Meritorious Service Award
(L to R) VP and Dean Bobby Moser, Stanley Joehlin and Bernie Erven
Bernard L. Erven
B.S. 1960, M.S. 1963
Agricultural Education, Agricultural Economics
Bernard has worked on issues such as hiring, training, motivation, discipline, compensation, and performance feedback for over forty years. His work has taken him to over thirty U.S. states and Canadian Provinces. He has also spent time teaching at a school for refugee boys in Jericho, Jordan.
Bernard earned his B.S. in Agricultural Education and his M.S. in Agricultural Economics at Ohio State before going on to earn his Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics at the University of Wisconsin. After earning his Ph.D., Bernard spent two years stationed at the University of Rio Grande do Sul in Porto Alegre, Brazil as an assistant professor with the University of Wisconsin's Department of Agricultural Economics. He returned to the Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology at Ohio State where he advanced from Assistant Professor to Professor eventually serving as Associate Chairperson and Professor (1979-1983) and Interim Chairperson and Professor (1983-1984). Beginning in 1984, Bernard served as Professor and Extension Specialist of OSU's Department of Agricultural, Environmental, and Development Economics. During that time he also spent a year as Visiting Professor of Agricultural Economics at Cornell University. Despite his retirement from OSU in 2003, Bernard continues to teach Human Resource Management in Small Businesses.
He is a past recipient of the USDA National Excellence in Teaching Award, Ohio Farm Bureau Federation's State Cooperative Educator Award, the Gamma Sigma Delta Extension Award, the Gamma Sigma Delta Teaching Award, the AAEA Teaching Award, and the AAEA Distinguished Extension Group Award. Twice he received the Ohio State University Alumni Distinguished Teaching Award.
Bernard and his wife, Linda, live in Columbus, Ohio. They are the parents of Kirk, Kendra, Andrea, Heidi, and Lynn.
Stanley Walbolt Joehlin
B.S. 1960, M.S. 1960
Agricultural Engineering
Since 1982 Stanley has been a continuous member of the Industry and Professional Advisory Group for the Department of Food, Agricultural, and Biological Engineering at Ohio State. In that time he has twice served as committee chair and has also served on several "ad-hoc" committees. Along with time, Stanley has also been financially generous. He was instrumental in establishing the Samuel G. Huber Undergraduate Teaching Assistant Award in honor of one of his favorite professors, the Stanley W. Joehlin Award in Agricultural Engineering, and the Homer W. Joehlin Memorial Scholarship in Food, Agricultural, and Biological Engineering in honor of his father.
After graduating from Ohio State with a B.S. and M.S. in Agricultural Engineering, Stanley spent four years working with his father in drainage contracting and farming operations. In 1964 Stanley started as a Research & Development Project Engineer at Permaglass Inc, a company known for their technical innovation. Within four years he was promoted to a manager's position of a new research and development facility. When Permaglass merged with Guardian Industries, Stanley joined the resulting company, Glasstech Inc, as engineering manager. Advancing with the company, he became VP of Operations and then VP of Customer Service. By 1989 when Stanley left the company, he had been involved in the design, construction, or start up of about the first 250 Glasstech tempering lines. Since leaving Glasstech, Stanley has worked as a consultant to the tempering industry, still taking on interesting training or problems as they arise.
A member of the advisory board for the local home of The Little Sisters of the Poor for about ten years, Stanley was active as an assistant to the architect during the building of a new $16.8 million home. He continues to offer support the maintenance supervisor and received the Legacy of Caring award from the Little Sisters in 2008. Also in 2008, Stanley served as a member of the advisory committee to St. Vincent's Mercy Children's Hospital Foundation.
Stanley and his wife, Dolores, live in Curtice, Ohio and are the parents of Linda Geist, Kenneth Joehlin, Rebecca Ford, and Scott Joehlin.
