Wall of Honor Collection - Ruth Weimer Mount, 1926-1997

              RUTH WEIMER MOUNT
1926 - 1997
UNIVERSITY ADMINISTRATOR
COMMUNITY VOLUNTEER
DAUGHTER OF PEKIN, ILLINOIS; GRADUATE OF UNIVERSITY OF
ILLINOIS WHERE SHE BEGAN HER DISTINGUISHED STUDENT
PERSONNEL CAREER. SERVED THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY,
1952 - 1970, BECOMING THE FIRST DEAN OF STUDENTS AND
RECEIVING THE UNIVERSITY DISTINGUISHED SERVICE AWARD.
HONORED WITH NATIONAL, UNIVERSITY AND COMMUNITY
RECOGNITIONS FOR EXEMPLARY SERVICE AND LEADERSHIP.
THE RUTH WEIMER MOUNT LEADERSHIP INITIATIVES
ENDOWMENT CELEBRATES THE LIFE OF RUTH AND HER
INFLUENCE THROUGHOUT THE UNIVERSITY AND OUR
COMMUNITY, AND IT PERPETUATES THE SPIRIT AND
DIRECTION SHE BROUGHT TO THE LIVES OF OTHERS.
AS THE CONSUMMATE VOLUNTEER AND FRIEND WHOSE LOVE
BENEFITTED HER CHURCH AND UNIVERSITIES, MORTAR
BOARD, THE ARTS AND THE LIBRARIES RUTH LEAVES A
LEGACY OF IMPROVING THE QUALITY OF LIFE IN OUR
SOCIETY ESPECIALLY FOR YOUNG PEOPLE.
MARRIED 28 YEARS TO JOHN T. MOUNT, WITH WHOM RUTH
SHARED A LOVING PARTNERSHIP TO 'CARRY THE TORCH' OF 
SERVICE AND LEADERSHIP, TREASURED MOTHER OF FOUR
AND LOVED GRANDMOTHER OF EIGHT.