During Wednesday's fall faculty meeting, President Bob Bell and the central administration congratulated 54 faculty members for their 1,125 years of service to the university.

Ten years: Curtis Armstrong, Craig Henderson, Allan Mills, Katherine Osburn, Julie Stepp

Fifteen years: Suellen Alfred, Curtiss Brock, Debra Bryant, Graham Campbell, L.K. Crouch, Corinne Darvennes, Ward Doubet, Kurt Eisen, Pamela Harden, James Lotz, Josephine McQuail, Thomas Roberts, Kathryn Rust

Twenty years: Douglas Airhart, Sakir Ayik, Michael Burduck, Ben Byler, Madhumati Gandhi, Gloria Griffith, Andrzej Gutek, John Harwood, Steve Isbell, Elouise Jackson, Mancil Johnson, Frederick Kennedy, Larry Maples, John Shriner, James Stewart, Dewey Thurman

Twenty-five years: Georganne Burns, Steve Coble, David Crouse, David Hume, Ken Hunter, Earl Hutchison, Scott Northrup, Mark Stephens, Meenakshi Sundaram, Gene Talbert, Noel Tolbert, Mike Wells, Sam Winfree

Thirty years: Cathy Cunningham, Rhonda Folio, Carol Viera

Thirty-five years: Hollings Andrews, Phillip Campana, Harsha Mookherjee

Forty years: S.K. Ballal.