USM Convocation Ends with Duclos Celebration
The University of Southern Maine’s Convocation “Diaspora:
Meanings of Home," will conclude with a celebration of the
life and work of Gloria Duclos.
The yearlong series, officially known as "The Gloria S. Duclos
Convocation: Diaspora: Meanings of Home," will host an evening
of discussion to honor the life and work of Duclos, a USM
professor who died in February of 1998. The event, “Connected
Teaching Across Borders: Revisiting Gloria Duclos’ “The Many
Mansions of the Humanities,” will be held at 7 p.m., Tuesday,
April 30 in Luther Bonney Auditorium, Portland. Call 228-8367
or e-mail duclos@usm.maine.edu
for more information.
Duclos, who retired in 1992 , came to USM in 1965 after teaching
at the University of Maine for three years and before that
at Wellesley College. During her many years at USM she demonstrated
through teaching, scholarship and service her belief in the
importance of the humanities in educating students for a lifetime
of thinking and citizenship.
Duclos held an A.B. in Greek history and literature, graduating
magna cum laude, from Radcliffe and another A.B., in ancient
history and philosophy, from Oxford University, a master's
in classical archaeology from Harvard and an M.A. from Oxford.
She also studied classical archaeology for two years at the
American School of Classical Studies in Athens.
In addition, she served on the Maine Historic Preservation
Committee, the Maine Council for the Humanities and Public
Policy, the American Classical League, the Classical Association
of New England and the Board of Trustees of the Vergilian
Society. She also was a member for seven years of the national
College Board Latin Achievement Test Committee. In 1985 -86,
she was a Fulbright scholar at the University of Malawi, teaching
classics.
She was named as USM's first occupant of the Walter E. Russell
Endowed Chair in 1980 and selected for the 1990 Deborah Morton
Award by the trustees of Westbrook College, which recognizes
"outstanding women who have achieved high distinction in their
careers."
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