YOUNGSTOWN Three honored at YSU Alumni Awards Dinner

YOUNGSTOWN -- Marie Pavlicko, Ben McGee and Diana Bauman were honored this spring at the Beeghly College of Education's first Alumni Awards Dinner in the DeBartolo Stadium Club on the campus of Youngstown State University.
Pavlicko
Pavlicko is the career development and economic education supervisor for the Mahoning County Career and Technical Center. She holds a bachelor's degree in elementary education and a master's degree in counselor education from YSU, as well as a doctorate in education administration from the University of Akron.
Pavlicko, a former middle school teacher and counselor and part-time YSU instructor, also serves on the guidance administrators and economic education committees of the Industrial Information Institute for Education and the advisory committee of YSU Ohio Business Week.
McGee
McGee is superintendent of the Youngstown City School District. A graduate of the Ohio State University, McGee attended YSU to receive certification in special education and administration.
He has also directed and been involved with numerous campus workshops on topics addressing academic and social education issues. McGee has won numerous other awards, such as the Martin Luther King Leadership Award and the YSU Educator of the Year in Educational Administration and Research Award.
Bauman
Bauman has spent the past 38 years teaching in the Niles City School District with the majority of her time spent teaching first grade. For the past 15 years, she has been lead teacher for kindergarten and first grade. Bauman holds a bachelor's degree in elementary education from YSU. She has also completed graduate studies at YSU, New York University, Ashland University and the World Academy for Foreign Studies.
She has conducted numerous in-service workshops for Niles teachers, written an instruction manual for entry teachers and founded the Teacher Idea Exchange, a teacher resource network involving 15 school districts that meets monthly to share ideas that integrate and correlate curricular ideas.