Alex Ober '63, MEd '69 receives McDaniel College Alumni College Service Award
ALEX OBER RECEIVES ALUMNI COLLEGE SERVICE AWARD FROM McDANIEL COLLEGE
Ober of Westminster, Md., graduated from the college with a bachelor’s degree in 1963 and a master’s degree in education in 1969
WESTMINSTER, Md. – Alex Ober of Westminster, Md., has received the alumni college service award from McDaniel College.
Presented annually during McDaniel’s Homecoming, the alumni college service award is given to a graduate who has demonstrated exceptional leadership, devotion and service for the betterment of the McDaniel College Alumni Association.
Ober, a professor emeritus of exercise science and physical education (now kinesiology), graduated from the college with a bachelor’s degree in 1963 and earned a master’s degree in education in 1969. He chaired the exercise science department and served as faculty committee chair, faculty ombudsman and college marshal. After retiring from the full-time faculty in 2008, he continued teaching a course in McDaniel’s graduate program until 2014.
He is also a former head coach of the Green Terror lacrosse and tennis teams, and is the college’s winningest men’s basketball coach. He also coached football. Ober was inducted into the college’s Sports Hall of Fame in 2010.
Additionally, he has served as president of the McDaniel College Alumni Council and as a member of the McDaniel College Alumni Association on reunion committees and as part of the Alumni Association presidential task force. He is active with Torch International and has given a “Torch Talk” on World War II hero Colonel Paul Levern Bates, a 1931 alumnus of the college, with several civic organizations in the Westminster area.
In addition to his degrees from the college, he also holds a Ph.D. from University of Maryland.
