1920s
Edna G. Westerstrom (BA ’26)
Marjorie I. Hargrave (BA ’29/MA ’42)
Mabel Catherine Hoper (BSSS’29)

1930s
Marjorie Jacobson Sloan (BA ’32/MD ’36)
F. Theodore Paige, (MA ’33)
Everett L. Marshall (MA ’34/PhD ’36)
Ernest E. Poe (MA ’34)
Glenn F. Hoefing (BA ’35)
Leroy H. Stahl (BA ’35/JD ’38)
L. Dean Wallace (BA ’35/MA’39)
Mary L. Frew (MA ’36)
Mary R. Musgrove (BA ’38)
Alice M. Hach (BA ’39)

1940s
Delbert M. Buchman (BA ’40/MD ’43)
Dorothy L. Tripp (MA ’40)
Teresa H. Blickhan (MA ’41)
Irene L. Pallesen (MA ’41)
A. Edwin Harper, Jr. (MA ’42)
O. Hertbert Kirchdoerfer (MA ’42)
John M. Lovett (BA ’42)
Jeanne Franklin Bolin (BA ’44)
Roger W. Hanson (BA ’46/MA’48)
Paul V. Juhl (BA ’46/LLB ’48)
Mary Welch (BA ’46)
Marilyn L. Haun (BA ’48)
Lyle R. Fuller (BA ’49/MD ’54)
Malcolm A. Gore (BA ’49/MA’51)

1950s
Margaret J. Haldeman (BA ‘50)
Margaret A. Butler (BA ’52/SE’71)
Raymond J. Linehan (MA ’53)
Donald D. Oviatt (MA ’53)
Frederick A. Siekmann (MA ’53)
William F. Berner (BA ’54)
Thomas J. Dyer (MA ’54)
Clyde B. Finke (BA ’54)
Alfred J. Fritz, Sr. (BA ’54/MA’72)
Leroy G. Miller (BA ’55/MA’62)
Jon H. Gates (BA ’57/MD ’61)
Robert R. Sendek (MA ’57)
Paul D. Logan (BA ’58)
Eugene Veit (BSPE ’58/MA ’62)
Robert L. Campbell (BA ’59)
Bonnie J. Davidson (BA ’59)
Martha E. Hempstead (MA ’59)
Mary A. Kelbley (MA ’59)
James V. Richtsmeier (BA ’59)

1960s
Evan D. Vieregge (MA ’61)
Henry E. LeClair, Jr. (MA ’63)
Betty L. Lowry (PhD ’63)
Louis E. Barrilleaux (PhD ’65)
Edward B. Perkinson (MA ’66)
Cortess C. Bullock (MA ’67)
Ellen S. Collins (MA ’67)
Ruth A. Gunderson (BA ’67)
Silas W. Schirner (PhD ’67)
Maurice H. Witten (PhD ’67)
John W. Leonard (BA ’68)
Loren B. Miller (MS ’68)
Charles O. Wentworth (MA ’68)
Johanna Meyer (BA ’69)
Frank C. Whiteley (PhD ’69)

1970s
Barbara A. Beach (BA ’70)
James C. Bacon (MAT ’70)
John W. Smith (BA ’71)
Lynne E. Lillis (BA ’72)
Julie Ann Darling (BA ’74)
Rory J. Kuhn (BA ’74/MA ’76)
Randall G. Leonard (BA ’74)
Patricia L. Runyan BA ’74)
Janice M. Leodolter (BA ’76)
Roxanne M. Thayer (MA ’76)
Nancy L. Bohling (BS ’77)

1980s
Candy A. Scott (MA ’83)

Remembering a Colleague and Mentor

Measurement and Statistics Professor Audrey Qualls (MA ’80/PhD ’86), who passed away Dec. 28, 2002 at the age of 47, is remembered by her colleagues as an exceptional scholar in educational testing and measurement, a fine lecturer, and compassionate teacher and mentor who held her students to the same rigorous standards to which she held herself.

“She was probably more blunt with her students than anyone I know, but they loved her for it,” said Professor H.D. Hoover (MA ‘67/PhD ’69), director of the Iowa Basic Skills Testing Program, who advised Qualls on her doctoral thesis and worked alongside her for 12 years.

After completing her doctorate, Qualls worked for test publisher Science Research Associates and the Illinois Institute of Technology before joining the College of Education. Qualls was promoted to full professor last fall, shortly after being diagnosed with lung cancer.

Qualls‘ appointment divided her time between the Iowa Testing Programs, where she assisted in the development of new forms of the widely used Iowa Tests of Basic Skills, and academic work, teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in educational measurement and statistics, and conducting research.

Professor Emeritus Leonard Feldt (PhD ’54), former E.F. Lindquist Chair in Measurement and Testing and former director of the Iowa Testing Programs, worked on a number of test reliability research projects with Qualls, which had been an area of particular interest to her.

“This blossomed into a long-standing collaboration that resulted in a number of papers published together,” Feldt said, “and was still ongoing when she became ill.”

Qualls‘ expertise and persuasive speaking skills also put her in great demand for national educational measurement leadership roles. She served as program co-chair for the National Council on Measurement in Education, and on the technical advisory committees for the Texas State Assessments and New York State Assessment. She also served on editorial and advisory boards of Applied Measurement in Education and The Journal of Negro Education.

Additionally, Riverside Publishing frequently called on Qualls to give presentations across the country to state education boards considering adopting any of Riverside ‘s educational evaluation products, including the Iowa Tests of Basic Skills. And when PBS wanted a testing expert for a special FRONTLINE documentary called ”Testing Our Schools,” which aired in March 2002, they turned to Qualls for a lengthy interview.

“She was a well informed, capable, and knowledgeable person,” said Feldt. “She was not intimidated by others. She decided what was best for the students, and spoke her mind.”

Colleagues say Qualls went out of her way to assist students and that she developed into a wonderful lecturer. In 1996, the University awarded her the Collegiate Teaching Award.

Hoover said Qualls‘ death was a double loss for the testing program, at the University and nationally. Not only was she a gifted researcher and educator, she was an African-American woman in a field that contains few minorities.

“It ‘s extremely rare to find minority women in testing. Last year we lost two,” Hoover said, citing the death in 2002 of long-time Howard University Professor Sylvia Johnson (PhD ‘74).

Despite Qualls‘ grave illness, Hoover said she continued to work until October, just two months prior to her death.

“She just did a fabulous job,” he said.–by Stephen J. Pradarelli