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From left, Interim President Matt Schroeder; Dr. Seamus Metress, professor emeritus in the Department of Anthropology in the College of Arts and Letters; and Dr. Don Wedding, an associate professor in the Department of Management in the John B. and Lillian E. Neff College of Business and Innovation. Combine their time at UToledo and Wedding and Metress have been part of the Rocket family for more than 110 years.<\/p><\/div>\n
Combine their time at UToledo and Wedding and Metress have been part of the Rocket family for more than 110 years.<\/p>\n
\u201cDon and Seamus have dedicated many years to The University of Toledo and we are grateful for their service. Their passion for our University is truly remarkable,\u201d said Interim President Matt Schroeder. \u201cThe positive impact on the lives of many of our students and faculty over the decades is immeasurable.\u201d<\/p>\n
Wedding earned his bachelor\u2019s and master\u2019s degrees in chemical engineering at the University of Louisville and his juris doctor from American University. He received his MBA in finance and marketing at The University of Toledo in 1968, the same year he joined the University.<\/p>\n
Since 1980, Wedding has served on numerous institutional committees including six terms as a member of the Faculty Senate, most recently from 2017 to 2020, and currently serves as vice president and grievance officer of the UToledo-American Association of University Professors; and has contributed research in dozens of scholarly publications. He also is a member of more than a dozen national and international organizations.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is an honor and privilege to have my picture published with my longtime friend, Seamus Metress, whom I greatly respect. We have been at UT for over 55 years and worked together on the organization of the AAUP faculty union in 1991. Seamus is retiring, but I will continue on. I am in my 57th year at UT. I have taught a full load of courses through the years and have taught over 30,000 students. Many of my former students are prominent in the community as doctors, lawyers, judges and successful business leaders. I am proud to be a UT faculty member. Go Rockets!\u201d<\/p>\n
Having earned his bachelor\u2019s degree from the University of Notre Dame and his master\u2019s degree from Columbia University, Metress joined UToledo in 1969 as a member of the then-Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Social Work. And in 1971 \u2014 the same year he received his Ph.D. from Indiana University \u2014 Metress initiated a degree program for anthropology as a major.<\/p>\n
Metress\u2019 fieldwork in the northern six counties of Ireland in the 1980s and 1990s, conducted with his wife, UToldeo Professor Emeritus Dr. Eileen Metress, generated professional presentations, articles and books. Metress and Eileen both received UToledo’s Outstanding Teacher Award, and in 2022, they were recipients of Ireland\u2019s Cabhair Award, presented in Dublin.<\/p>\n
Metress was designated as a UToledo Doermann Distinguished Lecturer, and earlier this month he was appointed by the Board of Trustees of The University of Toledo to the rank of Professor Emeritus.<\/p>\n
\u201cI loved my job.\u00a0It was most rewarding for me to teach UT’s many working-class students,\u201d Metress said.\u00a0\u201cSo many of them went on to master’s and doctoral programs elsewhere and to rewarding,\u00a0notable careers and fulfilling lives.\u00a0I continue to have contact with so many of them even though they are now miles away, some in different parts of the world.\u00a0I would be remiss if I didn’t mention the night classes, which were also a fixture of UT in former days.\u00a0So many working adults from the community began or finished their academic programs at night; it was delightful working with them.<\/p>\n
\u201cAlso, the interdisciplinary work done with colleagues from across the campus was not only fun, it was professionally rewarding. The cross-fertilization led to team-taught classes, joint cooperative academic degree programs, co-publications and a broadening of student learning,\u201d he added. \u201cThe late historian and noted scholar, Dean Alfred Cave [in UToledo\u2019s then-College of Arts and Science] was very supportive of my activist and political pursuits surrounding human rights issues \u2014 especially those involving Native Americans, Ireland and South Africa. I remain grateful to him for allowing me the applications of my values in the real world.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dr. Don Wedding, an associate professor in the Department of Management, and Dr. Seamus Metress, professor emeritus in the Department of Anthropology, were honored at a special lunch Dec. 20.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":878,"featured_media":90204,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,60,32,1,7],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90203"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/878"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90203"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90212,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90203\/revisions\/90212"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"From](\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/12202024-7277a-150x150.jpg\")
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