St. Lawrence Geology Alumni
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Mark Klett '74 to be awarded Honoary Degree from
St. Lawrence
Excerpt from SLU Press Release linked below.
SLU TO HONOR THREE GRADUATES AT COMMENCEMENT
CANTON - Three distinguished graduates of St. Lawrence University will
be awarded honorary degrees by their alma mater at Commencement ceremonies
on
Sunday, May 16. Honorary degrees will be awarded to:
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Karen Hitchcock '64, president of SUNY Albany
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Mark Klett '74, internationally known photographer and college professor
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Lorrie Moore '78, novelist and college professor
Klett's St. Lawrence degree is in geology,
and he earned a Master of Fine Arts degree in photography from SUNY Buffalo.
Klett is the chief photographer
of the Rephotographic Survey Project, a comparative photographic survey
of the American West following the 1870s work of William Henry Jackson
and Timothy
O'Sullivan. A Regents Professor of Art at Arizona State University
at Tempe, Klett has exhibited work at the Museum of Modern Art, the Light
Gallery, and the
International Center for Photography in New York City; the Amon Carter
Museum in Fort Worth, Texas; the George Eastman House in Rochester; and
the Corcoran Gallery of Art and the National Museum of American Art in
Washington, DC. His photographs have also appeared in national magazines
and in a series of books he has authored.
Link to Full Press
Release From St. Lawrence distributed March 15, 2004
Last Updated:
March 15, 2004 |
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