University of Rochester

Susan B. Anthony Legacy Dinner 2011

  • tree planting
    The annual Susan B. Anthony Legacy Dinner was held Thursday, Feb. 3, and sponsored by the Anthony Center for Women's Leadership and the University of Rochester's Women's Club.
  • tie dye shirts
    Mary Huth received the Lifetime Achievement Award. "It is icing on the birthday cake to be recognized for a job that was so rewarding."
  • sculpture made of bottles
    Mary Huth, center, with award-winning former ABC news correspondent Lynn Sherr, left, and Nora Bredes, director of the Anthony Center for Women's Leadership.
  • singers
    "History is what we have to build on. This is something that Mary Huth understands," said Sherr during her keynote address. To call her a librarian is the highest accolade and the least descriptive.”
  • henna tattoos
    2011 Susan B. Anthony Scholarship winner Melika Butcher '13.
  • African students and solar panels
    Nora Bredes, left, with 2011 Jane Plitt Award winner Hilary Wermers '12.
  • researchers with instruments
    2011 Fannie Bigelow Prize winner Maya Dukmasova '11.
  • actors perform a skit
    2011 Fannie Bigelow Prize winner Bridget Lenkiewicz '11, left, and keynote speaker and former ABC news correspondent Lynn Sherr.
  • band performing
    The scholarship recipients and student awards winners pose with Susan B. Anthony Lifetime Achievement Award winner Mary Huth, center.


A devoted champion of the life and legacy of Susan B. Anthony, Mary Huth, former assistant director of the Department of Rare Books & Special Collections, was awarded this year's Lifetime Achievement Award for her dedication to furthering the study of women's history at the annual Susan B. Anthony Legacy Dinner on Thursday, Feb. 3.

Award-winning former ABC news correspondent Lynn Sherr delivered this year's keynote address honoring Huth.

This year's Legacy Dinner also included student awards and scholarships for five undergraduate students and one Take Five student.