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Scott Momaday Receives 2007 National Medal of Arts
On November 15 President George W. Bush announced the recipients of this year's National Medals of Arts and National Humanities Medals. Prize-winning author N. Scott Momaday received a National Medal of Arts. Momaday, a former member of St. John's College Board of Visitors and Governors, is a long time friend of the college. His novel House Made of Dawn was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1969. Among his many accomplishments Momaday is the Poet Laureate of Oklahoma.
The awards were presented by the President in an East Room ceremony on Thursday, November 15. The President was joined by First Lady Laura Bush, Mrs. Lynne Cheney, Dana Gioia, Chairperson, National Endowment for the Arts, and Dr. Bruce Cole, Chairperson, National Endowment for the Humanities. Among the honorees are composer Morten Lauridsen, director R. Craig Noel, arts patron Roy R. Neuberger, and painter Andrew Wyeth.