DR. JANICE F. "JAN" WEAVER

DR. JANICE "JAN" F. WEAVER, 78, Murray, Ky., died Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2009, at Murray-Calloway County Hospital. Born July 13, 1931, in Owensboro, Ky., she was the daughter of the late M.J. and Lucy Farmer. The former dean of the college of education at Murray State University, she holds her Ed.D. and M.A.T. degrees from Indiana University, Bloomington, and her B.A. from Kentucky Wesleyan, Owensboro. Sher dedicated her life to the field of education. She began her teaching career in her hometown in 1952 at Owensboro High School, and worked in the public school setting in Kentucky and Indiana until 1961. She began her university career at Indiana University, and then moved to Glassboro State College (now Rowan State), New Jersey, in 1964. She scaled the academic ranks there to end up as dean of the college of professional studies before coming to Murray State in 1985 as a professor and dean of education, where she remained until her retirement in 1997. Her many awards include a Golden Horseshoe Award from MSU and the Distinguished Teacher and Distinguished Alumnus awards from the college of education at Indiana University. She is the only person ever elected president of all of the following professional organizations: Professors of Education, Deans of Teacher Education of Colleges and State Universities, and the American Association of Colleges of Teacher Education (AACTE). She also served as a board member for all those organizations along with service on the boards of the National Certification Association for Teacher Education and the National Standards Board for Education. In addition, she was chosen "Educator of the Year in Kentucky" in 1989. She had presented countless speeches and papers at international, national and local meetings and conventions, and has testified before national and state legislatures and education authorities, including representing AACTE as an adviser to the Japanese Education Consortium, Tokyo, Japan. She and her husband, Richard (Dick) Weaver, have given substantial financial support to Murray State University including the establishment of three scholarships, as well as generous donations to MSU Athletics and gifts to a wide variety of campus funds and organizations. Survivors include her husband of 51 years, Dick Weaver; a nephew, Randy (Rosalie) Farmer; nieces, Leah Karon Farmer and Laura (Todd) Joyner. She was also preceded in death by a brother, Harold Farmer; and sister-in-law, Dorothy. Service is 10:30 a.m. Monday at J.H. Churchill Funeral Home, 201 S 3rd St., Murray, Ky. Friends may call from 5 to 8 p.m. Sunday at J.H. Churchill. Inurnment is 2:30 p.m. Monday at Friendship Cemetary, on Sunnydale Road, Fordsville, Ky. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to either of the following scholarships at Murray State: the Janice F. Weaver Education Scholarship, or the Janice F. and Richard F. Weaver Student Athlete Academic Scholarship, through the MSU Foundation at 106 Development Center, Murray, KY 42071.