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Elizabeth Allen Straus, you are a symbol for us of the highest aspirations of this college. Your acute and fine-edged intelligence allows you to imagine the future and your discriminating wisdom helps you to cherish what is beautiful, irreplaceable and endlessly fascinating in the past and present.
In Belvedere, California, breath-taking views of the San Francisco skyline have been preserved for visitors and residents as a new city was built, thanks to your foresight and planning; in New York City for whose parks and gardens, museums and collections your calling was to instill respect through understanding and participation, you created collaborative partnerships among experts visitors and everyday citizens All are beneficiaries.
And on this island you are the symbol of possibility - the possibility of a gracious welcome - for students, for statesmen and scholars, for artists and horticulturists, for dignitaries, for drop-in callers; the possibility of the refining of a space of reverence and contemplation, the stunningly beautiful Asticou Azalea Garden - not a temporary, transient space, but one supported by a hard-core business plan and an efficient, skilled and well-trained staff who are committed to the same goals of perfection.
And finally, you are for us the example of a brilliant woman who is nevertheless patient with others, who loves funny stories, including those about herself, who has a glint in her eye for the ironic. Your love and companionship with your beloved husband have invited so many of us into the circle of your warmth.
Elizabeth Allen Straus: For your visionary stewardship, for the application of your incisive intelligence and your sensitivity to the solving of logistical and human problems in major cities and on this island, for your inextinguishable love of learning, we are proud to present you with the highest honor of College of the Atlantic: Master of Philosophy in Human Ecology.
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