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9/10/01

SLU FACULTY, STAFF HONORED AT CONVOCATION

CANTON -- St. Lawrence University faculty and staff received awards for 
outstanding service at Convocation held on campus August 30, marking the 
start of the academic year.
	Assistant Professor of Psychology Catherine Crosby-Currie received 
the Louis and Frances Maslow Award; Professor of Mathematics Robin Lock 
received the J. Calvin Keene Award and Assistant Director of Telecommunications 
Edna Dana received the John P. Taylor Award.
	The Maslow Award goes to the faculty member who has shown "the most 
interest in and understanding of the education and welfare of the student 
body as a whole." Crosby-Currie, a faculty member since 1996, is a graduate 
of Hamilton College, with a law degree from the University of Maryland School 
of Law and a Ph.D. from the University of Virginia. Presenting the award to 
her, Vice President of the University and Dean of Academic Affairs Thomas 
Coburn noted, "She is known among her friends and colleagues across campus 
as both a top-notch teacher and a tireless advocate of students and their 
welfare. Whether it is offering courses that cross her two interests in law 
and psychology, collaborating with students on research projects, taking time 
to advise a first-year student on a personal problem, or working on campus-wide 
issues of importance to students, (Crosby-Currie) consistently takes time and 
energy for all manifestations of  'the education and welfare of the student 
body as a whole.'"
	The Keene Award was established in 1975 and is given to a faculty 
member in recognition of "high standards of personal scholarship, effective 
teaching and moral concern." Lock, who holds the Jack and Sylvia Burry Chair 
in Statistics, joined the St. Lawrence faculty in 1983. He is a graduate of 
SUNY Oneonta, with a master's degree and Ph.D. from the University of 
Massachusetts at Amherst. Coburn noted that he "has been a national leader in 
improving the teaching of statistics at liberal arts colleges. He has published 
widely and is a co-author of a recently published book on Workshop Statistics. 
As evidence of the high esteem in which he is held, he was named a Fellow of 
the American Statistical Association in 2000." Further, Lock's enthusiasm 
for sports, particularly college hockey, was noted, as was his development of 
a highly successful statistical procedure for predicting the scores in college 
hockey games.
	The John P. "Jack" Taylor Distinguished Career Service Award was 
established in 1995 at Taylor's retirement as dining services director, 
recognizing distinguished service to the University by an administrator who 
has worked at least 12 years at St. Lawrence and who sustains the high standards 
of performance exemplified by Taylor. Dana has been employed by St. Lawrence 
for some 20 years, beginning her service as a member of the clerical staff. 
Presenting the award, President Daniel F. Sullivan praised Dana for "outstanding 
dedication and commitment to excellence - (she is) a person who is unfailingly 
responsive, a 'can-do' person in every area of her responsibility, willing to 
take on new responsibilities whenever asked, smart, savvy and someone who has 
grown tremendously in my time here with every new opportunity."

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