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Faculty | Staff Focus Art and Art Histor y Trish Simonite participated in three local group exhibitions during the FotoSeptiembre/SAFOTO month-long celebration of photography: “Wabi Sabi” at Northwest Vista Community College, “The View From Here,” at The Bismark Studios Contemporary Fine Art, and “A Photographic Survey & Selected Works From The Region,” in conjunction with the Society for Photographic Education South Central Regional Conference, University of Texas at San Antonio. She also was one of 10 featured artists invited to participate in the McNay Art Museum Contemporary Collectors Forum’s fundraiser “Art To The Power of 10.” Biology Sandra Miller received the Helen Heare McKinley award in September. Classical Studies Timothy O’Sullivan’s book, Walking In Roman Culture, was published by the Cambridge University Press. Economics Richard Butler received the 2011 Kenneth G. Elzinga Teaching Award from the Southern Economic Association.
English Peter Balbert’s essay-review of the Cambridge University Press edition of D. H. Lawrence’s Mornings in Mexico was published in English Literature in Transition. David Rando’s book, Modernist Fiction and News: Representing Experience in the Early Twentieth Century was published by Palgrave Macmillan Press. He also reviewed Transatlantic Print Culture, 1880-1940: Emerging Media, Emerging Modernism, edited by Ann Ardis and Patrick Collier, for Modernism/ modernity. Michael Soto was awarded the
Sarah Burke
Steven Gilliam
Lawrence Kimmel
NEW BEGINNINGS
Three long-time faculty leave to pursue other passions In December, three Trinity University professors took advantage of a one-time early retirement program announced last May by University President Dennis A. Ahlburg. Russian professor Sarah Burke retired after 38 years of service. While she plans to rekindle an earlier love for art, she said she will “miss the laughter, fun, and challenges of the classroom.” She will be remembered for developing Trinity’s Russian major program, the student trips she led to Russia, and her role in helping create the First Year Seminar program. She plans extensive travel and a return to her original passion, which is art. sburke@trinity.edu During a three-decade tenure at Trinity, Steven Gilliam designed 108 Trinity theater productions. Now the award-wining designer plans to focus on his professional design career. Emblematic of the transition, after teaching his last class at Trinity, he headed for the Majestic Theater, where, later the same evening, he opened the national tour of “Fiddler on the Roof.” Gilliam and his partner and wife, Sam Carter Gilliam, will return as resident designers to the St. Louis MUNY this summer for their 19th season in addition to design projects throughout the U.S. slgdesign@satx.rr.com or sgilliam@trinity.edu Philosophy professor Lawrence Kimmel, leaving after 44 years, notes, “As teachers we are most of all honored by what our students become.” Throughout his tenure, Kimmel published analytic and historical essays in philosophy as well as essays on politics, law, religion, art, and literature, and received numerous teaching awards. He will continue to write and publish from his home in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains of Northern New Mexico, noting, “With a library full of books, I will not be short on things to think or read or write about.” lkimmel@trinity.edu.
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