The winners of the 1997 prizes for outstanding accomplishments in the arts at Harvard and Radcliffe have been selected by the Office for the Arts at Harvard and Radcliffe and the Harvard Council on the Arts. The winners are as follows:

Catherine deLima '97 was selected to receive the Doris Cohen Levi Prize of $500 and a certificate. The prize recognizes the Radcliffe College student "who combines talent and energy with outstanding enthusiasm for musical theater" at Harvard and Radcliffe and honors the memory of Doris Cohen Levi, Radcliffe '35. A Cabot House English and music concentrator, deLima has appeared in numerous musical and theatrical productions, among them as Countess Almaviva in the Dunster House Opera production of The Marriage of Figaro, in the title role in the Harvard-Radcliffe Gilbert and Sullivan Players' production of Patience, and as Sarah in Company with the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club.

As a founding proctor of the Freshman Arts Program, deLima has lent innovative ideas and guidance to its theater and musical theater programs. Last fall, she drew accolades for What More Do I Need?, a one-woman show deLima created and performed in Radcliffe's Agassiz Theatre, featuring the songs of Weill, Gershwin, Kern, Rodgers and Hart, and Sondheim. She will receive the Doris Cohen Levi Prize at Radcliffe's Strawberry Tea for graduating seniors on May 28 in the Horner Room, Agassiz House, Radcliffe Yard.

Daniel Goor '97 is the recipient of the $250 Jonathan Levy Prize for the most promising actor at the University. A resident of Eliot House, Goor became involved in theater during his first year at Harvard, landing the leading role in Jack and Jill, an original student play. He has appeared in nine Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club productions on the Loeb Mainstage, including A Philadelphia Story, The Living, and a leading role in A Flea in Her Ear, and in several Loeb Experimental Theater productions, including A Murder of Crows, in which he was costumed only in gold paint and a pair of Speedos.

Goor has devoted much of his time and energy to improvisational and movement-based theater. He performed several roles in Play in a Day, by Brad Rouse '95, and cowrote, codirected, and acted in Happenstance, an original student play produced in the Adams House Pool Theater in which each member of the ensemble cast played many roles. In Happenstance, Goor created the role he considers his own most memorable -- that of The Saddest Man in the World. This year he has appeared in Adaptations; Allentown: The Billy Joel Musical, by Michael Schur '97 and Charles Grandy '97; and HRDC's current member of On Thin Ice improv comedy troupe for three years, and of Visual AIDES theater ensemble, for which he served as president.

The Louis Sudler Prize in the Arts of $1,000 will be awarded to Matthew Saunders '97, a resident of Adams House. The prize recognizes the graduating senior with the most outstanding artistic talent and achievement in the composition or performance of music, theater, dance, or the visual arts. Saunders is a visual and environmental studies concentrator who has focused broadly on studio arts with a special interest in printmaking. His thesis is a suite of paintings. He was one of the students involved with Office for the Arts' Visiting Artist in Public Art David Ward's "Canopy" project in 1994.

Saunders created a portfolio of linoleum block prints and a number of posters at the Bow and Arrow Press at Adams House, and has been a member of the Student Friends of the Harvard University Art Museums since his freshman year. In theater, Saunders has been on the board of H-R Gilbert and Sullivan Players since the spring of his freshman year and has served as treasurer and as president. He has been director, set designer, producer, and stage manager of a number of G&S shows and also produced the 40th Anniversary Celebration of H-R G&S in the fall of 1996. Saunders also produced Falsettos and Catherine deLima's show What More Do I Need? at the Agassiz Theatre. He was a set designer for Harvard-Radcliffe Summer Theatre last summer and has participated as one of the core planning group for the H-R Undergraduate Arts Leaders' Forum started this past year. In 1995 Saunders worked with OFA Technical Director and Adviser Alan Symonds to establish the Freshman Arts Program, was a proctor its first and second years, and was involved in developing the visual arts component of the program.

Hilary K. Snow '97, a resident of Adams House, is the recipient of the Louise Donovan Award, which recognizes a Harvard-Radcliffe student who has worked behind the scenes in the arts -- for example, as director, producer, or accompanist -- contributing most to the success of a production and the opportunity for others to shine. The award of $500 is given in honor of Louise Donovan who, through her distinguished career as secretary of the College and clerk to the board of trustees at Radcliffe College, was a role model of unselfish, effective support for the College.

Snow has produced, directed, stage managed, designed, or held other staff positions for more than 20 productions with the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club. As president of the Dunster House Opera, she transformed it from an ad hoc group to an organization with a board, a mission, and a sense of permanence. A fine arts and social anthropology concentrator, Snow worked summers as a curatorial assistant at the San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art and for a firm in Pasadena where she archived prints by the photographer E.O. Hoppé. As research assistant to Judith Thompson, 1993-94 Peace Fellow at Radcliffe's Bunting Institute, Snow was instrumental in producing Thompson's multimedia colloquium.