IN MEMORIAM
The IU Southeast campus community lost three beloved family members this past year with the passing of June Huggins, Gil Atnip, and Jim Morris. We embrace their families and friends in their grief and celebrate each of them and their service to our campus and our students.
June Huggins
June Huggins, inaugural director of the Center for Mentoring at IU Southeast, passed away on June 1, 2023, at the age of 70.
Huggins earned her undergraduate degree and a master’s degree from IU Bloomington, and a second master’s from IU Southeast. As Director of the Center for Mentoring at IU Southeast, June exemplified IU’s strategic diversity goals and was constantly looking for creative ways to reach and engage underrepresented students. She was an active advocate for this population on the campus. June also reached into the New Albany community to help improve the quality of life in Southeast Indiana.
Over her career, she was successful in engaging faculty, staff, and thousands of students. The impact she had on the decision for people to go to college AND graduate is tremendous and her legacy lives on. She developed various pre-collegiate outreach initiatives in several middle and high schools.
Huggins received awards such as the Chancellor’s Diversity Award in 2013 at Indiana University Southeast, the 2013 Charlie Nelms Alumni Award, and she was the New Albany Floyd County Business and Professional Women, Woman of Achievement for 2000-2001.
Gil Atnip
Dr. Gil Atnip, professor emeritus and former vice chancellor at IU Southeast, passed away on June 6, 2023, at the age of 74.
Atnip, a native of Tampa, Florida, was an honors graduate of Stetson University and earned his master’s and doctorate degrees in experimental psychology from Ohio State University. He served as an officer in the U.S. Army Reserve for six years and began as a professor of psychology at IU Southeast in 1975. He later served as Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs until his retirement in 2012.
As Vice Chancellor of Academic Affairs, Atnip was responsible for faculty personnel matters, for periodic review of academic programs, and for assessment of student learning and institutional effectiveness. He oversaw the development and use of learning resources, including the library. Along with the associate vice chancellor and the dean for research, he developed programs to improve teaching and learning, encourage and support faculty research and creative work, and promote the cultural and intellectual growth of the academic community. He received the Distinguished Service Medal upon his retirement.
Jim Morris
Jim Morris, the first director of athletics at IU Southeast and longtime men’s basketball coach, passed away on June 11, 2023, at the age of 87.
Morris, a Jeffersonville native, joined the IU Southeast athletic department as athletic director and men’s basketball head coach in 1975. During his tenure, the IU Southeast athletic department completed construction on the Activities Building in 1979.
The Grenadier men’s athletic teams joined the NAIA in 1978 and the women’s teams followed in 1982. Morris retired in 1999 as the men’s basketball program’s winningest head coach.
In 38 years as a head coach, his teams won 521 games and his 1960 Flaget Braves won the Kentucky State Championship. In eight seasons at New Albany, the Bulldogs won three sectionals and a regional; he was also elected to the New Albany Hall of Fame in 2019. He held various administrative positions in the NAIA, served as president of the NAIA Coaches Association, and was chairman of the NAIA National Basketball Tournament.
He was awarded the Chancellor’s Medallion for his service to IU Southeast in 2010 and the Indiana University Bicentennial Medal in 2020. He was also honored as a Kentucky Colonel and awarded the Sagamore of the Wabash, the State of Indiana’s highest honor.
1960s
Faye R. Jackson, B.S. ‘69
May 16, 2023
1970s
Norman C. Aich, M.S. ‘73
July 21, 2023
Thomas J. Baker, B.S. ‘78
March 2, 2023
Albert L. Bizzell, B.S. ‘71
July 27, 2022
Carl R. Bowman, M.S. ‘78
January 23, 2023
Terry L. Byers, B.S. ‘71
December 15, 2022
Douglas A. Chinn, M.S. ‘77
June 22, 2022
Don R. Conner, B.S. ‘75
October 20, 2022
Carole D. Daniels, M.S. ‘72
December 17, 2022
Danny J. Deaton, M.S. ‘74
March 10, 2023
Phyllis J. Denicke, B.S. ‘70
July 21, 2022
Doris L. Everitt, M.S. ‘73
August 16, 2022
Jedda S. Fallahzadeh, M.S. ‘73
July 29, 2022
Katherine V. Games, M.S. ‘77
October 11, 2022
Gordon S. Hambley, B.S. ‘78
February 18, 2023
Garnetta Harris, A.S. ‘71
July 12, 2022
Nancy C. Haseker, M.S. ‘75
January 8, 2023
Susan M. Holmes, B.A. ‘75
November 12, 2022
Fred L. Holt, B.S. ‘78
April 23, 2022
Leta M. Mann, M.S. ‘75
January 26, 2023
William R. Meyer, B.S. ‘77
September 26, 2022
Veda Murphy, A.S. ‘75
August 9, 2022
Mary G. Peelman, M.S. ‘72
March 6, 2023
Rosalie K. Petty, A.S. ‘74
February 1,2023
Jacqueline A. Pierce, B.A. ‘75
December 28, 2022
Dennis D. Reimold, B.S. ‘75
August 1, 2023
Carolyn J. Reisert, A.G.S. ‘76
March 31, 2023
William D. Schroeder, B.A. ‘78
February 13, 2023
Phillip R. Schroer, M.S. ‘74
August 9, 2022
Katina L. Smith, B.A. ‘74
May 19, 2022
Linda C. Stratford, B.S. ‘72
November 14, 2022
Richard L. Trueblood, M.S. ‘76
April 8, 2022
Geraldine S. Walts, M.S. ‘79
August 11, 2022
Mary A. White, M.S. ‘72
August 15, 2023
Juanita J. Wilson, M.S. ‘74
September 5, 2022
Janice M. Zwald, M.S. ‘73
April 21, 2022
1980s
Dennis W. Burke, B.A. ‘82
February 19, 2023
Margaret M. Burke, M.S. ‘87
June 17, 2023
Keith D. Calvin, B.G.S. ‘82
September 27, 2022
Jacqueline J. Christenson, M.S. ‘88
January 1, 2023
Randy H. Farb, B.S. ‘83
July 24, 2022
W. Darrell Hansel, M.S. ‘86
September 21, 2022
Roger A. Harbeson, C.P.A., B.S. ‘81
June 3, 2022
Katherine P. Heavrin, M.S. ‘88
October 17, 2022
Frank J. Heil, M.S. ‘87
May 2, 2022
David J. Higdon, Jr., A.S. ‘81
July 26, 2022
Lyle D. Houston, M.S. ‘81
September 20, 2022
John P. Howard, B.A. ‘81
February 23, 2023
Ann Murphy Kerr, B.S. ‘82
June 3, 2023
Charles N. King, M.S. ‘82
July 13, 2023
Robert L. Kitterman, B.A. ‘81
June 24, 2023
Robert H. Kreutzer, B.G.S. ‘80
December 9, 2022
Julie A. Lichlyter, M.S. ‘80
July 20, 2022
Michelle A. Perkins, B.S. ‘86
May 15, 2023
Kimberly J. Pettit, B.S. ‘87
May 31, 2023
Robert J. Reed, B.S. ‘86
February 6, 2023
Gregory W. Russell, B.A. ‘82
October 6, 2022
Margaret E. Sparks, M.S. ‘80
May 18, 2022
Glenn D. Sweatt, Cert Bus. Studies ‘84
June 26, 2023
Jerry W. Taylor, B.G.S. ‘89
July 26, 2023
Robert W. Trigg, B.A. ‘81
December 30, 2022
Nancy L. Wilson, B.S. ‘83
May 15, 2022
David M. Wolf, A.A.S ‘87
June 21, 2023
1990s
John D. Abbott, Jr., B.G.S. ‘92
April 1, 2022
Laura A. Blakey, B.S. ‘95
January 26, 2023
Linda K. Bourne, B.A. ‘98
February 26, 2023
Steven K. Holiday, B.S. ‘91
April 11, 2023
Cora M. Huffines, B.A. ‘90
December 13, 2022
Carol J. Kuppler, B.G.S. ‘91
January 12, 2023
Treva R. Martin, M.S. ‘98
November 15, 2022
Michael J. McNames, M.S. ‘96
April 7, 2023
Steven P. Middleton, B.G.S. ‘92
June 7, 2022
Virginia L. Moore, B.A. ‘90
May 6, 2023
Larry M. Ray, B.S. ‘95
April 2, 2023
JoAnn Scott, A.G.S. ‘98
November 5, 2022
Karen S. Smith, B.S. ‘95
June 14, 2022
2000s
Donovan R. Bentley, M.B.A. ‘08
July 16, 2022
Brian K. Dolan, B.A. ‘04
August 6, 2023
David J. Gilliland, B.G.S. ‘01
August 14, 2022
Cindy L. Holley, M.S. ‘03
May 7, 2023
June J. Huggins, M.S. ‘02
June 1, 2023
Johanna H. Mader, M.L.S. ‘05
December 9, 2022
Shawn R. Minton, A.A ‘03
June 30, 2022
Larry G. Pelkey, M.S. ‘02
June 1, 2023
Connie S. Renschler, M.S. ‘02
May 13, 2023
2010s
Darren D. Bennett, B.S. ‘19
October 10, 2022
Shauncae N. Bigham, B.G.S. ‘15
January 1, 2023
Blake E. Bridges, B.S. ‘13
July 1, 2023
Jesse A. Riddle, B.S. ‘13
August 20, 2023
Suzanne Witten, M.S. ‘19
May 3, 2022
Shanna M. Wright, M.S. ‘10
July 5, 2022
2020s
Thomas M. Kalonji, B.A. ‘22
October 14, 2022
Ahmad I. Price, B.G.S. ‘22
July 30, 2022