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His father, Harry Moberly, Sr., brilliantly quarterbacked Eastern football from 1931-34 and was a lifelong Eastern friend and supporter. With his wife, Kerrie Moberly, ’81, executive assistant to the dean of the College of Justice & Safety, Harry Moberly, Jr., shares deep Eastern roots and a wide network of friends. Now in retirement, he can look back on a long career of service to his university, his state and his constituents, making a difference and making things right. ED WORLEY, ’78 James Edwin “Ed” Worley left Eastern “more broad-minded, trained with practical and academic skills to pursue a career in government and politics. . . Eastern changed my life.” Elected Richmond (Ky.) City Manager in 1979—one of the nation’s youngest city managers—he served Richmond for a total of 13 years. Downtown improvements came rapidly in the Worley years, including the popular intergenerational Lake Reba Recreational Complex. Moving on to the Kentucky State Senate, Worley quickly rose to Minority Floor Leader,
serving on the Appropriations and Revenue; Program Review; Rules; and Education committees and the Education Accountability and Assessment subcommittee. In addition, Worley was active in almost every statutory committee in the Senate, as well as co-chairing the Budget Review Subcommittee on Education until his retirement in 2010. Recognizing the profound role of education in the welfare of the state and grateful to Eastern for having made him “a more
AWARDS FOR TEACHING EXCELLENCE
“An Eastern professor changed my life,” say so many alumni. The Award for Teaching Excellence speaks to the University’s fundamental mission— teaching, inspiring, and encouraging students—by honoring strong classroom performance and student focus with a cash stipend from a grateful Alumni Association, a certificate and recognition at the alumni banquet and spring commencement ceremony.
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HEATHER ADAMS-BLAIR, ’96 Student comments on associate professor Dr. Heather Adams-Blair of the department of exercise & sport science epitomize Eastern teaching at its finest: “She gives A LOT of work …Her tests are really, really hard…She’s awesome, a great teacher…She really helped me out a lot.” This combination of academic rigor and commitment to student success
broad-minded person, trained with practical skills to pursue a career in government and politics,” Worley helped secure funds for Eastern’s Center for Business & Technology, computers for the Model Laboratory School, as well as support and funding for the Center for the Arts that “truly represents a change in lifestyle here in Richmond.” Meanwhile, Worley’s local service includes Little League, the county ambulance board of directors, the Telford YMCA board of directors and the Richmond Industrial Corporation board of directors. In private life, he is a successful general contractor, married to Jamie Worley, ’72, a guidance counselor at Eastern’s Model Laboratory High School. As a political science major, Worley’s career has abundantly fulfilled the mission of that department: to help students “become involved in activities and causes that are meaningful to you” and to “find a career that will help you to make a difference.” Fresh out of college, Ed Worley began making a difference and never stopped.
spurred selection of Adams-Blair for the 2010 Golden Apple Award given by Eastern’s university housing department. Adams-Blair received her bachelor’s at Transylvania University in 1995 in human movement, her master’s at Eastern and, in 2000, her Doctor of Education from the University of Kentucky in kinesiology and health promotion. In addition to teaching a full course load, she coordinates general education for her department and is graduate advisor for 85 students. In a time of widespread cutbacks in K-12 physical education programs, Adams-Blair finds economical ways to get children, youth and women active. She’s key in the Heave H.O.E. program funded by Eastern’s education department which taught 30 school teachers how to build low-cost community disc golf (aka Frisbee) courses. Her grants from the Kentucky