Campus News: September 18th, 2008

Stuart Kaufman (Sports Information) has received two District 1 writing awards from College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) in the 2008 Fred S. Stabley Sr. Writing Contest. The District 1 region includes Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont, Nova Scotia, Quebec, Newfoundland, Prince Edward Island, and New Brunswick.

The writing contest has five categories (athlete feature, general feature, coach/administrator profile, event coverage, and historical feature), and the 2007–08 contest drew 388 total entries.

Kaufman received a second place award under “event coverage” for “The Right Track: Keene State Jumper, Runner Win NCAA Titles,” a story about the KSC women’s track team national championships. He received third place under “general feature” for “Blaisdell Knows the Rules,” a story about alum Peter Blaisdell that appeared in Keene State Today.

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Stuart Kaufman

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Dr. Paul Vincent, professor of Holocaust Studies, received the 2008 Distinguished Teacher Award from the Keene State College Alumni Association at the New Student Convocation ceremony on August 24.

For 37 years, the Distinguished Teacher Award has been presented to a faculty member of extraordinary professionalism and dedication. The award is based on four criteria: excellence in the classroom, encouragement of independent thinking, rapport with students both in and out of the classroom, and effective student advising.

Colleagues and students who nominated Dr. Vincent describe him as a “master teacher” both in the classroom and through his work with the biennial Holocaust Studies Summer Institute at the College, where teachers from the region and internationally come to learn about how to incorporate Holocaust studies into their courses. “Professor Vincent believes that students have the power to make a difference in the world,” one of his students wrote in support of his nomination.

Dr. Vincent has taught at Keene State since 1985, when he arrived as director of the Mason Library. He served as director of the Cohen Center for Holocaust Studies from 1998 to 2007.

He received a B.S. in political science from Oregon State University, a Master of Arts in history from the University of Northern Colorado, a Master of Arts in library science from the University of Michigan, and a Ph.D. in modern European history from the University of Colorado at Boulder.

As coordinator of the Holocaust studies minor program, which includes genocide studies, he advises all students who select the minor. In 2007, he was awarded a Pinchas and Mark Wisen Fellowship to pursue a research project, “The United States and the Crisis of Nazi Racial Policy, 1938-1941,” during a five-month residency at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. Dr. Vincent is the author of two books: The Politics of Hunger: The Blockade of Germany, 1915-1919 and A Historical Dictionary of Germany’s Weimar Republic, 1918-1933.

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Dr. Paul Vincent speaks at the 2008 New Student Convocation.

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From Frank Mazzola, Physical Plant: The Keene State College Physical Plant Department was formally recognized at The Granite State Quality Council (GSQC) 2008 Conference and Recognition Ceremony held in Manchester, N.H., on June 25. The department received a plaque and a letter of recognition from Governor John Lynch. Only one other organization in the state was recognized in 2008.

The GSQC Recognition and Award Program recognizes New Hampshire organizations for performance excellence using criteria established in the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award. The Quality Recognition Program consists of four levels: quality interest, quality assessment, quality commitment, and quality achievement. The Physical Plant Department was recognized in the quality assessment category.

Governor John Lynch joined the GSQC in congratulating Keene State with a letter stating “[they] have recognized the need to identify and strive for best practices in support of better serving their customers, developing an engaged and skilled workforce, and ultimately in support of strengthening the New Hampshire economy.”

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Frank Mazzola (director) and John Lorette (Work Control supervisor) accept GSQC and the Governor’s recognition on behalf of the Physical Plant Department at Keene State College. L to R: Ann Warner, executive director, Granite State Quality Council; Frank Mazzola; John Lorette; David Branch, Conference keynote speaker and Baldrige evaluator; Tom Raffio, GSQC chair and CEO of Northeast Delta.

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