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Volume 44,Issue
Biology Professor Receives Professor of the Year Award
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MATT McHALE
Staff Writer
Methodist College is ac
credited and well known for its
excellent faculty, so receiving an
award for being the top professor
is quite an accomplishment.
This year MC awarded
Professor of the Year to Dr. Lysa
Marie Hartley the assistant pro
fessor of biology on April 3rd at
the annual Spring Awards Cer
emony. Students and faculty who
voted sent letters of recommen
dation, which became nomina
tions and were taken into consid
eration by the college. Dr. Hart
ley was shocked and surprised by
the announcement of her award.
She shouldn’t have been with the
overwhelming support and love
she has from both her students
and coworkers.
“Dr. Hartley has been an
asset to the Biology Program.
She is a wonderful teacher and
advisor and goes out of her
way to help her students,” said
co-worker and friend. Dr. Lori
Brookman.
Dr. Hartley is a busy
woman from taking care of her
husband and two sons, Roland
and Richard. She teaches and
advises and has extensive expe
rience in the Biology and Ecol
ogy world with her previous job
from the North Carolina Heritage
Program, whose goal was to help
conserve natural resources. She
attended North Carolina
State College and received
her B.S. and Ph. D
from there and
her Masters at
Duke Univer
sity.
You can
have all the knowl
edge in the world
and still be a
bad teacher.
What sets
Dr. Hartley
apart from
those other
teachers?
For one.
Dr. Hart
ley has
the love of
her students.
“Dr.
Hartley is
an awesome
teacher □. . . u ,
Photo by Matt McHale
because |_yga Hartley, a Biology professor was awarded the Professor
she makes of the Year award at the Spring Convocation on April 3rd.
complicat
ed things
simple, she’s so ftinny, she’s just
great,” said freshman Amy Harka
who is in her Plant Communities
class. The fun quality that Pro
fessor Hartley posseses could be
the reason for the award.
“I have a lack of taking
many things seriously,” Dr. Har
ley said.
Her students and co-workers
feel that it is her exuberant per
sonality, her quirky jokes and her
general love for her job and her
students that sets her apart.
Dr. Hartley wants her fu
ture students to know,
'Don’t leave your
sense of hu
mor at home,
and keep your
whining switch
turned off.” She also
added that, “Method
ist College is so
special because
the students that
go here are so
awesome.” The
ftiture looks
bright for
the science
department
with possible-
construction of
the new science
building and a
new professor
will be hired soon.
Other award winners in
clude: Sabrena Wells won the
American Institute Of Chem
ists Award, Alan Reece Comer
won the Delapa Art Award,
Eunok Palmer won the Balaez-
Ambrose Award, and Richard
Bramber won Clark Accounting
Award.
Linda Brooke Thompson
won the Clark Memorial Social
Service, Kyle Deas won the
Walter Clark Maximum Effort
Award, Christen Snyder won
the Joe Cannata Award, Alison
Palmer won the R. Christian
English Achievement Award.
Kurt Kempfe won the CRC
Press Freshman for Chemistry
Achievement, Rhyan Breen
won the Debater of the Year.
Douglas B. Austin won the
Outstanding Criminal Justice
Graduate Award, Lawrence
Osboume-Quinnett won the
Willis Gates Music Award,
Jessica Gamer won the Gautam/
Business Award, Judith A. Srey
won the HCA Award, Christina
Robles won the Pauline Longest
Award.
Lynn Jakes won the George
& Lillian Miller, Eric Douglas
won the Marketing Award, Ben
jamin Bakken won the Method
ist College President Award,
David Merrill won the Oratorio
Singers Award, Anastasiya Car
ney won the Ott-Cooper Award,
Marianne Parker won the Plyler
Humanities, Martha R. Cook
won the Outstanding Political
Science Student Award.
Tiffany Meehan won the
Elaine Porter French Award,
Will Montoya won the Pub
lisher’s Award, Joshua Blizzard
won the Pulliam Award, Robert
Fritz won the Charles Reeves
Outstanding Scholar Award.
Lakeisha Brown won the
Social Work Student Award,
Enausa Davis-Robinson won
the S WK Senior Award, and
Christian Ray Roncketti won
the Lura Tally Award.