Alice Tomic Retires
01/02/2006
CELEBRATIONS FOR A COLLEAGUE OF TWENTY YEARS
Alice Tomic Retires
After twenty years of teaching, mentoring, chairing committees, creating the Communications degree program then leading the department, Professor Alice Tomic, Chair of Communications and Fine Arts, reached the moment of celebration of her success and her retirement. On a foggy Friday evening, the 9th of December, 2005 faculty and staff –past and present—alumni and members of the administration gathered at Orchard House on the Hill campus to honor Alice for her many years of loyal and caring service to Richmond and its people.
Dr. Jos Hackforth Jones presented Alice with a special commemorative plate that had been especially commissioned with words honoring her on the border. Faculty and staff colleagues had signed a book of tributes for her which was presented with flowers. Alice was also presented with a print of a watercolor of the Richmond campus Main Building by Terry McKinagan with a citation by President Norman Smith that Julia Jeannet, Assistant Professor of English for Academic Purposes, read to the assembled colleagues and friends
Left to right: Provost Jos Hackforth Jones, Detective Chief Inspector Graham Walker and his driver, Professor Alice Tomic and Professor Julia Jeannet, Assistant Professor of English for Academic Purposes.
Guests celebrating Alice’s many contributions included Professor Tomic’s son and his wife Anna who teaches Creative Writing at Richmond as well as other current and past faculty and staff colleagues and alumni who knew Alice well. Included among former faculty were Dr. Robert Kuehn, Academic Dean and Senior Lecturer, Yvonne Kukiello, Instructor in English, Catherine Davidson, Instructor in Writing and Director of the Writing Center, Mark Hutchings, Instructor in Communications, Alison Merrick-Hughes, Instructor in English. Some of the alumni present included Bruce Yudoff ’87-‘88, Kristian Skeie ‘98, Izana Wan Ahmad ‘04, Hiroko Kamogawa ’98.
Left to right: Provost Jos Hackforth Jones, Detective Chief Inspector Graham Walker, Dr. Alex Seago toasts Alice as she looks on with glee.
Some of the guests attending included Dr. Robert Kuehn (partial), Harriet Bachrach, John Dwyer, John O’Connell, Alison Rodriguez, Dr. Kersten Glandien, Murray Johnson, Dr. Michele Cohen, Marton Balazs, Wolfgang Deckers, Denise Kuehn.
Alice gave a speech in which she noted how the people of Richmond have always been special--colleagues have been supportive and students inspiring. She encouraged everyone to look forward to Richmond’s future, to embrace change that would lead to the University’s positive development.
The celebrations continued for several hours and Alice wished everyone well in a toast to Richmond—its people and its future.
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