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- Athletic training for the Tennessee Titans is directed
by a man who earned two degrees at Fort Hays State, Brad C. Brown.
Brown earned a bachelor of science in physical education in 1977
and a master of science in physical education and secondary administration
in 1978. He worked as a student athletic trainer for the Kansas
City Chiefs in their 1975 and 1976 training camps. From 1978 to
1985 he was head athletic trainer at FHSU, then moved to Denver
to be an assistant athletic trainer with the Broncos. The National
Football League's Houston Oilers made him their head athletic trainer
in 1987, and when the Oilers moved to Tennessee in 1997 and became
the Titans, Brown moved with them. With the Titans, Brown's job
is to direct the athletic training of all the players and, in conjunction
with the team physicians, manage all injuries. This involves not
only working with the athletes but also organizing and handling
the numerous records required on the condition and status of players
and their rehabilitation from injuries. Brown is a member of the
National Athletic Trainers Association and the Professional Football
Athletic Trainers Society, an organization for which he has served
as secretary since 1999, and the South East Athletic Trainers Association
of NATA, which named him the Professional Athletic Trainer of the
Year for 2002. He also received the Training Staff of the Year,
2001, Award from the PFATS. He was president of the Kansas Athletic
Trainer Society from 1984 to 1985. In addition to his professional
certifications, he was an American Red Cross Basic First Aid instructor
from 1976-79. He also is certified in cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
In 2000, he was given the 25 Year Award by the National Athletic
Trainers Association. Brown and his wife, Kristi '77, live in Franklin,
Tenn. They have two sons, Kyle and Joel.
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- After graduating from FHSU in 1969 with a bachelor
of science in physical education, David J. Dible served two years
in the U.S. Army and then began his career with Wal-Mart Stores
Inc. as a department manager in Lebanon, Mo. He is now executive
vice president of Specialty Groups at Wal-Mart headquarters in Bentonville,
Ark., for the company's 3,000 stores in the United States. Dible
has worked many long hours for Wal-Mart the last 31 years, yet family
time was a priority. Dible's career with Wal-Mart has been a steady
progression of accomplishment. After spending his first year as
a department manager in Lebanon, Mo., he spent a busy year serving
as an assistant store manager in three cities: Waynesville and Monett,
Mo., and Junction City, Kan. From 1973 to 1981 he was a store manager
in Sikeston, Rolla and Waynesville, Mo. In 1981 he moved to company
headquarters as sporting goods buyer, a position he held until 1982,
when he became a vice president divisional merchandise manager.
In 1985 he became general merchandise manager and senior vice president,
where he remained until 1993, when he became executive vice president
of merchandising and sales. He has been executive vice president
of Specialty Groups in charge of pharmacy, optical, jewelry,
shoes, Tire and Lube Express and photo services since 1995. In 1999
he went on special assignment to Leeds, England, for six months
to integrate a recently acquired retail chain into the Wal-Mart
operations. In addition to his busy work schedule and devoted family
life, Dible has been involved in the community: Children's Miracle
Network, Special Olympics, United Way, Arkansas Children's Hospital,
Northwest Arkansas Crisis Intervention Center, Youth Center Recreational
Activities and many others. Dible is a member of the International
Mass Retailers Association, the National Association of Chain Drug
Stores and has been a member of the Chamber of Commerce in numerous
locations. He has received the Sam M. Walton HERO Award and special
recognition from the ASDA Stores of the United Kingdom. He and his
wife, Gloria, a retired psychologist, have two sons, Shawn and Bradley.
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- She earned a degree in English, and her first two
professional positions were in teaching, but it was an interest
acquired during a stint as a student assistant in Forsyth Library
beginning in 1962 that started the career path that Maureen Diane
Pastine has followed. She is now the University Librarian of Temple
University in Philadelphia, Pa. Pastine is the administrator for
the University Libraries -- the main library, the education/social
administration library, four science libraries and the engineering
and architecture library, a mass media and communications library,
a fine and studio arts library located outside of Philadelphia,
and libraries located in Harrisburg and Ambler, Pa., as well as
responsibility for all special collections, university and urban
archives and two international libraries, one in Rome and another
in Tokyo. A former colleague at Washington State University in Pullman,
Wash., where Pastine was director of libraries from 1985 to 1989,
wrote that she went to that position at a time when WSU libraries
needed to upgrade in service, function, technology and reach. After
graduating from FHSU in January 1967 with a bachelor's degree in
English, Pastine taught English, communications, creative writing
and journalism at Kingman High School until 1969. In May 1970 she
earned a master of library science from Emporia State University.
In the fall of 1970, she returned to teaching, this time at Palco
High School, where she also served as librarian. She began her career
as a librarian in earnest in 1971, when she took a position as reference
librarian and later became chair of the reference department at
the University of Nebraska at Omaha. In 1977 Pastine moved to Urbana,
Ill., to be undergraduate librarian at the University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign. In 1979 she became head of the reference department
and coordinator of reference, bibliographic instruction and online
searching at Urbana. From 1980 to 1985 she was university librarian
at San Jose State University, San Jose, Calif. Then she went to
WSU before becoming central university librarian at Southern Methodist
University in Dallas, Texas. She took her current position at Temple
University in 1997. A listing of her publications, editorships and
professional activities, offices and presentations would run for
many pages. Her honors and awards include lifetime membership in
Beta Phi Mu, the international library science honor society, and
in Phi Kappa Phi. In 1986, she received the second Distinguished
Alumni Graduate Library School Award from Emporia State's School
of Library and Information Management. In 1989 she received the
Association of College and Research Libraries Bibliographic Instruction
Librarian of the Year Award. She is in a four-year term as an American
Library Association councilor-at-large. She has also been active
in the communities where she has lived, serving in such capacities
as secretary of the Omaha YMCA, in Philadelphia's Women's Way, and
on the Dallas Museum of Arts Library Board. She is a charter member
of the National Museum of Women in the Arts. She and her husband,
Jerry, who is self-employed in electronics and electrical work,
live in Coatesville, Pa.
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- Public service is the guiding principle for Dr. B.J.
Reed, dean of the College of Public Affairs and Community Service
at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, a position he has held since
March 2001. He was named to the post on an interim basis in August
2000. Reed earned a bachelor of arts in political science in 1971
and a master of science in political science in 1972, both from
FHSU. He received his doctorate in 1977 from the University of Missouri,
where he was given an Outstanding Teaching Award, a fellowship and
a graduate assistantship. He was chair of the Department of Public
Administration at UN-Omaha and a professor in public administration.
He joined the UN-O faculty in 1982 as an assistant professor. Before
that he was a lecturer in the master of public administration program
at the University of Missouri. He also spent a year as an instructor
of social science at Southwestern State College in Weatherford,
Okla. From 1978 to July 1982, Reed was with the National League
of Cities in Washington, D.C., first as senior staff associate and
director of Community and Economic Development Projects, then as
director for Community and Economic Development and finally as director
of Information Services. From 1975 to 1978 he was director of Community
Development for Mexico, Mo., after having spent almost a year there
as an administrative intern in the city manager's office. He also
spent the academic year 1971-72 as a research assistant in political
science at FHSU. Reed has extensive publication, research and service
credentials. His awards include the Chancellor's Medal from UN-O,
the David Scott Endowed Professorship there, the Advancing Excellence
in Public Service Award from the American Society of Public Administration,
the Mayor's Partnership Award from the Greater Omaha Private Industry
Council, and the Elmer Staats Career Public Service Award from the
National Association of Schools of Public Affairs. Reed and his
wife, Christine, who is a professor of public administration and
former associate vice chancellor and dean of Graduate Studies at
UN-O, have two children, Charley and Brenda.
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- James R. Rodrigue's Alumni Achievement Award from
FHSU will join two others in his display case - an Outstanding Alumni
Achievement Award from the Department of Psychology at the University
of Memphis, where he earned his Ph.D. in clinical psychology in
1989, and an Outstanding Alumni Achievement Award from the University
of Maine at Farmington, where he earned a bachelor of arts in psychology
in 1982. He came to FHSU in 1982 from Farmington and in 1984 he
graduated with a master of science in clinical psychology. Rodrigue
is a professor in the Department of Clinical and Health Psychology
at the University of Florida, Gainesville. He started there as an
assistant professor in 1989 following the completion
of his pre-doctoral internship in clinical psychology. He
is also the director and founder of the university's Center for
Behavioral Health Research in Organ Transplantation and Donation
and director of psychological services at the Transplant Center
at the university's affiliated medical center and at Shands Hospital.
From 1993 to 1994 he directed the university's Center for Pediatric
Psychology Research, which he also founded. As a scientist, he is
recognized for his research and work in the psychological aspects
of organ transplantation and donation, with more than 70 publications,
co-author or editor of four books and nearly 100 conference presentations
to his credit. His research is funded by the National Institutes
of Health, among many other organizations and agencies.Perri cites
Rodrigue's publications and research, his work as a clinical supervisor
and his teaching, noting that he has twice been voted by students
in the department as Classroom Teacher of the Year. Rodrigue is
a member of the American Society of Transplantation, the International
Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation, the International Liver
Transplantation Society, the Transplantation Society, and the Society
of Pediatric Psychology. One of his main endeavors is working to
increase awareness about the need for organ donation. He works with
the United Network for Organ Sharing, the American Society of Transplantation,
the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation and
the American Association of Tissue Banks. Rodrigue has a son, Nicholas,
and he and his wife, Kathleen, who is a psychologist and director
of Haile Behavioral Health Services in Gainesville, Fla., are expecting
a baby in January.
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