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CONCETTA STEWART RECEIVES 2007 SCILS DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI AWARD
The SCILS Alumni Association Annual Dinner and Distinguished Alumni Award Event
was held Tuesday, April 10, 2007,at the Rutgers Club where Dr. Concetta Stewart
(Ph.D, 1989),
Dean of the School of Communications and Theater at Temple University received
the SCILS Distinguished Alumni Award. Concetta was part of the first class to enter SCILS when it was formed in 1982, a fitting choice
as SCILS celebrates its 25th anniversary this year.
As Dean of the Temple University School of Communications and Theater,
Dr. Stewart provides academic, fiscal and strategic leadership for approximately 3,800
undergraduate and graduate students. Under her leadership, the School has doubled
its enrollment, reorganized to better serve its students for success in the
rapidly changing world of communications, and made significant strategic
investments in technology. She leads a team of more than 40 administrative staff members,
90 full-time and 130 adjunct faculty members and has successfully recruited several
new faculty members of national stature this year. Dean Stewart has increased the
School’s visibility locally and nationally and also raised significant funds to
improve the overall quality of students’ experiences.
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Dean Concetta Stewart |
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Previous Distinguished Alumni Award Recipients
Nearly every year since 1979, the SCILS Alumni Association has chosen a distinguished alumnus or alumna to receive its Distinguished Alumni Award. The award honors truly distinguished contributions to the field of communication, journalism, information or library studies. Included in the following list of distinguished alumni are four honorary awards. The names of all recipients are engraved on brass tags on a plaque in the Dean's Office.
Distinguished Alumni
1979 |
Margaret Myers, MLS '80 |
1980 |
Richard Dougherty, MLS '67, PhD '77 |
1981 |
David Palmer |
1982 |
Shirley Echelman, MLS '66 |
1983 |
Ellen Altman, MLS '65, PhD '71 |
1984 |
Mary Kay Chelton, MLS '65 |
1985 |
Susan Artandi, PhD '63 |
1986 |
Mary Gaver (Honorary) |
1987 |
Bill Summers, MLS '59, PhD '73 |
1988 |
Roger Greer, MLS '56, PhD '64 |
1989 |
Norman Stevens, MLS '57, PhD '61 |
1990 |
Karen Takle Quinn |
1991 |
Lowell Martin (Honorary) |
1992 |
Hardy Franklin, PhD '71 |
1993 |
Betty Turock, MLS '70, PhD '81 |
1994 |
Mary Jo Lynch, PhD '77 |
1995 |
Norman Horrochs (Honorary) |
1996 |
Charles McClure PhD '77 |
1997 |
Ethel Heins, BA '38 NJ College for Women |
1998 |
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1999 |
Thomas Shaughnessy, PhD '70 |
2000 |
Kevin Kelly, Comm '76 |
2001 |
Peggy Barber, MLIS '66 |
2002 |
Robert Comstock, Journalism '52 |
2003 |
Mitch Freedman, PhD '89 |
2004 |
Kathleen Beck Schrock, MLS '79 |
2005 |
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2006 |
Bernard Goldberg, Journalism '67 |
2007 |
Concetta Stewart, PhD '93 |
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This page last updated April 12, 2007, by Gary
P. Radford
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