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Teachers College's 90,000 graduates include leading educators, psychologists, administrators, and other professionals. The Alumni Council honors the College's most extraordinary alumni each year with the Distinguished Alumni Award and the Early Career Award.

 


 
2008 Distinguished Alumni Award Recipients
 
Edward Dunkelblau, M. Ed. 1976, Vocational & Rehabilitation Counseling
 
Joan Dye Gussow, Ed.D. 1975, M.Ed. 1974, Nutrition Education
 
Patricia Lynne Duffy, M.A., TESOL, 1981
 
Rawley Applebaum Silver, M.A. Ed. - Fine Arts, 1936
 
 
2008 Early Career Award Recipients
 
Keiichi Ogawa,  Ph.D. 1999, M. Phil 1997, M.A. 1997, Ed. M. 1995,
Comparative International Ed. / Economics of Ed.
 
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2007 Distinguished Alumni Award Recipients

Susan H. Fuhrman
, Ph.D. 1977, Political Science and Education
 
Anie Kalayjian, Ed.D. 1986, Nursing Education
 
Leah Cahan Schaefe, Ed.D. 1964, Family and Community Education
 
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2006 Distinguished Alumni Award Recipients
 
Joyce B. Cowin, M.A. 1952, Curriculum and Teaching
 
Rachel Moore, M.A. 1994, Arts Administration
 
Dorothy Singer, Ed.D. 1966, Clinical Psychology
 
Barbara Storper, M.S. 1982, Nutrition Education
 
 
2006 Early Career Award Recipients
 
Erick Gordon, M.A. 1996, Ed.M. 2005, Teaching of English
 
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2005 Distinguished Alumni Award Recipients

John Fanselow, Ph.D. 1971, Language, Literature & Social Studies

Robert Hilliard,  Ph.D. 1959, Communication & Theatre Arts

Kathleen Dunlevy Morin, M.A. 1977, Ed.M. 1978, Ed.D. 1985, Urban Education

Thomas S. Popkewitz, M.A. 1964, Curriculum and Teaching

2005 Early Career Award Recipients

Michael Bitz, Ed.M. 1996, Ed.D. 1998, Music and Music Education

Adeyinka Akinsulure-Smith, M.A. 1991, Ed.M. 1992, MPHIL 1995, Ph.D. 1997, Counseling Psychology

Hawthorne Smith, MPHIL 1996, Ph.D. 1999, Counseling Psychology
 
 
 
 



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