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    Date: 3/16/01
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SLU FACULTY WIN STATEWIDE HUMANITIES AWARDS
     HAMMOND -- Two Southeastern Louisiana University faculty members, Richard Louth
and Denise Tullier-Holly, have received statewide awards from the Louisiana Endowment for the
Humanities.
     Louth, an English professor and director of the Southeastern Louisiana Writing Project,
and Tullier-Holly, who teaches art at the SLU Lab School and in the visual arts department, will
receive the "Special Humanities Award" during LEH's annual awards ceremony at the Louisiana
Governor's Mansion in Baton Rouge on April 5. 
     LEH said the Special Humanities Awards annually honors "individuals that have
significantly contributed to Louisiana scholarship."
     Louth has directed the Southeastern Louisiana Writing Project (SLWP) since its inception
at Southeastern in 1992. A National Writing Project site, the SLWP is part of a national network
of  "teachers teaching teachers" about writing in all grade levels and disciplines. SLWP trains
teachers through an annual summer institute and a variety of workshops and inservices. The
program has also published several anthologies of students' and teachers' writing. 
     Through the SLWP's "Rural Voices Country Schools" program, which showcases good
teaching and writing in rural schools, Louth also produced a radio program, "Everyday
Epiphanies: Listening to the Rhythms of Louisiana Life," that aired nationally on public radio.
He has served as a scholar for LEH's Prime Time Family Reading Program and led 17 sessions
of the LEH adult reading program, "RELIC."
     Tullier-Holly recently was named 2001 Louisiana Art Educator of the Year by the
National Art Education Association. She has worked diligently to promote arts education and the 
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value of art in everyday life. Through a LEH Humanities Outreach Grant, she and retired
Southeastern history professor C. Howard Nichols presented last fall a series of special programs
on the past and future of the historic downtown Columbia Theatre, a vaudeville theatre that is
being renovated for the performing arts. In 1999, she directed an LEH-sponsored symposium on
the importance of humor in art. Her SLU Lab School students' works are being displayed  March
12-18 on the Astrovision Screen in Times Square in New York City during National Youth Art
Month. Tullier-Holly's work will be displayed March 14-18 at the National Art Education
Association annual convention in New York City.
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