Academic Senate
Resolution in Commendation of Dr.
Pamela Vaughn
#RS02-194
WHEREAS Pamela Vaughn was the
first of her family to graduate from college and takes seriously the importance
of teaching, as it was a teacher who inspired her interest in the ancient
world, and
WHEREAS Pamela Vaughn has been
teaching Latin and Greek for more than twenty years, and
WHEREAS Pamela Vaughn has been a valued member of
the Classics Department at
WHEREAS Pamela Vaughn redesigned
the Latin and Greek curriculum at San Francisco State, in which curriculum she
actively teaches Latin and Greek authors, as well as courses in translation and
in classical mythology, and
WHEREAS Pamela Vaughn is the
author of Finis Rei Publicae:
Eyewitnesses to the End of the Roman Republic (Focus Classical Texts,
1999), an excellent textbook written in collaboration with R.C. Knapp, and
WHEREAS Pamela Vaughn’s students
have said such things as:
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"I
am continually impressed by her vast reservoir of knowledge, her expertise, and
her passion and love for all that she does."
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"I
had never seen such joy in teaching before."
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"Every
time she conjugates a verb or corrects a pronunciation, she does it with love
-- for the verb and for the student."
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“Who
would have ever thought Greek morphology and syntax could be medicinal!"
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"She
is a born teacher. And her students love her. Perhaps that is the best
definition of success," and
WHEREAS the American Philological
Association, at its annual meeting in January 2002, in recognition of these
many accomplishments, bestowed upon Pamela Vaughn its Excellence in the
Teaching of the Classics Award for the year 2001, and
WHEREAS Pamela Vaughn is now
completing her second and final term as chair of the Academic Senate of San
Francisco State University, and
WHEREAS Pamela Vaughn has
generously and on many occasions shared with the Academic Senate and the entire
faculty of San Francisco State University her fluency in the language and
precepts of those she once described as "my adopted people, the
Romans," and
WHEREAS alea iacta est and,
as is ever the case, tempus fugit,
even when one is having fun, now therefore be it
RESOLVED that the Academic Senate
of San Francisco State University extend its heartiest congratulations to
Pamela Vaughn on her impressive accomplishments in the classroom that have
brought her the national recognition of her peers, and be it further
RESOLVED that the Academic Senate
of San Francisco State University thank Pamela Vaughn for her many services to
the Senate and People of the University (SPQU), and be it further
RESOLVED that the Academic Senate
of San Francisco State University bestow upon Pamela Vaughn the titles of Doctora egregia and Dea linguae Latinae et Graecae, and be it further
RESOLVED that the Academic Senate
of San Francisco State University, effective at the end of the current
academic year, bestow upon Pamela Vaughn the additional title Tribuna perpetua et emerita magistrorum.
***APPROVED
UNANIMOUSLY WITH STANDING OVATION
***“And
enthusiastically endorsed” by President Robert Corrigan