Lela's friends and colleagues joined her for the award ceremony at the Inn At Port Hadlock's Art Mine Gallery. Among the WSU supporters were Associate Dean Rob McDaniel, Learning Center-NOP Director Robert Force, and Clemente graduate & assistant at the LC-NOP Kris Raikes.
At the end of the ceremony, Lela Hilton pledged her $1,000 cash portion of the Humanities Award to the above mentioned Darfur Clemente Course.
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Lela Hilton receives 2007 Humanities Washington Award
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Former Learning Center Director, Lela Hilton, was honored for her work in the Humanities as the force behind the Jefferson County Bard College Clemente Course in the Humanities. The Clemente Course, prior to Lela's adaptation of the program, was only available in urban communities. Her rural version has been such a success that the founder of the Clemente Course, Earl Shorris, is using it as a template for his new undertaking in Darfur, Sudan.
