Harry Bahlman wins Arnice P. Streit Award

HARRY BAHLMAN, facilities manager for the Department of Psychology, recently received the Arnice P. Streit Award for Distinguished Service in the School of Humanities and Sciences.

The award, recently presented to Bahlman by H&S Dean RICHARD SALLER, honors a staff member for distinguished service to the school over a significant period of time. It was created in 1987 in honor of Arnice P. Streit, whose record of excellence in several key posts left an indelible impression on faculty and staff during her 27-year career in H&S.

Bahlman was recognized at a luncheon in May in which four other H&S staff members were given the Dean’s Award of Merit.

Winners of the Dean’s Award of Merit are JOYCE ICHINOSE, manager of the Center for Deliberative Democracy in the Department of Communication; CINDY MENDEL, office manager and research administrator for the Physics Department; MEGAN MILLER, communications manager at the Stanford Institute for Creativity and the Arts; and MARIA “CHARO” ROBINSON, an administrative associate in the Division of Literatures, Cultures and Languages.

Speaking at the ceremony, Saller noted that Bahlman “has been providing an extraordinary range of services to one department for an amazing 35 years. Starting out in building maintenance and receiving, then assuming responsibility for the department’s woodworking and machine shop, which was a fully equipped fabrication facility, then building repair, to ultimately becoming the department’s facilities manger, this employee has adapted and grown to meet the changing needs of the department.”

Saller further praised Bahlman’s support of the department’s research and teaching activities. Saller also quoted a faculty member in the school:

“A faculty person stated: ‘I was fortunate enough to have known Arnice Streit when she worked at Stanford and to see firsthand the level of excellence she brought to her work. This employee’s outstanding professionalism is something we have come to expect at Stanford, but in fact we should never take such excellence for granted.’”

- Kathleen J. Sullivan