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7/9/07

MALONE NATIVE NAMED TRUSTEE AT ST. LAWRENCE

CANTON - Denise M. Durant, a 1997 graduate of St. Lawrence University, has been elected a McCurdy-Sprague Trustee of the University. McCurdy-Sprague Trustees must have graduated from St. Lawrence between two and 10 years prior to their election, and serve four-year terms.

Durant is an orthopedic surgeon, specializing in hand surgery. She graduated from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in 2001 and completed her internship and residency in Burlington, Vermont. Durant is completing a fellowship year of training at the Mary S. Stern Hand and Upper Extremity Surgery Center in Cincinnati, Ohio, after which she will join a practice of orthopedic surgeons in Bennington, Vermont.

A native of Malone, Durant graduated from Salmon River Central School in Fort Covington. She graduated from St. Lawrence with honors, earning her degree in biology and psychology. While an undergraduate, Durant played soccer and basketball, earning Academic All-American and league honors in soccer her senior year. She was elected to the biology and psychology honorary societies, as well as the national academic honorary society Phi Beta Kappa and the leadership honorary society Omicron Delta Kappa.

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More information: St. Lawrence University Board of Trustees