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Doig Receives Service Award
Professor Marion T. Doig, III of the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry received the College of Charleston Distinguished Service Award at the spring faculty meeting on April 23, 2001 in the Lightsey Conference Center. Dr. Doig has been a loyal servant of the College of Charleston Community and of the chemical community for over two decades since joining the College of Charleston faculty in 1974. Besides being an outstanding servant he is an exemplary teacher and scholar. In 1984 he received the Distinguished Service Award, and in 1986 he was appointed to the first Mebane Chair of Chemistry and Physics in recognition of his outstanding efforts in the classroom. Last year he recieved the Distinguished Advising Award of the College of Charleston. He is also an alumnus of the College. It was not the great amount of service that Marion has rendered, but also te quality of his service that garnered hime this award (a certificate plus a check for $1500). He has a long list of committee and other service, but he also has been a leader, oftentimes chairing a committee. Within the College he has been a dedicated servant for both faculty and students. The vast majority of his service has been to the College of Charleston community, but he has also served within a professional capacity beyond these walls. Marion has always been a leader in the Department. He advises our biochemistry majors and those following a pre-med track. Marion is an active professional member of the Alpha Chi Sigma Chemistry Professional Fraternity, a student organization. Marion participates actively on departmental committees (curriculum, safety, search, and tenure & promotion). Marion has served on numerous faculty committees and task forces. Oftentimes he has served as chair. Among those committees and task forces he has served on are the following Faculty Committees: By-Laws, Student Affairs and Athletics, Tenure and Promotion, Advisory to the President, and Hearing. He served two terms as departmental senator. Within the School of Science and Mathematics he has rendered valuable service. The most important example from the recent past is when he chaired an ad hoc committee appointed to study our space needs. His work resulted initially in the 1996 space report that has now led to the current effort to receive funding from the state legislature for a new science facility. He will be the main faculty overseer for the new project once it begins. Marion has also faithfully served our students, not only as an academic advisor for our majors and for premedical students, but in several other roles. He has served on the Faculty Committee on Student Affairs and Athletics. Currently he is the faculty advisor to the Alpha Epsilon Delta (AED) Premedical Society since 1989. Apart from the campus community his most notable service was as chair of the South Carolina Section of the American Chemical Society. This section covers the area from Beaufort to Conway to Florence to Columbia and includes the following institutions: the College of Charleston, USC-Columbia, Coastal Carolina, Francis Marion, South Carolina State University, the Citadel, Charleston Southern, Claflin, and the two year branch campuses. Service as chair involves a three year stint, one as chair-elect, one as chair, and one as past-chair. Duties involve program planning and oversight of administration of the section. He has also served on several award selection committees for the section. In addition he has served as a judge numerous science fairs. Marion is also active in the Alumni Association serving on its Scholarship Committee. He is a Past-President of the Alumni Association, served on its Executive Committee, and served as chair of the Past-Presidents Committee. |
