marketing Research and the Journal of Marketing as well as the John D.C. Little award for the best marketing paper in Management Science or Marketing Science. Beginning in 1990, INFORMS' Society for Marketing Science annually awards the Frank M. Bass Award for the Best Doctoral Dissertation Paper in Management Science or Marketing Science.
Among his other awards are the 1986 Paul D. Converse Award for contributions to marketing theory and science, the 2002 Gilbert A. Churchill Award for lifetime achievement in marketing research, and the Charles Coolidge Parlin Award from the American Marketing Association and Wharton School for outstanding contributions to the field of marketing research.
Roger O. McClellan, Doctor of Science
Roger O. McClellan is currently an advisor to public and private organizations on issues concerned with human health risk analysis, inhalation toxicology, and strategic business analysis for science-based organizations. He is an internationally recognized expert in the field of inhalation toxicology.
Dr. McClellan earned his doctor of veterinary medicine degree with highest honors in 1960 from Washington State University and a master of management from the Anderson Graduate School of Management at the University of New Mexico in 1980. His early career focused on researching the health risks of exposure to fission product radionuclides. In 1966 he joined the Lovelace Foundation for Medical Education and Research in Albuquerque, New Mexico, as assistant director of research and director of the Fission Product Inhalation Program. In 1976 he was named president and director of the Inhalation Toxicology Research Institute at the Lovelace Biomedical and Environmental Research Institute. Under Dr. McClellan's leadership, the institute grew to achieve international recognition for its research on the health effects of airborne radioactive and chemical toxicants.
In 1988 he became president and chief executive officer of the Chemical Industry Institute of Toxicology (now CIIT Centers for Health Research) in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. At the time of his retirement in 1999, the institute had a multi-disciplinary staff of 25 doctoral-degreed scientists, 100 support personnel, 25 postdoctoral fellows, and 15 co-op or pre-doctoral students and was known worldwide for its contributions to reducing the scientific uncertainty in making decisions concerning the human health risks of exposure to contaminants.
Dr. McClellan has authored or coauthored more than 350 scientific papers and has edited or co-edited 10 books in the fields of inhalation toxicology, comparative medicine, and human health risk analysis. He has served on the adjunct faculty of eight academic institutions and on the advisory committees for six federal agencies, including the executive committee of the Science Advisory board for the Environmental Protection Agency. He continues to be one of the most sought after advisors in the field of environmental toxicology in the United States and abroad.
His many honors include, among others, election to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Science, the International Achievement Award from the International Society of Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology, the International Aerosol Fellow Award from the International Aerosol Research Assembly, the Society of Toxicology's 2005 Merit Award, and the Department of Energy's Distinguished Associate Award.
Grayce McVeigh Sills, Doctor of Public Service
Grayce McVeigh Sills is professor emeritus of nursing at The Ohio State University College of Nursing and an internationally recognized leader in the field of psychiatric nursing.
The Ohio native received her nursing diploma in 1950 from Rockland State Hospital School of Nursing in Orangeburg, New York. Shortly after graduation, she entered a graduate program at Columbia University where she met Hildegard Peplau, a faculty member who became her mentor and colleague in developing a new method of teaching psychiatric nursing. Sills received her bachelor of science in nursing from the University of Dayton in 1956 and a master's degree and doctorate in sociology from The Ohio State University in 1964 and 1968, respectively.
Sills joined Ohio State's School of Nursing in 1964 as an assistant professor, becoming full professor in 1972. During her 27-year tenure at the university, she served as faculty member, department chair, director of graduate studies, and acting dean and was instrumental in raising the school to college status and in developing one of the nation's top graduate programs in nursing. She continues to be actively involved with Ohio State following her 1991 retirement, recently serving as chair of the University Hospital board of trustees and currently as coordinator of a pilot program in Interdisciplinary Behavioral Health Training for OSU Harding Hospital.
During her career, she has served as visiting professor at the University of New Mexico School of Nursing, Rutgers Graduate School of Nursing, Oregon Health Sciences University, Indiana University School of Nursing, Case Western Reserve University's Bolton School of Nursing, and Fairfield University School of Nursing. She has published more than 50 articles in scholarly journals and has recorded 15 educational videotapes, produced by the American Journal
of Nursing Company. She is sought as an invited speaker and consultant and has given countless presentations to professional and public groups nationwide.
Sills' commitment to nursing education and to improving care for the chronically mentally ill has been recognized with a number of honors, including the 2000 Hildegard Peplau Award for contributions to psychiatric nursing from the American Nurses Association, the American Academy of Nursing's Living Legend Award, induction into the YWCA of Columbus Academy of Women Achievers, and the Ohio Alliance for the Mentally Ill Professional of the Year, among many others. In 1988 Governor Richard Celeste named her chair of the five-year Study Committee on Mental Health Services for the state of Ohio.
Anne S. Pruitt-Logan, Distinguished Service Award
Anne S. Pruitt-Logan is professor emeritus of educational policy and leadership at The Ohio State University. During her 17-year tenure at Ohio State, she also served as associate dean of the Graduate School, associate provost, and director of the Center for Teaching Excellence.
Pruitt-Logan received her bachelor's degree in psychology from Howard University, earned a master's and doctorate at Teachers College, Columbia University, and received postdoctoral training in administration through an American Council on Education Fellowship. The Regents of the University System of Georgia subsidized her 1949 matriculation at Columbia with funds set aside for African American citizens who, because of their race, were not permitted at the time to study at the University of Georgia.
Prior to joining the Ohio State faculty in 1979, becoming the university's first African American woman full professor, she served as professor of education at Case Western Reserve University and previously in positions as dean of students and dean of women at Fisk University and Albany (Georgia) State College.
Following her 1995 retirement from Ohio State, she served for eight years at the Council of Graduate Schools as dean in residence, then scholar in residence. During this time, she co-directed a new nationwide program, "Preparing Future Faculty," an initiative to stimulate the reform of doctoral education for the professoriate. She served as primary investigator for more than $3 million of the program's grants to extend PFF into the preparation of future science, mathematics, humanities, and social science faculty.
From the start of her career, she has focused on improving access to education for underserved populations. From 1979 to 1985, as associate dean of Ohio State's Graduate School, she worked to increase federal support for minorities and women to enter nontraditional fields such as engineering and mathematics. She also held major consultancies with the Southern Regional Education Board and the Southern Education Foundation to dismantle the dual segregated system of higher education.
Significant developments during her tenure as director of the university's Center for Teaching Excellence include the video presentation titled "Teaching for Black Student Retention," the first interdisciplinary National Conference for Graduate Teaching Assistants and the organization of the Academy of Teaching, composed of Ohio State faculty members who have won distinguished Teaching and Distinguished Scholar Awards.
Pruitt-Logan has authored or coauthored numerous scholarly publications. She has served as a member of the boards of trustees at Central State University and Case Western Reserve University and, in 1976, became the first African American president of the American College Personnel Association.
Richard Ramsay Stander, Sr., Distinguished Service Award
Richard Ramsay Stander, Sr., is chair of the Mohican Construction Company and former president of Mansfield Asphalt Paving Company. He is a longtime business and civic leader in the Mansfield area.
He received his bachelor of civil engineering degree from The Ohio State University in 1940. Following graduation, he spent a year in the testing lab of the Ohio Department of highways, followed by five years on the Army Corps of Engineers' research and development board.
In 1946 Stander joined Mansfield Asphalt Paving Company, becoming president of the firm in 1956. By that year he was also president of the Mohican Trucking Company, founder and president of the Mohican Construction Company, and vice president of the Fredericktown Sand and Gravel Company.
As a community leader, he was, and is, a strong advocate for his hometown, his profession, and his alma mater. As president of the Ohio Contractors Association, he was instrumental in establishing a continuing education program that was beneficial for Ohio State's Colleges of Business and Engineering and for hundreds of highway contractor employees. A member of the National Academy of Sciences' Transportation Research board, he was also a 14-year member of the board of directors for the Transportation Research Center of Ohio, formerly operated by the College of Engineering.
In the early 1960s, when the Ohio legislature authorized the building of a branch campus of Ohio State in Mansfield, Stander and his father, Carl H. Stander, donated 50 acres of land to begin the new campus. He recently has donated another 31 acres adjacent to the growing Mansfield campus. Following the initial land donation, he spearheaded a fund-raising drive to buy the rest of the land to complete the new campus and served as founding president of the Citizens' Advisory Council (now the Mansfield Campus board of trustees). He was also a trustee of the Mansfield University Foundation for 30 years and served as the Mansfield Campus representative to the Alumni Advisory board.
An early member of the Presidents Club and a longtime executive committee member of the College of Engineering's Committee of 100, he was recognized in 1970 with the College of Engineering's Distinguished Alumni Award and the University Centennial Award.
He recently was the recipient of the George S. Bartlett Award from the Transportation Research board of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Road and Transportation Builders Association, and the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials for his role in the development of the Interstate Highway System.
