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 Sid Dalby, associate director
of admission, was recently awarded the 2009 Distinguished
Service Award from the New England Transfer Association.
The award is given annually in recognition of outstanding
service to transfer students. “Over
the years, Sid has become widely known as someone with a
special expertise about transfer students,” reads the
award supporting statement. “Her special strength rests
in her ability to be professional and articulate and at the
same time warm and approachable. Sid always has the best
interest of the students at heart.” Dalby, who co-authored The
Transfer Student’s Guide to Changing Colleges, has
developed broad understanding of the special needs of students
who enter Smith with advanced standing through her work in
admission and the Ada Comstock Scholars Program. “It
was a very special honor—and surprise—to receive
this award,” Dalby said.
 John Shenette,
executive director of facilities management, was recently
given the Exemplary End User Award for the Facilities Person
of the Year by the International Facilities Management Association
(IFMA), Boston chapter. The award is presented annually
to a member of the Boston chapter who has provided sustained,
outstanding leadership to the chapter by keeping current
on changes in facility management and educating other IFMA
members and peers. Shenette, who serves as Academic Network
Chair for IFMA Boston, joined Smith in December 2007 and
has shepherded a strategy for the college’s facilities
that emphasizes sustainability and energy efficiency. IFMA
is a nonprofit association dedicated to serving the facility
management profession. IFMA Boston was founded in 1984 to
serve those who support the built environment.
 L’Tanya Richmond,
Smith’s director of multicultural affairs and a former
administrator at Elon University, her alma mater, was awarded
the Elon Medallion, given for outstanding service to the
school. After graduating from Elon in 1987, Richmond became
an admissions counselor and placement officer there. She
subsequently served as assistant and then associate director
of admissions, director of Minority Affairs and director
of Elon’s Multicultural Center.
 Black Behind the Ears: Dominican Racial Identity from
Museums to Beauty Shops, by Ginetta
Candelario, associate
professor of sociology and of Latin American studies, has
been selected to receive the Latina/o Studies Section (LSS)
Book Award from the Latin American Studies Association
(LASA). The LSS Book Award is presented annually to the
author of a book that reflects original research in Latino
studies, and contributes knowledge of the lives and conditions
of distinct Latino groups. Candelario’s book is an
historical and ethnographic examination of Dominican identity.
It draws on the author’s extensive observation in
a Dominican beauty shop in Washington Heights, a New York
City neighborhood with the oldest and largest Dominican
community outside the Republic, as well as from interviews
with Dominicans in New York City, Washington, D.C., and
Santo Domingo. Black Behind the Ears also won
the 2008 Best Book Prize from the New England Council of
Latin American Studies.
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