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Contact Bethany
Kendrick
Director Public Relations
Labette Community College
(620)
820-1280
Daniels Named
Labette Community College Cardinal Citation Award Winner
Gary J. Daniels
has been named the 2010 Cardinal Citation Award winner by the Labette Community
College Alumni Association and Labette Community College. This is the highest
honor that is bestowed to an individual for lifetime achievement by
LCC.
The Cardinal
Citation Award is presented annually at Commencement. The criteria are: the
nominee must be a living person who has had significant lifetime achievements to
his or her profession, community, state, or nation; the nominee must have a
current or past association with Labette Community College; and the nominee does
not have to be a graduate of LCC.
Each year LCC
and the LCC Alumni Association recognize an individual for a lifetime of
outstanding service to their community and/or to the college. A distinguished
panel of community members review nominations and recommend a Citee. The Citee
is honored the evening of Commencement during a reception for all former Citees,
their families, invited guests, and the public. The Citee is presented an award
and is a speaker at Commencement. The Citee's framed portrait is hung in
the Gallery of Cardinal Citation Recipients in the college's main administration
building.
Daniels is a
1962 graduate of LCC, formerly known as Parsons Junior College. He received his
Bachelor of Arts in June of 1965 from the Kansas State College of Pittsburg in
Psychology. Daniels also obtained his Master of Science in Psychology from
Kansas State College of Pittsburg a year later. He later obtained his Doctor of
Philosophy from Ohio State University in 1973.
Daniels began
his professional career at Parsons State Hospital and Training Center in
Parsons, KS in 1962. He began as a Psychiatric Aide and moved on to become a
Psychology Trainee. He was a Clinical Psychologist for Four County Mental Health
Clinic of Independence, KS and a Clinical Psychologist for Parsons State
Hospital and Training Center from 1966-1967. Daniels was a Staff Psychologist at
the Nisonger Center for Mental Retardation at Ohio State University in Columbus,
OH from 1973-1979. He then went on to be a Research Associate for the Bureau of
Child Research at the University of Kansas from 1978-1980. He has been a
visiting Lecturer for the Department of Psychology at Pittsburg State University
and a member and on the advisory board for Labette Community College’s Special
Education Paraprofessional Training program (1980-present), for the School of
Education and Psychology at Emporia State University (1979-1981), for the Office
of Educational Services in the School of Education at Pittsburg State University
(1982-1984), and for the Mental Health Technology Program at Labette Community
College (1983-present). From 1979-2004, Daniels was the Superintendent at
Parsons State Hospital and Training Center. He served as Cabinet Secretary for
Social and Rehabilitations in Topeka, KS from 2004-2006, was an Adjunct
Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at Emporia State University
from 1980-1981, a Consultant Psychologist at Labette Center for Mental Health
Services in Parsons, KS from 1984-1987, and an Adjunct Associate Professor in
the Department of Psychology at Pittsburg State University from
1986-1999.
Amongst many
memberships in Professional Organizations, Daniels is currently a Licensed
Psychologist in Kansas and a member of the National Association of
Superintendents of Public Residential Facilities for the Mentally Retarded.
He has been
recognized professionally as Administrator of the Year by the Kansas Association
for Retarded Citizens (1983), he is an Honorary Member of the Kansas Association
of Health Service Technology (1984), he received the Honored Alumni Award from
the Department of Psychology and Counseling at Pittsburg State University
(1986), and has received the Alumni Meritorious Achievement Award from Pittsburg
State University (1997).
Daniels has been
involved with many community activities throughout his lifetime. He is a member
of the Eleventh Judicial District of the Juvenile Justice Community Planning
Team and of the Rotary Club in Parsons, where he was the President of Rotary
from 1988-1989. He was the Parsons Dolphins Swim Team President from 1984-1994
and then became the treasurer from 1995-2001. He was the chairman of the Senior
Citizens Organization and Development Committee, a member of the Municipal
Auditorium Renovation Committee, and the chairman for Parsons Pride Committee
all in Parsons. Daniels was also an elected member for the U.S.D. 503 Board from
1985-1989. He was a member of the Parsons United Way from 1979-1982 and held
Presidency in 1982.
Daniels has had
teaching experience at several different Universities including; Ohio State
University, Pittsburg State University, and Kansas State University. He has had
numerous publications and special achievements including being a Founding Board
Member for the Parsons State Hospital Endowment Association, a Principal Founder
for the Parsons State Hospital Day Care, Inc., and a Founding Board Member for
the Southeast Kansas Respite Services, Inc., among many more.
Daniels and his
wife, Marcia, currently reside in Grove, OK. They have three children, Anna
Gross, Bradley Daniels, and Phillip Daniels.
Daniels will be
honored at the Cardnal Citee Reception prior to commencement on Friday, May 21st
at 5:30 p.m. at the Commercial Bank Community Room. The public is invited
to attend. For more information about the Cardinal Citee Award or this year’s
recipient, Gary Daniels, please contact, Lindi Forbes at (620) 820-1212 or by
e-mail at
lindif@labette.edu.