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Walt Meissner, CFA dean ad interim (right), presented this year’s
Kahn Career Entry Awards to (from left) Vasilija Zivanic, Baron Vaughn,
and Petra Sairanen at a ceremony on May 12. Each received a cash award
of $15,000. Established in 1985 by benefactor Esther B. Kahn (SED’55,
Hon.’86), who died this year, the award is given to exceptional
undergraduate and graduate students from CFA’s schools of music,
visual arts, and theatre arts. Zivanic, who received an M.F.A. in costume
design, will use her award to continue her studies with renowned fabric
painter Mary Mason at the New York firm Parson Meares, where she will
work with top costume designers. Vaughn earned a B.F.A. in theatre arts
and his award will allow him to move to New York City to help jumpstart
his career in the theater community there. It will also help defray professional
costs associated with auditioning and attending casting calls. Sairanen,
who received an M.F.A. in painting, will establish a painting studio
in Boston. Her work was shown this spring in Boston and Portsmouth, N.H.
Photo by Vernon Doucette
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June 2003
Boston University
Office of University Relations