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Harry Stephenson, who has been associated with Transylvania as a student, coach, administrator, and teacher for 70 years, will be honored with a reception and dinner on Thursday and Lexington Mayor Jim Newberry has proclaimed the day Harry S. Stephenson Day. Stephenson came to Transylvania as a student in the fall of 1936 and never really left. With the exception of three-and-a-half years for military service during World War II, two years playing professional baseball, a year of graduate school, and another year of high school teaching, Stephenson has enjoyed an uninterrupted association with Transylvania as a student, teacher, administrator, and coach that now spans a remarkable seven decades. Today, in his role as special assistant to the director of athletics, Stephenson is celebrating the 70th anniversary of his love affair with Transylvania. When Stephenson enrolled at Transylvania in 1936, Franklin D. Roosevelt was president and the nation was struggling to climb out of the Great Depression. A basketball grant helped make Transy affordable for Stephenson, who became a star player, making the All-Kentucky Intercollegiate Athletic Conference tournament team as a senior. Though Transylvania did not field a baseball team at the time, the game was Stephenson’s first love and a sport he pursued on the professional level, first during his college summers as a shortstop and second baseman in the Ohio State League at Findlay and with the St. Louis Cardinals organization in Springfield, Missouri. World War II put

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LEXINGTON, Ky.—After a national search, Harvard University has named Transylvania graduate Susan Marine the director of its new women’s center. She previously served as director of Harvard’s Office of Sexual Assault Prevention and Response (OSAPR). College Dean Benedict Gross made the appointment following the strong recommendation of a 13-member search committee. “I am delighted that, after an extensive national search, the committee selected Susan as the person most qualified to take on the responsibilities of this new center,” Gross said. “This recommendation is a clear indication to me that after an exhaustive look at strong candidates from across the country, the very best person for the job is right here. I am very excited about this appointment, and look forward to working with Susan,” he added. The search committee recommended Marine based on her experience in working with students, her background on women’s issues and her work in creating OSAPR at Harvard. The women’s center will facilitate student-run programs, build relationships across campus, develop and enhance women’s leadership on campus and provide a voice for undergraduate women at the college. The center will open this September. After receiving a degree in philosophy from Transylvania in 1992, Marine completed a master’s degree in student personnel at Bowling Green State University in Ohio. Prior to Harvard, Marine worked in the area of sexual assault prevention at Colorado College, Dartmouth College and the Cambridge (Mass.) Department of Health. Marine serves on Transylvania’s Alumni

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