Celebration features service awards, salute to retiring employees

More than 40 Hanover College faculty and staff members were honored for their service to the campus community during an end-of-year employee celebration May 20 in the Withrow Activities Center.

The program featured acknowledgement of 14 retiring employees and 29 service milestones. The event was highlighted by the presentation of the 2024 Stanley Totten Awards. Started in 2007, the award recognizes outstanding service above and beyond normal job responsibilities. Totten, a retired professor of geology, has continuously served the College as an educator and volunteer since 1962.

Recipients of the 2024 Totten Award include: Heather Pace Buhr ’95, executive director of student financial services, Jim Hickerson ’78, director of campus safety, Lynn Nichols Hall ’82, vice president for athletics, Jeff Phillips, director of engineering program, Holly Sipe, director of human resources, and Bill Tereshko, professor of kinesiology and integrative physiology.

Pictured above (l-r), 2024 Totten Award recipients: Bill Tereshko, Holly Sipe, Lynn Nichols Hall ’82 and Jim Hickerson ’78. Not pictured: Heather Pace Buhr ’95 and Jeff Phillips.

Previous Totten Award recipients:

2023: Casey Roseberry Heckler ’00, Megan Hizey, Molly Totten Jones ’86, Andrew Pretorius, John Todd

2022: Uschi Appelt, Pam Brown, Steve Graves, Chris Hitchcock ’97, Mary Phillips, Reiley Noe, J. Michael Raley, Bob Slade, Sue Fryback Tilley ’89, Lynn Todd, Kerry Volansky

2019: Steve Brown, Lindsay Rainey Faulstick ‘07, Aarik Gault, Steve Steiner

2018: Tony Carlton, Katie Linville, Jan Spry

2017: John Collins, Christian Hanson, David Harden, Patricia Lawrence

2016: Joe Lackner, Tony Osterman, Darrin Rubino

2015: Lori Hedges ‘06, Rick Lostutter, Dan Murphy ‘81

2014: Dominique Battles, Rhonda Burch, Miryam Criado, Dawn Houze, Debbie Kroger, Ed Walters, Chris Wilcox

2013: Darleen Connolly, Gus McQueary, Sara Patterson, Debbie Quinn, Pat Schuring, Sarah Vosmeier

2012: Caleb Gosnell ‘07, Lyn Lyon, Kay Stokes

2011: Kevin Brown, Carter Cloyd, Doug Denne, Ron Wells, Dave Collier

2010: Ken Bevis, Summer Hawkins, Betsy Milligan Johnson ‘70, Michael McMahon, Brian White

2009: Victoria Bramwell, John Jones, Celeste Hartman Sutter ‘85, Ruth Turner ‘73

2008: Terry Lewis, Josh Payne, Michelle Rubino, Nasrin Shahinpoor, Treva Shelton

2007: Erin Amerson, Celia Dollmeyer, Pat Dunn