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November 20, 2012,
Volume 59, No. 13 |
GSE Alumni Association Awards
The Penn GSE Education Alumni Association (EAA) honored three of the School’s most accomplished graduates with Alumni Awards during Penn’s Homecoming Weekend in October.
Dr. Dawn Elena Pleas-Bailey, GrEd’07, vice president for student life and special assistant to the president for community engagement at Southwestern College, received The Ethel and Allen “Buddy” Carruth Sustained Leadership in Education Award. This award recognizes significant service to the education community. During Dr. Bailey’s tenure, enrollment of African American, Latino and Asian American students has doubled from 10% to 20% and Southwestern College has earned a reputation as a high-quality institution that provides academic and social opportunities to low-income students.
Dr. Irving Pressley McPhail, GrEd’76, president & CEO of the National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering, received the Educator of the Year Award. Recipients of this award are dedicated educators who inspire, take risks, use innovative approaches, and serve as role models. Throughout his career, Dr. McPhail has demonstrated commitment to excellence and equity in education for students of color. Dr. McPhail is widely known by his colleagues as a tireless and fearless educator. Dr. Francis M. Hult, GrEd’07, assistant professor of applied linguistics at the University of Texas at San Antonio, received the Recent Alumni/Early Career Award of Merit. This award recognizes an alumnus/alumna who has shown outstanding service to Penn GSE prior to his or her 10th reunion year and who is setting an inspirational example for future alumni. Dr. Hult has had a significant influence on the field of educational linguistics, despite being early in this career.
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Penn Law Alumni Society Awards
On October 24, the Law School honored Penn Law graduates and former faculty for their career achievements, pro bono work, service to the legal profession and service to the School.
The 2012 Penn Law Honorees are:
Justine F. Andronici, L’02, received the Young Alumni Award, which honors the professional achievement of an alumnus/a who graduated within the past 10 years.
Former Penn Law faculty member Sir Nicolas Dusan Bratza, head of the Penn Law European Society, received the James Wilson Award, for his service to the legal profession.
Catherine C. Carr, L’79, received the inaugural Louis H. Pollak Public Service Award, which honors a career of advancing justice through the service of others.
Ethan D. Fogel, L’83, received the Howard Lesnick Pro Bono Award for embodying the spirit of the Public Service Program through a sustained commitment to pro bono and/or public service throughout a private sector career.
Robert L. Friedman, L’67, received the Distinguished Service Award for his service to the Law School.
Robert A. Marchman, L’83, received the Alumni Award of Merit for his professional achievement and service to the Law School.
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Wharton's Dean Medal
The Wharton School awarded its highest honor, the Dean’s Medal, to Alvin V. Shoemaker, W’60, Hon’95, and Sukanto Tanoto, WF’01.
In the 1980s, Alvin V. Shoemaker helped build First Boston into its reputation as a powerful firm during his role as its chairman. Today, Alvin V. Shoemaker Investments is a private equity firm specializing in the needs of the oil and gas technology and service businesses.
Mr. Shoemaker was chairman of Penn’s Board of Trustees from 1986 to 1994, and he chaired the Campaign for Penn, which raised $1.4 billion for University priorities. During this time, he also established the Trustees’ Council of Penn Women. He is an emeritus member of the Penn Board of Trustees and of the Wharton Board of Overseers. In September, Shoemaker Green was dedicated in his honor (Almanac September 25, 2012).
Mr. Tanoto is the founder and chairman of RGE, a global resources-based group. Mr. Tanoto has supported the Wharton School through his contributions to the Chinese language edition of Knowledge@Wharton, the Global Alumni Forums, the Wharton Fund and the Wharton West Program Seed Fund. He is a member of the Wharton Board of Overseers, the Wharton Executive Board for Asia and the INSEAD International Council.
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Penn's 78th Alumni Award of Merit Gala
During Homecoming Weekend, the University of Pennsylvania honored alumni and alumni groups who, through their accomplishments or continued involvement, have brought honor and prestige to Penn.
Creative Spirit Award
Jennifer Egan, C’85, won the 2011 Pulitzer for A Visit From the Goon Squad, which also earned her the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Also a journalist, she writes frequently for the New York Times Magazine, where her 2002 cover story on homeless children received the Carroll Kowal Journalism Award, and her most recent article, “The Bipolar Kid,” received a 2009 NAMI Outstanding Media Award for Science and Health Reporting from the National Alliance on Mental Illness.
Alumni Awards of Merit
Dale Borenstein Bell, MT’81, who earned her medical-technology degree in 1981, chairs the Penn Alumni Interview Committee of Bergen County, NJ, is president of the Class of 1981, serves on the Class Gift Committee, has co-chaired both her 25th and 30th reunion committees and serves on the Penn Alumni Board of Directors.
Harve D. Hnatiuk, EAS’74, is a vice president with Maida Engineering. Quick to point out that he feels a debt to Penn, he is so active an alum that he has been described as “Penn’s quiet warrior.” He was president of his alumni class for 15 years and continues to serve as vice chair. He is president emeritus of the Alumni Class Leadership Council, chaired the original committee that developed the Penn Reunion Leadership Conference and has been on all of his reunion committees.
Paul Knox Kelly, C’62, WG’64, president and CEO of Knox & Company, had been a University trustee since 1997 and is now emeritus. He gave his family’s name to Kelly Writers House (Almanac January 28, 1997) and to the Kelly Family Gates that adorn the entrance to the Addams Fine Arts Hall (Almanac May 13, 2003).
James Joo-Jin Kim, W’59, G’61, GR’63, was the driving force behind Penn’s Korean Studies program that now bears his name (Almanac July 12, 2011). He was a Penn trustee and served on the School of Arts & Sciences’ Board of Overseers, Wharton’s Executive Board for Asia and the Penn Alumni Board of Directors and Council of Representatives. Now a trustee emeritus, he is a member of the Board of Governors of the Lauder Institute. He founded Amkor Technology, Inc.
Young Alumni Awards
Brett Edward Weinheimer, W’00, was recognized for his inspiring alumni leadership, and generously giving back to Penn and other charitable endeavors. As owner of the Jimmy John’s Gourmet Sandwiches shop near campus, he is a corporate sponsor of Penn Athletics, serving the “official sandwich of Penn Athletics.”
Melissa L. Wu, C’98, is president of the Penn Club of Los Angeles. She made increasing membership a priority, revitalized the club newsletter and ratcheted up the use of social media with a communications strategy that featured focused messaging and streamlined event promotion. She increased the number of club events by 75 percent, including six annual PennFest events.
Class Awards
The Class of 1992 received the Class Award of Merit for its members’ 20th reunion efforts. With 553 in attendance, the reunion was the result of inspired, long-term strategic thinking and planning and has become a benchmark for other classes. The hallmark of that effort was a virtual homecoming for classmates unable to attend in person, where they could gather together virtually, in real time, with those who did. The class was also commended for its “swift and impressive follow-up.”
The Class of 1967 earned the David N. Tyre Award for Excellence in Class Communication for its members’ inventive and energetic ways to communicate with classmates about their 45th reunion. The class was recognized for its sustained, shrewd and highly successful communication strategies and for raising $2.4 million for its reunion gift, a million dollars more than its goal.
The Penn Alumni Club of San Antonio received the Club Award of Merit. The club increased its roster of active members to 150 from 110 and increased its visibility and relevance with the growing Latino population. The club is known for diverse, one-of-a-kind events, including the annual Quaker classics, such as the summer send-off for new and returning Penn students and festivities surrounding Ben Franklin’s birthday each year.
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Guggenheim Cup: Dr. Fagin
The Penn Club of New York has named Dr. Claire M. Fagin as the 2012 honoree for the Guggenheim Honor Cup. This prestigious award will be presented at a dinner to be held on November 29, 2012, at the Penn Club of New York in midtown Manhattan.
The Guggenheim Honor Cup was donated to the Penn Club of New York City by William Guggenheim in 1911. The Cup is given to an alumnus who has “honored the University most by notable success in any walk of life.”
“By any measure, Claire Fagin is a trailblazer, and Penn is proud of her many achievements and successes,” said Penn President Amy Gutmann. “This honor is also a wonderful recognition of Claire’s tremendous contributions to the opening of the Penn Club of New York in 1994 while serving as Interim Penn President.”
Dr. Fagin became dean of Penn Nursing in 1977 and developed landmark education programs, including the doctor of nursing science, the first nursing doctorate in the Ivy League, and a PhD program. Under her leadership, Penn Nursing had more faculty in the American Academy of Nursing and the Institute of Medicine than any other nursing school. In addition to her deanship, Dr. Fagin served as the interim president of the University of Pennsylvania from July 1, 1993 to June 30, 1994.
The nursing education building at Penn is named in her honor.
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Top 10 Best Private City Clubs: Penn Club of New York
The Penn Club of New York was ranked among the nation’s top 10 private city clubs and has been awarded The Platinum Club of America for the fourth consecutive time. This award identifies The Penn Club as a 5-star private club and places it among the top 235 of about 5,000 private clubs in America. The Penn Club (Almanac April 6, 2010) is the second highest ranked city club in New York City. The rankings are released every three years and were published by the Club Leaders Forum.
The Penn Club is the first Ivy League private city club to make the top 10 list two times in a row—2009 to 2012 and 2012 to 2015.
“We are delighted that the Club Leaders Forum has once again recognized what we at Penn have long known: The Penn Club of New York is one of the nation’s premier clubs,” said Penn President Amy Gutmann. “The Penn Club is a welcoming ‘home away from home’ for Penn alumni, faculty, students, and staff in New York and reflects Penn’s commitment to excellence in all that we do.”
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Penn Dental Award for Outstanding Service to Students
The Penn Dental Medicine Executive Student Council presented its Award for Outstanding Service to Students as part of Making the Penn Dental Connection, an annual alumni and student networking event, held October 22 at the Union League of Philadelphia. The recipients included Bernice April, a dental hygienist in the School’s Main Clinic; and Roseanne Butts, an x-ray technician in the Oral Diagnosis and Radiology Clinic.
The Penn Dental Medicine student body nominates and votes on two recipients of the Award each semester. The Award recognizes individuals who have gone above and beyond the expected standard of high performance to make noteworthy contributions to the development and education of students. Riddhi Patel (D’13), president of the Executive Student Council, notes that in the nomination of Ms. April, students expressed, “She is extremely helpful to students and her good spirits make her a pleasure to work with,” and in nominating Ms. Butts, they noted “Her eagerness to help students, and her warm and caring nature toward students and patients breed a positive learning environment.”
The Making the Penn Dental Medicine Connection event drew over 150 attendees, including the members of the School’s Board of Overseers, alumni, faculty, staff and students for an evening of networking.
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Related: Penn Alumni Reunion Gifts 2012
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