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2013 HUMANITIES AWARDS CEREMONY TO BE HELD APRIL 6 AT HOUMAS HOUSE PHOTO BY KEELY MERRITT The Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities (LEH) has named scholar, historian and educator William Pederson, Ph.D., the 2013 Humanist of the Year. This and other statewide awards in the humanities will be presented on Saturday, April 6, 12:30 p.m., at Houmas House Plantation and Gardens on River Road in Darrow, Louisiana. Tickets to the awards luncheon are $50 per person. For tickets or additional information, contact Brian Boyles at the LEH, 504-620-2632 or boyles@leh.org. Houmas House Pederson is the American Studies Endowed Chair in Liberal Arts at Louisiana State University in Shreveport (LSUS). Pederson earned acclaim for establishing the International Lincoln been recognized by the Andrew Mellon Foundation and the Center in 1982, the largest privately National Endowment for the Arts. “Musical Louisiana” has provided endowed program at LSUS. An editor numerous entries on musicians, composers and concert venues in and co-editor of books on George KnowLA.org, the Digital Encyclopedia of Louisiana, a project of the Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Franklin LEH. In 2009 the French government awarded Lemmon with D. Roosevelt and the U.S. Supreme membership in the Order of Academic Palms for his longstanding Court, Pederson also established commitment to cultural exchange with France. In 2011 the successful lecture series, fellowships and Spanish government recognized him with a study abroad program at the the Royal Order of Isabella the Catholic. Shreveport campus and was selected to The Chair’s Award for Institutional chair Louisiana’s Civil War Support will be presented to The Shell Sesquicentennial Task Force. Oil Company for its funding over the Pederson has served as a scholar for last two years of PRIME TIME Family William Pederson the LEH’s Teaching American History Reading Time, a family literacy programs in Caddo Parish and as the program operated by the LEH. Shell is director of several Teaching Institutes for American Studies, now the LEH’s single largest corporate enriching the skills and understanding of hundreds of middle and philanthropic partner, providing support secondary school teachers in the state. for PRIME TIME programming in Louisiana, “The goal of his career has been to share his knowledge with Florida and forthcoming programs in Texas, Alabama and others and create venues where people can come together to Mississippi. Seed funding from Shell also enabled the LEH to be learn more about the humanities from each other,” wrote certified by the Louisiana Department of Education as an official nominator Dr. Mary Stockwell of the University of Michigan. teacher professional development provider under the “Striving The Lifetime Contribution to the Humanities Award will be Readers” federal literacy initiative. A nationally recognized model, presented to Alfred Lemmon, Ph.D., of New Orleans. A native of PRIME TIME is the longest-running outcomes-based humanities Lafayette, Lemmon has provided program in the nation designed to engage educationally and invaluable research and scholarship in economically vulnerable children and families. more than thirty years at The Historic Public Humanities Programming Awards will be presented to New Orleans Collection (THNOC). Since Patrice Melnick, along with Elaine 2000, he has served as director of Black and the Georgia Public Library THNOC’s Williams Research Center, a Service (GPLS). major repository for the study and • Based in Grand Coteau, Melnick has preservation of documents, publications produced public programs that and museum objects pertaining to the deliver literature and poetry to state and region. thousands of people in Acadiana. In A driving force in the acquisition, 2008, she inaugurated the Festival of Alfred Lemmon organization and care of collections, Words, an annual four-day Lemmon traveled to archives in Spain, celebration of literary arts that France and Cuba in the early part of his career to secure copies of includes public readings of Louisiana records held in the repositories of those nations. literature, writing workshops, author Patrice Melnick Lemmon’s campaign to preserve the history of classical music visits to schools and creative writing in Louisiana, “Musical Louisiana: America’s Cultural Legacy,” has contests. 4 LOUISIANA ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES • Spring 2013  http://www.KnowLA.org

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