Year-end celebration salutes faculty and staff service to campus community
More than 50 Hanover College faculty and staff members were honored for their service to the campus community during an end-of-year employee celebration May 12 in the Withrow Activities Center.
The program featured acknowledgement of seven retiring employees and 51 service milestones. The seven retirees – with more than 150 years of combined service to the College – included: Joyce Flanagan (director of Health Sciences Program); Lynn Nichols Hall ’82 (vice president for athletics); Jeff Phillips, Montgomery Professor in Engineering; J. Michael Raley, professor of history; Bryant Stamford, professor of kinesiology and integrative physiology; Bill Tereshko, professor of kinesiology and integrative physiology; and Heyo Van Iten, professor of geology.
The event was capped by the presentation of the Totten Award for Outstanding Service. Launched in 2007, the honor recognizes service to the campus community above and beyond normal job responsibilities. The annual award pays tribute to Stanley Totten, professor emeritus of geology, who has served Hanover as an educator and volunteer since 1962.
Recipients of the 2025 Totten Award include: Kate Johnson, professor of philosophy; Katy Lowe Schneider ’93, associate provost for student success; Jennifer Sterk, administrative coordinator for academic affairs; and Jim Watts, women’s soccer coach.
Pictured above (l-r), 2025 Totten Award recipients: Jennifer Sterk, Kate Johnson, Katy Lowe Schneider and Jim Watts.
Previous Totten Award recipients:
2024: Heather Pace Buhr ’95, Jim Hickerson ’78, Lynn Nichols Hall ’82, Jeff Phillips, Holly Sipe, Bill Tereshko
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
