Education alum to offer advice: “Get physical!”

A nationally recognized expert on exercise physiology and fitness will offer his advice on how to “Get Physical: Live Better at Any Age!” at this year’s UW–Madison School of Education Alumni Weekend program.

Edward Howley, a School of Education alumnus who has been on the front lines of promoting practical, scientifically sound approaches to fitness, will be the featured speaker at the free public program to be held Saturday, May 11, at 10 a.m. in the Margaret H’Doubler Performance Space, Lathrop Hall, 1050 University Ave.

Howley, a professor at the University of Tennessee and president-elect of the American College of Sports Medicine, will share his expertise on finding the right exercise regimen to meet individual needs.

Following the presentation, the School of Education will honor seven distinguished alumni. Receiving Alumni Achievement Awards, the School’s highest honor, will be:

• F. King Alexander, president of Murray State University in Murray, Ky., and a nationally recognized leader in the fields of higher-education administration and policy.
• Sister Mary Gertrude Hennessey, administrator and science teacher at St. Ann School in Stoughton, Wis., whose teaching and research has earned national and international recognition in the fields of science education and educational psychology.
• Edward T. Howley, professor and head of the Department of Exercise Science and Sports Management at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, who will take office as president of the American College of Sports Medicine on May 31.
• Karen E. Koblitz, one of the nation’s leading artists in contemporary ceramics, and an adjunct faculty member and head of the ceramics area at the University of Southern California-Los Angeles.
• Maurine “Cookie” Rogers Miller, an instructional resource teacher at Lincoln Elementary School in Madison regarded as “an outstanding teacher of teachers,” and an on-site university supervisor for UW–Madison teacher-education students.

The Outstanding Recent Graduate Award will be presented to Hedi F. Baxter, curriculum revision project director for the Biological Science Curriculum Study in Colorado Springs, Colo., and 2001 Teacher of the Year at Hartford Union High School in Hartford, Wis., where she taught advanced biology.

The Lois Gadd Nemec Distinguished Elementary Education Alumni Award will be presented to Mary Klehr, a leading voice in Wisconsin and the nation for classroom action research and the on-site supervisor for UW–Madison teacher-education students at Midvale Elementary School in Madison.

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