Gloucester County organizations honor Helene Reed, Dianne Dorland
Gloucester County organizations honor Helene Reed, Dianne Dorland
October 4, 2010
Three Gloucester County organizations plan to honor Rowan University Board of Trustees chair Helene M. Reed and former dean and chemical engineering professor Dr. Dianne Dorland as two of their 2010 “Women of Achievement.” Each year, the Gloucester County Commission for Women, the Greater Gloucester County Branch of the American Association of University Women and the Gloucester County Board of Chosen Freeholders collaborate to honor 10 outstanding women from a variety of fields, including education, law and government, and science and technology.
Reed and Dorland will receive their awards on Oct. 7 at Auletto Caterers in Deptford. The award presentation will begin at 6 p.m.
Reed, of Williamstown, studied at Rutgers University, where she earned a certificate in hospital administration. Since February 2003, she has served as a member of the Rowan University Board of Trustees. Since January 2008, she also has served as the Gloucester County surrogate. Her duties there include overseeing the administration of the Surrogate Court, which handles cases such as probating wills and processing adoptions. Reed also has been a Gloucester County freeholder and liaison for the Department of Health & Public Safety. She has been an active member of many Monroe Township committees and boards, most notably serving as Monroe Township Council president.
Dorland earned her B.S. and M.S. in chemical engineering from the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. She worked in West Virginia as a research and development engineer for Union Carbide Corporation and a process engineer for DuPont before earning her Ph.D. in chemical engineering from West Virginia University. Dorland also worked for the Department of Energy in West Virginia’s Morgantown Energy and Technology Center. She began her career in education teaching in the University of Minnesota — Duluth’s emerging Chemical Engineering Department and became the department chair four years later. From 2000 to 2010, Dorland served as the dean of Rowan University’s College of Engineering, leading the rising college to regional and national recognition, before returning to the classroom. Dorland also has been active in the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, of which she was president in 2003, and the American Society for Engineering Education, where she was elected to the Executive Committee of the ASEE Engineering Deans Council in 2006.
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