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1920s Leonard L. Kingsbury (BA ’25) 1930s Dorothy (Gilmore) Lundholm (MA ’33) 1940s Kathryn (Smith) Bilterman (MA ‘40/PhD ’46) 1950s Burton W. Faldet (BA ‘50/MA ’55) 1960s Charles L. Bentley (MA ’61) 1970s Carolyn (Waddell) Brenton (MA ’70) George Phillip Durkee (PhD ’75) was an associate professor at the College of St. Benedict in St. Joseph, Minn. He held dual tenure in Science Education and Peace Studies, taught classes in energy, technologies of non-violence, and world problems, and directed study abroad in France and China. Gene R. Thomas (BBA ’75) 1980s David A. Russell (PhD ’84) 1990s Carol (Steggall) Benson (MA ’90)
Bill Richardson (PhD ‘69), 75, passed away, Sept. 6, 2008. Over the years, he received numerous national research awards, including The University of Iowa Rehabilitation Counseling’s Distinguished Alumni Award in 1997. Richardson earned a bachelor’s degree in geology from Berea College in Kentucky, a master’s degree in Counseling from the University of Illinois, and a doctorate in Rehabilitation Counseling and Psychology from The University of Iowa. He served in the United States Navy and was a licensed psychologist, dedicated to serving the lives of disabled individuals. He taught and did research at several universities over the course of his distinguished career in Rehabilitation Counseling, including the University of Kentucky, the University of Arkansas, the University of Virginia, and Western Michigan University. He served as president of the American Rehabilitation Counseling Association (ARCA) from 1996-97. He was a professor at the University of North Texas for 19 years in the School of Community Service, before his retirement in 1999. People who knew Bill knew that he was impassioned about Rehabilitation Counseling, and he put an awful lot into that priority of his life,” said Charles Arokiasamy, a rehab program coordinator in Fresno, Calif. “He was particularly active in ARCA—an organization in which he took great pride. Rehabilitation Counseling education has lost one of its most dedicated advocates in Bill.”
Remembering Carmen Pacheco Sosa
Carmen Pacheco Sosa (MA ‘87/PhD ‘93), 54, passed away on April 19, 2008. For over 10 years she served as the bilingual and ESL consultant for the State of Iowa Department of Education. Previously, she held an academic appointment in bilingual education at Kansas State University.
Associate Professor Emeritus Lida Weed Myers Cochran, 96, passed away November 22, 2007. Her passion for the visual arts began when she studied photography in Los Angeles. After earning a master’s degree in education, Central Washington State University hired her to teach photography and to establish a new audiovisual services unit for the university. On a trip to visit emerging audiovisual centers in the Midwest, she met and married Lee W. Cochran, who created The University of Iowa Audiovisual Center. Lida Cochran taught audiovisual courses in the College of Education for over 20 years, where she also developed the Iowa Visual Scholars Program, funded by the Eastman Kodak Company. The Visual Scholars Program ended in the early 1980s when its funding ran out, yet its impact continued in the ongoing work of the program’s graduate students. Lida continued her search for a theory that would describe how visual language fits with other languages of human communication and worked on a paper proposing such a theory well into her nineties.
Miss Julia J. Peterson (BA ’32 – Journalism), 100, passed away, May 23, 2008. Peterson enjoyed a long career working as a senior editor and assistant to the director of the Iowa Testing Programs, including the late Professor E.F. Lindquist during the development of the Iowa Testing Programs and related programs. “Julia was a superlative editor,” said Professor Emeritus Leonard Feldt, former director of the Iowa Testing Programs. “She could apply her skills with equal effectiveness to a variety of materials—proposed test items, preliminary versions of test manuals, and drafts of our scholarly articles.” She was also an accomplished writer. She authored a book on the history of the programs, The Iowa Testing Programs: The First Fifty Years, and her poetry and prose won prizes and citations and appeared in numerous publications. “Julia made improved writers of everyone on the Iowa Testing Programs staff—even Lindquist himself,” Feldt said. “And she did this in a completely, helpful, inoffensive manner.”
Remembering Kenneth Hoyt - College's First Counselor Education Chair
Former University of Iowa Educational Psychology Professor Kenneth B. Hoyt, 84, passed away August 27. Recognized as a worldwide leader in the field of career education, Hoyt dedicated his career to the belief that our educational system should prepare our youth not only for a post-secondary education, but for a productive and challenging career. Hoyt received his undergraduate degree from the University of Maryland, his Master’s degree from George Washington University, and his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota. In addition to working at the UI, he served as the Director of the Office of Career Education for the United States Government. Hoyt ended his career at Kansas State University where he received an endowed chair in the Department of Education. While at Kansas State University, he secured what at the time was the largest grant ever received by Kansas State’s Department of Education. Hoyt was also the developer of the Specialty Oriented Student (SOS) program, widely recognized as the world’s premier academic tool for high school graduates who seek an alternative to a four-year postsecondary education. His accomplishments, including those as developer of Iowa’s Counselor Education program, were recognized in the book, Leaders and Legacies: Contributions to the Profession of Counseling (2003). In a chapter penned by former Professor Emeritus Harold Engen, Hoyt’s illustrious career marks many milestones in Iowa’s counselor education legacy. “If I’ve been ‘successful’ it is due to a combination of such things,” said Hoyt in 2003. “Most of the good ideas I’ve had are ones I learned from practitioners, not from high-powered professional experts. If I listen carefully enough to practitioners, I usually come up with an idea or two that I can use.” Hoyt joined The University of Iowa faculty in 1954 as the only professor in the area of counseling and guidance, where he educated students interested in school guidance, college student personnel work, vocational rehabilitation, and employment counseling. “During the next 15 years as the division chair,” Engen wrote, “Ken developed the division of Counselor Education and secured outstanding faculty for each of the departments.” Written to record an appreciation for the many who have contributed to the counseling profession, the Leaders and Legacies book provides an insight into the dimensions of leadership of the people who helped the profession develop. Engen wrote that when Hoyt came to Iowa there were few, if any, guidance programs in Iowa’s schools. So, Hoyt started a County Guidance Consultants program and directed summer Guidance Institutes to train certified counselors throughout the state. Hoyt, a native of Cherokee, Iowa, went on to educate counselors throughout the United States and was the recipient of two dozen national honors. Hoyt led by example, encouraging his students and colleagues to develop into productive and rewarding professionals. “Once I believe in something, I never quit,” Hoyt said. “I may often ‘lose’ but I never ‘get beat.’ I just keep coming back until I win.” And through his leadership and vision, Iowa has been winning ever since.
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