18 - North Shore News -— Friday, February 25, 2000

SFU honours Marcuse with docte

Layne Christensen

News Reporter Lchristensen@nsnews.com

IS there a doctor in the house?

When choreographer Judith Marcuse gets togeth- er with her siblings she can playfully answer: yes, three.

SEU has included the West Vancouver resident among eight prominent individuals to receive an honorary doctor of laws degree this year. Marcuse will receive her honorary degree at the spring convo- cation ceremonies, June 7.

The award means that

the artist can, if she chooses,

go by Dr. Judith Marcuse. But she'll not be the first in her family to wear the title.

“My parents are happy that three of their four chil- dren now have doctorates,” she told the News.

Sister Sally Winston has a

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doctorate in psychology while brother Michael Margolick has a doctorate in math. Sister Betsy Carson doesn’t have an advanced degree but the Vancouver resident is no under-achiev- er. She’s a Gemini award - winning film producer, says Marcuse, who, kidding aside, recognizes her award as a serious achievement. “It’s unusual in this country for artists to receive this kind of honour,” said

Marcuse, 52-year-old tound- ing artistic director of DanceArts Vancouver Society and creator of the Kiss Project, a testival of dance arts that recently cele- brated its fifth annual ran at Granville Island's Performance Works.

She said she may use the honorary tide “when it's helpful,” such as when seek- ing funds from the private sector for DanceArts pro- jects like fee: Bevond Coal, a

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youth production about teen suicide, currently on 3 1O-city, four-province tour, Also receiving honorary degrees from SFU this year: former federal NDP leader Ed Broadbent, Nisga’a Chief Joseph Gesnell, forestry business leader John (lake) Kerr, chief justice Beverley McLachlin, novelist John Raiston Saul, high-tech business leader Kenneth Spencer and environmental- ist David Suzuki.

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NEWS photo Mike Wakatiold SFU will grant Judith Marcuse an honorary degree in recognition of her contributions to Canadian dance.

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