Sister M. Claude Lane, O.P., Memorial Award

Purpose and Criteria for Selection:

The Sister M. Claude Lane, O.P., Memorial Award was created in 1974 and recognizes an individual who has made a significant contribution to the field of religious archives.  Selection criteria include:

• Involvement and work in the Archivists of Religious Collections Section of the Society of American Archivists;
• Contributions to archival literature that relates to religious archives;
• Participation and leadership in religious archives organizations; and/or
• Evidence of leadership in a specific religious archives.

Eligibility:

Individual archivists only.

Nomination Requirements:

A completed nomination form.

Sponsor and Funding:

Named in honor of Sister M. Claude Lane, O.P., the first professionally trained archivist at the Catholic Archives of Texas in Austin, who served there from 1960 until her death in 1974. The award is funded by the Society of Southwest Archivists. 

Prize:

A certificate and a cash prize.

Selection Committee:

The Sister M. Claude Lane, O.P., Memorial Award Subcommittee of the SAA Awards Committee is composed of four members of SAA, at least one of whom is also a member of the Society of Southwest Archivists (SSA). In addition, one of the co-chairs of the SAA Awards Committee serves ex officio on the subcommittee. The SAA President-elect shall appoint one member of the subcommittee each year for a term of three years after having solicited nominations from the president of the SSA and from the Awards Committee co-chairs. The senior member of the subcommittee in years of service shall serve as its chair. 

Submission Deadline and Nomination Form:

Click here to preview the nomination form and/or to start a nomination. All nominations must be submitted by February 28 of each year.  

Sister M. Claude Lane, O.P., Memorial Award Recipients:

2024:  Thomas J. McCullough, assistant archivist for the Moravian Archives

2023:  Russell Gasero, archivist for the Reformed Church in America (retired)

       2022:  Carol W. Smith, archivist for Christ Church Preservation Trust

2021:  Mary Grace Kosta, congregational archivist for the Sisters of St. Joseph in Canada

2020:  Ellen Pierce, archival consultant, Dominican Sisters and other Religious Congregations

2019:  Jillian Ewalt, Marian Librray, University of Dayton

2018:   Sister Louise Grundish, Sisters of Charity in Greensburg, Pennsylvania

2017:   Wesley W. Wilson, Roy O. West Library, DePauw University

2016:   Denise “Dee” Gallo, Daughters of Charity in Emmitsburg, Maryland

2015:   Diane Wells, Episcopal Diocese of Olympia in Seattle 

2014:   Judi Fergus, Arthur Moore Methodist Museum, Library and Archives

2013:   Audrey Newcomer, Director, Archives and Records, Archdiocese of St. Louis

2012:   Mark J. Duffy

2011:   Malachy R. McCarthy

2010:   Sister Jane Aucoin, CSJ

2009:   Robert Johnson-Lally

2008:   Mark Thiel

2007:   Roger M. Dahl

2006:   Not awarded

2005:   William Sumners

2004:   John (Jac) Treanor

2003:   Theresa (Terry) Thompson

2002:   Not awarded

2001:   Kinga Perzynska

2000:   Not awarded

1999:   Not awarded

1998:   Charles Nolan

1997:   Not awarded

1996:   Sister Blaithin Sullivan, CSJ

1995:   Brother Roy Godwin, CFA

1994:   Sister Emma Cecilia Busam, OSU

1993:   Peter Wosh

1992:   Sister Mary Linus Bax, CPPS

1991:   Elizabeth Yakel

1990:   Thomas Wilsted

1989:   Not awarded

1988:   Brother Denis Sennett, Franciscan Friars of Atonement

1987:   Robert Shuster

1986:   James M. O'Toole

1985:   Rev. Charles Rehkopf

1984:   Rev. Norbert Brockman

1983:   Not awarded

1982:   Barbara Smith

1981:   Not awarded

1980:   Sister Evangeline Thomas, CSJ

1979:   Sister Felicitas Powers, RSM

1978:   Lynn May and William Miller

1977:   V. Nelle Bellamy

1976:   August Sueflow

1975:   Eleanore Cammack

1974:   Melvin Gingerich