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		Welcome to the Pamplin Society of Fellows' homepage. The Pamplin Society was founded on June 4, 1993. It is an undergraduate honor society that brings together students and teachers of the highest caliber in a lifelong association that begins with study at Lewis & Clark College. Student members of the society demonstrate superior intellectual promise, demonstrated dedication to the welfare of their community, commitment to physical fitness, and unimpeachable integrity. Every year, seven outstanding sophomores are chosen to join the ranks of the Pamplin Society. To learn more about the Pamplin Society's history and the criteria for student members, click here. Each year the student Fellows plan and implement a number of programs that the Society sponsors to enhave the co-curricular educational environment of the College. For example, an annual Distinguished Visiting Scholar Program brings a distinguished scholar to Lewis & Clark to engage the greater academic and civic community in intellectual thought. This year's Distinguished Visiting Scholar was American literary critic J. Hillis Miller. Other recent programs include monthly discussions led by Lewis & Clark faculty, service projects, and the annual Teacher of the Year Award. To learn more about the Pamplin Society's programs, click here. 2008 Teacher of the Year Ceremony On Wednesday, April 16th, 2008, at a ceremony in Albany Smith Hall, the Pamplin Society honored the four finalists for Teacher of the Year 2007-2008. One student spoke on behalf of each of the four finalists: Greta Binford, Assistant Professor of Biology; Benjamin David, Assistant Professor of Art History; Orla McDonagh, Visiting Instructor in Music; and Mary Szybist, Assistant Professor of English. At the end of the ceremony, Pamplin Fellow Nora Germano announced that the title of Teacher of the Year 2007-2008 would go to Benjamin David. Benjamin David has taught at Lewis & Clark since 2005. Though he specializes in Italian Renaissance painting, he has taught a range of courses on Western art from visual representations of Dante's Divine Comedy to contemporary American art. His expertise, enthusiasm, and encouragement have impressed and inspired students from first-year core courses to senior seminars. He advocates a diversity of approaches to the material, but always emphasizes fun, compelling students, even non-majors, to take his courses again and again. In addition to being an excellent teacher, David has proven an influential administrator by serving as the art department's chair, updating its major requirements, and increasing its faculty and course offerings.

Welcome to the Pamplin Society of Fellows' homepage.

The Pamplin Society was founded on June 4, 1993. It is an undergraduate honor society that brings together students and teachers of the highest caliber in a lifelong association that begins with study at Lewis & Clark College.

Student members of the society demonstrate superior intellectual promise, demonstrated dedication to the welfare of their community, commitment to physical fitness, and unimpeachable integrity. Every year, seven outstanding sophomores are chosen to join the ranks of the Pamplin Society. To learn more about the Pamplin Society's history and the criteria for student members, click here.

Each year the student Fellows plan and implement a number of programs that the Society sponsors to enhave the co-curricular educational environment of the College. For example, an annual Distinguished Visiting Scholar Program brings a distinguished scholar to Lewis & Clark to engage the greater academic and civic community in intellectual thought. This year's Distinguished Visiting Scholar was American literary critic J. Hillis Miller. Other recent programs include monthly discussions led by Lewis & Clark faculty, service projects, and the annual Teacher of the Year Award. To learn more about the Pamplin Society's programs, click here.

2008 Teacher of the Year Ceremony

On Wednesday, April 16th, 2008, at a ceremony in Albany Smith Hall, the Pamplin Society honored the four finalists for Teacher of the Year 2007-2008. One student spoke on behalf of each of the four finalists: Greta Binford, Assistant Professor of Biology; Benjamin David, Assistant Professor of Art History; Orla McDonagh, Visiting Instructor in Music; and Mary Szybist, Assistant Professor of English. At the end of the ceremony, Pamplin Fellow Nora Germano announced that the title of Teacher of the Year 2007-2008 would go to Benjamin David.

Benjamin David has taught at Lewis & Clark since 2005. Though he specializes in Italian Renaissance painting, he has taught a range of courses on Western art from visual representations of Dante's Divine Comedy to contemporary American art. His expertise, enthusiasm, and encouragement have impressed and inspired students from first-year core courses to senior seminars. He advocates a diversity of approaches to the material, but always emphasizes fun, compelling students, even non-majors, to take his courses again and again. In addition to being an excellent teacher, David has proven an influential administrator by serving as the art department's chair, updating its major requirements, and increasing its faculty and course offerings.