Published 11:10am Tuesday, May 8, 2012

The 544 Education Foundation Board honored Gary Clambey and Anthony Preus as their 2012 Distinguished Alumni during a ceremony Monday night at Kennedy Secondary School.

Clambeys career in science and education traces its roots to time spent growing up on a family farm, attending a rural elementary school and spending hours in the science alcoves of the Fergus Falls Library.

A 1963 graduate of Fergus Falls High School, he attended Fergus Falls State Junior College, North Dakota State University (BS and MS) and Iowa State University (Ph.D.) He was a preventive medicine specialist with the U.S. Army Medical Department and has spent nearly 40 years teaching more than 11,000 students at NDSU at the graduate and undergraduate levels.

Clambey has earned multiple awards for teaching and service contributions, including NDSUs Distinguished Educator Award.

He and wife Susan, a 1965 FFHS graduate, have two sons, Eric and Bryce.

Preus, Class of 1954, was the first Rhodes Scholar from Fergus Falls. He graduated from Luther College and attended Trinity College, Oxford, on a Rhodes Scholarship, earning a second BA and an MA.

He continued at The Johns Hopkins University, writing his Ph.D. dissertation on Science and Philosophy in Aristotles Biology. Since 1964, he has taught at Binghamton University in Binghamton, N.Y., where his areas of specialty and research include ancient Greek philosophy, classical languages and medical ethics.

Preus is secretary of the Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy and has edited and written numerous works, including The A to Z of Ancient Greek Philosophy. He is married to Meredith Pell Preus and has three children, Christian, Alexander and Caroline (Linka).

The two men were inducted into the Fergus Falls High School Hall of Fame Monday night during the Senior Recognition/Hall of Fame Banquet at Kennedy Secondary School.

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