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Ruth Ann Appelhof (M.A. 1975)
Ruth Ann has been Director of Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, NY, for several years, having previously held the post of Director of the Roanoke, Virginia Museum of Art and other curatorial and administrative positions in the museum.
Cynthia Campbell (M.A. 1966)
Cindy's thesis on three works by a trio of twentieth-century American sculptors for a single site won a Graduate School Master's Prize. She is a member of the curatorial staff of the Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester.
Dean Lahikainen (M.A. 1977)
Dean has been for several years the Carolyn and Peter Lynch Curator of Decorative and Folk Art at the Peabody-Essex Museum, Salem. His responsibilities also include the American 18th-19th century fine art painting collection. He is author of exhibition catalogues and monographs, most recently his award-winning volume on Samuel McIntire.
Helen Jackson Zakin (Ph.D. 1977)
Helen, a member of the American committee of the Corpus Vitrearum, is the Chair of the Art Department at SUNY Oswego.
