Title: Division of Higher Education honors excellence
Date: July 14, 2000
Disciples News Service
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)
Contact: news@cm.disciples.org
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ST. LOUIS (DNS) The Division of Higher Education of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) has named Dr. Michael W. Santos, professor of history at Lynchburg College, as recipient of the 2000 T.A. Abbott Award for Faculty Excellence.
Division of Higher Education President Dennis Landon will present the award Aug. 27 on the Lynchburg College campus in Lynchburg, Va.
In his 15 years at Lynchburg, Professor Santos has displayed a passion for teaching, research and social outreach. A winner of the Shirley Rosser Award for Excellence in Teaching, he also founded the Lynchburg College Symposium Readings Program. He serves as director of the Center for the History and Culture of Central Virginia and is editor of The Central Virginia Chronicle: A Journal of History and Culture. He helped found the Lynchburg College chapter of Habitat for Humanity, and organized St. Paul's Episcopal Church's Jubilee Ministry Center, a neighborhood youth and literacy center. A member of Heritage United Methodist Church, he also helped establish that congregation's Family to Family mentoring program which helps local families move toward financial self- sufficiency.
The T.A. Abbott Award, presented now for the 17th consecutive year, was established through a gift to the Division of Higher Education from the descendants of the Rev. T. A. Abbott, an administrator and faculty member at Culver-Stockton College who died in 1914. Nominees must be full-time teaching faculty at Disciples-related institutions of higher education. Criteria for selection include quality of teaching, personal example and commitment to the integration of Christian faith and learning.
Santos is the fourth Lynchburg faculty member to receive the award; others were John R. Scudder, Jr. in 1986, G. Kenneth West in 1989 and Philip H. Stump in 1996.
Santos will receive an engraved plaque and a cash gift of $1,000, the latter to be used for expanding his personal library, developing new courses or continuing his education or research.
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Previous T. A. Abbott Award recipients are:
1999 Dr. Edward H. Sawyer, Culver-Stockton College 1998 Dr. Anantha S. Babbili, Texas Christian University 1997 Dr. Paul H. Jones, Transylvania University 1996 Dr. Phillip H. Stump, Lynchburg College 1995 Dr. G. Philip Points, Transylvania University 1994 Dr. Mildred Onelle Hogstel, Texas Christian University 1993 Dr. Bob J. Frye, Texas Christian University 1992 Dr. John A. Sperry, Jr., Culver-Stockton College 1991 Dr. Larry E. Grimes, Bethany College 1990 Dr. Samuel Thomas Niccolls, Hiram College 1989 Dr. G. Kenneth West, Lynchburg College 1988 Dr. Lorene Holmes, Jarvis Christian College 1987 Dr. Kenneth T. Lawrence, Texas Christian University 1986 Mr. John R. Scudder, Jr, Lynchburg College 1985 Ms. Damaris Peters, Hiram College 1984 Dr. Richard B. Kenney, Bethany College
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