6/7/99
Editors: A photo of Phil Richardson receiving his award from Mary Jane Kelley, chair of the Modern Languages Department, is available at: http://www.ohiou.edu/news/pix/RICHARDSON.JPG
ATHENS, Ohio -- Ohio University's Gordy Hall Language Resource Center was named after Associate Professor of Modern Languages Charles P. "Phil" Richardson in a recent ceremony honoring Richardson's 36 years of service to the lab. The dedication ceremony on the first-floor lounge of Gordy honored Richardson's major role in the development of Ohio University language labs and his teaching of students and faculty in how to incorporate lab use into language instruction.
Richardson completed a master's degree in German at Ohio University in 1963 and was appointed director of the Ellis Hall language labs in 1964. He was director of the Ellis labs until 1998 when Gordy Hall underwent renovations. From 1998 until his retirement in June 1999, Richardson served as director of the Gordy Hall Language Resource Center.
A state-of-the-art facility of Richardson's design, the Charles P. Richardson Language Resource Center includes classroom and individual computer labs, audio labs, a faculty development room, a recording studio, a video editing room and a video server that offers students access to films and videos in the computer lab. Richardson served as director of the National Association of Language Lab Directors, as editor of the organization's journal and as executive director of the International Association of Learning Laboratories. He received the Distinguished Career Award from the Ohio Foreign Language Association in March 1999.
A bronze plaque in Richardson's honor is mounted on the wall in Gordy.
