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RETIRING ACCOUNTING TEACHER NAMED PROF OF THE YEAR |
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May 07, 2007
GROVE CITY, Pa. – Professor of Accounting Larry Fleming was named the 2007 Grove City College Professor of the Year at a ceremony in Harbison Chapel on May 3.
A longtime instructor of accounting and founder of the campus InterVarsity Christian Fellowship chapter on campus, Fleming will retire at the close of the 2006-07 academic year after 33 years of teaching. A Certified Public Accountant, Fleming earned his bachelor of science and master’s degrees at the University of North Dakota. He also completed academic work at Northwestern College, Mayville State College and North Dakota State University.
After coming to Grove City College in 1974, Fleming founded the InterVarsity chapter in 1978, in line with his heart for missions. InterVarsity is an evangelical campus mission serving more than 35,000 students and faculty on more than 560 college and university campuses nationwide. Fleming has remained the group’s adviser for the past 29 years. In recent years, he has helped accounting majors get experience in the mission field.
Fleming joined the Grove City College faculty after teaching at Missouri Valley College in Marshall, Mo., for five years.
He and his wife, Peggy, have two adult children: Stephanie, who graduated from Grove City in 1997, and Scott, a ’96 grad who teaches Introduction to New Testament Greek at the College.
The Professor of the Year was initiated in 2000 by the Omicron Delta Kappa campus leadership honorary and is sponsored by the Grove City College Alumni Association. Past winners include Dr. Ralph Carlson ’62 (2006), Dr. James Bibza (2005), Richard Leo (2004), Dr. James Dixon (2003), Dr. Timothy Homan (2002), Dr. John Sparks ’66 (2001) Dr. Gary Smith ’72 (2000).
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