GROVE CITY COLLEGE Professor, district superintendent earn awards

The annual awards foster a continuing town/gown relationship.
GROVE CITY, Pa. -- A math professor and the local public schools superintendent have been named recipients of the 2003 Grove City College Florence E. MacKenzie Campus-Community Awards.
Dr. John Ellison is the campus honoree, recognized for his years of service to the Grove City Community Library, and Dr. Robert Post is the community honoree, recognized for his efforts in building the relationship between the local district and the Grove City College education department.
Ellison, chairman of the department of mathematics and computer science and professor of mathematics, served as treasurer of the Grove City Community Library Board of Trustees from 1988 to 2003, managing the library's financial accounts and obtaining state aid, special grants and United Way funding.
He computerized the circulation and card catalog systems, making the library the first automated library in Mercer County, and helped set up its Internet system.
Ellison has served as merit badge counselor, treasurer and committee member of Troop No. 48 of the Boy Scouts of America. He is a lector, Eucharistic minister and Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults instructor at the Church of the Beloved Disciple. On the Grove City College campus, he advises the Newman Club and the College Democrats.
He came to Grove City in 1970 as assistant professor and was promoted to full professor in 1987. He served as chairman of the department of mathematics from 1992 to 1999, at which time computer science was added to the department.
Ellison works with several publishers as a reviewer of manuscripts for new editions, and he proposed mathematics texts.
Post's accomplishments
Post, superintendent of the Grove City Area School District since 1985, was instrumental in developing the district's vision and mission statement, and he organized the curriculum to meet the district's goals and helped form a formal partnership between Grove City Area School District and Grove City College.
That project has helped more than 1,000 education majors gain first-hand experience working in the public schools.
Post has served as a consultant to professionals throughout Pennsylvania and as a guest speaker in Grove City College Issues in Education classes.
He is president of the Grove City Rotary Club and vice president of the Tri-State Area School Study Council. He is a past president of the Grove City Chamber of Commerce and former director of the Grove City Caring Program, the Mercer County School/Business Partnership, the Mercer County Child/Adolescent Services Program and the Grove City Industrial Development Corporation.
Post was superintendent of the Jamestown Area School District before coming to Grove City.
Florence E. MacKenzie, the late wife of former Grove City College president Dr. Charles S. MacKenzie, sought to establish strong town-gown relationships. The award is named in her honor.