The Board of Regents and the New York State Archives have selected Edward Bugniazet and Nicholas LaSorsa, who were eighth grade students at the Windward School in White Plains last school year, as the recipients of the 2006 Laura and Robert Chodos Award for Excellence in Student Research Using Historical Records, Grades 6-8.
The award is named for Regent Emerita Laura Chodos and her husband Dr. Robert Chodos, who created an endowment for the award as a way to encourage the educational uses of historical records.
A framed certificate and a cash gift will be presented to Edward and Nicholas at a luncheon ceremony at the State Education Department in Albany on October 23, 2006. Educators Marjorie R. Gleit and John Manganiello will also be recognized at the luncheon.
Using historical records from the White Plains Public Library and many primary and secondary sources, Edward and Nicholas created a PowerPoint presentation, The Harlem Renaissance. The presentation used photographs, music score covers and political cartoons to illustrate the origin of the Harlem Renaissance, beginning with the end of slavery in 1865 and including the migration of African Americans from the south to northern cities in the early twentieth century, and ending with the Great Depression. The students provided excellent examples of the artists, art, music and literature that were influenced by the Harlem Renaissance.
The annual Archives Awards program recognizes outstanding efforts in archives and records management work in New York State by a broad range of individuals and organizations. A complete list of this year's award recipients follows:
William Hoyt Advocacy Award
Archivists Roundtable of Metropolitan New York
Excellence in Research Using the Holdings of the State Archives
Timothy J. Gilfoyle, Department of History, Loyola University, Chicago
Debra E. Bernhardt Award for Excellence in Documenting New York’s
History
The Rochester Museum and Science Center and the Latino Alliance
Program Excellence in a Historical Records Repository
Huguenot Historical Society, New Paltz, New York
William H. Kelly Award for Excellence in Local Government Archival
Program Development
Saratoga County
Cheryl Steinbach Award for Excellence in Local Government Records Management
Town of Cheektowaga
Excellence in State Agency Records Management
New York State Emergency Management Office
Bruce W. Dearstyne Educator Award for Excellence in the Educational
Use of Local Government Records
Susan Stessin-Cohn, Ulster County
Laura and Robert Chodos Award for Excellence in Student Research Using
Historical Records, Grades 4-5 and The Regents Award of Distinction for Student
Research
The Walden History Group, Walden Elementary School, Walden. Educator: Nancy
Phelps
Laura and Robert Chodos Award for Excellence in Student Research Using
Historical Records, Grades 6-8
Edward Bugniazet and Nicholas LaSorsa, Windward School, White Plains. Educators:
Marjorie R. Gleit and John Manganiello
Laura and Robert Chodos Award for Excellence in Student Research Using
Historical Records, Grades 9-12
Lauren Koenig, tenth grader at Solomon Schechter High School, Glen Cove. Educator:
Dr. Linda Rubino