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Outstanding professors and other members of the Lafayette community were honored for distinguished teaching, scholarly research, and service to Lafayette at the annual trustee-faculty dinner Friday, May 23, in Marquis Hall.
President Arthur J. Rothkopf ’55; Alan R. Griffith ’64, the chair of the board of trustees; and June Schlueter, the provost and Charles A. Dana Professor of English, presented the awards and citations.
Rothkopf announced that the board of trustees has appointed Carolynn Van Dyke, professor of English to an endowed chair. She will become Francis A. March Professor of English effective with the 2003-04 academic year.
Four retiring faculty members who have been elected to emeritus status were honored, Harold M. Hochman, William E. Simon Professor of Political Economy; Richard E. Sharpless, professor of history, Ralph L. Slaght, James Renwick Hogg Professor of Philosophy, and Barbara H. Young, instructor in the Department of Athletics and head coach of the men’s and women’s varsity tennis teams. Also honored was Amale A. Gaffney, retiring director of the language laboratory in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures.
The evening featured the awarding of prizes in recognition of exceptional teaching, scholarship, and service to Lafayette. The prizes are funded through designated gifts to the endowment.
There was a moment of silence in memory of James P. Crawford, who died May 8. He had been the current faculty member with the longest continuous service, teaching in the Department of Mathematics since 1957. Named for him is the James P. Crawford Award. Established by Jonathan Bernon, a 1984 Lafayette graduate from Woodbury, Conn., the prize goes annually to a faculty member who has demonstrated a high standard of classroom instruction. This year’s recipient was Rebecca L. Rosenbauer, director of the computer-aided engineering laboratories.
Members of the Lafayette community gathered in Colton Chapel Thursday to celebrate Crawford’s life and career.
Recipients of Student Government Superior Teaching Awards were Howard N. Bodenhorn, associate professor of economics and business, and S. Scott Moor, assistant professor of chemical engineering.
Marquis Distinguished Teaching Awards for distinctive and extraordinary teaching went to Susan L. Averett, associate professor of economics and business; Alan W. Childs, associate professor of psychology; Steven M. Nesbit, associate professor of mechanical engineering; and Lee Upton, professor of English and writer-in-residence. An endowed fund established by Lafayette trustee Walter A. Scott, Class of 1959, and his wife Kate, of Bermuda, provides for four annual awards.
Bodenhorn and Laura Dassow Walls, associate professor of English, received the Mary Louise Van Artsdalen Prize for outstanding scholarly achievement. The award was established by Dr. Ervin R. Van Artsdalen, a 1935 graduate of Lafayette, in memory of his wife.
Margarete Lamb-Faffelberger, associate professor of German in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, was the recipient of the Delta Upsilon Distinguished Mentoring and Teaching Award. Established in 2000 by the alumni of the Lafayette chapter of the Delta Upsilon fraternity on the 115th anniversary of the fraternity’s founding, the award recognizes members of the faculty for distinctive and extraordinary teaching through mentoring, which may include advising, undergraduate research, independent study, or any of the many one-on-one mentoring activities that take place in a student-centered learning environment.
Mehmet Uz, professor of chemical engineering, was the recipient of the Carl R. and Ingeborg Beidleman Research Award recognizing excellence in applied research or scholarship. The prize was established by Carl R. Beidleman, a member of Lafayette’s Class of 1954 and a professor emeritus of finance at Lehigh University, and his wife, Ingeborg.
Michael A. Paolino, Charles A. Dana Professor of Mechanical Engineering, received the Christian R. and Mary F. Lindback Foundation Award for excellence in teaching and outstanding contributions to campus life.
John E. Meier, associate professor of mathematics, received the Thomas Roy and Lura Forrest Jones Award for superior teaching and scholarly contribution to his discipline.
Derek A. Smith, assistant professor of mathematics, and Sidney E. Donnell, associate professor of foreign languages and literatures, received Thomas Roy and Lura Forrest Jones Faculty Lecture Awards in recognition of excellence in teaching and scholarship. Each receives a cash prize and will deliver a featured lecture during the 2003-04 academic year.
Also recognized were this year’s Jones Faculty Lecturers, John S. Shaw III, associate professor of psychology, and Ian D. Smith, associate professor of English.
The recipient of the Administrator of the Year Award was Ellis Finger, director of the Williams Center for the Arts. Established in 2002 by gifts from faculty members to recognize outstanding contributions by members of the Lafayette administrative team to the campus community, the award is made each year to a full-time administrator nominated by a member of the faculty or a division head.
Donald L. Miller, John Henry MacCracken Professor of History, received the Daniel L. Golden ’34 Faculty Service Award. The award recognizes distinguished service to Lafayette through the Alumni Association and alumni activities.
Five faculty members received Joseph Johnson Hardy Memorial Fund Awards. The award was established in 1923 by Harry S. Gay of the Class of 1882 in memory of Professor Hardy, who taught mathematics and astronomy at Lafayette from 1870 to 1915. The income from this fund is divided annually among the five members of the faculty who have achieved the longest continuous service to Lafayette.
Honored were Crawford, posthumously, Edward R. McDonald, professor of German in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, who joined the faculty in 1964; B. Vincent Viscomi, Simon Cameron Long Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering (1964), Joseph Martin, associate professor of English (1967), and Thomas W. Norton, professor of anthropology and sociology (1967).
Three members of the faculty and administration were honored for 25 years of service to Lafayette, Thomas H. Bruggink, associate professor of economics and business; Edmond J. Seifried, professor of economics and business; and David K. Thomas, assistant registrar.