Stanford Moore Prize Awarded
At the annual awards assembly, Vince Durnan announced the recipient of the Stanford Moore Prize, given each year to the senior "who most nearly approaches Stanford’s academic achievement and dedication,” in the words of his classmates when they established the award.
Stanford Moore, a 1931 graduate of Peabody Demonstration School, won the 1972 Nobel Prize in chemistry. "He proved that you can go from those seats to the highest recognized achievement on Earth," Vince told the assembled high school. (He also mentioned the "underwhelming" school song Stanford Moore wrote when he was in high school and even played a mercifully short audio clip of an amateur rendition of it.)
Here is Vince Durnan's description of the 2016 Stanford Moore Prize winner, Zoe Bauer.
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Here is Vince Durnan's description of the 2016 Stanford Moore Prize winner, Zoe Bauer.
"What our recipient shares perhaps most significantly with prior honorees is the absence of a bright line between the person and the learner, most likely a characteristic in common with Stanford Moore himself. That Emersonian, transcendental quality of being fully one’s self, of connecting belief with action, of connecting idea with deed. Perhaps this is at the root of frequent teacher comments wishing to share another class with this recipient, or this recipient’s wishing to have arrived here sooner."
"This young scholar/citizen works with words in perhaps the way Stanford Moore worked with the building blocks of organic chemistry, breaking beautifully complex literature into its smaller, simpler component pieces and reassembling them with an author’s eye. This recipient loves language the way he loved science—as a window on the world and a reason to really care about things, finding beauty in sequence and structure as a vehicle to carry ideas and messages for those willing to live on that landscape."
"The lessons of this honoree are lessons of finding meaning in the stuff we do around here all day, about not pretending to be interested but of being in this life of learning. Witness the work in encouraging others to write and to share creative output, witness the work in and of our class and with our GSA in a year when that work meant more in the wider world than maybe ever given the tenor of ugly public policy arguments."
"Soon bound for a version of Lotusland far to our West [Pomona College], this honoree will, by contrast, go from here with a clear sense of purpose born of strong conviction. No doubt she will, in the most constructive and thoughtful way, to quote the poet, be 'announcing her place in the family of things.' Please join me in recognizing and appreciating our 2016 Stanford Moore prize recipient, Zoe Bauer."
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