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Arneson, Stansell named distinguished professors

By David Gonnerman '90
October 19, 2009
Arneson

The St. Olaf Board of Regents recently named two long-time faculty members to distinguished professorships: Wendell Arneson, Department of Art and Art History, has been named the Oscar and Gertrude Boe Overby Distinguished Professor; and Gary Stansell, Department of Religion, has been named the Kenneth O. Bjork Distinguished Professor.

Stansell

The Overby and Bjork professorships (along with the Marie M. Meyer Professorship, currently held by Henry Kermott in the Department of Biology) were established in February 2006. The inaugural holders of the professorships were Professor of Sociolgoy Samiha Sidhom Peterson and Professor of Mathematics Martha Wallace, both of whom recently retired.

"[The professorships] were named in honor of past outstanding professors who spent their long careers at St. Olaf as inspiring teachers, influential scholars and artists, and loyal and committed servants of the College," says Provost and Dean of the College James May. In keeping with the spirit of those for whom these professorships have been named, he explains, the recipients are senior members of the St. Olaf faculty who have, in similar fashion, spent their careers in the service of the St. Olaf community.

A reception will be held for Arneson and Stansell Thursday, Oct. 29, 3:30-4:30 p.m. in the Regents Hall atrium.

Contact David Gonnerman at 507-786-3315 or gonnermd@stolaf.edu.