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LEONTYNE PRICE Universally regarded as one of the great artists of our time, Leontyne Price boasts a distinguished career as an operatic and concert singer of extraordinary talent. A native of Laurel, Mississippi, she played the piano at the age of five and later sang in the junior choir of her church. After receiving the B.A. Degree from Central State University in Wilberforce, Ohio, she was awarded a scholarship to the Juilliard School of Music i New York City. She made her Paris debut in 1952, in Four Saints in Three Acts, and toured Vienna, Berlin, London, and Paris in Porgy and Bess. She made her Metropolitan Opera debut in Il Trovatore to great enthusiasm, and has starred in Aida, Don Giovanni, Tosca, Madama Butterfly, Un Ballo in Maschera, Manon Lescaut and Adriadne auf Naxo. Miss Price created the role of Cleopatra in Samuel Barber's Anthony and Cleopatra, written for the opening night of the new Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center. Apart from the operatic stage, Ms. Price has given recitals and concert tours in Vienna, Paris, Lucerne, Salzburg, Hamburg, Berlin, Japan and throughout the United States. Many of her performances have been seen by thousands on special telecasts. President Reagan presented her with the First Medal of Art in 1985, and she is the first opera singer to have received America's highest civilian award, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, in 1965, from President Lyndon Johnson. Her numerous other awards include the Handel Medallion, the highest civil and cultural honor of New York, the Silver Medal of the San Francisco Opera, and awards from the New York Council of Churches, Concert Artists Guild, the Republic of Italy, the Government of France, and the American Academy of Achievement. Her recordings have won many prizes, including eighteen Grammy Awards. Spelman College is honored to honor this daughter of the South whose beauty and grace are universally praised. DONALD MITCHELL STEWART Having served as the sixth president of Spelman College from 1976 to 1986, Donald Mitchell Stewart brought outstanding leadership to the college, resulting in a more diverse curriculum, higher academic standards, a greater number of doctoral degree faculty members, record enrollment, and an increase in the endowment from $9 million to $41 million. Prior to his tenure at Spelman College, Dr. Stewart was Associate Dean of Arts and Sciences and Assistant Professor in the Department of City and Regional Planning at the University of Pennsylvania, as well as Director of the Community Leadership Seminar Program and the Higher Education Research Project in the Fels Center of Government, and Director of the College of General Studies. From 1962 to 1969, he worked for the Ford Foundation in their International Division, with postings in Lagos, Nigeria; Cairo, Egypt; Tunis, Tunisia; and New York City. A native of Chicago, he received a B.A. Degree from Grinnell College, an M.A. Degree in Political Science from Yale University and a Master and Doctor of Public Administration from Harvard University. Dr. Stewart studied international law, organization, and economics at the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva, Switzerland and, more recently, completed the Advanced Management Program of the Graduate School of Business Administration at Harvard University. Upon leaving Spelman College, he assumed the presidency of the College Entrance Examination Board in New York City. He is married to Isabel Johnson and they have two sons, Jay, a student at Harvard University, and Carter who will enter Stanford University in the Fall. The Living-Learning Center on the campus of Spelman College was named in honor of Donald and Isabel Stewart, a sign of the esteem in which the Stewarts are held by the College. SPELMAN COLLEGE 1987 Prizes, Awards and Scholarships Minnie James Washington Prize Michelle Rice Dixon Sisters Educational Award Karene Bowen Samuels Prize for Excellence Donna Thompson Trevor & Bertha Arnett Scholarship Tonya Williams Jettye Hasben Dash Memorial Scholarship Debra Whitten Mary Alice English Knight Award Kelly Robinson Adelaide Fullmighter Forde & Dorothy Forde Bolden Award Rhamin Willis Jerome Award for Creative Achievement Tammy Smith Florence M. Read Award Michelle Hamilton Carrie Clements Wright Award Jennifer Thompson Felicia B. Hurd Art Scholarship Launa Gamble Peter James Bryant Prize Carlan Hemmans Adams-Hamilton Prize (for the highest average in her freshman year) Alma Shelton Carroll-Williams Education Award Sharon Hudgins The Marguerite Simon Award Lesley Smith
