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Three SUNY Fredonia employees, whose more than 70 years of collective service have been distinguished by noteworthy achievements, will receive 2010 President’s Awards for Excellence and Service at a luncheon Monday, April 26, beginning at noon, at the Williams Center Multipurpose Room.
Luncheon tickets are sold out.
The recipients for the honor are Music professor Barry Kilpatrick, instructional support specialist Charlotte “Lotte” Morse, and FSA catering manager Jeffrey Walter. The annual award recognizes effectiveness in performance, initiative and innovation, continuous personal growth and reflection of the spirit of SUNY Fredonia.
Since his 1979 appointment to the music faculty at SUNY Fredonia, Kilpatrick, who has bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Music from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has been an integral part of the Music program in both teaching and service capacities. He has taught studio trombone and euphonium, along with classroom courses in brass pedagogy and trombone for Music Education majors, among other courses, throughout his almost 30-year career. Additionally, Kilpatrick is the School of Music’s assistant director for admissions and chairman of its Performance Department.
When Music student enrollments declined in the 1980s, Kilpatrick developed a series of newsletters and brochures that helped to spur interest in the School of Music and result in subsequent enrollment gains. He also became the writer, editor and publisher of the School of Music alumni newsletter in the early 1990s.
Kilpatrick has maintained a busy professional performance schedule as well, serving as principal trombone for the Erie Philharmonic Orchestra and the Western New York Chamber Orchestra and devoting many summers to the Pennsylvania Governor’s School for the Arts. As a music critic for American Record Guide for more than 20 years, Kilpatrick reviewed more than 1,500 recordings and also donated several hundred of the reviewed CDs to Daniel Reed Library.
In a SUNY Fredonia career that began in 1978, Charlotte Morse has established herself as a very talented and dedicated graphic artist in Academic Information Technology. She’s known as a motivated artist with a flair for creativity and an expert in computer graphics and media arts. Morse has graphic design responsibility, from concept through production, of instructional materials, such as publication graphics, department leaflets, posters, plaques and campus designs.
She illustrated the children’s book, “Does a Pigeon Bark,” written by Philip Morse, emeritus professor of Education and published in 2008. In that same year, a scenic photograph that she took of a local vineyard appeared in the Concord Grape Belt Heritage Association calendar.
After earning a bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts from Rochester Institute of Technology, Morse worked as a technician, illustrator, staff artist and graphic designer in private industry in Buffalo and Rochester before joining SUNY Fredonia.
The highly skilled and resourceful manager behind numerous FSA-catered events for the last 10 years is Jeffrey Walter. As director of catering, it’s the goal of Walter to insure that campus expectations are exceeded on a routine basis. His reputation for meticulous planning, great attention to detail and ability to resolve unanticipated situations or challenges in a professional manner is renowned across campus.
Walter has an extensive background in the restaurant industry, serving as a banquet manager, general manager and catering manager for several major players in the industry in Western New York before his SUNY Fredonia appointment. He has a bachelor’s degree from SUNY Buffalo.
Also at the program, service pins and certificates will be presented to employees with 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40 or 45 years of service in recognition of attaining these milestones at SUNY Fredonia.
