Delta College - Gnosis Yearbook (University Center, MI)

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FRANCES B. GAINEY of the business department is currently teaching Principles of Accounting, Payroll Accounting, Federal Taxation, and Auditing. She earned a B.S. degree at Central Michigan and has done graduate work at both Central Michigan and Michigan State University. Previous experience includes teaching at Bellevue High School, Bellevue, Michigan; at Walter French Junior High School, Lansing; and at Bay City Junior College, and work at Fisher Body Division, Lansing, and Grey Iron Foundry, Saginaw. Mrs. Gainey has a fourteen year old daughter. LAWRENCE R. GAITSKILL went to the University of Kentucky for his A.B. and M.A., and is now working on his Ph.D. in political science. He is married, and has three children. Mr. Gaitksill came to Delta after teaching for four years at Bay City J.C., where he taught political science. He served as investigator for the Civil Service Com¬ mission, has been Associate Coordinator of International Cooperation Contracts at the U. of K., and has published reports for the Kentucky Legislation Research Commission. DOUGLAS C. GORDON is now teaching courses in marketing, sales, advertising, and business. From Central Michigan University he received B.A. and B.S. degrees and an M. A. from the University of Michigan. He is completing work on his doctorate at Michigan State University. He taught at Bay City Junior College before coming to Delta. The father of four children, Mr. Gordon is also sponsor of the Business Ad¬ ministration Club. JOAN HACKETT, speech instructor, has received degrees from Northwestern (B.S.S.), and Michigan State University (M.A.). Her previous teaching experience includes work at Wayne State; M.S.U.; Pueblo J.C.; and Bessie Tift College, Forsythe, Georgia. 28

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FLOYD FEUSSE, instructor of shorthand and records management, holds a B.S. degree from Central Michigan University and an M.A. from Colorado State College. He has previously taught at Warren; Saginaw; Michigan State University; and the University of Hawaii. HAROLD FORTNEY, instructor in history and political science, has earned degrees at Fairmont State Teachers College (A.B. in education) and at West Virginia University (M.A.). He has also done graduate study at the University of Wisconsin and Ohio State University, where he is a Ph.D. candidate. Previously he taught in senior high schools in West Virginia, Ohio and Illinois, and at Otterbein College, Wittenburg College and Bay City Junior College. During World War n, he served for three and a half years in the Army Air Corps in Egypt, Palestine, Libya, Tunisia, Sicily, and Italy. The father of one daughter, he is interested in photography and athletics. He is co-advisor to the College Council. SAMUEL J. FREED, physics instructor, earned his A.B. at Northern State Teachers College and his M.S. at the University of Michigan. He has done further graduate work at Michigan State University and Colorado College. He has had experience in public school administration and has taught at Central Michigan University and Bay City Junior College. Mr. Freed is married and the father of a son, Robert. His hobbies are photography and sports. HULDA FRITZEMEIER includes among her special inter ests: travel, reading, free¬ lance writing, music, and the outdoors. A native of Iowa, she earned a B.A. at North Central College in Illinois, and an M.A. at the University of Iowa. She has done graduate study at the University of Arkansas. Miss Fritzemeier has been an instructor of English at Wartburg College, Dakota Wesleyan, and recently at Bay City Junior College. She now teaches English.

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CARL H. HENDERSHOT, who is now Delta’s Coordinator of Improvement, received a Bachelor of Science in Education at the University of Akron, an M.A. in Education at the Graduate School of Western Reserve University, and a Doctor of Education at West¬ ern Reserve. OTTO E. HENNING, English instructor, received a B.S. from Central Michigan Uni¬ versity and an M.A. from the University of Michigan. He is married and the father of two children. Former teacher and principal of Freeland Junior High School, he enjoys listening to music, reading, coin collecting, sports, singing, and building his family’s house in Freeland. MARSHALL G. HIER, psychology instructor, received his A.B. degree from Central Michigan University and M.S. from the University of Michigan. He has taught in Bay City, Saginaw County, and Bay County, as visiting teacher and school psychologist; he has taught psychology at Bay City Junior College and Eastern Michigan University. His entire family is interested in rose cultivation, travel, and church activities. At Delta Mr. Hier is advisor to the Christian Intervarsity Club and is interested in bring¬ ing here the third and fourth years of study. His wife and daughter teach in Bay City Schools. For the past 16 years he has been pastor of local churches in addition to his teaching career. WILLIAM S. HOFFMANN, before coming to Delta, taught at Wiley College, Appalachian State Teachers College, Western Carolina College, and Bay City Junior College. He earned a B.A. with honors from the University of North Carolina, M.S. from the Uni¬ versity of Wisconsin, and Ph.D. from North Carolina in American History. In connec¬ tion with a course in political science he has done a video tape series, Our Federal Government.” The first of his two books won the James Sprunt Publication Award. Dr. Hoffmann and his wife have three cats and a nephew who attends Delta. For five years, the Hoffmanns owned and operated a travel camp. Dr. Hoffmann hopes to see Delta be¬ come a four-year college, preferably as a campus of the University of Michigan.”