Don Lick Honored

Professor Don R. Lick (EMU) was awarded one of five Certificates of Meritorious Service at the January 1997 national MAA meeting in San Diego. These awards, established in 1984, are given for service to the MAA at the national level or for service to a section of the Association; the recipients are selected by the sections on a rotating basis, once every five years per section.

The citation presented to Dr. Lick reads, in part, as follows:

The Michigan Section of the MAA is pleased to recognize Professor Don R. Lick as its 1997 recipient of the Certificate of Meritorious Service. We gratefully acknowledge, with many thanks, the substantial contributions that he has made to the Michigan Section, to the MAA, and to the greater mathematical community.

Professor Lick has served the Michigan Section as Editor of the Section Newsletter from 1982 to 1984, as Vice-Chair of the Section from 1983 to 1984, as Chair of the Section from 1984 to 1985, and as Governor of the Section from 1986 to 1989. In addition, he has served the MAA as Chair of the Committee on the Teaching of Undergraduate Mathematics from 1989 to 1992, as a member of the Committee on a National Center for Teaching of Undergraduate Mathematics from 1989 to 1992, and as a member of a Subcommittee on Service Courses from 1990 to 1992. He has assisted with the local arrangements, program, and direction of numerous conferences. He is the author of one book, co-editor of four others, and the author of many research articles in analysis and graph theory. Under his leadership, Eastern Michigan University hosted the Annual Section Meeting in 1988, and the Michigan Mathematics Prize Competition for three years.

Professor Lick was a member of the faculty of the Department of Mathematics at Western Michigan University from 1972 to 1985, and has been Professor and Head of the Department of Mathematics at Eastern Michigan University since 1985.