Eight faculty members with an astonishing 219 years of combined service to the university recently retired from Wittenberg.

Always active as a liaison to the East Asian Studies Program, Regina Entorf, associate professor and reference librarian, traveled to China in 2004 as a visiting scholar at Zhejiang University. As Thomas Library’s instruction coordinator, she also worked to promote information literacy in the classroom and to include it in the curriculum.

Recipient of numerous awards, including four Fulbrights and the university’s Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching, and the author of four books, James Huffman, H. Orth Hirt Professor of History, is considered one of the most respected East Asian Studies scholars in the world.

William Kraus, professor of education and the former president of the Ohio Mathematics Education Leadership Council, published more than 20 instructional computer games used in schools and homes in the United States and Canada in his career, among his many other scholarly endeavors.

Recipient of a Senior Fulbright Fellowship for study in Taiwan and an expert in Chinese language and literature, Stanley Mickel, professor of foreign languages and literature, authored Reading Chinese Newspapers: Tactics and Skills, published in 1992, which is still widely used at colleges throughout the United States. His Dictionary for Readers of Modern Chinese Prose also continues to be an innovative guide to the 250 grammatical markers most frequently used in modern Chinese writings.

Founder of Wittenberg’s cutting-edge computational science program, which he also directed, James Noyes, professor of computer science, served as a Senior Research Fellow for the National Research Council and for several summers as a Fellow for the Air Force Office of Scientific Research.

Gwendolyn Scheffel, adjunct assistant professor of music, has been recognized for her teaching by selection to Who’s Who Among American Teachers and was an audition winner in the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions. She also served as coordinator of the Wittenberg Series for nearly 20 years.

Recipient of the Omicron Delta Kappa Award for Excellence in Teaching at Wittenberg and opera singer, Kenneth Scheffel, associate professor of music, served as an adjudicator of advanced and professional music contests, festivals, and other competitions, and was invited to act as a consultant and evaluator of music programs in higher education during his career.

In addition to teaching for the Bahamian Reef Environmental Educational Foundation, Carmen Trisler ’64, associate professor of education and biology, also inspired countless children to love insects through her entomology and environmental education workshops.

Pat Clouse, associate professor of health, fitness and sport, also retired.