Professor Jan Dinsmore has announced her retirement from Wayne State College. She has taught English as a Second Language, English Language Learners, human relations, child development, and holocaust and multicultural studies.

Her retirement party was held yesterday in Brandenburg Education.

“I just have more things I want to do,” Dinsmore said. “I want to travel some more and live the rest of my life.”

Dinsmore completed a graduate assistantship and was then an adjunct faculty member until 1986, when Wayne State hired her as an administrator. She spent 10 years at Hahn working for the school’s off-campus program, called Extended Campus, while also teaching human relations classes for education. In one year, she taught in three different WSC schools, Education, Business and Natural and Social sciences.

She is passionate about history. When the school asked her what she wanted to do, she said she preferred to teach world history.

Her first job was teaching world history in high school in her home state of Maine where she met her husband, Steven Dinsmore. He currently teaches counseling classes at Wayne State.