Campus News

Sanford Gutman of Ithaca, N.Y., who has served on the SUNY Cortland faculty for 37 years, will retire on Aug. 31. He has earned the designation of professor emeritus of history. Gutman, who grew up in Detroit, Mich., focused on history as an undergraduate at Wayne State University and earned his master of arts and doctoral degrees at the University of Michigan, specializing in modern European history.

Vaughn A. Copey of Camillus, N.Y., who has taught at SUNY Cortland since 1980, will retire on Aug. 31. He has been designated lecturer emeritus of English. Copey grew up in Auburn, N.Y. He obtained an Associate of Arts in Liberal Arts from Cayuga County Community College in Auburn, N.Y., before earning a Bachelor of Arts in Writing and Literature and a Master of Arts in Language and Literature from SUNY Oswego

Dianne M. Galutz of Cortland, N.Y., who has served the College for 21 years, will retire on May 27. She has earned the designation of senior programmer/analyst emerita. A native of Cortland, she received an Associate of Sciences from Tompkins Cortland Community College (TC3) in Dryden, N.Y., and a Bachelor of Science in Physical Education from SUNY Cortland.

Jean W. LeLoup, who has served SUNY Cortland for 16 years, will retire on Aug. 31. She has earned the designation of professor emerita of Spanish. LeLoup is on a leave of absence from SUNY Cortland since the 2007-08 academic year to serve as a Distinguished Visiting Professor of Spanish in the Department of Foreign Languages at the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo., a role she also fulfilled from 1995-96.

Margaret "Peg" Waltman, a keyboard specialist in the SUNY Cortland Registrar's Office, has been honored with the Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Classified Staff. She received the prestigious award during the 2009 Undergraduate Commencement on Saturday, May 16, in the Park Center. The award was newly created by SUNY this year and Waltman becomes the first SUNY Cortland recipient.

Pierre R. Gagnon of Clayton, N.Y., will serve as executive director of the Auxiliary Services Corporation (ASC) at SUNY Cortland, the organization announced on May 11. Gagnon, who currently serves as executive director of the Faculty Student Association of Jefferson Community College, begins his duties on June 29.

The SUNY Board of Trustees promoted Joy L. Hendrick, a SUNY Cortland professor of kinesiology, to the rank of Distinguished Service Professor during its May 12 meeting in Fort Schuyler, N.Y

Eight senior physical education majors at SUNY Cortland were recognized with Lenore K. Alway/Anthony P. Tesori Awards for their outstanding work in student teaching in New York state schools during the Spring 2009 semester.

SUNY Distinguished Professor Timothy Baroni, a professor of biological sciences at SUNY Cortland, will receive the Mycological Society of America (MSA)'s highest honor, the 2009 MSA Distinguished Mycologist Award. Baroni, whose specialty is the study of systematics of macrofungi, will be honored during the MSA Annual Meeting from July 25-29, to be held jointly this year in Snowbird, Utah with the Botanical Society of America, the American Fern Society, the American Bryological and Lichenological Society and the American Society of Plant Taxonomists.

Bonni Hodges, a professor of health at SUNY Cortland, will receive a Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Faculty Service during the 2009 Undergraduate Commencement on Saturday, May 16, in the Park Center.