IN SR0079

Congratulates Professor Melissa Butler on her retirement after 37 years of service to Wabash College, where she taught since 1976

Recognizes Butler as the first woman to receive tenure at Wabash College, rising to full professor and chairing both the Political Science Department and Social Sciences Division

Acknowledges her international teaching experience through Semester at Sea, Sheffield City Polytechnic in England, Great Lakes College Association's European Urban Term, and East China Normal University's International Summer School in Shanghai

Notes her academic honors including the Eugene N. and Marian C. Beesley Professor of Political Science designation in 2008 and the McLean-McTurnan-Arnold Award for Teaching Excellence in 1994

Recognizes her scholarship on Jean-Jacques Rousseau and service as past president of the Rousseau Association