Observer, Volume 16, Number 18, Thursday May 25 1995


Leonard Smith to address honors assembly

Associate professor of history Leonard Smith's honors assembly address, "Privilege and Responsibility: Engaged Citizenship in the Academy," will, like President Nancy S. Dye's inauguration last fall, focus on engaged citizenship, which has been a part of Oberlin College's ethos for longer than Oberlin has had honors assemblies. This year's is the 55th honors assembly.

Leonard Smith.
Photo Credit: Rick Sherlock

The time, place, and seating for the honors assembly will be different from those of recent years. The honors assembly will be at 4:40 pm on Monday 8 May in Warner Concert Hall. Student award recipients will sit on stage during the assembly.

The deans of the College of Arts and Sciences and the Conservatory of Music will award various student prizes, and new members of honor societies (Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi, and Phi Kappa Lambda) and fellowship winners will be recognized. President Nancy S. Dye will host a reception in the Warner Lobby immediately afterward.

Professor of organ Haskell Thomson will perform the prelude--Prelude and Fugue in C Major by J.S. Bach--and postlude--Praludium in G Minor by Johannes Brahms--on the Warner Hall concert organ. Thomson, who graduated from the conservatory in 1958, has been on the faculty since 1961.

Smith, a 1980 graduate of the college, has been on the faculty since 1990. His book, Between Mutiny and Obedience: The Case of the French Fifth Infantry Division During World War I (Princeton University Press, 1994), won the American Historical Association's 1994 Paul Birdsall Prize for the best book on European military history.


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