Emeritus professors Justus and Barbara Paul have announced a $50,000 endowment for the College of Letters and Science and the University Library at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point (UWSP).

Justus Paul is the former dean of the College of Letters and Science (L&S), and his wife, Barbara, is a former associate professor with the University Library. He began his UWSP career in 1966 as a member of the History Department where he also served as department chair from 1969 to 1986. He was dean of the college from 1986 until his retirement in 2004. Barbara began her UWSP career in 1967 and retired as an associate professor with the University Library in 2002.

The endowment will give additional sabbatical support for ranked faculty in both L&S and the University Library. Justus noted that this was something he often wished that he had been able to draw upon to support sabbatical recipients when he was dean.

Richard Barker, professor in Spanish, has been named the inaugural recipient of the Paul endowment. Barker joined UWSP in 1988 as an assistant professor in foreign languages. Previously he taught at the University of Seville and Lycoming College in Williamsport, Pa. His areas of scholarly pursuit include 16^th and 17^th century Spanish literature, language teaching methodology, and colonial Latin American literature. He earned his bachelor’s degree from Hamilton College, master’s degree from the University of Iowa, and his doctorate from the University of Oregon.

Dean of the College of Letters and Science for 18 years until his 2004 retirement, Justus Paul was also UWSP’s official historian who wrote "The World Is Ours," an historical account marking UWSP’s centennial. A native of Missouri who grew up in Iowa and North Dakota, Justus is a specialist in recent U.S. history. He holds degrees from the University of Nebraska, UW-Madison and Doane College, Crete, Neb., which recognized him in 1996 with the Paul Kersenbrock Humanitarian Award for service to others.

He served four terms as chair of the Faculty Senate and has published five books, 15 articles in professional journals, and numerous book reviews and abstracts. In 1985 Justus received the University Service Award and in 1995, he was given the Win Rothman History Award from the Portage County Historical Society.

Barbara and Justus collaborated on two books through the years. In 1999 they compiled "Wisconsin History: An Annotated Bibliography." Two decades earlier they wrote and edited "The Badger State: a Documentary History of Wisconsin."

Barbara joined the faculty in 1967 and earned degrees at UWSP, the University of Nebraska, and UW-Madison. She has published two scholarly bibliographies, "The Germans after World War II" and "The Polish-German Borderlands."

Both Barbara and Justus reside in Stevens Point and have three grown children.

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