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Anderson, Hart receive 2004 Distinguished Awards at annual Faculty Recognition Banquet Published: June 10, 2004 by C.J. Gish
La Grande, Oregon - When Peggy Anderson started at Eastern Oregon University, the namesake of Quinn Coliseum was still coaching the men's basketball and baseball teams. Four decades later, Anderson has seen many changes around campus and thousands of student, faculty and administrative faces pass through the campus. The longtime physical education and health professor was honored Saturday night at the annual Faculty Recognition Banquet when she received the Distinguished Teaching Faculty Award. Joe Hart of the Division of Distance Education was awarded the Distinguished Administrative Faculty Award. Anderson has been teaching and coaching off an on at EOU since 1963, the same time legendary Mountaineers coach Bob Quinn was in the twilight of his 38 years at Eastern. She left to teach at the University of Arizona from 1974 to 1981 and returned to EOU in 1986, where she began her career as the Mountaineer athletic director. Anderson left the athletic director position in 2001 and returned to the classroom after being named the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics Athletic Director of the Year twice and to the NAIA Hall of Fame in 2000.
"I am pleased and honored to be a recipient (of this award)," said Anderson. "I've always tried to be a conscientious and dedicated teacher and advisor. I'm joining a prestigious group of people who have received this award in the past." Anderson, who was also given the Distinguished Administrative Faculty Award in 1991, is one of only two people at EOU to be selected for both the Distinguished Teaching Faculty and Administrative Faculty awards. The other recipient is outgoing interim president Dixie Lund. "In the twilight of my career, this rewards me for the work I've done on campus," said Anderson, adding she will be taking a leave of absence from EOU until the campus reopens the pool in Quinn Coliseum. "I've always been a strong booster of EOU, but I'm taking a leave of absence until they reopen the pool," said Anderson. "It is like losing a lab. I was here when they first opened the pool (in 1970)." Hart, the Division of Distance Education special programs director, was selected the Distinguished Administrative Faculty. Hart, who is retiring, has been at EOU since 1994. He was the founding architect for EOU's current web distance-education presence, including his work founding the on-line Degree Planning Workshop. For the last four years, he has been working on developing and implementing a new model for distance learning participation by the faculty called the Distance Learning Faculty Specialist Model. "I was surprised, elated and very, very grateful to receive the award," said Hart. "EOU has been a wonderful place to live and work; I've enjoyed both the beautiful surrounding and fine colleagues." During the 2002-03 school year, Hart was on sabbatical investigating how faculty can locate and use online learning resources. He has been working in the field of distance education and education technology since the early days of computer-assisted learning in the 1970s. Other people honored at the banquet included retirees Dixie Lund, interim president, DDE coordinator and dean and business professor who has been at EOU since 1973;Tom Dimond, an art professor at EOU since 1972; and Sue Daniel, the Malhuer County DDE director since 1980. 2004 retirees
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