Martha Ann Alcock

ALCOCK (WILSON) Martha Ann Alcock, age 50, passed away Wednesday, June 15, 2005 at Mt. Carmel East Hospital. She received her Masters and PhD from The Ohio State University and her undergraduate degree from Wittenburg University, and she completed further graduate work at Stanford University. Martha was the Homer and Isabel Cotterman Professor of Educational Psychology at Capital University, and adjunct lecturer in graduate programs at the University of Dayton. Previously an assistant Professor of education at Muskingum College, a public school teacher in Reynoldsburg, Ohio and Shiloh, Ohio. She was the author and presenter of over 150 professional papers and articles in the fields of brain behavior and personality type and learning styles, and had prepared two manuscripts for books with her research partner Elizabeth Murphy. She won numerous awards for her teaching including the Captial University Master Teacher Award, The Praestantia Award for Outstanding Faculty Member, The Isabelle Briggs Myers Memorial Research Award, The Cotterman Award for Outstanding Advising at Captial University, The Antoinette Lowry Barr Award for outstanding graduate work in the College of Education at OSU, and she was a Martha Holden Jennings Scholar. She was a member and officer of the Association for Psychological Type, The C. G. Jung Association, The Ohio Association for Colleges of Teacher Education, The American Education Research Association, American Psychological Association and The American Association of University Professors. Member of Pi Lambda Theta and Phi Delta Kappa. Preceded in death by mother, Margaret Wilson; grandparents, John and Velle McNally and Virgil and Helen Wilson. Survived by husband, Barry; step-son, Michael; father, Judge Robert (Irene) Wilson of Bryan, Ohio; sister, Sarah (Phil) Schroeder of Hilliard; brother, Bob (Cindy) Wilson of Auburn, Indiana; four special nieces, Erica and Molly Wilson and Annie and Emma Schroeder; special cousins the Rosebrocks; stepsister, Susan Reese, (Montpelier, OH); stepbrothers, Ron (Carlene) Reese, Bryan, OH, and Scott (Debra) Reese, Montpelier, OH; father-in-law, Al Alcock; sisters-in-law, Wendy Latham, Kathy (Terry) Hakeos, Pat (Tom) Viertlbeck and brothers-in-law, John (Debbie) Farrell, all of Toledo, Ohio; Tom (Martha) Farrell of Maumee, Ohio and Michael (Jill) Farrell of Ottawa Lake, Michigan; a host of aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews and former students. A memorial service open to all of Martha's friends, colleagues and students will be held in late June at Captial University. Arrangements by WOODYARD EAST CHAPEL, 2300 East Livingston Ave. The family wishes to thank Drs. Zangmeister and Buday, and staff at Mt. Carmel East, for their loving care of Martha during her illness. In lieu of flowers the family suggests contributions be made in Martha's memory to the American Cancer Society or Multiple Sclerosis Society-National.