Retirements
David Williams
David Williams has been the senior member of the psychology department. He joined the fledgling department over 30 years ago and participated in its growth into a large and vibrant part of the campus community. In the early 1970s, he helped institute the department’s research team program, a three-semester requirement for psychology majors that is unique among psychological curricula nationwide. The research teams have led to significant student productivity. He also helped shape the psychology-business major that evolved into the current applied psychology major. This growing major allied psychology with a variety of other disciplines to prepare students for entry into the world of business and commerce directly from Ithaca College. Williams was always a staunch advocate of a broad liberal arts education and exposed his students to an extensive range of topics that related in myriad ways to psychology. Over the years, he developed close relationships with students that persisted well beyond their undergraduate years in Ithaca, a testament to their appreciation of his participation in their education.
Lee Bailey
Lee Bailey joined the philosophy and religion department at Ithaca College in the fall of 1983. He taught courses such as Death and Immortality, Myth and Metaphor, Religion and Environment, and World Religions: Western and Modern. Co-president of the northeast international region of the American Academy of Religion, Bailey wrote articles and books, including The Near-Death Experience: A Reader, An Anthology of Living Religions, and The Enchantments of Technology. He edited a six-volume library reference series Introduction to the World’s Major Religions and wrote the volume Christianity in that series. He took early retirement in 2006 and continues to write and attend conferences. Currently he is writing seven articles for the new Encyclopedia of Psychology and Religion, and his next book is called Sacred Whispers in the World.
Fred Madden
During his 26 years at Ithaca College, Fred Madden was a devoted teacher, a productive scholar, and a deeply engaged citizen of the College community. He was a founding member of the H&S Faculty Senate and was a member of several committees. He created a range of courses for the English department, including Literary Modernism and the Visual Arts, and he inspired admiration and devotion in generations of students. His scholarly work has been published in the Journal of the Joseph Conrad Society and Modern Fiction, among others. He spent three sabbaticals attached to Green College and Lady Margaret Hall, at Oxford University, and he has presented papers at conferences in England and the United States. Madden is also a photographer whose work has been exhibited in galleries in the United States and England, and he is an accomplished guitar player whose numerous original pieces include the now legendary “Dissertation Blues.”
Nancy Ramage
Nancy Ramage, Charles A. Dana Professor of the Humanities and Arts, helped to form the art history department, and was its chair for nine years. She majored in Greek at Wheaton College and received her M.A. in classics and Ph.D. in classical archaeology from Harvard University. She taught a wide range of courses and has written several books of which one, Roman Art, coauthored with her husband, is widely used in this country and has been translated into six languages. She has also written many articles on antiquity and its afterlife and was elected to the Royal Society of Arts and the Society of Antiquaries in London. She was a museum scholar at the J. Paul Getty Museum and a National Endowment for the Humanities distinguished professor at the State University of New York College at Potsdam. She also served on the governing board of the Archaeological Institute of America and has been on the advisory board of various journals, including the American Journal of Archaeology and Etruscan Studies. At Ithaca College she received the excellence in teaching award and was recently the president of the School of Humanities and Sciences Faculty Senate.
