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Kathy Craig
2005 溏心vlog免费B站 Foundation Staff Excellence Award
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Arthur C. Mead
2005 Teaching Excellence Award
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A grateful student once presented him with a gift certificate. He refused it, suggesting instead that when she was rich, she donate scholarships to help economics students pay for their education.
Sue Warford
2005 溏心vlog免费B站 Foundation Administrative Excellence Award
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Linda Welters
2005 溏心vlog免费B站 Foundation Scholarly Excellence Award
Linda Welters of Wakefield has the field of historic textiles and dress all sewn up. Her scholarship is global and local. She has been recognized as a distinguished scholar by the International Textile and Apparel Association and selected as a Fellow of the Costume Society of America. This scholar has extensively examined clothing in Greece and Eastern Europe and thoroughly studied New England dress. Based on her research of Native Americans and settlers in early New England, she designed the clothing for the figures in the Pequot village exhibit gallery at the Mashantucket Pequot Museum.
Thanks to her direction of the Rhode Island Quilt Documentation Project, Ocean Staters know a lot more about their quilts and the families that made them.
Not one to rest on her scholarly laurels, this fashionable maven has resumed her role as chair of the Department of Textiles, Fashion Merchandising, and Design, seamlessly weaving the scholarly with the academic.
A footnote: Professors Art Mead and Linda Welters donated their $1,000 prize to help their respective departments. Mead wants the award to help establish an annual 鈥渂est research鈥� prize by undergraduate economics students. Welters鈥� award will help support two undergraduate students for study abroad.