May 27, 2000

Saturday hats off

May Fest a real winner

The Tiffin Developmental Center has found a winner with its May Fest, a campus-wide celebration open to residents, staff, family and guardians.

The residents enjoy the outdoor activities, and the day offers an opportunity for families to interact with others, including the staff. This year a time capsule was buried as part of the event. It contained many items having to do with Tiffin Center. Information was also included on the Junior Home, the orphanage which once occupied the site.

Administrators deserve thanks

A tip of the hat in honor of the careers of two retiring Tiffin City School administrators. Terry Phillips at the Tiffin Middle School and Joe Silardi at Tiffin Junior High are completing their final years of guiding young students toward adulthood. Phillips came to the school system in 1975 and Silardi in 1979. Among their other accomplishments, they were the on-site administrators for the change from two junior highs to the middle school-junior high system.

Wahlstrom honored at Heidelberg

Heidelberg College has honored Ruth M. Wahlstrom, Ph.D., an English professor for 31 years, as the first recipient of the Jane Frost-Kalnow Professorship in the Humanities. It is intended to foster educational excellence in humanities teaching and to recognize humanities and other faculty members whose teaching excellence and scholarship make the humanities &emdash; languages, literature, philosophy, history and religion &emdash; a strong component of a liberal arts education. A sabbatical during the 2000-01 academic year will take Wahlstrom, chair of Heidelberg's English Department, to South Africa as a participant in a grant from the U.S. Department of Education.