This
award is presented on an irregular basis to a student employee
or volunteer whose contribution to the Center for Gender Studies
has been outstanding and well above and beyond the call of
duty.
It is named for two former student assistants whose work made
an enormous impact on the development of the Center for Gender
Studies in earlier years. One of these students, Susan Freedman,
filled an unpaid position as a Research Associate of the Center
in the 1991-92 academic year, during which her efforts were
crucial in helping us to launch the research aspect of our
program and to establish the Center as a presence on the Radford
University campus. The second student, Sudie Back, was the
Center's graduate assistant in 1995-96, the year of our first
Student Research Conference on Gender. Her talent, enthusiasm,
and outreach skills were critical to the establishing of this
conference. We honor and celebrate the excellent work of these
two former students in naming this award after them.
At the Center, we have indeed been fortunate in
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benefitting
from the skills and commitment of such stellar students. In
addition to Back & Freedman,
this time, we have also recognized the outstanding work of another student,
Johanna Trumbull.
Johanna was the official graduate assistant for the Center
for one and a half years. Her competence, efficiency,
creativity, reliability and optimism have helped us to accomplish
our goals during this time with less anxiety than we had a
right to expect, given the number of things that had to be
done. Her presence in the Center's office for just ten hours
a week on average provided the assurance that questions
will be handled by someone with excellent judgment, that
crises will be met with intelligence, calm and good humor,
that communications will be sent in a timely and articulate
manner, that, in short, the many threads that must be woven
together to create the pattern that is the Center for Gender
Studies will be handled carefully and gracefully. In recognition
of, and in gratitude for, her substantial and important service
to the Center, we were pleased to present her with this award.
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