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VEDER AND CHRISTIE EARN CAMPUS COMMUNITY AWARDS |
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November 01, 2011
GROVE CITY, Pa. – The Grove City College Florence E. MacKenzie Campus-Community Awards selection committee has chosen Nancy A. Veder and Homer W. Christie as the 2011 recipients.
Campus honoree Veder, who is the supervisor of Mary Anderson Pew cafeteria, reaches out from campus in many ways. Through East Main Presbyterian Church, she puts forth much work for missions. She helps with the cooking and organizing of Feed My Sheep catering with profits going to missions; is a deacon and distributes meals and blankets with the Deacon Care unit; serves meals for Youth Club and has made and donated quilts for mission projects. During Grove City’s Bicentennial in 1998, Veder and the quilt group to which she belongs made the Grove City quilt that is now at the Grove City Historical Society. Veder made the block with the College’s Harbison Chapel.
She and her husband, Jim, host cook-outs for students and adult groups, including Bible School and the College baseball team. They also have housed students during the College Intersessions when the dorms are closed. Said a nominator, “her love of God and her kindness towards so many in our community creates an environment where her laughter is viral and her optimism is just as infectious.” She and Jim live in Grove City and have two adult daughters. She has worked at the College since 1983.
Community honoree Christie is known to many as the ‘Saturday Science’ teacher. Retired after a 40-year career teaching science at Grove City High School, he began the Saturday Science program in 1960 and it continues to this day. He guides middle and high school students in performing hands-on lab experiments beyond the classroom and shows them the “joy of science.” He uses members of the College’s Beta Beta Beta biology honorary to assist each week with this project.
“Christie’s connection to Grove City College goes beyond training future students and professors,” said a nominator, “he mentors Grove City College students in the teaching of science.” The Grove City native and his wife, Jean, have a grown daughter and son.
The two winners will be honored at a ceremony on campus on Nov. 8.
In 1971, Florence E. MacKenzie, wife of Grove City College president Dr. Charles S. MacKenzie, sought to cultivate the relationship between the College and the Grove City Borough community. Her efforts and involvement included serving as president of Grove City Woman’s Club, the Shakespeare Club, the Women’s Bowling League, secretary of the local United Way and president the Grove City Hospital Board of Trustees, where she oversaw the merger of the Bashline/Rossman and Grove City Hospitals, today known as the Grove City Medical Center.
Following her death in December 1981, President MacKenzie created the Campus-Community Awards to honor her vision and effort and appointed a committee to seek nominations of qualified individuals from both areas whose volunteer efforts embodied the spirit of her work. The awards have been presented since 1983.
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