[Maillist] Fw: Lucy Shoe Meritt Memorial Service

[Bill Monroe]

Lucy Shoe Meritt Memorial Service, version 2 with apologie
In Memoriam:
Lucy Taxis Shoe Meritt
(7 August 1906-13 April 2003)


The College of Liberal Arts, the Department of Classics, and Dean Richard W. Lariviere of The University of Texas at Austin request the pleasure of your presence, as we celebrate the memory of the long and brilliant career of a dear friend-Lucy Taxis Shoe Meritt-on the afternoon of Sunday, the 15th day of February, 2004 in the Santa Rita Room of the Texas Union  on the University of Texas campus (24th & Guadalupe).*

In honor of Lucy Meritt's life-long dedication to the study of architecture, the celebration will include a round-table discussion, entitled:


'To see what you look at':
>From the Etruscans to Post-Modernism
in Austin Architecture


    Prof. Ingrid E.M. Edlund-Berry   (Moderator)
    Professor of Classics, University of Texas at Austin
    Michael S. Guarino
    Design Director, TeamHaas Architects
    Prof. Thomas Noble Howe
    Brown Distinguished Research Professor, Southwestern University
    Grady L. Jennings, AIA
    Partner, Jennings Hackler & Partners
    Mark F. Schultz
    Chairman, Faulkner USA


Lucy Shoe Meritt was an internationally known classicist and archaeologist. Her family moved to Austin in 1923, settling in the historic Herblin-Shoe House in the Judges' Hill Neighborhood; she and her equally-distinguished husband, Prof. Benjamin D. Meritt, returned to this home upon retirement in 1972. Prof. Meritt received her BA (1927), MA (1928), and Ph.D. (1935) at Bryn Mawr College. Her honors include: the prestigious Gold Medal of the Archaeological Institute of America for Distinguished Archaeological Achievement (1976), honorary degrees from Brown University (1974) and Hamilton College (1994), and the University of Texas Pro Bene Meritis Award (1996). She became a fellow of the American School of Classical Studies in Athens in 1929, where, for five years, she performed ground-breaking research in Greek archaeology, with emphasis on architectural mouldings on ancient buildings. She was twice Fellow of the American Academy in Rome, where she continued her work on Greek, Etruscan, and Roman architecture. Prof. Meritt taught archaeology and Greek and was chief counselor of students at Mount Holyoke College. A member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, she founded the publications office of the American School of Classical Studies and became its editor from 1950 to 1972, she was also visiting professor of classical archaeology at UT Austin where she taught seminars in ancient architecture, most recently in 1990. The author of five books, Prof. Meritt's career spanned some 70 years of active scholarship; she was member of a number of organizations both here in Austin and abroad, including: the Classical Society of the American Academy in Rome, the German Archaeological Institute, the Society of Architectural Historians, the Heritage Society of Austin, the Daughters of the American Revolution, the Austin Woman's Club, the Pathfinder's Club, and the Judges' Hill Neighborhood Association.


The Department of Classics and the College of Liberal Arts have established the Lucy Taxis Shoe Meritt Memorial Scholarship Fund in Classical Archaeology to ensure her legacy of scholarship for years to come. http://www.utexas.edu/depts/classics/documents/meritt.html

*Please, feel free to share this invitation with friends and colleagues as appropriate. For further information, please contact the Department of Classics at 471-5742.


-- 
Matthew F. Ervin
Senior Office Assistant
Department of Classics
University of Texas at Austin
One University Station, C3400  [WAG 123]
Austin, TX  78712-0308
(512) 471.5742
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