Young Teacher Award
Doug Greenberg, 1978
"Each year at Commencement Lawrence also honors a teacher with less than seven years' service who has shown those qualities that indicate promise for excellence in teaching, namely, strong potential for an impressive career, superb teaching, with well-acclaimed scholarship or creative work, a deep concern for the development of one's skills as a teacher, and a commitment to the learning of one's students.
This year the award goes to a teacher whose personality is as vivid as his academic robe. Doug Greenberg joined the Lawrence faculty in 1973 and in the years since then has achieved that rare and cherished combination as a popular teacher who is at the same time a demanding one. From Main Hall to Viking Room, Doug is to be found conversing with students about the import and challenge of history --and other topics. In his formal instruction he has shown imagination and innovation from lectures on Colonial America to seminars on women in history. He is engaged as a teacher while and because he is engaged as a scholar with a book and several articles to his credit, his promise is as bright as an historian as it is a professor of history. Happily for Lawrence, his commitment to the teaching and learning of history is of a piece with his commitment to liberal education.
Dou, we are delighted to honor you as an outstanding young teacher of the Lawrence faculty."