<div>This is SO well deserved!  Go Virginia! </div>
<div>She is an inspiration to all of us who have had the gift of knowing her!</div>
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<div>Susan<br><br></div>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 12:51 PM, phil cash cash <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cashcash@email.arizona.edu">cashcash@email.arizona.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">POSTED ON Monday, September 07, 2009 AT 11:07PM<br><br>Keeper of Yakama language awarded honorary degree<br>
<br>BY PHIL FEROLITO<br>YAKIMA HERALD-REPUBLIC<br>USA<br><br>When Virginia Beavert was just a teenager, she was appointed by the Yakama<br>Tribal Council to work with an anthropologist studying the tribe's culture on<br>
the reservation.<br><br>Beavert was the only tribal member then who could speak English and several<br>dialects of the 14 different tribes that make up the Yakama Nation.<br><br>"I had to talk to the people in their own dialect," 87-year-old Beavert<br>
recalled.<br><br>She had no idea that her translating skills would eventually lead her to helping<br>the tribe preserve its language.<br><br>Now, after playing a key role in developing a 576-page dictionary of her native<br>
language, she has been awarded an honorary doctorate degree from the University<br>of Washington.<br><br>Access full article below:<br><a href="http://www.yakima-herald.com/stories/2009/09/07/keeper-of-yakama-language-awarded-honorary-degree" target="_blank">http://www.yakima-herald.com/stories/2009/09/07/keeper-of-yakama-language-awarded-honorary-degree</a><br>
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<div></div><br>-- <br>**********************************************************************************************<br>Susan D. Penfield, Ph.D.<br>(Currently on leave to the National Science Foundation.<br>E-mail: <a href="mailto:spenfiel@nsf.gov">spenfiel@nsf.gov</a><br>
Phone at NSF: 703-292-4535)<br><br><br>Department of English (Primary)<br>Faculty affiliate in Linguistics, Language, Reading and Culture, <br>Second Language Acquisition and Teaching (SLAT), <br>American Indian Language Development Institute (AILDI)<br>
The Southwest Center<br>University of Arizona,<br>Tucson, Arizona 85721<br><br><br>