Show Presidents should not retire HE Horizon was asked to run a correction T THE about a headline used to announce the resignation of President OD 00 Carnahan The headline read President O. O D. D Carnahan resigns Those requesting an errata column wanted the word resigns replaced by the word retires But according to a press release issued by the colleges college's public relations office the president president president dent does plan to continue working after leaving on June 30 He said he plans a career change and would consider teaching and research work at the graduate level He told the Horizon he is even thinking about working in the private sector or pursuing an opportunity in the political arena such as lobbying So we stand by our resigns headline rather than retires for semantic reasons Arid And in fact were we're happy that Carnahan is not planning to retire his considerable talents and abilities in higher education administration tion and that he plans to utilize them in other areas Carnahan is a quiet man who is not very well known by students As with most college presidents he has endured his share I of controversy during his time here He can however take pride in the dramatic growth the college has experienced under his leader leader- ship Since his coming on board in 1981 has evolved from a technical college to the largest community college in Utah The name change and the colleges college's expansion to satellite campuses occurred under Carnahan's direction In addition to innovations ushered in under his tenure at Carnahan's background background background back back- ground includes 21 years in higher education administration having served as college president at Southern Utah State College Cedar City Utah Highline College MIdway Mid MId- Midway Midway way Wash and Eastern Iowa Community College District Davenport Iowa The Institutional Council deemed this kind of exper experience ence too valuable to retire and decided to honor Carnahan with the title of Pr President ident Emeritus In this role Carnahan will have the opportunity to offer his knowledge and expertise to the person who will take his place helping to ease the transi transI- tion In addition the title does confer appreciation appreciation appreciation ap ap- ap- ap towards the man who has worked to forge a new identity for |