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Monahan, instructor in American history at Liberty High School in Harrison County, W.Va., his wife Cathy and their children Miguel and Eliana two grandchildren, Andrew and wife Laura Monahan in Portland, Ore., and Catherine Rutledge Monahan, a student at Willamette University in Salem, Ore. Gregory Monahan, professor of history at Eastern Oregon University, and Joseph T. Monahan Jr., 20, killed in action during World War II as a member the 15th Air Force and Frank Spencer Monahan, 74, who was wounded in the Battle of Monte Cassino in Italy in 1944. Monahan, in 2000, and by his daughter-in-law, Rita Monahan in 1999 as well as two brothers, Robert E. He was preceded in death by his devoted wife of 54 years, Jane N. Army occupation troops in Japan as a sergeant in the 19th Infantry, 24th Infantry Division. Merchant Marines during the latter years of World War II and then was among the first U.S. He won the Pines Senior Club Championship in 2001. In his youth, he was a big band vocalist with several well-known dance bands. He was an avid golfer, serving on the board of directors of the Pines Country Club for two terms and authored the Pines Country Club Newsletter for 17 years. Monahan has since endowed that award through the WVU Foundation. Monahan Award for HRE’s outstanding senior student at the college convocation, which he also initiated. Dr. While dean of HRE, he was instrumental in establishing the HRE Alumni Association for which that organization subsequently created the William G. He chaired more than 70 doctoral thesis committees at the universities of Oklahoma, Iowa and at WVU. Monahan was the first recipient of the West Virginia State Department of Education’s prestigious “Leaders of Learning” award.
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He was presented with the AEL Board of Directors’ Distinguished Leadership Award in 1984.ĭr.
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He was president of the West Virginia Association of Colleges of Teacher Education and also served two terms as president of the Appalachia Educational Laboratory Board of Directors where he was a member of the board for 15 years. He was a two-term member of the Board of Directors of the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education and he chaired AACTE’s “Extended Program” Task Force which led to five-year teacher education programs at WVU and elsewhere. During his 10-year tenure as dean of the College of Human Resources and Education (HRE) at WVU, he served as president of the National Association of Land Grant and State University Deans of Education. He was cited by the American Educational Research Association in 1975 for his research utilizing q-factor analysis. He was the author of five books and more than 70 scholarly articles in nationally refereed journals as well as a number of published monographs and essays.
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Prior to his appointment at Iowa, he was an associate professor of educational administration at the University of Oklahoma and instructor at Michigan State University. He came to WVU in 1972 as dean of the College of Human Resources and Education from a professorship in educational administration and director of the Iowa Center for Research in School Administration at the University of Iowa. He was a retired emeritus professor of higher education at West Virginia University (WVU).
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Monahan began his professional career as a high school teacher and athletic coach at Marion. in educational administration from Michigan State University (1960).ĭr. He was a graduate of the Bowling Green College High School and held a bachelor of science degree in geography from Western Kentucky University (1951), master of arts in geography and history from Vanderbilt University (1955) and an Ed.D. 22, 2011 at Ruby Memorial Hospital in Morgantown.