WINTER 2013 | ST. LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE 3
ON CAMPUS
Honored at
Convocation
Four faculty and staff members
received awards for outstanding service
at Convocation, held on campus August
29,
marking the start of the 2012-13
academic year. From left, Director of
Editorial Services Neal S. Burdick ’72
received the John P. Taylor Award;
Deborah Bishop, administrative secretary
in the First-Year Program, won the
Thomas Coakley Award; Professor of
Government and Associate Dean of
International and Intercultural Studies
Karl K. Schonberg received the J. Calvin
Keene Award; and Associate Professor of
Sociology Mehretab A. Assefa won the
Louis and Frances Maslow Award. To see
the criteria for each award, visit www.
stlawu.edu/president/awards.html.
To read President Fox’s Convocation
address, “Call Me When You Get It,” go
to
www.stlawu.edu/president/speeches/
convocation2012.html.
TRADITIONS
across the
pages
St. Lawrence University
is chartered
by the state of New York as a Univer-
salist Theological School with a sepa-
rate
College of Letters and Science
.
4.3
1856
1861
The
first Commencement
takes
place as the Theological School
celebrates its first graduating
class.
U.S. Civil War begins
The first student organizations are debating clubs,
most notably the
Thelomathesian Society
.
1863
Residence Hall
Construction to
Begin in Spring
Plans are under way to build a new,
150-
bed residence hall on a site near
the Noble Center and the Quad.
Construction is expected to begin this
spring and be completed by the fall
2014
semester.
The project could include the ad-
dition of geothermal energy and the
reduction of pavement surrounding the
Quad to add as
much as 6 per-
cent more green
space, includ-
ing enhanced
landscaping.
Other priorities
include keep-
ing with the
character of the traditional campus and
maintaining or enhancing the views to
landmark buildings surrounding the
Quad, such as Gunnison Memorial
Chapel.
President William L. Fox announced
in December that the Board of Trustees
had approved the selected site, follow-
ing the recommendation of a 17-mem-
ber committee that included faculty,
staff, students and alumni. The com-
mittee voted in favor of the location
after thoroughly reviewing several sites
outlined as optimal in the University’s
recently completed Facilities Master
Plan.
Sacco & McKinney Architects, P.C.,
of Latham, N.Y., is working closely
with Residence Life, Facilities Opera-
tions and others on campus, including
students, to design the residence hall.
The general contrac-
tor, Northland Asso-
ciates, of Liverpool,
N.Y., has worked
on a number of
campus projects over
the years, including
the Johnson Hall of
Science, the Sullivan
Student Center and the Peterson-Ker-
mani Performance Hall.
At press time, the University had
raised more than $3 million to pay
for construction of the residence hall,
which is expected to cost about $12
million. The Class of 2013 kicked
off the focused fundraising effort by
pledging its senior gift to support the
project. (Look for more on this in the
upcoming spring issue.) —TE
For more information, including site
plans and renderings as they become
available, please visit
www.stlawu
.
edu/newreshall
.
The University
will update this site regularly as the
project progresses.