History Meets Anniversary
The 2020 Clete Daniel Memorial Medal winners are Llarsania Galloza '20, Zelia Gonzales '21 and Terrill Malone '21. Each will receive the medal from the School of Business of University College Dublin and a $250 cash award from ILR.
"For the first time in the history of the program, we have three recipients of the Clete Daniel Memorial Medal and we are incredibly excited that Zelia, Terrill & Llarsania are all first-generation college students. Professor Daniel was a first-gen student himself and missed the opportunity to travel abroad until much later in life. He would have been thrilled to have three first-generation students not only participate in the program, but to have also distinguished themselves academically," said Brigid Beachler, managing director of ILR Off-Campus Credit Programs.
Daniel taught Labor History at ILR for 37 years and won Cornell and ILR teaching awards. Daniel’s Bitter Harvest: A History of California Farmworkers 1870-1941 book was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.
He began serving as director of ILR Credit Internship Programs in 1989 and co-founded the ILR/UCD Semester in Dublin program in 2006 with University College Dubin Professor Roland Erne. The annual Daniel medal award was established in 2010 by University College Dublin professors to honor Daniel’s commitment to international education.
This year marks the 10th anniversary of Professor Daniel's passing in April 2010.
Beachler says, “The continued success and popularity of the Semester in Dublin Program is just one example of Professor Daniel's continued legacy at the ILR School”.
The coin-shaped sterling silver medallion is awarded to students for outstanding academic achievement in the ILR/UCD Semester in Dublin Program. “Llarsania, Zelia and Terrill tied for the top GPAs of all ILR students during the fall 2019 semester in our three required classes -- “European IR,” “Multinationals” and “Irish History,” Beachler said. The students were selected by the faculty and university counsel of the Lochlann Quinn School of Business and University College Dublin.
The program has enrolled roughly a dozen ILR students every fall semester since its founding and has expanded to include a wide-range of new course offerings and two study trips to the European University Institute in Florence, Italy and the European Parliament in Brussels, Belgium.