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Show USU 'Alumnus of the Year' . A and Art Students League, both in New York City, and at the Slade School of Art, London, where she-had she-had a Fulbright grant. Prior to accepting the deanship at Cooper Union, she was department depart-ment chair and professor of art at Wayne State University and University Uni-versity of Missouri-Kansas City, and taught at East Texas State University Uni-versity and Cleveland Institute of Art. The USU Alumni Association has given the Alumnus of the Year Award in most recent years to William Wil-liam James Mortimer, publisher of the Salt Lake City Deseret News; Rulon Jones, all-pro lineman of the Denver Broncos, and Or. Donald Olsen, chief of the division of artificial artifi-cial organs at the University of Utah Medical School. Lee Anne Miller, dean of the Cooper Union School of Art, New York City, was named Alumnus of' the Year for Utah State University at USU's annual Robins Awards ceremonies May 2. Miller is a native of Farmington and received his bachelor's degree in art at Utah State in 1960. She was honored at a dinner by the USU Alumni Association and in the student-sponsored Robins Awards program where students, faculty and others were recognized. recog-nized. Miller has served on the Fulbright Ful-bright Committee since 1984 and currently is chair of the Discipline Screening Committee for Art-Fulbright Art-Fulbright Scholar Awards. She was appointed by New York Mayor Koch as the public member of the Manhattan Loft Board in 1982. From 1978-80 she was president of the National Women's Caucus for Art, a 3,000-member group of women art professionals in universities, univer-sities, art schools and museums as well as independent women in visual arts. She hosted the caucus conferences at Cooper Union in 1982 and 1986. In addition to her USU degree, Miller has a master of fine arts from Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Mich., and has also studied at the University of Utah, Pratt Graphic Arts Center LEE ANNE MILLER |