IUSB to welcome fourth chancellor at installation, SAC dedication Sept. 27

By Kathy Borlik

Una Mae Reck will be officially installed as the fourth chancellor of Indiana University South Bend during ceremonies on Friday, Sept. 27, in the Student Activities Center.

The event will begin with prelude music at 10:45 a.m. by Melissa Luan, a student in the Toradze Piano Studio at IUSB. A local community group, the Symphony Brass Quintet, will play the processional at 11 a.m. Following the procession, graduate student Jeremy Stayton will sing the national anthem.

More than 100 faculty members, and numerous university and community members are expected to attend along with students, alumni and staff.

The invocator will be the Rev. Franklin Breckenridge, pastor of St. James AME Church, Elkhart, and husband of IU Trustee Cora Smith Breckenridge.

IU President Myles Brand will give his opening remarks followed by greetings from representatives of the faculty, students, bi-weekly staff, professional staff, community and alumni.

Sean Botkin, an IUSB alumnus and a former member of the Toradze Piano Institute, will perform two works prior to the installation ceremony.

For a closing, Stayton also will sing Hail to Old IU before the quintet performs the recessional at the close of the ceremony.

In conjunction with the installation, the Student Activities Center will be dedicated at the close of the event. The center was completed and opened in January.

Following the ceremony, guests are invited to a Texas-style barbecue on the Schurz Library Plaza.

Reck began her tenure at IUSB in July following the retirement of Kenneth Perrin. She formerly served as the vice president for academic affairs at State University of New York (SUNY) at Fredonia. In that position, she was chief academic officer for the campus and served as chief executive officer in the president’s absence. Before moving to SUNY-Fredonia, Reck was the dean of education at Kutztown (Pa.) University from 1991 to 1998. Previously, she had served as an administrator and professor in the Reich College of Education at Appalachian State University in Boone, N.C. Reck also has worked as an elementary school teacher and reading specialist. She earned her doctorate in curriculum and teaching at University of North Carolina at Greensboro, her master’s degree in reading from Federal City College in Washington, D.C., and a bachelor’s degree in elementary education from District of Columbia Teachers College.

For further information on the installation, call the IUSB Alumni Office at 574-237-4381.