After 25 years of steadfast service to the College of Physical Activity and Sport Sciences and West Virginia University, Barbara Dalton, director of the International Center for Performance Excellence and Fitness Information Technology Publishing, has retired.
“Barb Dalton deserves a great deal of thanks for her dedicated service to FiT Publishing and CPASS. During her 13 years working with FiT, her performance was so strong that she kept moving up the ladder until she was named the director in December 2015,” Jack Watson, CPASS dean said.
“As director, Barb has been instrumental in working with authors and organizations to negotiate many new and updated book titles in sport science related fields. She has developed a great reputation and has helped to keep FiT Publishing as one of the premier publishing companies serving the sport sciences. We owe her a great deal of appreciation for all that she has accomplished, and we will miss her presence in and around the halls of CPASS. We wish her all the best in her retirement,” Watson added.
Tracy Wheeler, CPASS senior business planning officer, highlighted Dalton’s enduring impact on the College. “I truly admire all the improvements that Barb initiated during her tenure as director. FiT benefited from Barb’s business experiences and expertise from day one, even before she became director, and those benefits only grew over time. She is a true asset, a true friend, and will be dearly missed,” Wheeler said.
Newly appointed ICPE/FiT Publishing Director Eileen Harvey offered an inside look at Dalton’s management role. “Barb Dalton has been a great leader, mentor and friend, and has been a positive influence and an inspirational leader to me since I started,” Harvey said. “She will be missed by all.”
Barbara Dalton’s last day with the College was May 20, 2021. She and her husband, Gary, continue to run CFT, Inc., which they have owned for 25 years, and plan to travel.
Learn more about Barbara Dalton and her work at FiT Publishing and CPASS and view her video tribute .