8-12-98 SIX RECEIVE SPECIAL COMMENCEMENT HONORS AT OHIO STATE COLUMBUS -- The accomplishments of six leaders in the fields of science, business, higher education and psychology will be recognized with special honors during The Ohio State University's summer quarter commencement Sept. 3 in St. John Arena. Honorary doctorates will be presented to businessman Don Shackelford, scientist Vera Cooper Rubin, environmentalist Ismail Serageldin and psychologist Marie Clay. The Distinguished Service Award will be presented to Frank W. Hale Jr. and Richard J. Solove. Don Shackelford, Doctor of Business Administration Don Shackelford, chair of Fifth Third Bank of Columbus, previously served as chair of State Savings Bank of Columbus for 25 years. An alumnus of Ohio State, Shackelford is a 12-year member of the Ohio State University Hospitals Board, where he has served as chair for the past five years. During his tenure, he has helped the hospitals develop outreach services to extend their care and mission, and assisted in the transition to managed care, ensuring that quality patient care is preserved. He is a member of the Fisher College of Business Dean's Advisory Council and the National Major Gifts Columbus Committee. He also served as co-chair of the campaign for the John Pfahl Executive Education Building and serves on a number of boards, including The Limited Inc., Intimate Brands Inc., The Progressive Corp., Midland Life Insurance Co., Worthington Foods, the Jeffrey Co. and Fifth Third Bancorp. For two years he served as chair of the thrift industry trade association that merged during his tenure into a new entity called America's Community Bankers. Long involved in local community and civic activities, Shackelford is a member of the Columbus Foundation's Governing Board, a trustee of Children's Hospital and Children's Hospital Foundation, and a trustee of Denison University. Shackelford is a graduate of Denison University and earned his Master of Business Administration degree from Harvard University, where he was a Baker Scholar. He is a 1991 recipient of the Fisher College of Business Pace Setters Executive Award and the 1997 Master Lifetime Achievement Award from the Entrepreneur of the Year Award Program, which is sponsored by major national and local businesses. Vera Cooper Rubin, Doctor of Science An internationally renowned astronomer, Vera Cooper Rubin has been a member of the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism at the Carnegie Institution of Washington since 1965. She earned her undergraduate degree from Vassar College, her graduate degree from Cornell University and a doctoral degree from Georgetown University. She spent 10 years on the faculty of Georgetown University before joining the Carnegie Institution, where she devoted her professional career to the study of motions of gas and stars in galaxies and motions of galaxies in the universe. Her observational work with Kent Ford on spiral galaxies during the 1970s demonstrated for the first time that gravitational mass, now known as dark mass, exists throughout galaxies, not just in their central regions. The amount of dark matter is many times greater than the matter that makes up planets, stars and interstellar gases. Rubin also played a major role in characterizing the range of galaxy properties and the connections between these properties and the larger scale environment in which the galaxies formed. The study of large-scale motions in the universe has now become a major field of research. She received an appointment to the President's Committee on the National Medal of Science in 1995 and served as committee chair in 1997-98. In 1996, she became the second woman to win the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in London. From 1982 to 1985, Rubin served as president of Commission 28 (Galaxies) International Astronomical Union. She actively promoted the role of women in science through her service with the American Physical Society's Panel on Faculty Positions for Women Physicists and Astronomers, the American Astronomical Society's Committee on Women and the American Women in Science Council. Marie M. Clay, Doctor of Humane Letters Marie M. Clay is professor emerita at the University of Auckland in New Zealand and a fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand, the New Zealand Psychological Society and the New Zealand Educational Institute. A former Senior Fulbright Scholar in Residence at Ohio State in 1991, Clay taught primary and special classes and worked as a clinical child psychologist during her career in the New Zealand education system. Her interest in child development and clinical problems resulted in a program of intervention to help children at risk for literacy problems. The program, Reading Recovery, is now being delivered to some 150,000 children worldwide and was introduced in the United States in 1984-85 when Clay was a Distinguished Visiting Professor in Ohio State's College of Education. Her book Reading Recovery: Guidelines for Teachers in Training has sold more than 8 million copies worldwide, and her books The Patterning of Complex Behavior and its later edition, Becoming Literate: The Construction of Inner Control, are considered classics in the literature on learning. She is the recipient of the David H. Russell Award from the National Council of Teachers of English and the International Citation of Merit from the International Reading Association, and is a Dame Commander of the British Empire. She served as president of the International Reading Association in 1992-93, and was the first non-American to hold that office. Ismail Serageldin, Doctor of Natural Resources Management Ismail Serageldin is the vice president for environmentally sustainable development for the World Bank, and is internationally known for his contributions to international agricultural research development. A native of Egypt, Serageldin has special interest in and understands the problems of scarcity of freshwater resources in the arid regions. He has developed administrative channels to facilitate sustainable use and management of this precious resource. Serageldin oversees the World Bank's environmental and agricultural policies and lending, as well as urban development, transportation, water and sanitation lending. He has spearheaded the cause of environmentally sustainable development, especially in developing countries. He has made investments in international agriculture a priority as chair of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research. Under his leadership, CGIAR increased its budget by 10 percent, to $330 million, and was instrumental in the Green Revolution of the 1970s in South Asia. Serageldin earned his undergraduate degree from Cairo University, and his graduate and doctoral degrees from Harvard University. He is a member of the Syndicate of Professional Engineers, the American Planning Association and the American Academy of Political and Social Science. Frank W. Hale Jr., Distinguished Service Award Frank W. Hale Jr. is vice provost for minority affairs and professor emeritus at Ohio State, where he served for 17 years before his retirement in 1988. Hale began his career in higher education as chair and professor in the Department of English at Central State University. He then served as president of Oakwood College in Huntsville, Ala., before coming to Ohio State in 1971 as professor of communications and associate dean and chair of the Fellowship Committee of the Graduate School. In 1978 he was appointed the university's second vice provost for minority affairs. Following his retirement, Hale served for three years as special assistant to the president at Kenyon College. During his tenure as vice provost, Ohio State became a national leader in graduate education for minorities with the largest and most successful Office of Minority Affairs in the nation. Through his efforts, approximately $15 million in graduate fellowship awards were granted to some 1,200 minority students, 80 percent of whom went on to earn master's and/or doctoral degrees. He was also instrumental in establishing a Minority Scholars Program to award full tuition scholarships to minority high school students. Hale earned his undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of Nebraska, a doctoral degree from Ohio State and a certificate in English Literature from the University of London. He sits on numerous national and regional boards and commissions, including the United Negro College Fund, Operation PUSH, the Seventh-Day Adventist Commission on Higher Education and the Ohio Martin Luther King Commission. Upon his retirement, Ohio State named the Frank W. Hale Jr. Black Cultural Center in his honor, designating the building in which it is housed as Hale Hall. Richard J. Solove, Distinguished Service Award Richard J. Solove is managing general partner of R. J. Solove and Associates, Columbus-area developers of shopping centers, apartments and office complexes. A 1948 graduate of Ohio State, Solove earned his degree in pharmacy and owned three drugstores before he sold them in 1963 to devote himself full time to real estate development. Solove was a founding member of The Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Research Institute Foundation, formerly known as the Ohio Cancer Foundation, serving as the foundation's president from 1989 to 1994. He remains an active member of the foundation. He also serves on the James Cancer Hospital Board's governing board, assisting in guiding the hospital's day-to-day activities. He established the Richard J. Solove Chair in Cancer Medical Therapeutics at the Comprehensive Cancer Center at the James, and sits on the board of the Columbus Bloch Cancer Survivors Park. He is also a past board member of the American Cancer Society and the Shepard Hill Hospital Foundation. # Contact: Tracy Turner, University Communications, (614) 688-3682.