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Transylvania publications staff. From left to right: Barbara Grinnell, William Bowden, Lori-Lyn Hurley, Martha Baker. LEXINGTON, Ky.—Two Transylvania University publications took top honors at the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE), District III awards competition. The awards were presented during the organization’s Step It Up annual conference in Atlanta earlier this month. Transylvania’s admissions viewbook won the Grand Award in the printed publications, student recruitment category and Transylvania Treasures, a publication that highlights items in the University’s Special Collections and Moosnick Medical and Science Museum, took the top prize for printed institutional publications. The publications are the work of Martha Baker, publications director; William Bowden, writer/editor; Barbara Grinnell, graphic designer; and Lori-Lyn Hurley, editorial assistant. Transylvania Treasures is designed by Carin Lovell of By Design, Lexington. The CASE awards recognize superior accomplishments that have lasting impact, demonstrate the highest level of professionalism, and deliver exceptional results. “Winning two Grand Awards in this competition is a great honor for Transylvania,” said Sarah Emmons, director of public relations. “Transylvania’s four-member publications staff works extremely hard and produces exceptional work. It’s wonderful that their work in the two categories they entered has been recognized as the best in the district.” CASE is the professional organization for advancement professionals who work in alumni relations, communications and development. The district encompasses the southeastern United States and includes colleges, universities, private schools and parochial schools from Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North

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LEXINGTON, Ky—Presidential historian Richard Norton Smith extolled the moral vision and political accomplishments of Abraham Lincoln in his Kenan Lecture presentation in Haggin Auditorium at Transylvania University on Monday, February 16. “Abraham Lincoln put principle above popularity and became the greatest communicator and politician ever to inhabit the White House,” Smith told his large and appreciative audience. “He led America through its great passion play, the Civil War. I believe he is the President against whom all others must be measured.” Smith is a presidential historian and scholar in residence at George Mason University and is known to millions through his roles as the ABC News presidential historian and as a political analyst for PBS. His speech was part of of Transylvania’s celebration of the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial.   Smith said it was Lincoln’s ability to grow intellectually and morally throughout his lifetime that allowed him to confront the critical moral issue of his time, slavery. “He came to understand that it was hypocritical for a nation conceived in liberty to keep millions in slavery,” Smith said. Countering the prevailing notion that colonization of African Americans to foreign lands was the solution, “Lincoln concluded that a bi-racial America was possible. He outgrew the racist society that produced him.” Smith chose his title, “Our Lincoln,” to suggest that many people see themselves in Lincoln’s struggles to rise from an impoverished and uneducated background to realize his dreams and ambitions through hard

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