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Dwight Hall's Burdick Wins Ivy Award
Congratulations to Kathrine Burdick, who was honored in April with an Ivy Award for a decade of devoted service to Yale as general secretary of Dwight Hall, the undergraduate center for public service and social justice. Over the years, Burdick has served as advisor to many Yale students concerning all aspects of work at Dwight Hall, including program development, education and training, program management, Yale and community partnerships, and in many other areas as well. During her tenure, Dwight Hall has grown and improved substantially. As she approaches her retirement, Burdick leaves Dwight Hall a far better place, one which will nourish future generations of servant leaders for New Haven and beyond. "I am honored to be a recipient of an Ivy Award," says Burdick. "The mission of Dwight Hall is to foster civic-minded student leaders and to promote service and activism in New Haven and around the world. For me, the Ivy Award, which recognizes the promotion of the City/University partnership, also recognizes the very special contributions made by Dwight Hall and our thousands of concerned and committed members, staff, and supporters." The Seton Elm-Ivy Awards were established in 1979 through the inspiration and support of Fenmore (Class of '38) and Phyllis Seton, who established an endowment at the Community Foundation for Greater New Haven to support the awards. The awards were presented by President Levin and Robert Smuts, City of New Haven chief administrative officer, on behalf of Mayor DeStefano, on April 30 in the President's Room at Woolsey Hall. Other recipients of Ivy Awards were Robert Blocker, the Henry and Lucy Moses Dean, Yale School of Music, for The Class of '57 Music Education Project; Dianne Davis, Yale School of Nursing graduate and geriatric case manager at Yale-New Haven Hospital, for her work with the University Church; and Dr. Curtis Patton, professor emeritus of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale School of Medicine, for bringing attention to the legacies of Edward A. Bouchet, the first African American graduate of Yale College and the first in the United States to earn a Ph.D., and Dr. Cortlandt Van Rensselaer Creed, the first African American graduate of the Yale School of Medicine. (Story on all recipients of the Ivy and Elm Awards are in the May 16th issue of Yale Bulletin & Calendar). |
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