Last
April 3, at the 2001 GS Annual Dinner, over 200 alumni met with
current students, CU faculty members, and friends, to celebrate
General Studies and its 2001 award recipients. In his address, The
Rise and Fall of the Exclusionary Impulse at Columbia, keynote
speaker Professor Robert McCaughey, the Anne Whitney Olin Professor
of History at Barnard College, looked back at the last centuries
and traced the connection between Columbia's impulse to include
and exclude various populations with the health of the University.
His lecture looked at the trustees and presidents who were instrumental
in making the University a modern-day institution and dealt with
the various struggles of these presidents to include students often
unwelcome at universities, like women and Jews.
Malcolm
Borg, GS 65, and
Katharine Auchincloss, GS 61
and GSAS 67. |
Robert
Birnbach, GS 86, and
Dr. Charlotte Rotkin, GS 72 and GSAS 80. |
Keynote
speaker
Professor Robert McCaughey. |
President
Rupp listens as Dean Peter J. Awn (not pictured) introduces
Owl Award recipients Florence Van Veen Peavy, GS 47, and
Daniel J. Daly, GS 58. |
President Rupp (left) and Dean Peter J. Awn (right)
bestow the GS Medal of Distinction
on Doctor Roger Pilon, Esq., GS 71 (center). |
The
awards presented at the Dinner included the Owl Award, given to
an individual whose life and accomplishments have been distinguished
by eminence in public service. This year there were two recipients:
Florence Van Veen Peavy, GS 47, and Daniel J. Daly, GS 58. The
GS Medal of Distinction, awarded to alumni who are recognized leaders
in their professions and exemplify the values of the School of General
Studies, was given to Dr. Roger Pilon, Esq., GS 71. The Hettlemen
Award, given to junior faculty members in recognition of outstanding
scholarly promise, and teaching and service to the School, was presented
to Adam J. Kosto and Christina H. Kiaer. The Bancroft Award, presented
to a faculty member for excellence in teaching, inspiration to students,
and devotion to the principles of education as exemplified by the
School, was awarded to Alberto L. Mancinelli.
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