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The Department of French and Italian bestowed a series of student awards on April 13, 1998.

Rachel Thyre received the 1998 Cannings Prize. Given annually to an outstanding graduate student in French linguistics, this award honors the late Professor Peter Cannings.

The Lander MacClintock Award was given to Viktor Berberi for excellence in Italian graduate studies. (In 1999, this award will be designated for an undergraduate or graduate student majoring in French, since it alternates annually.) The award is named after Lander MacClintock, who taught French and Italian at IU for more than 40 years, essentially establishing Italian studies here.

The Grace P. Young Graduate Award was split between two remarkable graduate students in French literature: Corinne LaMarle and Elizabeth Scheiber. The Grace P. Young Undergraduate Award was bestowed upon Elizabeth Its and Colleen Hynes for excellence in French literary studies.

Two outstanding undergraduates majoring in French, Ruth Dworak and Rachel Chrastil, received the John K. Hyde Award, named after the late professor of French literature and civilization.

Amy Cote won the Albert and Agnes Kuersteiner Memorial Prize for excellence in both spoken and written French. This prize was established in memory of Agnes Duncan Kuersteiner, Class of 1907, and her husband, Albert Kuersteiner, professor of French from 1897 until his death in 1917.

Lisa Klueppel and Lucia Luzzeri received both the Captain Mario G. Vangeli Awards for excellence in undergraduate Italian studies and Carol Ann Hofstadter Memorial Scholarships to participate in the Bologna Overseas Program. This last award is in memory of Carol Ann Brush Hofstadter, a mother of two and the holder of a bachelor's degree in Italian and art history, as well as a master's in library science from IU. She died on Dec. 12, 1993, at age 42, in Verona, Italy, where her husband, IU Professor Douglas Hofstadter, was conducting research. This scholarship was funded by donations from her family and many friends the world over. The Department of French and Italian thanks them.

During the same ceremony in 1998, Professor Edoardo Lèbano inducted nine undergraduate students of Italian four majors and five minors into Gamma Kappa Alpha, the National Honors Society for College Students of Italian. Lèbano and his colleagues are active in maintaining the IU chapter of GKA, which was established during the academic year 1983­84.

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