Community Happenings
2025 Outstanding Teaching Awards
The Outstanding Teaching Awards annually recognize faculty and graduate teaching assistants who demonstrate outstanding performance as instructors across all learning environments. Selected via nomination, candidates and finalists are reviewed by faculty-driven committees empaneled by the Office for Faculty Advancement and the Center for Enhancement of Learning and Teaching.
Faculty
- Kelly Bradley, College of Education
- Diana Byrne, Stanley and Karen Pigman College of Engineering
- Christy Brady, College of Health and Sciences
- Juan Fernandez Cantero, College of Arts and Sciences
- Cory Curl, The Graduate School
- Frances Henderson, College of Arts and Sciences
- Zada Komara, Lewis Honors College
Graduate teaching assistants
- Jesús Ponte Bernal, College of Arts and Sciences
- Leonie Bettel, Stanley and Karen Pigman College of Engineering
- Eric Luteyn, Martin-Gatton College of Agriculture, Food and Environment
Lexington Stamp Club
The Henry Clay Philatelic Society (HCPS) meets monthly on the third Monday at 7:00 pm at the Broadway Christian Church, 2nd and Broadway, Lexington, Kentucky. Annual membership fees are $15. Visitors and new members are welcome.
The HCPS annually sponsors two stamp shows, that feature free admission, free stamps for kids, free informal appraisals, and stamps and similar materials for sale from several dealers. The Fall 2025 show will be held Saturday, September 20th at the Fairfield Inn Lexington North, 2100 Hackney Place, Lexington, KY 40511 from 10 am to 6 pm.
Annual Fellowship Donors List
Your gifts during July 1, 2024 – June 30, 2025, to memorialize deceased colleagues or honor living colleagues exceeded the amount anticipated. The UKAEF Board extends our sincerest gratitude for your continuing interest and support. We look forward to the new year that brings the opportunity to again meet in person and enjoy each other’s company at our quarterly luncheons.
The following donors contributed a total of $10,780 to the UKAEF Fellowship Fund for the 2024-2025 year. THANK YOU FOR YOUR GENEROUS GIFTS! (+signifies deceased)
Honor Roll $5.00 – $49.99 (In Memory of) (In Honor of)
| Ruth Berry (Roberta James) | Sandra Miller (Edgar Sagan) |
| Janet Cabaniss & Damon Snyder (Jack Blanton) | Janet T Mullins & Douglas Mullins (Dr. Michael Goodin) |
| Austin & Susan Cantor | KB Poonacha |
| Don & Bonnie Diedrich | Carol Riker |
| Susan & Michael Effgen | Robert Schwemm & Sarah Welling |
| Theodore Fiedler & Sigrid Suesse | Donna Smith (Dr. Mary Ellen Edmondson) |
| Paul Freytag & Ann Tully | Dan Stone & Janis Carter |
| Daniel Fulks & L. Jill McNees | Seetha Subramanian |
| Bryan Hall & Barbara Delvecchio-Hall | Rodney & Charlotte Tulloch |
| Tagalie & Robert Heister | Kim Townley (Pam Kidd) |
| Clifford Hynniman | John & Jacqueline Van Willigen |
| Sandra & Glen McAninch (Bill Marshall) | Jesse Weil & Katalin Kellemen (Jean Pival) |
Dean’s List $50.00 – $199.99 (In memory of) (In Honor of)
| Susan Abbott-Jamieson (Johnathan Ransom Abbott) | David Allen |
| Susan Barron (Dr. John Littleton) | Janice Birdwhistell (Terry L. Birdwhistell) |
| Jody Bosomworth | Bradley & Rose Canon |
| Greg Davis & Vanessa Oliver (Dr. J. Hill Hamon) | Roland & Colleen Duell (Robert Spedding & John Piecoro) |
| Lee & Melinda Edgerton (Joseph William Wilson & Jack Wilson (spouse of Angene Wilson) | Frances & Daniel Hardin-Fanning (Dr. Peggy El-Mallakh) |
| Don & Peggy Falace | Tom & Kate Lillich |
| Gerald & Charlene Ferretti (Abe Fosson) | Samuel C. Matheny (Abe Fosson) |
| Hazel Forsyth | Loys & Sonja Mather (Daniel R. Reedy) |
| Sue Fosson (Abe Fosson) | Alan (Jack) & Kay McAllister |
| Norman Goodman | A. Lee & Victoria Meyer |
| Linda Gorman | Frank & Pat Miller |
| Merl & Maxine Hackbart | Deborah Rood (Andrew Grimes) |
| Curt Harvey & Nancy Grayson (Dr. Tom Schrodt) | Gerald L Roth (Barbara R. Roth) |
| Jane & Greg Hayes | Judy Sackett (Paul A. Willis) |
| Janie & Mike Heath (Dr. Terry Birdwhistell) | Rosetta Sandidge |
| Sarah Henry | Louis & Bobbi Shain (Malcolm Siegel) |
| Beverly & Roger Hilton | Shirley Slatin (Dr. Gerald Slatin) |
| Carolyn Holmes (William & Nettie Adams) | Deborah & Tom Slaton |
| James & Barbara Holsinger (Terry Birdwhistell) | Sharon P. & Aubrey W. Turner (Dr. Mark V. Thomas) |
| Patricia & Mike Howard (Dr. Peggy El-Malluakh) | Mark & Janice Vranicar (Dr. Jacqueline Noonan) |
| Ronald & Carol Hustedde (Abe Fosson, Jr.MD) | Ken Kubota |
| Larry & Linda Jones (Abe Fosson, Jr.) | Thomas & Enid Waldhart |
| Rajan & Shobhna Joshi (Manubhai Joshi PhD & Dr. Ramanlal Joshi) | Harold Weinberg & Claire Schmelzer |
| Michael & Jerri Kennedy | Angene & Jack Wilson (+) |
| Suzanne & Edward Kifer | H. David & Jan Wilson (John Piecoro & Abe Fosson) |
| Gretchen LaGodna | John & Fran Wilson (Robert Straus) |
Cum Laude $200.00 – $499.99 (In Memory of) (In Honor of)
| Jim Albisetti | David C. & Katherine Johnson |
| Dick & Regi Clayton (Dr. Thomas M. Cooper) | Thomas Janoski & Linda Klink |
| Ronda Connaway | John & Lilian Ranseen |
| Joe & Renie Fink | +Diana Rast (Derek Sadd) |
| Don & Peggi Frazier | Peter & Katherine Timoney (Prof. John T. Bryans) |
| Robert French (Dr. Edmund Pellegrino) | Lee & Patsy Todd (Dr. Robert Cosgriff) |
| Claudia & J. Robert Heath | Thomas Vanaman |
Magna Cum Laude $500.00 – $2500.00
James & Ann Chapman-funding for one UKAEF fellowship
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