May
24, 2002
Quidnunc
Board News
The College's board of trustees met May 3 and 4 for a series of
meetings, during which the group approved degree candidates, the
operating budget for fiscal year 2002–2003, and recommendations
for reappointments, promotions, department chairs, sabbaticals,
and emeritus status. The trustees endorsed promotion to full professor
for Nancy Campbell, Claude Fennema, Samba Gadjigo, Linda Laderach,
Helen Leung, Louise Litterick, Margaret Robinson, Gary Steigerwalt,
and Kenneth Tucker. The trustees approved promotion to senior
lecturer for Aldo Santiago and Susan Scotto and approved emeritus
status for Jeanne Brownlow, Michael Burns, and Viktoria Schweitzer.
In a plenary session, the board heard presentations on recent
work by faculty members Anthony Lee and Lynn Morgan. Trustees
also toured the construction site of the new science center. On
May 2, board members enjoyed dinner with a group of students who
had received major awards for scholarship, research, or service
to the community over the past year. The board also celebrated
three colleagues who have completed terms of service or retired
from the board: Eileen Shanley Kraus '60, Gloria Johnson-Powell
'58, and Jill Ker Conway. A number of trustees, donors, and chairholders
gathered on Saturday evening for a dinner to celebrate endowed
professorships, at which Sohail Hashmi gave a presentation.
When in Rome
Assistant Professor of Music David Sanford has won the Samuel
Barber Rome Prize Fellowship, one of two Rome Prizes awarded to
musical composers. This award will allow him to stay at the American
Academy in Rome for eleven months with a group of twenty-five
to thirty scholars in many areas of the humanities. These prestigious
fellowships cover travel and lodging and provide a stipend. Sanford
plans to compose seven to ten contemporary works for large jazz
orchestra.
Honor Times Two
Anthony W. Lee, associate professor of art, has won the Charles
C. Eldredge Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in American Art,
which is administered by the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
The prize, named in honor of the former director of the museum
and awarded annually, is sponsored by the American Art Forum,
a patrons' support organization, and seeks to recognize originality
and thoroughness of research, excellence of writing, and clarity
of method. Single-author, book-length publications in the field
of American art history appearing within the three previous calendar
years are eligible. It is especially meant to honor those authors
who deepen or focus debates in the field or who broaden the discipline
by reaching beyond traditional boundaries. Lee will deliver a
lecture associated with the prize in Washington in the fall. Lee
has also been awarded one of three Millicent C. McIntosh Fellowships
for recently tenured faculty in the humanities by the Woodrow
Wilson National Fellowship Foundation. This is the first year
that these fellowships have been offered, and they are underwritten
by the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation. Lee's award is for two
years, and his project is titled "When the Cobbling Began:
Photography, Visual Culture, and Chinese Shoemakers in a Nineteenth-Century
New England Factory Town."
Case Study
The Smith Richardson Foundation has awarded $103,290 to Associate
Professor of Russian Studies Stephen Jones for his project "U.S.
Policy in Georgia and the Caucasus: Four Case Studies" to
begin July 1. The grant will allow Jones to write a book that
will evaluate U.S. national interests in Georgia and Georgia's
role in U.S. policies toward Iran, Turkey, and Russia. Jones will
assess the history of U.S. policy in Georgia since 1991 and analyze
the arguments for more or less U.S. commitment.
Chain Reaction
In addition to the National Science Foundation grant that she
received last month, Wei Chen, Mary E. Woolley Assistant Professor
of Chemistry, has been awarded a grant of $35,000 by the Petroleum
Research Fund for her project "Probing the Fundamentals of
Wetting."
Award of the Rings
Kathryn M. Peek '02 has been awarded a Mary Daily Irvine Prize
by the Five College astronomy department for her research that
challenges an existing theory about the formation of Saturn's
rings. Her work, "The Disruption of an Icy Satellite and
the Evolution of the Resulting Debris Ring: A Formation Scenario
for Saturn's Rings," casts doubt on the theory that the rings
were formed from the dust of a moon pulverized by a passing comet.
Peek was one of three Five College students to receive the prize,
a cash award of $500.
Stand Outs
A number of MHC equestrians won awards at the Intercollegiate
National Horse Show hosted by Cazenovia College in Cazenovia,
New York, May 1–6. Laena Romond '05 placed first in the USA
Equestrian Cacchione Cup class and won a second-place title in
the individual over fences class, earning the reserve national
championship title for this event. Janet Obee '02 won the individual
walk-trot class, and Andrea Bill '01 placed second in both the
alumni over fences and alumni flat classes. Romond qualified to
compete at the nationals in the Cacchione class by earning the
individual high point open rider award for region III. At the
show, it was announced that Amy D'Itri '02
was the Intercollegiate Horse Show Association (IHSA) National
Senior Athletic Academic Achievement Award Essay Contest winner.
She received a $500 scholarship. This contest is for seniors who
have been on their equestrian team for at least three years and
who have at least a 3.5 GPA.
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Not
Dark Yet (2001), pencil, colored pencil, and ink on paper,
by Bonita Sennott
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Moving Pictures
Not Dark Yet, a drawing by Bonita Sennott, copy editor/project
coordinator in MHC's Office of Communications, is one of seventy
artworks by New England artists to be shown in Agrarian Abundance,
an exhibition of art about the Connecticut River Valley sponsored
by the Pioneer Valley Institute of Greenfield Community College.
The exhibition (June 2–27), will take place at Artspace,
7 Franklin Street, in Greenfield, with an opening reception Sunday,
June 2, from 1 to 4 pm. Sennott, who holds a master of fine arts
degree from the University of Chicago, will have an exhibition
of her paintings and drawings at the Center for the Arts in Northampton
in November. Last month, fifteen of her recent drawings were chosen
for inclusion in the Boston Drawing Project at Bernard Toale Gallery
in Boston's South End. Sennott has had one-person shows at Artemisia
and Inside Art galleries in Chicago; in Massachusetts her work
has been shown in group exhibitions at the Fitchburg Art Museum,
the Springfield Museum of Fine Arts, the Copley Society in Boston,
Artworks at Dover Street in New Bedford, and Geoffrey Young Gallery
in Great Barrington.
On the Ball
Nana Osam-Tewiah '04 has been named a 2002 Arthur Ashe Jr. Sports
Scholar. This annual award was established by Black Issues
in Higher Education ten years ago. Osam-Tewiah is a mathematics
and computer science major and is a member of the squash team.
In addition to their athletic ability, students named Ashe Scholars
must exhibit academic excellence and community activism. Osam-Tewiah
currently maintains a 4.0 GPA, has completed her first season
on the squash team, was named its most improved player, and is
actively involved in campus and community service.
The Secret's Out
Secret Boston: The Unique Guide to Boston's Hidden Sights,
Sounds & Tastes by Laura Purdom, writer for MHC's Office
of Communications, has just been published by ECW Press/Montreal.
The making of the guidebook required a year of intensive research
in and around Boston, the author's former home. "Secret
Boston is all about exploring your own backyard," says
Purdom. "It tells you where to find Boston phenomena even
'lifers' don't know about: Armenian art, Sardinian restaurants,
tiara collections, Franco-Japanese pastries, a technology flea
market, al fresco tango lessons, and bed-and-breakfast lodging
on a sailboat," along with 300 pages of other events, sights,
eateries, and lodging. The book is illustrated with photographs
by Linda Rutenberg. ECW Press is sponsoring a launch for Secret
Boston June 6, from 5 to 8 pm at the Hamill Gallery of African
Art, Boston. Purdom's previous publications include travel guides
to New England, Great Britain, and Canada.
Out of This World
Jane Crosthwaite, professor and chair of religion, was the Frank
L. Nickerson lecturer at Heritage Plantation in Sandwich, Massachusetts,
May 18. She spoke about "Shaker Spirit Drawings: Earthly
Emblems of Spiritual Realms" in conjunction with the museum's
special exhibition titled Inspired Choices: Creations of Shaker
Life.
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