Sarah Clevenger
Sarah Clevenger, Ph.D., formerly of Brown County, a botanist and professor emerita at Indiana State University, has received the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award for career longevity and unwavering excellence in her chosen field.
Clevenger has been recognized by Marquis’ "Who’s Who Top Scientists" for dedication, achievements and leadership in botanical science. She has been highlighted in several editions of "Who’s Who of American Women," "Who’s Who in America," "Who’s Who in Science and Engineering," "Who’s Who in the Midwest" and "Who’s Who in the World."
Utilizing more than 35 years of university teaching and research experience, Clevenger served as a professor at ISU from 1978 until attaining emerita status in 1985, a title she still holds today.
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Prior to this appointment, she was an assistant and associate professor at the university between 1963 and 1978, having previously served as an assistant professor at Eastern Illinois University, Wittenberg University and Berea College between 1957 and 1961. She began her career as a science teacher at Radford and Hillsdale schools in 1949.
Clevenger holds a bachelor’s degree in bacteriology from Miami University and a doctorate in plant physiology from the Department of Botany at Indiana University. She was the first to isolate and name the yellow flower pigment aurantinidin.
She also designed and built an automatic greenhouse, which required only weekly filling of the water reservoir. In the greenhouse, she maintained research plants that she imported from botanical gardens in Europe, Asia and Africa. She was able to use research laboratories at Indiana University when she taught summer school there.
Clevenger is also a published author and grant recipient.
As a former member of the American Institute for Biological Science and the American Society of Plant Taxonomists, Clevenger is an outside examiner for Ph.D. dissertations in Canada and India.
Sheila Roccia, Paul Nolting
Sheila Roccia was recognized at the annual Service Corps of Retired Executives luncheon for her service with the organization. She has been welcoming SCORE representatives and scheduling consult meetings for eight years.
Earlier in December, Paul Nolting announced his resignation after 12 years of service as a SCORE individual small-business counseling representative at the Career Resource Center of Brown County.
SCORE is a 501-nonprofit organization that provides free business mentoring services to prospective and established small business owners in the United States. More than 10,000 volunteers provide these services, with all volunteers being active and retired business executives and entrepreneurs. Local sessions meet in the morning on the first Thursday of every month at the CRC, 246 E. Main St.
The new SCORE representative, Bob Weimer, will join the CRC in January.
To schedule a one-hour, free consultation with Weimer the morning of Thursday, Jan. 3, call the CRC at 812-988-5880.
