Phylis Wright Receives the 2006 Facultas Award
The Villanova faculty is very gratified to recognize and honor particular staff members, who have provided various kinds of dedicated service to the faculty as well as to the Villanova community as a whole, by presenting the Facultas Award each semester. The Committee on Faculty makes its selections based on nominations by the members of the faculty. The award consists of a plaque and a $50 Wildcard gift certificate.
On May 17, 2006, the incoming Chair of the Faculty Congress, Dr. Lowell Gustafson, and the outgoing Chair of the Committee on Faculty, Dr. Jeffrey Johnson, presented the award for Spring 2006 to Phylis Wright for her many years of distinguished service in the Interlibrary Loan Office of Falvey Library.
The presentation was held in the 'Ener study nook' on the first floor of Falvey Library, with many colleagues and friends present including Joseph Lucia, Director of Falvey Library.
At the ceremony, Faculty Congress Chair Dr. Gustafson, of the Political Science Department, and incoming Committee on Faculty Chair Dr. Q Chung of the Department of Decision Information and Technologies, both recalled many instances in which Phylis had helped them directly. For her part, Phylis said that she enjoyed helping faculty members nurture their ideas into books. She especially liked working with old and rare documents, and though It wasn’t always easy to persuade some lenders to send them, Phylis usually found a way, such as by promising to safeguard the document in our own Special Collections room. Thus it was with some sadness that the faculty members learned of her recent shift to the Bursar’s Office. Phylis too said that would “really miss you guys,” but that she had wanted to try something new.
The Faculty Congress and the Committee on Faculty are very pleased to recognize and honor Phylis Wright and her outstanding contributions to the University community, and we wish her great success in her new position.
Phylis had begun working in the Reserve Room ten years earlier, and after three years she shifted to the Interlibrary Loan Office, where she worked for seven years until the end of the Spring 2006 semester, when she took up a new position in the Bursar’s Office.
During the same period she has worked part-time at the Ludington Library in Bryn Mawr. Her work in the I.L.L. Office was a great help to many faculty members, who gave hermultiple nominations for the Facultas Award and were very grateful for the efficient, dedicated and friendly way in which Phylis assisted them in obtaining books, articles, and other documents for their research projects. Among many others, she worked closely with Dr. Seth Koven of the Department of History as he completed the research leading to his recent, award-winning book, Slumming: Sexual and Social Politics in Victorian London (Princeton University Press, 2004).