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For Immediate Release							                                   
June 9, 1999

     Lawrence Recognizes 130 Years of Retiring Teaching Experience at
Commencement 


          APPLETON, WIS. -- When William Chaney arrived on the Lawrence
University campus as the newest member of the history department, he fully
intended to stay just long enough to see what a liberal arts college was
like before moving on to bigger and better things.
     Forty-seven years later, he points out with characteristic
understatement, "I seemed to have stayed."
     Chaney is one of four members of the Lawrence faculty, representing
more than 130 years of combined teaching experience spanning five decades,
who will be recognized Sunday, June 13 at the college's 150th commencement.
Graduation ceremonies begin at 10:30 a.m. on the Main Hall Green.
     The George McKendree Steele Professor of Western Culture, Chaney joined
the Lawrence faculty in 1952 after completing his doctorate at the
University of California-Berkeley and spending three years as a Junior
Fellow of the Society of Fellows at Harvard University.  His teaching tenure
has spanned nearly a third of Lawrence's 152-year history and more than 80
percent of all living alumni have passed through the college during his
teaching career.
     A recognized authority on the Middle Ages, Chaney is a Fellow of
England's prestigious Royal Society for Arts and his book, "The Cult of
Kingship in Anglo-Saxon England," is considered the seminal work on the
subject.
     Famous for the Parisian-style "salons" he's hosted three times a week
at his home for a select group of students, Chaney was honored April 11,
1997 with an official proclamation by Lawrence President Richard Warch,
declaring it "Chaney Day" in recognition of his status as Lawrence's
longest-serving faculty member, surpassing the record set by 19th-century
Latin professor Hiram Jones.
     John Stanley joined the faculty in 1962 and has enjoyed a 37-year
career with two distinct phases, first as the Ellen C. Sabin Chair of
Religious Studies and later as the holder of the Edward F. Mielke
Professorship of Ethics in Medicine, Science and Society.
     His research on Hindu healing centers actually led to his career path
jog.  After a year spent in India studying holy places and temples of the
Khandoba sect of Hinduism, he returned to Lawrence with a sense of
responsibility "to be relevant to the lives of the people we talk about."
That led to a course in biomedical ethics and later the establishment of an
entire program devoted to biomedical issues.
     Beginning in 1987, Stanley organized The Appleton Consensus Project, a
series of international conferences focused on life-sustaining treatments
which involved scores of international health care professionals and led to
health policy changes in countries around the world.  He co-authored the
1997 national study, "The Quest to Die with Dignity," for the Robert Wood
Johnson Foundation and last year produced Wisconsin's -- and the nation's --
first set of guidelines for the responsible utilization of intensive care.
     Ted Ross, associate professor of geology, began his Lawrence teaching
career in 1966 and has spent a good deal of the past 33 years "out in the
field," where real geology is taught.  Early in his career Ross used his
private pilot's license to conduct aerial field trips with students for
fly-over inspections of the Fox River corridor, Door County and the moraines
and drumlins of the Kettle Moraine area.  
     He also organized dozens of more conventional field trips, leading
students on spring break and summer excursions to Big Bend National Park,
the desert of Death Valley, Wyoming's Big Horn Mountains and the Grand
Canyon.
     In addition to his teaching, Ross also spent 16 years as an assistant
coach of the Lawrence football team.
     George Damp, professor of music and university organist, joined the
Lawrence Conservatory of Music in 1983.  Instructor of organ and historic
keyboard instruments, he founded the Collegium Musicum, an ensemble of
instrumentalists and singers devoted to the study and performance of
medieval, Renaissance and baroque music.  
     He was instrumental in the efforts to build a new mechanical organ in
the Memorial Chapel, which resulted in the Brombaugh Opus 33 that was
installed in 1995, and counts his role in the creation of Lawrence's
Sesquicentennial Anthem commemorating the college's 150th anniversary first
among his Lawrence accomplishments.
     Damp has had four CDs of his recordings released and has served as
choirmaster and organist for several area churches over the years.
     Chaney, Stanley and Ross will be awarded honorary Master of Arts, ad
eundem, degrees at commencement.