Steve Dutton, Biology Building renamed in honor of Dutton. The Biology Building will now be known as Steve Dutton Hall.
AMARILLO, TEXAS -- The Amarillo College Board of Regents approved a recommendation Tuesday night to rename the Biology Building on the Washington Street Campus in honor of the late Steve Dutton.
Dutton's 34-year career as a member of the AC faculty ended in 2007 when, while serving a third, non-concurrent turn as chairman of the Biology Department, he succumbed to cancer at the age of 61.
"It is a fitting tribute to a truly beloved, dedicated and remarkable faculty member," Matney, who served 28 years alongside Dutton on the AC faculty, said.
A native of Amarillo, Dutton joined the AC faculty in 1973 and eventually served three terms as president of faculty senate. He also served AC at the state level by sitting on the Formula Funding Advisory Committee of the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board in 1991-1992, the same year he was elected president of the Texas Community College Teachers' Association, which he served for several years.
From 1998-2006, he sat on AC's Medical Laboratory Technology Advisory Committee. In 1995 he became a founding member of the AC Ex-Student Association.
In 1991 he was singled out for AC's highest faculty accolade, the John F. Mead Faculty Excellence Award.
The recommendation to rename the Biology Building was presented by President Paul Matney and championed by a joint resolution signed by AC's three employee groups-Faculty Senate, Classified Employees Council and Administrator's Association-and by Student Government.
