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9/27/12
Memorial Service For Ali Pomponio, St. Lawrence Anthropology Professor, October 17
CANTON - A memorial service to remember and celebrate the life of St. Lawrence University Professor of Anthropology Ali Pomponio will be held on Wednesday, October 17, at 4:30 p.m. in Gunnison Memorial Chapel. A reception in Herring-Cole will be held immediately after the service.
Pomponio died June 19, 2012. A cultural anthropologist and linguist who conducted extensive field research in Papua New Guinea and Italy, Pomponio was the recipient of a Fulbright research grant and received the University's J. Calvin Keene Award in 2011. She co-directed the University's program of study in Kenya, and was the author of several books. She had been compiling an encyclopedic dictionary of Mutu, an endangered language from the Siassi Islands, Papua New Guinea.
More information about the life of Pomponio may be found here.
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