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20 May 2005 Longwood administrator honored with Virginia Tech award named for him
The first annual Larry Robertson Emerging Professional Award was awarded recently by Virginia Tech's Office of Student Programs and the Department of Residence Life. The award, established in June 2004 just before Robertson left Virginia Tech, will be given annually to the "emerging professional on the Residence Life staff who best exemplifies professionalism, excellence, and dedication to the student affairs profession." Robertson is at Longwood for the third time. He graduated from Longwood in 1990, was the residence education coordinator (REC) in Curry residence hall from 1992-1995 and has directed Residential and Commuter Life (formerly the Housing office) since July 2004. He worked in Residence Life at Virginia Tech from 1995 until last summer, serving successively as an area coordinator, assistant director and finally as associate director. "Larry Robertson's most salient skills are peerless administrative planning and organization, interpersonal competence and pervasive ability to serve as a role model and mentor for emerging and young professionals," said Dr. Gerard Kowalski, director of Residence Life. "He is the quintessential student affairs professional." As a student at Longwood, where he earned a B.A. in history, Robertson was a member of Phi Kappa Phi national honor society, the Longwood Ambassadors, Geist (now Mortar Board) and Chi and was a resident assistant. The Chesterfield County native, who has an M.S. in counseling psychology from James Madison University, received several awards as a Longwood REC (including Outstanding Student Organization Advisor and Residence Life Professional Staff Member of the Year) and at Virginia Tech (Residence Hall Honorary Advisor of the Year, Residence Hall Honorary Professional Staff Member of the Year, and the Lynne M. Sponaugle-Crosby Award for Contribution to the Residence Hall Federation). The first annual Larry Robertson Emerging Professional Award was given May 3 to Liz Yates of Coopersburg, Pa., until recently the graduate hall director for two Virginia Tech residence halls. She just finished her master's degree there and will begin as a residential life coordinator at Bucknell University in Pennsylvania in July. |
Larry Robertson, Longwood University's director of Residential and Commuter Life, has been honored with an award in his name at Virginia Tech, where he worked previously.