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Director Named Eberly Center Woman of the Year |
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Vicki L. Kroll |
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Apr 7, 2004 |
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| Dr. Patricia Murphy posed for a photo with the Eberly Center Woman of the Year Award at the recognition reception. |
Dr. Patricia Murphy received more accolades last week. The interim director of the Catharine S. Eberly Center for Women and director of the Disabilities Studies Program was named the Eberly Center Woman of the Year.
The center’s advisory board had selected Murphy for the honor prior to learning she would serve as interim director, according to Sandy Kosmyna, program coordinator for the Center for Women.
The award is given to a woman who has made outstanding contributions to the center.
“Pat accomplished so much in her four short years as director of the Eberly Center for Women from 1997 to 2001,” Kosmyna said when presenting the award. “Within the first year, the Barney Smith Salomon Computer Lab was established. Internet basics and computer training are offered to low-income women. She re-established the brown-bag luncheon seminars and brought stimulating speakers to campus. Later she initiated the women’s art program, which features the work of women students and alumni exhibited in our gallery space.”
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| Judy Gorman, a musician based in New York, performed at the Eberly Center recognition reception. She was the keynote speaker at the March 30 women's conference, which was attended by more than 200. |
Kosmyna also noted Murphy wrote grants to bring the Domestic Violence Self-Sufficiency Program to the Center for Women, and she led writers and literacy groups and developed conferences for international women and women with disabilities.
“Pat promoted the center in a positive light wherever she went and developed alliances with women in the community and at various women’s organizations,” Kosmyna said. “We’re thrilled to have her return to the Eberly Center for Women as interim director for a two-year commitment.”
“I am so honored to be back at the Center for Women,” Murphy said. “What I have learned in the past few weeks is how important the center is to women on this campus and in the community, and I am proud to be honored by them.”
This was the second time Murphy was honored in March. She and Shelley Papenfuse, disability rights advocate for the Ability Center of Greater Toledo, received a 2004 Milestone Award from the YWCA for their contributions to further the disability rights movement.
Also at the reception, scholarship recipients were recognized, and Diane Early was thanked for serving as interim director. And there was a special tribute to William Somers Eberly, who died March 21. Eberly served as an advisory board member of the center, which was renamed in honor of his wife who served on the UT board of trustees from 1974 to 1979 and helped establish the center.
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