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De Montluzin receives, bestows honors prior to retirement
Emily Lorraine de Montluzin, retiring history professor, received one of the greatest honors a university can bestow upon a member of its faculty and. in turn, paid homage to a respected former academic dean prior to leaving FMU.
A room in the James A. Rogers Library has been named in honor of the researcher.
"As an early FMU faculty member. Dr. de Montluzin campaigned for unique scholarly resources for the university and its library and then put those collections to good use." said library dean Paul Dove. And she is still campaigning.
?Lorraine uses our resources and facilities so much that it is her second home. We have joked about her camping out at the microfilm readers. Even when she spends summer time off at her gulf coast Mississippi home, she requests interlibrary loans from us so that she can pursue her research there." Dove said. Not many public libraries send us requests for microfilmed copies of The Gentleman?s Magazine. " he noted, "but the one in Bay St. Louis, Miss., surely does, just about every summer."
Most frequently Dr. de Montluzin could be found in the library's microforms and bound periodicals area where her research materials are housed and where microform equipment is available. ?At one point we thought we ought to just go ahead and give Lorraine a key so that she could let herself out whenever she wanted to work later than our closing time," Dove said.
In spite of ubiquitous Internet access, libraries continue to be the primary research centers. A good example is the level of research that occurs in a library that claims to be ?a pivot of excellence,? as does FMU?s James A. Rogers Library. The retired newspaper editor for whom our library is named published six books while ensconced in his Arundel Room quarters. And de Montluzin has now surpassed Mr. Rogers? record by researching and publishing seven scholarly books (and numerous articles) from the collections in Rogers Library.
Since Professor de Montluzin not only has lobbied for library issues throughout her career at FMU, including serving several terms on the faculty library committee, she also has been a strong advocate for building research collections. And she has used those collections to provide seminal research for scholarly information in her special area, 18"' and 19"' century British press history. She has even led her students to those resources and encouraged them to learn from these documents and apply their findings to assigned papers.
As the university sought a way to acknowledge her manifold contributions, especially to the academic reputation and scholarly publications record of FMU. it seemed that naming an area of the library in her honor was most fitting. And what area other than where she spends her every spare moment? The bound periodicals and microforms room became the obvious choice, one that she endorsed when notified that President Carter wanted to commemorate her 30 years teaching and working for the betterment of the university.
FMU President Luther F. Carter also announced the establishment of the Emily Lorraine de Montluzin Endowed Fund for Library Enhancement. The fund has been created under the
De Montluzin making remarks at the unveiling ceremony.
auspices of the Francis Marion University Foundation and is designed to provide in perpetuity, through its earnings, for the purchase of books to add to the library?s collection and thus to strengthen the resources available to faculty, staff, and students.
"No one is more deserving of this recognition than Lorraine,? said Carter. ?For more than 30 years, she has dedicated herself to scholarship, teaching and service. It is fitting that the room where she spent so many hours doing academic research will now bear her name."
The E. Lorraine de Montluzin Research Room is a completely appropriate gesture to acknowledge her scholarly work, library support and commitment to teaching and learning.
De Montluzin even focused on using Rogers Library?s collections as her research center in the inaugural William C. Moran Lecture this year.
De Montluzin?s speech was titled ?The Thrill of the Hunt,? and was published in pamphlet form. Her address honored the service to South Carolina and FMU of William C. Moran, who from 1978 to 1992 was FMU?s vice president of academic affairs and for eight years thereafter president of Lander University.
Upon his retirement from Lander in 2000, Moran was awarded the Order of the Palmetto, South Carolina?s highest civilian honor, and accepted a post as special assistant to the Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research of the United Arab Emirates. He and his wife, Margaret, live now in Murrells Inlet and are the parents of two sons, Kevin and Thomas.
De Montluzin?s many distinctions at FMU include being named Distinguished Professor in 1988 and a Trustees Research Scholar in 2002. She is also a member of five honor societies, including Phi Beta Kappa and Phi Kappa Phi. and has been the recipient of several prestigious fellowships. Before beginning her career at FMU. she graduated summa cum laude. with honors in history, from Tulane University, and thereafter earned M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Duke University.
As a professor of history, de Montluzin has taught a wide
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