Special Alumni and Alumni Awards
Honorary Degree Recipients
Nancy Barton Wolfe (Lane) is a community volunteer with a lifetime of exemplary service. She graduated cum laude from The Columbus School for Girls in 1957 and graduated cum laude from Bryn Mawr College in 1961 with an A.B. in Modern European History and a minor in French. After graduation, she returned to Columbus and was employed by Charles E. Merrill Books, Inc. as a Latin textbook editor responsible for the production of three high school Latin textbooks and the accompanying guides for teachers. She then moved to The Columbus Dispatch where she worked as the copy editor for what was then its weekly Sunday rotogravure magazine.
After her marriage, Ms. Lane became a community volunteer and remained at home to raise her children. Concurrently she served at one time or another on the boards of the Ohioana Library, Childhood League, Green Lawn Cemetery, the Bryn Mawr College Alumnae Association, the Ohio Historical Society Foundation, and Hope College. She is currently a member of the Board of Trustees of Agricultural Lands, of Wolfe Associates and of Wolfe Enterprises.
At ODU, Mrs. Lane was a charter and founding member of the Phoenix Society, an organization at the university that provides opportunities for ODU alumni and friends to share experiences, discover culture, and promote lifelong learning outside the classroom. Ms. Lane’s service on ODU’s Board of Trustees was instrumental in leading the university through a period of unprecedented growth and transformation. Her distinguished service, wisdom and counsel were critically important to the development of Ohio Dominican over the past decade.
Nancy Barton Wolfe (Lane) is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Preston Wolfe, and is the mother of Elizabeth Jarrell and Mary Lane.
