Herman Chernoff, professor of statistics emeritus, was awarded the title "doctor honoris causa," the highest honorary title awarded by the University of Athens. Chernoff was honored in a ceremony held June 4 in Athens, Greece.

Business Professors Receive Accounting Award

Business School Professors Paul M. Healy and Krishna G. Palepu have won the American Accounting Association's Notable Contribution to the Literature Award for their book, Business Analysis and Valuation (coauthored with Vic Bernard). The award recognizes the most influential research in the field of accounting published during the past five years.

Pertile Wins Book Prize

La puttana e il gigante, a book by Lino Pertile, professor of Romance languages and literatures and professor of comparative literature, has been awarded the Nicola Zingarelli International Prize for Dantean Philology and Criticism.

Somerville Releases CD of Organ Music

Murray Forbes Somerville, University organist and choirmaster at the Memorial Church, has just released a CD of organ music composed by his 19th-century predecessor, John Knowles Paine. Paine was Harvard's first University organist and choirmaster and also its first professor of music. Recorded on organs in the Boston area, including the E. & G.G. Hook organ at the Church of the Immaculate Conception in the South End (an organ Paine himself undoubtedly knew), the CD includes Double Fugue on "God Save the Queen" and Variations and Fugue on "The Star-Spangled Banner." Last summer, emergency repairs to the 140-year-old Hook organ described by experts as the greatest American organ were paid for by Harvard University in order for the recording to take place. CDs are $15 each and can be purchased through the Church office.

Music Department Bestows Prizes for 1999

The Department of Music has selected recipients for its various prizes for 1999:

Christopher Ariza '99 has been awarded the John Green Fellowship. This award was established by family and friends of the late John Green '28 in support of excellence in musical composition. The Paine Traveling Fellowships have been awarded to one undergraduate and seven graduate students. The recipients are as follows: Iris Lan '98, to study representations of the tango and other Western ballroom music and dance in East Asia; Karim Al-Zand, dissertation work at the Aspen Music School; Judah Cohen, dissertation research in Jerusalem; Michael Cuthbert, research and language study in Italy; Ed Gollin, dissertation research in Germany; Lara Pellegrinelli, dissertation research in New York City (jazz improvisation); Richard Whalley, dissertation work at the Aspen Music School; and Peter Whincop, language study in Italy.

Patty Tang has received the Nino and Lea Pirrotta Graduate Research Fund award for research in Senegal relating to her dissertation. The University Prizes in Composition are as follows: Bohemians Prize, Karim Al-Zand for Duet for Harp and Viola; Francis Boott Prize, Jonathan Holland for from Mother Love and Erick Spangler for Fireflies; George Arthur Knight Prize, Lansing McLoskey for Tinted; Hugh F. MacColl Prize to Christopher Ariza for Comma; Adelbert Sprague Prize to David Taddie for Composition for Chamber Orchestra & Tape.