{"id":8858,"date":"2013-09-30T13:37:12","date_gmt":"2013-09-30T18:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/?p=8858"},"modified":"2015-11-12T08:31:03","modified_gmt":"2015-11-12T14:31:03","slug":"memorial-service-to-honor-winston-van-horne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/memorial-service-to-honor-winston-van-horne\/","title":{"rendered":"Memorial service to honor Winston Van Horne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MILWAUKEE \u2013 The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and its Department of Africology will host a memorial service for Professor Winston Van Horne, who passed away on May 24, 2013. The celebration of his legacy begins at 3 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 9, in the Helen Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts, 2419 E. Kenwood Blvd. The public is welcome.<\/p>\n<p>Van Horne made many contributions to UW-Milwaukee and to his discipline since joining the faculty in 1978. He is credited with helping transform the Afro-American Studies Program into the Department of Africology; chairing the department three times; creating the word \u201cAfricology\u201d; and authoring the new Ph.D. program in Africology. He served on the faculty senate since 1980 and directed the UW System Institute on Race and Ethnicity for 10 years.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to his death, Mitchell Hall room 206 had been named the Winston Van Horne Seminar Room to honor his accomplishments.<\/p>\n<p>Given his enormous impact on the field of Africology, colleagues from around the nation have been invited to attend the ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, contact Dr. Doreatha Mbalia, Africology chair, at <a href=\"mailto:dmbalia@uwm.edu\">dmbalia@uwm.edu<\/a> or (414) 229-5080.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and its Department of Africology will host a memorial service for Professor Winston Van Horne, who passed away on May 24, 2013. 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