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9/9/02

KEENE, MASLOW, TAYLOR AWARDS GIVEN AT SLU

CANTON -- St. Lawrence University faculty and staff received 
awards for outstanding service at Convocation, held on campus 
August 29, marking the start of the academic year.
   Professor of English J. Kerr Grant received the J. Calvin Keene 
Award; Head of Reference/Instructional Services Joan A. Larsen was 
given the Louis and Frances Maslow Award; and Rene M. Murphy, 
manager of microcomputer user services, information technology, 
received the John P. Taylor Award.
	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." Presenting 
the award to Grant, Vice President of the University and Dean 
of Academic Affairs Grant H. Cornwell said that he is "the 
consummate colleague and University citizen" and noting that 
"students value him as a generous and extremely supportive 
advisor, praising his forthright advice and respecting the 
years of University experience he brings to bear when discussing 
their futures." Grant has been a faculty member at St. Lawrence 
since 1977. 
	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." Cornwell said that 
Larsen is "one of the community's stalwart citizens. She cares 
so much about St. Lawrence - about the integrity of its mission, 
about the education of its students, about the quality of the 
community - that she gives of herself untiringly." He noted 
especially her involvement with the First-Year Program, the 
Joint Board of Inquiry and the Residence Life Committee. Larsen 
became a member of the University faculty in 1977.
	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. Presenting the award, President 
Daniel F. Sullivan said that Murphy is "a person who is 
unfailingly responsive, a 'can-do' person in every area of her 
responsibility, unbelievably focused and helpful in a job that 
often involves great stress, smart, savvy, a team player devoted 
to St. Lawrence, and someone who has grown tremendously in my 
time here with every new opportunity." Murphy is a resident of 
Ogdensburg and was recently promoted to her current position.

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