Newhouse announces death of longtime professor emerita
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A memorial service for Nancy Sharp, a long-time professor at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, will be held at Hendricks Chapel on Saturday. Sharp worked for 34 years as a professor in the Newhouse School and served as a Syracuse University mace bearer for its graduation ceremonies since 2004.
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Nancy Sharp, a professor emerita at Syracuse University’s Newhouse School of Public Communications, died on Feb. 12, the Newhouse School announced in a tweet Monday.
Sharp, who was one of the first women professors hired at SU in the 1970s, worked at Newhouse for 34 years. She also served as the university’s mace bearer beginning in 2004, a role in which she led academic procession at SU graduations.
“Nancy was a pioneer both in her pre-Newhouse career as a newspaper journalist and in her role at the school,” the tweet read.
Sharp grew up in Columbia, Missouri and attended the University of Missouri, where she studied journalism and finished first in her class.
A memorial service for Sharp will be held at Hendricks Chapel on Saturday. Instead of flowers, Sharp’s family members are instead asking for food donations made to the Food Center at the University United Methodist Church on East Genesee Street in Syracuse.
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Published on February 27, 2023 at 5:27 pm
