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PEOPLE
NEWS
| Dennis
Hudson, professor emeritus of world religions
and a Smith faculty member since 1970, died last weekend.
A memorial service will be held for Hudson in early 2007.
During his career at Smith, Hudson had become renowned
as one of America’s foremost scholars of the religions
of India. The College Hall flag was lowered to half staff
on Dec. 11 in Hudson’s memory and a funeral service
was held on Dec. 12. |
 Marsha
Kline Pruett, the Maconda Brown O’Connor Chaired
Professor in the School for Social Work, has been named a
winner of the 2007 Richard Manware Humanitarian Award from
the Coordinating Council for Children in Crisis (CCCC), an
organization that fights child abuse, neglect and victimization
through home visits, parenting education, counseling and advocacy.
“Dr. Kline Pruett’s groundbreaking research and
clinical experience has led to a new understanding about healthy
child and family development, particularly during difficult
life transitions, and has resulted in new protocols that improve
outcomes for children,” said Cheryl Burack, executive
director of CCCC. The late Richard Manware was a member of
the CCCC Board of Directors, until his death in 1998, who
was active in several charities and known as a tireless and
effective advocate for the vulnerable and disenfranchised,
explained Burack. “Choosing an award recipient each
year is a way to honor his memory and send a message to the
community about the need for services that protect children
and strengthen families.” Pruett will receive the award
during National Child Abuse Prevention Month in April 2007.
Catherine T. Hunt ’77, who will assume
the presidency on January 1, 2007, of the American Chemical
Society, the world’s largest scientific society, has
been awarded the American Association for the Advancement
of Science (AAAS) Fellowship. The fellowship is given to AAAS
members by their peers. Hunt was elected an AAAS fellow “for
leadership in promoting innovation, understanding, and appreciation
of, and in furthering innovation within, the chemical enterprise
across organizational and institutional boundaries,”
according to an announcement of fellowship winners in the
News & Notes section of the Nov. 24 edition of the journal
Science. Hunt, an executive with Rohm and Haas, a specialty
materials company based in Philadelphia, will join 448 other
fellowship recipients in receiving a certificate and an honorary
pin on February 17, during the AAAS Annual Meeting in San
Francisco.
Index
of People News 2005-06
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