03-07-94 Prof. Martha Garland to give Commencement Address

PROFESSOR MARTHA GARLAND TO GIVE WINTER COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS

     COLUMBUS -- Martha McMackin Garland, associate professor of
history and associate dean of the College of Humanities at The
Ohio State University, will deliver the commencement address on
March 18.  Approximately 1,850 graduates will receive degrees
during the ceremonies, which begin at 9:30 a.m. at St. John
Arena.

     An administrator and faculty member at Ohio State since
1975, Garland's teaching specialty is modern British history,
particularly the social and cultural aspects of the late
Victorian period.  She is especially interested in religion and
religious change, focusing on the widespread loss of faith at the
end of the 19th century.

     She has been very involved with university governance and
service.  In 1992-93, she chaired the University Senate's
Steering Committee and served on the University Priorities
Committee.  Recently, she was named to co-chair the newly formed
University Committee on the Undergraduate Experience, which will
explore ways to enhance undergraduate education at Ohio State.

     Throughout her career, Garland has had a strong interest in
undergraduate education.  She has worked extensively with the
Honors Program, teaching a freshman honors class in European
history and volunteering her services in student recruitment and
other projects.  Last year she was undergraduate chair of the
Department of History, and in her current position as associate
dean she is responsible for instruction and curriculum in the
College of Humanities.

     At the autumn 1992 convocation, she gave a well received
talk to the new freshmen about how to succeed in college.  Her
advice, tendered from her position as faculty member and mother,
reflected her interest in values and ethics and was laced with
humor and common sense.

     A native of Illinois, Garland earned her bachelor's degree
in history at Tulane University and the University of London in
1964.  Her master's degree in medieval history is from Cornell
University in 1966 and her Ph.D. in modern British history is
=66rom Ohio State in 1975.

                       Commencement Awards

     Two persons will be awarded honorary doctorates during the
commencement ceremonies:

     =FE Virginia Hamilton of YELLOW SPRINGS will receive the
honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree.  She is one of the
world's best known and most honored writers of children's
literature.  Her novel M.C. Higgins, the Great, won the three
most presitigious awards given to children's literature: the
Newbery Medal, the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, and the National
Book Award.

     =FE Torsten Wiesal, acting president of Rockefeller University
in NEW YORK CITY, will be awarded the honorary Doctor of Science
degree.  Along with David Hubel, Wiesal won the 1981 Nobel Prize
in Physiology and Medicine for his work on the visual processing
mechanism of the brain.  His pioneering research has had
considerable relevance to clinical care of vision patients.

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