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ALUMNI NEWSCollege of Education recognizes Distinguished EducatorsThe Northwestern State University College of Education inducted outstanding alumniinto the Hall of Distinguished Educators during Homecoming festivities Oct. 24-25.This year’s Distinguished Educators were, from left, Dr. Jerry Payne of Marshall,Texas; Dan Chase of Baton Rouge, John Dilworth of Montgomery, Ala.; Hershel M.Machen Jr. of Winnfield and Connie Gaines Buck of Baton Rouge. They wererecognized during a brunch hosted by the College of Education and honored for theirleadership and contributions to education.The NSU College of Education inducted five outstandingalumni into the Hall of Distinguished Educators duringHomecoming. This year’s Distinguished Educators are ConnieGaines Buck and Dan Chase of Baton Rouge, John Dilworth ofMontgomery, Ala., Hershel M. Machen Jr. of Winnfield and Dr.Jerry Payne of Marshall, Texas.Buck earned a bachelor’sdegree in business education in1971, a master’s in business educationin 1973 and +30 in businesseducation in 1978. She began hercareer as a business teacher atBossier High School before joiningthe Department of Education for 22years as program manager andexecutive officer.Chase graduated form Northwesternin 1957 with a degree inhealth and physical education andearned a masters in educationadministration at NortheasternState College in 1964. He beganhis career as a teacher and coach inConcordia Parish and later workedas a graduate assistant at the Universityof Arkansas before returningto Louisiana as a teacher andcoach in East Baton Rouge Parishand the Louisiana State School forthe Deaf.Dilworth earned undergraduateand master’s degrees in educationat Northwestern and completedpost-masters study at NSU, LSU-Shreveport, Louisiana Tech andGrambling. He is currently thesuperintendent of MontgomeryPublic Schools in Montgomery,Ala., where he is the instructionaland operational leader forAlabama’s third largest school district.Machen graduated from Northwesternin 1959 with a degree inhealth and physical education and aminor in math. He earned a master’sdegree in education fromNortheastern Louisiana Universityin 1966 and completed +30 at NSUin 1974. He began his career as amath and P.E. teacher and coach atthree schools before moving toWinnfield in 1966, where he was afootball coach and P.E. and mathteacher at Winnfield Jr. High andWinnfield High School. He servedas principal at Winnfield SeniorHigh from 1975-1992.Payne earned bachelors andmasters degrees in music educationfrom NSU in 1957 and 1968, specialistin education in 1969 anddoctorate in education in 1973. Ina career spanning 45 years, Paynewas a music educator for 20 yearsin Louisiana and 25 years in Texas,including four years as director ofbands at NSU. During that time,Payne led his bands in numerousoutstanding competitive performancesand was recognized with severalprofessional honors.Alumni Columns Winter 2008 / 4Visit our website at:
ALUMNI NEWSSP TLIGHTSBrian Coatney (2001), directorof orchestras at Plano, Texas, SeniorHigh School, won Honor FullOrchestra class 5A High School forthe state of Texas. Only one orchestraper year is selected for this honor.Brian’s orchestra will perform at theTexas Music Educators AssociationConference in San Antonio in February2009.Brian’s father Royce Coatneywon the same honor two years ago.Royce didn’t attend NSU, but he sentall of his children to Northwestern fortheir education.Robert C. Crosby (1961) wasinducted into the C.E. Byrd HighSchool Alumni Association’s Hall ofFame in October. Crosby, who graduatedfrom Byrd in 1957, is a privateinvestor, certified public accountantand president of Crosby Enterprisesin Shreveport. He manages realestate development, residential andlight commercial construction,accounts receivable factoring, manufacturingand oil and gas developmentand operations.Crosby earned a bachelor of sciencedegree in accounting at NSU.ValueOptions, Inc., the nation’slargest independent behavioral healthcare provider, has named Eddy D.Broadway (1988) chief executiveofficer of ValueOptions New Mexico.Broadway will start his new positionby April 21.Broadway most recently held theposition of deputy director for theArizona Department of Health Services.In that position, he oversaw theoperations and administrative managementof the Community BehavioralHealth System and Children’sRehabilitation Services program,which provides services to more than150,000 individuals.Previously, Broadway wasadministrator for Behavioral Healthand Children’s Rehabilitation Servicesfor the Arizona Health CareCost Containment System. In thatposition, he had oversight of behavioralhealth and children’s rehabilitationservices contracts.Prior to that, Broadway held theposition of division chief for Qualityand Utilization Management Operationsfor the Arizona Department ofHealth Services.Broadway has also held hospitalsenior management positions atMemorial Hospital/Sand Hill BehavioralHealth in Gulfport, Miss.; aswell as at Brentwood Hospital andCaddo Oaks Hospital, both in Shreveport,La.Broadway is a member of the ArizonaBehavioral Health PlanningCouncil. He is an ex-officio memberof the Arizona Department of JuvenileCorrections Advisory Board andthe Arizona Substance Abuse Partnership.He is an advisory board memberfor the Arizona State UniversitySchool of Social Work.In addition to earning an undergraduatedegree at Northwestern, heholds a master’s degree in healthadministration from Tulane Universityin New Orleans and a master’sdegree in social work from GramblingState University.A research paper by Dr. DanielHellman (1990), a faculty member atMissouri State University, has beenpublished in Update: Applications ofResearch in Music Education. Thepeer-reveiwed article “Do MusicEducation Majors Intend to TeachMusic? An Exploratory Survey,”appears in the fall/winter 2008 editionof Update. Update is the leading journalfor music educators whose focusis to bring current research to bothscholars and practitioners in musiceducation; the journal is published theMusic Educators National Conference.Crystal Mallett has been recognizedby Kappa Delta Pi InternationalHonor Society in Education as aTeacher of Honor. The new Teacherof Honor recognition program honorspracticing teachers with three or moreyears of professional experience whodemonstrate commitment to continuousprofessional growth and integrityin the classroom. Mallett is an Englishteacher at Pineville High School.A three-year educator, she has servedas Pineville’s representative to IMACtraining, which educates and trainsteachers to be mentors and coachesfor technology innovations. Mallettwas instrumental in developing curriculumguidelines for her schools’English Language Honors and Giftedprogram. Mallett was one of nineteachers nationwide to receive thehonor. She created a portfolio of letters,pictures and other evidence toshow her involvement in her school,students and community.Mallett graduated from theLouisiana Scholars’ College at Northwesternin 2005 with a bachelor ofarts degree in elementary education.She then taught gifted and honorsclasses at Pineville Junior High forthree school years. During that timeshe completed a master’s of educationdegree with a concentration inspecial education and gifted at NSU,graduating earlier this year.www.northwesternalumni.comAlumni Columns Winter 2008 / 5
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