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Dec. 1, 2000

Five NC State University Professors Receive Holladay Medals

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The North Carolina State University Board of Trustees has awarded the Alexander Quarles Holladay Medal for Excellence to five faculty members in recognition of their outstanding careers at NC State.

Honorees are: Dr. John A. Bailey of Cary, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering; Dr. Salah E. Elmaghraby of Raleigh, professor of industrial engineering; Dr. Richard D. Gilbert of Apex, professor emeritus and graduate director in wood and paper science; Dr. Tom Regan of Raleigh, professor of philosophy and religion; and the late Dr. Michael S. Reynolds, professor emeritus of English.

The Holladay Medal is the highest honor bestowed on a faculty member by the trustees and the university. The 2000 Holladay Medal recipients will be recognized at the university's Honors Convocation, to be held in May 2001. The 2001 Holladay Medal recipients, yet to be selected, will be recognized at the same event.

The Holladay Medal is named for Col. Alexander Q. Holladay, the university's first president. It recognizes the contributions of faculty members in teaching, research and service.

Winners receive a medal and a framed certificate. Their names are also inscribed on a plaque in the NC State Faculty Senate chambers.

Dr. John A. Bailey joined the NC State faculty as an associate professor in 1967 and became a full professor in 1972. He was the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering's associate department head from 1983 to 1984, and its head from 1984 to 1992. Prior to coming to NC State, he served on the faculty at the Georgia Institute of Technology from 1964 to 1967.

A native of England, Bailey earned a bachelor's degree in pure and applied mathematics at the University of London in 1957, and both bachelor's and doctoral degrees in metallurgy at the University College of Swansea, University of Wales, in 1960 and 1963, respectively.

He is a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the American Society for Engineering Education, the Society of Manufacturing Engineers and Phi Kappa Phi honor society.

Dr. Salah E. Elmaghraby joined the NC State faculty in 1967. He was director of graduate programs for operations research from 1970 to 1990, and served as associate department head and graduate administrator for industrial engineering from 1971 to 1975. Prior to coming to NC State, he was an associate professor at Yale University from 1962 to 1967, and research leader at the Western Electric Engineering Research Center in Princeton, N.J., from 1958 to 1962.

A native of Egypt, he earned a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from Cairo University in 1948, a master's degree in industrial engineering from The Ohio State University in 1955, and a doctoral degree in industrial engineering from Cornell University in 1958.

Elmaghraby has written four books and authored or co-authored more than 85 scientific papers. He is a member of Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences, Institute of Industrial Engineers and the National Society of Professional Engineers. He has received many professional awards, including the NC State Alumni Distinguished Professorship in 1999; the Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Science Distinguished Award in 1990; the R.J. Reynolds Distinguished Award in Research and Education in 1987; and the Institute of Industrial Engineers’ Distinguished Research Award in 1970.

Dr. Richard D. Gilbert joined the NC State faculty as associate professor in 1966. He was named professor of textile engineering, chemistry and science in 1968, and associate member of the Department of Wood and Paper Science in 1980. Prior to 1966, he worked at Uniroyal Chemicals in Naugatuck, Conn., from 1955 to 1965, and American Synthetic Rubber Corp. in Louisville, Ky., from 1951 to 1955.

A native of Winnipeg, Canada, Gilbert received his bachelor's degree in chemistry and physics, and a master's degree in organic and physical chemistry from the University of Manitoba in 1942 and 1943, respectively. He received his doctoral degree in organic and inorganic chemistry from the University of Notre Dame in 1950.

He was named an Alumni Distinguished Professor in 1983 and has authored more than 164 publications and articles. He is a member of the American Chemical Society, the New York Academy of Sciences, Phi Kappa Phi honor society, the Fiber Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Dr. Tom Regan came to NC State as an assistant professor in 1967. He became an associate professor in 1972 and a full professor in 1978. Before coming to NC State, Regan worked as an instructor and assistant professor at Sweet Briar College from 1965 to 1967.

A native of Pittsburgh, Regan received his bachelor's degree from Thiel College in 1960, and his master's and doctoral degrees from the University of Virginia in 1962 and 1966, respectively.

Regan was inducted into the NC State Academy of Outstanding Teachers in 1969 and was an Alumni Distinguished Professor from 1977 to 1981. He was a Visiting Distinguished Scholar at the University of Calgary in the spring of 1977 and at Brooklyn College in 1982, as well as a Fellow at the National Humanities Center from 1984 to 1985. He received the Gandhi Award in 1986, and the Joseph Wood Krutch Medal from the Humane Society of the U.S. in 1987. He is a member of the American Philosophical Association, the N.C. Philosophical Society, the Virginia Philosophical Society, the American Society for Values Inquiry, the Society of Ethics and Animals, the Society for Business Ethics, and was co-founder of the Moore Society.

Dr. Michael S. Reynolds, who died of pancreatic cancer in August, came to NC State in 1965 as an instructor, and was named an assistant professor in 1971, an associate professor in 1974 and a full professor in 1978. He was associate dean for research and graduate programs in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences from 1993 until his retirement in 1997. He also served as director of graduate studies in the department of English from 1987 to 1993. Before coming to NC State, Reynolds served in the U.S. Naval Reserves from 1961 to 1965.

A native of Kansas City, Mo., he received his bachelor's degree from Rice University in 1959, his master's degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1961 and his doctoral degree from Duke University in 1971.

Last year, Reynolds published Hemingway: The Final Years, the final volume in his series of biographies of Ernest Hemingway. Reynolds' 25 years of scholarship on the writer, including 10 books, earned him a reputation as one of the world's foremost Hemingway experts. His first volume, The Young Hemingway, was a finalist for an American Book Award in 1986. His second volume, Hemingway: The Paris Years, was named one of the 32 best books of 1989 by Library Journal. Until recently. He was president of the Hemingway Foundation and Society, which he helped found. He also served on the advisory board of the Ernest Hemingway Foundation.

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