On June 22 the Amarillo College Board of Regents approved a recommendation to rename the Biology Building on the Washington Street Campus in honor of the late Steve Dutton.
Mr. Dutton was president of TCCTA from 1991-92, and served the association as an officer and in committee positions for many years. His remembered fondly by all who knew him.
The recommendation was presented by AC president Paul Matney and championed by a joint resolution signed by AC’s three employee groups. The Biology Building will be known as Steve Dutton Hall. A dedicatory event is planned.
Below is information provided by the Amarillo College Web site. Thanks to AC's Danita McAnally (also a former TCCTA president) for sharing the news.
Dutton’s superlative 34-year career as a member of the AC faculty ended in 2007 when, while serving a third, non-concurrent turn as chairman of the Biology Department, he succumbed to cancer at the age of 61.
“It is a fitting tribute to a truly beloved, dedicated and remarkable faculty member,” Matney, who served 28 years alongside Dutton on the AC faculty, said.
A native Amarilloan, Dutton joined the AC faculty in 1973 and eventually served three terms as president of faculty senate. He also served AC at the state level by sitting on the Formula Funding Advisory Committee of the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board in 1991-1992.
From 1998-2006, he sat on AC’s Medical Laboratory Technology Advisory Committee. In 1995 he became a founding member of the AC Ex-Student Association.
In 1991 he was singled out for AC’s highest faculty accolade, the John F. Mead Faculty Excellence Award.
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