Kenyon College presents student awards and confers three honorary degrees at Honors Day

GAMBIER, Ohio (March 30, 2005) Kenyon College will recognize the achievements of numerous students, two alumni, and a Cleveland, Ohio, teacher when it holds its annual Honors Day Convocation on Tuesday, April 12, at 10:30 a.m. in the College's Rosse Hall Auditorium.

Bruce W. Duncan '73, will be awarded an honorary doctor of humane letters. A former Kenyon trustee and generous benefactor of the College, Duncan is currently president and chief executive officer of Equity Residential Properties Trust in Chicago, Illinois. He is the past president of JMP Realty Corporation and Toronto's Cadillac Fairview Corporation, one of Canada's largest real estate companies.

An honorary doctor of fine arts degree will be conferred upon internationally known quilt and textiles artist Debra S. Lunn '73. A pioneer in computer fabric design, Lunn makes and sells her fabrics worldwide. With a partner, she runs Lunn Fabrics Ltd. and designs fabrics for commercial mass production, including five hundred signature-line fabrics for the Robert Kaufman Company. Her work is in museums and private collections around the world.

Cleveland, Ohio, social studies teacher Allan Keller will be awarded an honorary doctor of humane letters. Keller was the department head at John Marshall High School for twenty years. He is currently teaching at John F. Kennedy High School. It was Keller who first suggested the need for a summer program at Kenyon for Cleveland students enrolling in the School-College Articulation Program (SCAP) and he joined the first summer session here in 1986. He served as the social studies coordinator of the summer SCAP program for a decade before becoming its director, a position he currently occupies along with his colleague Portia Morgan. Keller has been directly responsible for the enrollment at Kenyon of more than thirty Cleveland minority students during the past twenty years. Last year, six of his students graduated from Kenyon.

Honors Day will be presided over by S. Georgia Nugent, president of Kenyon, who will announce the recipients of fellowships and awards, while Provost Gregory P. Spaid will present the departmental prizes. Trustee Thomas R. Sant '65 will announce the Trustee Teaching Excellence Awards, presented each year to two Kenyon faculty members, one who has been teaching at the College for less than ten years and one who has been teaching at Kenyon for ten years or more.