Setchkarev Memorial prize

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To colleagues:
   Please note the following changes in procedure for contributions to the
Setchkarev Memorial Prize.
In memory of Professor Vsevolod Mikhailovich Setchkarev, an outstanding
literary scholar and teacher who was our deeply admired and respected
advisor, colleague and friend, the members of the Setchkarev Memorial Prize
Committee established the annual Setchkarev Memorial Prize, to be awarded to
the best undergraduate and graduate essays on Russian literature (or on
comparative literature including Russian literature) submitted in Harvard
Slavic Department courses during the current academic year. Professors from
the Slavic Department will submit nominations for the prizes to the
committee, which will select the winners.

Since we have now collected over $6,000, the account has been transferred to
the Harvard Endowment, and contributions are now tax-deductible.  We are very
grateful to all our colleagues who contributed, and the first prizes will be
awarded at the end of the spring 2001 semester. The monetary amount of the
awards, however will be determined in accordance with the volume of donations
received.  The  greater the volume of contributions, the more substantial the
prizes.  And since this is an annual memorial prize, contributions are needed
to ensure the continuation of these awards.

Checks for the Setchkarev Prize should  be payable to "Harvard University."
Please write on the memo portion of the check "Setchkarev Memorial Fund."
Checks should be sent to:  Dr. Michael Flier, Chairman, Department of Slavic
Languages, Harvard University, Barker Center, 12 Quincy street, Cambridge, MA
02138.

The members of the committee will be glad to answer any questions you may
have. We hope that students, friends and colleagues of Vsevolod Mikhailovich
will continue to respond generously to this effort to honor and perpetuate
his memory at Harvard by encouraging the work of those young scholars and
future specialists in Russian literature who will carry on the tradition of
research and teaching to which he devoted so many years of his life.

Co-Chairs:  Sonia Ketchian (Harvard Davis Center) and Lynn Visson (United
Nations)
Margaret Setchkarev
Michael Flier (Chair, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Harvard
University,          ex-officio)
Edythe Haber (University of Massachusetts Boston)
Marina Ledkovsky (Emerita, Barnard College, Columbia University)
Stanley Rabinowitz (Amherst College)
David Sloane (Tufts University)

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