2006 Awards

Valarie Omega Justiss Vance, PhD '49
Distinguished Career Award

• Post-doctoral trainings at Hanswoerker Skolen in Sanderberg, Denmark, University of Vienna in Austria, Howard University School of Social Work, and the Columbia Union College American Institute of Foreign Study
• Wrote California's social work provisions that were included in the War on Poverty
• First African American world-wide to write extensively on the subject of unmarried fathers
• Past Associate Director of the first Black radio show, AMERICANS ALL, at Station WOOK, Washington, D.C.
• Former consultant and grant writer for the Council of Affiliated Negro Organizations (CANO) and member of the National Association of Colored Women's Club, Inc.
  
  
  
  

  John Michael Seelig, MSW '76
  Distinguished Career Award
  
  

• Dean of Caudill College of Humanities, Morehead State University
• Fulbright Research Scholar Distinguished International Lecturer, Slovak Academic of Sciences American Council on Education Fellow
  United Nations Volunteer in Ethiopia where he assisted in conducting an accurate consus of Somali refugees
• Former Executive Assistant to the President of Morehead State University
• Former Dean of College of Education and Behavioral Sciences, Morehead State University
  
  
  
  

  Marguerite Turnbull, MSW '68
  Distinguished Career Award
  
  

• Past Director of Girls Work at Pillsbury Settlement House
• Former President of Iowa City Chapter of the League of Women Voters
• Past volunteer Job Training Partnership Program for Ohio Bureau of Employment Services
• Past Board Member, Coalition on Homelessness and Housing in Ohio
• Past volunteer with Open Shelter Board of Columbus
  
  
  
  
  
  

  John "Jack" Marshall Ford, BSSW '69
  Distinguished Career Award
  
  

• First African American Mayor of Toledo
• Former Ohio House of Representatives (1994-2001)
• Past Democratic Leader of the Ohio House of Representatives
• Past Toledo City Council Member (1987 - 1993)
• Past Council President (1993)
• Adjunct Professor at University of Toledo and Bowling Green University
  
  
  
  
  

  Kenneth R. Yeager, PhD '99
  Distinguished Recent Alum Award
  
  

• Assistant Clinical Professor, OSU College of Medicine Department of Psychiatry
• Co-Director of OSU Collaborative for Integrative Behavioral Healthcare Education
• Past Director of Quality, OSU Harding Hospital
• Former Clinical Director, OSU Hospital East Talbot Hall
• Editorial Review Editor and Book Reviewer for Oxford University Press
• Fellow of American College of Mental Health