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Dr. Patricia Arneson
Professor Arneson to Attend Oxford Round Table Forum
Dr. Patricia Arneson of Wayne State College will participate in the 20th anniversary of the Oxford Round
Table, to be held July 5-10 at Oxford University in Oxford, England. Arneson is one of 40 international
scholars invited to attend as a discussant and/or presenter. Participants include governmental and business
leaders, ministers of education, and educational leaders and faculty from institutions and countries worldwide.
The purpose of the Oxford Round Table is to promote education, art, science, religion and human rights
through academic presentations and scholarly discussion. First held in 1989, the Oxford Round Table is a
unique forum that provides the opportunity to discuss important policy questions during a five-day period in a
collegial “think-tank” atmosphere.
This year’s forum is “Women’s Careers: The Presumption and Burdens of Proof.” Topics include career
traps for women, women’s career investments and returns, workplace politics, social and cultural restraints on
equal pay, workplace discrimination, and gender equity issues.
Dr. Arneson is professor of business at Wayne State College, teaching in the disciplines of Human
Resource Management and Business Teacher Education. She has been the recipient of teaching and service
awards for her contributions to business e)ducation. Arneson is a member of the Society for Human Resource
Management, as well as the Nebraska State Business Education Association, Mountain-Plains Business
Education Association, National Business Education Association, and Delta Pi Epsilon graduate honorary.
Professor Bertolas Elected to National Executive Committee
Dr. Randy Bertolas, chair of the Department of History, Politics, and Geography and professor of
geography at Wayne State College, was recently elected to the National Executive Committee of Gamma
Theta Upsilon. Gamma Theta Upsilon (GTU) is the international honor society in geography, established
in 1928. Bertolas chartered the Lambda Zeta chapter of GTU at Wayne State College in 2002.
Bertolas grew up on the Iron Range of northern Minnesota. He attended the University of Minnesota-
Duluth and was studying geography in his dorm room the night the Edmund Fitzgerald sank in Lake
Superior on Nov. 10, 1975. Subsequently, he earned graduate degrees in geography from the University of
Vermont in 1982 and from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1995. A high school instructor
and wrestling coach in the 1980s, Bertolas has been teaching at Wayne State College since 1995.
He has received numerous awards including the Outstanding Professor of the Year Award presented by
the WSC Student Senate in 2005 and 2009, and the Distinguished Teaching Achievement Award presented
by the National Council for Geographic Education in 2006. Bertolas also serves as coordinator of the
Geographic Educators of Nebraska, an organization that collaborates with the National Geographic Society
and is dedicated to raising the level of geographic literacy in the state.
Bertolas was elected alongside new GTU National Executive Committee members from Old
Dominion University, Oklahoma State University and the University of Tennessee-Knoxville.
Dr. Randy Bertolas
Professor Mueller Shows Work in Kearney, Lincoln and New York City
Wayne State College Professor of Art Marlene Mueller gave a solo exhibition at the Museum of
Nebraska Art (MONA) from Oct. 18 to Jan. 4. The exhibit was the first full-scale showing of her complete
fire drawing series. Mueller’s fire drawing series was also shown in Lincoln and New York City. Work
by Mueller was included in a two-person show with David Harvey at Tugboat Gallery in Lincoln, April
3-26. Mueller’s work features charcoal drawings that address the transformation of solid matter into ash
where the elements of flame, steam, water, and smoke provided the foundation of her study. Tugboat
Gallery is located at 116 N. 14th St. in Lincoln. Tugboat provides showing opportunities for emerging
artists as well as established professionals. The goal of Tugboat, as a non-commission gallery is to exhibit
high quality exciting artwork. Mueller’s Into the Ashes charcoal drawing series gained her acceptance
into The Drawing Center’s Viewing Program in New York City. Called "one of the city’s most highly
respected small art museums" by the New York Times, the Drawing Center has become the country’s
preeminent venue for important contemporary and historical drawing exhibitions. Established in 1977,
the Viewing Program offers emerging artists the opportunity to include their work in a curated Artist
Registry. Mueller’s work can be seen on-line by going to The Drawing Center Website at: http://www.
drawingcenter.org/viewingprogram/portfolio.cfm.
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