97-04-29 Humanities Alumni Honor Stine, Dulaney

ALUMNI DULANEY AND STINE RECEIVE 1997 HUMAS AWARDS

     COLUMBUS -- Two Ohio State University alumni will receive
the fourth annual Humanities Alumni Society (HUMAS) Alumni Awards
of Distinction June 5 at the College of Humanities’ baccalaureate
ceremony to be held at Weigel Hall at 4 p.m.  They are being
recognized for their outstanding personal and professional
achievements and for having brought distinction to the college.

     W. Marvin Dulaney of CHARLESTON, S.C., who received an M.A.
in 1974 and Ph.D. in 1984 in history, is the director of the
Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture
and Director of African American Studies at the College of
Charleston.  Dulaney has won recognition as a leading scholar of
African American history and as director of one of the most
important documentary repositories in this field.  In 1996,
Indiana University Press published his book, Black Police in
America, which has gained wide-ranging acclaim and promises to
become a standard authority in the field.

     Robert L. Stine of NEW YORK, received a B.A. in English in
1965.  Stine -- known more popularly to millions of readers
between the ages of eight and thirteen as R.L. Stine, the author
of the Goosebumps and Fear Street series of novels -- is, without
question, the most successful writer of fiction at work in
America today.  Since 1992, averaging an astronomical 4 million
volumes a month, Stine has sold over 130 million books.  A former
editor of Sundial, an Ohio State humor magazine that James
Thurber himself once wrote for, Stine is the most productive
writer in publishing history.

     HUMAS also will award Outstanding Student Awards to Garett
Heysel of WEST END, N.C., and Will Pletcher of CARDINGTON.
Heysel, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of French and
Italian, serves as the assistant director of the Undergraduate
French Language Program.  Pletcher, an undergraduate majoring in
history, serves on Ohio State’s Judicial Panel and Committee on
Academic Misconduct, and the Humanities Student Advisory Group.

     The alumni award winners will receive a plaque and a framed
poem, The World Without, written for the college’s 25th
anniversary by David Citino, a professor of English and creative
writing.

                             #

Contact: Shari Lorbach, College of Humanities, (614) 292-1882.


[Submitted by: Von Vargas  (vargas.12@osu.edu)
               
Tue, 29 Apr 1997 10:27:57 -0400 (EDT)]
All documents are the responsibility of their originator.