Harward Center for Community Partnerships awards recognize 18
Emily “Libby” Egan was one of four seniors to be honored by the Harward Center for outstanding community-engaged academic work. Photograph by Phyllis Graber Jensen/ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ College.
The seventh annual ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ College Harward Center for Community Partnerships Awards recognized 18 individuals and organizations in a celebration at the Edmund S. Muskie Archives on May 8, 2013.
The Harward Center provides ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ students, as well as staff and faculty, with opportunities in community-engaged research, volunteerism and environmental stewardship. Firmly rooted in the academic purpose of the College, the center is a focal point for connected learning that fuses academic discussion and community. In union with this mission, award recipients connect ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ with the larger community through collaboration, research and service.
Here are the 2013 honorees:
• Susan Hayward, former president of the Stanton Bird Club, received the 2013 James and Sally Carignan Award for Career Achievement.
• Seniors Emily “Libby” Egan, Jordan Lupo, Erin O’Connor and Edward “Ted” Wells received the 2013 Harward Center Student Award for Outstanding Community-Engaged Academic Work.
• Destany Franklin ’14, Ellen Gawarkiewicz ’13, Juwon Song ’15 and Kimberly Sullivan ’13 received the Award for Outstanding Community Volunteerism and Student Leadership.
• Anita Charles, lecturer in education and director of secondary teacher education, was honored with the Faculty Award for Outstanding New Community Partnership Initiative.
• Professor of French and Francophone Studies Mary Rice-DeFosse received the Faculty Award for Sustained Commitment to Community Partnership.
• Head Men’s Soccer Coach Stewart Flaherty and Dining Services Production Supervisor Keith Pray were presented with the Staff Award for Community Volunteerism, Leadership or Engagement.
• Community Financial Literacy, a nonprofit that offers financial literacy courses and counseling to all refugees, immigrants, asylees and low-income individuals, received the Community Partner Award for Outstanding New Initiative.
• Sherry Russell, former director of the Downtown Education Collaborative, received the Community Partner Award for Sustained Commitment to Partnership.
• The ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Public Health Initiative was recognized with the Award for Outstanding Community Project/Partnership.
• Nick Bennett, staff scientist and Watershed Project director for the Natural Resources Council of Maine, received the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½-Morse Mountain Award for Environmental Stewardship.
• Dave Courtemanch of The Nature Conservancy’s Environmental Protection Program was presented with the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½-Morse Mountain Award for Environmental Lifetime Achievement.
