FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Sept. 28, 2005

CONTACT: Daniel P. Finney, (515) 271-2833, daniel.finney@drake.edu

DRAKE HONORS MARTY AS SCHOLAR, TEACHER AND GENTLEMAN

DES MOINES – Drake University President David Maxwell recently presented the Drake Medal of Service to Myron “Mike” Marty, of Monticello, Ill., for nearly 20 years of dedicated service to Drake and the discipline of history.

Marty, professor emeritus of history, joined Drake in 1984 as dean of Liberal Arts and Sciences and continued as dean of Arts and Sciences from 1986 to 1994, when he was when he was named the Ann G. and Sigurd E. Anderson university professor of history.

“Mike is the definition of scholar and teacher that we so greatly value here at Drake,” Maxwell said. “Mike’s passion for his subject made him popular with students and Mike equally drew energy from them. He loved the classroom and his daily interactions with young minds.”

Marty has taught at all levels from elementary school in Fort Wayne, Indiana, to high school in St. Louis to community college at Florissant Valley Community College in St. Louis and finally to Drake, where he worked until retirement in 2002.

Mike is the author of numerous books, including “Daily Life in the United States, 1960 – 1990: Decades of Discord” and, with his wife, Shirley, “Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin Fellowship.” He has written hundreds of book reviews, the majority of which have appeared in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

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