Naurine Lennox ’64, associate professor emerita of social work and family studies, was awarded the 2015 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Minnesota chapter of the National Association of Social Workers. She was nominated by Professor of Social Work and Family Studies Mary Carlsen ’79.
The award recognizes Naurine’s founding of the social work program at St. Olaf College and her lifelong commitment to students, faculty, field supervisors, and other community partners. It also recognizes her role in the early development of the National Institute for Social Work and Human Services in Rural Areas and the Social Work in Latin America semester program in Cuernavaca, Mexico.