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8/30/04

AWARDS GIVEN TO OUTSTANDING FACULTY, STAFF AT SLU

CANTON – St. Lawrence University faculty and staff received awards for 
outstanding service at Convocation, held on campus August 26, marking the 
start of the academic year.
      Associate Professor of History and Director of Academic Advising Elizabeth 
A. Regosin received the Louis and Frances Maslow Award; L.M. Flint Professor of 
Fine Arts Elizabeth L. Kahn was given the J. Calvin Keene Award posthumously 
and Earl H. Froats, facilities operations manager, 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." A member of the St. Lawrence University faculty since 1997, Regosin 
earned her bachelor's degree at the University of California at Berkeley and 
her master's degree and Ph.D. at the University of California at Irvine. She is 
the coordinator of the office of academic planning, advising and services and 
author of the 2002 book Freedom's Promise: Ex-Slave Families and Citizenship 
in the Age of Emancipation. Reading the award citation, Vice President of the 
University and Dean of Academic Affairs Grant H. Cornwell stated of Regosin, 
"From the time she hit campus she has impressed her students and colleagues 
in every project she has taken on. In all of the letters I have read regarding 
[her nomination], a number of qualities appear again and again: brilliance, 
warmth, demanding of herself and others, but chief among them are two: energy 
and commitment."
	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." Kahn, who died April 20, 2004, was a graduate 
of the University of Wisconsin, Liz earned a master’s degree from the 
University of Pittsburgh and her Ph.D. from UCLA.  She joined the St. Lawrence 
faculty in 1978; in 2002, she was appointed to the L.M. Flint Chair in Fine 
Arts. Kahn was the author of the 2003 book Marie Laurencin: Une Femme Inadaptée 
in Feminist Histories of Art,  the 1984 book The Neglected Majority: ‘Les 
Camofleurs,’ Art History and World War I and a chapter of the 1997 anthology 
Modernism, Gender and Culture:  A Cultural Studies Approach. In 1986, she 
delivered the Frank P. Piskor  Lecture, and a year later, Kahn co-directed 
the St. Lawrence Festival of the Arts on the topic "Art and the Vietnam Era: 
The Politics of Memory." Her son, William Kahn, accepted the award in her 
memory. Reading from a letter nominating her for the award, Cornwell noted 
of Kahn, "She certainly demonstrated high standards of scholarship and 
teaching in art history and also an unceasingly personal interest in the 
welfare and well-being of her students and colleagues." Her support, 
encouragement and inspiration, especially for junior women colleagues, 
were also noted by Cornwell.
	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 
to Froats, of Madrid, University President Daniel F. Sullivan stated, 
"This year's award goes to someone of outstanding dedication and commitment 
to excellence – a person who has worked continually at St. Lawrence for 29 
years, unfailingly responsive, a 'can-do' person in every area of his 
responsibility, and just the kind of staff member the Jack Taylor Award 
was designed to recognize."

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