Distinguished Alumni Award

2007 Recipient

Sandy Chadwick, Class of 1967
 Sandy ChadwickDr. Chadwick is professor of education at SUNY Potsdam, where she coordinates Graduate Childhood Programs, the largest graduate program at the college, and is a Chairperson of the Department of Curriculum and Instruction (Fall 2005-present). She holds her M.S. in Education from Ball State University (1970) and her Ed.E. from Ball State University (1972). She has been on the faculty at SUNY Potsdam since 1972. Among the honors she has received are New England Reading Association Memorial
Research Scholarship (1971), Outstanding Young Women of America (1971 and 1972), Who's Who Biographical Records - Child Development Professionals, SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching (1980), and Kappa Delta Pi - Point of Excellence Award (1994).

Despite her many publications and honors she say that she is proudest of her family: she has been married to Norman D. Graham, a Vermonter, for almost 29 years and has three adult children: K. Chad Graham, who is currently teaching 5th grade in Massena NY; Clark M. Graham, who is a teaching assistant and graduate student in Boston at Massachusetts College of Art; and Virginia Ruth Graham, who is teaching assistant and a graduate student at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio. She has a home
in Albany, Vermont, and is a life member of the Orleans County
Historical Society.