Distinguished Alumni Awards Recipients


James A. "Jim" Wiese, (58BBA)

2024 Distinguished Hickerson Recognition Award

Jim Wiese has exemplified a “can-do” work ethic throughout a lifetime of service and leadership with the University of Iowa, most notably for the UI Alumni Association and the Henry B. Tippie College of Business. 

After four years as an active undergraduate and fraternity member, Wiese began a 34-year career with Arthur Andersen & Co. in Chicago. Within a few years, he became one of the youngest partners ever. In 1972, Wiese transferred to Cleveland, where he became indispensable as an audit partner specializing in the manufacturing industry.

Wiese always maintained strong ties with his classmates and the UI. Since 1958, he has been an outgoing spokesman for the UI’s accounting program and the Iowa Alumni Association. He recruited accounting graduates from Iowa, served on the Tippie College of Business’ Professional Accounting Council, and joined the Iowa Alumni Association Board of Directors. Wiese guided and advised professional accounting organizations as well as community nonprofits that support youth, disability services, and mental health. In 1991, the UI Accounting Department honored him with its Outstanding Accounting Alumnus Award.

When Wiese retired in 1992, he and his wife, Nancy (Baker) (58BA), returned to Iowa City, where he joined the steering committee for what is now known as the Pappajohn Business Building. Throughout his life, Wiese has embodied the motto, “We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.” The Wieses are the proud parents of four UI graduates, and they have generously supported Hancher, the Tippie College of Business, and Hawkeye Athletics for many years. 


John A. Kundel, (69BA, 74MA)

2024 Distinguished Faculty Award

With a career that began and ended at the University of Iowa, John Kundel has acted with a spirit of service in everything he does. The inspiring higher education professional helped hundreds of students achieve their college dreams while lifting the morale of the teams he led with positivity and a rally cry of “Good hustle!”

After completing his degree and U.S. Army deployment to Vietnam, Kundel returned to Iowa City to work in the UI Office of Student Financial Aid while pursuing a master’s degree. In 1984, he departed Iowa and rose through the ranks of financial aid, admissions, and enrollment departments at three other Midwestern universities.

After retiring from the University of Missouri as associate vice provost for student affairs and enrollment management in 2007, Kundel volunteered for the University of Iowa as an alumnus admissions representative, attending college fairs to help St. Louis-area students see the value in an Iowa education. From 2016 to 2024, Kundel worked as a regional admissions counselor in the St. Louis area for the UI.

Kundel received a Combat Infantryman Badge and an Army Commendation Medal with “V” device for valor for his active duty in Vietnam. He continued serving 20 years in the Army Reserve, including roles as a battalion commander and assistant professor of military science at Western Michigan University. Kundel also contributed many hours to youth sports, Veterans of Foreign Wars, American Legion, and advisory councils and committees on and off campus.

With 50 years of unflagging enthusiasm for higher education, and especially Iowa, Kundel has made a lasting impact on so many students in Iowa City and beyond.


Morgan Jones, (60BM, 61MA)

2024 Distinguished Faculty Award

Morgan Jones, associate director of bands and director of the Hawkeye Marching Band from 1973 to 1990, encouraged leadership and musicianship in thousands of students. Through the decades, he has nurtured excellence and camaraderie in true Hawkeye fashion.

Jones played trumpet in the Hawkeye Marching Band at the Rose Bowl in 1957 and 1959 and was a graduate teaching assistant at Iowa in 1960 and 1961. He taught high school band before returning to the UI to direct. He grew the Hawkeye Marching Band to 280 members and added graduate assistants to enhance quality. Many went on to become successful music educators, directors, and composers. 

Jones was at the helm when women were integrated into the band, and he selected the first Black drum major. Jones was known as “Dr. Jones” to many, and his uncompromising standards for musicianship and precision marching culminated in the Hawkeye Marching Band receiving the 1990 Sudler Trophy from the John Philip Sousa Foundation. Jones returned to help restore stability in the band in 1996 and 1997 as interim director.

In 1988, Jones founded the Iowa Ambassadors of Music, a program he led for three decades that provides opportunities for high school music students and directors statewide to travel and perform concerts across Europe. Jones also entertained local audiences as conductor of the Cedar Rapids Municipal Band from 1994 to 2010.

“Dr. Jones’ significant and lasting contributions to the Hawkeye Marching Band exemplify the university's core values of creativity, community, excellence, inclusion, and integrity,” says Arlene Houk, president of the Alumni Band Leadership Board.

Jones’ positive influence on individuals across campus, and in bands nationwide, will be felt for generations.


Jon Lensing, (20MD)

2024 Distinguished Alumni Recent Graduate Award

Jon Lensing co-founded OpenLoop in 2019, when he was a medical student at the University of Iowa. As CEO of the telehealth company, he has applied his leadership, research, and technology skills to grow the company nationwide with the vision to bring healing anywhere.

Lensing was planning to become a plastic surgeon when he and Christian Williams, OpenLoop’s chief operating officer and co-founder, saw a need for improved telehealth access for all and launched their startup. During the pandemic, OpenLoop evolved to deliver connected and seamless clinical support to virtual care companies, growing to more than 180 employees in five years.

OpenLoop is the latest of Lensing’s startup successes. In 2015, he co-founded GR Drone, an aerial imagery company. From 2016 to 2019, he led research for SwineTech, an Iowa startup that develops piglet-saving technology.

Lensing was named the University of Iowa Young Alumni Entrepreneur of the Year in 2022 and was listed on the 2024 Forbes 30 Under 30. OpenLoop has received millions in funding as well as many awards, including the Technology Association of Iowa’s 2022 Prometheus Award for Software Development Company of the Year.

Driven to help as many people as he can, Lensing also volunteers to address hunger and opioid crises.

Richard L. Ferguson, the board chair for OpenLoop, says, “I rank Jon among the strongest leaders with whom I have been associated, and he continues to grow and impress. He has conducted himself in a manner that honors the spirit of the university’s core values.”


Kathryn M. Edwards, (73MD)

2024 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Kathy Edwards is a world-renowned physician, teacher, mentor, and researcher who has made significant contributions to life-saving advances in vaccines. Throughout her career, she has designed and executed clinical trials and educated others on their conduct to ensure the safety and efficacy of vaccines for influenza, pertussis, pneumococcus, and many other pathogens.

Since 1980, Edwards has delivered care to children with infectious diseases and has conducted vaccine research at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. She was awarded the Sarah H. Sell and Cornelius Vanderbilt Chair in Pediatrics in 2008, and her prolific research there has resulted in more than 630 publications and numerous NIH- and CDC-funded initiatives. Edwards’ teaching and mentoring have had an immeasurable ripple effect as her students make their own discoveries and contributions to public health.

As a vaccinologist, Edwards has counseled the World Health Organization and national governmental agencies while participating on numerous advisory committees, including the American Board of Pediatrics’ Committee on Infectious Disease and the FDA’s Vaccine and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee. She also reviewed scholarly publications for 15 major medical journals. 

Edwards’ relentless contributions have led to many honors. In 2008, she was elected to the National Academy of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences. Edwards has also received the University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine’s Distinguished Alumni Award, the American Academy of Pediatrics Award for Lifetime Contribution to Infectious Disease Education, and the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases’ 2018 Maxwell Finland Award for Scientific Achievement.

From classrooms and research labs to pediatric clinics and hospitals, few individuals have enhanced global public health and the safety of immunizations as profoundly as Edwards.


Mary Seelman Mascher, (75BA, 82MA)

2024 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

Throughout the past four decades as an educator and Iowa legislator, Mary Mascher has aspired to make her community and state a better place. She has left an indelible legacy of advocacy for education, mental health, family housing, and other issues important to her constituents.

Mascher attained bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the UI College of Education and taught in the Iowa City Community School District for 33 years. She influenced the lives of thousands of students and families as a teacher and counselor before retiring from teaching in 2009.

Midway through her career as an elementary educator, Mascher felt compelled to run for office. In 1994, she was elected to represent Iowa House District 46, a position she retained until 2023. Mascher was a compassionate advocate for education, mental health, youth, and families. In this role, she connected the founders of Iowa Mental Health Advocacy to key stakeholders in the early days of their organization.

Mascher has been recognized as an outstanding legislator by diverse organizations, including the Girl Scouts of Mississippi Valley, Heritage Area Agency of Aging, and the Iowa Counseling Association. She was named an influential woman by the Cedar Rapids Gazette and Corridor Business Journal.

Mascher has volunteered for the Iowa City Education Association, community theatre, local parks commissions, and other causes. To honor her support for affordable family housing, Iowa Valley Habitat for Humanity dedicated a 2023 project as the Mary Mascher Women Build home. From the classroom to the community, Mascher’s breadth of accomplishments exemplify a life of service.


Michael V. Michener,

2024 Distinguished Alumni Friend Award

Mike Michener has had an extraordinary career in foreign relations and global food security. The Iowa native generously shares his extensive knowledge and unwavering support with the University of Iowa and its students.

In 1983, Michener transferred to Iowa but withdrew to join the U.S. Army, where he served seven years and received multiple military commendations. Thus began a 35-year career advising on democracy, agriculture, and foreign policy in the U.S., Bosnia, Kosovo, Iraq, and most recently, Ukraine. Michener has worked with the U.S. Agency for International Development, the U.S. Department of State, Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, and numerous public and private sector organizations on human rights, agriculture, economic growth, and biotechnology. Recently, he represented the Inter-American Foundation at the 2023 Borlaug Dialogue and World Food Prize in Des Moines, where he happily introduced visitors to his home state.

On campus, the UI Department of Political Science has welcomed Michener as a guest lecturer on populism and crisis response topics. He has mentored students and is working with leaders in the UI College of Liberal Arts and Sciences to establish a multidisciplinary center within the college. 

“Mike has created a better learning environment for our students through his engagement with them directly and through the classes he has been a part of,” said Brian Lai, associate professor and DEO of the UI Department of Political Science.

Michener’s tremendous impact on international trade and food security and his enduring friendship with the University of Iowa are beyond measure and deeply appreciated.


Louis Crist, (60BA, 81MA)

2023 Distinguished Hickerson Recognition Award

For more than 40 years, Lou Crist’s unmistakable voice has echoed across Kinnick Stadium and at bowl games, parades, and other events.

As the inspiring voice of the Hawkeye Marching Band, Crist’s pregame cue, “It’s time to get ready for the BOOM!” rouses every home game crowd. He also supports the band as a mentor and donor.

Crist received both of his degrees at Iowa, where he and his brother, Lyndon (66BM, 90MA), were Hawkeye Marching Band members. Crist marched in the 1959 Tournament of Roses Parade and at the Rose Bowl. Following graduation, the Des Moines native was a radio announcer for 22 years before moving to Iowa City to work in health care, retiring from the UI Carver College of Medicine in 2007.

In 1981, Crist became the announcer of the Hawkeye Marching Band, and he’s announced every performance since then. Crist has added his familiar voice to pre-season shows, the Band Extravaganza, and more. This included virtually announcing the 2022 Citrus Bowl halftime show from Iowa when he was unable to travel due to COVID concerns. He also mentors band members interested in helping with the group’s public relations and social media.

Crist and his wife, Jan Olson Crist (61BSN, 77MA), have established the Lou Crist Legacy Fund to support the band’s future. Eric Bush, associate director of bands and director of the Hawkeye Marching Band, says, “The Hawkeye Marching Band will feel the positive impact from Lou and his family for as long as the band is in existence.” 


Chad Greenway, (05BA)
Jenni Capista Greenway, 05BBA

2023 Distinguished Alumni Recent Graduate Award

Chad Greenway and Jenni Capista Greenway have translated their leadership as top Hawkeye student-athletes into a legacy of community service. The couple is passionate about children’s health and youth sports, creating and nurturing Chad Greenway’s Lead the Way Foundation while juggling careers, family, and a business.

During their time at Iowa, Jenni ran cross country and track and field, while Chad was an All-Big Ten linebacker. Jenni became certified as a personal trainer and has excelled as a fitness instructor. Chad organized and leads the Wayzata Girls’ Basketball Association; they are both coaches.

In 2006, Chad became a first-round draft pick for the Minnesota Vikings, where he remained for his 11-year career. Chad’s peers recognized his service leadership by naming him the 2015 “Whizzer” White NFL Man of the Year and as the Vikings’ Walter Payton Man of the Year Award nominee. After retiring in 2017, Chad co-founded Gray Duck Spirits. He is also a sports consultant.

In addition to raising four daughters, the Greenways have focused on directing the Lead the Way Foundation and its mission to support families of seriously ill children. Whether building accessible playgrounds at hospitals, fulfilling children’s wishes, or serving respite luncheons for mothers of ailing children, the foundation has touched thousands of lives. The UI Stead Family Children’s Hospital is one beneficiary of Chad’s Locker, a program that supplies video games and other electronics to engage kids during treatment.

Jenni’s former coach, Layne Anderson, says giving back is in their DNA.

“They have displayed the Hawkeye spirit through their incredible spirit, love for others, and willingness to step up and support others with their time and resources."


John J. Callaghan, (83R)

2023 Distinguished Alumni Recent Graduate Award

John Callaghan is a leading expert in hip and knee surgery with hundreds of research and grant credits. Driven by a continual pursuit of knowledge at the University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, Callaghan dedicated himself as a faculty member, volunteer, and role model to make a positive global impact in his field.

Callaghan completed his residency at Iowa in 1983, before practicing as a surgeon and educator at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. He returned to Iowa City in 1990, serving as a faculty member in the UI Departments of Orthopedics and Biomedical Engineering. An innovative educator and researcher, Callaghan mentored many orthopedic medicine specialists while providing surgical care at the university and the Iowa City Veterans Hospital.

In 2002, Callaghan was named the Lawrence and Marilyn Dorr Chair of Hip Surgery & Research in the UI Department of Orthopedics. He received millions of dollars in grants, collaborated with colleagues to produce more than 475 peer-reviewed articles, and gave hundreds of presentations.

Callaghan has served as president for the International Hip Society, the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, and the American Association of Hip and Knee Surgeons. The Carver College of Medicine and other organizations have recognized him with fellowships and honors. In 2019, Callaghan received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Hip Society, and in 2020, he received the Distinguished Contributions to Orthopaedics Award from the American Orthopaedic Association. Callaghan has also helped design successful hip and knee replacements which have been implanted in hundreds of thousands of patients throughout the world.

Through his integrity, work ethic, surgical skills, and academic output, Callaghan has made a lasting impact in orthopedics.


Thomas James Johnsrud, (66BSPh)

2023 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Thomas “T.J.” Johnsrud is a visionary in health care, business, and service to others. For the past 50 years, he has cultivated a pharmacy in Conrad, Iowa, into a multifaceted organization serving thousands of patients daily in the upper Midwest and Texas. In addition, Johnsrud has maintained involvement in the pharmacy industry at the local, state, and national levels and served as a lifelong advisor to the UI College of Pharmacy.

As president of NuCara Management Group, Johnsrud oversees more than 39 community pharmacies specializing in traditional, compounding, and infusion therapy.  NuCara also includes 10 medical equipment locations and two LTC pharmacies serving multiple nursing home facilities.

“He has achieved success based on an inclusive, motivational approach that values innovation and elevating others,” says NuCara CEO Brian Wegmann.

Johnsrud authorized NuCara pharmacies to participate in pilot programs that advance pharmacy practice, and he innovated the “tech check tech” program that freed up pharmacists to provide more direct patient care. He continues to enhance health care through the Iowa Pharmacy Association and other industry organizations.

“It brings him joy to bring everyone to the top with him,” says Pamela Wiltfang (08BA, 12PHR, 12MPH), director of clinical services and innovative practice at NuCara. “T.J. always puts family, friends, colleagues, employees, and patients, first.”

A lauded alumnus and constant champion of the UI College of Pharmacy, Johnsrud has served as a guest lecturer, donor, and advisor. He shared ideas and support for the development of the new pharmacy building and currently serves as chair of the Executive Leadership Board. The college honored him with distinguished alumni and lifetime achievement awards.

Johnsrud is a pillar in his profession and an alumnus who advances the careers of Hawkeye pharmacists while improving health care nationwide.


Robert Mitchell, (62BA)

2023 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

Bob Mitchell is renowned across Iowa for his human resources expertise as well as a lifetime of volunteerism to UI alumni organizations, Kiwanis, and other endeavors near and dear to his heart.

Mitchell is president of Bob Mitchell and Associates, a human resources and management consulting firm. Before that, he was a human resources professional in education and financial services and co-founded a nationally recognized job fair sponsored by Iowa’s state universities. A longtime member of the Polk County I-Club, Mitchell served on the UI Alumni Advisory Board and Alumni Leadership Council. He was named 1999 Co-Volunteer of the Year for his service.

Mitchell has channeled considerable energy into the Des Moines Kiwanis Club for more than 35 years. Most notably, he led a campaign to develop the Kiwanis Miracle League at Principal Park—an accessible facility where children and adults with disabilities can enjoy playing baseball. Opened in 2000, it was the first of its kind in Iowa. It has since hosted hundreds of games at which Mitchell can be found doing whatever requires attention. 

“Bob makes sure every kid on every team in every game feels like a baseball player,” says Jeff Pierson, a fellow Kiwanis Club member. He also notes that Mitchell always thanks everyone involved for their contributions to the organization.

Mitchell was a Kiwanis Distinguished Governor of the Nebraska-Iowa District, and for his longtime service received the organization’s Legion of Honor Award. Mitchell has also supported the West Des Moines Library Friends Foundation and the Society for Human Resource Management. He was inducted into the Iowa Volunteer Hall of Fame in 2009.


Charles Swanson, (75BBA, 76MBA)

2023 Distinguished Faculty Award

Chuck Swanson, retired executive director of Hancher Auditorium, has had a remarkable influence on the University of Iowa. His 37 years with Hancher elevated it to new heights, even after the loss of its original home. While putting people first, he has cultivated relationships that enrich the arts, university, and state of Iowa.

During college, Swanson attended performances at Hancher, which was built in 1972. Upon graduation, he worked in finance before becoming Hancher’s business manager in 1985. He was promoted to associate director in 1991, which ushered in a golden era. Swanson began strengthening partnerships to continue bringing world-class artists and innovative programming to the stage. He was promoted to executive director in 2002.

When the original building was destroyed in the 2008 flood, Swanson shepherded the organization through the redesign and rebuilding process. The new Hancher opened in 2016 with a celebratory gala, and the house was packed. That is, until the COVID-19 pandemic stunted arts venues worldwide. Swanson’s solution was to take performances outside and across the state—similar to a collaborative 2007 Joffrey Ballet venture.

Through thick and thin, Swanson went above and beyond to ensure people came first, involving others in refining Hancher’s role as “the largest classroom on campus” and a key recruiting tool for the university.

Jane Downer worked with Swanson for 25 years. She credits him as one of the UI’s best ambassadors for “helping all Iowans recognize the contributions the UI makes to our state’s citizens.”

Described as a phenomenal leader, caring, courageous, and enthusiastic, Swanson has made an impact that will be forevermore.


H. Mitchell D'Olier, 68BA, 71JD

2022 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

A skilled lawyer and business executive with a passion for philanthropy, H. Mitchell "Mitch" D'Olier has been advocating for the people of the 50th state for the last 50 years. He also has helped his fellow Hawkeyes by serving as a member of the Iowa Law School Foundation Board of Directors.

After graduating from the University of Iowa College of Law, the Chicago native became a partner in the Honolulu law firm of Goodsill, Anderson, Quinn, and Stifel, where he practiced tax and corporate law for more than two decades.

D'Olier went on to work as chief operating officer of Hawaiian Airlines and as chief executive officer of Victoria Ward, Limited, and currently is chair of Kaneohe Ranch Company and the Harold K.L. Castle Foundation—Hawaii's largest private foundation.

His expansive volunteerism has had far-reaching and positive effects on the state's citizens and ecosystems. The breadth of his service includes reforming real estate policies, restoring coral reefs, fundraising for Hawaii's largest community center, and promoting educational change.

"Throughout the 25 years I have known Mitch, I've witnessed and admired the quality, impact, and sheer quantity of his community service in Hawaii," says Terrence George, president and chief executive officer of the Harold K.L. Castle Foundation.

Thanks to a lifetime of exemplary community service, legal counsel, and corporate leadership, D'Olier has demonstrated a commitment to service that may be even stronger than his Midwestern work ethic. He has devoted himself to investing in the communities and causes most important to him.


Bob Franklin, 98BA

2022 Distinguished Hickerson Recognition Award

Bob Franklin is a savvy entrepreneur and devoted Hawkeye who has used his business acumen to create connections and inspire philanthropy in the University of Iowa community.

As a member owner and CEO of Tin Roof—a live-music joint based in Nashville, with 21 locations across 14 states—Franklin has donated space for alumni events and used fan engagement to give back to the university.

His Nashville Tin Roof has been home to the Nashville Iowa Club game watches since 2019, and he has hosted Hawkeye Huddle events for football, women's and men's basketball, and wrestling at many of his other locations.

"Bob is an outstanding businessman and a true Hawkeye," says Steven Miller (76BSPh), past president of the Nashville Iowa Club. "Through his philanthropy and partnership . . . he has made a tremendous impact on many Iowa alumni across the country."

Even when the pandemic was affecting his venues, Franklin continued investing in Iowa by participating in the university's Chat from the Old Cap, a virtual engagement program that helps alumni and friends stay connected to campus.

In addition, he opened Elray's Live & Dive, which provides high-quality live music in downtown Iowa City, in July 2020—and he also is known for inventing the "High Porch Picnic" drink, named in memory of Hayden Fry. The beverage comes in a Hawkeye-yellow cup, and a portion of every drink sale goes to Iowa, as do proceeds from the sale of Nashville Iowa Club T-shirts.

Through his hard work and tireless efforts on behalf of the university, this loyal Hawkeye supporter has helped change lives on campus and beyond.


Joseph "Joe" Gaylord, 67BA

2022 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Joe Gaylord ranks among the nation's most seasoned political consultants and is an accomplished strategist, fundraiser, and educator who has shared his knowledge with thousands of political candidates—and Hawkeyes—for more than 50 years.

He began his political career right after graduating from Iowa and held leadership roles at both the state and national levels, working with the Iowa Republican Party, the Republican National Committee, and the National Republican Congressional Committee.

Gaylord is best known for spearheading the campaign that resulted in the first Republican majority in the U.S. House of Representatives in 40 years. Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich says, "In the 40 years Joe and I have worked together, he has been cheerful, caring, and relentlessly honest. From 1994 to 1998, he led the political side of everything I did. Together, we led the 1996 campaign, which reelected a Republican House majority for the first time in 68 years."

Gaylord—who developed the Republican National Committee's Campaign Management College and also founded the American Campaign Academy—has taught at Iowa since 2012. From 2015 to 2020, he served as president of the Alumni Advisory Board for the UI Department of Political Science and he and his wife, Molly, have been generous university supporters, establishing scholarships in 2005 and bequeathing property in 2013.

"Joe's historic work in national political campaigns continues to influence American politics," says Brian Lai, associate professor and chair of the UI Department of Political Science. "That, combined with his service to the university, are testaments to why he is more than deserving of this award."


Donald Gurnett, 62BSEE, 63MS, 65PhD

2022 Distinguished Faculty Award

Donald Gurnett was a pioneer in the field of plasma wave research whose innovative instrumentation captured a profusion of data during more than 30 exceptional space research missions, including Voyager, Cassini, and Galileo.

A scientific scholar through and through, the longtime professor in the University of Iowa Department of Physics and Astronomy—who died in January 2022—also gave generously to ensure the future of space research at Iowa.

James Van Allen's discovery of Earth's radiation belts deepened Gurnett's interest in space plasma physics, inspiring him to join Van Allen's research group. Throughout his extraordinary 60-year career, Gurnett went on to establish the field of space plasma wave research, leading a team that developed numerous plasma wave instruments—including one that proved Voyager I had entered interstellar space. He also mentored more than 60 graduate students and authored or co-authored two textbooks and more than 750 publications.

"Don made tremendous contributions to faculty life, student experience, and research at Iowa," says Philip Kaaret, professor and chair of the university's physics and astronomy department.

Physicists, astronomers, and scientists around the world admire Gurnett, who also was a member of the National Academy of Sciences. He and his wife generously established the Donald A. and Marie B. Gurnett Chair of Physics at the University of Iowa in 2015.

NASA senior advisor James L. Green (79PhD), Gurnett's former student, recognized his professor's leadership in international space research—and his dedication to students: "He advised and mentored an entire generation of graduate students. It is important to recognize his lifetime of excellence and achievements in space science, as well as the service he offered the UI, the planetary science community, and the nation."


Farah Towfic, 11PharmD

2022 Distinguished Alumni Recent Graduate Award

Farah Towfic has helped fast-track global health care advances, using her leadership skills, determination, and practical experience to develop critical standards for administering COVID-19 vaccines.

As director of chief executive officer operations for United States Pharmacopeia, the independent organization that sets medication quality standards, Towfic has proven her capacity to lead and serve.

After graduating from the University of Iowa and completing a residency in association management and leadership for the American Pharmacists Association Foundation, the Dubuque, Iowa, native returned to the Midwest to help patients manage their medication therapies—and to improve operations for pharmacies in Wisconsin and Iowa.

"As a student, Farah's qualities of leadership, and the ability to excite her peers, were evident," says Towfic's former employer, Robert J. Osterhaus (52BSP, 12DSC), of Osterhaus Pharmacy. "At our pharmacy, she not only demonstrated patient-centered clinical skills brilliantly, but also enhanced our use of technology and improved our outcomes."

Towfic's relationship-building experiences have been key to her career success. In May 2020, she was assigned to help develop the nation's COVID-19 Vaccine Handling Toolkit, which launched in January 2021. It allows health care providers to maximize doses and efficiently prepare, label, and administer the vaccines, which was particularly crucial during the initial period of limited vaccine supplies.

Towfic, who also volunteered to administer vaccinations, further advances her profession through service and is chair of the UI College of Pharmacy Genesis Advisory Board.

Donald E. Letendre, Iowa pharmacy's dean, is grateful for her support: "Farah embodies the college's core values by being an enthusiastic and intellectually driven lifelong learner, a highly dedicated patient-care provider, and a professionally engaged citizen."


Harold Bradley Jr., 51BFA

2021 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Harold Bradley Jr. was a true Renaissance man. Whether it was his illustrious career as a Hawkeye and NFL football player or his time as an actor, artist, and music sensation, Bradley Jr. succeeded in everything he pursued.

Born in 1929 on Chicago's southside, Bradley Jr. enrolled at the University of Iowa in 1946 to study art and found mentors in Paul Engle (32MA), founder of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and Helen Lemme (28BA), Iowa City's iconic civil rights activist. While Iowa opened his eyes to the world and shaped his international destiny, Bradley Jr. also faced racial discrimination on campus. He was not allowed to live in the university dorms, and instead, resided in Lemme's boarding house.

Bradley Jr. excelled on the field in college and the NFL—earning Iowa football MVP honors in 1950 and winning two NFL titles with the Cleveland Browns. The arts, though, were his true calling. Bradley Jr. landed a scholarship to study in Italy and moved to Rome, where he painted and began a career as an actor—landing roles in more than 20 films, including starring alongside Elizabeth Taylor in Cleopatra. His art studio eventually morphed into a music venue, II Folkstudio, which became a hub for hip culture in Rome and attracted the likes of Bob Dylan and Pete Seeger.

Though Bradley Jr. eventually returned to the U.S. for 19 years to work for the Illinois Arts Council, University of Illinois, and Illinois State Board of Education, he went back to Rome in 1987 to celebrate the 25th anniversary of his music venue and never left—becoming a world-renowned ambassador to the Italian public on Black music styles and culture. Bradley Jr. would go on to record six albums later in his life and sing before individuals such as the Pope and Nelson Mandela.

Ted Wheeler (57BA), 1956 Olympian and former Iowa track and field head coach, was his college classmate. He said of Bradley Jr. who died earlier this year: "From the day I met Harold, it was obvious to me that this man was indeed a special person. Harold's commitment to excellence—to be the best he could be—was an inspiration to all who knew him."


Leslie D. Davis, 92BA, 95JD, 95MA

2021 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

Leslie D. Davis (92BA, 95JD, 95MA) is a pioneering executive leader, legal strategist, and civic proponent who advocates for diversity, equity, inclusion, and social justice.

As chief executive officer of the National Association of Minority and Women Owned Law Firms (NAMWOLF), she supports diversity in the legal profession by developing career opportunities for leading minority- and women-owned law firms. Davis is the first Black woman to lead NAMWOLF, which consists of 205 law firms.

She is a key member of several civic, health, and educational boards and serves on the City of Chicago Community Development Commission. Throughout Davis' legal career, she represented Fortune 100 companies across various industries as a partner for three major law firms, including Riley Safer Holmes & Cancila LLP, Drinker Biddle & Reath (now Faegre Drinker), and Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal (now Dentons).

Davis helped establish Legacy Charter School, an elementary school in the underserved Chicago community of North Lawndale. As a founding board member, she was instrumental in naming the school, hiring the inaugural principal and staff, and providing invaluable guidance and insight to the students, staff, community, and corporate business partners. A board member for Chicago's Sinai Health System, Davis champions the health care needs of urban communities, mentors children with diabetes, and is an avid fundraiser for the American Diabetes Association.

Davis' time as a Daily Iowan court reporter inspired her to pursue law school at the University of Iowa, where she earned degrees in law and journalism and mass communication. She remains active with the Black Law Students Association at Iowa, participating in the annual Back to Iowa event and mentoring Black law students.

"Leslie is a force of nature who shares candor, explains context, and offers clarity in complicated situations. She's a verb for public service and ethics," says Lisa Kenner, founding principal of Legacy Charter School.


Sandra Davis, 04BBA

2021 Distinguished Hickerson Recognition Award

A business trailblazer, Sandra Davis has used her leadership position at Goldman Sachs to help chart new paths for women and underrepresented finance graduates following in her footsteps.

As co-head of global client marketing and communications for the Investment Banking Division in the firm's New York office, Davis helps to amplify thought leadership content and franchise activity for clients around the world.

While her 17-year career has involved intense professional demands, Davis helped create a job-sharing position that paved the way for a more flexible solution at Goldman Sachs. "Sandy is an advocate and a leader in the finance industry," says Amy Kristof-Brown, the Henry B. Tippie Dean of the UI Henry B. Tippie College of Business.

Davis completed her bachelor's degree at Iowa, with a double major in finance and marketing and a minor in Spanish. She was a member of the Hawkinson Institute for Finance, the Tippie College's undergraduate investment banking program, and maintains a close connection to her alma mater. She serves on its Finance Advisory Council, where she's championed diversity initiatives—and she also mentors and recruits students and speaks at campus events.

After graduation, Davis spent several years in Goldman Sachs' Equity Capital Markets group, guiding companies through their initial public offerings. She moved to her current role in 2015 and always has made it a priority to meet with Tippie College students.

Brian Richman, a Tippie College professor and director of the Hawkinson Institute of Business Finance, says, "There is a generation of Iowa alumni who owe, in part, the successful starts of their careers to Sandy."


Seung Min Kim , 07BS

2021 Distinguished Alumni Recent Graduate Award

Seung Min Kim (07BS) is an acclaimed national politics reporter in Washington, D.C., who also mentors and inspires journalism and political science students at the University of Iowa.

A White House reporter for The Washington Post, Kim covers President Joe Biden's administration, focusing on its legislative agenda and interactions with Capitol Hill. She previously covered the Donald Trump administration and worked for eight years at Politico, a political journalism media company, where she focused on the Senate and immigration policy.

An on-air political analyst for CNN, Kim has served as a guest for the National Press Club and appeared on several national television programs, including Face the Nation and Washington Week. She was recognized by the National Journal as one of 50 people changing the game in Washington and is an active member of the Asian American Journalists Association and Washington Press Club Foundation.

The Iowa City native deepened her interest in politics as an editor and reporter for The Daily Iowan, where she covered the 2004 caucuses. Kim majored in journalism and political science at Iowa and returns to advise students and speak on alumni panels about her experiences. She also serves on the university's Political Science Department Advisory Board, providing guidance to best serve the department's students.

Says Brian Lai, associate professor and chair of the UI Department of Political Science: "Kim's work has provided a vital service to the people of this country, and she has been a model alum with her willingness to engage our students."


John S. Westefeld,

2021 Distinguished Faculty Award

John S. Westefeld knows all too well the importance of suicide awareness and prevention. A close friend of John's committed suicide many years ago—an event that played a significant role in John's career choice.

Throughout his 42-year professional career—including 25 years at the University of Iowa—John has been a passionate teacher, scholar, and leader who dedicated his life's work to suicide awareness and prevention. In 1991, he came to Iowa as director of the counseling psychology PhD program.

While at Iowa, John was a significant mentor—both personally and professionally—to many doctoral students who have gone on to a wide variety of careers. His mentorship culminated in being awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award in Mentoring by the Society of Counseling Psychology (SCP). In both undergraduate and doctoral-level classes, he has taught students about how to work with suicidal patients, how to research the issue, and how to conduct suicide prevention workshops.

John has been a national leader in his profession, as well as a community advocate. He has served as president of SCP, written numerous pieces in leading academic journals, and spoken on the topic of suicide and suicide prevention at countless events, training seminars, and lectures. He has also advocated in multiple venues for increased suicide awareness.

John retired in 2016 as an emeritus professor and then worked until 2020 in private practice. Today, he continues to stay active in the university and psychological community through a variety of consulting activities, including providing suicide prevention workshops.

Daniel Clay, dean of the UI College of Education, says: "It is impossible to know how many lives have been saved thanks to John Westefeld and the ripple effect of students he mentored and inspired. John's work in the college and in the community is marked by passion for people, and he has a tremendous legacy of making a difference in the lives of so many."


Jeff Chapman, 79BBA

2020 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Jeff Chapman (79BBA) is a highly accomplished attorney and dedicated civic leader in Dallas, Texas, who gives back to the University of Iowa and his community in numerous ways.

A co-chair of the Global Mergers and Acquisitions Practice Group at Gibson Dunn, he represents private equity firms and public and private companies in diverse cross-border and domestic transactions in a broad range of industries.

Chapman is consistently regarded as one of the top mergers and acquisitions lawyers in the country. Chambers USA has recognized him for many years in its most elite "Band 1" category, and in 2013, elevated Chapman to "Star Individual." He remains the only corporate lawyer in Texas history to be so designated.

Chambers USA reports, "Chapman is widely acknowledged as the superstar of the Texas corporate legal market and provides clients with service that is truly exceptional in every regard."

He and his wife, Kim Engman Cain Chapman, support the UI Henry B. Tippie College of Business, UI athletics, and the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Chapman also established the Gordon Chapman Memorial Athletic Scholarship for men's tennis in honor of his father and the Sheila Rivin Chapman Memorial Scholarship for women's soccer in memory of his late wife.

Chapman has served as a civic leader for several organizations, including chairman of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center President's Advisory Board and as coordinator of the Governance Review Task Force for the board of regents at Baylor University.

Says Michael Frankel, an attorney and former colleague: "Jeff embodies the character traits and values that best reflect all that is good about the University of Iowa."


Hayley Harvey, 94DDS, 96MS

2020 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

As section chief and director of dental education at Broadlawns Medical Center in Des Moines, Iowa, Hayley Harvey (94DDS, 96MS) has been a champion for increasing access to dental care and improving the oral health of underserved populations.

A native of Detroit, Michigan, and daughter of an Army veteran, Harvey came to the University of Iowa and discovered a passion for improving oral health and access to care for at-risk and rural populations. After earning two degrees from Iowa, Harvey—who served for a decade in the Army National Guard—practiced dentistry and later became the dental director for Baldwin Family Health Care. Her clinic provided dental care to at-risk populations in Baldwin, Michigan, which resides in one of the poorest counties in the state.

She returned to the Hawkeye state as the public health dental director for the Iowa Department of Public Health, which then led her to a position at Broadlawns Medical Center. Harvey has helped Broadlawns establish a new $24 million facility with 22 operatories—six of which are for extramural rotations of University of Iowa dental students. Through her work at Broadlawns, she ensures that future generations of dentists will have a solid understanding of the dental and health disparities facing Iowa's low-income populations.

Harvey is a wife and mother of two daughters, Hannah and Hadley. She is active in many community organizations and serves on the Mid-Iowa Health Foundation Board of Directors. In 2019, Harvey was awarded the University of Iowa Dental Alumni Service Recognition of the Year honor.

Peter Damiano (82BS, 86DDS), one of Harvey's professors from her time at the UI College of Dentistry and Dental Clinics, says: "She represents all that we would want in a Distinguished Alumni Service Award recipient: passion for her field, a lifetime commitment to using her UI education to help those less fortunate, and a continuing role in educating Iowa's students."


Jeffrey Parsons, 89BA

2020 Distinguished Hickerson Recognition Award

Jeffrey Parsons (89BA) is a third-generation Hawkeye who is a tireless and passionate advocate for his alma mater.

A native of Burlington, Iowa, Parsons graduated from the University of Iowa in 1989 with a theatre degree, and he credits Iowa for helping him continue to achieve his dreams. In addition to 16 years with United Airlines, he launched IGC & Associates, Inc., in 2007, a consulting firm focused on leadership and organizational development. His firm supports a range of global industries—from Fortune 20 to nonprofit.

Parsons also has been dedicated to advancing the mission of the Chicago Iowa Club by expanding it beyond game watches—all in an effort to build an inclusive, welcoming network of Hawkeyes in the Chicagoland area. He joined the Chicago Iowa Club Board of Directors in 2018, and after serving as its vice president, he now acts as a club consultant.

As a Chicago Iowa Club volunteer, Parsons has supported 14 official Chicago Iowa Club event locations through promotions and business development; served as guest speaker for a number of university events in Chicagoland; formed the Women In Business network and has helped build other network groups; led and participated in club business development strategy, outreach, and partnerships; and has coordinated and promoted arts outreach in the city. He also has partnered with the university's more than 60 Iowa Clubs to share best practices for increasing business networking opportunities.

On campus, Parsons has become an active contributor and facilitator with the Pappajohn Entrepreneurial Center within the UI Henry B. Tippie College of Business.

Says Lenee Wolf (89BGS), Chicago Iowa Club president: "Jeffrey is more than a fan or an alum. He's an ambassador to all things Iowa. He lives, breathes, and loves as a Hawkeye should. He embodies Once a Hawkeye, Always a Hawkeye."


Mark Stinski, PhD

2020 Distinguished Faculty Award

Mark Stinski, PhD, devoted his career at the University of Iowa to the study of human cytomegalovirus (HCMV), a pathogen that can cause birth defects and infections in the immunosuppressed.

His laboratory discovered the CMV promoter, a mammalian gene expression enhancer that dictates the fate of HCMV infection. The CMV promoter has been used by research laboratories around the world and by pharmaceutical companies to facilitate high expression of proteins. The first successful therapeutic protein was Rituxan for the treatment of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.

The CMV promoter patent generated more than $160 million. The patent's royalties helped the UI recruit at least five professors, retain senior faculty members, and establish the Mark Stinski Endowed Chair in Microbiology and Immunology and the Stinski Undergraduate Research Fellowship.

Stinski, who published peer-reviewed articles in top journals, was elected Fellow in the American Academy of Microbiology and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He also received the Alexander Von Humboldt Award from Germany and conducted research at the Institute for Clinical and Molecular Virology in Erlangen, Germany.

The success of his teaching and mentoring is evident in his mentees, who have become leaders in biomedical research at academic institutions and biotech companies.

One of those trainees, Eain Murphy, associate professor of microbiology and immunology at SUNY Upstate Medical University, says: "Mark instilled a scientific ethic and sense of quality in each of his mentees. This led to a generation of Iowa-trained virologists who have made major contributions to a broad range of scientific fields."


Joseph A. Walder, MD, PhD

2020 Distinguished Alumni Friend Award

A brilliant scientist with the spirit of an entrepreneur, Joseph A. Walder, MD, PhD, has helped everyone from farmers and scientists to physicians and patients thanks to his breakthroughs in biological research. Along the way, he also has inspired colleagues and championed the University of Iowa, where he launched his illustrious career.

After earning his MD and PhD degrees from Northwestern University, Dr. Walder joined the UI in 1978 as an assistant professor of biochemistry. He eventually became a full professor and conducted cutting-edge biochemical research that included developing anti-sickling compounds and a hemoglobin derivative blood substitute.

In 1987, Dr. Walder established Integrated DNA Technologies (IDT) through a seed grant from Baxter Health Care, which was interested in his work on hemoglobin and sickle-cell disease. Before selling the company in 2018, he grew IDT into the world's leading provider of synthetic oligonucleotides—or short DNA fragments—that benefit researchers in a range of disciplines.

Known for his creative solutions in the field of molecular medicine, Dr. Walder's notable honors include CEO of the Year from the Technology Association of Iowa and Entrepreneur of the Year from the Iowa Biotechnology Association.

Though he left the UI in 1994, Dr. Walder remained a loyal supporter of the UI Department of Biochemistry. His company also invested in biochemistry graduate education and donated $1 million to create a sibling play space in UI Stead Family Children's Hospital's neonatal intensive care unit.

A visionary researcher, innovative thinker, and transformative philanthropist, Dr. Walder embodies the best of Iowa's values. As Charles Brenner, the UI Roy J. Carver Chair and Head of Biochemistry, says, "Dr. Walder's accomplishments in biotechnology and philanthropy have made him a living legend at the University of Iowa."


Cori Zarek, 01BA, 05JD

2020 Distinguished Alumni Recent Graduate Award

Cori Zarek (01BA, 05JD) is a public interest technologist and lawyer whose role in helping governments maximize technology and strive for greater transparency has taken her to the White House—and around the world.

An expert on everything from technology strategies and digital rights to freedom of information, Zarek has worked to transform both government and the private sector. She also has assisted numerous countries in crafting policies related to technology, transparency, and press freedom.

Zarek graduated from Iowa with degrees in journalism and mass communication, political science, and law. As an undergraduate, she rose from reporter to editor-in-chief of The Daily Iowan, and after law school, she became a legal fellow for the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press in Washington, D.C. She eventually became that organization's freedom of information director before accepting a role as attorney advisor for the United States National Archives and Records Administration in 2009.

She joined President Obama's White House in 2013, first as senior advisor for open government and then as deputy U.S. chief technology officer. While there, Zarek helped improved how the federal government uses data and technology to deliver its mission.

In addition, she led the nation's involvement in the Open Government Partnership, a global collaboration that empowers citizens, combats corruption, and harnesses new technologies. As part of that initiative, Zarek represented the United States at global summits in Mexico, South Africa, and France, and she also traveled to more than a dozen countries to advise on open government and technology. Such efforts earned her induction into the National Freedom of Information Act Hall of Fame in 2016.

Today, Zarek is on the faculty at Georgetown University and serves as director of data and digital for its Beeck Center for Social Impact and Innovation. In that role, she helped create the U.S. Digital Response organization during the COVID-19 pandemic. She also is president of the board of MuckRock, a nonprofit news organization.

"Cori's name is synonymous with freedom of information and open government," says Randy Evans (72BA), executive director of the Iowa Freedom of Information Council. "She's an outstanding University of Iowa representative and has lived and worked in a manner that combines service, leadership, and humility."


Jhoon Chung, 96BA

2019 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

As a superintendent of schools in the suburbs of Chicago, Jake Chung (96BA), has dedicated his career to helping students achieve their dreams. The same can be said for his commitment to students at the University of Iowa. In the two-plus decades since earning his bachelor's degree in elementary education, Chung continues to give back to his alma mater as a mentor, scholarship provider, and leader for the UI College of Education's Advisory Board.

A native of Glenview, Illinois, Chung began his teaching career in Houston before returning to the Chicago area, where he received the state's Sallie Mae First Class Teaching Award. An advocate for marginalized students, Chung became a principal in the Arlington Heights and Schaumburg school districts, then assistant superintendent for personnel and planning for Arlington Heights. This past year, Chung was named superintendent for the Salt Creek School District near Chicago. Chung earned a master's degree and EdD from National Louis University in Wheeling, Illinois, and a second master's from the University of Illinois.

"Jake is the epitome of compassionate leadership and service to others, paying it forward and helping make our world a better one in which to live, learn, work, and serve."

In 2013, Chung and his wife, Kimberly Dierks Chung (98BA), established the Jake and Kimberly Chung Scholarship at the UI, which is awarded to College of Education undergraduates during their semester of student-teaching. Chung also has served on the former UI Alumni Association's board and is currently chairman of the College of Education's advisory board. In Illinois, he works with numerous professional and community organizations, including the Dryden Place Project, an innovative program he helped create to help disadvantaged Arlington Heights students and their families succeed.

Says Daniel Clay, dean of the UI College of Education: "Jake is the epitome of compassionate leadership and service to others, paying it forward and helping make our world a better one in which to live, learn, work, and serve."


Adaeze Enekwechi, 98BA, 07PhD

2019 Distinguished Alumni Recent Graduate Award

A health care executive who served in the White House, Adaeze Enekwechi (98BA, 07PhD) is widely admired for tackling complex policy challenges and studying how the health system can work for everyone, particularly vulnerable populations.

From 2015 to the end of the Obama administration, Adaeze was the White House's associate director for health programs in the Office of Management and Budget, where she oversaw a health budget of more than $1 trillion. Holding what's been described as the government's most important health post, Adaeze was a key policy advisor to President Obama and worked with Congress and the executive branch to implement the federal budget.

Although she was less than a decade removed from earning her doctorate from the UI College of Public Health, Adaeze was well-equipped for the high-profile position. She began her career as an analyst at the Congressional Budget Office after completing her master's degree in public policy at another institution. She returned to the University of Iowa to obtain her doctoral degree and went on to work at the University of Chicago School of Medicine, after which she became the associate director for innovation and new product development at Joint Commission Resources in Illinois.

"Adaeze worked in the White House with integrity and calm in an intense and sometimes difficult environment."

Adaeze then became a senior researcher for Health Research and Educational Trust, a Chicago-based arm of the American Hospital Association. In 2010, she moved to Washington to work in health care policy. There, she was a senior analyst for the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission, the first senior program officer at the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute, and a managing consultant at the Lewin Group, where she led several payment policy evaluation and research projects for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

Since leaving the White House, Adaeze has returned to the consulting world. She's currently president of IMPAQ International, a $100 million policy research and technology firm in the Washington, D.C., area that helps governments, businesses, foundations, nonprofits, and universities enhance their programs and policies. She also is a member of the National Academy of Medicine's Emerging Leaders in Health and Medicine group, and she serves on the Board of Public Health Institute and other advisory boards.

"Adaeze worked in the White House with integrity and calm in an intense and sometimes difficult environment," says Shaun Donovan, former director of the Office of Management and Budget. "I never saw her lose her cool despite enormous stakes, and her intelligence and knowledge always made a difference."


Geraldene Felton

2019 Distinguished Faculty Award

Geraldene Felton, dean emerita of the University of Iowa College of Nursing, is highly celebrated as a national trailblazer in nursing research and education.

Raised in Philadelphia, she joined the U.S. Army Nurse Corps in 1949 and rose through the ranks to become deputy director of the nursing division at Walter Reed Army Institute of Research. In 1975, she discharged from the Army as lieutenant colonel and began a new career in nursing education. In 2018, the UI honored her military service with the Hawkeye Distinguished Veterans Memorial Award.

Felton came to the UI in 1981 to serve as professor and dean of the College of Nursing. She retired in 1997, though she remained a leader for various national nursing education and research organizations. Among her many accomplishments as nursing dean were starting the college's PhD and nurse anesthesia programs, strengthening ties with the UI Hospitals & Clinics, and building a research-based culture.

"Because of Dean Felton, our faculty—and nurse researchers across the country—have been able to carry out programs of research that have significantly improved the health care of so many individuals across Iowa and beyond."

Ann Marie McCarthy (90PhD), professor and associate dean for research and scholarship at the College of Nursing, says, "Because of Dean Felton, our faculty—and nurse researchers across the country—have been able to carry out programs of research that have significantly improved the health care of so many individuals across Iowa and beyond."

Felton continues to invest in the College of Nursing through her longtime support of the Nursing Progress Fund and by establishing the Geraldene Felton Graduate Student Scholarship Fund and Geraldene Felton Student Success Center. Recognized in 2000 as a "Living Legend" by the American Academy of Nursing, Felton had made enduring contributions to her field that will undoubtedly influence generations of future nursing students and professionals.


Howard Kerr, 60BA

2019 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

A career naval officer, aide to the 38th president of the United States, and CEO of three corporations, Howard Kerr (60BA) is a leader through and through. Beyond his military and business accomplishments, he continues to lead through service to his community and his alma mater, the University of Iowa.

A Des Moines native who earned two master's degrees from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, Kerr served for 21 years in the U.S. Navy during the Cold War and Vietnam eras. He commanded the USS Hawkins and USS Kinkaid, was commodore of Destroyer Squadron 33, and received the Bronze Star with combat valor and eight Vietnam combat-era awards. In 1973, Kerr was assigned to the White House staff of Vice Presidents Spiro Agnew and Gerald Ford, where he served as an advisor on defense and national security issues. The following year, he became naval aide to President Ford and executive assistant to the counselor of the president. When Kerr left the White House, Ford awarded him the Legion of Merit Medal in an Oval Office ceremony. Kerr retired from the Navy in 1981 and became president and CEO of Custom Technologies Corporation and two other Chicago-based corporations. He also was a board member of Van Kampen and InVesco Mutual Funds and served on the Marrow Foundation.

"His intelligence, integrity, and communication skills have been the essential tools in his effective management of the most important resources in any organization—its people."

Kerr was active in civic service, including serving as mayor for three terms in Lake Forest, Illinois. Now a resident of Lake Bluff, Illinois, he regularly returns to the UI to lecture in the Department of Political Science and work with students. He has been a member of the UI College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Dean's Advisory Board and was the 2016 recipient of the UI's International Impact Award. Kerr and his wife, Patricia, have established a scholarship for the Iowa Writers' Workshop.

The late Navy admiral E.R. Zumwalt once wrote of Kerr: "His intelligence, integrity, and communication skills have been the essential tools in his effective management of the most important resources in any organization—its people."


David J. Skorton

2019 Distinguished Alumni Friend Award

David J. Skorton, president and CEO of the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) and former president of the University of Iowa, is one of the nation's most ardent champions of the sciences, arts, and humanities. Throughout his distinguished career in medicine, higher education, and government, he has advocated for the support of education and the arts as a wise investment in the success of the country.

Skorton began his affiliation with the UI in 1980, serving over 20 years on the medicine and engineering faculty. A board-certified cardiologist, he co-founded the UI Adolescent and Adult Congenital Heart Disease Clinic, one of the first in the nation. His pioneering research on cardiac imaging and image processing continues to influence the cardiology field.

Respected for his tremendous vision and insight, Skorton was appointed the 19th president of the UI in 2003. During his presidency, Skorton set Iowa on a path of innovation that included revitalizing the International Writing Program and implementing the Year of the Arts & Humanities and Year of Public Engagement.

"David remains a true leader and representative of all that is treasured in higher education."

Skorton's quickness to grasp complexity, assemble effective teams, and inspire action make him a highly sought-after leader. In 2006, he left Iowa to assume the presidency of Cornell University. Then, in 2015, he was appointed the 13th Secretary of the Smithsonian, where he oversaw 19 museums, 21 libraries, the National Zoo, numerous research centers, and education programs. In July 2019, he became president and CEO of the AAMC, which represents the nation's medical schools, teaching hospitals, and academic societies. Skorton also is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society, as well as a lifetime member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Bringing integrity, authenticity, and generosity to all his endeavors, Skorton embodies the core values of Iowa. As John C. Keller, dean of the UI Graduate College, says, "David remains a true leader and representative of all that is treasured in higher education."


Nancy Willis, 77BA, 80JD
Craig Willis, 75JD

2019 Distinguished Hickerson Recognition Award

While Nancy (77BA, 80JD) and Craig (75JD) Willis have practiced law for more than three decades, their avocation is community service. Deeply committed to two cornerstones of the University of Iowa's mission—health care and the arts—the Willises have transformed the campus and surrounding community through their involvement.

The real estate attorneys, who recently merged their Willis & Willis law firm and Security Abstract Company with Meardon, Sueppel & Downer law firm in Iowa City, are particularly passionate about ensuring a vibrant future for the UI Stanley Museum of Art. They have lent their unwavering support and wise counsel to help the museum establish a new permanent home following the 2008 flood. As members of the Stanley Museum of Art's Elliott Society, the Willises have exhibited leadership on the museum's Members Council and the advisory, green campaign, envisioning, and building campaign committees.

"Iowa City is a significantly better place because of their generosity and commitment to both our community and our university."

The couple's faithful service to the university extends to areas such as Hancher, Iowa Writers' Workshop, and several university presidential and dean search committees. Since 1992, Nancy has brought her keen business sense and fundraising expertise to the UI Foundation Board, including as part of the development committee and For Iowa. Forever More. campaign cabinet. The couple also belongs to Friends of UI Health Care, a volunteer group dedicated to providing greater access to health care, where Craig serves on the leadership council.

Beyond campus, the Willises have joined the board of directors for many local organizations, including the Iowa City Community School District, Iowa City Public Library Foundation, Iowa City Parks and Recreation Commission, Iowa City Hospice, Johnson County United Way, and UNESCO City of Literature. They also have made significant contributions to area arts organizations and received many volunteerism awards over the years.

As Cathy Zaharis (82BBA), chair of the UI Center for Advancement board of directors, says, "Iowa City is a significantly better place because of their generosity and commitment to both our community and our university."


Nicholas Colangelo

2018 Distinguished Faculty Award

Nicholas Colangelo is an innovative leader whose many contributions have advanced the university and the field of gifted education in significant ways.

Colangelo arrived at the University of Iowa in 1977 and quickly established himself as one of the earliest voices and leading experts in the emerging field of gifted education. As the result of extensive outreach to educators, the Connie Belin and Jacqueline N. Blank International Center for Gifted Education and Talent Development was established in 1988, with Colangelo named as its founding director. Through his effective leadership, the center has grown to serve the needs of thousands of students and hundreds of educators. Colangelo's scholarship may be best known through the internationally acclaimed report, "A Nation Deceived: How Schools Hold Back America's Brightest Students," which has been translated into nine languages and downloaded more than 150,000 times with greater than four million hits to the website.

Colangelo dedicated his entire professional career to the University of Iowa and has served in various capacities, including on faculty senate and the Presidential Committee on Athletics. He served with distinction as dean of the UI College of Education from 2012–2016. As emeritus dean, Colangelo continues to represent the university as an active donor and advocate.

"Nick leaves things much better than he finds them," says UI College of Education Professor Debora Liddell. "We are a better university because of his love and commitment."

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Jay Daniliuk, 99BBA

2018 Distinguished Alumni Recent Graduate Award

Jay Daniliuk (99BBA) is at the forefront of the U.S. government's efforts to fight poverty and hunger in Africa. In his current position as private sector advisor in the Bureau for Food Security at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), Daniliuk is working to make sure famine is a thing of the past.

Daniliuk's seven years at the USAID build upon a series of distinguished positions in the private, public, and international sectors. After a successful career in advertising, he took the unusual step of giving up his career on Madison Avenue to serve as a Peace Corps volunteer in Togo, a tiny country in West Africa.

This experience changed his personal goals. After completing a master's degree in foreign service at Georgetown University, Daniliuk moved into a career in the federal government with a specific bent toward agencies who serve developing nations. In his current role, he travels the world to help build and maintain partnerships related to food production and distribution.

The work has taken Daniliuk to more than 30 countries in Africa, Asia, Europe, and Latin America, and he has been recognized for its creativity and impact by the U.S. government, foreign donors, and international nonprofit organizations.

"Jay's journey is still unfolding," says Kristi Ragan, DAI Chief of Party for the USAID Invest Project. "His commitment to service will continue to make a difference for the invisible poor whose voices we don't hear on a daily basis."

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Michael Nelson, 71MD

2018 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

Michael Nelson (71MD) is a distinguished professor of radiology, specializing in breast cancer imaging, at the University of Minnesota. He also is a committed humanitarian who advances global health in East Africa. In addition to his work as a co-founder of Minnesota's Jane Brattain Breast Center, Nelson helped found the East Africa Medical Assistant Foundation, which supports diagnostic radiology services in northern Tanzania for approximately 15 million patients.

Advocating for cancer services where there were none available, Nelson has worked tirelessly to bring medical equipment and expertise to a region where there are more deaths from cancer than AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis combined. His unique ability to connect with people from different countries and backgrounds helped forge agreements and partnerships with physicians and administrators to advance innovations in technology, training, health systems design, and a national cancer registry. What is most striking about his humanitarian efforts is the complexity and scale of the work and results. The comprehensive cancer center that Nelson and his colleagues through Foundation for Cancer Care are developing to serve northern Tanzania includes a chemotherapy program and radiation unit, for which Nelson has been instrumental in the planning, as well as the funding.

"Mike is compassionate and caring, and his involvement has affected more than 15 million people in northern Tanzania," says John Reiling at the Foundation for Cancer Care in Tanzania.

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Kelly Ortberg, 82BSME

2018 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Kelly Ortberg (82BSME) is a visionary and an accomplished business leader who gives back to the university, community, state, and nation in many ways. As CEO of Rockwell Collins, Ortberg's primary goal was to accelerate the company's growth, which he has done organically and with a major acquisition. Under his leadership, Rockwell Collins has been added to the Forbes 500 list with more than $5 billion in annual revenues; has been named one of "America's Best Largest Employers" by Forbes magazine two years in a row; and is the only aerospace and defense company named as one of the "World's Most Ethical Companies" by the Ethisphere Institute.

Ortberg is a strong supporter of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) programs. He takes every opportunity to encourage women and underrepresented minorities to pursue STEM careers. As a key member of the University of Iowa College of Engineering Advisory Board, he helped double undergraduate enrollment with ideas to attract and retain the highest quality students.

His work to advance economic development across Iowa and the country can be seen through the considerable time and energy he devotes to building a STEM-skilled workforce and elevating the nation's global integrity.

"Mr. Ortberg is the epitome of an Iowa success story," says Debi Durham, director of the Iowa Economic Development Authority. "He is someone who has persevered to advance his company, his community, and the people around him."

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Stephen Corbeil, 84MA

2017 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Stephen E. Corbeil, 84MA, is an innovative leader of hospitals and health care systems who has charted a stable course through the industry’s turbulent changes.

During his distinguished career—which began with a role as chief executive officer of a 137-bed regional referral center, just five years after his graduation from the University of Iowa College of Public Health’s master of health administration program—Corbeil has earned a reputation as an inspiring mentor and forward-thinking executive.

For more than 25 years, he has successfully managed multiple health care organizations in numerous cities and states. He has held senior management positions with Tenet Healthcare in St. Louis and the Hospital Corporation of America (HCA) in Nashville. In December 2016, he retired as president of TriStar Health, a division of the HCA comprised of 22 hospitals, nine ambulatory surgery centers, and 275 employed physicians in Tennessee, Georgia, and Kentucky. He now serves as a consultant with HCA, primarily engaged with its executive development program.

“Fundamental changes sweeping the health care arena have required health systems like those under Steve’s direction to develop new business and patient models,” says Sue Curry, the UI’s interim provost and dean of the College of Public Health. “Amid the changes and challenges, Steve has been a steady and strategic guide for the health systems he has served.”

Such guidance included the creation of new business and patient-care models; the integration of patient populations and technologies; and the expansion, renovation, and consolidation of facilities in the various communities served.

Along the way, Corbeil has stayed true to his Hawkeye roots. He is deeply connected to his alma mater, serving on the alumni board for the UI College of Public Health’s Department of Health Management and Policy from 2000 to 2012 and receiving the college’s 2011 Outstanding Alumni Award. He has been active on the college’s campaign committee, and he and his wife, Mary Kay, generously established a fellowship fund for deserving UI master of health administration students.

Corbeil is passionate about nurturing tomorrow’s health care leaders. Not only was he instrumental in developing the HCA’s executive leadership development programs, but he also has been a professional and personal mentor to many UI health management and policy students—and a preceptor for summer interns and post-graduate fellows.

“A familiar HCA saying…is that ‘good people beget good people,’” says R. Milton Johnson, chairman and chief executive officer of the Hospital Corporation of America. “This is clearly evident in Steve’s mentorship of young leaders.”

Corbeil also gives back to his community. A fellow of the American College of Health Care Executives, he has served on numerous boards and service organizations—including the board of trustees for Tennessee State University in Nashville, the Governor’s Foundation for Health in Tennessee, the Federation of American Hospitals, and the American Hospital Association.

With great insight and compassion, Stephen E. Corbeil has helped transform our nation’s health care system and ensured patients’ well-being for years to come.

Corbeil is a member of the UI Alumni Association and the UI Foundation’s Presidents Club.


Phil Currie, 62BA

2017 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Philip R. Currie, 62BA, brought the news to life for countless readers, thanks to his cutting-edge work in the field of journalism and mass communication.

From his earliest days as editor of the University of Iowa’s student newspaper to his later years as senior vice president of news in Gannett’s U.S. publishing division, Currie’s journalistic integrity made him a pacesetter for an entire industry.

“Phil brought forward-thinking practices to the often arcane world of journalism, insisting on professionalism, accuracy, and honesty,” says Michelle Foster, president of Media Management and Marketing and a former colleague of Currie’s. “He strongly believes that a newspaper’s content should reflect the communities it serves, in all their rich diversity.”

Throughout his four decades in the business, Currie pushed for positive changes in news reporting. His emphasis on quality journalism in local communities brought ethical reporting to the fore, and he established criteria for ensuring that newsrooms embraced diversity in their hiring practices.

Such values stem back to his UI educational experiences, which shaped his exemplary career. “I learned the basics of good journalism while attending Iowa—in classes and on the Daily Iowan,” says Currie. “That foundation has served me throughout my career and provided me with the direction to support ethical and balanced reporting and editing.”

An esteemed journalist, Currie directed the coverage of the Attica State Prison riots in Attica, New York, which led to two reporters from the Rochester Times-Union winning a 1971 Pulitzer Prize. Later as a corporate news executive, he went on to craft a pioneering ethics policy for the Gannett newspaper division that prohibited the use of unnamed sources (except in rare circumstances). This policy was the first of its kind in corporate newspaper journalism and became a model for similar policies at other news organizations. Currie also helped lead the transition of Gannett newsrooms from a print- to digital-first emphasis until his retirement in December 2008.

Currie is a staunch defender of the First Amendment, and this commitment has driven his many personal and professional accomplishments. Not only did he focus on fact-based and watchdog journalism during his years with Gannett, but he also has been deeply involved with the Newseum Institute. A national organization based in Washington, D.C., the institute promotes, explains, and defends free expression and the five freedoms of the First Amendment. Currie was appointed to its board of trustees in 2016.

In addition, Currie chaired the American Society for Newspaper Editors’ diversity committee and has served on the advisory boards for the Morgan State University School of Global Journalism and Communication in Baltimore and the Penn State College of Communications. He is also a member of the professional advisory board for the UI School of Journalism and Mass Communication, where he established a student scholarship and was instrumental in raising money for a new facility. The school inducted him into its hall of fame in 2014.

With a passion for strong news coverage, a deep commitment to diversity, and an unwavering belief in First Amendment responsibilities, Philip Currie has made an indelible mark on the nation’s rich journalistic tradition.

Currie is a member of the UI Alumni Association’s Old Capitol Club and the UI Foundation’s Presidents Club.


Steven Davis, 01BS, 03MS

2017 Distinguished Alumni Young Award

Steven Davis, 01BS, 03MS, developed a groundbreaking software program for his master’s thesis that served as the foundation for a thriving company enabling advanced life science research.

The journey began at the University of Iowa, where Davis, the president and co-founder of Bio::Neos, got his professional start. He received academic all-Big Ten honors as a member of the Hawkeye men’s gymnastics team and worked as a research assistant in the College of Engineering’s Coordinated Laboratory for Computational Genomics.

“As a student, Steve was brilliant. His raw intelligence set him apart from his peers from the first time I met him,” says Thomas Casavant, who was Davis’s UI professor and advisor—and now is his business partner. “He started conducting research in high-performance computing, machine intelligence, and genetics while still an undergraduate, and by the time he finished his master’s degree, his thesis software embodied solutions to myriad problems in human genetics research.”

This complex and integrated software system, TrAPPS, lets clinicians and human genetics researchers sift through billions of pieces of information to discover genomic variations that account for hundreds of blinding eye diseases. It also allowed Davis to launch a successful business venture. “I like to create things, whether that means software to help researchers, new jobs, or my business itself,” he says. “I’m motivated to create things that improve our world.”

Davis and his partners, who won the John Pappajohn New Venture Business Plan competition in 2003 and the Storer Entrepreneurial Business competition in 2004, established Bio::Neos, in the Bedell Entrepreneurship Learning Laboratory (BELL)14 years ago.

Today, their company—which is located in the BioVentures Building on Iowa’s Oakdale Campus—writes customized software that allows life sciences companies to analyze large volumes of data. David Conrad, the UI assistant vice president for economic development, says, “Steve’s work is very valuable to researchers inside the University of Iowa and at biotechnology companies across the globe.”

Not only does Bio::Neos benefit researchers, but it also helps students. His firm regularly recruits UI graduates for both internships and full-time positions, and Davis was a charter member of the College of Engineering young alumni advisory board and currently serves as a member of the College of Engineering advisory board.

Davis has shared his story with thousands of UI entrepreneurial students; judged numerous student business plan competitions; and mentored students in the BELL, the UI Venture School, and the Student Accelerator. In addition, he was the main instructor in the Dev/Iowa Bootcamp, a foundational web application development course. He also finds time to teach STEM Innovator curriculum as a Tippie College of Business adjunct lecturer, as well as to serve as an officer of the Hawkeye Endurance Athletic Team, a nonprofit triathlon club that he co-founded.

Through his leadership, hard work, and inspired thinking, Steve Davis has helped pave the way for the game-changing innovators and entrepreneurs who will follow in his footsteps.

Davis is a member of the UI Alumni Association.


Nancy Frank Hauserman, 76JD

2017 Distinguished Faculty Award

Nancy Frank Hauserman, 76JD, spent more than three decades at the University of Iowa as a leader and scholar who invested in worthy causes, created new opportunities, and helped change students’ lives.   

The retired professor, associate dean, and ombudsperson has had a profound effect on the university in all her roles. Throughout her years on campus, she exemplified what it means to be a mentor, an innovator, a feminist, an academic, and an activist.

After finishing law school and working in the legal field, Hauserman accepted a position as a lecturer and visiting professor in what is now the UI Henry B. Tippie College of Business. She became a full professor in 1995 and also took on various leadership roles in the university, including as associate dean of the college’s undergraduate business program. Though she retired in 2013, Hauserman still teaches MBA students in Hong Kong and Italy.

A strong believer in the importance of undergraduate education, Hauserman was instrumental in developing a number of student-focused programs at Tippie, including the Hawkinson Institute for Business Finance, the Tippie Early Admission Program, the Tippie Senate, and the Tippie Young Alumni Board—which became a model for other UI colleges.

Amanda Miller, a 2002 UI business graduate, worked closely with Hauserman as a student in establishing the young alumni board. Miller remains close to her former professor: “I trust her advice. She never tells me which road to take, but instead helps me evaluate the options so I can be confident in my own decision. My hope is that, one day, someone will admire and respect me as much as I do Nancy Hauserman.”

UI graduates such as Miller also have Hauserman to thank for launching the Judith R. Frank Business Communication Center. Named in honor of Hauserman’s mother and funded by her father, this center—one of the first of its kind in the nation—helps undergraduate students improve their writing and public speaking skills.

Such innovative contributions extend beyond the Tippie College of Business. Hauserman also used her expertise in the areas of whistleblowing, women and employment law, and business ethics to play a pivotal part in several research projects for the university’s Council on the Status of Women, which gathered data about incidences of sexual harassment on campus.

Additionally, she was a fellow of the UI Center for Human Rights and served on the Diversity Review Task Force, the Year of the Arts and Humanities steering committee, and the national steering committee for the UI Foundation’s Good. Better. Best. Iowa. fundraising campaign. She currently serves as president of the UI Retirees Association.

For her commendable work at Iowa, Hauserman has received such accolades as the Michael J. Brody Award for Faculty Excellence in Service, the Jean Jew Women’s Rights Award, and the Hancher-Finkbine Medallion.

Karla Miller, former executive director of the UI Rape Victim Advocacy Program, for which Hauserman was a volunteer emergency advocate and board member, says “Nancy strives to live her life by the tenets she teaches others.”

An extraordinary teacher and role model, Nancy Hauserman has helped shape a new generation of business leaders—and an improved University of Iowa community.

Hauserman is a life member of the UI Alumni Association and a member of the UI Foundation’s Presidents Club.


Dan Gable,

2017 Distinguished Faculty Award

Dan Gable is a gold medal-winning Olympic wrestler and former University of Iowa multinational championship head coach who has dramatically elevated American amateur wrestling by becoming the sport’s greatest ambassador.

After going to the mat in Munich in 1972 and famously taking the gold without surrendering a single point, Gable accepted a job as an assistant wrestling coach at the UI. This decision launched his career as the most successful head coach in American collegiate history.

From 1976 to 1997, Gable led the Hawkeyes to 15 NCAA national wrestling titles and 21 Big Ten championship titles. During those years, he coached 152 all-Americans, 45 national champions, 106 Big Ten champions, and 12 Olympians.

“When you finally decide how successful you want to be, you’ve got to set priorities,” says Gable. “In 25 years as a head coach and assistant, I think I might have missed one practice. Why? Because practice was my top priority.”

This ethos guided Gable’s work as an Olympic head coach on three different occasions—in 1980, 1984, and 2000. His 1984 Olympic team, which featured four Hawkeye wrestlers, won seven gold medals. He also served as head coach of the World Team for six different years.

“The UI has been blessed with many outstanding faculty, staff, and students who have been national, and even international, icons in their endeavors,” says UI Athletics Director Gary Barta. “Such is the case with Dan Gable and wrestling. He stands in his own class.”

Gable has been the subject of several ESPN and HBO documentaries, and has been named to the U.S.A. Wrestling Hall of Fame, the U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame, and the National Wrestling Hall of Fame. In June 2002, President George Bush appointed him to the President’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports.

Recent accolades include being named top wrestler of the 20th century by Gannett News Service and one of ESPN’s top coaches of the 20th century. In 1996, Gable made the list of “100 Golden Olympians,” which honors the top 100 U.S. Olympians of all time, and during the 2012 Olympic Games, he was inducted into the elite FILA Hall of Fame Legends of the Sport. In 2015, Gable added New York Times best-selling author to his impressive résumé with the publication of his memoir, A Wrestling Life: The Inspiring Stories of Dan Gable. From his childhood in Waterloo to the pressures of the Olympic stage to coaching the Brands brothers, Gable offers an intimate glimpse into his personal life—including the people and experiences that shaped his indomitable, resilient spirit.

When the International Olympic Committee decided in 2013 to drop wrestling as one of the core sports of the 2020 Olympics, Gable was instrumental in reversing the decision later that year.

“Dan Gable’s name works magic in many circles…and carries with it his enduring association with the University of Iowa,” says Mike Chapman, a former sports editor of the Gazette in Cedar Rapids.

Thanks to Dan Gable’s uncompromising talent and grit, both on and off the mat, Iowa’s most successful coach has become a legend in the world of wrestling.


Kevin Gruneich, 80BBA

2017 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

Kevin Gruneich, 80BBA, was able to attend college thanks in part to others’ generosity, and now he uses his own Wall Street success to help hundreds of University of Iowa students pursue their dreams.

Known as one of the top publishing analysts in the world, Gruneich retired in 2004 from a senior leadership role at the Bear Stearns Companies. However, he remains actively engaged in private business ventures and serves on several corporate and philanthropic boards. He and his wife also administer the Kevin and Donna Gruneich Charitable Foundation, which focuses on education, religion, and environmental protection—and on helping the underprivileged.

The Park City, Utah, resident, who earned an M.B.A. degree in finance from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, got his start in finance and industrial relations at the UI. “The undergraduate years are so important,” he says. “What one experiences, learns, and practices during college…is key to attaining life goals.”

This belief is what has inspired Gruneich to help open doors for students at Iowa. The Gruneichs’ foundation helped fund the UI’s new business hub, a study center now under construction at the Henry B. Tippie College of Business. For the past 11 years, Gruneich has also been instrumental in underwriting the Iowa Edge—a program that provides orientation, programming, community building, and counseling support for Iowa’s minority and first-generation college students.

“Like Kevin Gruneich, I did not have any big advantages growing up,” says Jose Diaz, a student at the Tippie College of Business, who graduates this year and will work for J.P. Morgan Chase & Company. “With the help of the Iowa Edge program, I submerged myself in the UI’s wonderful culture and became heavily involved with student organizations. My parents, who never went past the sixth grade, still can’t believe the strides that one generation in our family has made through the help of Iowa and Kevin Gruneich.”

Gruneich has helped students such as Diaz attend college and has inspired a new generation of philanthropically minded graduates. Gruneich played a key role in launching and underwriting the Fundraising and Philanthropy Certificate Program in the UI School of Journalism and Mass Communication. This program, one of the few undergraduate philanthropy studies programs in the nation, helps students from all majors prepare for careers—and leadership roles—in the nonprofit sector.

“I am just beginning to return the investment others have made in me,” Gruneich explains. “I believe the students I help will eventually be there to help others, creating a virtuous cycle that will improve the university, the state, and society as a whole.”

In addition to his work in nurturing and mentoring students, Gruneich also has been a member of the University of Iowa Foundation’s board of directors since 2006 and serves on its investment committee.

In all that he does, both personally and professionally, Kevin Gruneich demonstrates a deep understanding of the power of philanthropy—and the importance of “paying it forward” for University of Iowa students.

Gruneich is a life member of the UI Alumni Association and a member of the UI Foundation’s Presidents Club.


James Hayes, 64JD

2017 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

James “Jim” P. Hayes, 64JD, has tirelessly pursued a vision to keep renowned American Gothic artist Grant Wood’s legacy alive at the University of Iowa—and far beyond.

A highly regarded attorney and passionate arts advocate, Hayes has dedicated himself to ensuring a better understanding of, and appreciation for, Iowa’s most famous artist. And Hayes’s quest has brought a vital community back to life on the UI campus.

The Grant Wood Art Colony grew out of Hayes’s purchase of a house at 1142 East Court Street in Iowa City in 1975. This landmark residence was Grant Wood’s home while the artist was on faculty at the University of Iowa, and as Hayes worked to restore the historic property, he began to imagine a way to honor Wood’s “Iowa Idea” of connecting studio artists and art history scholars.

In partnership with the UI College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and the School of Art and Art History, Hayes turned his brainchild into reality in 2011, and today, he serves as chair of the colony’s national board of advisors. The Grant Wood Art Colony nurtures creative work and teaching in disciplines associated with Wood, including studio and performance art and art history. It brings Grant Wood Fellows—artists-in-residence—to the School of Art and Art History, the Department of Theatre Arts, and the Department of Music, and it also hosts a biannual Grant Wood symposium and state outreach efforts.

“This community of artists and scholars has become a major force, with artistic energy and global reach,” says Sean O’Harrow, who is the former director of the UI Museum of Art and current director of the Honolulu Museum of Art.

To help ensure a lasting home for the colony, Hayes—who envisions a vibrant cultural hub of interconnected living quarters, studios, and gardens—plans to bequeath his residence and its four surrounding properties to the university, upon his death. “It is my wish that it be a cultural center…a living place of activity, of people talking and doing things and meeting one another,” says Hayes. “That’s what it is now, and that’s what I’d like it to continue to be.”

His path from UI student to benefactor included roles as the Iowa deputy commissioner of public safety and as the first director of the Iowa Crime Commission. He also worked with Meardon, Sueppel, Downer, and Hayes before going on in 1999 to establish his own firm, Hayes Lorenzen Lawyers.

Throughout these career changes, Hayes has remained deeply invested in Iowa. He serves on the university’s Realizing Educational and Career Hopes (REACH) advisory board, which helps students with cognitive and intellectual disabilities learn to live independently. He also has filled multiple volunteer roles for the UI Museum of Art, serving on its advisory, building, and envisioning committees, as well as on its members council.

Like the artist and UI faculty member who inspired him, Jim Hayes has used his time and talent to create a vibrant artistic community here that will enrich the student experience for generations to come.  

Hayes is a member of the UI Alumni Association’s Old Capitol Club and the UI Foundation’s Presidents Club.


Nancy Humbles, 97MA

2017 Distinguished Faculty Award

Nancy J. Humbles, 97MA, has been a strong advocate for diversity and equity at the University of Iowa, and she helped forge new paths for students of color and other underrepresented groups on campus.

As the founding creator and retired director of the UI Center for Diversity and Enrichment, Humbles was instrumental in establishing programs that provide a welcoming climate for students, faculty, and staff from marginalized communities. She also fostered meaningful personal connections with students who were navigating the ins and outs of college for the first time.

“Nancy had a keen ability to connect with individual students,” says John Laverty, a senior associate director of the UI Office of Admissions. “She helped them succeed, and she took many of them under her wing, without fanfare, to help them maximize their personal potential and keep moving forward each day.”

Such guidance came naturally to Humbles, who earned a master’s degree in student development in postsecondary education from the UI College of Education while working at Iowa.

She first joined the UI in 1990 as an academic planning counselor in Special Support Services and then as an advisor in the UI Henry B. Tippie College of Business. As the assistant director of advising at Tippie, she developed the Student Incentive Program, a summer program for minority and first-generation students. She also served as multicultural affairs coordinator and interim program coordinator for Opportunity at Iowa.

In 2007, Humbles became the director of the UI Center for Diversity and Enrichment. “That is my favorite UI memory because it validated all of my hard work,” she says. In this role, she coordinated outreach opportunities and resources for underserved students from diverse backgrounds, including students of color, first-generation college students, and students from low-income families.

Tevin Robbins was one such student—and credits Humbles with helping to shape who he is today. Robbins was an Advantage Iowa Scholar and a single-parent student at Iowa; now he is the assistant director for student leadership development at Tippie—and he says Humbles made that possible. “The impact she made on my life could never be repaid,” says Robbins. “She pushed me to pursue graduate school, and she even persuaded me to join her in her field, serving college students.”

Since retiring from the UI in 2015, Humbles has widened her reach as a community volunteer. She was elected as the first African American to serve on the Cedar Rapids Community School District Board of Education in 2009 and was re-elected in 2013. She is president of the Area Substance Abuse Council, volunteers on the United Way Healthy Solutions committee, co-chairs the African American Museum of Iowa’s History Makers Gala, and serves as the finance chair at Fellowship Missionary Baptist Church in Cedar Rapids. Humbles also previously co-chaired the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Freedom Fund Banquet and served as a board member for Four Oaks in Cedar Rapids, president of the Jane Boyd Community House in Cedar Rapids, and president of the UI African American Council.

Through her steady guidance and unwavering belief in personal potential, Nancy Humbles has helped countless University of Iowa students achieve their academic dreams.


Phillip Mayberry, 67BSIE

2017 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

Phillip O. Mayberry, 67BSIE, is a true Hawkeye, through and through, and he has channeled his passion for the University of Iowa into a lifetime of good works on its behalf.

When Mayberry first arrived on the UI campus—following in his siblings’ footsteps—he made a conscious decision to take full advantage of the student experience. He attended everything from football games and lectures to dances at the Iowa Memorial Union. He also worked in the residence halls and in his fraternity house to help cover the costs of attending the UI College of Engineering.

After graduating from Iowa with a degree in industrial engineering, Mayberry landed a position as a sales engineer with Fisher Controls Company, and he later joined Emerson Process Management in Marshalltown, Iowa. Though he recently retired from Emerson as vice president of sales-marquee accounts, he continues to work part-time for the company as director of customer events.

Mayberry’s early lessons in networking and engagement are what keep him so involved with the university now. He has been on the UI College of Engineering advisory board since 2000 and was a key member of its enrollment management committee, which helped the college dramatically increase its numbers. Mayberry also plays a key role in helping recruit new students to the college.

“Phil is consistently a positive and enthusiastic supporter of the university and college—and a tremendous ambassador,” says Robert E. Kress, a partner at Accenture who chairs the UI College of Engineering’s advisory board. “When students are considering Iowa for engineering, he is supportive and explains the strengths of the college. He has maintained relationships with many of these students he helped recruit, and he provides career guidance and mentoring.”

Not only does Mayberry serve as a mentor for students, but he also helps some of them attend college, thanks to the Phillip O. Mayberry Engineering Scholarship for deserving undergraduate students from the state of Iowa.

His commitment to supporting new Hawkeyes extends beyond the College of Engineering. Mayberry is an avid fan of UI athletics, and as the longtime president of the Marshall County I-Club, he has organized many large annual spring banquets and inspired two of his friends to establish fully endowed scholarships for Hawkeye student-athletes.

In addition, Mayberry has secured generous sponsorship support for the Polk County I-Club Senior Dinner in Des Moines—an annual event that helps Hawkeye student-athletes connect with business leaders from throughout the state. He is also a past member of the UI Alumni Association’s board of directors.

Such efforts earned Mayberry the 2004 Volunteer of the Year Award from the National I-Club—and a recent nomination to the National I-Club board of directors. “Phil is one of the most animated ‘Go, Hawks’ cheerleaders for student-athletes, coaches, and the entire Hawkeye nation,” says Alec Scranton, dean of the UI College of Engineering. “He has defined the very meaning of ‘service’ for his alma mater.”

From one-time student to successful volunteer, Phil Mayberry has helped ensure that the University of Iowa remains a vibrant and welcoming place.

Mayberry is a member of the UI Alumni Association’s Old Capitol Club and the UI Foundation’s Presidents Club.

 


Vince Nelson,

2017 Distinguished Alumni Friend Award

Vince Nelson is an enthusiastic University of Iowa champion who shared the Hawkeye spirit with countless alumni and friends during his 26 years at the helm of the UI Alumni Association (UIAA).

Under his leadership, the UIAA thrived, growing its membership to an all-time high of more than 52,000 and introducing programs that reflected Nelson’s deep passion for Iowa. Although he spent 20 years at Drake University in Des Moines—first as a student and then as a faculty member and director of alumni relations—Nelson devoted the bulk of his career to the UI, and he was its loyal promoter.

In 1997, UI President Mary Sue Coleman appointed Nelson as executive director of the UIAA, following his 18-month stint as interim executive director. “Vince was the kind of leader who was enormously important for a strong and effective association,” says Coleman. “He worked to reflect the voice of the alumni, but he also clearly understood that the university has many constituencies.”

Nelson found innovative ways to connect with these many groups. When he joined the UIAA, its IOWA Clubs did not yet exist; however, within months, he had helped establish several in Iowa and surrounding states. Today, the clubs are among the most popular of the UIAA’s programs, celebrating the Hawkeyes in 53 U.S. cities and 15 international locations.

“The familiar slogan, ‘Once a Hawkeye, Always a Hawkeye,’ which so resonates with Hawkeye fans around the country, can be traced directly to Vince Nelson and his relentless and enthusiastic support for the University of Iowa,” says Ron Steele, a past chair of the UIAA board. “He always focused on improving the relationship between the university and its alumni.”

Nelson, whose title changed from executive director to president in 2001, helped usher in a number of new programs and initiatives, including volunteer service trips through Iowa Voyagers and the Students Today, Alumni Tomorrow organization (now known as the Future Alumni Network). He also forged stronger links between the UIAA and its campus partners, including the colleges and UI Athletics.

In his time at the UIAA, Nelson oversaw the growth of the organization’s annual budget from $2.1 million to $3.3 million, and he increased its staff from 18 to 27. The alumni association also won 33 national awards from the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (CASE)—including the prestigious CASE national gold medal for overall alumni relations—during his tenure. Nelson was a member of CASE, Big Ten Alumni Executives, and the Council of Alumni Association Executives (CAAE).

As UIAA president, Nelson hosted numerous UI Homecoming programs, in addition to a variety of alumni events and Hawkeye Huddles across the country. “I valued the opportunity to meet so many wonderful alumni and friends of the university through all of our programs,” says Nelson, who retired in 2014. “I will always be proud to wear the black and gold and to embrace the history and heritage of this great institution.”

Through his energy, humor, and hard work, Vince Nelson ensured that the UI Alumni Association was a trusted partner for the University of Iowa—and a true friend to legions of Hawkeye fans.

Nelson is a member of the UI Alumni Association’s Directors’ Club Honors Circle and the UI Foundation’s Presidents Club.


Margaret O'Connor Stessman, 84BSN 12MBA

2017 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Margaret “Peg” O’Connor Stessman, 84BS 12MBA, has used her nursing skills and hard-won business acumen to create a company that combats fraud and waste within the Medicare and Medicaid system.

The savvy entrepreneur is founder, CEO, and chair of StrategicHealthSolutions, a business that was born in 1997 and came fully to life in 2005. Today, Stessman has grown her firm to encompass two locations, in Nebraska and Maryland, and 250 employees—with revenues of $40 million.

Stessman’s start-up success began with her nursing degree at the University of Iowa, which set her on the path to a career as a nurse and hospital administrator. She eventually took on the role of a quality assurance administrator for the state of Nebraska, overseeing its Medicaid Managed Care Program, and went on to join IntegriGuard in 1999, moving up through its ranks to become CEO.

Her decision to launch a business prompted Stessman to return to her alma mater for an MBA degree. The two-time UI graduate is also a loyal Hawkeye athletics fan dedicated to both of her colleges. She is a member of the Tippie Advisory Board and offers critical counsel to the Henry B. Tippie College of Business dean. Says Stessman: “Receiving a portion of my education from Tippie, and now having a hand in guiding its future, is a great honor for me.”

Stessman has created hands-on projects for students in the MBA Business Solutions Center and has spoken to both UI business and nursing students. She was the keynote speaker at the 2012 Women in Business Leadership Conference, as well as a panelist at #TippieWomen Summit.

“Peg provides generous financial support to both of her UI colleges, but for the CEO of a successful start-up company, time is more valuable than money,” says Tippie Dean Sarah Gardial. “Peg’s true measure of loyalty to the UI is her gift of engagement.”

This ability to connect with and mentor others is one of Stessman’s greatest talents. Not only does she apply it in her own business, establishing a “CEO Chat” program that allows employees to meet with her informally, but she also uses it in her many civic roles. She is deeply involved with the Omaha Salvation Army Kettle Club and served on the board of directors of the Nebraska chapter of the Entrepreneurs Organization (EO).

“Peg’s willingness to share both her accomplishments and struggles has helped the business owners in our forum,” says Chris Andersen, EO member and SunCo president. “Being an entrepreneur can be a lonely job, but Peg made me feel like I wasn’t alone.”

Stessman also knows how to rally others to worthy causes. She and her husband, Dennis, have established a trust that matches employee donations to the charities of their choice. To date, more than 100 charities have been supported through this program. She has served on the Salvation Army’s Tree of Lights Cabinet, participates in the Salvation Army’s Adopt-a-Family program, and donated jerseys to a local basketball team.

Whether she is supporting local initiatives, giving back to her alma mater, or working alongside colleagues, Peg Stessman brings the best of both her UI degrees to the business of being a leader.

Stessman is a member of the UI Alumni Association’s Old Capitol Club and the UI Foundation’s Presidents Club.


V.C. Patel,

2017 Distinguished Faculty Award

V.C. Patel is a world-renowned engineering professor who profoundly influenced the field of fluid mechanics—and the lives of his University of Iowa students.

Born in Kenya and educated at London and Cambridge Universities, Patel arrived at the UI in 1971 and quickly established himself as one of the leading experts in hydraulics and computer simulation. He became a full professor in the College of Engineering in 1975, and his expertise in boundary-layer theory, turbulent shear flows, wind engineering, and ship hydrodynamics helped Iowa take the lead in solving crucial fluids-engineering problems.

Throughout his four decades on campus, Patel also filled a number of important administrative roles during critical junctures in the college’s history. He was the departmental officer of mechanical engineering, director of the Center for Computer Aided Design (CCAD), director of IIHR—Hydroscience and Engineering, and chair of the Engineering Faculty Council.

His most significant of these positions was his directorship of IIHR, a highly regarded center for education, research, and public service focused on hydraulic engineering and fluid mechanics. During a decade of leadership, Patel implemented many forward-looking changes.

“V.C. ushered IIHR into the 21st century,” says Larry Weber, IIHR’s current director. “He also oversaw the creation of a new research station on the Mississippi River and initiated a study-abroad class, ‘International Perspectives in Water Resources Planning.’ His changes laid the groundwork for the broad-based, diverse research that now characterizes IIHR.”

In spite of his many administrative duties, Patel still found time to work closely with students, and he supervised 32 doctoral students who completed their degrees. “His former graduate students have filled the campuses of the most prestigious universities worldwide,” says Karim Abdel-Malek, UI engineering professor and director of the Center for Computer-Aided Design. “The most extraordinary and remarkable observation is that V.C. has remained in touch with almost all of his previous students.”

Patel is a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and an associate fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, as well as a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, the American Society of Engineering Education, and the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers. He has authored or co-authored four books and more than 200 publications, and has presented at nearly 200 lectures and seminars. He was a United Nations consultant in India from 1992 to 1994, and in 1995, he was a USAID consultant to Egypt.

Such accomplishments earned Patel numerous awards and honors, both off campus and on. He became a UI Foundation Distinguished Professor in 1990 and the Edwin B. Green Chair in Hydraulics in 2000. He also received an honorary doctorate from the Technical University of Civil Engineering in Bucharest, Romania—among many international honors—and was one of three UI recipients of the 1994 Iowa Regents Faculty Excellence Awards. He retired from the UI in 2007.

A quintessential academic leader and mentor, V.C. Patel’s globally important work has guided aspiring engineers and enhanced the University of Iowa’s distinguished reputation.


Rosebud Roberts, 90MS

2017 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Rosebud Roberts, 90MS, is a highly regarded scientist whose pioneering research in the field of dementia and mild cognitive impairment could benefit millions worldwide who suffer from such conditions.

The professor of epidemiology and neurology and chair of the division of epidemiology has spent more than 20 years at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, but she began her career far from there, in her home country of Ghana. She earned a medical degree from the University of Ghana Medical School in 1982 and then completed a master’s degree in preventive medicine and environmental health in 1990 at the University of Iowa.

Roberts’ work has had a profound impact on clinical care and national decision-making related to aging and cognitive impairment. She studies how specific diseases—such as diabetes, hypertension, smoking, heart disease, and high cholesterol—and dietary habits might affect the risks of developing mild cognitive impairment and dementia.

“Anything that is worth doing is worth doing well,” she says. “I’m driven by a desire for my research to make a difference in people's lives.”

A highly published scholar and dedicated mentor, Roberts has been author or co-author of more than 160 peer-reviewed publications and has influenced the careers of numerous graduate students, research and clinical fellows, and junior faculty. She has served as a reviewer for several medical journals and has presented at dozens of national and international meetings. In addition, she has served on study sections of the National Institutes of Health and the Department of Defense, as a member of the American Academy of Neurology Science Committee, and as associate editor of the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease.

Colleague and fellow physician Ronald Petersen has worked with Roberts since 2004, when she joined the Mayo Clinic Study of Aging as its epidemiologist. He says that “she was instrumental in the design of the study protocols, and her continued involvement has been crucial to the overall success of the study. Her work is highly respected and frequently cited by investigators in the field.”

Such impressive contributions have earned Roberts recognition throughout her career. In 1981, she received the University of Ghana Medical School Award for an elective in internal medicine at the Royal Victoria Infirmary at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England. She was the recipient of the Kellogg Fellowship at the UI in 1989, and in 2015, she received the UI College of Public Health’s Outstanding Alumni Award and also was inducted into the Delta Omega Honorary Society in Public Health.

Beyond such professional accolades, Roberts also is an active member of her local community. She acted as a Rochester, Minnesota, facilitator for the American Anthropological Association’s project RACE: Are We So Different? and routinely presents her own research to seniors in the area.

“[Roberts’] humility and scholarly attitude make her a role model for all of us,” says Peterson. “She is a prime example of the type of scholar one expects from the University of Iowa.”

From Ghana to the Midwest, Rosebud Roberts has found meaningful ways to enhance medical scholarship, and she continues to conduct first-rate research that can dramatically improve people’s lives.

Roberts is a member of the UI Alumni Association’s Old Capitol Club.


Doug True, 71BS

2017 Distinguished Faculty Award

Doug True, 71BS, has a head for numbers and a steady hand, and he used these talents to expertly guide the University of Iowa for 27 years—most notably through the devastating flood of 2008.

Throughout his exceptional career, True played a crucial role in managing the university’s finances and advising four presidents and three interim presidents. He also provided leadership and counsel to thousands of UI employees and helped new collegiate deans effectively navigate the campus culture.

“There was no better employer than the UI,” says True. “Where else can a person serve students, patients, and faculty, all in one place?”

He managed to do all of that—and more—during his UI tenure. After graduating from Iowa with a degree in chemistry, True earned a master’s degree in business administration from Drake University. He then worked for the Board of Regents, State of Iowa, before returning to the UI campus in 1988 as treasurer. True quickly rose to the position of vice president for finance and operations in 1991 and senior vice president and university treasurer in 2005.

“For Doug True, stepping onto campus always felt like coming home,” says UI Foundation President Lynette Marshall. “He eagerly anticipated each new project and relished the opportunity to advance the university through innovative initiatives.”

This was especially true of his work in the aftermath of the flood of 2008, one of the most challenging economic periods in UI history. He was instrumental in helping to rebuild campus and partnered closely with insurers, as well as state and federal officials, to advance major building renovations and replace those facilities damaged by the floods.

“Doug earned the deepest respect from his colleagues during the crisis of the flood in 2008,” says P. Barry Butler, former UI executive vice president and provost. “His subsequent oversight of the recovery has resulted in the UI having one of the finest campuses in the country.”

True also helped guide the UI Foundation, becoming a charter member of the joint UI and UI Foundation development committee and serving on the search committee for UI Foundation President Lynette Marshall. He is a generous UI philanthropist, and following his retirement in 2015, the chemistry department named its building’s entrance in his honor.
After his retirement, True accepted a special one-year assignment as an advisor for UI flood recovery and investments. This position allowed him to assist university leaders in transition.

“Doug has provided the UI with decades of fiscal integrity, informed vision, essential continuity, and unmatched commitment,” says UI President Emerita Sally Mason, who worked closely with True during Iowa’s flood recovery efforts. “He has deep institutional knowledge, a sharp mind, and wise counsel.”

Thanks to his innate wisdom, financial acumen, and exceptional loyalty, Doug True helped the University of Iowa flourish during a time of great challenge and opportunity.

True is a member of the UI Alumni Association’s Old Capitol Club and the UI Foundation’s Presidents Club.


Thomas Wickham Jr., 90BA, 94JD

2017 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

Thomas J. Wickham Jr., 90BA, 94JD, is only the fifth person since 1928 to sit to the right of the Speaker of the House and advise lawmakers on procedural matters and precedent when the United States House of Representatives is in session.

As parliamentarian of the U.S. House of Representatives, Wickham is central to the working of the government, and he brings his University of Iowa experiences to bear in providing nonpartisan advice to members of Congress. He also responds year-round to legislative inquiries from committees working on bills.

Former Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH) appointed Wickham to this important role in 2012, though the UI attorney first joined the parliamentarian’s office in 1995 and became deputy parliamentarian in 2005.

Throughout his 22 years on the job, Wickham has worked with five Speakers of the House. One of the biggest challenges of his position is to maintain neutrality—and in turn gain the trust of the representatives. However, Wickham has a reputation on both sides of the aisle for fairness.

“Tom’s role is to guide members of Congress through the processes of the House without prejudice,” says Nicole Gustafson, a UI graduate who worked with Wickham in Congress. “He is known throughout the Capitol as a fair arbiter and advisor who closely guards the traditions of the House with integrity and a quick wit. He performs his job under immense pressure, often called upon to make a split-second decision that will have a lasting impact.”

The Office of the Parliamentarian consists of six attorneys and three clerks, and the parliamentarian must be present on the floor at all times while the House is in session. Wickham frequently works 10- to 15-hour days during these periods, and when the House is not in session, he and his team continue to research procedural issues and compile parliamentary precedents.

“I get to work with my counterparts in other countries, and I see what a leader the U.S. is around the globe. Many countries use our system as a model, and that’s an inspiration to me,” says Wickham, who is passionate about civic education.

When he has the time, Wickham takes students on tours of the Capitol and works with interns from the Washington Center, a program in which he participated as a UI student. He also conducts seminars with the military’s National Defense University.

“Many law schools boast about their federal judges or members of Congress. Only one school gets the honor of having an alum as parliamentarian,” says Jill DeYoung, assistant dean and chief of staff for the UI College of Law. The college recognized Wickham for his commitment to his country by awarding him the 2014 Iowa Law Alumni Award for Service.

Eric Witte, longtime chief of staff to Congressman Dave Loebsack (D IA-2), says of Wickham, “Having an Iowan with his finger on the pulse of how the House operates has been invaluable. Having someone with Iowa kindness is even better.”

His “Iowa kindness” and UI experiences have helped Thomas Wickham Jr. navigate one of the government’s most demanding roles with exceptional skill and diplomacy.

Wickham is a member of the UI Alumni Association’s Old Capitol Club.


Mary A. Anderson Blegen, 75MA, 87PhD

2016 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Mary A. Anderson Blegen, 75MA, 87PhD, is an internationally known nurse scientist and educator who has helped transform patient care in hospital settings.

Throughout her distinguished career, Blegen earned a reputation as an inspiring mentor for other academics—and as a forward-thinking researcher in nursing quality, safety, and workforce studies.

Her focus on hospital safety predated the publication of the Institute of Medicine's landmark 2000 study, To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System. "She was definitely ahead of the curve," says Rita Frantz, dean of the University of Iowa College of Nursing. "This is truly indicative of the innovative thinking and exemplary abilities that Dr. Blegen has consistently demonstrated."

An adjunct professor at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center's School of Nursing, a professor emerita of the University of California School of Nursing in San Francisco, and a fellow of the American Academy of Nursing, Blegen has a deep understanding of the role that clinical nurses play in ensuring positive patient outcomes.

"This is truly indicative of the innovative thinking and exemplary abilities that Dr. Blegen has consistently demonstrated."

After earning a B.A. degree in nursing from Augustana College and two UI degrees—a master's in nursing and a doctorate in sociology—Blegen launched a comprehensive research program that still guides the efforts of hospitals across the country. Her research, which focuses on nurse staffing, working conditions, safety climate, and interdisciplinary teamwork, uses patient outcomes to determine the effectiveness of health care processes.

She began this important work during her years as a professor in the UI College of Nursing, where she served as assistant professor, associate professor, chair of theory and health promotion, and associate dean for academic affairs, before accepting a position at the University of Colorado.

Blegen has received more than $10 million in research funding, and she is a prolific author, with more than 100 publications to her credit. For several decades, her paper, Meta-Analysis on Nurse Job Satisfaction, was the 15th-most cited in both national and international nursing journals, and another of her publications, Nurse Staffing and Patient Outcomes, was the 22nd-most cited.

In addition, Blegen has been a member of the editorial board for Nursing Research, the profession's most prestigious research journal, and has lectured internationally—even serving as a visiting professor at the Institute for Nursing Science at the University of Basel in Switzerland. She's received numerous awards, including the UI Collegiate Teaching Award and the Nurse Researcher Award from the American Organization of Nurse Executives. She's also a leader for several health care organizations, including the Research Advisory Council for the Patient Outcomes Research Institute.

Blegen credits such achievements to her outstanding UI education. "I still remember walking across the UI campus and realizing that I was at a really great university," she says. "Neither of my parents even had the opportunity to finish high school. For me to go to college, and then graduate school, was a magnificent gift."

Without doubt, such gifts helped Mary A. Anderson Blegen save patients' lives and make groundbreaking strides to improve care in hospital settings.


Dale Baker, 68BBA

2016 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

Dale Baker, 68BBA, and Linda Ihrke Baker, 68BA, are longtime University of Iowa advocates who have used their achievements in the areas of health care and education to create life-changing opportunities for UI students and faculty.

After going on a blind date as first-year students to a Hawkeye men’s basketball game, the Bakers went on to graduate from the UI in 1968—Dale with a B.B.A. degree in business administration and accounting, and Linda with a B.A. degree in English and a certification in secondary education. They married just a few months after graduation.

Dale Baker enjoyed a successful career in public accounting at Ernst & Young, where he rose to partner before taking the entrepreneurial plunge. In 1990, he founded Baker Healthcare Consulting, which specializes in Medicare payment strategies. He also has consulted with members of Congress on a variety of health care issues and worked as a federal lobbyist.

Driven by a desire to help others, Linda Baker pursued community and children’s services opportunities, working as a preschool teacher for a United Way agency, as a middle school teacher, as an investigative reporter for a local consumer magazine, and spent 19 years working in an elementary school library.

"Their example of providing financial support for the next generation of students is inspirational."

Since their years at the UI, the Bakers have remained linked to their alma mater through acts of volunteerism and altruism. "Both Dale and Linda are role models of service and philanthropy for today's students," says Sarah Gardial, dean of the UI Henry B. Tippie College of Business. "Their example of providing financial support for the next generation of students is inspirational."

Together, the Bakers have invested in a variety of UI programs and initiatives. Among their numerous and noteworthy gifts are three unrestricted funds to support the Tippie College of Business and the Colleges of Education and Public Health, as well as the Dr. Ken Magid Child Advocacy Service Scholarship Fund, which memorializes Linda Baker’s former teacher and mentor. This fund helps UI students cover expenses related to volunteer service-learning opportunities in Romania, Ecuador, and Cuba. Additionally, the Bakers support the Linda R. Baker Teacher Leader Center and an initiative that donates iPads to incoming students in the College of Education.

In spring 2005, Linda Baker spent three weeks volunteering in a Romanian orphanage through the UI Alumni Association's Iowa Voyagers program. The experience moved her to establish a scholarship through the UIAA for UI students to have similar opportunities.

The Bakers—who both have traveled extensively, including on trips to Russia and Jordan through People-to-People Global Peace Initiatives—embrace this spirit of giving in all they do. Dale Baker is a member of the UI Foundation's board of directors, and Linda Baker served on the UI Alumni Association's board. The two also serve as co-chairs of the UI Alumni Association's fundraising campaign. They are ardent Hawkeye fans, and, as Dale Baker says, their UI experiences "actually never ended" because of the "cherished lifelong friends" they have made during their college days and years as volunteers and donors.

Linda Baker's father once told her, "When you're able, help out other students," and Dale and Linda Baker have used their deep and meaningful University of Iowa connections to do just that.

The Bakers are members of the UI Alumni Association's Directors’ Club Honors Circle and the UI Foundation's Presidents Club.


Linda Ihrke Baker, 68BA

2016 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

Dale Baker, 68BBA, and Linda Ihrke Baker, 68BA, are longtime University of Iowa advocates who have used their achievements in the areas of health care and education to create life-changing opportunities for UI students and faculty.

After going on a blind date as first-year students to a Hawkeye men’s basketball game, the Bakers went on to graduate from the UI in 1968—Dale with a B.B.A. degree in business administration and accounting, and Linda with a B.A. degree in English and a certification in secondary education. They married just a few months after graduation.

Dale Baker enjoyed a successful career in public accounting at Ernst & Young, where he rose to partner before taking the entrepreneurial plunge. In 1990, he founded Baker Healthcare Consulting, which specializes in Medicare payment strategies. He also has consulted with members of Congress on a variety of health care issues and worked as a federal lobbyist.

Driven by a desire to help others, Linda Baker pursued community and children’s services opportunities, working as a preschool teacher for a United Way agency, as a middle school teacher, as an investigative reporter for a local consumer magazine, and spent 19 years working in an elementary school library.

"Their example of providing financial support for the next generation of students is inspirational."

Since their years at the UI, the Bakers have remained linked to their alma mater through acts of volunteerism and altruism. "Both Dale and Linda are role models of service and philanthropy for today's students," says Sarah Gardial, dean of the UI Henry B. Tippie College of Business. "Their example of providing financial support for the next generation of students is inspirational."

Together, the Bakers have invested in a variety of UI programs and initiatives. Among their numerous and noteworthy gifts are three unrestricted funds to support the Tippie College of Business and the Colleges of Education and Public Health, as well as the Dr. Ken Magid Child Advocacy Service Scholarship Fund, which memorializes Linda Baker’s former teacher and mentor. This fund helps UI students cover expenses related to volunteer service-learning opportunities in Romania, Ecuador, and Cuba. Additionally, the Bakers support the Linda R. Baker Teacher Leader Center and an initiative that donates iPads to incoming students in the College of Education.

In spring 2005, Linda Baker spent three weeks volunteering in a Romanian orphanage through the UI Alumni Association's Iowa Voyagers program. The experience moved her to establish a scholarship through the UIAA for UI students to have similar opportunities.

The Bakers—who both have traveled extensively, including on trips to Russia and Jordan through People-to-People Global Peace Initiatives—embrace this spirit of giving in all they do. Dale Baker is a member of the UI Foundation's board of directors, and Linda Baker served on the UI Alumni Association's board. The two also serve as co-chairs of the UI Alumni Association's fundraising campaign. They are ardent Hawkeye fans, and, as Dale Baker says, their UI experiences "actually never ended" because of the "cherished lifelong friends" they have made during their college days and years as volunteers and donors.

Linda Baker's father once told her, "When you're able, help out other students," and Dale and Linda Baker have used their deep and meaningful University of Iowa connections to do just that.

The Bakers are members of the UI Alumni Association's Directors’ Club Honors Circle and the UI Foundation's Presidents Club.


Gary Fethke, 64BA, 68PhD

2016 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

Gary Fethke, 64BA, 68PhD, is a longstanding University of Iowa leader whose passion for excellence, commitment to business education, and steadfast loyalty transformed the Henry B. Tippie College of Business and wider university community.

Throughout his tenure at Iowa, Fethke held several positions, including faculty member, senior associate dean, dean, and interim president. Never satisfied with the status quo, he used each of these roles to advance the university's people and programs.

Fethke began his UI career as a student, earning a B.A. degree and a Ph.D. degree in economics. Although he spent a few years away from campus after graduation—teaching at Bradley University—he returned to Iowa in 1974 as a business faculty member. His research focused on macroeconomics and monetary economics.

In the years ahead, he bridged the world between teaching and management, becoming the Tippie College of Business's senior associate dean in 1989 and dean in 1994. His strategic thinking and bold vision enhanced business education at Iowa and helped ensure the UI's place within the international academic community.

"Gary was always willing to consider a fresh look and a new approach to create a better university."

As dean, Fethke launched initiatives and programs that remain points of pride for the college. Not only did he foster a teaching environment focused on excellence, but he also helped expand and develop various MBA programs, including the evening MBA programs in Newton and Des Moines and the Tippie International MBA program in Hong Kong. Additionally, he oversaw the establishment of the John Pappajohn Entrepreneurial Center, the Bedell Entrepreneurship Learning Laboratory, the Hawkinson Institute of Business Finance, and the Vaughan Institute of Risk Management and Insurance.

Under his guidance, the college began an early admission program and became home to the Judith R. Frank Business Communications Center, the Stead Technology Services Group, and the Henry and Krause Funds—two real-money funds managed by UI business students.

Fethke nurtured relationships with the college's generous alumni and friends, and some of his key fundraising accomplishments included the completion of the Pappajohn Business Building, the naming of the Henry B. Tippie College of Business, the development and funding for the Pomerantz Center, and the creation of numerous chairs, professorships, and fellowships.

After 12 years as dean, Fethke stepped down in 2005 to focus on teaching and research. However, when the university asked him to accept the role of interim president—a position he held from June 2006 to September 2007—he did so gladly and with a gift for, as a former UIAA president said, "thoughtfully and diligently making significant decisions" that benefited the university.

Among these decisions was the reorganization of the entire UI Health Care system—from management to facilities—which saved the university millions of dollars. Says former State of Iowa Board of Regents member Ruth Harkin, "Gary was always willing to consider a fresh look and a new approach to create a better university." Although Fethke retired from teaching in 2012, he continues to focus his research on the topic of higher education funding in America.

Gary Fethke once said that he would be a "footnote in UI history," but his willingness to think beyond business as usual has greatly influenced the university's growth and vitality. Thanks to his uncompromising leadership, skilled fundraising, and decades of hard work, the University of Iowa is indeed a stronger and more vibrant place.

Fethke is a life member of the UI Alumni Association and a member of the UI Foundation’s Presidents Club.


Abigail M. Foerstner,

2016 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

Abigail M. Foerstner is an acclaimed journalism professor at Northwestern University who has written three major books about the University of Iowa, applying her talents toward becoming one of the UI’s most devoted ambassadors.

A celebrated author and assistant professor at the Medill School of Journalism, Foerstner chairs the school’s news reporting department and covers culture and Chicago history for Quintessential New Trier magazine. She has written hundreds of articles on art, photography, science, history, and education for a variety of publications, including the Chicago Tribune, CityTalk, the Pioneer Press, the Detroit News, Camera Arts, and North Shore.

At Iowa and beyond, Foerstner is renowned for her official biography of UI physics pioneer James Van Allen, 36MS, 39PhD. While on campus for her son's commencement, Foerstner followed the faint whiff of pipe smoke through the open door of Van Allen's office. "This 1972…plotter sat on his desk…and continued to crank out data from Pioneer 10 and half the solar system, spilling the charts right across his lap," she says. "'Somebody has to write a book about this guy,' I thought. And I decided…that the lucky someone might as well be me."

"'Friend' is too mild a word for Abigail. As professor, author, mentor, and role model extraordinaire, Abigail embodies the highest goals of the University of Iowa."

Van Allen gave Foerstner full access to his papers and numerous interviews before his death in 2006. James Van Allen: The First Eight Billion Miles was published by the University of Iowa Press and received several honors, including the Benjamin F. Shambaugh Award from the State Historical Society of Iowa. This award was especially meaningful for Foerstner, who also has published a book, Picturing Utopia, about Shambaugh's wife, Bertha Maude Horack Shambaugh, and her work with early photographers in the Amana Colonies.

Foerstner's passion for history was the driving force behind these biographies, as well as her book on the storied UI Museum of Art. It also fuels one of her latest works in progress—a book about Cahokia, an archaeological site in Illinois that was home to the greatest ancient metropolis in North America.

Foerstner collaborated with the UI Libraries on a website that presents the history and role of Van Allen in the 1958 Explorer I satellite mission and is currently writing a book on culture and climate for the UI Press. She also received an honorable mention in Houghton Mifflin Harcourt's 2008 Best American Science and Nature Writing issue for her article, "What Van Allen Found in Space," which appeared in the July/August 2007 issue of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.

Though she's not a UI graduate, two of her four children attended Iowa, and Foerstner believes that the time she's spent on campus has made her both an honorary student and alumna.

"'Friend' is too mild a word for Abigail," says Holly Cook, former director of the University of Iowa Press. "As professor, author, mentor, and role model extraordinaire, Abigail embodies the highest goals of the University of Iowa: documenting and understanding the past while giving her students the keys to a wide, successful future."

With her love of history, her talent for reporting, and her deep devotion to the UI, Abigail Foerstner has proven herself to be one of the university's most ardent champions.

Foerstner is a member of the UI Foundation's Presidents Club.


Meghan Henry Gutierrez, 98BA

2016 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

Meghan Henry Gutierrez, 98BA, the youngest chief executive officer of a national cancer-fighting organization, uses her position and public policy expertise to advocate for patients' rights and greater investment in biomedical research.

As head of the Lymphoma Research Foundation, the nation's largest nonprofit organization devoted to funding lymphoma research and education, Gutierrez has advanced both the study of new cancer therapies and improved patient care.

Since her time as a UI student, she has been interested in the intersection of government, philanthropy, and public policy. While pursuing a double major in education and history, she participated in numerous student organizations, including Dance Marathon and UI Student Government, where she was elected vice president as part of the UI's first all-female ticket.

"Being elected vice president of the UI Student Government was a transformative experience, and I value all the lessons learned and opportunities the position afforded me," says Gutierrez, who moved to Washington, D.C., after her graduation to work for Greg Ganske, 72BA, 76MD, one of the U.S. House of Representatives' foremost experts on health care policy. He says Gutierrez is "a true-blue Hawkeye who continues to promote the University of Iowa."

"Meg possesses a rare combination of brilliance, competence, and heart."

Her expertise in government relations and health care policy allowed Gutierrez to pursue an array of public policy issues during her career, ranging from mental health parity and rare disease awareness to medical technology and the treatment of chronic disease. Following her work on Capitol Hill, she served as a health policy and communications advisor for several national nonprofit and educational institutions, including Columbia University and the Partnership for a Drug-Free America.

"Meg possesses a rare combination of brilliance, competence, and heart," says Leslie McGuire, who worked with Gutierrez as the director of the National Center for Mental Health Checkups at Columbia University. "She is incredibly smart and strategic and is without a doubt the most impressive and capable person I've had on any team I’ve led."

In 2008, Gutierrez joined the Lymphoma Research Foundation as its chief program, policy, and communications officer. She was a driving force behind programs such as the country's only Adolescent and Young Adult Lymphoma Initiative and development of the first mobile app for people with lymphoma. She became chief executive officer in 2014.

In this role, Gutierrez represents the Foundation before a number of audiences, including the U.S. Congress, Department of Defense, Food and Drug Administration, and National Institutes of Health. She has written and lectured extensively about the needs of lymphoma patients and served on committees and panels of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, American Society of Hematology, Institute of Medicine, and National Cancer Institute.

While she devotes much of her time to speaking on behalf of those with lymphoma, Gutierrez also promotes her alma mater wherever she goes—her passion for the greater good rivaled only by her passion for the University of Iowa. Gutierrez and her husband Julian, 91BBA, a past chair of the UI Alumni Association (UIAA) board of directors, are loyal Hawkeyes who still attend and support numerous university and UIAA events.

From the Old Capitol to Capitol Hill and beyond, Meghan Henry Gutierrez continues to advance public policy toward finding a cure for cancer and serving those touched by the disease.

Gutierrez is a member of the UI Alumni Association's Directors' Club Honors Circle.


Mark Johnson, 73MA

2016 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Mark Johnson, 73MA, is a critically acclaimed television and film producer whose impressive body of work has helped shape America's cultural milieu.

Thanks to a host of blockbuster hits, including the Oscar-winning Rain Man and the Peabody and Emmy Award-winning Breaking Bad, Johnson has entertained a generation of movie and television fans since his days as a University of Iowa film student.

What began as a childhood passion for Johnson evolved into a highly successful career that has yielded more than 40 films and television shows. Johnson was born in Washington, D.C., but spent several of his formative years in Spain. While there, he worked as an extra in films such as Dr. Zhivago and Nicholas and Alexandra. These opportunities led to a couple of minor movie roles before Johnson went on to complete a B.A. degree in drama from the University of Virginia and enroll at the UI.

"He came to us with more professional experience than is the norm, and it seemed natural for him to keep his hand in the nuts and bolts of filmmaking," recall two of his former UI professors, Franklin Miller and Dudley Andrew. "We remember his witty short film that offered up a travelogue-style tour of Iowa City as it if were Paris. Very 1970s."

"Mark's gift is that he makes intelligent films and programs that strive to do more than entertain—they consistently inspire, they educate, and they tell the truth about people and their stories."

Shortly after graduating from Iowa, the young producer landed one of the first Directors Guild of America traineeships, allowing him to assist on William Friedkin's existential thriller, Sorcerer, which became widely known for its production difficulties. After cutting his teeth on such experiences, Johnson made a name for himself as a talented leader with a knack for collaborating with others.

From 1982 to 1994, he produced all of writer-director Barry Levinson's films, including Good Morning, Vietnam; The Natural; Tin Men; Avalon; Diner; and the Oscar-nominated Bugsy. Johnson's more recent filmography includes The Chronicles of Narnia franchise, The Little Princess, The Notebook, Galaxy Quest, and The Secret in Their Eyes.

Beyond the big screen, Johnson has served as the executive producer of the award-winning AMC drama Breaking Bad and of SundanceTV's Peabody Award-winning show Rectify. He's also the executive producer of two AMC shows, Better Call Saul and Halt and Catch Fire.

Fellow UI graduate Karen Possner, 75PhD, says, "Mark's gift is that he makes intelligent films and programs that strive to do more than entertain—they consistently inspire, they educate, and they tell the truth about people and their stories."

Such accomplishments have earned him a spot on the board of governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and as chair of the academy's foreign language film selection committee. In addition, Johnson is the founder of the Children's Action Network, which uses the power of the entertainment industry to help find homes for children in need of adoption.

Through an impressive body of work that consistently thrills and uplifts, Mark Johnson has made significant contributions to American pop culture while capturing the attention of millions of people around the world.


Thomas J. Marriott Jr., 68BSChE

2016 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

Thomas J. Marriott Jr., 68BSChE, a safety and manufacturing/plant operations expert in Pennsylvania, has used his long track record of professional success to help University of Iowa students eager to follow in his footsteps.

The global consultant and president of Hawkeye Consulting Services—which assists manufacturing companies in the chemical, energy, and refining
industries—regularly returns to his alma mater to share his expertise, advice, and insight. Though Marriott graduated from the UI Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering in 1968 and has traveled the world, neither time nor distance has dimmed his devotion to the university.

After completing his UI degree, Marriott spent nearly four decades in a variety of roles for Rohm and Haas Co. and Air Products and Chemicals, Inc., that focused primarily on chemicals and industrial gases production. During these years, he also graduated from the Advanced Executive Program at Northwestern University and traveled to many countries in Asia, the South Pacific, Central and South America, and North and South Africa.

Marriott reconnected with the UI College of Engineering in 2008 when he joined the Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering (CBE) advisory board, and this involvement sparked an idea that has changed many Iowa engineering students' lives.

"Because of Tom Marriott's continued efforts, my chemical engineering peers and I are well-equipped for a bright future."

"Based on his experiences with our board, Tom decided that our students needed more advice from professional engineers," says C. Alan Guymon, the Sharon K. Tinker professor and executive officer of the UI Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering. "He has used his great enthusiasm…for the university and our students to establish a truly transformative mentoring program."

The four-year-old program, which matches professional engineering mentors starting sophomore year with students from the chemical and biochemical engineering department, began with 24 volunteer advisors whom Marriott helped recruit. Since then, it has continued to evolve and grow, with at present approximately 50 mentors and 100 CBE students involved as mentees in the program. Without doubt, the CBE mentoring program has become a model for other UI engineering areas and possibly for other university engineering colleges.

"The mentorship program that Tom established has had a profound impact on my academic decisions," says Nathan Schuchert, a UI chemical and biochemical engineering student. "Because of Tom Marriott's continued efforts, my chemical engineering peers and I are well-equipped for a bright future."

Marriott also has found other ways to help encourage students' future success. During a departmental regional meeting, he was a safety evaluator for the student cars competing in the ChemE Car Competition and a judge for the Student Research Presentation Competition. He also serves on a yearly panel that assesses chemical engineering students' capstone design projects.

In addition, Marriott and his wife established the Tom and Cam Marriott Chemical and Biochemical Engineering Scholarship in 2013. "Looking back, I really could have used some advice from someone working in the profession," says Mariott, also an avid Hawkeye fan and longtime season-ticket holder. "I'm retired, I love the University of Iowa, and I wanted to give back."

Thanks to his inspired thinking and tireless volunteerism, Thomas J. Marriott Jr. has paved the way for new generations of UI College of Engineering graduates to make their own indelible marks.

Marriott is a member of the UI Alumni Association's Old Capitol Club and the UI Foundation's Presidents Club.


Virginia A. Myers, 49BA, 51MFA

2016 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

Virginia A. Myers was a gentle teacher and renowned printmaker who blazed new trails in the world of the fine arts and whose invention of the Iowa Foil Printer elevated the reputation of the UI School of Art and Art History among programs of its kind.

Myers' 50-year UI career began in 1962 when she became an instructor in Iowa’s printmaking department—the only woman teaching studio courses at the time. Prior to that, she earned a B.A. degree in drawing and painting in 1949 from the Corcoran School of Art in Washington, D.C. After completing graduate and postgraduate studies at California College of the Arts and Crafts and the University of Illinois, Myers came to Iowa City in 1955 to collaborate with distinguished printmaker Mauricio Lasansky. During that time, she also spent a year in Paris on a Fulbright Scholarship, studying at Atelier 17 with printmaker Stanley William Hayter.

UI graduate Nancy Schneider Hanson, 61BA, who turned to Myers for valuable advice and guidance during her undergraduate years, says, "Virginia taught us all what it means to follow your passion. Her story of arriving in Iowa City by herself, on a train, without a job, with no place to live, and with very little money—in hopes of studying with Mauricio Lasansky, whom she'd never met—is testament to her dedication."

"Virginia taught us all what it means to follow your passion."

With her creation of the Iowa Foil Printer in the 1980s, Myers became one of the nation's preeminent artists in foil imaging. The printer allowed her to combine foil stamping with traditional printmaking methods—a technique that once had been available only through commercial foil stampers. She then patented the equipment with Dan Wenman, a local machinist, and Jim Phillips, an electrical engineer.

Besides being a groundbreaking inventor, Myers also was an exceptional teacher and scholar. She became a full professor at Iowa in 1982, and her class in hot foil stamping that began in 1990 was the first of its kind ever taught in a school of fine arts. She published two books about this process, presented more than 100 solo shows throughout the world, and participated in numerous group exhibits.

Myers' work is featured in the collections of the San Francisco Art Museum, the Nelson-Atkins Museum in Kansas City, the Toledo Museum of Art, the National Collection of Women’s Art, the Muscatine Art Gallery, and the Des Moines Art Center. In addition, she served as a member of the board of directors for the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts in New York City.

Though Myers retired in 2012 at the age of 84, she continued working on a third book, Changing Light: A New Visual Language, and on a five-panel art installation, A Codex of Our Times, which she completed in 2014 and considered her greatest artistic achievement.

In 2015, the UI created the Virginia A. Myers Nexus of Art and Engineering Program to facilitate partnerships among faculty and students in engineering and the arts. In the words of program director Deanne Wortman, Myers "didn't see any kind of boundaries between disciplines. She was very open to just the idea of making art."

Virginia Myers died in December 2015, but her inspiring legacy endures through her work, which brought a new art form to life and helped define the University of Iowa’s artistic legacy.

Myers was a member of the UI Foundation's Presidents Club.


Thomas Niblock, 07BA, 07BBA

2016 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

Thomas Niblock, 07BA, 07BBA—a globe-trotting diplomat with the U.S. Foreign Service—has already made a name for himself in the realm of international relations in the short time since graduation from the University of Iowa.

The Iowa native, who joined the Foreign Service in 2009, took his first steps on this multinational journey while still at the UI. Not only did he pursue degrees in economics and religious studies, but he also participated in the honors program and was a collegiate scholar in the Henry B. Tippie College of Business. In addition, he received the Thomas R. Pickering Foreign Affairs Fellowship in 2005 and the Hancher-Finkbine Medallion Student Award in 2007.

These awards and experiences helped Niblock move from being a UI student to representing the United States overseas. He says, "My majors in business and liberal arts allowed me to take a range of courses, which helped provide a good foundation for my career as a generalist in the Foreign Service. I also was able to travel overseas for the first time, and that experience got me interested in careers abroad."

After graduating with honors, Niblock earned a master's degree in public affairs in 2009 from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. He took his first job as a staff assistant to the U.S. Ambassador at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing, China.

"I have high confidence he will deservedly rise to much higher ranks within the Foreign Service based on his quick mastery of complex issues, excellent interpersonal skills, and eagerness to continue building his knowledge."

A few years later, the young diplomat served again as staff assistant to the U.S. Ambassador at the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan, and, in 2013, he went to work in the Office of Taiwan Coordination at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C. In this capacity, he handled all aspects of U.S.-Taiwan relations, including political-military affairs, economic affairs, and high-level visits and dialogues. In particular, he managed the preparations for the April 2014 visit of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency administrator to Taipei, the first U.S. cabinet-level visit to Taiwan in 14 years.

"Tom has proven himself to be a highly capable, insightful, and proactive member of our team," says Christoper J. Beede, the now-retired former director of the Office of Taiwan Coordination. "I have high confidence he will deservedly rise to much higher ranks within the Foreign Service based on his quick mastery of complex issues, excellent interpersonal skills, and eagerness to continue building his knowledge."

Though his professional life has taken him to the other side of the globe, Niblock—who currently works in the Office of International Religious Freedom in Washington, D.C.—still makes time to come back home to Iowa. During his stateside visits, he has returned to the UI campus to mentor students, lecture on U.S. foreign policy, host dinners for honors students, and speak at the Iowa City Foreign Relations Council. He also is a member of the Tippie College's Young Alumni Board and served as the founding president of the Iowa Honors Program Advisory Board.

According to UI Associate Provost and Dean Downing Thomas, Niblock's global outlook makes him "an outstanding role model for today's globally engaged students." The university recognized Niblock's exemplary accomplishments by awarding him both the Tippie College of Business Young Alumnus of the Year Award and the Honors Program Award for Alumni and Friends in 2014.

Throughout his impeccable career, Thomas Niblock has amassed an outstanding record and brand of excellence that will distinguish his foreign policy work for years to come.


Albert Ruffalo, 75MA

2016 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Albert Ruffalo, 75MA, a pioneering entrepreneur with a head for business and a heart for service, has created a Cedar Rapids-based company that stands at the forefront of fundraising and enrollment management solutions.

The first-generation college graduate, who holds an accounting degree from Loras College and a master's degree in education administration from the University of Iowa, got his professional start as a teacher and assistant principal. In 1984, however, he moved into the field of telecommunications, becoming president of McLeodUSA Direct in Cedar Rapids and demonstrating savvy business management skills.

Ruffalo applied this business acumen in 1991 to the task of building his own company, RuffaloCODY, in Cedar Rapids. This spark of an idea quickly grew into a game-changer in the world of technology-enabled fundraising and enrollment management services and software. Such accomplishments earned Ruffalo a 1993 nomination as Midwest Entrepreneur of the Year and a 1994 Midwest Emerging Entrepreneur Award from Inc. magazine.

"Managing a classroom or managing teachers is no different than managing a big organization. My background in education taught me how to manage with compassion."

Today, under Ruffalo's expert guidance, the company provides services to more than 3,000 colleges, universities, and nonprofit clients throughout the globe. Though he sold RuffaloCODY to McLeodUSA in 1996, Ruffalo repurchased the company in 2001. Under his visionary direction, it grew more than 250 percent between 2006 and 2012, and, in 2013, Ruffalo stepped into the role of executive chairman. In 2014, RuffaloCODY merged with Noel-Levitz to become Ruffalo Noel Levitz. It's now one of the fastest-growing private companies in the nation—as well as one of the largest employers in Cedar Rapids.

"Al Ruffalo has spearheaded the evolution of one of the country's most progressive business success stories," says Timothy Charles, president and CEO of Mercy Medical Center, who knows Ruffalo through his contributions as a Mercy Medical Center trustee—one of many philanthropic roles that the civic-minded businessman plays.

Ruffalo also volunteers with Big Brothers Big Sisters of America, Junior Achievement, and Theatre Cedar Rapids. He served as a director of the Economic Development Center and a regent emeritus of Loras College. In addition, Ruffalo was at the forefront of efforts to help Cedar Rapids recover from the flood of 2008; he announced an Adopt-a-Business program that helped the owners of some of the hardest-hit downtown businesses get back on their feet.

A devoted Iowa alumnus, Ruffalo believes in "paying it forward" to the institution that taught him so much. He attributes his career success to his experiences in the UI College of Education, where he currently serves on its first advisory board. "I learned how to think creatively and how to manage," he says. "Managing a classroom or managing teachers is no different than managing a big organization. My background in education taught me how to manage with compassion."

With a focus on passion, results, integrity, dedication, and entrepreneurial
spirit—tenets he shared with his colleagues at RuffaloCODY—Albert Ruffalo has proven himself to be a true leader and mentor in the fields of higher education and nonprofit engagement.

Ruffalo is a member of the UI Alumni Association's Old Capitol Club and the UI Foundation's Presidents Club.


Kyle Zimmer, 82BA

2016 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

Kyle Zimmer, 82BA, was a corporate attorney volunteering at a soup kitchen in Washington, D.C., when she realized that the kids she was working with had no books in their lives. So, she set out with two friends to build a market-driven solution to ensure all children have access to critical books and resources.

More than 20 years and 145 million volumes later, Zimmer continues to lead First Book, the nonprofit social enterprise she co-founded that provides schools and community programs serving children in need with high-quality books and other educational resources. The organization has built the largest and fastest growing network of schools and programs across the United States and Canada—currently serving over 250,000—and growing by more than 5,000 per month.

"The story of First Book and its principal champion, Ms. Kyle Zimmer, is extraordinary and phenomenal," says R. Rajagopal, a UI professor of geographical and sustainability sciences. "It shows us that if the heart is in the right place, our heads can move mountains."

First Book has pioneered groundbreaking market-driven models, including the First Book National Book Bank, which serves as the nation's largest clearinghouse for new books donated by publishers, and the First Book Marketplace, an award-winning, self-sustaining e-commerce program that purchases new books and makes them available to educators and program leaders at unprecedented prices. First Book has also branched into school supplies, digital resources, non-perishable foods, and winter coats to meet the needs of children served by the First Book network.

"The story of First Book and its principal champion, Ms. Kyle Zimmer, is extraordinary and phenomenal. It shows us that if the heart is in the right place, our heads can move mountains."

Zimmer's commitment to innovation and collaboration has earned her a reputation as a social sector leader. She currently serves as a member of the board of directors for Dr. Seuss Enterprises, Ashoka, Youth Venture, and James Patterson's ReadKiddoRead. Additionally, she is a regular lecturer at the Wharton School of Business, Columbia Business School, and Georgetown University.

A passionate advocate for social entrepreneurship and educational equity, Zimmer has also participated in some of the world’s most prestigious economic forums. She was featured at the opening plenary session for the 2015 Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) America, and she also presented at the 2013 University of Oxford Saïd Business School conference titled "Power Shift: Forum for Women in the World Economy." In 2014, she participated in the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Dubai, and was also a presenter and blogger at the WEF in Beijing in 2012. She served as a member of the WEF’s Global Agenda Council on Social Entrepreneurship, and was featured as a presenter at the WEF in Davos in 2010. She is currently serving as a member of the WEF’s Global Council on Values.

In 2008, Zimmer was named the first-ever American Marketing Association Nonprofit Marketer of the Year and Outstanding Social Entrepreneur of the Year in the United States in 2007 by the Geneva-based Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship. Among her other honors is the National Education Association Foundation's Award for Outstanding Service to Public Education (2013) and the National Book Foundation's Literarian Award (2014). Zimmer also received the Library of Congress Literacy Award-David Rubenstein Prize (2015), the Peggy Charren/Free to Be You and Me Award from the Ms. Foundation (2016), and the Campaign for Grade Level Reading Pacesetter Award (2016).

Thanks to her exemplary commitment and innovative business strategies, coupled with her awareness of the importance of education to equality and quality of life, Kyle Zimmer has helped make literacy possible for thousands of underserved children throughout the United States and beyond.


Robert Downer, 61BA, 63JD

2015 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

Robert "Bob" Downer, 61BA, 63JD, and Jane Downer are longtime advocates and ambassadors of the University of Iowa who have championed higher education, medicine, research, and the arts for decades.

An accomplished attorney at Iowa City's Meardon, Sueppel & Downer law firm, Bob Downer began his UI service as student body president in 1960-61 and never stopped contributing to his university's greater good. He is a highly respected leader in the legal community, with honors that include the Iowa State Bar Association's 2001 Award of Merit and longtime membership in the Iowa Legal Aid Hall of Fame. He also served as director of the Iowa Law School Foundation from 2000 to 2012 and recently completed his second and final six-year term on the Board of Regents, State of Iowa, this past spring—one of only a few regents in history to earn reappointment.

"I soon learned that service would enhance my own quality of life. The more you do for others, the more your own life is enriched."

Bob Downer's charitable legacy extends even further to include service as a member of the UI Health Care Board of Advisors and the UI Research Foundation Board of Directors, and he explains his community commitment through wisdom passed down from his maternal grandfather.

"Even though our family was not wealthy, I was raised with the belief that we were very fortunate—and that this good fortune carried with it an obligation to help others," he says. "I soon learned that service would enhance my own quality of life. The more you do for others, the more your own life is enriched."

Jane Downer has proven instrumental in her volunteerism with the Hancher Guild and its showcase, increasing the gift shop's annual profits to more than $120,000 in support of educational programs for children. She has also given generous time to activities benefiting UI Children's Hospital and as co-chair of "Arts & Minds: Building on Iowa's Creative Legacy," a $30-million campaign to rebuild the University of Iowa's flood-damaged arts campus, including Hancher Auditorium, the School of Music, and the School of Art and Art History.

"I was fortunate to meet Jane Downer in 1997, and I have been inspired ever since by her contributions," says Charles Swanson, 75BBA, 76MBA, Hancher's executive director. "Her passion for Hancher and the University of Iowa is contagious, and, because of her hard work, we have had many years of success with the showcase. I am truly grateful."

Adds Gail Agrawal, dean of the UI College of Law: "Bob and Jane are two of our most accomplished alumni and biggest fans. They are not only deserving of this award, but their receipt of it is long overdue."

Through their altruism and involvement, Robert and Jane Downer have done their part to preserve the University of Iowa's status as a world-class institution and actively demonstrate that "the purpose of life is a life with purpose."

The Downers are life members of the UI Alumni Association's Old Capitol Club and members of the UI Foundation's Presidents Club.


Bob Downer Volunteer Highlights
  • Iowa Bar Association president, 1995-96
  • Iowa Law School Foundation Board, 2000-2013
  • Fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel ACTEC, state chair, 2000-05
  • College of Law Distinguished Alumni Award, 2013

Jane Downer,

2015 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

Robert "Bob" Downer, 61BA, 63JD, and Jane Downer are longtime advocates and ambassadors of the University of Iowa who have championed higher education, medicine, research, and the arts for decades.

An accomplished attorney at Iowa City's Meardon, Sueppel & Downer law firm, Bob Downer began his UI service as student body president in 1960-61 and never stopped contributing to his university's greater good. He is a highly respected leader in the legal community, with honors that include the Iowa State Bar Association's 2001 Award of Merit and longtime membership in the Iowa Legal Aid Hall of Fame. He also served as director of the Iowa Law School Foundation from 2000 to 2012 and recently completed his second and final six-year term on the Board of Regents, State of Iowa, this past spring—one of only a few regents in history to earn reappointment.

"I soon learned that service would enhance my own quality of life. The more you do for others, the more your own life is enriched."

Bob Downer's charitable legacy extends even further to include service as a member of the UI Health Care Board of Advisors and the UI Research Foundation Board of Directors, and he explains his community commitment through wisdom passed down from his maternal grandfather.

"Even though our family was not wealthy, I was raised with the belief that we were very fortunate—and that this good fortune carried with it an obligation to help others," he says. "I soon learned that service would enhance my own quality of life. The more you do for others, the more your own life is enriched."

Jane Downer has proven instrumental in her volunteerism with the Hancher Guild and its showcase, increasing the gift shop's annual profits to more than $120,000 in support of educational programs for children. She has also given generous time to activities benefiting UI Children's Hospital and as co-chair of "Arts & Minds: Building on Iowa's Creative Legacy," a $30-million campaign to rebuild the University of Iowa's flood-damaged arts campus, including Hancher Auditorium, the School of Music, and the School of Art and Art History.

"I was fortunate to meet Jane Downer in 1997, and I have been inspired ever since by her contributions," says Charles Swanson, 75BBA, 76MBA, Hancher's executive director. "Her passion for Hancher and the University of Iowa is contagious, and, because of her hard work, we have had many years of success with the showcase. I am truly grateful."

Adds Gail Agrawal, dean of the UI College of Law: "Bob and Jane are two of our most accomplished alumni and biggest fans. They are not only deserving of this award, but their receipt of it is long overdue."

Through their altruism and involvement, Robert and Jane Downer have done their part to preserve the University of Iowa's status as a world-class institution and actively demonstrate that "the purpose of life is a life with purpose."

The Downers are life members of the UI Alumni Association's Old Capitol Club and members of the UI Foundation's Presidents Club.


Jane Downer Volunteer Highlights
  • Hancher Auditorium Advisory Committee, liaison
  • Hancher Guild, board of directors
  • UI Children's Hospital Council member

Sarah Dunkerton Lande, 60BA, 83MBA

2015 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

Sarah Dunkerton Lande, 60BA, 83MBA, is widely admired as a citizen diplomat who has advanced Iowa's reputation around the globe—particularly in the People's Republic of China.

Lande's promotion of people-to-people diplomacy began after graduation with her first trip to China in 1984 with former Iowa Governor Bob Ray's Friendship Force, and later with three other Iowa governors to create new opportunities and understanding. From 1988 to 1998, she served as the first executive director for Iowa Sister States, a nonprofit that builds Iowa's cultural, economic, and educational partnerships with the world. Through the program, Iowa has fostered connections with nine Sister States, including China's Hebei Province.

It was through the Sister States program that Lande invited a Chinese delegation to visit her hometown of Muscatine, Iowa, in 1985. Iowa hospitality left such a lasting impression on visitor Xi Jinping that he returned in 2012— just before assuming the presidency of China. Hosted again by Lande, the man who now leads the most populous nation said to the old friends he had met in 1985 who were gathered in Lande's home in Muscatine, "My impression of America came from you. To me, you are America."

"We have a responsibility to be stewards of the earth and the well-being of its people. A world of friends is a world of peace."

Xi and his delegation also signed many trade, agriculture, tourism, and education agreements during their visit to the state. "Such an important diplomatic trip by the man who leads China would not have been possible except through the commitment and dedication of Sarah to Iowa and our international ties," notes Iowa Governor Terry Branstad, 69BA.

On a global level, Lande has been recognized for her public service. In 2013, she was awarded the title of Honorary Friendship Ambassador by the Chinese People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries. Last year, she was the organization's guest for its 60th anniversary in Beijing to share the Iowa-Xi Jinping story at the "Gathering of 60 Years Celebration" on China Central Television. Lande also spoke about the value of friendship at the International Sister City Celebration in Washington, DC.

Former U.S. Ambassador to China Gary Locke has praised Lande for her international outreach, and organizations worldwide have sought her counsel. Adds former Iowa legislator Jean Lloyd-Jones, 71MA, "[Lande's] infectious smile, upbeat energy, and genuine interest in people make her a true citizen diplomat."

Locally, Lande has also proven a goodwill ambassador. In 2013, she helped form the Mayor's Muscatine China Initiative Committee that initiated a sister city relationship between Muscatine and Zhending, China, which has led to educational, commercial, and cultural exchanges. She also supports the International Writers Workshop, the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, University of Iowa International Programs, Hancher, UNESCO City of Literature, and causes related to community building and environmental conservation.

"I think of myself as a citizen of the world," says Lande, who graduated with her bachelor of arts in home economics and a master of business administration. "We have a responsibility to be stewards of the earth and the well-being of its people. A world of friends is a world of peace."

With her passion for cultivating international friendships, Sarah Dunkerton Lande has left an impression that can be felt around the globe.

Lande is a member of the UI Alumni Association's Old Capitol Club and the UI Foundation's Presidents Club.


Involvement
  • Friends of Iowa Public Broadcasting
  • Iowa Natural Heritage Foundation
  • River Action
  • Rotary Club of Muscatine
  • Governor’s Volunteer Award, 1988
  • Governor’s Certificate of Recognition for Distinguished Service to the State of Iowa, 1989
  • Athena Award, 2013

Tim Dwight, 99BS

2015 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

Timothy J. Dwight Jr., 99BS—a record-holding former NFL player, an active philanthropist, and a creative entrepreneur of renewable technology—has devoted much of his energy to advancing health across the state and nation.

Always a proud Hawkeye, Dwight says his favorite UI memory is "suiting up for the first time in Kinnick Stadium," where he experienced "the crowd and speed of college football." He credits this time in the spotlight and in the classroom as instrumental to his future in the NFL, as a businessperson, and as a generous supporter of Iowa athletics and physical education initiatives.

"Being a UI alumnus means integrity, community service, do your best, and never give up."

Following his 1999 graduation from the University of Iowa—where he was an eight-time Hawkeye letter-winner, consensus all-American football player, as well as a Big Ten champion and all-American in track and field—Dwight played ten NFL seasons. During this time, he experienced Super Bowl XXXIII with the Atlanta Falcons and set a record with a 94-yard kickoff return for a touchdown.

Since 2002, Dwight has hosted an annual summer football camp for youth as part of the Tim Dwight Foundation, a nonprofit organization primarily benefiting the UI Children's Hospital and the Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center. Always one to go above and beyond, he has quietly inspired and brought hope to hospitalized and terminally ill children—whether through a personal call, note, or special meeting. Says Dwight, "Being a UI alumnus means integrity, community service, do your best, and never give up."

Following retirement from football and looking for another professional venture, Dwight became a passionate advocate for renewable energy initiatives. He has since appeared before the Iowa legislature in Des Moines to support various energy bills, including proposals to help businesses and property owners invest in renewable technologies. Dwight also owns his own solar energy company—the California-based Integrated Power—which designs and provides solar energy solutions to commercial companies.

Over the years, Dwight has donated his time and talents to numerous national and local charities, serving as a spokesperson for the Salvation Army, Make-A-Wish Foundation, and the Varsity Club. In 2011, he promoted the 25th Summer Iowa Games and Iowa's initiative to become the healthiest state by participating in 26 events. Today, he contributes to several UI and area high school recreation projects, and is a frequent volunteer and special guest at functions benefiting the Iowa City Community School District.

"Not only has he not forgotten where he came from, he actively works to improve our community and make it a better place," writes John Bacon, 97BA, 03MA, principal of Iowa City's City High School. "His ability to speak to young people and deliver a positive, encouraging message is very inspiring."

Led by his loyal commitment to UI values, Timothy Dwight will no doubt continue to be a generous and energetic philanthropist for years to come.

Dwight is a member of the UI Foundation's Presidents Club.


Career Highlights
  • Four-time state championship sprinter on the City High track and field team (the only person in school history to claim that honor)
  • Member of the City High School and National Iowa Varsity Club halls of fame
  • Professional NFL athlete for the Atlanta Falcons, Oakland Raiders, New York Jets, New England Patriots, and San Diego Chargers
  • President of the Iowa Solar Energy Trade Association (ISETA)

Leslie Jansa Williams, 82BSN

2015 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Leslie Jansa Williams, 82BSN, has leveraged her rare blend of bedside manner and business savvy throughout her career as a former registered nurse, pharmaceutical sales and marketing leader, serial entrepreneur, and now CEO of biotechnology company, ImmusanT—an innovative organization dedicated to the development and delivery of technological advancements in medicine.

Raised in Gowrie, Iowa, Williams demonstrates a true dedication to the commercial development of early-stage medical products for patients with unmet clinical needs. Whether through hands-on work with patients, major drug companies, or the FDA, Williams has proven herself to be "a world-class professional who is talented, curious, [and] gifted," says UI College of Nursing Dean Rita Frantz. "Her commitment to improving the well-being of humankind is consistent with the tradition of the Iowa nurse."

"[The University of Iowa] nurtured the development of my character, fueled my curiosity, and gave me the wings to fly."

Williams says she grew her confidence and love for learning at the University of Iowa, the place that "nurtured the development of my character, fueled my curiosity, and gave me the wings to fly." Following graduation, she worked several years as a nurse, including two at UI Hospitals and Clinics, before taking on roles in the late 1980s and early 1990s as a sales representative and manager for a number of major global healthcare and pharmaceutical products companies, including Glaxo, Merck, and Ohmeda.

Williams established a reputation as an ambitious sales representative and business specialist, and continued to rise through various positions at several corporations after earning her MBA at Washington University in St. Louis. In 2004, she became CEO at respiratory technology company Ventaira Pharmaceuticals, where she led a massive reorganization that enabled the troubled company to be successfully sold.

Consulting work then took Williams to Battelle Ventures as a venture partner, where she sourced and evaluated early-stage technology companies as potential investment candidates and subsequently assisted them with strategy, management, and development. After leaving Battelle Ventures in 2009, Williams went on to co-found the biotech company Amplicea Therapeutics with a focus on transforming the way tumors are treated.

Currently as founder, director, and president of ImmusanT, Williams is on the brink of a major breakthrough for people with celiac disease. Thanks to her skilled guidance, the company garnered more than $34 million in venture financing and is in the process of advancing the clinical development of a revolutionary vaccine and diagnostic that will positively impact the health of millions of people around the world with celiac disease.

In every endeavor, Leslie Jansa Williams maintains "the highest level of energy, ethics, intelligence, and overall commitment to excellences that I have ever seen in one person" writes longtime colleague Chuck Bramlage, president and CEO of Pearl Therapeutics. "I have never in my career met someone I was so proud to have worked with as Leslie."

Williams is a member of the UI Alumni Association’s Old Capitol Club.


Volunteer Highlights
  • Director of the Capital Network, a nonprofit organization that provides education and assistance to entrepreneurs
  • Editorial advisory board member for Life Science Leader magazine
  • Leader of the board of directors for Hepregen, a company that promotes the development of new pharmaceuticals
  • Mentor in the Boston University Kindle Mentoring Program
  • Executive board member, UI College of Pharmacy

Tom Kloet, 80BBA

2015 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Tom Kloet, 80BBA, a key innovator of the global stock exchange, has helped steer the financial services industry through technological advances and tumultuous times. Over the course of a distinguished international business career spanning three decades, Kloet has been at the forefront of changes that have brought growth, corporate responsibility, and personal accountability to the world's financial systems.

Kloet graduated from the University of Iowa in 1980 with a business degree in accounting. In 1995, he joined the board of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME), where he was instrumental in transforming the company from a member-owned organization into the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace. Kloet's stalwart leadership positioned CME to become the first U.S. exchange to go public in 2002. He later served for three years as founding CEO and executive director of the Singapore Exchange, converting it from a mutual utility into the second exchange in the Asia-Pacific to become a publicly owned commercial entity.

"Being a University of Iowa alum means ... that I am part of a network of global leaders across many fields who are making a difference in the world today."

In 2008, Kloet assumed leadership of the TMX Group, which operates the Toronto, Montreal, and other major stock exchanges, and became vice chairman of the World Federation of Exchanges. His calm and ethical leadership brought these organizations stability in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis and subsequent industry regulations. Although Kloet retired from both positions in fall 2014, he continues to offer his vast knowledge and experience of financial services as a member of the Nasdaq/OMX board of directors. Kloet also lends his expertise to the community, serving as a trustee for Edward-Elmhurst Healthcare and Elmhurst College in the Chicago area. Says World Federation of Exchanges chairman Andreas Preuss, "I have learned to greatly appreciate Tom for his professional expertise, his managerial quality, and, last but not least, his personal integrity."

A devoted alumnus of the University of Iowa, Kloet has contributed to the Tippie College of Business advisory board since 2010, often returning to campus as a guest speaker and philanthropist for the place he credits with fostering his intellectual curiosity and love of learning. Kloet says, "To have the institution that played such an important role in forming who I am today recognize me for achievement is very meaningful indeed. Being a University of Iowa alum means that I have not only a technical proficiency gathered from committed and skilled faculty, but also that I am part of a network of global leaders across many fields who are making a difference in the world today."

Tom Kloet has indeed helped shape the world, both as a pioneer in the financial services industry and through his dedication to training the next generation of business leaders.

Kloet is an annual member of the UI Alumni Association and a member of the UI Foundation's Presidents Club.


Career Highlights
  • Chicago Mercantile Exchange board member, treasurer, and clearing chairman, 1995-2000
  • ABN AMRO investment bank senior managing director and chief administrative officer, 1997-2000
  • Singapore Exchange Limited chief executive officer, 2000-03
  • Fimat America senior executive vice president and chief operating officer, New York City, 2003-08
  • TMX Group Limited chief executive officer, Toronto, Ontario, 2008-14
  • Inducted into the Futures Industry Hall of Fame in March 2015

Mary Kramer, 57BA, 72MA

2015 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

Mary Kramer, 57BA, 72MA, is a former state senator and U.S. ambassador who has served the University of Iowa, the state, and the nation with an unmistakable commitment to the common good.

A lifelong Iowan from Burlington, Kramer met her husband of 57 years, Kay, while both were music students at the University of Iowa. She graduated from Iowa with a bachelor's in music in 1959 and a master's in elementary education in 1972.

Before embarking on a distinguished 13-year political career, Kramer spent two decades as a teacher and school administrator and more than 20 years in the corporate world, including as the first female vice president of human resources and community investments at Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield.

"If I think I can make a difference, it's hard for me to say no. I have failed retirement many times."

From 1990 to 2003, Kramer represented Clive, West Des Moines, and Des Moines as a Republican in the Iowa State Senate. Dedicated to improving education, economic development, and health care in the state, she became the first independently elected female president of the chamber. Kramer also served as assistant minority leader, chairman of the board for the Senate President's Forum, and on the board of directors for the State Legislative Leaders Foundation.

During her time in politics, Kramer led by example and carved a path for women in leadership. "She's been a mentor and role model for countless individuals, and her leadership has been sought by many organizations," says former Iowa State Senator JoAnn Johnson. "Mary had the sense for doing the ‘right' thing for the ‘right' reason and she imparted that to all of us."

For her service, Kramer has been recognized with the highest national honor from the Society for Human Resource Management and earned acceptance into the Iowa Women's Hall of Fame. Kramer's leadership was recognized on the national scene in 2002, when President George W. Bush appointed her as chairperson of the White House Commission for Presidential Scholars. From 2004 to 2006, she also served as U.S. Ambassador to Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean, which she writes about in her book, More than a Walk on the Beach: Confessions of an Unlikely Diplomat.

Kramer now acts as owner and president of Kramer and Associates, speaking to groups about leadership and civility in public discourse. She continues her volunteer service, including as a member of the organizing committee for the "Good. Better. Best. Iowa!" campaign that raised more than $1 billion for the University of Iowa, and she currently serves on the search committee for the UI's new president. Says Kramer, "If I think I can make a difference, it's hard for me to say no. I have failed retirement many times."

As a dynamic servant leader, Mary Kramer continues to inspire many to follow her lifelong example of public service.

Kramer is a member of the UI Alumni Association's Old Capitol Club and the UI Foundation's Presidents Club.


Involvement
  • Des Moines Performing Arts
  • Greater Des Moines Chamber of Commerce
  • Iowa Public Radio
  • Iowa Public Television Foundation
  • Mercy Medical Center in Des Moines
  • Polk County Child Care Resource Center
  • Rotary Club International
  • United Way of Central Iowa

James A. Leach,

2015 Distinguished Alumni Friend Award

Jim Leach has enjoyed a long and treasured friendship with the University of Iowa, most notably through his three decades of service in the U.S. Congress and now as a faculty member in the UI College of Law.

During Leach's tenure from 1977 until 2007 in the House of Representatives, he tirelessly championed academic research. The science and humanities programs that he supported resulted in the provision of over half a billion dollars of peer-reviewed competitive grants to the University of Iowa. At a personal level, he has given his public and private papers to the UI Libraries and, with his wife, Deba, donated over 300 artworks to the UI Museum of Art.

"Ties of loyalty give compass and meaning to life. All of us need things to love that can be shared. This university is one."

Upon leaving Congress, Leach further proved his commitment to higher education through teaching roles at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and Princeton's School of Public and International Affairs. He then served four years with distinction as chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities before returning home to accept a three-year dual appointment as the University of Iowa chair of public affairs and visiting professor of law. Believing that those who have served in public office have a responsibility to share their experience across the spectrum of generations, Leach gives lectures in colleges and community settings around the state on subjects ranging from foreign policy and international finance to contemporary politics, with subjects generally framed in a sweeping historical context.

No summary of Leach's contributions would be complete without recognizing the impact he's had as a spokesman for civility in public discourse. Leach once wrote, "Citizenship is hard. It takes a willingness to listen, watch, read, and think in ways that allow the imagination to put one person in the shoes of another." Derek Willard, 75PhD, the former UI special assistant to the president for governmental relations and associate vice president for research, says that Leach's enduring qualities include "an indefatigable respect for all people, an insatiable delight in the hunt for new ideas, a non-negotiable demand for integrity in the conduct of inquiry, and an intrepid belief in the transformative power of education."

To Leach—whose commitment to higher education, the arts, and humanities has received public recognition in the form of 13 honorary degrees, decorations from two foreign governments, and many prestigious awards—the University of Iowa reflects not only an environment of academic excellence, but also one of warm friends and colleagues.

"We live in a fractured world where events in one part can affect gravely peoples and places far distant," he says. "In this circumstance where so many things happen beyond our control, it is important to have roots—family, faith, friends, community. Ties of loyalty give compass and meaning to life. All of us need things to love that can be shared. This university is one."

Thanks to the longtime loyalty and steadfast support of Jim Leach, the University of Iowa is indeed a stronger, richer place.

Leach is a member of the UI Foundation's Presidents Club.


Awards & Honors
  • Wayne Morse Integrity in Politics Award
  • Sidney R. Yates Award for Distinguished Public Service to the Humanities, National Humanities Alliance
  • Adlai Stevenson Award, United Nations Association
  • Norman Borlaug Public Service Award
  • Woodrow Wilson Medal, Princeton University

Bill Lynch, 00BS

2015 Distinguished Alumni Friend Award

Bill Lynch, 00BS, and Matt Tucker, 00BS, are the successful founders of Jive Software, a start-up that went public in 2011 at a value of $900 million and now boasts a client roster that includes some of the top corporations in America.

The Lynch and Tucker story began at the University of Iowa, where the partners showed early enthusiasm for software development and first conceived of their idea. While they worked toward their computer science degrees, the two displayed a level of innovative spirit and entrepreneurial ambition that distinguished them from their peers—many of whom took jobs at established tech giants instead of creating their own endeavors.

"...it's really the culture we built and the positive work environment we created. I heard from many people that Jive was the best job they ever had."

"Bill and Matt's ability to take skills acquired in the classroom and develop them through their extracurricular participation is a blueprint for today's students," notes Alberto Maria Segre, professor and chair of the UI Department of Computer Science. "[They] were well aware that they were not only competing with peer companies in the marketplace, but also giants of the industry. The mettle displayed by two native Iowa Citians in the early days of Jive is what made the company great."

With a clear vision, brilliant programming skills, and a knack for business, Lynch and Tucker poised themselves to provide an enterprise platform that would allow teams within large corporations—with projects in many locations—to communicate in an efficient, productive way. Jive products do just this, improving the back-and-forth necessary among businesses, employees, and customers to strengthen workplace performance.

Lynch began as the company's vice president of engineering and Tucker as chief technology officer, launching their venture in 2001 with many long days in their downtown Iowa City office. Computer hardware and software corporation Sun Microsystems was among the startup's first clients; today, those customers include household names like NIKE, T-Mobile USA, and DIRECTV.

The co-founders eventually left Iowa City to establish Jive on the West Coast. In 2010, Tucker moved the headquarters to Palo Alto, while Lynch oversaw the Portland, Oregon office. In 2013, Lynch transitioned from a product management role to that of Jive advisor and a mentor to Portland's start-up community, lending his experience to the next generation of entrepreneurs. Tucker remains responsible for the long-term strategic development of Jive products.

Lynch and Tucker are thousands of miles and more than a decade into Jive's journey, but they still call on the diverse education, skills, and self-confidence they gained at the UI.

"It's tempting to say that the inception of the company or the public offering were my most proud moments," says Lynch. "However, it's really the culture we built and the positive work environment we created. I heard from many people that Jive was the best job they ever had."

Bill Lynch and Matt Tucker are exemplars of the kind of self-motivated thinkers the University of Iowa hopes to produce—and they've demonstrated that education and enterprise can make dreams come true.


Career Highlights
  • Restarted the UI’s student chapter of the Association of Computing Machinery
  • Developed a special reading course to master the contents of a book titled Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software with Steven Bruell, professor emeritus of computer science
  • 40 Under 40, Portland Business Journal, 2013
  • Entrepreneur-in-residence at the Portland Development Commission, 2013-present

Diane Magrane, 74BA, 78MD

2015 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Diane Magrane, 74BA, 78MD, a renowned visionary in women's health and academic medicine, has nurtured hundreds of women leaders to take the reins in academic health sciences and engineering.

A proud graduate of the University of Iowa who earned a bachelor's degree in zoology in 1974, and a doctorate of medicine in 1978, Magrane began her career fostering the next generation of physician leaders and scholars as an undergraduate education coordinator at the St. Louis University School of Medicine. In 1986, she joined the University of Vermont College of Medicine, where she designed an integrated medical education program that encourages students to help shape the future of health care. Says Harvard Macy Institute Director and long time collaborator Elizabeth Armstrong, "Her creative work resulted in one of the country's most innovative curricula addressing the needs of the students and patients in ways that were setting new standards for health care education."

"I was an 18-year-old aspiring poet when I arrived and a 26-year-old physician when I left."

A leader in obstetrics and gynecology, Magrane has made an enormous impact on the advancement of women in medicine. From 2004 to 2009, she revamped many women's leadership programs and became founder of an online professional development publication for medical faculty as a director at the Association of American Medical Colleges in Washington, DC.

Magrane now serves as executive director of the International Center for Executive Leadership in Academics at Drexel University in Philadelphia. Home to the country's premier women's leadership programs, the center celebrated the 20th anniversary last year of its award-winning Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine offering. In 2013, Magrane launched a similar program for the advancement of women leaders in the underrepresented fields of science and engineering, earning a national Women in Engineering Initiative Award for Executive Leadership in Academic Technology and Engineering (ELATE) at Drexel from the Women in Engineering ProActive Network.

Magrane's influence on the future of medical education extends to the international level. In 2001, she became president of the American Professors of Gynecology and Obstetrics (APGO), setting national guidelines for undergraduate medical education in women's health. Magrane also built the women's health and rights curriculum for the International Federation of Obstetrics and Gynecology, improving the education and clinical care among health care providers. In 2006, APGO recognized her transformative leadership in medical education with a Wyeth Career Achievement Award.

Magrane credits the UI's rich liberal arts education for nurturing her passion for learning. "I was an 18-year-old aspiring poet when I arrived and a 26-year-old physician when I left," says Magrane, who has since served on the UI Carver College of Medicine Dean's Alumni Advisory Council. The college recognized her in 2002 with its Distinguished Alumna Award for Achievement. "Do your homework. Be clear on your goals. Deliver on what you promise. Some would say this last phrase is basic Midwestern work ethic. It works all over the world to garner respect and engagement."

An authentic leader, Diane Magrane has improved medical education and leadership on a global level and remains a strong advocate for women in science.

Magrane is a life member of the UI Alumni Association.


Career Highlights
  • St. Louis University School of Medicine, 1982-85
  • University of Vermont College of Medicine, Burlington, Vermont, 1986-2004
  • Fletcher Allen Health Care, Burlington, Vermont, 1986-2004
  • Association of American Medical Colleges, Washington, DC, 2004-09
  • Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, 2008-present

Sally Mathis Hartwig,

2015 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Sally Mathis Hartwig, 75BSN, 77MA, longtime director of nursing at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, heightened UI nursing's reputation for excellence with her dedication to professional education and patient care.

After graduating with two UI degrees, Mathis Hartwig quickly began her 14-year run at the helm of UIHC nursing. The hospital's director emeritus John Colloton, 57MA, says she showed "exemplary qualities of leadership, professional achievements, and impeccable character" while guiding a 2,000-member staff through an unprecedented time of nursing shortages, increased responsibilities and demands on nurses, and breakthroughs in medical knowledge and technology.

During her tenure, UI Hospitals and Clinics became one of the nation's first hospitals to hire a nurse researcher in the clinical setting and began formal collaboration with the UI College of Nursing. The acclaimed partnership integrated the organizations to advance evidence-based nursing practice and the care patients receive.

Mathis Hartwig also launched revolutionary initiatives—including tuition reimbursement and mentorship programs—to help nurses further their education and rise to leadership. UIHC soon earned national attention for its ability to retain staff nurses.

“I was born to be a nurse. With my education and experience, I do what I can to teach and assist others as long as I am able.”

Most notably, Mathis Hartwig developed a shared governance model to the hospital that became the foundation for the prestigious Magnet designations the UIHC achieved in 2004, 2008, and 2013. Says Ann Williamson, former UI Health Care associate vice president for nursing, "Because of Sally's leadership, our hospital is a beacon for nursing excellence."

To celebrate Mathis Hartwig's achievements, her colleagues established a nursing education and advancement fund, and an endowed professorship in gerontological nursing research in her honor. Mathis Hartwig also funds UI scholarships awarded to practicing UIHC nurses, and, in 1999, received one of the first UI College of Nursing Distinguished Alumni Service Awards.

Despite her retirement in 1995, Mathis Hartwig remains actively engaged in the community. The Dayton, Iowa, native acted as a UIHC interim associate director, as well as a member of the board of directors for the Oaknoll retirement residence in Iowa City, the Visiting Nurse Association of Johnson County, and the Home Life Health Care Organization. Mathis Hartwig also served five years on the Iowa Board of Nursing Home Examiners and has logged more than 1,500 hours of service as a UIHC volunteer. In 2012, the local Sertoma club recognized her with the Service to Mankind Award.

"To me, success means acting in a way that benefits others," says Mathis Hartwig. "I was born to be a nurse, and, with my education and experience, I do what I can to teach and assist others as long as I am able."

Without doubt, Sally Mathis Hartwig achieved success in guiding the UIHC's most comprehensive and critically important patient care service through a period of growth and national recognition.

Mathis Hartwig is a life member of the UI Alumni Association and a member of the UI Foundation's Presidents Club.


Career Highlights
  • Director of nursing, UIHC, 1979-88
  • Associate director and director of nursing, UIHC, 1988-93
  • Associate director, UIHC, 1993-95
  • Interim associate director, UIHC for Nursing and Patient Care Services, 1998

Dana Ramundt, 74BBA

2015 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

Dana Ramundt, 74BBA, a recognized leader in the insurance industry, is widely known for reintroducing a curriculum to the Tippie College of Business that has left an indelible mark on the University of Iowa, its students, and the insurance field.

At the UI, Ramundt studied under Emmett Vaughan, an admired name in the insurance world with a knack for bringing unexpected life to his subject matter. So great was his influence that Ramundt celebrates 43 years in the industry this year.

After graduation, Ramundt launched his insurance career with positions in Mason City and Des Moines, but ultimately started his own insurance agency, the Dana Company, in 1989—five years after the UI opted to end its Vaughan-developed focused insurance program. But Ramundt clearly understood the industry's vital role in Iowa's economic well-being and eventually approached the business school in the early 2000s about once again offering the curriculum.

"I think of all the incredible, accomplished alumni of this great university and you are honoring me, an insurance agent who grew up on a turkey farm in central Iowa. One needs to understand the immense pride I have."

With integrity and a clear passion for his work, Ramundt successfully convinced Tippie leaders to reinstate an institute that would provide students with a certificate in risk management and insurance. In 2002, the Board of Regents, State of Iowa, approved the plan and Ramundt set about securing financial support. When Vaughan died in 2004, Ramundt proposed naming the institute in his honor.

The Emmett J. Vaughan Institute of Risk Management and Insurance began offering courses in 2004, with the first graduates receiving their certificates in 2006. Since that time, some 268 graduates have earned their certificates and more than 300 students enroll in one or more insurance and risk management courses each year. Additionally, the institute provides programs that include career coaching, résumé and interview preparation, scholarships, internships, opportunities for full-time placement, and access to a career network.

Jon Raftis, 10BBA, a certificate recipient and account executive in Des Moines, says there's no question Ramundt blazed the trail for him and so many others. Says Raftis, "I had an extremely beneficial and memorable experience as a student in the Vaughan Institute, and Dana is a large reason why that was made possible."

Gracious and humble, Ramundt is touched by this honor: "I think of all the incredible, accomplished alumni of this great university and you are honoring me, an insurance agent who grew up on a turkey farm in central Iowa. One needs to understand the immense pride I have."

Ramundt's vision means Iowa's many insurance companies now benefit from an in-state program that ensures its graduates have the skills necessary to succeed—not only here, but around the nation and globe. Dana Ramundt simply wanted to give future students what was given to him, and his exemplary dedication to others deserves applause.

Ramundt is a life member of the UI Alumni Association and a member of the UI Foundation's Presidents Club.


Volunteer Highlights
  • President of the Independent Insurance Agents of Iowa, 2001-02 (Agent of the Year in 2008)
  • National director of the Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers of America, 2006-08
  • Founder of the Dana Ramundt Insurance Education Foundation for student scholarships
  • Founder of the Dana Ramundt Golf Outing that raises funds for the Vaughan Institute
  • Member of the Vaughan Institute Advisory Board

Jay Sieleman, 75BA, 78JD

2015 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

Jay Sieleman, 75BA, 78JD, is credited with skillfully and almost single-handedly saving the Memphis-based Blues Foundation, and, in the process, reviving blues music itself—an art form at the heart of the nation's cultural heritage.

Thanks to his tireless leadership, the once-flailing Blues Foundation is now the largest and most renowned blues organization in the world. Since arriving there in 2003, Sieleman has grown the foundation's net worth by millions and tripled membership to 4,500 individuals, plus 200 affiliated blues societies representing another 50,000 fans around the globe.

"Blues takes away the blues. The university honors blues music when it honors me."

Sieleman grew up in Oelwein, Iowa, around a music-loving family. A free spirit of the 1960s, he initially had no plans to attend college, but eventually enrolled at the University of Iowa in 1973. At the UI, Sieleman developed the critical thinking skills, work ethic, and professionalism that prepared him for a law career that took him from Polk County, Iowa, to Panama.

While working as an attorney for the Panama Canal Commission, Sieleman began serving as a volunteer nonprofit law advisor to the Blues Foundation. He'd also ignited a passion for blues and had become familiar with the organization's mission to preserve the music, celebrate recording and performance excellence, support blues education, and strengthen the future of a music profoundly important to American history. But he soon discovered financial and administrative mismanagement had left the foundation teetering on the edge of bankruptcy and irrelevancy. Blues Foundation board members noted Sieleman's dedication and knowledge and invited him to join the staff permanently, hoping he could make a difference.

"The blues is played by incredibly talented musicians who are very giving people and engaged with their fans," says Sieleman, now the foundation's president and CEO, who has thrilled at working with his musical heroes over the years. "Blues takes away the blues. The university honors blues music when it honors me."

Among Sieleman's achievements at the Blues Foundation, he reinvigorated the highly visible Blues Music Awards and the International Blues Challenge performance programs. He also developed initiatives to extend community outreach, provide medical and health support to musicians, and grant educational and scholarship opportunities for the next generation of blues players. Says Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Dion DiMucci, "It would have been easy for Jay to maintain an organization that was essentially a fan club…an echo chamber or a perpetual nostalgia trip. Now, thanks to Jay, the blues has assumed its rightful place as an ambassador for American music."

This past May, Sieleman attended the grand opening of a capstone project—the $3 million, 12,000-square-foot Blues Hall of Fame in downtown Memphis. When he steps down from his post in September, Jay Sieleman can take pride in knowing he's left behind a legacy of attention and recognition for the blues.

Sieleman is a life member of the UI Alumni Association.


Career Highlights
  • Assistant county attorney and the state’s first full-time juvenile prosecutor, Polk County Attorney’s Office, Des Moines, 1978-1982
  • Provincial legal advisor, Peace Corps, Solomon Islands, South Pacific, 1983-85
  • Assistant regional attorney, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Atlanta, 1986-87
  • Assistant general counsel for the Panama Canal Commission, 1987-2000
  • Blues Foundation advisory board volunteer, 1999-2003
  • Director of administration, Blues Foundation, 2003-05
  • Executive director, Blues Foundation, 2005-12
  • President and chief executive officer, Blues Foundation, 2012-present

Matt Tucker, 00BS

2015 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

Bill Lynch, 00BS, and Matt Tucker, 00BS, are the successful founders of Jive Software, a start-up that went public in 2011 at a value of $900 million and now boasts a client roster that includes some of the top corporations in America.

The Lynch and Tucker story began at the University of Iowa, where the partners showed early enthusiasm for software development and first conceived of their idea. While they worked toward their computer science degrees, the two displayed a level of innovative spirit and entrepreneurial ambition that distinguished them from their peers—many of whom took jobs at established tech giants instead of creating their own endeavors.

"...it's really the culture we built and the positive work environment we created. I heard from many people that Jive was the best job they ever had."

"Bill and Matt's ability to take skills acquired in the classroom and develop them through their extracurricular participation is a blueprint for today's students," notes Alberto Maria Segre, professor and chair of the UI Department of Computer Science. "[They] were well aware that they were not only competing with peer companies in the marketplace, but also giants of the industry. The mettle displayed by two native Iowa Citians in the early days of Jive is what made the company great."

With a clear vision, brilliant programming skills, and a knack for business, Lynch and Tucker poised themselves to provide an enterprise platform that would allow teams within large corporations—with projects in many locations—to communicate in an efficient, productive way. Jive products do just this, improving the back-and-forth necessary among businesses, employees, and customers to strengthen workplace performance.

Lynch began as the company's vice president of engineering and Tucker as chief technology officer, launching their venture in 2001 with many long days in their downtown Iowa City office. Computer hardware and software corporation Sun Microsystems was among the startup's first clients; today, those customers include household names like NIKE, T-Mobile USA, and DIRECTV.

The co-founders eventually left Iowa City to establish Jive on the West Coast. In 2010, Tucker moved the headquarters to Palo Alto, while Lynch oversaw the Portland, Oregon office. In 2013, Lynch transitioned from a product management role to that of Jive advisor and a mentor to Portland's start-up community, lending his experience to the next generation of entrepreneurs. Tucker remains responsible for the long-term strategic development of Jive products.

Lynch and Tucker are thousands of miles and more than a decade into Jive's journey, but they still call on the diverse education, skills, and self-confidence they gained at the UI.

"It's tempting to say that the inception of the company or the public offering were my most proud moments," says Lynch. "However, it's really the culture we built and the positive work environment we created. I heard from many people that Jive was the best job they ever had."

Bill Lynch and Matt Tucker are exemplars of the kind of self-motivated thinkers the University of Iowa hopes to produce—and they've demonstrated that education and enterprise can make dreams come true.


Career Highlights
  • Restarted the UI’s student chapter of the Association of Computing Machinery
  • Developed a special reading course to master the contents of a book titled Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software with Steven Bruell, professor emeritus of computer science
  • Former board member of the OpenSocial and XMPP Standards foundations

Leon J. Aden, 80BS, 82MS

2014 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

Leon J. Aden, 80BS, 82MS, regularly travels the globe as a top-level geologist with ExxonMobil, but he still finds time to return to the University of Iowa as a dedicated volunteer, mentor, and advisor.

When he's not busy leading exploration and development evaluations of places as far-flung as Africa, Asia, and the Arctic, Aden invests in his alma mater through gifts of guidance and resources.

Aden's ties to Iowa run deep. After high school, he enrolled in what is now the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences in the UI College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (CLAS), earning a bachelor's degree in geology in 1980. He completed his master's degree in 1982 at Iowa, focusing his thesis on clay mineralogy and deposition environments in eastern Kansas, western Missouri, and northeastern Oklahoma.

After graduation, the young scientist began work for Exxon Corporation, which hired him to help sustain gas production in South Texas. Aden quickly proved a talented geologist, and in 1990, he was transferred to Exxon Exploration, where he searched for oil and gas fields in Trinidad, Papua New Guinea, West Africa, South America, and Europe.

By 2003, Aden had joined ExxonMobil Upstream Research to help develop predictive models of clastic reservoirs, and in 2004, he moved to ExxonMobil Development Company to supervise development of Nigerian deep-water fields. Since returning in 2007 to ExxonMobil Exploration, where he uses advanced modeling techniques to target complex oil and gas-reservoir systems, he has become one of the company's go-to people for addressing challenging problems from an interdisciplinary perspective.

In Iowa, Aden represents ExxonMobil on the UI campus, where he regularly mentors and recruits students—and is almost singlehandedly responsible for all the Hawkeye hires that ExxonMobil's geosciences division has made in the last 15 years. In addition, he has volunteered for the UI geoscience alumni advisory board and is a longtime member and former chair of the CLAS dean's advisory board. Sam Bromberger, who served with Aden on the dean's advisory board, says that his colleague has the ability to "understand problems quickly, formulate solutions, estimate resources at his disposal, develop and execute a plan, and lead his team members to a satisfactory solution."

This problem-solving approach also fuels Aden's generous UI giving. He and his wife, Vicki McDonald Aden, 81BSIE, have donated more than $500,000 to Iowa, supporting areas that honor the spirit of his work in exploration and discovery. They have directed their contributions to departments that pursue particularly imaginative and promising programs, such as the Iowa Writers' Workshop. The Adens also created an endowed Excellence and Innovation Fund for the UI College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and in 2007 hosted a successful fundraiser for the Maia Quartet at their Houston home.

Through his staunch support of the University of Iowa—and his impressive, 30-year career as a first-rate geologist—Leon J. Aden has been both a local and global champion of UI education.

Aden is a sustaining life member of the UI Alumni Association and a member of the UI Foundation's Presidents Club.


Avery L. Bang, 07BA, 07BSE

2014 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

Avery L. Bang, 07BA, 07BSE, one of the top 10 engineers under the age of 30 in the United States, has used her skills to help transform rural communities in underserved nations by building bridges.

Bang began her globally significant work at the University of Iowa, where she majored in civil engineering. In addition to working as an undergraduate research assistant in the hydraulics lab and as a structural engineering intern, Bang served as president of Engineers for a Sustainable World and as founding president of the UI student chapter of Engineers Without Borders. But it was on a study-abroad trip to Fiji that she had a life- and career-changing experience.

The trip inspired Bang to form a branch of the nonprofit organization Bridges to Prosperity to raise funds and then build a bridge in a remote area of Peru. She and her team spent more than two full semesters—and 500 work hours—completing the bridge that enabled residents to access healthcare, education, and jobs on the other side of a river.

After graduation, Bang earned her master's degree in geotechnical engineering at the University of Colorado at Boulder, conducting her graduate research with Bernard Amadei, an elected member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering and National Academy of Construction. In 2008, she joined Bridges to Prosperity, eventually becoming the organization's chief executive officer. Inspired by her passion and drive, the group has built 130 bridges in 14 countries; helped millions of people gain access to vital healthcare, educational, and commercial services; and grown its annual income to more than $2 million. "What Avery has created is amazing," says Ken Frantz, founder of Bridges to Prosperity. "Millions of lives changed in dramatic fashion. Millions lifted out of extreme poverty. Thousands inspired by her mentorship. Thousands educated and trained. And yet, she has just started."

Indeed, Bang not only teaches a course at the University of Colorado's Mortenson Center for Engineering, but she also helps researchers and students develop alternative-energy solutions for developing communities. She gave a presentation watched by 2,000 people at TEDx Boulder and has been a keynote speaker at dozens of other conferences and events.

Though she helps solve problems throughout the world, Bang also works to tackle issues at her alma mater as a member of the UI College of Engineering's Department of Civil Engineering advisory board and the UI College of Liberal Arts and Sciences' young alumni advisory board.

Such activism has earned Bang a number of prestigious and highly competitive awards, including being named in 2011 as one of the American Society of Civil Engineers' New Faces of Civil Engineering, in 2012 as one of the Engineering-News Record's (ENR) Top 25 Newsmakers, and in 2013 to the ENR Mountain Region's Top 20 Under 40 list. Bang also earned the Recent Alumni Award from the University of Colorado at Boulder, and she will receive an honorary doctorate degree from Clarkson University this year.

By using her education, skills, and passion to build bridges throughout the world, Avery L. Bang is helping countless people in poor communities step into a brighter, promising future.


Joel D. Barkan,

2014 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

Joel D. Barkan and Sandra "Sandy" Hackman Barkan, 84PhD, brought international education to life at the University of Iowa, helping establish Iowa's reputation as a cosmopolitan institution that welcomes students from all countries.

Joel Barkan, a graduate of Cornell University and the University of California, Los Angeles, joined the UI's Department of Political Science in 1972. He stayed for 33 years, teaching and conducting research on the politics of developing countries, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa.

In 1962, as a participant in Crossroads Africa—a volunteer program that preceded the U.S. Peace Corps—Joel traveled to Kenya. The country inspired him to become an internationally respected scholar and advisor who straddled the worlds of academe and policy. Over four decades of teaching, research, and government service, he worked in African nations including Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia. In addition to authoring numerous scholarly articles on critical issues such as higher education and governance, democratization, politics and public policy, electoral systems, and legislative programs, he also served as a consultant for the World Bank, the United Nations Development Program, the U.S. Agency for International Development, and many nongovernmental organizations.

While Joel helped "map" Africa from a political perspective, Sandra "Sandy" Barkan took a literary approach. She earned her UI Ph.D. degree in comparative literature with a focus on African literatures and brought that academic knowledge, along with the experience of living around the world, to her interdisciplinary teaching at the UI. As assistant and then associate dean of the Graduate College, Sandy also helped ensure that foreign graduate students who came to Iowa encountered a welcoming environment. Her dedication earned her the UI African Students Association Star Award and the African Studies Association Special Recognition Award.

Joel and Sandy also furthered the cause of international education at the UI. Joel founded the Iowa City Foreign Relations Council and played a key role in establishing and nurturing the UI's Center for International and Comparative Studies and then International Programs. Sandy guided the International Writing Program (IWP) through its most turbulent period and helped save it from closure. Says the program's director, Christopher Merrill, "Without Sandy, there would be no IWP."

In 2008, as UI emeritus professors, the Barkans moved to Washington, DC, where Joel became a senior associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and Sandy joined the Meridian International Center as a program officer.

Sadly, Joel passed away in January 2014. In a tribute, former Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga wrote, "Kenya lost a true friend. But Kenya has to march on toward a true democracy. That is what Joel longed for through a halfcentury of his association with the country he loved." Indeed, Joel dedicated his career to African and developing countries throughout the world. Together with Sandy, he enriched the lives of innumerable people by championing the cause of international relations.

In the 21st century, successful universities must be global institutions. Thanks to Joel and Sandra Barkan's vision and dedication, the University of Iowa is well-equipped to meet this new era.

Sandra Barkan is a member of the UI Foundation's Presidents Club.


Charles W. Becker, 76BA

2014 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

Charles W. Becker, 76BA, has devoted his professional life to working with people with disabilities, transforming a fledgling program into a state-of-the art camp that offers courage and inspiration to more than 6,500 people each year.

As the executive director of Camp Courageous, a nonprofit organization that provides year-round respite services for children and adults with special needs, Becker has been tireless in his efforts to connect with others and serve his community.

Becker can trace his community involvement back to his high school days in Dubuque, Iowa, where he became the first male page in Dubuque County to serve in the Iowa Legislature. He went on to attend the University of Iowa, working three jobs and finishing a bachelor's degree in 1976 after only three years.

Becker left for England to teach at Exeter College and Priory High School, and then returned to his home state to teach government for three years at Central Lee High School in Argyle, Iowa. In 1980, at the age of 25, he accepted a position as the executive director of the recently founded Camp Courageous.

When Becker was hired, Camp Courageous served a few hundred campers in a facility comprised of five buildings. Today—thanks to his leadership and tireless fundraising—the camp has a $3 million budget funded primarily by donors, and it attracts more than 6,500 campers annually. Now spreading over 200 acres of land, the camp boasts 25 facilities, including an Olympic-sized swimming pool, zip lines, a climbing wall, a miniature train, and a farm with animals.

Despite long hours working to support Camp Courageous, Becker still finds time to fulfill numerous other civic duties. He is president of the board of trustees for the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library Association in West Branch, Iowa, and president of the board for the Jones Regional Medical Center—where he co-chaired a capital campaign to build a much-needed hospital. He serves on the National Board of Presidential Libraries, the Monticello School Foundation, the Monticello Airport Board, and the Jones Regional Medical Center Foundation Board, has been a member of the former Monticello State Bank board of directors and the Monticello Development Board, and helped establish the Iowa Brain Injury Association. He also has provided consistent and generous support to the University of Iowa for more than 40 years.

As a result of such dedication, Becker has garnered many honors, including the Iowa Jaycees Outstanding Young Iowan Award, the Monticello Community Pride Award, the first Iowa State Fair "Iowan of the Day" award, and the Cedar Rapids Freedom Festival Hero and parade grand marshall distinctions.

Says Becker's friend Lance Greco, "Charlie Becker could have gone on to be CEO of almost any organization imaginable. Fortunately for the campers and their families, whose lives are so dramatically impacted by Camp Courageous, he chose a little place in the woods in Monticello, Iowa."

Through his devotion, vision, and hands-on approach, Charles W. Becker has spent a lifetime modeling the Camp Courageous motto: "We are more alike than we are different."

Becker is a member of the UI Alumni Association's Old Capitol Club and the UI Foundation's Presidents Club.


Mitchell Burgess, 78BA

2014 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Mitchell Burgess, 78BA, and Robin L. Green, 77MFA, are a literary power couple who have written and produced some of the most highly acclaimed television shows of the last two decades, rejecting standard tropes in favor of exceptional storytelling.

Not only has this talented husband-and-wife team crafted award-winning tales throughout their distinguished careers, but they also have remained loyal to the alma mater that launched their personal and professional partnership.

Burgess, who came to the University of Iowa on the G.I. Bill, first met Green when he enrolled in a fictionwriting class for which she was the teaching fellow. She had arrived at the UI after completing her undergraduate degree in American literature from Brown University in 1967 and working as a contributing editor for Rolling Stone. She attended the Iowa Writers' Workshop, receiving her M.F.A. degree in 1977, and Burgess completed his undergraduate degree in history in 1978.

After graduation, Green and Burgess moved to Los Angeles, where John Falsey, a workshop classmate, asked Green to write a script for a show he'd co-created called A Year in the Life. Burgess and Green then began their collaboration on Northern Exposure, finding their calling as the writers and producers of widely lauded television shows featuring complex characters and deep themes. Alan MacVey, director of the UI Division of Performing Arts and chair of the UI Department of Theatre Arts, says, "Their work helped transform television from a moderately entertaining medium to one of the most creative enterprises in recent history."

Beginning with an Emmy and Golden Globes for Northern Exposure, Burgess and Green have won every major award in their field. They are best known for their work on the groundbreaking HBO series The Sopranos, which earned Emmys in 2001 and 2003 for Outstanding Writing in a Drama Series; the 2004 Emmy, Outstanding Drama Series; the 2005 Producers Guild Award, Outstanding Producer of Episodic Television, Drama; and the 2007 Writers Guild Award, Dramatic Series.

Most recently, Burgess and Green have created the highly rated CBS show Blue Bloods, now completing its fourth season and recently sold into worldwide syndication.

Throughout, the two never forgot the University of Iowa. They have returned to campus to meet with students and, in 2002, established the Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess Fund for the Iowa Writers' Workshop. In 2004, they were honored as UI College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Alumni Fellows for their outstanding contributions to their professions and society.

Indeed, Robin L. Green and Mitchell Burgess have written and produced some of the most groundbreaking shows on television, creating stories with depth, intrigue, and integrity that continue to resonate.

Green and Burgess are members of the UI Alumni Association's Old Capitol Club and the UI Foundation's Presidents Club.


Julie Durr,

2014 Distinguished Alumni Friend Award

Mike and Nicole Gerdin, 93BA, 94MA, Julie and Eric Durr, and Angela and Brian Janssen are sustaining a Gerdin family tradition of visionary philanthropy that helps change lives.

This tradition began more than three decades ago when, in 1980, Russ and Ann Gerdin—founders of Heartland Express, a nationwide company specializing in logistics and transportation—made their first gift to the UI. Since then, the Gerdin family has been a force for good in both the university and the community.

Russ and Ann Gerdin instilled the importance of philanthropy in their three children—Mike, Julie, and Angela—from an early age, and the power of this lesson is evident throughout the UI campus today.

The Gerdins established the Russell A. and Ann Gerdin Athletic Learning Center, which provides academic resources to 650 student-athletes each year, and the Russ and Ann Gerdin Family Athletic Scholarship Fund, which helps Hawkeye student-athletes who demonstrate excellence in academics, athletics, and community service. The family also recently contributed toward the construction of the UI Football Operations Center, set to open this fall. In addition, the Gerdins have supported the UI Athletics Hall of Fame and Visitors Center, which enriches the experiences of many loyal Hawkeyes who visit campus.

The family's passion for giving also extends to UI health care. In memory of Russ Gerdin, who died in 2011, the family helps advance the work of the J. Hayden Fry Center for Prostate Cancer Research. They also provide a home-like atmosphere for cancer patients and their families at the Russell and Ann Gerdin American Cancer Society Hope Lodge.

Most recently, the family made a $12 million donation—the largest gift received to date—for the UI Children's Hospital building campaign to help create a healthier future for the children of Iowa and beyond.

Like their parents—who received the UI Alumni Association's Distinguished Friend of the University award in 2006—the Gerdin children and their spouses all are active members of the community, volunteering their time and talents for numerous civic and charitable organizations.

Mike Gerdin is the chairman, president, and CEO of Heartland Express, and he provides valuable leadership on the Henry B. Tippie College of Business board of visitors. His sister Julie Durr, an events coordinator at Heartland, has enriched the community by donating her time to the Iowa Children's Museum board of directors, the Iowa Arts Festival, and the Solon Education Foundation board of directors. Angela is an enthusiastic and dedicated volunteer for the various Gerdin-supported projects on the UI campus.

"Mike, Julie, Angie, and their respective families (they have 12 children among them) are all remarkable in their work ethic, their dedication to family, and their resolve to make the University of Iowa one of this nation's best medical research and clinical care programs," say friends E.J. and Joanne Buresh. "The family continues to have a profound impact upon the quality of life for Iowans."

Through their loyalty and strong-rooted belief in giving back, Mike and Nicole Gerdin, Julie and Eric Durr, and Angela and Brian Janssen are helping Iowa shine.

The Gerdins are members of the UI Foundation's Presidents Club.


Eric Durr,

2014 Distinguished Alumni Friend Award

Mike and Nicole Gerdin, 93BA, 94MA, Julie and Eric Durr, and Angela and Brian Janssen are sustaining a Gerdin family tradition of visionary philanthropy that helps change lives.

This tradition began more than three decades ago when, in 1980, Russ and Ann Gerdin—founders of Heartland Express, a nationwide company specializing in logistics and transportation—made their first gift to the UI. Since then, the Gerdin family has been a force for good in both the university and the community.

Russ and Ann Gerdin instilled the importance of philanthropy in their three children—Mike, Julie, and Angela—from an early age, and the power of this lesson is evident throughout the UI campus today.

The Gerdins established the Russell A. and Ann Gerdin Athletic Learning Center, which provides academic resources to 650 student-athletes each year, and the Russ and Ann Gerdin Family Athletic Scholarship Fund, which helps Hawkeye student-athletes who demonstrate excellence in academics, athletics, and community service. The family also recently contributed toward the construction of the UI Football Operations Center, set to open this fall. In addition, the Gerdins have supported the UI Athletics Hall of Fame and Visitors Center, which enriches the experiences of many loyal Hawkeyes who visit campus.

The family's passion for giving also extends to UI health care. In memory of Russ Gerdin, who died in 2011, the family helps advance the work of the J. Hayden Fry Center for Prostate Cancer Research. They also provide a home-like atmosphere for cancer patients and their families at the Russell and Ann Gerdin American Cancer Society Hope Lodge.

Most recently, the family made a $12 million donation—the largest gift received to date—for the UI Children's Hospital building campaign to help create a healthier future for the children of Iowa and beyond.

Like their parents—who received the UI Alumni Association's Distinguished Friend of the University award in 2006—the Gerdin children and their spouses all are active members of the community, volunteering their time and talents for numerous civic and charitable organizations.

Mike Gerdin is the chairman, president, and CEO of Heartland Express, and he provides valuable leadership on the Henry B. Tippie College of Business board of visitors. His sister Julie Durr, an events coordinator at Heartland, has enriched the community by donating her time to the Iowa Children's Museum board of directors, the Iowa Arts Festival, and the Solon Education Foundation board of directors. Angela is an enthusiastic and dedicated volunteer for the various Gerdin-supported projects on the UI campus.

"Mike, Julie, Angie, and their respective families (they have 12 children among them) are all remarkable in their work ethic, their dedication to family, and their resolve to make the University of Iowa one of this nation's best medical research and clinical care programs," say friends E.J. and Joanne Buresh. "The family continues to have a profound impact upon the quality of life for Iowans."

Through their loyalty and strong-rooted belief in giving back, Mike and Nicole Gerdin, Julie and Eric Durr, and Angela and Brian Janssen are helping Iowa shine.

The Gerdins are members of the UI Foundation's Presidents Club.


Rinde W. Eckert, 73BM

2014 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Rinde W. Eckert, 73BM, is a major American playwright, performer, composer, and director whose extraordinary body of work is a tour de force in the world of performing arts.

The son of a voice professor in the University of Iowa School of Music, Eckert understood from an early age that "all the world's a stage," and he appeared in a number of student productions while majoring in music at Iowa.

After earning his UI bachelor's degree in 1973, Eckert went on to complete his master's in music in 1975 at Yale University. During the early years of his career, he was a writer and performer who produced librettos and composed dance scores. In 1992—well on his way to becoming a "total theater performer"—he began composing and performing his own music-theater pieces. His first work, The Gardening of Thomas D, which was an homage to Dante, toured in the United States and France.

Today, Eckert enjoys a global reputation as a groundbreaking and interdisciplinary artist. His music-theater productions have been performed throughout America and at major theater festivals in Europe and Asia, and he has earned dozens of honors, beginning with a 1987 Critics Circle Award in San Francisco.

In 2007, Eckert was one of three finalists for a Pulitzer Prize for his play Orpheus X. He also received a 2000 Obie Award for Best Performance for his And God Created Great Whales. In the words of one review, "And God Created Great Whales is not watched so much as it is experienced, and its haunting images are the sort that stick with the viewer long after the curtains have gone down."

In addition to his tremendous theatrical success, Eckert also has proven himself a firstrate composer, librettist, and director of musical works. He collaborated with other artists on highly-praised works such as the Sandhills Reunion CD, Horizon, The Schick Machine, and Dreamhouse, which received three 2010 Grammy nominations for Best Classical Album; Best Orchestral Performance; and Best Engineered Album, Classical. Eckert also wrote and performed in the multimedia production, Slide, with eighth blackbird. Renamed Lonely Motel by Cedille Records, it won the 2011 Grammy Award for Best Small Ensemble Performance.

As a fitting tribute to the breadth and depth of his originality and talent, the American Academy of Arts and Letters honored Eckert with a 2005 Marc Blitzstein Memorial Award. He also has been recognized through fellowships and grants as a Guggenheim fellow in music composition (2007), a recipient of the Alpert Award in the Arts for theater (2009), and as an inaugural Doris Duke Artist (2012).

Though he's performed as the headliner on stages around the globe, Eckert still has deep roots in Iowa. Returning often to the UI campus, he has performed at Hancher, created and directed two major works—A Tale They Told the Queen and Eye Piece—with the Department of Theatre Arts, and led several workshops with students.

Through his love of his craft, his care for his collaborators, and the originality of his artistic vision, Rinde W. Eckert has proved a true advocate for the arts and a true friend of the UI.


Cassandra S. Foens, 83BS, 87MD

2014 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

Cassandra S. Foens, 83BS, 87MD, is a highly regarded radiation oncologist and champion of educational causes whose personal contributions have allowed others to follow in her footsteps.

In a career spanning more than two decades, Foens has established herself as a successful physician in her hometown of Waterloo, Iowa—and in 2006, she became both the first woman and the first radiation oncologist from Iowa to be elected to the American College of Radiology (ACR) board of chancellors.

Foens received a bachelor's degree in 1983, earned her doctor of medicine degree in 1987, and completed a residency in radiation oncology in 1992—all at the University of Iowa. Following her UI training, Foens joined the Edward W. Sparrow Hospital in Lansing, Michigan, as a radiation oncologist. In 1994, she accepted a position with Clinical Radiologists at the Covenant Cancer Treatment Center in Waterloo, where she still works today.

Foens' passion for health care extends far beyond this practice, as she has served on the Cedar Valley Hospice Governing Board and the Wheaton Franciscan-Iowa Healthcare Board, and is the spokesperson for many cancerrelated topics. In addition to donating her time at community screenings and educational presentations, she also volunteered for Speaking of Women's Health—a national organization that assists women in making informed choices about their health.

Beyond these volunteer activities, Foens has helped create far-reaching educational opportunities for students through her generous personal giving. She made the lead contribution for a new science lab at Columbus High School in Waterloo and also established a scholarship with Dollars for Scholars for an X-ray technology student to attend the training program at Covenant Medical Center.

At her alma mater, Foens created the Cassandra S. Foens, M.D., Presidential Scholarship. Each fall, thanks to the Cassandra S. Foens, M.D., Lecture Series she established, UI students benefit from a lively and educational evening of discourse. Foens also supports the UI's N.E.W. Leadership Program, which seeks to increase the participation of underrepresented women in government, and she is a frequent donor to the UI Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine.

A firm believer in civic involvement, Foens serves on the UI Foundation board of directors and the governing board of the Covenant Foundation. She received the 2003 Friend of the Year award from KBBG Radio and the Association of Fundraising Professional's 2011 Outstanding Volunteer Fundraiser award.

Her investments in the community and at her alma mater have made an indelible impact on others. "Dr. Foens represents the best of what the University of Iowa provides to the state of Iowa and its students and alumni: personal accomplishment, generosity, and commitment to service," says Emily Anne Vail, a 2010 UI graduate who is completing an anesthesia residency at Columbia University Medical Center. "She has established a legacy that I aspire to one day continue."

Thanks to her deep commitment to service and engagement, Cassandra S. Foens will leave a lasting impression on all the patients, colleagues, and students whose lives she has touched.

Foens is a life member of the UI Alumni Association's Old Capitol Club and a member of the UI Foundation's Presidents Club.


Christina M. Freese-Decker, 02MS, 02MHA

2014 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

Christina M. "Tina" Freese-Decker, 02MS, 02MHA, has distinguished herself as an exceptional healthcare leader, becoming the youngest vice president of a $4.1 billion nonprofit health system.

This outstanding young alumna showed promise early in her studies at the University of Iowa, where in 2002 she earned master's degrees in health administration and industrial engineering. At Iowa, Freese-Decker received the Adrienne Astolfi Eddins Management Scholarship, awarded each year to an incoming female student judged to have great potential as a future executive. Indeed, after graduation, she proved her abilities by rising quickly through the ranks at Spectrum Health in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Starting at the healthcare organization as an administrative fellow in 2002, she soon became system director for planning and strategic development, followed by vice president of system strategic planning and development, and then executive director of Spectrum's regional hospital network. In 2011, Freese-Decker was promoted to president of Spectrum Health United and Kelsey Hospitals, and in 2012 and 2013, she helped lead the organization to recognition as a Truven Top 100 Hospital. Currently the senior vice president and chief strategy officer for Spectrum Health System, she develops and implements strategy for the system's 11 hospitals, a 1,000-member physician group, and a 570,000-member health plan.

Freese-Decker's many contributions to Spectrum Health include the development of a predictive-market model, the creation of a strategic plan, and oversight of a major construction and renovation project for the emergency department, diagnostics imaging center, heart and vascular center, and main lobby. In addition, she helped launch a physician relations program to improve engagement with physicians at Spectrum Health. Her accomplishments earned her the American College of Healthcare Executives' 2013 Robert S. Hudgens Memorial Award for Young Healthcare Executive of the Year. Previously, in 2006, she received that organization's Early Career Healthcare Executive's Regent's Award.

Richard C. Breon, the president and chief executive officer of Spectrum Health, says, "Tina has demonstrated a maturity and competency beyond her years, and her fast-track career is particularly of note in an organization of our size and complexity. Tina strikes the delicate balance of strategic planning and big-picture considerations with an uncanny attention to detail."

Such qualities have made Freese-Decker a true role model for others seeking similar success. According to Susan J. Curry, dean of the UI College of Public Health, "another indication of Tina's leadership is her interest in developing the careers of others through education and mentorship."

Freese-Decker works closely with the UI Department of Health Management and Policy (HMP) and frequently returns to campus to speak with students and interview HMP graduate students for fellowship positions at Spectrum Health. She's served as a past president of the HMP alumni board and currently holds positions on the ACHE Council of Regents for Michigan and Northwest Ohio and as a vice chair of the local YMCA.

Whether she is inspiring future executives or spearheading strategic plans, Christina M. Freese-Decker is a force for change in the world of health care.

Freese-Decker is an annual member of the UI Alumni Association.


Mike Gerdin,

2014 Distinguished Alumni Friend Award

Mike and Nicole Gerdin, 93BA, 94MA, Julie and Eric Durr, and Angela and Brian Janssen are sustaining a Gerdin family tradition of visionary philanthropy that helps change lives.

This tradition began more than three decades ago when, in 1980, Russ and Ann Gerdin—founders of Heartland Express, a nationwide company specializing in logistics and transportation—made their first gift to the UI. Since then, the Gerdin family has been a force for good in both the university and the community.

Russ and Ann Gerdin instilled the importance of philanthropy in their three children—Mike, Julie, and Angela—from an early age, and the power of this lesson is evident throughout the UI campus today.

The Gerdins established the Russell A. and Ann Gerdin Athletic Learning Center, which provides academic resources to 650 student-athletes each year, and the Russ and Ann Gerdin Family Athletic Scholarship Fund, which helps Hawkeye student-athletes who demonstrate excellence in academics, athletics, and community service. The family also recently contributed toward the construction of the UI Football Operations Center, set to open this fall. In addition, the Gerdins have supported the UI Athletics Hall of Fame and Visitors Center, which enriches the experiences of many loyal Hawkeyes who visit campus.

The family's passion for giving also extends to UI health care. In memory of Russ Gerdin, who died in 2011, the family helps advance the work of the J. Hayden Fry Center for Prostate Cancer Research. They also provide a home-like atmosphere for cancer patients and their families at the Russell and Ann Gerdin American Cancer Society Hope Lodge.

Most recently, the family made a $12 million donation—the largest gift received to date—for the UI Children's Hospital building campaign to help create a healthier future for the children of Iowa and beyond.

Like their parents—who received the UI Alumni Association's Distinguished Friend of the University award in 2006—the Gerdin children and their spouses all are active members of the community, volunteering their time and talents for numerous civic and charitable organizations.

Mike Gerdin is the chairman, president, and CEO of Heartland Express, and he provides valuable leadership on the Henry B. Tippie College of Business board of visitors. His sister Julie Durr, an events coordinator at Heartland, has enriched the community by donating her time to the Iowa Children's Museum board of directors, the Iowa Arts Festival, and the Solon Education Foundation board of directors. Angela is an enthusiastic and dedicated volunteer for the various Gerdin-supported projects on the UI campus.

"Mike, Julie, Angie, and their respective families (they have 12 children among them) are all remarkable in their work ethic, their dedication to family, and their resolve to make the University of Iowa one of this nation's best medical research and clinical care programs," say friends E.J. and Joanne Buresh. "The family continues to have a profound impact upon the quality of life for Iowans."

Through their loyalty and strong-rooted belief in giving back, Mike and Nicole Gerdin, Julie and Eric Durr, and Angela and Brian Janssen are helping Iowa shine.

The Gerdins are members of the UI Foundation's Presidents Club.


Nicole Gerdin, 93BA, 94MA

2014 Distinguished Alumni Friend Award

Mike and Nicole Gerdin, 93BA, 94MA, Julie and Eric Durr, and Angela and Brian Janssen are sustaining a Gerdin family tradition of visionary philanthropy that helps change lives.

This tradition began more than three decades ago when, in 1980, Russ and Ann Gerdin—founders of Heartland Express, a nationwide company specializing in logistics and transportation—made their first gift to the UI. Since then, the Gerdin family has been a force for good in both the university and the community.

Russ and Ann Gerdin instilled the importance of philanthropy in their three children—Mike, Julie, and Angela—from an early age, and the power of this lesson is evident throughout the UI campus today.

The Gerdins established the Russell A. and Ann Gerdin Athletic Learning Center, which provides academic resources to 650 student-athletes each year, and the Russ and Ann Gerdin Family Athletic Scholarship Fund, which helps Hawkeye student-athletes who demonstrate excellence in academics, athletics, and community service. The family also recently contributed toward the construction of the UI Football Operations Center, set to open this fall. In addition, the Gerdins have supported the UI Athletics Hall of Fame and Visitors Center, which enriches the experiences of many loyal Hawkeyes who visit campus.

The family's passion for giving also extends to UI health care. In memory of Russ Gerdin, who died in 2011, the family helps advance the work of the J. Hayden Fry Center for Prostate Cancer Research. They also provide a home-like atmosphere for cancer patients and their families at the Russell and Ann Gerdin American Cancer Society Hope Lodge.

Most recently, the family made a $12 million donation—the largest gift received to date—for the UI Children's Hospital building campaign to help create a healthier future for the children of Iowa and beyond.

Like their parents—who received the UI Alumni Association's Distinguished Friend of the University award in 2006—the Gerdin children and their spouses all are active members of the community, volunteering their time and talents for numerous civic and charitable organizations.

Mike Gerdin is the chairman, president, and CEO of Heartland Express, and he provides valuable leadership on the Henry B. Tippie College of Business board of visitors. His sister Julie Durr, an events coordinator at Heartland, has enriched the community by donating her time to the Iowa Children's Museum board of directors, the Iowa Arts Festival, and the Solon Education Foundation board of directors. Angela is an enthusiastic and dedicated volunteer for the various Gerdin-supported projects on the UI campus.

"Mike, Julie, Angie, and their respective families (they have 12 children among them) are all remarkable in their work ethic, their dedication to family, and their resolve to make the University of Iowa one of this nation's best medical research and clinical care programs," say friends E.J. and Joanne Buresh. "The family continues to have a profound impact upon the quality of life for Iowans."

Through their loyalty and strong-rooted belief in giving back, Mike and Nicole Gerdin, Julie and Eric Durr, and Angela and Brian Janssen are helping Iowa shine.

The Gerdins are members of the UI Foundation's Presidents Club.


Robin L. Green, 77MFA

2014 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Mitchell Burgess, 78BA, and Robin L. Green, 77MFA, are a literary power couple who have written and produced some of the most highly acclaimed television shows of the last two decades, rejecting standard tropes in favor of exceptional storytelling.

Not only has this talented husband-and-wife team crafted award-winning tales throughout their distinguished careers, but they also have remained loyal to the alma mater that launched their personal and professional partnership.

Burgess, who came to the University of Iowa on the G.I. Bill, first met Green when he enrolled in a fictionwriting class for which she was the teaching fellow. She had arrived at the UI after completing her undergraduate degree in American literature from Brown University in 1967 and working as a contributing editor for Rolling Stone. She attended the Iowa Writers' Workshop, receiving her M.F.A. degree in 1977, and Burgess completed his undergraduate degree in history in 1978.

After graduation, Green and Burgess moved to Los Angeles, where John Falsey, a workshop classmate, asked Green to write a script for a show he'd co-created called A Year in the Life. Burgess and Green then began their collaboration on Northern Exposure, finding their calling as the writers and producers of widely lauded television shows featuring complex characters and deep themes. Alan MacVey, director of the UI Division of Performing Arts and chair of the UI Department of Theatre Arts, says, "Their work helped transform television from a moderately entertaining medium to one of the most creative enterprises in recent history."

Beginning with an Emmy and Golden Globes for Northern Exposure, Burgess and Green have won every major award in their field. They are best known for their work on the groundbreaking HBO series The Sopranos, which earned Emmys in 2001 and 2003 for Outstanding Writing in a Drama Series; the 2004 Emmy, Outstanding Drama Series; the 2005 Producers Guild Award, Outstanding Producer of Episodic Television, Drama; and the 2007 Writers Guild Award, Dramatic Series.

Most recently, Burgess and Green have created the highly rated CBS show Blue Bloods, now completing its fourth season and recently sold into worldwide syndication.

Throughout, the two never forgot the University of Iowa. They have returned to campus to meet with students and, in 2002, established the Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess Fund for the Iowa Writers' Workshop. In 2004, they were honored as UI College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Alumni Fellows for their outstanding contributions to their professions and society.

Indeed, Robin L. Green and Mitchell Burgess have written and produced some of the most groundbreaking shows on television, creating stories with depth, intrigue, and integrity that continue to resonate.

Green and Burgess are members of the UI Alumni Association's Old Capitol Club and the UI Foundation's Presidents Club.


Sandra Hackman Barkan, 84PhD

2014 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Joel D. Barkan and Sandra "Sandy" Hackman Barkan, 84PhD, brought international education to life at the University of Iowa, helping establish Iowa's reputation as a cosmopolitan institution that welcomes students from all countries.

Joel Barkan, a graduate of Cornell University and the University of California, Los Angeles, joined the UI's Department of Political Science in 1972. He stayed for 33 years, teaching and conducting research on the politics of developing countries, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa.

In 1962, as a participant in Crossroads Africa—a volunteer program that preceded the U.S. Peace Corps—Joel traveled to Kenya. The country inspired him to become an internationally respected scholar and advisor who straddled the worlds of academe and policy. Over four decades of teaching, research, and government service, he worked in African nations including Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia. In addition to authoring numerous scholarly articles on critical issues such as higher education and governance, democratization, politics and public policy, electoral systems, and legislative programs, he also served as a consultant for the World Bank, the United Nations Development Program, the U.S. Agency for International Development, and many nongovernmental organizations.

While Joel helped "map" Africa from a political perspective, Sandra "Sandy" Barkan took a literary approach. She earned her UI Ph.D. degree in comparative literature with a focus on African literatures and brought that academic knowledge, along with the experience of living around the world, to her interdisciplinary teaching at the UI. As assistant and then associate dean of the Graduate College, Sandy also helped ensure that foreign graduate students who came to Iowa encountered a welcoming environment. Her dedication earned her the UI African Students Association Star Award and the African Studies Association Special Recognition Award.

Joel and Sandy also furthered the cause of international education at the UI. Joel founded the Iowa City Foreign Relations Council and played a key role in establishing and nurturing the UI's Center for International and Comparative Studies and then International Programs. Sandy guided the International Writing Program (IWP) through its most turbulent period and helped save it from closure. Says the program's director, Christopher Merrill, "Without Sandy, there would be no IWP."

In 2008, as UI emeritus professors, the Barkans moved to Washington, DC, where Joel became a senior associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and Sandy joined the Meridian International Center as a program officer.

Sadly, Joel passed away in January 2014. In a tribute, former Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga wrote, "Kenya lost a true friend. But Kenya has to march on toward a true democracy. That is what Joel longed for through a halfcentury of his association with the country he loved." Indeed, Joel dedicated his career to African and developing countries throughout the world. Together with Sandy, he enriched the lives of innumerable people by championing the cause of international relations.

In the 21st century, successful universities must be global institutions. Thanks to Joel and Sandra Barkan's vision and dedication, the University of Iowa is well-equipped to meet this new era.

Sandra Barkan is a member of the UI Foundation's Presidents Club.


Angela Janssen,

2014 Distinguished Alumni Friend Award

Mike and Nicole Gerdin, 93BA, 94MA, Julie and Eric Durr, and Angela and Brian Janssen are sustaining a Gerdin family tradition of visionary philanthropy that helps change lives.

This tradition began more than three decades ago when, in 1980, Russ and Ann Gerdin—founders of Heartland Express, a nationwide company specializing in logistics and transportation—made their first gift to the UI. Since then, the Gerdin family has been a force for good in both the university and the community.

Russ and Ann Gerdin instilled the importance of philanthropy in their three children—Mike, Julie, and Angela—from an early age, and the power of this lesson is evident throughout the UI campus today.

The Gerdins established the Russell A. and Ann Gerdin Athletic Learning Center, which provides academic resources to 650 student-athletes each year, and the Russ and Ann Gerdin Family Athletic Scholarship Fund, which helps Hawkeye student-athletes who demonstrate excellence in academics, athletics, and community service. The family also recently contributed toward the construction of the UI Football Operations Center, set to open this fall. In addition, the Gerdins have supported the UI Athletics Hall of Fame and Visitors Center, which enriches the experiences of many loyal Hawkeyes who visit campus.

The family's passion for giving also extends to UI health care. In memory of Russ Gerdin, who died in 2011, the family helps advance the work of the J. Hayden Fry Center for Prostate Cancer Research. They also provide a home-like atmosphere for cancer patients and their families at the Russell and Ann Gerdin American Cancer Society Hope Lodge.

Most recently, the family made a $12 million donation—the largest gift received to date—for the UI Children's Hospital building campaign to help create a healthier future for the children of Iowa and beyond.

Like their parents—who received the UI Alumni Association's Distinguished Friend of the University award in 2006—the Gerdin children and their spouses all are active members of the community, volunteering their time and talents for numerous civic and charitable organizations.

Mike Gerdin is the chairman, president, and CEO of Heartland Express, and he provides valuable leadership on the Henry B. Tippie College of Business board of visitors. His sister Julie Durr, an events coordinator at Heartland, has enriched the community by donating her time to the Iowa Children's Museum board of directors, the Iowa Arts Festival, and the Solon Education Foundation board of directors. Angela is an enthusiastic and dedicated volunteer for the various Gerdin-supported projects on the UI campus.

"Mike, Julie, Angie, and their respective families (they have 12 children among them) are all remarkable in their work ethic, their dedication to family, and their resolve to make the University of Iowa one of this nation's best medical research and clinical care programs," say friends E.J. and Joanne Buresh. "The family continues to have a profound impact upon the quality of life for Iowans."

Through their loyalty and strong-rooted belief in giving back, Mike and Nicole Gerdin, Julie and Eric Durr, and Angela and Brian Janssen are helping Iowa shine.

The Gerdins are members of the UI Foundation's Presidents Club.


Brian Janssen,

2014 Distinguished Alumni Friend Award

Mike and Nicole Gerdin, 93BA, 94MA, Julie and Eric Durr, and Angela and Brian Janssen are sustaining a Gerdin family tradition of visionary philanthropy that helps change lives.

This tradition began more than three decades ago when, in 1980, Russ and Ann Gerdin—founders of Heartland Express, a nationwide company specializing in logistics and transportation—made their first gift to the UI. Since then, the Gerdin family has been a force for good in both the university and the community.

Russ and Ann Gerdin instilled the importance of philanthropy in their three children—Mike, Julie, and Angela—from an early age, and the power of this lesson is evident throughout the UI campus today.

The Gerdins established the Russell A. and Ann Gerdin Athletic Learning Center, which provides academic resources to 650 student-athletes each year, and the Russ and Ann Gerdin Family Athletic Scholarship Fund, which helps Hawkeye student-athletes who demonstrate excellence in academics, athletics, and community service. The family also recently contributed toward the construction of the UI Football Operations Center, set to open this fall. In addition, the Gerdins have supported the UI Athletics Hall of Fame and Visitors Center, which enriches the experiences of many loyal Hawkeyes who visit campus.

The family's passion for giving also extends to UI health care. In memory of Russ Gerdin, who died in 2011, the family helps advance the work of the J. Hayden Fry Center for Prostate Cancer Research. They also provide a home-like atmosphere for cancer patients and their families at the Russell and Ann Gerdin American Cancer Society Hope Lodge.

Most recently, the family made a $12 million donation—the largest gift received to date—for the UI Children's Hospital building campaign to help create a healthier future for the children of Iowa and beyond.

Like their parents—who received the UI Alumni Association's Distinguished Friend of the University award in 2006—the Gerdin children and their spouses all are active members of the community, volunteering their time and talents for numerous civic and charitable organizations.

Mike Gerdin is the chairman, president, and CEO of Heartland Express, and he provides valuable leadership on the Henry B. Tippie College of Business board of visitors. His sister Julie Durr, an events coordinator at Heartland, has enriched the community by donating her time to the Iowa Children's Museum board of directors, the Iowa Arts Festival, and the Solon Education Foundation board of directors. Angela is an enthusiastic and dedicated volunteer for the various Gerdin-supported projects on the UI campus.

"Mike, Julie, Angie, and their respective families (they have 12 children among them) are all remarkable in their work ethic, their dedication to family, and their resolve to make the University of Iowa one of this nation's best medical research and clinical care programs," say friends E.J. and Joanne Buresh. "The family continues to have a profound impact upon the quality of life for Iowans."

Through their loyalty and strong-rooted belief in giving back, Mike and Nicole Gerdin, Julie and Eric Durr, and Angela and Brian Janssen are helping Iowa shine.

The Gerdins are members of the UI Foundation's Presidents Club.


Sheri Salata, 80BBA

2014 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Sheri Salata, 80BBA, president of OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network and Harpo Studios, is one of the most influential executives in modern media—responsible for television programming that has left an indelible imprint on American culture.

Salata earned a bachelor’s degree of business administration in marketing in 1980 from the University of Iowa. Following a six-year career in business and marketing, she took her first television job at an advertising firm in Chicago. In 1995, she began at Harpo Studios as a promotion producer and held several positions of increasing responsibility. Combining business and broadcasting acumen with her Midwestern work ethic, Salata climbed the ranks of Winfrey’s empire to become executive producer of The Oprah Winfrey Show in 2006 and one of the most powerful women in entertainment today.

For five seasons, Salata worked closely with Winfrey to guide the creative vision and mission of one of the most successful daytime television shows in history. The show often tackled relevant social issues, such as poverty and sexual abuse, bringing neglected topics into national conversation. Winfrey recognizes Salata as an integral part of her success, praising her passion, leadership, integrity, and positive outlook. "The final season of the Oprah Show was an enormous undertaking, and I couldn’t have done it without Sheri at my side," said Winfrey. "Each season, we raised the bar higher and higher; there was seemingly no limit to how high Sheri knew we could climb."

Following the show’s finale in 2011, Salata and Erik Logan took the helm as presidents of OWN and Harpo Studios. Today, they oversee more than 500 people in Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York, who create thousands of hours of award-winning programming. In 2012, OWN’s original series Super Soul Sunday won a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Special Class Series and, in 2013, Oprah’s Lifeclass won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Creative Achievement in Interactive Media - Social TV Experience.

Thanks to Salata’s leadership at OWN, the network continues to experience increased ratings and viewership. The Hollywood Reporter named Salata to its 2013 Women in Entertainment: Power 100 list, and for three consecutive years, she has been featured on the CableFAX 100 list of cable television’s leaders and pioneers.

Salata credits Iowa for giving her an edge in the media industry by providing her with a solid business background. Loyal to her alma mater, she returned to Iowa City in spring 2013 to speak at the UI Tippie College of Business commencement ceremony, encouraging students to find their passion and keep their minds open to possibilities. "Life is a joyful unfolding, and there’s a magic and destiny that comes with the unexpected serendipity," she said. "If you focus on that, you will end up in the kind of work that makes you happy."

In nearly two decades with Harpo Studios, Sheri Salata has followed her own advice, using her gifts of leadership, creativity, and compassion to bring thought-provoking television into America’s homes.

Salata is a member of the UI Alumni Association’s Directors’ Club Honors Circle.


Joanne Rains Warner, 76MA

2014 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Joanne Rains Warner, 76MA, has been an agent of change in her profession—and an inspiration to the next generation of nursing innovators—throughout more than three decades in nursing education.

The professor and dean of the University of Portland School of Nursing first found her calling at Augustana College, where she graduated cum laude in 1972 with a bachelor's degree in nursing. She then earned a master's degree in nursing—with a specialty in medical-surgical nursing—from the UI College of Nursing in 1976 and completed a Ph.D. degree in health policy and health of the community in 1990 at Indiana University School of Nursing.

At Indiana University, Warner began her career as a nurse educator and leader, working as an assistant professor from 1990 to 1996, before becoming dean of nursing at Indiana University East. She returned to Indiana University School of Nursing in 2002 as associate dean for graduate programs. In 2005, she accepted a faculty position at University of Portland School of Nursing, and she became dean of that school in 2008.

Warner was the driving force behind the development and design of the University of Portland School of Nursing's innovative Doctor of Nursing Practice Family Nurse Practitioner program—the first doctoral program to be offered at the University of Portland in 38 years.

She also helped Portland's nursing school integrate into its curriculum the "Dedicated Education Unit"—a pioneering approach to nursing education that creates real-world learning environments within patient-care settings. Through this initiative, Warner tripled enrollment in her undergraduate nursing program.

These are not the only advances she has supported in her field. In her work for the American Association of Colleges of Nursing, Warner served as chair of the committee for the development of the essentials of master's education for professional nursing practice, which dramatically restructured nursing education at the master's level. According to Susan Randles Moscate, David T. Tyson Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Portland, Warner "leads by example, challenges the status quo, and inspires followers to accomplishments beyond their imaginations."

She does so not only in the educational arena, but also within a range of political and policy-advocacy positions. She has played a longtime national leadership role within the Friends Committee on National Legislation, shaping legislative policy and expressing her commitment to the Quaker and community health values of peace and social justice. In addition, Warner has helped manage six successful campaigns for local and state politicians who aimed to improve public health policy, and she was a gubernatorial appointee to the Indiana Commission on Mental Retardation and Development Disabilities.

Such work is a reflection of Warner's commitment to integrating health professionals into the political realm, and she was recognized for these contributions when she was selected in 2005 as a finalist for the Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellowship.

Through such efforts, Joanne Rains Warner—an outstanding role model for tomorrow's healthcare leaders—has made visionary contributions to the fields of nursing education and health policy.

Warner is a life member of the UI Alumni Association.


Stephen H. Wolken, 65BS, 68MD, 75R

2014 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Stephen H. Wolken, 65BS, 68MD, 75R, has provided decades of steadfast leadership to the University of Iowa Alumni Association, the University of Iowa, and the surrounding community.

A lifelong Iowa resident, Wolken has demonstrated his Hawkeye spirit through countless acts of service and civic engagement, stemming all the way back to his days as a UI student and member of the Hawkeye Marching Band.

After receiving an undergraduate degree in general science in 1965 and a medical degree in 1968 from the UI, Wolken interned in Seattle and fulfilled a two-year military obligation before returning to complete a residency in Iowa'"s Department of Ophthalmology in 1975. Wolken then accepted a position at Eye Physicians and Surgeons in Iowa City, where he worked until his retirement nearly five years ago. He continues to work as an adjunct faculty member in the UI Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences.

Wolken and his wife, Sue, are loyal supporters of this department and of the UI Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine. They established the Dr. Stephen H. and Sue Montgomery Wolken Medical Scholarship for a deserving UI medical student who graduated from an Iowa high school.

Wolken finds numerous other ways to give back to his alma mater. He sat on the UI Carver College of Medicine Alumni Society board of advisors and has played an instrumental role in guiding the UI Alumni Association (UIAA) board of directors. He has served in virtually every capacity on that board, including as a member of the awards, nominating, and finance committees. As chair of the board, he took the lead in helping the UIAA develop a new strategic plan.

Julian Gutierrez, a former member and chair of the UIAA board, says, "His steady leadership, thoughtful counsel, and enormous pride in being a graduate of the UI are qualities that made him such a wonderful colleague on the UIAA board of directors. Steve displayed endless energy and enthusiasm."

Along with providing wise institutional leadership, Wolken has shown his UI colors by playing trombone in the Alumni Marching Band, participating in Iowa Voyagers trips, and attending countless Hawkeye Huddles.

Beyond campus, he has offered his time and expertise to a number of community organizations, including a bank board, his church, the Rotary Club, and the Herbert Hoover Presidential Foundation. Wolken also served as chairman of the Iowa City Area Chamber of Commerce board and president of the Mercy Hospital medical staff, the Iowa Eye Association, and the Johnson County Medical Society. He is a member of numerous medical associations, including the American Academy of Ophthalmology, the American College of Surgeons, the American Medical Association, and the Iowa Medical Society.

With his passion for the university and his dedication to the public good, Stephen H. Wolken deserves his place among those who best embody Hawkeye pride and integrity.

Wolken is a member of the UI Alumni Association'"s Directors'" Club Honor Circle and the UI Foundation'"s Presidents Club.


Robert T. Anderson, 67BA, 72MA

2013 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

Robert T. Anderson, 67BA, 72MA, has spent his entire career building bridges between Iowa and the larger world through his role as president and founder of the nonprofit Iowa Resource for International Service (IRIS) and his tireless work in education and politics.

His lifelong dream was to become a teacher, but after completing both his master's and bachelor's degrees in journalism at the University of Iowa, the Marshalltown, Iowa, native took steps that led him closer and closer to the global community.

Anderson began this journey as a high-school journalism teacher and quickly moved into a position in state government, serving in the Iowa House of Representatives from 1975 to 1983. He then became the first Democrat in Iowa history to be elected as lieutenant governor alongside a Republican governor.

After four years as lieutenant governor, Anderson focused on his passion for creating local opportunities and global connections. He worked with former Governor Robert Ray and Iowa City State Senator Jean Lloyd-Jones to create the Iowa Peace Institute in 1987. After the institute narrowed its focus to domestic issues, he formed the International Center for Community Journalism (ICCJ) and became an adjunct professor of journalism at both the University of Iowa and Iowa State University. ICCJ changed its name to IRIS or Iowa Resource for International Service in 1996 and expanded its programming internationally to additional professions.

IRIS's mission promotes international understanding, development, and peace, bringing students, journalists, educators, and leaders in business and government to Iowa from Africa, Central and Eastern Europe, and Asia. So far, the organization has welcomed nearly 800 international visitors to Iowa, and it recently arranged for more than 400 high school students from Nigeria and Tanzania to spend a year attending Iowa high schools through the State Department's Youth Education and Study program.

In addition to his leadership work with IRIS, Anderson has found numerous other ways to foster international exchanges and to educate citizens about the crucial roles that a free press and information systems play in society. Among his many activities, he was a sponsor for Thai Dam refugees in the 1970s and 1980s; led programs to assist Iraqi refugees in Iowa in 2008 and 2009; and created an exchange partnership among 18 libraries in Bulgaria and the U.S. He also helped establish Study Iowa—a consortium of more than 20 colleges and universities that recruit international students and scholars.

Colleague UI Professor Emeritus Kenneth Starck wrote of Anderson: "Throughout his career, Bob has generated innovative ideas. Just as importantly, he has possessed the courage, commitment, and resourcefulness to see them carried out."

Anderson's visionary contributions have not gone unnoticed. He received the Immigrant Champion Award at the Iowa Immigrant Entrepreneurial Summit 2009, and he is also the recipient of the Delphi International Award, the Global Peace and Justice Award from William Penn College, the Distinguished Service Award from the Iowa Council for International Understanding, and the Award of Excellence from the Nigerian Peace Corps.

In an age where global relationships are more important than ever, Robert T. Anderson's commendable support of cultural exchange has cultivated a more peaceful and tolerant world.

Anderson is a life member of the UI Alumni Association.


Wayne A. Drehs II, 00BA

2013 Distinguished Alumni Young Award

Wayne A. Drehs II, 00BA, is an Emmy Award-winning journalist for ESPN.com, a leader in multimedia storytelling, and one of America's best young sports writers.

Drehs' innovative work has earned him accolades for transcending traditional definitions of sports journalism and weaving broader themes of the human experience into his narratives.

After graduating in 2000 from the University of Iowa—where he earned a bachelor's degree in journalism and covered a myriad of sports stories for the Daily Iowan—Drehs joined ESPN.com. As a senior writer on the website's features/enterprise/investigative unit, he has spent the past 12 years writing about everything from lost dogs to hockey pucks.

Drehs' stories have appeared online, in print, and on the air, receiving play on ESPN.com and on the cover of ESPN Magazine, as well as on ESPN TV's "SportsCenter," "Outside the Lines," and "E:60." His pieces have also broadcast on ABC's "World News," "Nightline," and "Good Morning America."

According to Bill Casey, publisher of the Daily Iowan, Drehs is "not necessarily interested in the game story' . . . but about the people on the sidelines . . . . He takes his reader to those places that are usually off limits."

Drehs' transformative and inspirational features include a 2006 story about the first high-school football team in the Arctic—a piece that moved a Florida woman to establish "Project Alaska Turf" to raise $1 million for an artificial football field in Barrow, Alaska. He also wrote a feature in 2007 about Jason Ray—a mascot from the University of North Carolina tragically killed outside his team hotel—which appeared on the "Oprah Winfrey Show" and prompted more than 50,000 Americans to become organ donors. In addition, Drehs' 2011 piece about Iowan Charlie Wittmack's attempt to complete the World Triathlon was the first ESPN story to appear on five separate media platforms.

More recently, Drehs worked with Oscar-winning director Alex Gibney and Triple Threat Television on the critically acclaimed ESPN Films baseball documentary, Catching Hell, also making a personal appearance in the picture.

"For Wayne, this is a passion, a calling, a mission," wrote Jena Janovy, Drehs's deputy editor at ESPN.com, in her nomination letter. "His energy is contagious; his enthusiasm unwavering; and his curiosity endless . . . . He has redefined what it means to be a cross-platform, multimedia journalist."

Drehs has shared his energy and experience with UI students and faculty during frequent visits to campus. He has hosted a Daily Iowan reception in his hometown of Chicago, and, in 2011, he participated as a Hearst Professional-in-Residence through a UI School of Journalism and Mass Communication program that brings prestigious visiting lecturers to campus.

In addition, Drehs was named a Knight-Wallace journalism fellow at the University of Michigan in 2009. The recipient of three Emmy Awards and two additional Emmy finalist nominations, he is also the winner of two National Headliner Awards and an Eppy Award from Editor & Publisher.

No matter how or where he tells his stories, Wayne A. Drehs is a rising star in the ever-evolving world of journalism.


Kenneth C. Leuer, 56BSC

2013 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

Kenneth C. Leuer, 56BSC, has displayed the epitome of character, leadership, and professionalism—whether on the UI wrestling mat or in the highest ranks of the U.S. Army—throughout a lifetime of selfless service and sacrifice.

A native of Wayzata, Minnesota, Leuer was a two-time wrestling champion and all-State football player in high school, and he earned his place among the University of Iowa's most legendary wrestlers. During his career as a UI student-athlete, he became not only an all-American Wrestler, but also the 1956 Big Ten and NCAA champion.

Following graduation with his business degree in commerce, he pursued a highly decorated, 32-year career in the military that included various international assignments with the U.S. Army Infantry. Throughout his years in active duty, Leuer was a commander at the platoon, company, battalion, brigade, division, and post levels, and he also served in several special-operations units.

In 1974, shortly after the United States had withdrawn from the Vietnam War, the U.S. Army Chief of Staff General Creighton Abrams assigned Leuer the task of resurrecting the Army Rangers, an elite fighting unit, for the first time since World War II.

In this role, Leuer helped create the 75th Ranger Regiment—now the best light-infantry unit in the world—and he also established standardized, performance-based training for the Rangers. "This concept, as simple as it sounds, continues to have a profound, positive impact on the combat readiness of our Army," writes his colleague Ralph Puckett, a retired U.S. Army Colonel. "This one advance is so important that he should go down in our history as one of the Army's great trainers."

At the time of his retirement in 1988, Leuer was serving as the commanding general of the U.S. Army Infantry Center at Fort Benning, Georgia—the Army's largest post. After leaving active duty, he accepted the role of regional president/CEO of Goodwill Industries, elevating his branch from financial hardship to international recognition during a decade with the organization.

Not only did Leuer devote himself to the cause of Goodwill Industries, but he also volunteered selflessly on behalf of the U.S. Army Rangers. In 1992, he volunteered to become the founding president of the National Ranger Memorial Association, which built and maintained a memorial to all Rangers. He also served as president of the Ranger Hall of Fame, which helps select and honor the most outstanding Ranger leaders throughout history.

Leuer has received a host of awards for his military and athletic achievements, including the Combat Infantryman's Badge, Master Parachutist Badge, and two Bronze Star Medals. He was also a charter inductee into the Ranger Hall of Fame and received Distinguished Alumni Awards from his high school and the Minnesota State High School Athletic Directors' Association. In addition, the University of Iowa Varsity Club named him a Lifetime Achievement Award winner in the UI Athletic Hall of Fame.

Through both his distinguished military career and his personal commitment to others, Kenneth C. Leuer has demonstrated the truest essence of the Ranger creed: "Rangers Lead the Way."

Leuer is a member of the UI Alumni Association's Sustaining Life honor club.


Marcelo Mena-Carrasco, 03MS, 07PhD

2013 Distinguished Alumni Young Award

Marcelo Mena-Carrasco, 03MS, 07PhD, is a scientist with the heart of a social activist, and his game-changing research in the field of civil and environmental engineering has helped transform air quality in his home country of Chile.

Since childhood, Mena-Carrasco has demonstrated a deep social awareness, as well as an interest in the world around him. He grew up near a highly polluted stream in a working-class section of Santiago, and although his parents eventually moved to Iowa City, Mena-Carrasco's earliest experiences sparked his lifelong interest in tackling tough environmental issues.

After graduating with honors in biochemical engineering from Universidad Catolica de Valparaiso in Valpairaso, Chile, Mena-Carrasco returned to Iowa to earn his master's and doctoral degrees in civil and environmental engineering. He originally intended to research water quality, but after learning more about the work happening in the UI Center for Global and Regional Environmental Research, he shifted his focus to the relationships among airborne pollutants, weather, and climate.

While at Iowa, the young researcher not only studied the complex mechanisms of climate change and pollution, but also found time to help establish the student chapter of Engineers for a Sustainable World and to lead groups of UI students to Mexico, where they taught grade-school children about clean water. In addition, Mena-Carrasco helped UI Professor Jerald L. Schnoor, the Allen S. Henry Chair in Engineering, create a course titled "Sustainable Systems," which now plays a central role in the UI College of Engineering's Sustainability Certificate program.

"He was one of the most talented graduate students whom I have had the pleasure of teaching in over 30 years at Iowa," writes Schnoor of Mena-Carrasco. "Marcelo greatly improved the community of our environmental program by virtue of his creativity, ideas, and leadership."

When he finished his Ph.D. degree in 2007, Mena-Carrasco returned to Chile, where he now serves as chair of the new environmental engineering department at Universidad Andres Bello Santiago, one of Chile's most prestigious institutions. He also directs the school's Center for Sustainability Research, a position he accepted after spending a year at California State University at Fresno as a Fulbright Visiting Scholar. Recently, he agreed to serve as an energy and climate consultant for Fundacion Chile, a private nonprofit corporation for Chilean business growth, and he is a member of the UI College of Engineering's Water Sustainability Advisory Board. From 2008 to 2009, he was the national advisor on air quality to the Chilean Environmental Commission.

Mena-Carrasco's cutting-edge activity in the area of chemical weather forecasting has led to a new understanding of how air-pollution episodes evolve. He has greatly improved air-quality forecasts in Chile, and he hopes to apply this model to other countries throughout the world. In recognition of such efforts, he has received the NASA Group Achievement Award, the Environmental Protection Agency's P3 (People, Prosperity, and the Planet) Sustainable Design Competition Honor Mention, and an MIT Molina Fellowship. Two different Chilean publications, El Mercurio and Diario Financiero, have listed this UI engineer among their nation's top 100 young leaders.

Truly a force for political and environmental progress, Marcelo Mena-Carrasco and his groundbreaking work will ensure the world is a cleaner place to live.


Mary D. Nettleman, 93MS

2013 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Mary D. Nettleman, 93MS, has made far-reaching contributions to the field of public health through her impressive scholarship and clinical and academic achievements.

A graduate of Vanderbilt Medical School, Nettleman earned a bachelor's degree from Ohio University Honors Tutorial College and received her master's degree in preventive medicine and epidemiology from the University of Iowa in 1993. She completed a residency in internal medicine and a fellowship in infectious diseases at Indiana University.

The vice president for health affairs and dean of the University of South Dakota Sanford School of Medicine got her start in academia as an instructor at the University of Iowa, rising to the rank of associate professor before joining the faculty at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) in 1996.

During Nettleman's seven-year tenure at VCU, she was promoted to professor and served as division chair for internal medicine and associate dean for primary care. In 2003, she accepted a position as chair of the Department of Medicine at Michigan State University College of Human Medicine, and she took on her current role at the University of South Dakota in 2012.

A nationally known researcher, Nettleman claims 122 publications and 62 chapters to her name—and she possesses expertise in many key areas, including women's health, the epidemiology of unintended pregnancy, the economic impact of influenza vaccine in preschool children, alcohol-exposed pregnancies, the role of global warming in infectious disease, the implications of infection control in antimicrobial resistance, patient education, and physician career choices.

Recently the principal investigator on a multimillion-dollar National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant, "Building Interdisciplinary Research in Women's Health," Nettleman also assumed similar roles on "Project Choices: Prevention of Alcohol-Exposed Pregnancies" and "Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women's Health."

Not only is Nettleman a devoted researcher and scientist, but she is also a dedicated volunteer. She's active in the American Heart Association's "Go Red for Women" campaign, and she helped establish a women's health conference at Michigan State University. She has led several NIH grant-review groups, and she is a longtime member of the Institutional Review Board at Michigan State, serving for five years as vice-chair of the committee.

Her leadership in the world of public health has not gone unnoticed. Nettleman is the recipient of numerous awards, including a certificate of appreciation from the U.S. Army for Service to the Congressionally Directed Medical Research on Gulf War Illness; the Shepard Award for Excellence in Scientific Achievement from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; and the Young Investigator Award of the Society of Healthcare Epidemiology of America. A Master and Fellow of the American College of Physicians, she repeatedly appears in lists of the "Best Doctors in America." In May 2012, she was named as one of the UI College of Public Health's Outstanding Alumni Award recipients.

Thanks to her passion for scientific inquiry and her dedication to the public good, Mary D. Nettleman takes a rightful place among the very best minds working to transform health care.


Stephen S. Rasmussen, 74BBA

2013 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Stephen S. Rasmussen, 74BBA, plays an important role as head of a Fortune 100 insurance company, but he still finds time to stay connected to his alma mater through generous acts of philanthropy.

Now the chief executive officer of Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company, Rasmussen first became involved with the insurance industry at the University of Iowa, where he earned a bachelor's degree in insurance in 1974 and forged a close connection with Emmett J. Vaughan, a professor and mentor who helped launch Rasmussen's remarkable career.

After graduation, Rasmussen—who holds the chartered property casualty underwriter designation—joined Allied Insurance and served in a variety of roles, including executive vice president for product management, vice president for underwriting, regional vice president for the Pacific coast region, and president and chief operating officer. Soon after Allied Insurance merged into Nationwide Mutual Insurance in 1998, the organization named Rasmussen to lead its entire property and casualty insurance operation.

Thanks to his drive, professionalism, and talents, Nationwide successfully expanded its Des Moines operations and created thousands of jobs—and, in 2009, Rasmussen accepted the role as chief executive officer of the Nationwide family of companies. Since then, the native Iowan has helped Nationwide enhance its growth and profits to become a top 10 provider in most of its property and casualty and financial services businesses.

Throughout his career, Rasmussen remained a Hawkeye at heart, and he helped secure a $1.5 million pledge from Allied Insurance to establish the UI's Vaughan Institute of Risk Management and Insurance and continue the university's positive impact on the industry. Additionally, he proved instrumental in the negotiation of Nationwide's first significant contribution to the Vaughan Institute and was the driving force in renaming the company's Des Moines training center in honor of his influential UI professor.

Far more than a UI philanthropist, Rasmussen is also an active civic leader in Iowa and in Ohio, where Nationwide has its headquarters. He currently serves on numerous boards, including Nationwide Children's Hospital; the Columbus Downtown Development Corporation; the Columbus Metropolitan Library; the Columbus Partnership; and OhioHealth, a leading nonprofit hospital and healthcare organization, where he was recently named chairman. He also is a former trustee of Grand View College in Des Moines and past co-chair of the United Way of Central Ohio Alexis de Tocqueville Vingt-Cinq Society campaign. Nationally, he has been a board member for the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety and the National Urban League.

Says Therese M. Vaughan, the daughter of his mentor and former CEO of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners: "Steve is a particularly thoughtful advocate for good public solutions to address challenging problems in insurance markets. He is a recognized industry leader who challenges the industry to do its best."

Most deserving of this description, Stephen S. Rasmussen is an exemplary corporate and community citizen who has elevated his field and the University of Iowa.


Nathan E. Savin

2013 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Nathan E. "Gene" Savin is a leading scholar in econometrics—the application of mathematics and statistical methods to economic data—whose groundbreaking research has received worldwide acclaim.

In a career spanning nearly five decades, Savin has occupied teaching positions at Northwestern University; the University of California, Berkeley; Stanford University; and Yale University. Immediately prior to arriving at the University of Iowa, he served on the faculty of the University of Cambridge for 10 years and was a fellow of Trinity College. Savin has worked at the UI for 25 exemplary years.

He completed all of his undergraduate and graduate work at the University of California, Berkeley, receiving a bachelor's degree in economics in 1956, a master's degree in statistics in 1958, and a doctoral degree in economics in 1969. While finishing his doctorate, he also served as a mathematical statistician for the U.S. Forest Service.

Savin joined the UI Henry B. Tippie College of Business in 1986 and provided outstanding leadership for its Department of Economics until his official retirement in 2010. His research focused on time-series analysis, including non-stationary processes and hypothesis testing. At the height of his career, the department's national rankings in the field of econometric theory placed it among the top universities worldwide.

A prolific academician, Savin has published 64 articles in peer-reviewed journals, including many of the top journals in economics, and 15 of his papers have been cited more than 100 times. According to one evaluation, focused on the years between 1989 and 1999, he was the 28th most prolific scholar in econometric theory in the nation and 54th in the world. In addition, he has served on the editorial boards of three of the top journals in economics, and he is a fellow of the Econometric Society and the American Statistical Association.

In 1995, Savin became the University of Iowa George Daly Professor of Economics, and he has participated on a number of collegiate committees. He has also worked with the UI Obermann Center for Advanced Studies, and, in 2010, he served on the search committee for a new director of the UI Museum of Art.

A passionate believer in community engagement, Savin has invested generously in area cultural events. He and his wife, Susan Potter Enzle, 72BS, are trustees of a family foundation that supports a number of different art organizations, including Hancher and the UI Museum of Art; their gifts have reached thousands of Iowa schoolchildren. Savin is a member of the advisory board of the UI Museum of Art, sits on the board of trustees for the California College of the Arts, and is a trustee with the Nature Conservancy-Iowa Chapter. He has also served on the boards of Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life and the New Pioneer Co-Op.

Thanks to his deep commitment to global thinking and local engagement, Nathan E. "Gene" Savin will leave a lasting imprint on the worlds of econometrics and the arts.

Savin is a member of the UI Foundation's Presidents Club.


Cynthia Board Schmeiser, 72BA, 73MA, 83PhD

2013 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Cynthia Board Schmeiser, 72BA, 73MA, 83PhD, is a nationally respected expert whose pioneering work in the field of college and career readiness has redefined educational standards.

After earning a bachelor's degree in psychology and elementary education and a master's and doctoral degree in educational psychology, measurement, and statistics at the University of Iowa, Schmeiser went on to become one of the world's most renowned psychometricians.

In 1973, she launched her distinguished, 37-year career at ACT by joining its Test Development Department. Throughout the next three decades, she held various positions in the company—including assistant vice president for research and development, vice president of development, and senior vice president of research and development—before becoming president and COO of ACT's education division.

In this role, Schmeiser helped transform ACT from a nationally respected assessment company to a globally influential leader in educational research and measurement. With her expert guidance, the company became a key player in shaping educational policy—including defining pathways towards successful transitions to college and career for students of all ages, and improving the measurement field's understanding of the relationships among assessment, curriculum, and instruction.

An admired author and research scientist, Schmeiser was instrumental in honing ACT's input to the Common Core State Standards—an educational initiative that brought diverse state curricula into alignment and has played a central role in planning the future of K-12 education in this country.

In addition, her numerous publications and presentations have significantly enhanced social understandings of test design, development, and interpretation, and her work also has addressed crucial issues related to educational policy and ethics. She played a pivotal role in producing the fourth edition of Educational Measurement—a comprehensive reference work—and her chapter on test development placed her among the top experts in this area.

Though Schmeiser retired from ACT in 2011, she continues to serve as an educational consultant and remains passionate about investing in people and policy. She has devoted countless hours to helping others fulfill their personal and professional goals, and her notable community roles include positions as chair of the board of directors for Mercy Hospital in Iowa City, president of the board of directors for the Ronald McDonald House Charities of Eastern Iowa, chair of the marketing committee for the Iowa Women's Foundation, strategic planning consultant for the Iowa City Community School District's (ICCSD) Healthy Kids Community Care Clinic, co-chair of leadership gifts for the ICCSD Foundation's Every Classroom Technology Campaign, and past chair of the board of directors for the United Way of Johnson County.

The tireless volunteer is a generous UI friend, as well. Not only is Schmeiser a member of the UI Foundation's Presidents Club, but she also has served on the search committee for the College of Education dean, has worked on planning and implementing several joint educational conferences, and was indispensable in securing ACT's $1 million donation to the UI.

To the colleagues and friends who know her, it comes as no surprise that the Corridor Business Journal selected Cynthia B. Schmeiser as one of its 2011 "Women of Influence"—in honor of a true educator who has used her scientific acumen to chart a new course in the field of human development.

Schmeiser is a member of the UI Alumni Association's Old Capitol Club and the UI Foundation's Presidents Club.


Theodore M. Seldin, 53BA, 55JD

2013 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Theodore "Ted" M. Seldin, 53BA, 55JD, an entrepreneur with a social conscience, is a champion of the development and provision of affordable housing for all.

In 1953, Seldin received a UI bachelor's degree in economics along with his Air Force Commission, followed by his law degree in 1955. Immediately after graduation, he began active duty as a staff judge advocate (JAG), during which time he was admitted to practice before the U.S. Court of Military Appeals. Seldin served two years of active duty, and continued in the JAG Reserve for 14 years.

He joined the Omaha-based Seldin Home Building Firm in 1957 as a principal and later CEO; today, he is chairman of Seldin Company. Through his leadership there and his efforts with the National Association of Home Builders, Seldin has helped shape national and local legislation related to affordable and fair-housing statutes.

Under his leadership, the Seldin Company—a leading homebuilder, diversified property developer, and asset manager—has created affordable housing for a wide range of clientele, including more than 3,500 single-family homes and 4,000 apartments. Of particular note, it developed the 1,000-acre Westwood Communities in southwest Omaha, one of the first sustainable communities in the Midwest to feature single-family homes, apartment complexes, retail centers, professional offices, and sites for schools, churches, parks, and a public library. Seldin's firm has also re-developed blighted urban commercial areas in Omaha and Council Bluffs, and he takes special pride in the more than 1,000 affordable, senior-living apartment homes his company offers across Iowa and Nebraska, allowing older citizens to live independently with security, dignity, and respect.

In Iowa City, Seldin left a lasting imprint with the Mayflower Apartments, which he and his partners built and managed starting in the 1960s. They leased space to UI graduate students and incoming faculty members, and Mayflower became the first home to the International Writing Program. In 1983, when the university needed additional student housing, they sold the property to the UI at a greatly reduced price, a purchase enabled by a $2 million contribution from Seldin and his partners.

A loyal Hawkeye, Seldin has also contributed to the College of Law annually since 1960, and he is a generous supporter to other UI areas, including the Carver College of Medicine's adult stem-cell research program to cure macular degeneration. He also served on the Foundation's Iowa Endowment 2000 National Committee and on the UI Alumni Association's Board of Directors. In 2007, Seldin and his wife established the Theodore M. and Sarah N. Seldin Scholarship in Real Estate Law in honor of UI law professor and president emeritus Willard "Sandy" Boyd—Seldin's former professor and longtime friend.

In honor of the indelible mark he's made on the UI and the housing industry, Seldin received the 2011 UI College of Law Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award, the 2011 National Affordable Housing Management Association's Industry Statesman Award, and the 1993 Fannie Mae Pillar of the Industry Award from the National Council of Multifamily Housing Association. In addition, he's been inducted into several Omaha metro real estate halls of fame.

Through his crusade to ensure that all Americans have an affordable home, Theodore "Ted" M. Seldin has established a proud reputation as an unwavering advocate for social justice and change.

Seldin is a life member of the UI Alumni Association and a member of the UI Foundation's Presidents Club.


Robert R. Shreck, 71BS, 74MD

2013 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

Robert R. "Bob" Shreck, 71BS, 74MD, is a first-rate oncologist and hematologist who has blazed trails in the world of medicine—and inspired future generations of Iowa physicians to follow in his footsteps.

A loyal Hawkeye through and through, Shreck completed his undergraduate studies in science education at the University of Iowa before entering the U.S. Army. While stationed in Vietnam, he handcrafted an application to the only medical school he wanted to attend: the UI. After graduating from Iowa in 1974, Shreck completed a residency in internal medicine and a fellowship in hematology and oncology at the University of Utah.

He returned to his hometown of Des Moines and in 1979 successfully established a solo practice that eventually became Medical Oncology and Hematology Associates, which encompasses 16 board-certified oncologists and serves all the Des Moines hospitals. In the last 30 years, the group has established 29 community oncology clinics, including 16 founded by Shreck. Such outreach, involving nearly half the cancer cases diagnosed in Iowa, enables patients to receive modern cancer care in their home communities. The weekly pro bono oncology clinic Shreck established at Broadlawns Medical Center in 1979, and which he attended for 19 years, also continues today.

A tireless teacher, researcher, and consultant, Shreck maintains strong ties with his alma mater. For more than 30 years, he has provided clinical training to students and residents in the Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine as a member of its volunteer, community-based faculty, and he has collaborated in UI clinical trials to help identify new discoveries and treatments for the care and cure of cancer.

Also a steadfast university partner, Shreck has served on a variety of UI committees, providing valuable insight and leadership to the UI Carver College of Medicine Alumni Advisory Board, the Abboud Chair Campaign Steering Committee, the UI Health Care Medical Center Council, and as the College of Medicine representative on the UI Alumni Association Board of Directors. More recently, he and his wife, Cherie, became members of the steering committee for UI Health Care's ambitious fundraising initiative, Iowa First: Our Campaign for Breakthrough Medicine.

Along with gifts of time and knowledge, the Shrecks have financially contributed to Iowa nearly every year since Robert Shreck's graduation. When they recently established an endowed student scholarship in the Carver College of Medicine, they challenged others to follow their lead, motivating another donor to establish a scholarship gift. Such visionary support earned the Shrecks membership in the UI Foundation Presidents Club, which recognizes the university's most generous philanthropists.

It is not surprising that Shreck's peers refer to him as "a role model for giving back" and "the quintessential alum." His connection to the university is a family tradition; not only was his father a UI graduate, but his wife, sister, and two of his children are Iowa alumni as well.

Robert "Bob" Shreck's "black and gold" loyalty has meant the world to countless UI students, faculty, and patients, and he is one of the university's greatest champions and ambassadors.

Shreck is a member of the UI Alumni Association's Directors' Club Honor Circle and the UI Foundation's Presidents Club.


Robert T. Soper, 52MD

2013 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

Robert T. Soper, 52MD, was a skilled surgeon and an innovator in the field of pediatric medicine who devoted his distinguished University of Iowa career to improving the lives of children.

The first pediatric surgeon at University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Soper also served for nearly 25 years as the only pediatric surgeon in the entire state. Indeed, until his death on October 3, 2012, Soper was deeply committed to the University of Iowa, the Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, and the people of Iowa. Messages of sympathy on his online memory book reflect his lasting impact: "I thank Dr. Soper for saving my life."

A native Iowan, Soper served in the U.S. Navy in World War II and was on the destroyer that participated in the Tokyo Bay ceremony ending the war. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1949 from Cornell College in Mount Vernon, Iowa, and went on to earn a medical degree from the UI. While in medical school, he was awarded membership in the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society.

After completing postgraduate work in Cleveland and Mason City, he returned to the UI to finish his training in general surgery. He concluded his Iowa residency in 1958 and moved to Liverpool, England, for a one-year fellowship in pediatric surgery—which was just emerging as a new medical specialty—at Alder Hey Children's Hospital.

Soper returned to Iowa City to join the medicine faculty at the University of Iowa in 1959 and rose steadily through the ranks to become a full professor in 1968. His career in the UI Department of Surgery spanned nearly 40 years, during which time he established the UI Division of Pediatric Surgery and also served as the interim chair of the Department of Surgery from 1992 to1995. In that capacity, he was able to recruit outstanding surgeons and enhance the department's quality of teaching and patient service.

He influenced the world of medicine beyond Iowa, as well. A founding member of the American Pediatric Surgical Association, he lectured and taught throughout the world, devised new surgical methods for many pediatric conditions, and served on local, regional, and national committees. He also published hundreds of research papers, book chapters, and abstracts related to his research. Farther afield, he performed missionary work in the Congo and on a Navajo reservation.

Throughout his years at Iowa, Soper treated thousands of children, trained hundreds of medical students and dozens of surgeons, and inspired in his colleagues a dedication to learning and patient care. He received the prestigious Ernest Theilen Clinical Teaching and Service Award from the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine in 1996 and the Distinguished Alumnus Award in 2006. In addition, the Robert T. and Helene J. Soper Chair of Surgery, the first endowed faculty position in the UI Department of Surgery, was established in honor of Soper and his wife in 1998.

Robert T. Soper's legacy as a skilled academic surgeon and a pioneer in pediatric medicine will forever shine in all of the patients and physicians whose lives he touched.

Soper was a member of the UI Alumni Association's Old Capitol Club and a member of the UI Foundation's Presidents Club.


Marita G. Titler, 78MA, 92PhD

2013 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Marita G. Titler, 78MA, 92PhD, is an internationally recognized nurse scholar and leader who has revolutionized patient care.

An expert in health-services research, translation science, and evidence-based practice, Titler got her start at Mount Mercy College in Cedar Rapids, where she earned a bachelor's degree in nursing in 1974—as well as the Catherine McAuley Award for student excellence—before coming to the University of Iowa for graduate school.

After earning her UI master's degree in nursing in 1978, Titler joined University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, where she worked for more than 13 years in a variety of roles, including director of research, senior assistant director, director of the Institute of Translational Practice, and director of the Center for Research in the Implementation of Innovative Strategies in Practice.

Eventually, Titler's love of science led her to pursue a doctoral degree in nursing at Iowa. She finished in 1992 and established herself as a highly regarded nurse-scientist with an impressive body of research focused on outcomes effectiveness and implementation science to improve care of older adults.

Titler is professor, the Rhetaugh Dumas Endowed Chair, associate dean for practice and clinical scholarship, and chair of the Health Systems and Effectiveness Science Division at the University of Michigan (UM) School of Nursing. She is also the associate director of the Michigan Institute for Clinical and Health Research, the NIH-funded Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) at UM.

A cutting-edge researcher, Titler focuses her work on bettering patient care in hospital settings and has garnered more than $170 million in external support. In addition, she has more than 300 publications to her credit, and she has also contributed to more than 40 national evidence-based guidelines for care in areas such as acute confusion and delirium.

Titler is the first author of the Iowa Model of Evidence-Based Practice to Improve Quality of Care, which has been widely disseminated throughout the world, and her scholarly works are cited by various disciplines. According to Titler's former UI nursing colleague, professor emeritus Kathleen "Kitty" Buckwalter, 71BSN, 76MA, such research findings often are not accessible to the clinicians and care providers who need them; however, "Marita's work is exceptional in this regard."

Titler is a sought-after keynote speaker who leads the National Nursing Practice Network, and she holds numerous national honors. She also serves on several prestigious committees that help shape health policy.

Not only was Titler a member of the National Advisory Council for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)—a position appointed by the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services—from 2000 to 2003, but she was also invited to serve on the AHRQ Advisory Panel for Knowledge Utilization. In addition, she was a member of the Institute of Medicine's Committee on Standards for Trustworthy Clinical Practice Guidelines from 2009 to 2011.

Her numerous awards and recognition include the 2010 President's Award for Translation Science, the highest honor bestowed by the Friends of the National Institute of Nursing Research.

Marita G. Titler is "living the Iowa nurse tradition" as a foremost educator, scholar, and mentor who makes critical global changes to the delivery of health care and population health.


Laura E. Beane Freeman, 99MS, 03PhD

2012 Distinguished Alumni Young Award

Laura E. Beane Freeman, 99MS, 03PhD, is a young researcher and scholar whose highly lauded work at the National Cancer Institute has placed her among the nation's premier experts on the occupational causes of cancer.

In fact, her groundbreaking investigation of chemicals that may pose a cancer risk already is influencing international research and policy on pesticide use.

Beane Freeman began this stellar career at Iowa, where she finished a master's degree in preventive medicine in 1999 and a Ph.D. degree in epidemiology in 2003. While at the UI, she became the first scientist in the world to report an association between arsenic and skin melanoma. She also worked as a graduate research assistant for the Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program and was the director of the Epidemiology Student Association.

These leadership activities earned her the Milford Barnes Award for the Outstanding Student in Epidemiology, given to a UI student who demonstrates exceptionally high performance in academics and who contributes to the department, the college, and the community through service and leadership.

Following her Iowa graduation, Beane Freeman joined the National Cancer Institute (NCI) as a fellow in the Division of Cancer Prevention. Her research has included evaluations of the cancer risk associated with contaminants in water supplies, a study of malignancies among workers in the formaldehyde industries, and an assessment of the carcinogenicity of many widely used pesticides.

She also works with colleagues from the University of Iowa in her ongoing role as co-principal investigator on the Agricultural Health Study. This study—a collaborative effort among the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, the NCI, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health—is examining health outcomes among 57,000 licensed pesticide applicators and 32,000 of their spouses from Iowa and North Carolina. Ultimately, the project will provide information these agricultural workers can use to make decisions about their health and the health of their families.

Beane Freeman's outstanding performance on such research projects resulted in her promotion to research fellow in 2006—and in 2009 to tenure-track investigator in the NCI's Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology Branch, where she remains today.

Colleague Michael Alavanja wrote of Beane Freeman, "This rapid rise is testament to the fact that Dr. Beane Freeman is very highly regarded at NCI as a young scientist of tremendous potential. She has proven to be a skilled data analyst, a talented study designer, and a prolific scientific writer."

In recognition of such achievements, Beane Freeman has received two NCI Fellows' Awards for Research Excellence; a National Institutes of Health Merit Award; the National Institutes of Health Plain Language/Clear Communication Gold Level Award; membership in Delta Omega Honorary Society in Public Health; and the University of Iowa College of Public Health Outstanding Up and Coming Alumni Award. She also is an author of over 60 papers published or in press, has presented at several national meetings, served on national and international committees, and mentored many students and scientists.

Laura Beane Freeman truly has reached outstanding scientific heights in a mere nine years since her UI graduation, and she is a beacon for other UI graduates on the fast track to changing the world.


Kathleen C. Buckwalter, 71BSN, 76MA

2012 Distinguished Faculty Award

Kathleen "Kitty" C. Buckwalter, 71BSN, 76MA, is a world-renowned leader, mentor, and researcher in the field of geropsychiatric nursing whose passionate commitment has revolutionized health care for older adults.

A native Iowa Citian, Buckwalter earned a doctorate degree in nursing from the University of Illinois-Chicago in 1980, after completing an undergraduate degree in nursing and a master's degree in psychiatric/mental-health nursing at the University of Iowa. Since completing postdoctoral studies at the Mental Disorders of the Aging Branch at the National Institute of Mental Health (1983-86), she has devoted her career to geriatric education and research—and has proven to be a formidable advocate for elders.

Buckwalter's influence extends widely into the field of geropsychiatric nursing, where she has distinguished herself as one of the most outstanding and well-respected academicians in the country—and even the world.

Not only is she a professor emeritus in the UI College of Nursing, but she also is co-director of the National Health Law and Policy Resource Center, established in 1981 to promote laws and public policies in support of accessible, affordable, quality health services for all Americans, particularly vulnerable populations. Prior to assuming emerita status in 2011, after devoting more than three decades of service to the UI, she was the Sally Mathis Hartwig Professor in Gerontological Nursing, the director of the John A. Hartford Center of Geriatric Nursing Excellence, the associate director of the UI Gerontological Nursing Interventions Research Center, and the co-director of the UI Center on Aging. In addition, she served as the UI associate provost for health sciences.

A prolific researcher, Buckwalter is internationally recognized for her work in the areas of psychiatric nursing, aging, and long-term care. Her efforts have focused on improving mental-health services and providing community-based care for chronically ill older persons. Her particular interests are in behavioral-management strategies for rural caregivers of persons with dementia and in the effectiveness of community programs in preventing, minimizing, and treating psychiatric problems in the rural elderly.

During her Iowa tenure, Buckwalter brought in more than $25 million in research funding from several branches of the National Institutes of Health and from numerous private foundations. She also has written extensively in the field of gerontology, authoring 251 articles; eight books; eight health-policy and commission papers; 51 monographs and videos; and 90 editorials, reviews, and commentaries.

Beyond her own scholarly activities, Buckwalter has generously fostered the academic careers of countless other geriatric and psychiatric nurses, and she has shared her expertise with the state of Iowa by serving on the planning committee for the Governor's Conference on Aging, chairing the Governor's Task Force on Elder Abuse, and advising the Department of Elder Affairs. Along with serving on numerous review committees, editorial boards, and advisory groups, Buckwalter also has fellowships in the American Academy of Nursing and the Institute of Medicine.

With such a stellar career to her credit, Kathleen C. Buckwalter can claim her place as one of the world's most important geriatric nurse leaders—a consummate educator and researcher whose dedication has made a meaningful difference for older adults and their families.

Buckwalter is a life member of the UI Alumni Association and a member of the UI Foundation's Presidents Club.


Lawrence H. Einhorn, 67MD

2012 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Lawrence H. Einhorn, 67MD, a living legend in the field of medical oncology, developed a cure for testicular cancer and is now applying his expertise to the treatment of other deadly cancers.

A 1965 graduate of Indiana University (IU), Einhorn came to the University of Iowa for medical school and went on to complete his fellowship training in oncology at MD Anderson Hospital in Houston and at the IU School of Medicine.

When he joined IU as a faculty member in 1973, testicular cancer was the leading cause of cancer death among men between the ages of 15 to 35. Einhorn's unprecedented achievement—adding the experimental, platinum-based drug Cisplatin to the chemotherapy regime—turned the research world upside down and forever altered this reality. Today, 95 percent of patients with testicular cancer can be cured, just like Einhorn's most famous patient—Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong.

His incredible discovery—which still remains the only cure discovered for a solid tumor—earned Einhorn international recognition and also ensured his meteoric rise in the world of oncology. He assumed the title of distinguished professor at IU in 1987, the highest rank bestowed upon Indiana faculty, and became the first Lance Armstrong Foundation Professor of Medicine in 1996.

Einhorn has followed his groundbreaking research with continued innovations, heading up the country's pre-eminent germ-cell tumor treatment program at IU. He's also assembling a multidisciplinary team of researchers to explore the ways in which platinum-based drugs might help treat lung cancer, the leading cause of cancer death in men and women.

Among his numerous awards and honors, Einhorn received the American Cancer Society Medal of Honor in 1983. In 1985, he joined the elite Association of American Physicians, and, in 2001, he became the first clinical investigator to be inducted into the National Academy of Sciences.

The Milken Foundation awarded him its Distinguished Clinician Award in 1989, and Einhorn received the Kettering Prize for cancer research from the General Motors Foundation in 1992. Einhorn also received the prestigious David A. Karnofsky Memorial Award in 2000 and the Ted Couch Cancer Research Award from the Moffitt Cancer Center in 2010. He is the recipient of distinguished alumni awards from the Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine and Indiana University, and he served as president of the American Society of Clinical Oncology from 2000 to 2001.

The world-renowned scholar and scientist also has been a named or keynote speaker at dozens of national and international conferences, has published more than 450 papers and 75 book chapters, and remains a dedicated clinician and teacher.

"Larry's accomplishments did not stem from being simply in the right place at the right time," says J. Howard Pratt, professor of medicine at Indiana University. "It took a pioneering spirit, lots of fire in the belly, lots of hard work, and being smart and creative."

A father of modern-day oncology, Lawrence H. Einhorn has changed how doctors treat many cancers. He is not only a guiding light to an entire generation of cancer researchers, but a hero to legions of grateful patients.


Marion L. Elmquist, 72BA

2012 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

Marion L. Elmquist, 72BA, knows all about selfless acts of service, and she has used her civic-minded expertise to guide the University of Iowa in creating new opportunities for students, faculty, alumni, and friends.

The retired business executive and former editor has put her leadership skills and business acumen to work as a charter member of the UI College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (CLAS) Dean's Advisory Board, a CLAS representative on the UI Alumni Association (UIAA) Board of Directors, and a member of the UIAA Executive Committee. Through these roles, Elmquist has been able give back to the alma mater that helped shape her rewarding professional life.

Upon earning a bachelor's degree in journalism and mass communications at Iowa, Elmquist went on to complete a 1975 master's degree in journalism and a 1985 master's of business administration degree from Northwestern University.

These educational experiences prepared her to tackle executive editorial roles with Advertising Age and Modern Healthcare magazines—and also to excel in positions in advertising, marketing, and business. Elmquist also started her own marketing and advertising firm, Newton Associates, before moving on to play an instrumental role in growing IRIS/Interactive Horizons from start-up to success. She joined this Denver-based supplier and manufacturer of interactive audience-response systems in 1989 and became its chief operating officer in 1991, remaining in this role until her retirement in 2004.

Despite the demands of her busy professional life, Elmquist has still found time to serve as a steadfast civic volunteer and UI champion—giving many years of dependable and enthusiastic service to her various university boards and committees. Says Linda Maxson, dean of the UI College of Liberal Arts and Sciences: "Marion has been an insightful, generous, and dedicated volunteer for the University of Iowa and CLAS. Beyond these roles, she has been an invaluable partner in cultivating private support; she has a keen understanding of the crucial role that private gifts play in our mission."

Not only is Elmquist attuned to Iowa's needs, but she also is an enthusiastic advocate for Ski for Light—another cause close to her heart. This innovative, Minnesota-based nonprofit program helps visually or mobility-impaired adults enhance their independence and quality of life through cross-country skiing. Elmquist has served in numerous roles within Ski for Light and currently is its president, proving to be a driving force behind the organization's positive and rewarding impact on thousands of lives. In recognition for her outstanding work with this organization, the Norwegian ambassador to the United States honored her with a 2010 Ambassador's Award.

In their years of working alongside her, appreciative colleagues report that Elmquist always asks what she can do to help. It is this generosity of spirit that has earned Marion L. Elmquist a reputation as a trusted alumni advisor and as a charitable and visionary University of Iowa volunteer.

Elmquist is a member of the UI Alumni Association's Old Capitol Club and the UI Foundation's Presidents Club.


Richard L. Ferguson

2012 Distinguished Alumni Friend Award

Richard "Dick" L. Ferguson understands firsthand the value of a quality education—and though he is not an Iowa graduate, he has dedicated his career to investing in the UI and its broader community.

For more than two decades, Ferguson served as chief executive officer and chairman of Iowa City-based ACT, one of the most successful and respected education companies in the nation. There, he helped nurture the ongoing friendship between ACT and the University of Iowa, where the company first began. In fact, he was instrumental in establishing the ACT Scholars Program for underrepresented students wishing to attend the UI, a contribution that will make it possible for many young people to follow their dreams.

After receiving a 1962 bachelor's degree from Indiana University of Pennsylvania, a 1966 master's degree from Western Michigan University, and a 1969 doctorate degree from the University of Pittsburgh, Ferguson worked as a high-school math teacher in Pennsylvania and as a lecturer and research associate with the University of Pittsburgh's Learning Research and Development Center.

In 1972, he joined ACT, serving as president and C.E.O. from 1988 to 2002 and as chairman and C.E.O. from 2002 until his retirement in 2010. In 1975, he became an adjunct assistant professor in the UI College of Education Department of Psychological and Quantitative Foundations, a position he still holds today.

Under Ferguson's leadership, ACT became an internationally recognized innovator in, and authority on, educational testing and measurement—a reputation that, in turn, has significantly enhanced the UI's standing. During his tenure, Ferguson never forgot that the roots of the company can be traced back to the UI College of Education, and he always sought ways to help the UI fulfill its educational mission.

Along with making a gift of $5 million to establish the ACT Scholars program, the company has employed hundreds of UI students as research assistants and interns—and had hired countless Iowa graduates. ACT staff members and UI faculty often collaborate, and ACT and the College of Education regularly partner to host academic conferences.

Though Ferguson retired from ACT in 2010 and accepted a new role as vice chairman of Dallas-based Best Associates, a private equity firm dedicated to the accessibility and affordability of higher education, he has not left Iowa behind. He remains a loyal volunteer, serving many UI boards, including current roles on the advisory board of the Belin-Blank International Center for Gifted Education and Talent Development and the Executive Committee of the UI Medical Center Council.

Such dedication has earned him many awards and honors. Ferguson received a Distinguished Alumnus Award (1996) and a Distinguished Fellows Award (1997) from the University of Pittsburgh and a Distinguished Alumni Award from Indiana University of Pennsylvania in 2009. He also received an honorary degree from Iowa Wesleyan College in 2005, and he was a Business Hall of Fame Inductee for Junior Achievement of Eastern Iowa in 2010.

E.F. Lindquist, the legendary UI professor of measurement and statistics who helped found ACT, surely would have been proud of Ferguson. Not only does Richard L. Ferguson embody the spirit of innovation and generosity that defined Professor Lindquist's illustrious career, but he is also a true friend of Iowa education.

Ferguson is a member of the UI Foundation's Presidents Club.


Tanna M. Frederick, 99BA

2012 Distinguished Alumni Young Award

Tanna M. Frederick, 99BA, is a rising movie star whose enthusiasm and determination have helped her fashion a successful Hollywood career while remaining connected to the University of Iowa and other causes she holds dear.

After majoring in theater and political science at Iowa—where she was a UI Homecoming Queen and a member of the Hawkeye Tae Kwon Do team—Frederick graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences in 1999 as valedictorian of her class. She also performed in numerous theater productions while at the UI, including a one-woman play, Questioning Jabe, which she wrote herself.

Following graduation, she chased her Hollywood dreams to L.A., where, like most young actors, she worked dozens of small jobs while taking acting classes and landing the occasional commercial or a spot on soap operas like Days of Our Lives. However, her persistence and willingness to take risks paid off when she finagled a meeting with influential independent-film director Henry Jaglom.

This proved the big break that helped Frederick beat the odds in Tinsel Town. Since then, she has starred in five of Jaglom's films, including Irene in Time, Hollywood Dreams, and Queen of the Lot (alongside Noah Wyle of ER fame). She also appeared in the Jaglom play Just 45 Minutes from Broadway with Judd Nelson. More recently, she made her directorial debut and starred in Claire Chafee's Why We Have a Body—a production that Frederick did at the UI in 1996.

Frederick credits the UI Department of Theatre Arts for not only giving her the chops to catch the attention of directors, but also for nourishing her independent, experimental approach to theater and cinema production. Now that she has achieved a level of success that allows her to "pay it forward," she is doing just that. Frederick often returns to the UI campus to talk with UI theater and film students—providing young actors with intimate, personal instruction and encouragement.

She also established the Tanna Frederick Scholarship for Theatre Arts, an annual scholarship for an incoming theater student—and she even inspired Jaglom to create a scholarship of his own at Iowa. In honor of these contributions, the UI Department of Theatre Arts inducted her into the Iowa Theatre Gallery, which highlights distinguished alumni.

In addition to mentoring UI theater students, she helped establish the Iowa Independent Film Festival in her hometown of Mason City in 2006. Frederick also aims to reinvigorate the Iowa film industry through her "Project Cornlight." The first film, The Farm, due to start filming in June 2012, will tap local Iowa talent. Beyond her film and theater interests, Frederick co-founded the non-profit Project Save our Surf, which helps provide clean water for children and families locally and globally.

No matter where she is or what she's doing, Frederick throws herself into the projects that matter most to her. Tanna M. Frederick may be a budding Hollywood movie star, but she remains an Iowa girl at heart—and an inspiration to those around her.


Randall L. Gray, 72BS, 75MA

2012 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

Randall L. Gray, 72BS, 75MA, is a steadfast advocate for people with disabilities, and someone who has brought compassion and understanding to his work as a national leader in rehabilitation and education.

A proud parent of a son with autism, Gray has drawn from his personal experiences to guide his decisions as president and chief executive officer of Marc Center, an Arizona-based rehabilitation agency and national model for excellence that annually serves more than 8,000 individuals throughout the state.

Gray's passion for championing children and adults with disabilities first took hold at Iowa. During his years at the UI, he received a bachelor's degree in psychology and a master's degree in rehabilitation while fulfilling a practicum experience at Goodwill Industries.

After graduation, Gray worked as a state rehabilitation counselor for the Arizona Department of Economic Security/Rehabilitation Services Administration and as an assistant instructor at Mesa Community College before becoming a residential group-home manager in 1976. He began working at Marc Center as a service coordinator that same year and spent the next three decades working his way to the organization's top management position.

At every turn, Gray demonstrated an unwavering commitment to protecting the rights of people with disabilities, and he has established innovative programs, educated the public, and campaigned for national policy changes to advance important and needed services.

Among his trailblazing contributions, he established one of the first integrated preschools in Arizona that served both typically developing children and those with disabilities—and he also created one of the first regionally and federally supported employment initiatives in the late 1970s. Gray is also a past chair of the Arizona Governor's Council on Developmental Disabilities and a 20-year member—and chair—of the Arizona Rehabilitation Advisory Committee.

In addition, he has served for 20 years as a peer reviewer of federal grants that pertain to education, rehabilitation, and demonstration-research projects for the U.S. Department of Education and has advised more than 300 organizations, including Fortune 500 businesses. Gray also has testified before Congress on disability-related issues and led several national planning bodies and advocacy groups.

In 1992, Gray was selected as one of 20 Mary Switzer Scholars who would work to identify 21st-century initiatives for community rehabilitation programs. Also that year, the National Rehabilitation Association presented him with the Bell Greve Memorial Award in recognition of outstanding contributions. His many other accolades include a Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of Iowa Graduate Programs in Rehabilitation in 1999 and a 2006 Chairman's Award from the Arizona Association of Providers for People with Disabilities.

One of his colleagues, in summing up Gray's achievements, wrote, "Sir Wilfred Grenfell was quoted as saying, 'Real joy comes not from ease or riches or the praise of me, but from doing something worthwhile.' He must have known Randy."

Randall L. Gray has spent a professional lifetime "doing something worthwhile." His commitment to the rehabilitation and quality of life for people with disabilities has had a far-reaching effect on countless individuals.


John C. Herr, 78PhD

2012 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

John C. Herr, 78PhD, is a preeminent scientist whose research on contraception, related reproductive technologies, and cancer biomarkers has global implications.

A professor of cell biology, urology, and biomedical engineering—and director of the Center for Research in Contraceptive and Reproductive Health—at the University of Virginia (UVa), Herr combines his talents as a basic biomedical scientist, translational researcher, inventor, and entrepreneur to promote findings and innovations arising from the characterization of novel human genes and proteins expressed in the ovary and testis during the development of oocytes (sperm and eggs).

Before accepting an appointment at the University of Virginia in 1981, Herr received a bachelor's degree in biology from Grinnell College and a doctoral degree in anatomy and cell biology from the University of Iowa. He also completed a postdoctoral degree in developmental biology at the University of Washington in Seattle in 1981.

Throughout his notable career, Herr has focused his research on the areas of fertilization, contraception, and cancer. Translating discoveries into inventions is a hallmark of his work; while at UVa, he identified a unique sperm-specific protein (SP-10) that resulted in the creation of the first patented home-immunodiagnostic tests for male fertility. To commercialize SpermCheck Fertility and SpermCheck Vasectomy and ensure these tests reached the public, Herr founded the biotech company ContraVac in 1998 and took the reins as its president, CEO, and chairman. Herr's laboratory has also discovered a protein that could be used to develop biologic drugs for ovarian and uterine cancers.

Author of 210 scientific papers, inventor of more than 20 patents, and recipient of 30 years of continuous funding from the National Institutes of Health, Herr recently received the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Grand Challenge Award to develop a new concept for a female contraceptive that targets only the egg. He's also received funding from the Found Animal Foundation to help him aim for the $25 million Michelson Prize for developing a single-dose sterilant for dogs and cats. And his lab is currently working on a male contraceptive that targets testis-specific kinase proteins.

The self-described "farm kid from Iowa' is both a local and global research leader. Herr currently serves on the board of directors for the University of Virginia Patents Foundation and was elected president of the American Society of Reproductive Immunology. Additionally, he is a member of the INDO-U.S. Joint Working Group—a consortium of scientists and government officials whose primary goal is to facilitate scientific exchange and development in India—and director of an NIH-funded postdoctoral program that supports the advanced training of Indian scientists working in the fields of reproduction and contraception.

Further, Herr was named Inventor of the Year at University of Virginia in 1999, and he also received the Small Business Innovation Research Commercialization Breakthrough Award from the Virginia Center for Innovation Technology in 2004, a Breakthrough Award from the Charlottesville Business Innovation Council in 2010, and a Distinguished Alumni Award for Achievement from the University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine in 2002—to name just a few.

Thanks to his first-rate research, scientific vision, and zest for practical applications, John C. Herr deservedly ranks among the country's most remarkable scientists.


Stanley L. James, 53BA, 62MD, 67R

2012 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Stanley L. James, 53BA, 62MD, 67R, is a widely respected innovator in the field of orthopedics whose work has transformed the world of sports medicine, influencing generations of athletes and doctors.

The Iowa City native earned a bachelor's degree in 1953 and a medical degree in 1962 at the University of Iowa before completing his residency in orthopedics at the UI in 1967. During his Iowa tenure, James collaborated with Dr. Charles Tipton on cutting-edge research that demonstrated how the mechanical loading of ligament injuries increased the strength and rate of healing.

He presented their seminal finding at the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons Sports Medicine Conference in 1968—where it was met with considerable skepticism. However, within a few years, James's research would earn the recognition it deserved, and he would be well on his way to becoming one of the most highly regarded experts in orthopedic sports medicine.

To further a longstanding interest in the mechanics of running and gait analysis, James moved to Eugene, Oregon, in 1967 to join Dr. Donald Slocum, one of the nation's "fathers of sports medicine." There, over the next four decades, he conducted a series of clinical studies that changed the way doctors treat runners with injuries. Now a courtesy professor in the University of Oregon's Department of Human Physiology, James also played a leading role in establishing the school's Biomechanics/Sports Medicine Laboratory.

Early in his career, James developed a close relationship with Bill Bowerman, one of the founders of NIKE and legendary University of Oregon track coach. He and Bowerman worked together to improve the design of running shoes, and James served as a formal research consultant for the company from 1976 to 1983. He was also the medical director for the U.S. Olympic Trials in Eugene in 1976, 1980, and 2008, and he served as a medical and research consultant for many organizations, including the U.S. Nordic ski team, the National Korean Sports Program, and the University of Oregon track team.

James's work has helped Eugene earn a reputation as the epicenter of track-and-field competition and expertise. In fact, the world's elite athletes have traveled to his clinic to benefit from his patient care and surgical talents, particularly as they pertain to knee and running-related conditions, and he has shared his insights at numerous national and international medical meetings. James has also received considerable applause in popular magazines, such as Sports Illustrated, Time, Esquire, Discover, and Track & Field News.

Kenneth M. Singer, a physician from Oregon's Slocum Center for Orthopedics and Sports Medicine, wrote of James, "The hallmark of every aspect of Dr. James's career has been excellence. His extremely high standards carry over into every aspect of his life, both personal and professional. He is a superb surgeon and excellent researcher, an exemplary teacher, and an accomplished athlete himself, having competed in very high-level Nordic ski racing."

Throughout this illustrious career, Stanley L. James has been an undeniable trailblazer in his field and his breakthroughs have left an indelible mark on the safe pursuit of sport.

James is a member of the UI Alumni Association's Old Capitol Club.


George D. Kuh, 75PhD

2012 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

George D. Kuh, 75PhD, has made far-reaching contributions to the "science and art" of learning by creating a widely influential method for documenting and strengthening student achievement in American higher education.

This prolific scholar and researcher created the innovative National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE), which annually collects information from students at hundreds of four-year colleges and universities about their participation in learning and personal development programs and activities. The results have proven crucial to helping faculty and administrators across the country identify and apply practices that enable students to learn best.

Now chancellor's professor emeritus at Indiana University (IU), Kuh graduated from Luther College in Decorah, Iowa, with a bachelor's degree in English and history in 1968. He then worked at Luther as an admissions officer from 1968 to 1972 while earning a master's degree in counseling from St. Cloud State University. In 1975, he completed a doctoral degree in counselor education at the University of Iowa.

After teaching at the UI for a year, Kuh joined the Indiana University School of Education faculty in 1976. There, he spent more than a decade as director of IU's Center for Postsecondary Research, during which time he developed the highly influential survey that has been used by more than 1,400 colleges in the United States and Canada. Thousands of faculty members and administrators, and millions of students, have benefited from his work with the NSSE.

In addition to his leadership role with the NSSE, Kuh served in a variety of faculty and administrative roles at IU, including as chair of the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, associate dean for academic affairs in the School of Education, and associate dean of the faculties for the Bloomington campus.

He currently directs two national projects: the National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment and the Strategic National Arts Alumni Project, which is the first in-depth exploration of the factors that influence the careers of graduates of arts-intensive training high schools and postsecondary institutions.

With more than 350 publications, Kuh is also a sought-after consultant and lecturer who has made several hundred presentations on topics related to institutional improvement, college-student engagement, assessment strategies, and campus cultures. He holds seven honorary degrees, including one from Luther College, where he is a member of the Board of Regents and where his colleagues attest that he "has deeply altered the way we think about undergraduate learning."

For his achievements, Kuh has received many honors, including the American College Personnel Association's award for Outstanding Contribution to Higher Education in 2010; a Distinguished Alumni Award from St. Cloud State University in 2008; the Virginia B. Smith Innovative Leadership Award from the National Center for Public Policy in Higher Education and Council for Adult and Experiential Learning in 2005; and the Tracy Sonneborn Award for Distinguished Teaching and Research from Indiana University in 2001. In 2011, the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators named its Outstanding Contribution to Knowledge and Literature Award after him.

Through his pioneering research and creative insights, George D. Kuh has, in the words of one nominator, "changed the landscape of American higher education for the better."

Kuh is a life member of the UI Alumni Association.


Curtis K. Lane, 73BBA

2012 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

Curtis K. Lane, 73BBA, has a head for business and the heart of a Hawkeye—and he has used this skill and passion not only to excel in the world of portfolio management, but also to open doors for other UI entrepreneurs.

After earning a bachelor of business administration degree from the UI in 1973 and a master's degree in business administration from the University of Nebraska in 1974, Lane embarked on a highly successful career managing institutional performance portfolios.

He spent eight years on Wall Street, overseeing proprietary trading portfolios at the Union Bank of Switzerland and Schroeder and Company, and he eventually founded Disciplined Growth Investors in Minneapolis in 1993. By the time Lane sold his shares in 2000, this start-up had grown to $1.5 billion in assets.

Following that sale, Lane moved to Omaha, where he became the co-founder and portfolio manager of the long/short hedge fund Concordant Partners—and also became actively involved in the Omaha Riverfront Development Corporation, a group focused on revitalizing downtown Omaha.

Lane's vital investment experiences have helped him guide his alma mater. He is a member of the Henry B. Tippie College of Business Board of Visitors and its Finance Advisory Council, and he also serves on the investment committee for the UI Foundation Board of Directors. In this role, he has skillfully assisted in the oversight and management of the foundation's investments.

Along with his role as an astute financial advisor, Lane has also been a mentor for students following in his footsteps. Not only has he spoken to the Tippie College's students about finance careers and his industry experiences, he also has hired UI students as interns. In addition, Lane has partnered with Creighton University in Omaha to mentor its business and finance students, and he is president of his hometown's Senior Alumni Scholarship Foundation, which awards scholarships to graduating high school seniors in Atlantic, Iowa.

Lane and his wife, Carol, have given generously to a number of areas within the UI. In 2003, they established the Curt and Carol Lane Faculty Fellowship Fund in the Tippie College of Business. This valuable recruitment and retention tool provides $20,000 in annual support for the faculty advisor who oversees the Henry Fund and the Krause Fund—two student-run, real-money funds that provide stellar experience in managing investment opportunities and are crucial to the college's continued excellence.

A lifelong Hawkeye fan, Lane has been a loyal member of the I-Club and the Kinnick Society—the UI Athletic Department's highest annual giving level—and he sits on the board of directors for the Iowa Scholarship Fund, which oversees all student-athlete scholarships.

It is no surprise that Lane's colleagues refer to him as a "treasure," a "tried-and-true alumnus," a "well-respected businessman," and a "wonderful friend to the UI." Curtis K. Lane knows what it takes to succeed in business—and he's devoted his time, energy, and resources to helping UI students do the same.

Lane is a member of the UI Alumni Association's Old Capitol Club and a member of the UI Foundation's Presidents Club.


Rex Montgomery

2012 Distinguished Faculty Award

Rex Montgomery spent more than five decades as a University of Iowa scientist, producing groundbreaking research and educational programs that have helped transform the field of biochemistry and the university itself.

The professor emeritus in the UI Department of Biochemistry got his start as an academic leader—and as a mentor for students and colleagues alike—in England, where Montgomery received a 1943 bachelor's of science degree and a 1946 doctorate degree from the University of Birmingham.

Following nine years of postdoctoral study in England and the United States, he accepted a position as assistant professor of biochemistry at the UI in 1955. He quickly rose through the ranks, becoming a professor in 1963 and—following a sabbatical leave to the Australian National University in Canberra—associate dean for academic affairs in the Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine in 1974.

Montgomery served in this capacity until 1995, during which time he also held the positions of associate dean of research in the Carver College of Medicine and interim vice president of research for the university.

His own research interests focused on the role that the carbohydrate groups in glycoproteins and glycolipids play in biological functions such as cellular-transport processes, communication, and immune response against disease, and his work garnered more than $30 million in funding for the university. After publishing his first paper in Nature in 1946, Montgomery went on to author approximately 130 original research publications, 28 reviews, and three books. This prestigious body of work established him as one of the 20th century's most important carbohydrate biochemists, and his scholarly contributions had a major global impact in the field for more than three decades.

Along with conducting breakthrough research, Montgomery also spent thousands of hours teaching biochemistry to graduate, medical, dental, pharmacy, and physician assistant students. In fact, he even established a new physician assistant program at the UI in 1973, serving as its director until 1976. In the years since, graduates of this program have gone on to help myriad patients throughout the state, the nation, and the world. To recognize this achievement, the UI named the Rex Montgomery Physician Assistant Student Society and scholarship fund in his honor.

With all of these academic contributions to Montgomery's name, it's fitting that his friends, colleagues, and former students describe him as a source of personal and professional inspiration, calling him a "towering figure," a "quintessential university professor... who leads by remarkable example," and a "perfect mentor."

Though he officially retired from the UI in 2006, Montgomery generously invests in the university through charitable giving. He still comes to work, where he continues to make an active impact through writing papers and reviews.

Thanks to his lifelong passion for learning and teaching, and his quest for new discoveries, Rex Montgomery leaves a lasting legacy at the University of Iowa—and in the world of biochemistry.

Montgomery is a member of the UI Alumni Association's Old Capitol Club and the UI Foundation's Presidents Club.


Gerard P. Clancy, 83BA, 88MD

2011 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Gerard P. Clancy, 83BA, 88MD, applies his medical expertise and leadership to transform health care—not just for individual patients but for entire communities.

After completing a B.A. degree in biochemistry and a research fellowship in molecular biology at the University of Iowa, Clancy earned his medical degree in 1988. Following in the footsteps of his late father, John Clancy, a psychiatry professor at the UI for 35 years, he became a resident at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics.

By 1991, Clancy was chief resident in general psychiatry at UIHC. From 1992 to 1995, he served in the U.S. Air Force, rising to the rank of major and head of the Division of Medicine at Ellsworth Air Force Hospital in South Dakota, before returning to the UI. A visit to an Iowa City homeless shelter, where many clients suffered from mental illnesses, sparked a desire to help—as well as the realization that such patients required a new approach. He initiated several innovative, multidisciplinary programs—"hospitals without walls"—that took medical services out into the community.

Such efforts continued throughout his rapidly progressing career (which included graduation in 1997 from the Harvard Executive Program in Health Care Policy and Management), earning him a reputation not just as an accomplished physician but as a champion for the underserved. In 2001, Clancy was named dean of the medical college at the University of Oklahoma. Then, in 2006, he also became president of the University of Oklahoma, Tulsa. An energetic, hands-on leader, he still makes time to teach students and to work with them one evening a week at a clinic that serves the disadvantaged.

In 2008, with a $50 million donation from the George Kaiser Family Foundation, Clancy led a successful effort to transform medical education at the school. The OU College of Medicine in Tulsa became the University of Oklahoma School of Community Medicine. The first of its kind in the U.S., the school focuses on directing the university's many resources—clinical services, medical education programs, research, financial support, and leadership—to improve the health status of all Oklahomans, particularly those in underserved rural and urban populations.

Driven by appalling statistics demonstrating severe healthcare inequities—such as estimates that poorer residents of north Tulsa typically live 14 years less than those in the southern area of the city—Clancy hopes to find solutions to such problems. In 2009, Clancy convened the first National Summit of Urban Health, and he also offered his expertise during the recent overhaul of the American healthcare system.

For such efforts, Clancy has received numerous awards, including the Excellence in Community Psychiatry Award and the Exemplary Psychiatrist Award from the National Alliance on Mental Illness. The UI College of Medicine honored him several times as an outstanding instructor and in 2005 bestowed upon him a Distinguished Alumni Award for Early Achievement. In 2004, the Oklahoma Medical Association presented him with its Community Service Award, and in 2009, Tulsa People magazine named him Tulsan of the Year.

Through his work at the community, state, and national level, Gerard P. Clancy has demonstrated his devotion to patients and his fidelity to the humane ideals of academic medicine.

Clancy is an annual member of the UI Alumni Association.


Leonard S. Feldt, 54PHD

2011 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Leonard S. Feldt, 54PhD, is a giant in the field of standardized testing, having transformed the landscape of educational measurement and brought international renown to the UI College of Education.

Throughout his career, Feldt has forged significant improvements in how standardized tests evaluate student achievement. He has also devoted considerable time and energy toward mentoring the next generation of leaders in his field. In fact, it has been said that wherever educational tests are built and given, there is probably a Feldt-trained Iowan close at hand.

After receiving his Ph.D. in educational measurement from the University of Iowa, Feldt joined the faculty as an assistant professor of educational testing and statistics. He spent the next four decades in various leadership roles at the UI, including chair of the Division of Educational Psychology, Measurement, and Statistics from 1977 until 1981—the same year he received the distinguished title of E.F. Lindquist Professor of Educational Measurement and became director of the renowned Iowa Testing Programs (ITP). From 1987 until 1993, Feldt served as chair of the Department of Psychological and Quantitative Foundations, where he has remained professor emeritus of measurement and statistics since his retirement in 1995.

As director of ITP until 1994, Feldt turned the Iowa Tests of Basic Skills (ITBS) and the Iowa Tests of Educational Development (ITED) into two of the nation's most widely used standardized achievement tests. He kept the appropriate interpretation of test results at the heart of his work, helping educators, counselors, and administrators apply scores wisely.

Since his first publication in 1955, Feldt has authored or coauthored a number of revisions of the Iowa Tests and more than 70 articles in journals bearing on statistical or testing topics. He is perhaps the only person to have published in both the Annals of Mathematical Statistics and the National Elementary School Principal, and he was a major contributor to the 1999 Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing, a publication that has had a major influence on educational testing practice throughout the world. Feldt was also responsible for creating the first several editions of the college entrance tests published by the American College Testing program.

Feldt has been honored with the National Council on Measurement in Education Career Contribution Award and the American Educational Research Association and American College Testing Program E.F. Lindquist Award for Significant Contributions to the Field of Testing and Measurement. From the UI, he has received both a University Award for Meritorious Teaching and a Regents Award for Faculty Excellence. His latest honor came this past fall, when the UI created a new position bearing his name: the Hieronymus-Feldt Professor of Educational Measurement.

Feldt's biggest legacy of all, though, may well be his students—whose combined contribution to the educational measurement field is impossible to calculate. When he retired, former students journeyed back to Iowa City to honor their humble professor. Recalls Judith Hendershot, former UI director of educational placement: "It was a kind of love-in, the likes of which I had never seen."

An outstanding teacher, effective administrator, practical consultant, and gifted statistician, Leonard Feldt can take credit for original and lasting contributions that have left an indelible impression on our nation's educational system.

Feldt is a sustaining life member of the UI Alumni Association.


Katherine A. Halmi, 61BA, 65MD, 69R, 73R

2011 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Katherine A. Halmi, 61BA, 65MD, 69R, 73R, is internationally recognized for her pioneering studies and treatment of eating disorders, which have greatly heightened understanding of these complex and devastating illnesses.

With her rare breadth of research, clinical, and teaching skills, Halmi has altered forever the medical community's approach to eating disorders—and her passionate devotion to patients has improved the lives of thousands who suffer from the crippling effects of these diseases.

A board-certified pediatrician and psychiatrist, Halmi received her medical degree from the University of Iowa in 1965 and launched her career there, serving on faculty as an assistant and then associate professor of psychiatry. At the UI, she received her first National Institutes of Mental Health (NIMH) grant to study behavior modification and drug therapy for anorexia nervosa. She would subsequently receive many more grants to comprehensively investigate all aspects of eating disorders, including both the psychiatric and biological underpinnings of their manifestation.

Also while at the UI, Halmi established a clinical and research eating disorders program. She eventually moved on to Weill-Cornell Medical College in New York, and, using her Iowa model, created an internationally recognized research and treatment program that has served patients for 30-plus years. A tenured professor of psychiatry at Weill-Cornell Medical College since 1986, Halmi is also a DeWitt Wallace Senior Scholar, a designation given to very few members of the school's senior psychiatry faculty.

Colleagues credit Halmi for putting eating disorders "on the map" by taking a collection of poorly understood patients and symptoms and organizing them in such a way that they could be scientifically evaluated and studied. In total, Halmi has received more than $4 million in research grants from the National Institutes of Health—which she has applied toward decoding the basic science of eating behavior, metabolism, psychopharmacology, and the mechanisms of illness. Her discoveries have led to new and effective, behaviorally focused treatment strategies for anorexia and bulimia nervosa.

"It would be rare to participate in a discussion about eating disorders and not have Dr. Halmi's name mentioned," says Philip J. Wilner, executive vice chair of the Weill-Cornell Medical College's Department of Psychiatry. "As I travel to different programs and introduce myself, I'm frequently asked, "Isn't that the place where Kathy Halmi has her eating disorders program?' She is an enormous source of pride for us."

Despite her busy research and clinical schedule, Halmi still makes it a priority to mentor younger clinicians, always taking time to chat at conferences and introduce up-and-comers to older colleagues. She has appeared at more than 300 invited lectures, can claim more than 200 peer-reviewed publications, and has authored a "Curriculum for Primary Care Providers" to assist them in their interactions with patients with eating disorders.

In addition, she is the recipient of the College of Medicine's Distinguished Alumni Award, the Research Career Award from the NIMH, and the American Academy of Child Psychiatry Eating Disorders Scientific Achievement Award. Also widely recognized by her field's major professional societies, Halmi has served as president of the American Psychopathological Association, the Society of Biological Psychiatry, and the Eating Disorder Research Society.

With her incisive mind, endless energy, and passion for service, Katherine Halmi has earned the widespread admiration of her peers—and her patients.


Richard F. Hansen

2011 Distinguished Alumni Friend Award

Richard F. Hansen, one of the nation's most esteemed healthcare architects, has helped shape the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics and the UI College of Public Health through his professional expertise and his private generosity.

As founder, partner, and director of the Hansen Lind Meyer healthcare architectural firm, Hansen oversaw the planning in the late-1960s of the UI Hospitals and Clinics' vast expansion. His plans clearly reflected the core values of the academic teaching hospital and paved the way for the patient-centered design now prevalent in healthcare architecture. Through the half-billion-dollar construction of the hospital campus, Hansen Lind Meyer developed a brand that cemented the UIHC's nationwide reputation as the gold standard in hospital design and function. Hansen Lind Meyer became one of the first firms honored by the American Society of Interior Designers for its cutting-edge work.

Highly sought-after for hospital projects across the country, Hansen expanded the Iowa City-based firm founded in 1963, taking it also to Chicago, Orlando, New York City, Washington, DC, and Denver, Colorado. Soon, Hansen Lind Meyer became the second-largest hospital design firm in the nation. Hansen has also designed other notable hospital projects, including the Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center in Chicago, Elmhurst Hospital in Queens, New York, and the University of Michigan Hospitals and Clinics in Ann Arbor. He has served as president of the Iowa Chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIA), president of the Iowa Architectural Board of Examiners, and on several AIA committees. In 1983, Hansen was elected as a fellow in the AIA, the organization's highest honor.

Although he graduated in 1955 from Iowa State University, Hansen has become one of the staunchest supporters of the UI College of Public Health. In the college's early and most critical years, he provided wise guidance. Such efforts continue today, as he offers his counsel as a leader of the "Building Today for a Healthy Tomorrow" campaign, which helps finance the college's impressive new building and support students, faculty, and programs. In addition, he served as an adjunct professor for the college and an advisor to UI healthcare leaders.

Hansen and his wife became the UI College of Public Health's first Founding Partners with a charitable gift to endow the Richard and Barbara Hansen Leadership Award and Distinguished Lectureship Series. The series attracts nationally recognized healthcare scholars for an annual award and presentation, enhancing the reputation and visibility of the college. It also creates opportunities for UI students, faculty, and healthcare workers to meet these scholars and be challenged by their ideas.

A volunteer and charitable giver, Hansen supports academic, athletic, and cultural activities around campus, including the UIHC, the UI College of Medicine, UI Athletics, the UI Museum of Art, and Hancher Auditorium. He also serves as a member of the UI Foundation's Iowa Endowment 2000 National Committee, encouraging non-alumni to invest in the university.

Richard F. Hansen has advanced the UI—and academic medicine—through the visionary talents and resources he dedicates to support educators, physicians, and students in their pursuit of excellence.

Hansen is a member of the UI Foundation's Presidents Club.


Anita L. Hockett Wildman, 54GN

2011 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

Anita L. Hockett Wildman, 54GN, is driven by the belief that everyone deserves access to quality health care, a passion that has marked her achievements both in her career and her retirement.

Hockett enrolled in the University of Iowa's nursing program and received her degree in 1954, then joining the UI Hospitals and Clinics staff as an orthopedic and operating room nurse. In 1964, she and her family moved to Saint Charles, Missouri, where she eventually accepted a position with the Saint Joseph Health Center.

Under Hockett's guidance as a nurse manager (pediatrics and orthopedics), the center's nursing department earned "Magnet" recognition for excellence in 1972. Always a woman ahead of her time, Hockett was among the first administrators to help teach her colleagues how to use computers in the clinical area. She also developed a community initiative called "Buckle Up," an innovative program that encouraged and increased seat belt usage for childrenâ¬a relatively uncommon practice in the mid-1970s.

Hockett remained at Saint Joseph until her retirement in 1995, then immediately embarked on her notable volunteer career. In 1996, she helped establish the Saint Charles Volunteers in Medicine free clinic and has served as its clinical director ever since. As one of the primary fund-raisers, Hockett tirelessly pursues donations and volunteer staff to ensure the clinic's smooth operation. Today, Volunteers in Medicine treats more than 450 patients per month, providing an estimated $2 million in medical care on a shoestring budget. With her drive and enthusiasm, Hockett has inspired dozens of healthcare professionals to join the cause and provide care to uninsured people who cannot afford it.

Says Martin Bergmann, medical director of Volunteers in Medicine: "I have never had a more dedicated, intelligent, and hardworking co-worker than Anita. For her, this is not a hobby."

Indeed, anyone who has worked with her characterizes Hockett as a visionary with a natural ability to translate knowledge and creative ideas into action. Her dedication has attracted the attention of the White House, and she regularly lends her expertise to state and national legislators as they consider the role of free clinics in healthcare reform. Such efforts have helped establish a million-dollar Legal Defense Fund for physicians and dentists who see patients free of charge. With her eyes to the future, Hockett also sponsors a scholarship for UI students. The Anita and Franklin Hockett Nursing Scholarship supports a student interested in pursuing employment or volunteer work that serves the uninsured.

Among her many honors and awards, Hockett has been recognized by Missouri's Crider Center for Mental Health as one of the 2010 "Heroes in Health Care" in a three-county area. She has also received the 2009 Lifetime Distinguished Service Humanitarian Award from the Saint Charles Chamber of Commerce and a 2008 Lifetime Achievement Award presented at the Sixth Annual Dove Awards for Women of Achievement in Saint Charles County, Missouri. In 2003, she received the Greater St. Louis Woman of Achievement for Health Care Leadership Award.

For her heartfelt contributions and unwavering moral values, Anita Hockett is the embodiment of the proud tradition of the Iowa nurse and a shining example of public service.

Hockett is a life member of the UI Alumni Association and a member of the UI Foundation's Presidents Club.


Jeffrey D. Kueter, 93BA

2011 Distinguished Alumni Young Award

Jeffrey D. Kueter, 93BA, is an applauded public policy analyst and faithful UI alumnus who successfully balances professional pursuits with an unwavering desire to give back to his alma mater.

After graduating from the University of Iowa with a bachelor of arts in political science and economics in 1993, Kueter launched his career as a research director/consultant for organizations that study science and technology policies and programs for the greater good, including the National Coalition for Advanced Manufacturing. He also continued his education with two master's of art degrees from George Washington University, most recently for political science in 2004.

Since 2002, Kueter has served as president of the George C. Marshall Institute in Washington, DC—a nonprofit corporation that conducts technical assessments of scientific issues that impact public policy—where he is a leading national expert in the ever-evolving and intersecting worlds of energy, the environment, space exploration, and national security. In addition to managing the institute's daily tasks, his hectic schedule often includes testifying before Congress or being interviewed by national media to provide policymakers with clear and accurate information on the crucial scientific matters of the day. Kueter is also a published author of many substantive pieces on issues of importance in the science and technology fields.

Yet, this accomplished alumnus always finds time for the UI. Since graduation, Kueter has stood as an ambassador to the UI political science department, contributing time and resources as an inaugural member of the political science advisory board, student mentor, and generous donor. But perhaps his most notable achievements have come through his distinguished service on the UI Alumni Association's board of directors and as president of the Capital Area IOWA Club of Washington, DC. With a natural ability to lead and inspire, Kueter served on the UIAA board from 2002 to 2009, including one year as chairman. The first-ever recipient of the IOWA Club Leader of the Year Award, Kueter helped cultivate the strong member participation and quality programming that has earned his group Best Club designation every year since 1999.

Above all this, Kueter's deep commitment extends to the promotion and growth of IOWA Clubs across the U.S. In that spirit, he spent significant effort working to formalize a legally binding IOWA Club structure that keeps this invaluable network of UI-affiliated groups functioning at an optimal level. Kueter's impressive record of club leadership is unmatched, and his boundless energy and dedicated service will no doubt impact the UI and UIAA for years to come.

Says William O'Keefe, chief executive officer of the Marshall Institute: "Jeff has a first-class, analytical mind, as well as outstanding personal characteristics' moral character, integrity, and a friendly manner. He is a devoted father and husband and has a deep affection for the university. Indeed, I am sure that if cut, he would bleed black and gold."

Proud alumnus, talented professional, and loyal alumni leader, Jeff Kueter epitomizes what it means to pursue a rewarding, lifelong relationship with the University of Iowa.

Kueter is a member of the UI Alumni Association's Old Capitol Club.


Thomas J. Lowenberg, 62BSCE, 63MS

2011 Distinguished Hickerson Recognition Award

Thomas J. Lowenberg, 62BSCE, 63MS, is an outstanding alumnus who shines as a model of engagement and leadership in advancing the University of Iowa.

Lowenberg began seeking ways to give back to his alma mater almost as soon as he graduated with a bachelor's (in 1962) and then a master's degree (in 1963) in civil and environmental engineering. He frequently appeared as a guest speaker offering UI students the benefit of his knowledge and experience as a successful engineer with the 3M Corporation in Saint Paul and then his own company, TLE, in Pine Springs, Minnesota.

Taking his volunteerism a step farther, Lowenberg became a highly active contributor and counselor as a member of the College of Engineering's advisory board, development council, and campaign committee. He played a significant role on the campaign committee in particular, helping the college attain an unprecedented $11 million-plus for the project to modernize the engineering building.

In 2002, the college nominated Lowenberg as its representative on the UI Alumni Association's board of directors. It was the start of a long, enjoyable, and productive partnership, during which time Lowenberg served as a member of the awards, finance, nominating, and strategic planning committees, followed by terms as chair-elect, chair, and past chair.

Taking his board responsibilities seriously, Lowenberg devoted himself to learning about the alumni association, forging positive working relationships with the staff, and offering astute observations and advice. Throughout his time on the board, he maintained a clear, focused, and ambitious vision that undoubtedly advanced the association, leaving it even stronger than when he arrived.

Lowenberg also demonstrates his commitment to the university through charitable giving. Now a member of the UI Foundation's Presidents Club, he has contributed to the university almost every year since his graduation. Furthermore, he chaired a special corporate matching giving program with 3M Corporation that raised more than $200,000 for the College of Engineering building campaign.

Friends and colleagues describe Lowenberg as a greatly admired mentor and peer, an effective organizer, and—above all—a genuine "people person" who's a delight to work alongside. They also respect him for embracing and excelling at one of the most important roles an alumnus can play—extolling the achievements of one's alma mater in a compelling and persuasive way. Says one of his friends, "Listening to Tom talk about the College of Engineering made even a non-engineer want to learn more about what was happening there."

Just like Loren Hickerson, the original alumni association director after whom this award is named, Thomas J. Lowenberg is a stellar ambassador and an ardent champion of the University of Iowa.

Lowenberg is a member of the UI Alumni Association's Directors' Club Honors Circle and the UI Foundation's Presidents Club.


Amanda L. Miller, 02BBA

2011 Distinguished Alumni Young Award

Amanda L. Miller, 02BBA, has led the charge to keep recent graduates of the UI Tippie College of Business connected with their alma mater.

Miller's loyal service to the university began when she was a student at the Tippie College of Business. As president of the college's professional business fraternity, Delta Sigma Pi, Miller was nominated Chapter Collegian of the Year for her dedication to professional development and community service. She was also selected to give the commencement address when she graduated from the UI in 2002 with degrees in accounting and finance.

Following her time at the UI, Miller worked as an audit senior associate for the KPMG public accounting firm in Chicago. She led teams that performed the first audits in wake of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, helping insurance companies nationwide reform to meet the standards of the new law. Miller later traveled to 32 countries as a senior international financial auditor for Abbott Laboratories, then served as director in the Transaction Advisory Services practice at FTI Consulting, helping clients with mergers and acquisitions. This month, Miller started work with Google's M&A Finance group to help integrate Google's acquisitions into the overall business structure.

Despite frequently being away on the road, Miller has always made time for her alma mater. She served as the UI's recruiting team leader for KPMG, attending numerous job fairs to help UI students find internships and full-time careers. In 2003, Miller co-founded the Tippie College of Business Young Alumni Board (YAB), which advises the college's undergraduate program on ways to keep recent graduates involved. As one of YAB's first co-chairs, she was instrumental in the creation of an annual career development workshop, which pairs students with business graduates in their chosen field. These YAB members help undergraduates with their interview and résumé skills, as well as offer their perspective of what it's like to enter the working world.

Miller has also helped to organize several YAB alumni networking receptions in Chicago and Des Moines, which allow recent grads to connect with one another and with the Tippie College of Business, UI Alumni Association, and UI Foundation representatives to keep updated on university advancements.

Miller's true character is exemplified by her response to a friend and fellow Delta Sigma Pi member's death. When former UI student Cory Schuster died in an ATV accident in March 2007, Miller and several other Tippie College of Business young alumni raised money for a memorial bench to be placed in the Pappajohn Business Building courtyard in his honor. Miller coordinated the fund-raising efforts with the UI Foundation, contributed generously to the project, and organized a dedication ceremony attended by nearly 150 of Schuster's family members and friends. She also helped raise $250,000 to set up the Cory Schuster Scholarship Fund as a lasting tribute.

With enthusiasm and an insatiable work ethic, Amanda L. Miller plays an active role in the life of the UI Tippie College of Business—and inspires other young alumni to do the same.

Miller is an annual member of the UI Alumni Association.


Janice Reals Ellig, 68BBA

2011 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

Janice Reals Ellig, 68BBA, has tirelessly contributed her talents and resources as a successful business executive to mentor University of Iowa students and support her alma mater.

After graduating from the UI with a bachelor of business administration degree in 1968, Ellig earned her organizational development master of arts degree in 1978 from Rider University in Lawrenceville, New Jersey. From 1968 through 2000, she took on executive leadership roles at major companies such as Pfizer, Citibank, and Ambac Financial Group.

Since 2000, Ellig has served as co-CEO of Chadick Ellig, a premier global executive search firm. In this role, she has demonstrated a deep commitment to diversity by advocating for the recruitment of women and minority candidates into executive and board positions. As co-author of two business books and as the founder of the first Iowa Women's Leadership Conference—which she provided support for UI health management and policy students to attend—she has personally worked to advance women as leaders.

Despite living on the East Coast, Ellig keeps close ties with her alma mater, serving on the UI Foundation's executive committee and board of directors, as well as on various university boards. She generously gave her time and expertise to the UI College of Public Health building campaign committee, also setting a philanthropic example with a charitable gift to help provide a world-class academic home for the college.

Ellig also inspires students as a regular speaker at the Tippie College of Business and through a UI College of Public Health scholarship. In 1999, she launched the Adrienne Astolfi Eddins Memorial Scholarship Fund, awarded each fall to a female student in the Master of Health Administration program. Named in honor of Ellig's sister—a UI sociology graduate, healthcare executive, and student mentor—the scholarship has so far assisted 12 women in pursuit of advanced degrees in the Department of Health Management and Policy. Ellig has been proactive in meeting regularly with the selected students and will again this summer host ten of them in New York City to provide them with further networking opportunities.

With selfless service and unwavering support, Ellig has shown dedication to the UI as a past member of the Management and Organizations Advisory Council, as a contributor to the renovation of the President's residence at 102 Church Street, and as a welcoming host in her home of New York City receptions for UI alumni and friends.

Ellig also embodies the university's spirit of volunteerism, reaching out to her community through her involvement in numerous civic activities. Most notably, she is the immediate past chair of the YMCA of Greater New York Board of Directors—the first woman to hold that position in the organization's 155-year history—and currently serves as president of the New York Women's Forum, a group of 420 New York women of achievement.

Years after receiving her degree from Iowa, Janice Reals Ellig remains one of the University of Iowa's most steadfast and committed alumni, modeling the important role that graduates can continue to play as supporters and student mentors.

Ellig is a Directors' Club Honors Circle member of the UI Alumni Association and a member of the UI Foundation's Presidents Club.


Carol E. Smith, 72BSN

2011 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Carol E. Smith, 72BSN, has reduced the enormous burden placed on families coping with severe illness through her groundbreaking work in the fields of home care and telehealth.

Smith received her B.S.N. from the University of Iowa's College of Nursing in 1972. She continued her nursing education at Wayne State (master's degree in nursing with specialization as a nurse practitioner, 1976) and the University of Minnesota (Ph.D. in nursing, 1982).

Currently a professor of nursing and preventative medicine and public health at the University of Kansas School of Nursing, Smith is a recognized leader in patient education and the innovative use of clinical intervention technology that guides caregivers via interactive websites and in-home telehealth. Over almost 30 years, and with some $14 million of funding from the National Institutes of Health, she has laid the foundation for improving the lives of caregivers nationwide both through her innovative, evidence-based research and her personal commitment to disseminating that knowledge.

Smith's breakthroughs have improved understanding of how to work with seriously ill patients at home to prevent infections, re-hospitalization, and depression. Just as importantly, her work has provided a lifeline for family caregivers who manage complex home care such as vascular catheters, ventilators, and heart failure.

Smith has published more than 180 peer-reviewed, data-based articles in national and international multidisciplinary journals, including Nursing Research, Nursing Economics, Advances in Nursing Science, Patient Education and Counseling, and Telemedicine and e-Health. An educational innovator, she has developed and taught Web-based university courses, consulted for the National Science Foundation on academic Web development, and published quality standards for Internet nursing degrees and patient education.

Thanks in part to Smith's research data, the Kansas legislature proposed and passed a bill supporting the use of televideo home services for rural elders. An infection prevention kit that she developed was used in a $5.5 million campaign in Kansas schools, public services, and restaurants; later, it was translated into six languages for medical missions in South America and Africa.

In addition to her own outstanding contributions to her field, Smith has helped nurture a new generation of researchers through dedicated mentoring of junior and post-doctoral nursing and medical faculty. Smith's influence is also felt far beyond the U.S. A senior Fulbright scholar, she has taught, conducted research, and acted as a doctoral examiner in countries including England, Finland, and Australia. Master's and doctoral students from various countries have also traveled to Kansas to work with her.

Based on such generous offerings of her time and knowledge, Smith has been recognized with many awards and honors. She has received the University of Kansas's Innovative Educator Award (1998), Chancellor's Teaching Award (2003), and Honorary Alumnus of the School of Nursing (2007). The ultimate accolade came last November when she was inducted into the Fellows of the American Academy of Nursing. This past May, she received an honorary doctor of medicine degree from the University of Turku, Finland, in recognition of her work there to teach medical students about clinical trials research.

Carol E. Smith has earned respect and recognition of the highest caliber from her peers, students, and patients. Through her unwavering commitment, leadership, and research, she has generated crucial new knowledge to improve the lives of the sick and their caregivers.


John S. Strauss

2011 Distinguished Faculty Award

John S. Strauss, professor emeritus of the UI Department of Dermatology, has given back to the University of Iowa through his outstanding work as an educator, his altruistic service, and his philanthropic heart.

A graduate of Yale University, Strauss taught at the University of Pennsylvania and the Boston University School of Medicine before joining the UI in 1978 as head of the Department of Dermatology. He served in that position for 20 years, playing a critical role in the understanding of the sebaceous glands and pathophysiology of acne, as well as in the introduction of retinoids to acne treatment.

Strauss's influence extends widely into the field of dermatology, where he has acted as president of every major organization, including the American Academy of Dermatology, the Society for Investigative Dermatology, the Dermatology Foundation, the International League of Dermatological Societies, and the American Dermatological Association. He has also served as director, president, and special advisor to the American Board of Dermatology, mentoring Iowa faculty members to leadership positions in the accrediting body.

Highly respected in his profession, he has been recognized with a presidential citation for his leadership of the 1992 World Congress of Dermatology, with the Gold Medal, the highest honor bestowed by the American Academy of Dermatology, and with the Stephen Rothman Award, the ultimate honor given by the Society for Investigative Dermatology.

In the larger world of academic medicine, Strauss has also been named chairman of the Council of Medical Specialty Societies and the executive committee of the American Council of Continuing Medical Education, and to the prestigious American Association of Professors. As an educator and researcher, he is a pivotal influence and inspiration to many successful alumni.

As head of the UI's Department of Dermatology, Strauss was instrumental in securing funds to support research and endow an academic chair. The John S. Strauss Chair in Dermatology, established in 1991, helps attract outstanding faculty members to the UI.

In fact, Strauss and his wife, Susan, have long been active supporters of the university. They have contributed to areas as diverse as the UI Roy and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, the School of Art and Art History, the Old Capitol Museum restoration project, WSUI and KSUI, Carver-Hawkeye Arena, and the Ronald McDonald House. They spearheaded the Joffrey Ballet's 2007 statewide tour in celebration of Hancher Auditorium's 35th anniversary and made charitable gifts to help Hancher and the UI Museum of Art in the wake of the Flood of 2008.

The Strausses also hold a rare distinction as gold level members of the UI Foundation's Presidents Club, having provided more than $1 million in donations to the university. Says UI Foundation President Lynette Marshall, "It is not just the amount of their giving that is remarkable; it is the breadth of their generosity and their interests—and their expressed desire to contribute in ways that substantially improve the lives of others."

Indeed, the determination to improve the lives of others has driven Strauss in his career and his philanthropic endeavors. By committing his knowledge and resources to the University of Iowa, John S. Strauss has left a legacy that will impact this campus—and the field of dermatology—for years to come.

Strauss is a member of the UI Foundation's Presidents Club.


Marta J. Van Beek, 97MD, 01R, 03F, 03MPH, 08F

2011 Distinguished Alumni Young Award

Marta J. Van Beek, 97MD, 01R, 03F, 03MPH, 08F has established herself as a national leader in academic medicine, skyrocketing to the top of the dermatology field in a remarkably short amount of time.

Following the completion of her medical degree and dermatology residency at the UI, Van Beek pursued an extramural National Institutes of Health fellowship in dermatoepidemiology with the College of Public Health, receiving her master's degree in 2003. While a UI student, Van Beek displayed outstanding potential from the start, earning both the Hancher Finkbine Medallion and the Medical Student Service Award.

Since her graduation, Van Beek has served in various roles throughout the UI Hospitals and Clinics and Carver College of Medicine systemincluding current posts as associate program director for the dermatology training program and director of the division of surgery in the UI Department of Dermatology. She is extremely active in the university's clinical and teaching missions, delivering numerous lectures to students and moderating weekly resident seminars. For her success as an instructor, Van Beek received an Excellence in Teaching Award from the dermatology department in 2005 and has been a finalist for the M1 Teacher of the Year Award in 2007 and 2011.

In addition to her duties as a doctor and teacher, Van Beek has also occupied key roles on state and national committees of organizations such as the Iowa Dermatological Society, the American Medical Association, the American College of Mohs Surgery, and the American Society for Dermatologic Surgery. An indispensable leader of the American Academy of Dermatology (AAD), Van Beek played an active part in the recent national debate over healthcare reform in her position as chair of the organization's Health Care Reform Work Group and Congressional Policy Committee. David Pariser, the past-president of the AAD, has publicly described Van Beek as the academy's "feet on the ground" during this important debate and applauded her numerous trips to Washington, DC, to lobby for meaningful change.

With a research emphasis on the epidemiology of melanoma, health services, and international public health, Van Beek has authored many publications and been invited to speak at international conferences. So widespread is her influence that Van Beek received the prestigious North American Young Dermatologist International Achievement Awardgiven by the World Congress of Dermatology and the American Academy of Dermatology"for significant achievement in dermatology that stands as an example to all young dermatologists." She also boasts an impressive record of community service, including her participation in a number of skin cancer screenings, international medical service, and membership in the AAD's Circle of Volunteerism. For these reasons and more, she was also awarded the AAD's "Making a Difference" Award in 2005.

Janet Fairley, Strauss professor and head of the UI Department of Dermatology, says that Van Beek "exemplifies the level of giving back that we would like to encourage in alumni but rarely do. It is hard to imagine anyone who has contributed more hours and in more ways since her graduation from Iowa."

For Marta Van Beek, her stellar early career is only the beginning. Her outstanding leadership and medical expertise, combined with her philanthropic spirit, will ensure that her star continues to rise.

Van Beek is an annual member of the UI Alumni Association.


Robert W. Verhille, 55BSC

2011 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

Robert W. "Bob" Verhille, 55BSC, has consistently blazed a trail for others to follow, both in his professional career and his volunteer efforts on behalf of the University of Iowa.

After graduating from the UI in 1955 with a business degree, Verhille followed his father into the insurance industry, establishing the Verhille and Associates agency in Cedar Rapids in 1956. After he built this business for more than 40 years, the agency was merged with two others in 2000 to create the TrueNorth Companies, and he continues to work as a specialist in this insurance and financial strategies firm in Cedar Rapids. During his long career, Verhille earned a reputation as a pioneer of the industry in Iowa.

For the longstanding leadership and vision he's displayed during his professional career, Verhille has received many accolades, including, in 1994, the National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors' John Newton Russell Award, which is considered the highest honor in the life insurance and financial planning industry. In 2007, he was inducted into the Iowa Insurance Hall of Fame, and he has recently been inducted into the Eastern Iowa Business Hall of Fame.

Even while he served his profession so ably, Verhille devoted ample volunteer time and leadership to his community. Currently a trustee of Mercy Medical Center in Cedar Rapids, he has also served as chairman and director of the Cedar Rapids Area Chamber of Commerce and its economic development arm, PriorityOne; the board of trustees of Junior Achievement; the Regis High School Board of Education; and the Family Service Agency.

However, his passion for volunteering has been felt most keenly at his alma mater. Since 2007, when he took over as chair of the UI Foundation board of directors, Verhille has provided invaluable advice in helping the organization navigate through troubled economic times and budgetary challenges. Before his current position, he was vice chair of the foundation board for more than a decade, and he has served on the executive committee since 1995.

During the Flood of 2008 that wreaked havoc on the UI campus, Verhille offered his assistance to new President Sally Mason. "During the darkest and most challenging days, Bob was among those whose counsel I sought and most highly valued," recalls President Mason. "I came to rely on his insight, wisdom, and unfailing calm."

Verhille has also aided other university causes, including the historic Good. Better. Best. Iowa campaign, the current campaign for a new College of Public Health building, and the drive to help raise funds for the Old Capitol Museum. In addition, he has made charitable gifts to the university for more than four decades, starting with a donation of five dollars in 1962. Since then, many areas of the university have benefited from his generosity, particularly Hawkeye athletics and the College of Nursing (from where his late wife, Betty, graduated in 1958).

With the tireless service and dedication to others that he learned from his Iowa upbringing and his UI education, Robert W. "Bob" Verhille exemplifies in every way the spirit of giving back.

Verhille is a sustaining life member of the UI Alumni Association and a member of the UI Foundation's Presidents Club.


Fred J. Zamberletti, 55BA

2011 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Fred J. Zamberletti, 55BA, has enjoyed an illustrious 50-year career in physical therapy and sports medicine that started with the Hawkeyes and took him to the NFL.

After graduating from the UI in 1955 with a physical education degree and in 1956 with a certificate in physical therapy, Zamberletti became an assistant athletic trainer for the UI football team. He moved on to become chief physical therapist at Hibbing General Hospital in Minnesota and later head athletic trainer at the University of Toledo in Ohio. In 1961, during the Minnesota Vikings' inaugural season, he joined the team as its first athletic trainer.

Faithfully serving under five head coaches, Zamberletti became known to the team and fans as "The Man," widely respected for his compassion and skill as he put injured players on the road to recovery and rehabilitation. Throughout the years, he earned admiration and trust as a friend and mentor to countless Vikings players, coaches, and colleagues.

Until 2003, Zamberletti worked full-time with the club, including a few years as its medical services coordinator. While with the team, he also owned and operated successful physical therapy clinics in the Twin Cities for several years. Even following his retirement, "Mr. Viking" continues his involvement with the team he helped take to four Super Bowls, acting as the Vikings' senior consultant and historian. He can claim a part of that history, as he has never missed a single Minnesota pre-season, regular season, post-season, or all-star game. Entering the 2010 season, his attendance streak stretched beyond 1,000 games.

For his longstanding service to the Vikings, Zamberletti has earned the highest respect of his peers, who honored him as the 1986 Professional Football Athletic Trainer of the Year, the 1996 National Football League Athletic Training Staff of the Year, and with the 1999 NFL Physicians Sports Sciences Symposium's Cain Fain Award. He has been recognized as an honorary fellow of the Minneapolis Sports Medicine Center, inducted into the Minnesota Athletic Trainers Hall of Fame, and named by the Minnesota governor as an honorary ambassador of the state.

The Vikings also have decorated Zamberletti with the franchise's prestigious Ring of Honor and with a Fred Zamberletti Day at the stadium on December 20, 1998, when more than 100 Vikings alumni returned to celebrate his professional achievements.

Zamberletti credits former UI basketball coach Bucky O'Connor and former track coach George Bresnahan for their support in helping him enter a career in what was then a newly minted field. Despite his loyalty to the Vikings, Zamberletti still wears black and gold every Saturday during the fall in honor of his alma mater.

As a pioneer in the field of athletic training, Fred J. Zamberletti acts not only as the "Cornerstone of the Vikings," but also as an outstanding ambassador and humanitarian for the University of Iowa.

Zamberletti is a life member of the UI Alumni Association.


Nancy Barcelo, 72MA, 80PhD

2010 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Nancy "Rusty" Barceló, 72MA, 80PhD, is a pioneer for multiculturalism who has literally changed the face of higher education in America.

Throughout an illustrious career in academic administration that spans four decades, including 20 trailblazing years at the University of Iowa, Barceló has championed the idea that equity and diversity are fundamental to the academic enterprise—and that promoting this belief is not just the responsibility of one administrator, program, or office, but of an entire university.

When Barceló arrived at the University of Iowa in 1970, she was the only Chicana graduate student on campus. She soon became involved in opening the UI's first Chicano Latino Native American Cultural Center. Her passionate and impeccable performance in a variety of roles and research assistantships in the UI offices of Affirmative Action, Academic Affairs, and Special Support Service caught the attention of central administration.

The year after earning her Ph.D., she accepted her first full-time UI position as assistant dean in the Office of Academic Affairs. She determined to use this platform as a vehicle toward strengthening the university's embrace of equality and diversity principles. She went on to further climb the leadership ranks, filling roles as the interim director for the Opportunity at Iowa program and as assistant provost.

Even when she finished her "official" work in Jessup Hall, Barceló often devoted evenings or weekends to the cause so close to her heart. With her boundless energy, she would speak at events, sing at rallies, or host activities for first-generation college students.

Barceló's more recent professional contributions have taken place outside Iowa. From 1996 to 2001, she served as associate vice president for multicultural and academic affairs at the University of Minnesota. She then accepted the position of vice president and vice provost for minority affairs and diversity at the University of Washington. In 2006, Minnesota managed to recruit her back to its campus, where she serves as vice president and vice provost for equity and diversity. She recently was appointed president of Northern New Mexico College and will begin her presidency on July 1, 2010.

Respected on a national level for her leadership, courage, and collaborative approach, Barceló has improved diversity at all levels in the institutions where she's worked, instilling a greater understanding of its value amongst faculty, staff, and students. Her efforts have resulted in the acceptance of diversity as a core university value, greater recruitment of multicultural populations, and improved retention and support of underrepresented groups.

In addition to her academic endeavors, Barceló has participated on numerous regional and national boards, spoken at hundreds of conferences and cultural events, and received awards from more than 20 organizations. Her latest honor, the Ohtli Award from the Mexican government, recognizes her work to enhance U.S.-Mexican relations and improve the lives of people of Mexican heritage living in this country.

With warmth, compassion, and humanity, Rusty Barceló has cultivated educational atmospheres that value and affirm difference, benefiting countless individuals as well as the teaching, research, and service missions of universities.

Barceló is a member of the UI Alumni Association's Old Capitol Club.


P. Sue Beckwith, 80BS, 84MD

2010 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

P. Sue Beckwith, 80BS, 84MD, is a gifted surgeon trained at the University of Iowa who has given back to her alma mater through selfless service and generosity.

Beckwith first graduated from the UI in 1980 with a bachelor's of science degree in psychology. She then began her medical training, completing her doctor of medicine degree at Iowa in 1984, followed by an internship and residency in general surgery at Iowa Methodist Medical Center in Des Moines and a fellowship in colon and rectal surgery at the Mayo Graduate School of Medicine in Rochester, Minnesota.

Today, Beckwith runs a successful practice in Des Moines with the Iowa Clinic Department of Surgery. One of only a few colorectal surgeons in the area, she specializes in a rare surgical technique and is renowned for her compassion and kindness to patients.

Despite the intense demands of her career, the Boone native always finds time to support the UI. Most recently, she gave the inspiring lead pledge of $1 million that helped build the new P. Sue Beckwith, M.D., Boathouse for the Hawkeye rowing teams this past fall.

A former Iowa women's basketball letter winner, Beckwith became a competitive and avid rower later in life. After attending a UI rowing practice, she was moved by the strength and determination of the student-athletes and the dire need for a new boathouse for the nomadic team. The new $7.2 million boathouse, located in Terrell Mill Park opposite Mayflower Residence Hall, features a terrace, training area, locker room, meeting room, storage space, easy access to the Iowa River, and a UI College of Engineering-designed indoor rowing tank. It's also the first UI building designed to meet the standards for the U.S. Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design certification.

Beckwith has also established three student scholarships—the Christine H.B. Grant Scholarship Fund, the P. Sue Beckwith M.D. Rowing Scholarship Fund, and the P. Sue Beckwith M.D. Women's Basketball Scholarship Fund—to make college more affordable for deserving students.

Since 1993, she has shared her professional expertise as a clinical associate for the UI Department of Surgery. Beckwith also serves as a founding member of the dean's advisory board and as a development subcommittee chair for the UI College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, as a development committee and board of directors member for the UI Foundation, and as president of the Varsity Club board.

Beckwith also served for ten years on the executive council of the Iowa chapter of the American College of Surgeons, including one year as president, and she represented Iowa on the national organization's board of governors from 2004 to 2007. She held the position of vice president of the American Society of Colon & Rectal Surgeons from 2007 to 2008 and, since 2003, has been a senior associate examiner for the American Board of Colon & Rectal Surgery.

With her professional accomplishments and philanthropic drive, P. Sue Beckwith sets a truly inspirational example for UI students and alumni.

Beckwith is a member of the UI Foundation's Presidents Club.


John C. Cambier, 72MS, 75PhD

2010 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

John C. Cambier, 72MS, 75PhD, is a star in the field of immunology—renowned as one of the world's leading scientists for decoding the mystery of how the human body launches its defense against disease.

Widely respected as a researcher, educator, administrator, and mentor, Cambier is currently chair of the Integrated Department of Immunology at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center and the National Jewish Medical and Research Center. He is also the Ida and Cecil Green Endowed Distinguished Professor of Cell Biology.

Previously, he served for five years served as director of immunology of Cadus Pharmaceutical Corporation and as a faculty member or visiting fellow at institutions including Duke University Medical Center, the Basel Institute for Immunology in Basel, Switzerland, the Curie Institute in Paris, France, and the Burnet Institute in Melbourne, Australia.

While he can claim many seminal contributions to the field of immunology, Cambier is most widely recognized as an international leader of research into a vital subset of immune cells called "B lymphocytes" that produce the antibodies so critical to protecting us from illness. Virtually all current vaccines act by stimulating B cells to produce antibodies.

Cambier specifically studies the signaling mechanics that induce these cells to produce germ-fighting antibodies. More than any other laboratory in the world, his has increased the biochemical understanding of the complexity of triggers and controllers that drive our humoral immune response.

In recognition of his professional stature, Cambier is a frequent guest at prestigious scientific meetings and recipient of numerous awards. In 2009, members of the American Association of Immunologists honored him with their highest level of peer recognition by inviting him to give a Distinguished Investigator Lecture during their annual meeting in Seattle. Last fall, he became one of only 56 current and former faculty members of the University of Colorado system to be awarded the title "Distinguished Professor of the University of Colorado."

Cambier also received an Outstanding Scientific Achievement Award from the National Jewish Medical and Research Center in 2002, and, in 1999, a UI Carver College of Medicine Distinguished Alumni Award for Achievement.

In addition to receiving continuous research funding—including numerous grants from the National Institutes of Health, the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation, and the American Cancer Society—Cambier has co-authored more than 230 peer-reviewed articles appearing in many high-profile scientific journals, as well as more than 40 reviews and book chapters. These efforts no doubt contributed to his recognition in 2005 as the Institute for Scientific Information's Most Highly Cited award.

A holder of five patents, Cambier has developed cutting-edge technologies to test his theories and hypotheses—advancements that have propelled his field forward into new, uncharted directions. Further extending the depth and breadth of his research, Cambier has directly supervised 12 doctoral candidates and mentored some 50 postdoctoral fellows, many of whom have advanced toward faculty positions of their own in major academic centers and leadership positions in industry and private practice.

With this Distinguished Alumni Award, the University of Iowa is proud to recognize John C. Cambier's outstanding contributions to life-enhancing science.

Cambier is an annual member of the UI Alumni Association.


Craig D. Cannon, 97BA, 00JD

2010 Distinguished Alumni Young Award

Craig D. Cannon, 97BA, 00JD, is renowned nationally for his devotion to providing pro bono legal assistance to disaster victims, military veterans, and other people in need.

After graduating from the University Of Iowa College Of Law in 2000, Cannon worked as a business litigation attorney for the largest North Carolina-based law firm in its Winston-Salem and Raleigh offices. In 2008, he joined Branch Banking and Trust Company's legal department as a senior attorney in the bank's Winston-Salem headquarters.

Since 2006, Cannon has served as the national director of the American Bar Association (ABA)'s Disaster Legal Services (DLS) program. In this role, he works with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to provide pro bono legal assistance to disaster victims throughout the United States and its territories.

In 2007, Cannon served as the lead drafter of a new memorandum of understanding between FEMA and the ABA that has greatly improved coordination between those organizations, the Legal Services Corporation, and pro bono groups. In the last four years, more than 100,000 people have received assistance through the DLS program, including thousands of Iowans affected by the 2008 floods.

In addition to coordinating the delivery of such assistance, Cannon has personally provided pro bono legal assistance to hundreds of disaster victims. Following Hurricane Katrina, he spent four weeks in New Orleans, helping low-income residents who faced obstacles in receiving critical rebuilding funds because they lacked clear legal title to their homes.

Cannon has also helped the nation's military veterans navigate through the complexities of the United States Department of Veterans Affairs disability claims process. In 2006, he designed and implemented the "When Duty Calls" project, which helps veterans obtain service-related disability benefits. "When Duty Calls" was designated as an "Impact Your World" project by CNN.com in 2007. In recognition of his efforts, the ABA awarded Cannon its highest national honor, the Pro Bono Publico Award, in 2008.

Cannon is currently pursuing an executive M.B.A. from the University of North Carolina. He remains an active member of the North Carolina State Bar, where he has served as a member of the Legal Assistance for Military Personnel Committee. For the North Carolina Bar Association, he has served as chair of the Young Lawyers Division, which has more than 5,000 members, and as a member of the board of governors.

Cannon has also served on a variety of charitable boards, including the board charged with preserving the historic town of Old Salem, North Carolina, and a local charter school that assists children with learning disabilities.

In these and many other ways, Craig D. Cannon has improved the lives of thousands of underserved people through his compassion, leadership, and unwavering spirit of service.


Colleen J. Goode, 61BSN, 93PhD

2010 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Colleen J. Goode, 61BSN, 93PhD, stands out as one of this country's great nursing leaders, having dedicated her professional career to advancing the quality of nursing education and patient care.

After graduating from the University of Iowa's College of Nursing in 1961 with a bachelor of science in nursing degree, Goode earned her master's in nursing management and family nursing in 1984 from Creighton and then a doctorate of nursing in 1993 from the UI. Her impact on her profession became evident soon afterwards, when, as director of nursing at a small regional hospital, she designed and led the adoption of an evidence-based practice. The effects of this "Iowa Model" were felt worldwide, as other institutions began to use the innovative care delivery model.

Through her subsequent work at the University of Iowa and University of Colorado teaching hospitals, Goode has cemented an international reputation as "a beacon of light for clinical change." As a nursing executive, she introduced team nursing (in the 1970s), total patient care (1980s), and case management (1990s).

Goode also hired the UIHC's first nurse practitioner in the Department of Nursing and contributed research to the nursing field in the areas of autonomy, recognition, care delivery models, and evidence-based administrative protocols. In addition, she co-chaired a successful multidisciplinary research team that implemented and evaluated a case management model. Her meta-analysis documented the evidence for use of saline instead of heparin to irrigate peripheral IV's. This research changed practice across the US and internationally, leading to safer and more cost effective care.

Goode's legacy continues at Iowa through the National Research Utilization Conference, which is held annually through the UI Department of Nursing and Patient Care Services.

Since 1997, Goode has worked at the University of Colorado as a vice president for patient care services and chief nursing officer and as an associate dean for nursing practice, and currently as a professor in the College of Nursing. Under her leadership, in 2002 and 2005, the University of Colorado Hospital gained prestigious Magnet status for excellence in nursing care. Goode also developed one of the nation's first nurse residency programs and assembled a highly educated nursing department, where 83 percent of the staff holds baccalaureate degrees compared to the national average of 40 percent.

The recipient of 16 honors from various healthcare organizations, including the Outstanding Nurse Executive Award from the Iowa Organization of Nursing Executives, Goode inspires others with her grace, humor, and spirit of service. She donates much of her time and efforts to volunteer leadership positions on national nursing boards and organizations, such as the American Academy of Nursing.

Perhaps the key to this trailblazing UI alumna's enduring success as a leader, researcher, and mentor, can be seen in this remark by a colleague: "Years after leaving the nursing uniform behind, Colleen Goode is still a nurse at heart. Her attention, commitment, and compassion for patients are evident every day."

Goode is a member of the UI Alumni Association's Old Capitol Club.


Thomas R. Hanson, 60BSME

2010 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

Thomas R. Hanson, 60BSME, has a gift for communicating, one that he generously shares to help UI engineering students follow his successful career path.

Hanson grew up in a Hawkeye family, which included his parents, Clem, 25BSC, and Sylvia, 27BA, and uncle C. Maxwell Stanley, 26BSE, 30MS, a 1967 recipient of the UI Alumni Association's Distinguished Alumni Award for Service. After graduating from the UI in 1960 with a degree in mechanical engineering, Hanson began as a design engineer at Union Carbide in Charleston West Virginia, then moved to engineering sales and marketing with the Trane Company in Lacrosse, Wisconsin, a major manufacturer in the air conditioning and refrigeration industry. He later moved to Chicago to run the regional sales office of York International, also a major company in the air conditioning industry.

After years in the heating and cooling industry, Hanson drew upon his expertise in engineering, business, sales, and communications to start in 1980 his own Chicago-based company, Thermal Air Systems, which grew to be the exclusive sales representative for many commercial and industrial heating and cooling manufacturers. In 1991, the company became Fleming Hanson Sales, the largest HVAC sales agency in Illinois.

Hanson sold his interest in the company when he retired in 2000, but he continues to make a difference in the world of engineering. In 2003, he and his wife, Nancy, endowed the Hanson Center for Technical Communication, an innovative center where UI engineering students can develop their speaking and writing skills to stand out from their peers in a competitive field.

Recognizing the importance of communication to his own career, Hanson wanted to help engineers develop those skills, which he sees as essential to an engineering education. The center teaches engineers to express their expertise and has enriched the engineering curriculum with rigorous writing and presentation exercises. Hanson regularly visits the center to monitor its progress and talk with staff and students. He also acts as a mentor to the center's peer consultantsundergraduates who show exceptional promise as technical communicators and help their fellow students bring clarity to their work.

Hanson has also supported the university as a charitable giver, contributing to the Seamans Center for the Engineering Arts and Sciences, the C. Maxwell Stanley Hydraulics Laboratory, the Old Capital Restoration Fund, and the annual Engineering Excellence Fund. He served as a charter member and chair of the College of Engineering's Development Council, leading the college in 1999 through the university's successful "Good, Better, Best" fund-raising campaign.

In addition, Hanson puts his trademark enthusiasm and dedication to work as a key member of the University of Iowa Foundation's board of directors, where he currently serves as a member of the executive committee and chair of the finance committee.

From establishing a center for technical communications to offering trusted advice and guidance to UI faculty, staff, administrators, and studentsall these are tangible expressions of Thomas R. Hanson's devotion to his profession and his alma mater.

Hanson is a member of the UI Alumni Association's Old Capitol Club and the UI Foundation's Presidents Club.


R. Jerry Hargitt, 55BA

2010 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

R. Jerry Hargitt, 55BA, may live in the Arizona desert, but his decades-long commitment to the University of Iowa shows that his heart still bleeds black and gold.

Originally from Burlington, Hargitt graduated from the UI in 1955 with a degree in journalism and mass communication. He moved directly into a 30-year career with Northwestern Bell in Omaha, holding various corporate leadership roles, including vice president for public relations and chief executive officer for Nebraska, before his retirement in 1985.

Three years later, he began a challenging second career as a non-paid volunteer overseas with the International Executive Service Corps (IESC), then the world's largest not-for-profit business development organization. He directed IESC's operations in Egypt, Indonesia, and Barbados for extended periods and then performed mentoring projects of a shorter duration in the Philippines, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Romania, and Rwanda. Since its founding in 1964, IESC has directed more than 23,000 American men and women to the completion of economic development projects in nearly 130 countries.

No matter how far Hargitt traveled, though, his heart remained close to Iowa. His long-term philanthropy, friendship, and community service have touched several areas of his beloved alma mater, extending from the School of Journalism and Mass Communication to include the Pentacrest Museums, the Levitt Center for University Advancement, and the UI Alumni Association (UIAA).

A 50-year contributor to the UI School of Journalism and Mass Communication, Hargitt diligently served on the campaign organizing committee for the state-of-the-art Philip D. Adler Buildingand proved instrumental in raising the support necessary to construct the 65,500-square-foot, $19 million facility, which opened to journalism students in 2005.

During the building's dedication, Hargitt accomplished a feat indicative of his focused, determined spirithe identified 50 historic journalistic terms hidden in a typographical artwork featured in the Hall of Fame room. (To date, no one else has managed to decipher and associate these terms.) In honor of his efforts to bring the Adler Building to fruition, and as a nod to his continued involvement with the school, Hargitt's name is proudly displayed in the lobby.

Beyond financial support, Hargitt has gladly devoted his time to many UI boards and committees, including an eight-year term on the UIAA board of directors and a seven-year term on the Board in Control of Athletics. This dedicated volunteer has served in many other capacities. He was elected in 1972 to the Nebraska State Board of Education; he received a U.S. President's "Call to Service" Award in 2004 for more than 4,000 hours as an international volunteer; and, in 1985, he was named Citizen of the Year by the Omaha United Way, received the Governor's Arts Award, and was awarded the B'nai Brith Americanism Citation.

A most deserving recipient of this Distinguished Alumni Award for Service, Jerry Hargitt is indeed the embodiment of a purpose-driven life marked by loyalty and generosity.

Hargitt is a Directors' Club Honor Circle member of the UI Alumni Association and a member of the UI Foundation's Presidents Club.


H. Garland Hershey, 63BA, 65DDS, 71MS

2010 Distinguished Hickerson Recognition Award

H. Garland Hershey, Jr., 63BA, 65DDS, 71MS, is widely admired as a tireless and passionate advocate for the University of Iowa.

Hershey has spent his lifetime committed to the principles and advancement of higher education. He was born and raised in Iowa City, where his father, H. Garland Hershey, Sr., was a long-time geology professor at the UI and state geologist.

Hershey graduated from the UI with a general science bachelor's degree in 1963 and a doctor of dental surgery degree in 1965. After serving as a captain in the U.S. Army, he returned to Iowa where he was appointed as an instructor in the College of Dentistry's Department of Oral Diagnosis. In 1971, he gained his master's of science in orthodontics from the UI.

Soon, he found a new home, leaving Iowa City for the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill. This move marked the start of a long and distinguished UNC career that has included roles as professor, associate dean for academic affairs, vice chancellor, and vice provost. As vice chancellor, he was CEO of the academic health center, and as vice provost he oversaw curriculum development, student advancement, and faculty promotion for the UNC at Chapel Hill campus.

Hershey is currently professor of orthodontics in UNC's School of Dentistry, professor of health policy and management in the School of Public Health, and vice chancellor emeritus.

Despite his many responsibilities as a practicing orthodontist and faculty member and administrator, Hershey has always found time to travel to Iowa City to help promote and strengthen his alma mater. He served diligently for eight years on the UI Alumni Association's board of directors, including one year as chair. Currently, he is national co-chair for the UI College of Dentistry's $65 million campaign to renovate and expand its facilities.

Describing him as a "great friend," UI College of Dentistry Dean David C. Johnsen calls Hershey the "personification of a public servant." Indeed, he has served in numerous capacities at the national and state levels, sitting on editorial boards of various scientific journals, chairing task forces on human services, and being appointed as a member of the United States Delegation on Healthcare.

Hershey is a fellow in the American College of Dentists, the International College of Dentists, the World Federation of Orthodontists, and the Academy of Dentistry International. He continues to serve as an examiner for the American Board of Orthodontics and as a site visitor for the Commission on Dental Accreditation.

In addition, he has received many academic and community honors, including several teaching awards, the Distinguished Service Award from the Association of Schools of the Allied Health Professions and the Dental Alumnus of the Year award from the University of Iowa.

H. Garland Hershey has proven himself an inexhaustible resource for the University of Iowa and a wonderful example for alumni everywhere. For these reasons and more, he is a most deserving candidate for this recognition.

Hershey is a member of the UI Alumni Association's Directors' Club Honor Circle and the UI Foundation's Presidents Club.


Bradley T. Hyman, 82PhD, 83MD, 88R, 89F

2010 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Bradley T. Hyman, 82PhD, 83MD, 88R, 89F, has devoted his medical and scientific career to understanding the pathophysiology of Alzheimer's disease—the devastating neurodegenerative affliction that has destroyed the lives of countless individuals and drains more than $20 billion from the healthcare system each year.

An internationally acclaimed physician and researcher, Hyman embodies the objectives of the University of Iowa's renowned Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP) from which he graduated in 1983. Following completion of his medical degree and Ph.D. in biochemistry as a student of professor emeritus Arthur Spector, Hyman entered a UI fellowship in behavioral neurology under the direction of Antonio Damasio and Gary Van Hoesen. These experiences initiated Hyman's research and clinical focus on Alzheimer's disease, the subject of his scholarly activities ever since.

In 1989, Hyman joined Harvard Medical School, where he is now a neurology professor. Also director of the Massachusetts Alzheimer Disease Research Center at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), Hyman works passionately to gain new insights into a brain disorder that affects about 25 percent of Americans who reach their 80s.

In addition to his basic science investigations of the molecular mechanisms involved in Alzheimer's disease, Hyman maintains an active clinical practice with the Memory Disorders Unit at MGH. By combining such invaluable patient care interactions with his research studies, he has been able to advance his knowledge in new and inventive ways.

Among Hyman's significant contributions to Alzheimer's research—made possible largely through grant support from the National Institutes of Health (NIH)—he has managed to "map" the natural history of the disease and distinguish it from normal aging. Hyman has also discovered vulnerable brain regions and neurons, identifying events that precede clinical symptoms. In addition, he's gained insight into a variety of genetic factors that lead to an increased risk for Alzheimer's, and he has played a major role in explaining the functions of the proteins and peptides involved in the disease. Most recently, Hyman's achievements have involved the application of advanced imaging techniques to allow researchers to follow the progression of degeneration in laboratory models of both Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease, which will help lead to new therapies.

Such research breakthroughs have resulted in the publication of more than 380 original articles and 100 reviews, books, and editorials appearing in highly visible journals. Recognized as a world expert on Alzheimer's disease, Hyman has received numerous honors, including the Alzheimer Association Pioneer Award, the Metropolitan Life Foundation Award, an Alzheimer Association Faculty Scholar Award, and a National Institute on Aging Merit Award.

He has participated in many grant review and NIH panels, Alzheimer's Association panels, and external advisory boards, and he has served on the editorial boards of many neurobiology and neuropathology journals. Still, Hyman finds time to share his expertise with students, fellows, and residents, who highly respect his qualities as a mentor and educator.

A physician-scientist who excels in his worthy endeavors and has brought international acclaim to the University of Iowa, Bradley Hyman shines as a bright star in his field.


Richard M. Knapp, 65MA, 68PhD

2010 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Richard M. Knapp, 65MA, 68PhD, is widely celebrated for his distinguished career as an advocate for academic medicine and a problem solver for some of the nation's most pressing health care and medical educational issues.

Raised in Torrington, Connecticut, Knapp received his bachelor of arts degree from Marietta College in Ohio, and went on to earn his master of arts (in 1965) and his doctorate (1968) degrees in hospital and health administration from the UI College of Public Health. He then joined the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) in Washington, DC, launching a career that spanned 40 years and culminated in his role as executive vice president from 1994 until 2008.

Throughout his time with the AAMC—guided by an unfailing moral compass, uncommon political finesse, and the respect of his peers, who regarded him as the "dean" of Washington's healthcare advocates—Knapp stood as a champion for medical schools, teaching hospitals, and health policy matters affecting medical education and research.

Under his leadership, the AAMC evolved into a highly respected and trusted source of information regarding public policy issues and their impact on health systems, particularly those devoted to the education and training of medical professionals. He worked closely with the American Hospital Association (AHA) in developing a unified voice for hospitals, medical schools, and the communities they serve. Such efforts included the creation of the AAMC Medicare and Medicaid Special Action Committee, an initiative that helped ensure the financial stability of teaching hospitals in order to pursue their missions of high quality patient care, education, and research.

Knapp has authored a number of significant publications and served on numerous committees and study groups for major health organizations, including the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Commonwealth Fund, the AHA, and the Association of University Programs in Health Administration. He has served on prestigious editorial boards, including Health Care Management Review and INQUIRY and also chaired the Ad Hoc Group for Medical Research Funding.

A past chair of the National Association for Biomedical Research, he has held the offices of secretary and treasurer in the Federation of Associations of Schools of the Health Professions. In 1997, he was elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, and, in 2009, the AHA recognized his exemplary career with its Board of Trustees Award.

As a resident of Reston, Virginia, Knapp volunteered his time for more than 20 years as a member of the board of directors of the non-profit Inova Health System, serving as chair from 1999 to 2003.

Knapp also applies his strong ethic of service on behalf of the University of Iowa. He is a founding member of the College of Public Health's external advisory board and former president of the Department of Health Management and Policy's alumni board. In 2005, the college awarded Knapp an Outstanding Alumni Award in recognition of his contributions.

With his record of professional achievements, unwavering leadership, and integrity, the University of Iowa is proud to recognize Richard M. Knapp as one of its most distinguished alumni.

Knapp is a life member of the UI Alumni Association.


John M. Opitz, 56BA, 59MD, 61R

2010 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

John M. Opitz is recognized as one of the world's pre-eminent clinical geneticists, an outstanding physician, and a researcher deemed virtually peerless in the realm of clinical genetics.

Born in Hamburg, Germany, Opitz spent most of his childhood there before coming to Iowa City during his high school days. His interest in zoology, evolution, and development began when he was a 15-year-old student working with the late University of Iowa emeritus professor Emil Witschi, an internationally acclaimed embryologist, endocrinologist, and professor of zoology.

Under Professor Witschi's tutelage, Opitz earned his undergraduate zoology degree at the UI in 1956 and was encouraged to continue his formal education here in medicine. He completed a medical degree in 1959 and a pediatrics residency in 1961.

The physician and researcher—who is currently a professor of Pediatrics, Pathology, Human Genetics, and Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Utah School of Medicine— has gone on to achieve international stature. One of the first physicians to connect a specific grouping of pediatric anomalies with heredity, he has made landmark contributions to many newly recognized syndromes, several of which bear his name.

Opitz is the founder and continuing (emeritus) editor of the prestigious American Journal of Medical Genetics, which, thanks to his dedication, is the most prominent and respected journal in medical genetics. Through his over 500 papers, many textbook chapters, editorials and book reviews, as well as his ten books, Opitz has described and shared discovery of more syndromes and genetic diseases than any other person. Indeed, he has helped originate a new vocabulary for embryology and genetics.

Opitz's remarkable achievements have been recognized through numerous citations and honors, including honorary degrees from Montana State University and the University of Kiel. In 1987, he was invited to present the Farber lecture, which is the highest honor given by the Society of Pediatric Pathology. Other awards include the Bethesda Award for Research in Mental Retardation, the March of Dimes Lifetime Achievement Award for his dedicated work in genetic science, and the Distinguished Visiting Professor Award of the University of Wisconsin.

Opitz is an elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. His international stature is reflected in the fact that he was elected as a foreign honorary member of the Israeli Society of Medical Genetics, the South African Society of Human Genetics, and the Japanese Society of Human Genetics, and, in 1994, he was awarded the Great Seal of the University of Palermo.

Although his research is outstanding, Opitz is just as committed to people. Today, his patients include children who travel to Utah from around the globe to receive his care.

Thanks to his generosity as a mentor, a new generation of pediatric geneticists and young investigators will continue their own pursuit of the most challenging questions in the life sciences, with the goal of advancing treatment for a wide array of human diseases.

In recognition of his life's work dedicated to the advancement of science and humankind, the University of Iowa is proud to honor John M. Opitz as one of its most distinguished alumni.

Opitz is a life member of the UI Alumni Association.


George Schrimper, 64BS, 65MA

2010 Distinguished Faculty Award

George Schrimper, 64BS, 65MA, can look back over a distinguished 34-year career at the University of Iowa that transformed the UI Museum of Natural History from an antiquated exhibit hall into an engaging and relevant resource for students and the public.

After graduating from the UI with a bachelor's degree in general science (1964) and a master's in museum studies (1965), Schrimper joined the Iowa faculty in 1966. At that time, the Museum of Natural History was on the verge of closure. Opened in 1858, the exhibit hall was the second oldest natural history museum west of the Mississippi River, but it had fallen into an alarming state of disrepair. Faced with a fast-growing university, some administrators considered putting the museum's space to other use. An outcry from UI faculty, alumni, and Iowa schoolchildren spared the facility, and Schrimper was hired as a UI faculty instructor and assistant curator to revamp the museum.

He wasted no time redesigning outdated exhibits to make them useful to undergraduate natural science classes and interesting to the general public. Schrimper demonstrated a particular talent for taking scientific objects and transforming them into art forms compelling in both accuracy and beauty.

By 1971, Schrimper had been promoted to curator of the museum (a title later changed to director) and an assistant professor of museum studies. With a very limited budget and staff, he put forth a herculean effort to advance the quality of the facility. In addition to renovating exhibits, he worked tirelessly to raise funds to add new space and attractions.

In 1985, Schrimper and his faculty and staff colleagues unveiled Iowa Hall, the centerpiece gallery, which takes visitors on a 500-million-year adventure through the state's geological, cultural, and ecological history. Later, Schrimper spearheaded major renovations of the museum's Mammal Hall and the William and Eleanor Hageboeck Hall of Birds, which became the largest public display of birds west of Chicago. Featuring more than 1,000 specimens, the hall includes interactive, modern, multi-sensory exhibits that allow visitors to hear recorded bird songs and see how a wing moves in flight.

Schrimper was also responsible for the expansion of educational programs that bring in schoolchildren from all over the state. The museum often ignites elementary school students' passion for the natural sciences and offers them their first glimpse of the Iowa campus. In addition, several thousand university students use the collections each semester, studying everything from the geosciences and biology to art, history, and writing.

Overall, the museum attracts about 50,000 people annually to see some of the finest objects in the UI's irreplaceable collections and to learn about Iowa's history and the environmental impacts of humans on the natural world. Without Schrimper's leadership, the museum may not exist—and it certainly would not have undergone $2.25 million in improvements.

Whether in grade school, grad school, or beyond, visitors to the UI campus—and the Museum of Natural History in particular—benefit from George Schrimper's vision and determination to tell the story of Iowa.


Gregs G. Thomopulos, 10DSC

2010 Distinguished Alumni Friend Award

Gregs G. Thomopulos is a dedicated friend and supporter who has leveraged his career experience and connections to greatly benefit the University of Iowa College of Engineering and its students.

Professionally, Thomopulos rose through the ranks from a summer intern (in 1965) to the president (in 1987) and CEO (in 2000) of Stanley Consultants, a global engineering, environmental, and construction services company. Under his leadership, the company has made outstanding contributions to the engineering field, including bringing electricity to the Philippines, safe water to Egypt, and post-Gulf War reconstruction to Kuwait and Iraq.

Thomopulos has also lent his expertise to the UI College of Engineering during major growth periods. He served as a member and chair of the College of Engineering's advisory board during the critical final construction period of the Seamans Center for Engineering Arts and Sciences.

In 2000, Thomopulos played a key role in the IIHR—Hydroscience & Engineering campaign to renovate and expand the Stanley Hydraulics Laboratory. In addition to serving as a member of the advisory board and personally contributing to the cause, he generated interest for the project within his company. His enthusiasm helped secure several significant donations, including the lead family gifts that resulted in renaming the building in honor of C. Maxwell Stanley, a fellow Distinguished Alumni Award winner and the founder of Stanley Consultants.

Thomopulos fosters a spirit of service in his colleagues, and his example drives them to invest both in the UI and other state universities. With more than 40 years of experience in the engineering and construction industry, Thomopulos shares invaluable lessons as a frequent lecturer and classroom mentor to UI civil and environmental engineering undergraduate and graduate students.

He has provided scholarship, research, and facilities support to students, faculty, and alumni. He also serves on the UI Foundation board of directors and was instrumental in securing one of the first corporate gifts to the university's flood relief effort.

As an avid supporter of the UI's Ethnic Inclusion Effort for Iowa Engineering program, Nigerian-born Thomopulos mentors many minority students and tenure-track faculty members. The program has benefited from his company's financial support and enthusiasm, which has contributed to a more diverse engineering workforce and a growing number of engineers equipped to work in non-Western cultures.

In recognition of this commitment to diversity and his contributions to the consulting engineering industry, the Engineering News-Record named Thomopulos its 21-st Century World Citizen in 2004, just one of many honors he has collected in the course of his career.

Through his many personal and professional contributions, Gregs G. Thomopulos has strengthened the University of Iowa's mission of education and service across the state and around the world.

Thomopulos is a member of the UI Foundation's Presidents Club and the UI Alumni Association.


Horace G. Dawson, Jr., 61PhD

2009 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Horace G. Dawson, Jr., has blazed a trail for minorities and members of other under-represented groups to follow through his distinguished career in international affairs, diplomacy, and higher education.

Born in Augusta, Georgia, Dawson earned a B.A. degree in English from Lincoln University in Pennsylvania in 1949, followed by an M.A. degree in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University in New York in 1950. He taught English and journalism at Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and at North Carolina College (now University) in Durham, North Carolina, before completing a Ph.D. in journalism and mass communications at the University of Iowa in 1961.

The next year, Edward R. Murrow recruited Dawson to become one of the first African Americans to join the United States Information Agency (USIA) in the Kennedy administration. He started his Foreign Service career as a cultural affairs officer in Uganda (1962-63) and Nigeria (1965-67), and then became public affairs director in Liberia (1967-70). Eventually, he rose to the position of USIA area director for Africa, overseeing all U.S. information and cultural programs in that region.

In 1976, Dawson became counselor of embassy for public affairs in the Philippines. Three years later, he returned to Africa, when President Jimmy Carter named him U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Botswana. In this role, Dawson helped strengthen relations between the U.S. and Botswana during that nation's rise as one of Africa's most stable, wealthy, and democratic nations.

He also assisted in diplomatic activities leading to the independence of Zimbabwe, and the end of apartheid and ultimately the independence of South Africa. In recognition of his distinctive contributions to America's diplomatic service, Dawson received two superior honor awards.

In 1983, Dawson returned to the U.S., where he held key positions in the Department of State and the USIA until retiring from diplomatic service in 1989. The day after he retired, Dawson accepted an offer to join the faculty at Howard University in Washington, DC. As director of the Patricia Roberts Harris Public Affairs Program, he shared his experience and connections in diplomatic service with students and colleagues. A proposal he crafted won a $3 million grant from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation to establish the International Affairs Center at Howard, with Dawson as founding director.

Later renamed in honor of a Nobel Peace Laureate, the Ralph J. Bunche International Affairs Center has flourished under Dawson's leadership, increasing awareness of and facilitating entry into the diplomatic services for African Americans and other under-represented minorities. In 2001, Dawson headed the U.S. delegation to Sweden for the Stockholm International Forum on Combating Intolerance.

Throughout his career, Dawson has volunteered his time and expertise to mentor and inspire others. One of many notable students he influenced is former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, whom he helped to secure an internship in the State Department in 1977. In her remarks at a State Department event last year, Rice said of Dawson, "We can all look back in our lives and recognize moments when somebody not only believed in us, but pushed us and prodded us to do something that we might not otherwise have done."

The University of Iowa is proud to honor Horace Dawson, who has not only distinguished himself and the UI through his stellar career, but has also paved the way for others to follow in his footsteps.

Dawson is a life member of the University of Iowa Alumni Association.


Lawrence D. Dorr, 65MS, 67MD

2009 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

Lawrence "Larry" D. Dorr commands the respect of his peers as a leading orthopaedic physician, academician, and researcher, but his spirit of service has earned him the gratitude of thousands of people in underdeveloped countries.

After completing an undergraduate degree in English at Cornell College in Mount Vernon in 1963, followed by a master's degree in 1965 and a medical degree in 1967 at the University of Iowa, the native Iowan went on to become a leader in the field of orthopaedic surgery. Dorr is respected throughout his profession for his diagnostic insight and excellent research, which he has used to help design artificial joints that enable patients to once again lead active and pain-free lives. His most recent research involving a robotic program for precise placement of joint components promises to further advance this area of medicine.

Today, Dorr practices in California and is director of the Dorr Arthritis Institute. It's indicative of his standing among his peers that he is the only person to have been president of all three U.S. joint replacement societies.

Although his professional achievements are outstanding, Dorr's accomplishments in serving the underprivileged are perhaps even more compelling. In 1994, Dorr established a nonprofit volunteer program, Operation Walk, to provide medical treatment and training in developing countries. Since then, he and his staff have treated more than 2,500 patients in countries including Cuba, Nepal, China, the Philippines, Nicaragua, and Peru. Not only do patients receive much-needed hip and knee replacement surgeries, but local doctors, nurses, physical therapists, and families benefit from the education to continue providing treatment.

In addition to taking the program abroad, Dorr has brought Operation Walk to Los Angeles to help uninsured patients. In the last four years, the program has also expanded to other locations in the U.S., Canada, and Great Britain. Such efforts earned Dorr the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons' Humanitarian of the Year award in 2005 and the UI Carver College of Medicine Distinguished Alumni Award in 2006.

Dorr credits his Iowa upbringing and education for much of his success. The state's renowned work ethic and sense of community shaped his outlook, while Des Moines public schools and Cornell College—where he later founded Dimensions, a pre-medicine program to prepare students to practice both the art and science of healing—gave him a foundation for continued learning. He is particularly proud of his medical education at Iowa and of the master's degree he earned here in pharmacology, which taught him the fundamentals of scientific research.

Showing further dedication and service to education and to the University of Iowa, Dorr created an endowed chair in specialized orthopaedics research in the UI Carver College of Medicine to support top physicians and scientists in pioneering new hip reconstruction techniques. He also supported a separate endowment called the John and Kim Callaghan Chair in Sports Medicine, to help advance vital research, education, and patient care activities in the area of sports medicine, and he continues to advise UI physicians on the future of orthopaedics.

For selflessly helping so many in need, and for embodying the Iowa qualities of accomplishment, compassion, and generosity, Larry Dorr richly deserves to be recognized with this Distinguished Alumni Award for service.

Dorr is a life member of the UI Alumni Association and a member of the UI Foundation's Presidents Club.


Gail K. Godwin, 68MA, 71PhD

2009 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Gail Godwin is a graduate of the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop whose witty, powerful, and moving novels have received multiple national honors—and the devotion of millions of readers.

Godwin was born in Birmingham, Alabama, grew up in Ashville, North Carolina, and graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1959 with a degree in journalism. After working for the Miami Herald as a general assignment reporter, she traveled to Denmark, the Canary Islands, and London, experiences she describes in the first volume of her journals as pivotal to her literary development.

At the age of 29, Godwin was admitted to the graduate writing program at the University of Iowa, where she studied with Kurt Vonnegut and earned an M.A. and Ph.D. in English. Her Iowa thesis became her first published novel, The Perfectionists (1970), beginning Godwin's long and prolific writing career.

The author has published 11 novels, two short story collections, and one work of nonfiction. Her best-known works include The Odd Woman (1974), A Mother and Two Daughters (1982), The Good Husband (1994), Evensong (1999) and Evenings at Five (2003). Along with her longtime companion, the composer Robert Starer, she wrote libretti for ten musical works including a chamber opera, The Other Voice, which premiered in New York City in 2001. After Starer's death in 2001, Godwin wrote her novella, Evenings at Five, which was based on their 30-year relationship. Her most recent work is Queen of the Underworld (2007).

Godwin has been nominated for three National Book Awards. In addition, she has received a National Endowment for the Arts grant in creative writing (1974-75); a Guggenheim Fellowship (1975-76); a National Endowment for the Arts grant for librettists (1977); an American Book Awards nomination in 1980 for Violet Clary and in 1982 for A Mother and Two Daughters; an Award in Literature from the American Institute and Academy of Arts and Letters (1981); a Thomas Wolfe Memorial Award from the Lipinsky Endowment of Western North Carolina Historical Association (1988); and a Janet Kafka Award from the University of Rochester (1988). She holds honorary doctorates from the University of North Carolina, the University of the South-Sewanee and State University of New York.

Her books are lauded for their vivid evocation of human experience, while other writers and readers alike praise Godwin for her tender and sardonic, romantic and funny prose style. In 1995, writer Lihong Xie published a study of Godwin's works titled The Evolving Self in the Novels of Gail Godwin. In it, Xie says of her writing, "[Godwin] is one of the most articulate of contemporary writers to pursue the idea of the self' The southern women who are nearly always Godwin's heroines find themselves caught between the ideal of southern womanhood and the brave new world of contemporary feminism. Yet each of Godwin's heroines struggles to form a personal identity that is strong, complex, dynamic, and meaningful."

One of the most remarkable graduates from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, Gail Godwin deserves this Distinguished Alumni Award for her outstanding achievements and contributions to the world of literature.


Herman A. Hein, 63MD, 66R

2009 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

Herman A. Hein is the architect and founder of a program that has done more to help mothers and babies than perhaps any other initiative from the University of Iowa.

After earning a bachelor's degree from Wartburg College in 1959, Hein came to the UI. He completed his medical degree in 1963, and, after several years in private pediatric practice, he joined the UI Department of Pediatrics. Shortly afterwards, in 1973, Hein established a regionalized system for infant health care called the Iowa Statewide Perinatal Care Program, to ensure that a baby's place of birth did not mean the difference between life and death. Through this visionary program, community physicians now regularly transfer high-risk patients to facilities that can address their special needs, while experts provide training and education to every hospital in Iowa that offers maternity services.

Thanks to Hein's commitment and ingenuity, the Iowa Statewide Perinatal Care Program combines the efforts of UI faculty and staff and the Iowa Department of Public Health to save more than 400 newborn lives each year. Hein's commitment to children doesn't stop there. He developed the Iowa High-Risk Infant Follow-Up Program, which serves babies who have received intensive care or are otherwise at risk for developmental or medical problems, and he also created the Barriers to Prenatal Care Project, an assessment tool used by state health department staff to assure that mothers receive appropriate care before and after they bring their newborns home. This particular program grew from Hein's service on the National Commission to Prevent Infant Mortality, to which he was appointed in 1987 by President Ronald Reagan. To support his successful clinical and education programs, Hein has also obtained grant and contract support totaling more than $11 million.

During his three decades with the UI pediatrics department, Hein has held posts as assistant professor, associate professor, and professor. Prior to retirement as emeritus faculty, he served as clinical supervisor of the newborn nursery at UI Hospitals and Clinics, as well as attending physician in the UIHC neonatal intermediate and intensive care units.

For many years, Hein offered his expertise to the Iowa Department of Public Health in all areas pertaining to neonatal/perinatal medicine, and he served on multiple distinguished boards and committees near and far. His countless awards and honors include being named an "Unsung Hero" by Newsweek in 1988, receiving the Iowa Medical Society's highest honor—the Award of Merit—in 2002, and garnering a Distinguished Alumni Award from the UI Carver College of Medicine in 2004.

Paul Rothman, dean of the Carver College of Medicine, says, "When you consider' the far-reaching impact of his advocacy on behalf of high-risk infants and the tremendous goodwill for the university as a result of his leadership and compassion, it's easy to see that [Herman Hein] is an exemplary model of service to the university and the state."

Today, the UI Alumni Association salutes the legacy of Herman Hein, who deserves our applause for his unparalleled contributions to academic medicine and faithful dedication to Iowa's most vulnerable citizens.

Hein is a member of the UI Alumni Association.


Cheryll A. Jones, 69BSN

2009 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

Cheryll A. Jones has dedicated her long career to championing the role of nurse practitioners, advocating for children's health care, and helping others through her committed involvement in service organizations.

A native Iowan, Jones received a B.S. from the University of Iowa College of Nursing in 1969, followed by a certificate from the UI Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Program in 1973. Today, she is a health services coordinator for the Ottumwa Regional Center, one of the University of Iowa Children's Hospital's Child Health Specialty Clinics throughout the state.

As an advanced practice nurse for 35 years—and one of Iowa's first pediatric nurse practitioners—Jones has practiced, taught, and mentored students, and advocated to enhance the role of nurses within the medical profession. The fact that Iowa is today considered to be one of the most advanced states in the nation in the professional role of nurse practitioners is due in great measure to Jones's significant efforts in advancing this cause.

The UI graduate's most heartfelt role is as an advocate for young people. Jones has worked tirelessly to improve medical care for Iowa children, particularly those with special health care needs. One UI pediatrics medical expert said of Jones's work, "When you talk about quality medical care for children in the state of Iowa, you cannot do so without mentioning Cheryll Jones." Her work contributed significantly to the fact that Iowa recently ranked as the number one state in the nation for its services to children.

Jones's lifetime dedication to this cause is evidenced by numerous awards and honors, from a 1979 March of Dimes Nurse of the Year Award for contributions to maternal and child health in Iowa, to a 1992 Outstanding Volunteer Award from the Iowa Chapter National Committee for the Prevention of Child Abuse, to a 2004 American Academy of Nurse Practitioners State Award for Excellence—and many others in between.

Committed to ensuring that improvements to rural and children's health care are long lasting, Jones has served on national, state, and regional organizations advocating for better health care delivery, and she is currently a working member of 11 state or governmental committees, including the Iowa Board of Health.

She is an original member of Iowa Senator Tom Harkin's Nurses Advisory Committee (NAC), established in 1985 to provide guidance in shaping statewide health policy. Most recently, she has been appointed by Iowa Governor Chet Culver to the Public Health Work Group of the Recovery Iowa Commission, to the Prevention of Disabilities Council, and to the Governor's Task Force on Nursing. In all of these roles, she has helped to write legislation, rules, and regulations that will have a positive impact on the future of health care for Iowans.

Senator Tom Harkin says of Jones, "I respect Cheryll as one of the most dedicated, thoughtful advocates for rural healthcare and children's health that I have met. She has dedicated herself to broadening access to quality health care for all citizens, especially in our rural communities."

The University of Iowa is honored to recognize Cheryll Jones for her exemplary and caring record of service, activism, and advocacy.

Jones is a member of the UI Alumni Association's Old Capitol Club.


Daniel E. McLean, 70BBA

2009 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Daniel E. McLean has dedicated his career to the development, construction, and revitalization of key neighborhoods in Chicago, including some of the city's most blighted areas.

After receiving a degree in finance from the UI in 1970, McLean founded MCL Companies in Chicago in 1976. In the early 1980s, he found himself a step ahead of the development mainstream when he noted that many Baby Boomers had begun seeking upscale housing in urban environments. His company quickly achieved success by meeting the demands of this burgeoning group of customers.

Not satisfied with distinguishing himself as one of the most prominent developers in Chicago, McLean employed his vision, leadership, and charitable spirit to transform and revitalize entire neighborhoods, developing appealing and affordable housing that has led to significant improvement in the aesthetics and quality of life in these areas.

MCL has developed numerous parts of Chicago, from Old Town and Lincoln Park on the north side to Dearborn Park and Central Station on the south. At Cabrini Green, the notorious public housing project, the challenges inherent in public housing issues inspired McLean's humanitarian spirit. He worked with a team of advisors to conceive a plan that became a national model for addressing public housing issues going into the 21st century.

The company's most current and largest project is the River East Neighborhood, a 13-acre, $1 billion development located north of the Chicago River and east of Michigan Avenue, which will include residences, retail establishments, restaurants, and hotels. Farther afield, MCL is transforming key urban areas in New York City, Denver, Charlotte, Atlanta, and Boston.

In addition to his professional endeavors, McLean's commitment to the community is evident through his active support of some of Chicago's most prominent and influential institutions including the Steppenwolf Theater Company and Columbia College Chicago.

Throughout his successful career, McLean has received many awards for his accomplishments, including recognition as Chicago Developer of the Year; the Civic Federation's Lyman Cage Award for individual civic achievement; the Professional Builder Award for urban revitalization; the Sammy Award for advertising; the MIRM Award for sales and marketing; the Illinois Institute of Technology Community Recognition Award for community redevelopment, and the Friends of Downtown Award for the best new building. In 2000, Success Magazine named him Entrepreneur of the Year.

McLean has also remained dedicated to the University of Iowawhere his daughter, Tessa, is currently a senior majoring in journalismand where he has generously established the Daniel E. McLean chair in the Henry B. Tippie College of Business to help ensure that future generations of UI graduates are able to pursue their passions and make a difference in the world.

A successful businessman who has never lost sight of what is truly important in life, Daniel McLean truly deserves this Distinguished Alumni Award in recognition of his vision, determination, and compassion.

McLean is a member of the UI Alumni Association and the UI Foundation's Presidents Club.


William H. Olin, Sr., 48MS

2009 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

William H. Olin has used his professional expertise in orthodontics and his humanitarian drive to positively transform the lives of Iowans and people around the world.

Olin received a D.D.S. degree from Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1947 and an M.S. and a Certificate in Orthodontics in 1948 from the University of Iowa College of Dentistry. That same year, he began his career at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics as an assistant professor and also founded the Division of Craniofacial Anomalies.

Over the space of a 44-year career, until his retirement in 1992, Olin achieved international respect for his expertise in this specialty area—and for his caring approach to treating people with facial deformities. During this time, he also served as president of the Johnson County Dental Society, the Midwestern Orthodontic Society, the American Cleft Palate Association, and the Angle Orthodontic Society. Despite such peer recognition for his leadership and skills, Olin says that the most rewarding part of his work is receiving thank-you letters from patients who are once again able to smile.

In retirement, Olin has remained committed to making a difference in hundreds of lives at University Hospitals and Clinics and at state, national, and international levels—traveling to various areas of the world with Operation Smile and a similar charity, Rotaplast, in an effort to correct children's dental, cleft palate, and lip anomalies. He established and still participates in the Greater Iowa City Area Mouth Guard Program, a volunteer effort providing a free service to fit mouth guards for athletes to protect them from injury. He also helped organize and remains active in the Rotary Club's Project MOST (Miles of Smiles Team), a philanthropic effort that takes experts to countries including San Salvador and, for the last four years, to Guatemala.

At age 85, Olin remains vigorously involved in numerous additional service endeavors. Among many initiatives, he helped raise funds to bring an American Cancer Society Hope Lodge to the Iowa City community, and he has been an active participant in the Rotary Club's Fire and Medical Supply Company mission to collect and ship medical equipment to developing nations. Recently appointed to the Iowa City Hope Lodge advisory board, Olin is also deeply involved with the Boy Scout organization.

Olin's considerable efforts have been recognized with two Iowa City Human Rights Commission awards—an Individual in a Service Organization Award in 2004, and an International Award in 2005. In 2007, he received the Ben Franklin Award on National Philanthropy Day from the Association of Fundraising Professionals.

Olin and his family have been UI loyalists for well over half a century. His wife, Bertha, a registered nurse, practiced at UIHC, and his three sons all have earned degrees from the UI, two from the College of Dentistry.

This UI graduate has served his university, his profession, his state, and his world with great dedication, dignity, and passion. The University of Iowa is proud to present William Olin with this Distinguished Alumni Award in recognition of his selfless work.

Olin is a member of the UI Alumni Association's Old Capitol Club.


Lloyd Schermer,

2009 Distinguished Alumni Friend Award

Lloyd G. and Betty A. Schermer may not have graduated from the University of Iowa, but for more than three decades, they have shown remarkable generosity to this institutionand particularly to the School of Journalism and Mass Communication in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.

The couple has carried on the philanthropic efforts of Betty's late father, Phillip D. Adler, a well-known journalism pioneer and philanthropist who earned his bachelor's degree in English from the UI in 1926 and became one of the first recipients of the Distinguished Alumni Award in 1966.

Lloyd Schermer is the retired president, CEO, and chairman of Lee Enterprises, a Davenport-based company with 45 daily newspapers in 18 states, as well as numerous specialty publications. During his publishing career, Lloyd was known as an innovator with a talent for predicting the future of the industry, leading Lee Enterprises to invest in computers and nontraditional media long before many of his industry peers were doing so. It is only fitting that he and Betty, also an active philanthropist, would choose to continue investing in the future of journalism in Iowa by making a substantial contribution to the School of Journalism and Mass Communication.

In 2002, the couple made a transformative $3 million gift to the UI to name the Philip D. Adler Journalism and Mass Communication Building as a part of the University's Good. Better. Best. Iowa campaign. In addition to helping defray capital expenses, the Schermers had the vision to designate a portion of their gift to assist with long-term expenses related to technological advances in the field of journalism. Today, the UI School of Journalism and Mass communication is considered among the top ten programs in the nation, and the Schermers have been partners with the university in helping to achieve that distinguished ranking.

Even before making this milestone gift, the Schermers had a long-established relationship with the university—and their generosity certainly has not waned since. Both Lloyd and Betty are members of the UI Foundation's Presidents Club, which recognizes the university's most generous contributors. For more than 15 years they have supported the annual Adler Luncheon in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences' Department of Religious Studies, which was established by Philip and Henrietta Adler to recognizer the accomplishments of the department's students, faculty, and staff. In 2005 they created the E.P. Adler Lecture in Religious Studies in recognition of Betty's grandfather, who was a founding member of what was then the School of Religion Board of Fellows.

It is not every day that the UI has the opportunity to recognize supporters who have such a substantial family history of friendship with the university. Recognizing Lloyd and Betty Schermer as Distinguished Friends of the University not only acknowledges their generosity—it also pays tribute to the philanthropic example of their role model, Philip D. Adler.

The University of Iowa is profoundly grateful to Lloyd and Betty Schermer and proud to present them with this award in honor of their dedication and commitment to this university, its students, and the field of journalism.

The Schermers are members of the UI Foundation's Presidents Club.


Betty Schermer

2009 Distinguished Alumni Friend Award

Lloyd G. and Betty A. Schermer may not have graduated from the University of Iowa, but for more than three decades, they have shown remarkable generosity to this institutionand particularly to the School of Journalism and Mass Communication in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.

The couple has carried on the philanthropic efforts of Betty's late father, Phillip D. Adler, a well-known journalism pioneer and philanthropist who earned his bachelor's degree in English from the UI in 1926 and became one of the first recipients of the Distinguished Alumni Award in 1966.

Lloyd Schermer is the retired president, CEO, and chairman of Lee Enterprises, a Davenport-based company with 45 daily newspapers in 18 states, as well as numerous specialty publications. During his publishing career, Lloyd was known as an innovator with a talent for predicting the future of the industry, leading Lee Enterprises to invest in computers and nontraditional media long before many of his industry peers were doing so. It is only fitting that he and Betty, also an active philanthropist, would choose to continue investing in the future of journalism in Iowa by making a substantial contribution to the School of Journalism and Mass Communication.

In 2002, the couple made a transformative $3 million gift to the UI to name the Philip D. Adler Journalism and Mass Communication Building as a part of the University's Good. Better. Best. Iowa campaign. In addition to helping defray capital expenses, the Schermers had the vision to designate a portion of their gift to assist with long-term expenses related to technological advances in the field of journalism. Today, the UI School of Journalism and Mass communication is considered among the top ten programs in the nation, and the Schermers have been partners with the university in helping to achieve that distinguished ranking.

Even before making this milestone gift, the Schermers had a long-established relationship with the university—and their generosity certainly has not waned since. Both Lloyd and Betty are members of the UI Foundation's Presidents Club, which recognizes the university's most generous contributors. For more than 15 years they have supported the annual Adler Luncheon in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences' Department of Religious Studies, which was established by Philip and Henrietta Adler to recognizer the accomplishments of the department's students, faculty, and staff. In 2005 they created the E.P. Adler Lecture in Religious Studies in recognition of Betty's grandfather, who was a founding member of what was then the School of Religion Board of Fellows.

It is not every day that the UI has the opportunity to recognize supporters who have such a substantial family history of friendship with the university. Recognizing Lloyd and Betty Schermer as Distinguished Friends of the University not only acknowledges their generosity—it also pays tribute to the philanthropic example of their role model, Philip D. Adler.

The University of Iowa is profoundly grateful to Lloyd and Betty Schermer and proud to present them with this award in honor of their dedication and commitment to this university, its students, and the field of journalism.

The Schermers are members of the UI Foundation's Presidents Club.


Robert D. Sparks, 55BA, 57MD

2009 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Robert D. Sparks has led an exceptional, far-reaching career of service and leadership in academic medicine, education, public health, and philanthropy.

Born in Newton, Sparks received a B.A. from the University of Iowa in 1955 and an M.D. in 1957, and he completed a residency and fellowship at the Tulane University School of Medicine in internal medicine and gastroenterology in 1962.

The UI alumnus noted for his genuine and unpretentious nature began his career in the academic field. From 1958 to 1972, he held faculty and administrative positions at Tulane, and served as dean of the Tulane University School of Medicine from 1969 to 1972. In that year, he became the Chancellor of the University of Nebraska Medical Center and Vice President of the University of Nebraska, positions he held until 1976.

In the next phase of Sparks' career, he joined the W. K. Kellogg Foundation in 1976, progressing from program director, to vice president for programming, to president and trustee. In this role, he successfully channeled assets toward worthy causes and helped to guide some great medical centers toward their goals.

From 1985 to 1989, Sparks served on President Reagan's board of advisors on private sector initiatives. In 1986, he was elected to membership in the Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the National Academy of Sciences. Sparks was chairman of the IOM Committee to Evaluate Treatment of Alcohol Problems when it issued its report to the U.S. Congress in April 1990. In 1995, he became president and CEO of the California Medical Association Foundation, until he retired from active employment in 1998. He now serves as Chairperson of the Board of Directors of the TASER Foundation for Fallen Law Enforcement Officers.

Throughout his thriving career, Sparks has retained a strong commitment to the University of Iowa. In 1998, he was one of the first two recipients of the UI Carver College of Medicine's newly established Distinguished Alumni Awards. He has received numerous other national and international awards and honors for his support of medical education, research, and service and philanthropy.

Sparks continues to have a significant impact at the UI Carver College of Medicine as a philanthropic leader. He and Dr. Bob Whinery led a campaign to establish the Class of 1957 Endowment Fund, an effort that raised more than $100,000, the first such class fund for the College. In 2007, he established the Robert D. Sparks History, Culture, and Ethics of Medicine Endowment Fund, which each year awards the Robert D. Sparks Essay Prize to a medical student who best explores a timely issue in medicine using historical, ethical, and cultural perspectives.

As an active member of UI Foundation campaign steering committees for the Seeking Knowledge for Healing campaign and Good. Better. Best. Iowa campaign, he and other committee members helped raise more than $250 million. His efforts helped the Carver College of Medicine build the state-of-the-art Medical Education and Research Facility and increase scholarship support for deserving students. Not only did Sparks volunteer his time to help lead the campaign, he was also one of the major contributors; a conference room in the Medical Education and Research Facility bears his name.

While Robert Sparks' impressive leadership in all aspects of his profession has earned him international accolades, he has continued to make his alma mater a priority, for which the university—and future generations of UI students—will long be grateful.

Sparks is a member of the UI Alumni Association's Old Capitol Club and the UI Foundation's Presidents Club.


Robert E. Yager, 53MS, 57PhD

2009 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Robert E. Yager, emeritus professor of science education at the University of Iowa, has transformed the way science is taught in schools worldwide.

After graduating from the University of Northern Iowa in 1950 with a bachelor's degree in biology, Yager earned his master's (1953) and doctorate (1957) degrees in plant physiology from the University of Iowa. Then, in a UI career that spanned more than 50 years, he worked his way up from botany teaching assistant to become one of the country's most distinguished and visionary science education professors.

In his research, Yager discovered that the traditional methods of teaching science didn't hold students' attention. In place of memorization and uninspired lectures, he developed a new way of teaching that encourages students to ask questions and explore their world. He also advocated that science teachers at all levels should undergo rigorous preparation and deepen their focus. This new approach helps bring science to life for students, while sparking their creativity and critical thinking skills.

Yager has left an imprint on science education not only through his research and scholarship, but also through contributions such as the Iowa Chautauqua Program. In this partnership with area education agencies, he has trained thousands of K-12 science teachers across Iowa in the methods he first developed at the UI. This model has inspired similar teacher preparation programs across the U.S., as well as annual workshops for Korean science teachers.

Yager's influence is widely felt far beyond the University of Iowa and the state of Iowa. His graduate students—inspired by his example and his mentoring—have carried forth his vision both nationally and abroad.

Since 1971, when he received special recognition for his leadership from the National Association of Biology Teachers, Yager has earned the acclaim and admiration of his peers. Included in his many honors and awards are the Michael J. Brody Award, presented by the UI Faculty Senate in 2001 for his service to the university, a Distinguished Service Award in 2005 from the Iowa Science Teachers Section of the Iowa Academy of Science, and an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from the University of Northern Iowa.

Indeed, Yager's service to his profession has been exemplary. He has led his peers as a past chair of the Science Education Section of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and he has also served as president of numerous professional societies, including the Association for the Education of Teachers in Science, the National Association for Research in Teaching, the National Science Teachers Association, the School Science and Mathematics Association, and the National Association of Biology Teachers.

Though Yager retired from the UI in 2006, he remains active in science education, championing the causes that have reshaped the lives of teachers and students. He currently serves as the co-principal investigator in a science education research project supported by the National Science Foundation that examines the influence of teacher preparation programs on teacher performance and student achievement.

With his rich contributions to the field of science education, Robert Yager has earned the University of Iowa an international reputation for excellence. Moreover, his innovative teaching methods leave a lasting legacy that will imbue future generations with a lifelong passion for science.

Yager is a member of the UI Alumni Association's Old Capitol Club and the UI Foundation's Presidents Club.


Sharon K. Yearous, 93BSN, 99MSN, 11PHD

2009 Distinguished Alumni Young Award

Sharon K. Yearous is driven by an exceptional passion for helping Iowa's youth, which guides her educational research activities, her professional work, and her considerable service to the state.

Yearous grew up on a farm outside Monticello and received her B.N. degree from the UI College of Nursing in 1993 and her M.S. degree in 1999. She is currently immersed in dissertation research for a Ph.D. degree in nursing. In addition to her educational degrees, she has earned certifications as a pediatric nurse practitioner, nationally certified school nurse, and basic life support CPR instructor.

This young alumna has been and continues to be a dedicated advocate of public policy issues for children's wellness and the need for child and adolescent access to school nurses at the state and national levels. Already in her career, she has served as president and was recently appointed the Executive Director of the Iowa School Nurse Organization, working at the state level for legislative support of school nurses to enable them to care for students more effectively. At a recent Iowa Nurses Association convention, she was articulate and eloquent in presenting her case to increase the number of school nurses in the state. Subsequently, in 2007 legislation was passed and signed by Governor Chet Culver to ensure every school district in Iowa hires a school nurse and is to work towards a ratio of one school nurse per 750 students.

Yearous served as the chair of the Iowa legislature's mandated Healthy Children's Task Force in 2006 and provided leadership with a comprehensive and holistic view keeping the needs of youth central to the final recommendations. In 2007, Yearous was selected by Lieutenant Governor, Patty Judge, to serve as the Commissioner for the 2nd Congressional District on the Commission for Wellness and Healthy Living. Yearous was one of five commissioners and the voice representing the wellness of youth at a critical time when youth health issues are more frequent and complex than ever before. The Commission on Wellness and Healthy Living explored how Iowans define wellness, identified steps to improve the health of Iowans, and focused on how to enhance the wellness efforts in Iowa communities. As a Commissioner of this group, Yearous actively led town meetings in the 2nd Congressional District gathering input on how to improve the health of Iowans.

Yearous became involved in school nursing through a unique partnership between Mercy Medical Center and Mount Mercy College in Cedar Rapids. This partnership was developed to create clinical experiences for nursing students in primary and secondary parochial schools and to provide health care services for students in the schools. In her role as a nurse educator, Yearous initiated the incorporation of PDAs—small handheld computers—in the education of nursing students. Currently all faculty at Mount Mercy College have PDAs and several students are also adopting the use of PDAs During her time as a school nurse, Yearous initiated an innovative school based mental health screening program, called TeenScreen, at a Cedar Rapids high school in consultation with the program designers at Columbia University and in collaboration with Cedar Rapids community members. Dedicated to the early detection and early intervention of mental health issues in youth, the program was the first of its kind in Iowa and is now being expanded under a grant from the Iowa Department of Public Health to serve all high schools in Linn County. She has also introduced other forms of technology into her professional work, including developing an online school health registration program currently being used in four schools in the Cedar Rapids area. The online school health registration program provides the school nurse with current student health information and emergency health plans before school starts each year allowing the school nurse to provide safe, efficient, and effective care in the school setting.

The first young alumni nominee ever recommended by the UI College of Nursing, Yearous has clearly earned this prestigious award for her energetic work that has positively influenced the lives of so many young Iowans—and promises to do so for generations to come.


T.C. Boyle, 74MFA, 77PhD

2008 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

T. Coraghessan Boyle, 74MFA, 77PhD, is one of this generation's most respected and gifted writers, whose work has drawn comparisons to Mark Twain for its deft and biting social commentary.

Boyle grew up in the small town of Peekskill, New York, and earned a B.A. in English and history from the State University of New York at Potsdam in 1968. He then attended the University of Iowa, completing an M.F.A. degree in creative writing at the Iowa Writers' Workshop in 1974 and a Ph.D. in 19th century British literature in the Department of English in 1977.

A prolific writer, Boyle has published 11 novels and eight short story collections. His novels include World's End (1987, winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction), The Tortilla Curtain (1995, winner of France's Prix Médicis Étranger for best foreign novel of the year), After the Plague (2001), Drop City (2003, National Book Award finalist), The Inner Circle (2004), and Talk Talk (2006). One of America's most accomplished short story writers, Boyle counts among his published collections Descent of Man (1979), Greasy Lake (1985), If the River was Whiskey (1989), T.C. Boyle Stories (1998), Tooth and Claw (2005), and The Human Fly (2005, young adult literature). In addition to these critically acclaimed volumes, his stories regularly appear in major American magazines, including the New Yorker, Harper's, Esquire, the Atlantic Monthly, and Playboy.

Boyle's work has been recognized by the Academy of Arts and Sciences and through awards that include creative writing fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts (1977) and a Guggenheim (1988). Boyle can also lay claim to the PEN/Malamud Prize, the PEN/West Literary Prize, the Commonwealth Gold Medal for Literature, six O. Henry Awards for short fiction, and multiple Best American Short Story awards.

Known for his often satiric characterization, Boyle is also recognized for the widely ranging time frames and locales in which his fictional stories are set, and for the diverse issues he addresses. He has described himself as "...not only idea-driven, but also someone who harkens back to an earlier era when writers had more of a social consciousness and tried to examine the larger picture of society."

Renowned for his thorough research before beginning a new work, Boyle has, in the opinion of some literary critics, given new impetus to the historical novel by spinning bizarre and funny yarns around historical events. His novel The Road to Wellville (1993) features real-life character John Harvey Kellogg, inventor of the corn flake and peanut butter, as a quack doctor at a turn-of-the century health spa. In 1994, The Road to Wellville was made into a film starring Anthony Hopkins, John Cusack, and Matthew Broderick.

Boyle has taught fiction writing at the University of Southern California since 1978, where he holds a named position as distinguished professor of English and is a popular, highly engaged teacher.

T.C. Boyle has said that he came to the Iowa Writers' Workshop because "all of my heroes had gone there or had taught there." Today, he has become another literary hero—and one of the University of Iowa's most distinguished alumni.


Eva C. Dahl, 73BA, 76DDS, 79MA, 82MS

2008 Distinguished Hickerson Recognition Award

Eva C. Dahl, 73BA, 76DDS, 79MA, 82MS, one of the first trailblazers for women in the field of dentistry at the University of Iowa, has never forgotten the institution that set the course for her life.

Dahl entered the UI with advanced placement credits as a general science major, completed two years of undergraduate studies, and earned a B.A. degree from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences one year after she started the dentistry program. Despite her demanding studies, she quickly became involved in many aspects of university life, representing the College of Dentistry in student government and chairing both the Iowa Memorial Union and Student Health Services advisory committees. For her exceptional efforts, she earned a Hancher-Finkbine Medallion, given to the university's most outstanding students. One of only four women in the College of Dentistry when she first enrolled, Dahl graduated as valedictorian of her class in 1976.

After a one-year residency at the University of Chicago Hospitals and Clinics, Dahl returned to the UI to complete a certificate in oral pathology, an M.A. degree in instructional design and technology, an M.S. degree in oral pathology, and a certificate in endodontics.

Although Dahl moved to Wisconsin in 1982, where she established a highly successful endodontics practice, she maintained a strong commitment to the University of Iowa. In addition to returning as an adjunct professor of dentistry and co-chairing the simulation clinic campaign in 1997, she was a member of the UI Alumni Association board of directors from 1997 to 2004, serving as chair from June 2002 to June 2003. Currently a member of the Dental Alumni Association board, she also serves on the UI Foundation board of directors and sits on a steering committee that oversees the College of Dentistry's emerging fund-raising effort to renovate and expand the Dental Sciences Building.

Dahl's exemplary philanthropic support for the UI includes contributing for 26 years to the College of Dentistry and the UI Alumni Association and establishing a major bequest for the college in her estate plans.

Highly regarded in her profession, Dahl has also served on many state and national professional dental associations, including the National Academy of Sciences Institute of Medicine Committee on the Future of Dental Education and two Councils of the American Dental Association. Past president of the American Association of Women Dentists, she was the first woman to serve on the American Association of Endodontists board of directors and she recently completed a term as president of the Wisconsin Dental Association.

Dahl's exceptional career has been recognized through numerous awards, including the Outstanding Young Woman of America Award in 1981 from Outstanding Young Americans; the 1997 Lucy Hobbs Taylor Award from the American Association of Women Dentists; the 2001 President's Service Award from the Wisconsin Dental Association; and fellowship in the International College of Dentists and American College of Dentists. In 2001, she was honored with the Alumnus of the Year Award by the UI Dental Alumni Association.

Like the distinguished alumnus for whom this honor is named, Eva Dahl has proven a tireless crusader for the University of Iowa. Her legacy of generosity and stewardship makes Dahl most deserving of the Loren Hickerson Recognition Award.

Dahl is a member of the UI Alumni Association's Directors' Club Honor Circle and the UI Foundation's Presidents Club.


Milo Hamilton, 50BA

2008 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Milo Hamilton, 50BA, is regarded as one of the greatest sports broadcasters of all time, with a distinctive voice and style that have earned the respect and admiration of countless colleagues and fans for more than half a century of calling games for the major leagues.

During his long and illustrious career, Hamilton has earned his field's every accolade. Now the Voice of the Houston Astros, where he's spent more than 23 seasons, Hamilton counts among his prestigious honors induction into the Ford Frick Broadcast Wing of the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York, the National Radio Hall of Fame in Chicago, and both the Texas Radio Hall of Fame and the Texas Baseball Hall of Fame.

A native of Fairfield, Hamilton began his professional journey as a Navy serviceman in World War II, when he was stationed at a military radio station on Guam. He arrived at the University of Iowa in the late 1940s and continued improving his talents as a student employee at WSUI radio. From there, he accepted a job covering professional baseball in Davenport before receiving his first major league position as an announcer for the Saint Louis Browns in 1953. Hamilton went on to call games for the Saint Louis Cardinals, the Chicago White Sox and Cubs, the Atlanta Braves, the Pittsburgh Pirates, and, finally, the Astros. His association with these big-name teams hasn't dimmed Hamilton's affection for Iowa; on many occasions in the broadcast booth, he can be seen wearing a Hawkeye ball cap.

Although Hamilton has been behind the microphone for several record-breaking baseball plays, it was his famous call of Hank Aaron's 715th home run in April 1974 that goes down in history as one of the most memorable—and replayed—sports moments of the 20th century. Hamilton breathlessly described how Aaron surpassed Babe Ruth as baseball's Home Run King: "There's a drive to left-center field! That ball is gonna be ... outta here! It's gone! It's 715! There's a new home run champion of all time! And it's Henry Aaron! Henry Aaron's coming around third! His teammates are at home plate! Listen to the crowd!"

Other career highlights for Hamilton include witnessing 11 no-hitters, Ernie Banks's five grand slams in one season, and Roger Maris's 61st home run in 1961, which tied Babe Ruth's single-season record.

In addition to being a legendary sports broadcaster, Hamilton is also revered as an admirable philanthropist, raising more than $25 million through his participation in special events for numerous charitable organizations. At age 80, he's still going strong and is set to become the longest-serving broadcaster in Houston Astros franchise history.

In his letter nominating Hamilton, colleague and fellow journalism graduate William Wolf, 50BA, wrote: "Milo Hamilton is an outstanding example of the kind of professional that the University of Iowa produces, and he brings exceptional credit to our school. In the bright lights of truly big league activities, Milo has kept his head, played the game, raised the bar, and championed the rules."

The University of Iowa honors Milo Hamilton, who embodies the spirit of fine character and good citizenship that define our state and our institution.

Hamilton is a life member of the UI Alumni Association.


Pamela J. Haylock, 71BSN, 77MA

2008 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Pamela J. Haylock, 71BSN, 77MA, is a nationally renowned oncology nurse and consultant who has dedicated her career to improving the lives of millions of people with cancer.

A Maquoketa native, Haylock pursued B.S.N. and M.A. degrees in the University of Iowa's College of Nursing. Ever since she was a graduate student, Haylock has been at the forefront of both the art and science of cancer care. In fact, her master's thesis on cancer-related fatigue—just recently recognized as the most common side effect of radiation therapy—was one of the first ever written on this important subject.

After completing her M.A. degree in 1977, Haylock occupied several nursing positions in San Francisco before expanding her career in 1989 to become a national oncology consultant, serving multiple healthcare and community organizations throughout the U.S. She's worked with the National Cancer Institute, the National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship, and the Lance Armstrong Foundation, and is an active member of the nation's nursing and oncology-related organizations. Among her duties, Haylock is executive secretary of the International Campaign for the Establishment and Development of Oncology Centers with a mission to foster cancer care excellence in developing countries.

Haylock has held leadership positions with the Oncology Nursing Society (ONS) since 1985, serving as president from 1997 to 1998. She believes deeply in the essential role that oncology nursing plays in cancer survivorship and in helping people with cancer learn to live healthy lives after diagnosis. A valued national and international presenter, Haylock has given numerous lectures on topics ranging from staff development issues to cancer care in rural communities.

Haylock is a staunch advocate of the mind-body-spirit approach to cancer care and survivorship, and with the best interests of cancer patients and their caregivers in mind, she played a key role in helping develop the award-winning audio program, The Cancer Survival Toolbox". To date, almost half a million people around the globe have used the Toolbox to assist them with every aspect of living with cancer. Another national program that Haylock helped develop, Life Beyond Cancer: A Retreat for Women Cancer Survivors, draws cancer survivors and oncology nurses from across the U.S. for an annual getaway that focuses on holistic approaches to living in the aftermath of cancer.

As an educator—and as an author—Haylock has a gift for reaching lay audiences as well as scholars. She has written or edited four trade books on cancer, nine book chapters, 13 manuscripts, and numerous articles. Her book titled Men's Cancers: How to Prevent Them, How to Treat Them, How to Beat Them won the Book of the Year Award in Public Interest from the American Journal of Nursing.

Today, as she continues in her role as a highly esteemed and much sought-after oncology consultant, Haylock is pursuing a doctoral degree in the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, so that her future contributions can include research and other scholarly activities.

Considered by her peers as one of the top five oncology nurses in the country, Pamela Haylock is a role model who is truly living the Iowa nursing tradition of accomplishment and compassion.

Haylock is a life member of the UI Alumni Association.


Enzo O. Macagno

2008 Distinguished Faculty Award

Enzo O. and Matilde C. Macagno, 58MS, have advanced the University of Iowa's reputation as a world leader in water science and technology through their seminal and internationally acclaimed research on the work of one of the world's true geniuses—Leonardo da Vinci.

After meeting as students at the Universidad de La Plata in Argentina, the couple married in 1941. Enzo's academic work in Argentina and Europe centered on the fields of fluid mechanics and hydraulics and, in 1956, he accepted an offer to join the Iowa Institute of Hydraulics Research (IIHR) in the UI School of Engineering while Matilde finished her M.S. in mathematics at the UI. Enzo taught in the engineering school until his retirement in 1984, and Matilde served first as a research scientist at the IIHR and then as a mathematics teacher in the UI College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. They are both now professors emeriti.

In the 1960s, Enzo began to study da Vinci's writings and drawings, developing a lifelong scholarly interest in the Renaissance artist and scientist. With Italian as his native tongue, Enzo trained himself to read da Vinci's cryptic version of the Italian language, and he came to understand that some of da Vinci's most original work was pioneering in the realm of fluid mechanics and its applications.

Combining his expertise in fluid mechanics and the humanities, Enzo slowly unraveled da Vinci's scientific ideas about fluid flow and transport phenomena. To better understand these concepts, Enzo performed many of the experiments described in da Vinci's notebooks and explored the artist's theories with students in the classroom.

After retirement, Enzo increased his pursuit of these studies. As Matilde accompanied him on research trips to Europe, she, too, became immersed in the subject, discovering various previously overlooked art forms in da Vinci's drawings related to water dynamics. Analyzing the representation of water by artists and scientists, she wrote a series of articles about the geometry of water.

Enzo has recorded his critical analyses of da Vinci's work in fluid mechanics in a series of 22 monographs, some of them co-authored by Matilde, published by the IIHR between 1986 and 2006.

At the ages of 94 and 89 respectively, Enzo and Matilde continue to pursue this monumental work together. As mathematics professor Raúl Curto says of his colleagues, "Spending an evening with the Macagnos is an unforgettable experience. They both have a particularly attractive way of telling stories, sharing their knowledge, understanding national identities and cultures, and, above all, promoting the values of education to society as a whole."

With admiration and applause, the University of Iowa proudly bestows this award upon Enzo and Matilde Macagno in celebration of their long-term commitment to scientific inquiry, education, and research.

Matilde Macagno is a life member of the UI Alumni Association.


Matilde C. Macagno, 58MS

2008 Distinguished Faculty Award

Enzo O. and Matilde C. Macagno, 58MS, have advanced the University of Iowa's reputation as a world leader in water science and technology through their seminal and internationally acclaimed research on the work of one of the world's true geniuses—Leonardo da Vinci.

After meeting as students at the Universidad de La Plata in Argentina, the couple married in 1941. Enzo's academic work in Argentina and Europe centered on the fields of fluid mechanics and hydraulics and, in 1956, he accepted an offer to join the Iowa Institute of Hydraulics Research (IIHR) in the UI School of Engineering while Matilde finished her M.S. in mathematics at the UI. Enzo taught in the engineering school until his retirement in 1984, and Matilde served first as a research scientist at the IIHR and then as a mathematics teacher in the UI College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. They are both now professors emeriti.

In the 1960s, Enzo began to study da Vinci's writings and drawings, developing a lifelong scholarly interest in the Renaissance artist and scientist. With Italian as his native tongue, Enzo trained himself to read da Vinci's cryptic version of the Italian language, and he came to understand that some of da Vinci's most original work was pioneering in the realm of fluid mechanics and its applications.

Combining his expertise in fluid mechanics and the humanities, Enzo slowly unraveled da Vinci's scientific ideas about fluid flow and transport phenomena. To better understand these concepts, Enzo performed many of the experiments described in da Vinci's notebooks and explored the artist's theories with students in the classroom.

After retirement, Enzo increased his pursuit of these studies. As Matilde accompanied him on research trips to Europe, she, too, became immersed in the subject, discovering various previously overlooked art forms in da Vinci's drawings related to water dynamics. Analyzing the representation of water by artists and scientists, she wrote a series of articles about the geometry of water.

Enzo has recorded his critical analyses of da Vinci's work in fluid mechanics in a series of 22 monographs, some of them co-authored by Matilde, published by the IIHR between 1986 and 2006.

At the ages of 94 and 89 respectively, Enzo and Matilde continue to pursue this monumental work together. As mathematics professor Raúl Curto says of his colleagues, "Spending an evening with the Macagnos is an unforgettable experience. They both have a particularly attractive way of telling stories, sharing their knowledge, understanding national identities and cultures, and, above all, promoting the values of education to society as a whole."

With admiration and applause, the University of Iowa proudly bestows this award upon Enzo and Matilde Macagno in celebration of their long-term commitment to scientific inquiry, education, and research.

Matilde Macagno is a life member of the UI Alumni Association.


Rafat Jan Rukanuddin, 04PhD

2008 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

Rafat Jan Rukanuddin, 04PhD, has shown perseverance and heroism not only in her professions of nursing and teaching, but also in selfless service to humankind.

Rafat Jan received a general nursing degree from Aga Khan University (AKU) in Karachi, Pakistan, in 1983, before coming to the U.S. to pursue an M.S.N. degree in nursing administration from the Medical University of South Carolina and a Ph.D. from the University of Iowa's College of Nursing. The UI soon recognized her potential, awarding her the 2005 Graduate Deans' Distinguished Dissertation Award for her studies into improving the health of women and children in her home country.

In March 2005, Rafat Jan returned to AKU to serve as an assistant professor and as director of the school's BScN program. On October 8 of that year, her leadership skills were put to an extreme test when a devastating earthquake erupted near Kashmir, claiming tens of thousands of lives. Rafat Jan quickly assembled a group of AKU nurses to assist disaster victims. Under dangerous circumstances and in stark living conditions, the nurses worked 12- to 14-hour days for two weeks caring for the wounded.

Rafat Jan proved central to her team's successful efforts. One colleague described her as "a symbol of strength for her junior colleagues, doctors, and other team members. Taking care of traumatized patients in an emergency setting requires strength and courage. She displayed both qualities and was a role model for the others."

Such outstanding leadership has been recognized at the highest levels in Rafat Jan's home country. Nighat I. Durrani, registrar for the Pakistan Nursing Council, says: "She has not only brought laurels to the nursing profession by her excellent academic achievements, but has also excelled in humanity and service to mankind through the unparalleled and selfless work for the unfortunate victims of the October 8th earthquake. Unconcerned of personal safety and poor living conditions, she rolled up her sleeves and got down to work."

Before and since the disaster, Rafat Jan has shown an exemplary commitment to nursing teaching excellence at the regional, national, and international levels. Today, she continues her academic work at AKU while also serving as chair of the Task Force of Higher Education Commission and as an active member of the Pakistan Nursing Council. She has played a major role in revising the curricula of two reputed hospitals and was recently selected to teach nursing students at Karolinska Institute in Stockholm through the Linnaeus Palme Foundation exchange program between universities in Sweden and in developing countries.

Beyond these achievements, Rafat Jan can claim a number of important "firsts." She is the founding president of AKU School of Nursing Honor Society, a chapter of Sigma Theta Tau International (STTI) and the first affiliate in the Muslim world of this North American-based research and scholarship organization. She is also the first woman to serve as president of the Regional Ismaili Council for Karachi and Balochistan.

Clearly, Rafat Jan Rukanuddin is a remarkable humanitarian with a sense of duty and strength of character that shines brightly and reflects highly on the University of Iowa.


Richard J. Schnieders, 70BA

2008 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Richard J. Schnieders, 70BA, rose to the upper echelons of Houston-based SYSCO, the largest food service marketing and distribution company in North America, by staying true to the highest standards of integrity and by earning the unwavering trust of his employees and peers.

In a corporate climate often perceived as characterized by greed and cold calculation, Schnieders has managed to maintain warmth, personal accountability, and a value system based on fairness.

Growing up in Remsen, Schnieders operated the cash register in his family's small grocery store. His Iowa childhood instilled in him a deep sense of respect for others, as well as an interest in agriculture and food production. He went on to earn a B.A. degree in mathematics from the University of Iowa in 1970.

After graduation, Schnieders worked in a regional grocer's meat department, eventually selling meat for a national company and serving as a general sales manager for a foodservice distributor. In 1982, Schnieders joined the executive development program at Hardin's-SYSCO, a subsidiary of SYSCO in Memphis. He quickly received promotions to increasingly responsible positions within SYSCO organizations, and, in 1992, he moved to Houston when he was elected to serve as a corporate director, followed by appointments to executive vice president, president, and chief operating officer. On January 1, 2003, Schnieders became chairman and chief executive officer, the position he holds today.

Thanks to Schnieders's visionary leadership, SYSCO is more than a large, successful company. It is a corporation widely recognized for its enlightened governance and an atmosphere of mutual admiration among its workers, shareholders, and customers.

Early in his career, Schnieders sought out University of Memphis philosophy professor David R. Hiley for tutoring in philosophy. He felt the pursuit would help him better understand how to create a positive work environment within the company—and to position SYSCO as a good community and world citizen. The two men established a lifelong friendship, and, together, developed a values statement and ethics policy that was put into meaningful action at SYSCO.

In keeping with these ideals, Schnieders advocates sustainable agriculture and emphasizes its importance in fostering a better world for future generations. His dedication includes a program he initiated at SYSCO that supports small, local farmers and their high-quality products. When plans were in the works for a new SYSCO world headquarters in Houston, Schnieders made sure that the company set a good example for other businesses by building to the highest possible environmental standards.

Schnieders's interest in philosophy is just one example of his commitment to lifelong learning and the benefits of a liberal arts and sciences education. Many times, he has returned to the Iowa campus to address mathematics classes and other student groups, emphasizing in his talks how his UI liberal arts degree has been critical to his business success.

Richard Schnieders is a true exemplar of the honest, forward-thinking citizens who hail from the Hawkeye State. In the words of close friend David Hiley: "At a time when we tend to identify corporate leadership with its excesses and abuses, I can't imagine anything more important than recognizing a highly successful business leader because he is deeply thoughtful and deeply moral."

Schnieders is a life member of the UI Alumni Association.


Ori J. Sivan, 04BSE

2008 Distinguished Alumni Young Award

Ori J. Sivan, 04BSE, became one of the Midwest's most revered—and youngest—leaders in environmental sustainability by co-founding the Greenmaker Supply Company, Chicago's only major provider of "green" building supplies.

Long before Greenmaker's official debut, the seeds of Sivan's business were sown early in his civil and environmental engineering studies at the UI. As a student, he gained experience in this emerging field as an undergraduate researcher at the internationally renowned UI Center for Global and Regional Environmental Research, and he co-created the UI's International Engineering Service Program as well as the Engineers for a Sustainable World group. He also cultivated critical knowledge and experience through several internships, including one in the Iowa Department of Natural Resources Pollution Prevention Program, where he helped a GE manufacturing facility save millions of dollars annually while reducing its environmental impact. In addition, as a student delegate for the Iowa United Nations Association, Sivan presented a paper on environmental economics at the 2002 UN World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg, South Africa.

After graduation from the UI with an engineering degree, Sivan moved to Chicago to pursue an M.S. degree at Northwestern and soon established his company. In its first year, the fledgling enterprise boasted revenue of $1.2 million and won a 2006 Innovate Illinois prize, awarded to the state's most innovative small businesses. Greenmaker Supply has also been featured in the Chicago Tribune and Wall Street Journal.

One of Sivan's professors and mentors, College of Engineering Professor Jerald Schnoor, describes him as a top student who contributed boundless ideas, energy, and enthusiasm during his time at the UI. One of Sivan's major accomplishments was bringing Hunter Lovins—a famous author in the environmental field—to campus for a talk after meeting her at the World Summit. Says Schnoor: "Hunter Lovins was so impressed with Ori that she waived her normal speaking fee to come to Iowa for only expenses."

While at the World Summit, Sivan participated in sessions with young business leaders from around the globe focused on helping industry become more sustainable. When Sivan returned to Iowa, he presented lectures on campus about his experience, and his infectious enthusiasm drew more students into the UI environmental engineering program.

Sivan has remained in close contact with UI faculty, staff, and fellow alumni—and he takes time to lend his counsel and energy to current and future students. He recently became one of 11 charter members of the newly organized College of Engineering Young Alumni Advisory Board, whose mission is to share perspectives, knowledge, and experiences in the workplace; to support UIAA and engineering school goals to engage more students and young alumni; and to develop a network of mutually beneficial relationships among alumni, students, and faculty.

Another of Sivan's UI engineering mentors, Professor Keri Hornbuckle, describes him as "a remarkable leader who is well on his way to making a major contribution to our world. Ori was one of the most outstanding student leaders we have had in our college."

For his early accomplishments and the passion he's displayed in making our environment a healthier place for generations to come, Ori Sivan brings pride and distinction to his alma mater.


MaryFran Sowers, 84PhD

2008 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

MaryFran Sowers, 84PhD, is an internationally recognized researcher in musculoskeletal disorders who has spent her career pursuing the answers that will bring relief to legions of women suffering from arthritis, osteoporosis, and bone disease.

Indeed, it is largely through her achievements that the University of Michigan—where Sowers has held a professorship in the Department of Epidemiology for 20 years—has achieved an international reputation for the excellence of its women's health programs.

Sowers completed a B.A. degree in nutrition at Emporia State University in 1968 and a M.S. in nutrition from Oklahoma State University in 1973. In 1984, she graduated from the University of Iowa with a Ph.D. in epidemiology, and she spent another two years as a postdoctoral fellow in endocrine and epidemiology.

Before beginning her distinguished career as a professor and researcher in the University of Michigan's School of Public Health, Sowers spent two years as an assistant professor at Cornell University in New York. At Michigan, she also holds appointments with the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and the Department of Internal Medicine. In 2002, Sowers founded and became director for the UM Center for Integrated Approaches to Complex Diseases.

An expert and groundbreaking researcher in the epidemiology of endocrine function and related disorders in women, Sowers has helped shed light on the physiologic changes associated with various phases of the female life cycle and aging, including the effects of genetic and nutritional factors on bone loss and other problems.

Her field of study is impressive for both its depth and its breadth. Although osteoporosis and bone health are her main focus, Sowers has made significant contributions in the areas of osteoarthritis, nutritional epidemiology, genetic epidemiology, and cardiovascular disease. Further, she is the principal investigator for six National Institutes of Health (NIH) grants that generate more than $11 million for her research projects at the University of Michigan.

A widely published author and gifted teacher, Sowers offers courses on women's health and epidemiology that are sought out by students eager to learn from such an acclaimed expert. She has mentored dozens of doctoral students and investigators across the UM campus on a broad range of topics including environmental health, kinesiology, oncology, obstetrics and gynecology, and sports medicine.

Sowers is dedicated to serving her university, the community, and her profession. Her recent contributions include serving as chair of the UM School of Public Health Advisory Committee on Academic Rank and of the Michigan Statewide Osteoporosis Initiative; providing consulting services to the Federal Trade Commission, the National Arthritis Foundation, and the National Academy of Sciences; serving on the editorial board of the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research; co-editing two professional journals; and reviewing grant applications for the NIH.

Sowers has been honored with numerous awards and recognitions, and she was recently appointed as the new John G. Searle Professor of Public Health at the UM. In 2006, the University of Iowa's College of Public Health recognized her outstanding career with a Distinguished Alumni Award.

The University of Iowa is proud to add another Distinguished Alumni Award to this list of honors, in recognition of MaryFran Sowers and her exemplary efforts to improve the state of women's health in the U.S.


Mary Joy Stead

2008 Distinguished Alumni Friend Award

Mary Joy Stead knows that with the right help, people can learn to soar. This was true for her when she fulfilled her dream of becoming a licensed pilot. And it also was true of the journey she and her husband, Jerre Stead, 65BBA, made from early years of hard work and sacrifice to a life of professional success and personal philanthropy.

During their humble beginnings as college students in Iowa City, the Steads lived in the Forestview Trailer Court while Jerre completed his B.A. degree in business at the UI. During this time, Mary Joy also took classes and worked hard to help support her family and raise two young sons. After Jerre's graduation in 1965, the high school sweethearts and Maquoketa natives set off for achievement and adventure.

Throughout their years of travel for Jerre's various CEO positions, Mary Joy busied herself with making a home for their family—and establishing community connections—in diverse locations from Minneapolis to Brussels, Belgium.

No matter where they lived, the Steads never forgot about the University of Iowa, and they have continued to be passionate volunteers and philanthropists. Mary Joy is a loyal friend who has devoted generous time and resources to the UI. Not only did she serve as vice chair of the national steering committee for the university's $1 billion, seven-year fund-raising campaign that ended in 2005, she and her husband also made one of the campaign's most generous gifts and one of the largest ever to the UI: a visionary $25 million commitment to benefit the Henry B. Tippie College of Business.

Part of this record-breaking contribution was an outright gift of $2.5 million for several areas, including the establishment of an endowed, named chair in honor of former College of Business dean and former interim UI president Gary Fethke, 64BA, 68PhD; ongoing support for the Stead Technology Center, which provides computer services and related programming within the college; funding for the Kloppenburg-Stead Speaker Series, which will bring prominent speakers to the college's executive M.B.A. program; and continued enhancement and maintenance of the John Pappajohn Business Building. Besides their loyalty to the business school, the Steads also support other areas of the university, including the UI Alumni Association and the Old Capitol Museum.

As a volunteer, Mary Joy has occupied many valuable roles, including membership on the UI Foundation's board of directors and in other educational and civic organizations.

Indicative of her broad interests and generosity, Stead is an officer of Operation QT (Quality Time), which funds educational programming for middle and high school students in economically disadvantaged areas. She has supported the Alzheimer's Institute at Banner Health of Phoenix and the Garrett Evangelical Theological Seminary in Evanston, Illinois, where she and Jerre made a $6 million gift to create the Stead Center for Ethics and Values. She is also involved with a computer learning program in Denver that provides funding for computer education for elementary and middle school children.

In all that she does, Mary Joy Stead lives a life of purpose, generosity, and commitment. Her unwavering friendship has not only opened educational doors for countless students, but has built a stronger University of Iowa.

Mary Joy Stead is a gold-level member of the UI Foundation's Presidents Club.


Thomas R. Temple, 77MS

2008 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

Thomas R. Temple, 77MS, has endeavored for three decades to inspire patient-centered changes in the practice of pharmacy that have substantially improved the health and welfare of Iowans and all U.S. citizens.

After receiving a B.S. degree in biology from Northern Illinois University in 1971 and a B.S. in pharmacy from the University of Illinois in 1975, Temple arrived at the University of Iowa ready to pursue an M.S. degree in pharmacy administration. Soon after graduation from the UI College of Pharmacy, he found his calling. Since 1980, Temple has held one of the pharmacy profession's most critical and influential positions in the state of Iowa. As executive vice president of the Iowa Pharmacy Association and CEO of subsidiary corporations Iowa Pharmacy Foundation and Pharmacy Network of Iowa, Temple has become a nationally respected expert with tremendous achievements to his credit on the local, state, and national levels.

In a profession that has redefined itself over the past two decades, Temple has been instrumental in making fundamental changes in how pharmacy is practiced in this country. No longer just dispensers of medication, pharmacists are now viewed as patient educators and advocates. Many offer immunization services, play a central role in patient case management, and oversee medication therapy management for patientsinnovations that have enabled pharmacists to provide more cost-effective, quality care.

Temple's expertise is frequently called upon by the state's key policymakers, including the governor, the Department of Human Services, Iowa Blue Cross/Blue Shield, and the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Through his long service, Temple has become the senior state pharmacy leader in America. On the national scene, he is a key figure around discussion tables and a compelling advocate of the major economic, educational, and social issues challenging the pharmacy profession. An author of several publications, he has also spoken at numerous professional healthcare meetings nationwide. He is a dedicated member of the National Alliance of State Pharmacy Associations, the American Pharmacists Association, and other key organizations in the U.S. and abroad.

A loyal supporter of pharmacy education, Temple encourages students to pursue professional involvement early in their careers, and he serves as a role model for many Iowa graduates who have eventually become leaders in their field and in their communities. In recognition of his student advocacy, in 1995 he received his profession's highest honor, the Gloria Niemeyer-Francke Leadership Mentor Award from the American Pharmacists Association. He is also the recipient of distinguished alumni awards from both the University of Illinois and the University of Iowa's College of Pharmacy.

As a proud UI alumnus, Temple is an unequivocal supporter of the University of Iowa, and he continues to give back to the institution in myriad ways, including having served for 20 years as a member of the UI College of Pharmacy advisory council.

With vision and leadership, Thomas Temple has transformed his profession's public service mission and elevated the pharmacist's role in medicine. His impact on comprehensive health care is evident any time a patient consults with a pharmacist at the drugstore counter.

Temple is an annual member of the UI Alumni Association and an associate member of the UI Foundation's Presidents Club.


Stephen West, 69BBA

2008 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

Stephen L. West, 69BBA, the president of West Music Company and Miyazawa Flutes, has made it his professional—and personal—mission to promote music education and music participation on a local, state, and national level.

After graduating from the University of Iowa in 1969 with a marketing degree, West joined his father, Pearl, at West Music Company. Since his start with the family business, West has led the growth of West Music from one location in Iowa City to seven retail music stores, education centers, and distribution outlets in Iowa and western Illinois. To strengthen the store's support of music education, he initiated the dissemination of a catalog to every elementary school in the United States, and expanded access to articles, methods, and products through the development of more than 15 e-commerce and international websites.

For decades, West has generously supported UI programs and departments by repairing instruments and offering constant support to the School of Music's faculty and students, and allowing Hancher Auditorium artists to conduct master classes and workshops in his stores. He provides pianos for local concerts, gives presentations to music education students, helps the School of Music with workshops and conferences, and supports guest artists and clinicians for the benefit of music students and the general public.

West recently made possible the restoration and transportation of a 19th century Steinway grand piano to its new home in the Old Capitol's Senate Chamber. West first worked with UI music faculty to find a piano that met their requirements and then contributed toward its purchase. His generosity enabled the museum to host Piano Sundays, which showcase Iowa's fine musicians and their talents to a broad audience.

West is also active in his community, having served various local arts and educational organizations, including the Iowa City Community Band, New Horizons Senior Band, Cedar Rapids Symphony, Noon Iowa City Rotary Club, Sunrise Optimist Club, and Kirkwood Community College Foundation. In 1990, he co-founded the Iowa City Chamber of Commerce Community Leadership Program, which educates area leaders on the issues facing the community and expands their opportunities for leadership.

West also has made an impact on music education throughout the state. He assists teachers through the Iowa Bandmasters Association and the Iowa Music Education Association. In 1989, he co-founded the Iowa Alliance for Arts Education, an advocacy group for arts programs in Iowa schools.

One of the most respected music dealers in the U.S., West has served for 19 years as a leader on the NAMM, International Music Products Association, board. In 1998, he received Iowa's Small Business Administration Entrepreneurial Success of the Year Award. West is co-founder of the Music Achievement Council, which works to develop and retain instrumental music students and teachers, and the International Foundation for Music Research, which promotes and funds studies on music and behavior. He is also a past president of the National Association of School Music Dealers and was honored in 2006 with Kappa Kappa Psi's Distinguished Service to Music Award.

In Iowa and farther afield, Stephen West is recognized for his abundant efforts to bring the life-enhancing benefits of music education and participation to musicians of all ages and abilities.

West is a member of the UI Alumni Association's Old Capitol Club and the UI Foundation's Presidents Club.


Joe Brennan,

2007 Distinguished Faculty Award

Joe Brennan can claim a distinguished 43-year career with the University of Iowa, during which he has contributed enormously to the university, the College of Dentistry, and the field of dental education on a national level.

Starting out as an accountant in the UI accounts receivable department from 1960 to 1962, Brennan became administrative assistant to the athletic director from 1962 to 1964, and then served as the faculty housing consultant from 1964 to 1972 and as assistant business manager in the Treasurers Office from 1972 to 1973.

In 1973, Brennans career shifted to the UI College of Dentistry, where he became the colleges business manager. He was promoted to assistant to the dean in 1976 and to assistant dean for finance and facilities in 1981. He then served as associate dean from 1989 until his retirement in 2003.

Brennans career success may be attributed to his unique combination of personal and professional qualities. College of Dentistry Dean David Johnsen says of Brennan, He is extremely dedicated and loyal, has a great attention to detail, is considerate, cooperative, and creative. He was instrumental in moving the college forward during tight budgetary constraints and has positioned the college in such a way whereby it continues to thrive in many areas.

During his 30 years in the college, Brennan was responsible for a budget that grew to well over $32 million. Still, he often had to deal with the fact that needs outweighed resources. He did not flinch in the face of tough decisions, and, even during budget crunches, he earned the respect and gratitude of his colleagues for his fair and cooperative attitude.

Known for his open-door policy, Brennan oversaw the procedural aspect of faculty and staff hiring, salary determination, and the preparation of financial information for planning and decision-making. In particular, he was the driving force behind the design and construction facilitation of the state-of-the-art Simulation Clinic in 1995.

Brennan has also shared his expertise on a national level, serving as a consultant to the Council on Dental Education Commission on Accreditation for the American Dental Association from 1979 to 1985 and 1987 to 1993, and on accreditation site-visit teams for most dental schools in the U.S. Highly regarded by his peers, he continues to be called upon in his retirement by schools throughout the country to serve as a financial consultant.

Says one longtime colleague, Joes efforts with national groups to improve collegiate resource planning gave notice to other dental schools that Iowa had an outstanding program grounded in the best business practices. On campus, Joe was an astute business professional who was the source of sound advice and counsel.

In recognition of his immeasurable contributions to the college, Brennan was named the 2003 Honorary Alumnus of the Year by the UI Dental Alumni Association Board, an award that has been given only four times since its inception in 1986.

Such an honor was truly deserved, for Joe Brennan has been an extraordinary advocate for the College of Dentistry and a statesman for the University of Iowa.

Brennan is a member of the UI Foundations Presidents Club.


Matthew Bucksbaum, 49BA

2007 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Matthew Bucksbaum, 49BA, has been instrumental in transforming the physical and economic landscape of America since creating one of the countrys first shopping malls in 1954.

The son of a small-town grocer, Bucksbaum began his career in real estate and retail soon after graduating from the UI with a degree in economics. Over the last half century, the company he founded, General Growth Properties (GGP), has become one of the largest developers, owners, and managers of retail real estate in the country.

In 1993, General Growth Properties went public for the second time, and, through a series of acquisitions, it has grown to own or manage more than 200 regional shopping malls across the country—including West Des Moines Jordan Creek Town Center and Coralvilles Coral Ridge Mall—with reported sales of $3.2 billion in 2005. In addition to shopping centers, GGP has ownership interest in master planned community developments and commercial office buildings. Formerly headquartered in Des Moines, GGP is now centered in Chicago and is the second largest U.S.-based publicly traded real estate investment trust.

As one of the pioneers of the shopping center industry, Bucksbaum holds the respect of his peers on a national level. He was elected to serve as president of the International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC)—the highest honor awarded in the industry—and he is also a member of both the Urban Land Institute and the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts.

He is a recipient of the 2002 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Urban Land Institute of Chicago; the 1999 Human Rights Medallion Award from the Chicago Chapter of the American Jewish Committee; the 1997 Outstanding CEO Award from the Realty Stock Review; and the 1997 Retail Property Executive of the Year Award from Commercial Property News.

Bucksbaums success has been accompanied by a strong desire to give back—to his alma mater, and to countless other nonprofit, cultural, and educational initiatives. In 2004, he established the Matthew Bucksbaum Family Faculty Fellowship within the UI Tippie College of Business.

He is a director-level member of the Deans Clubs of both the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and the Tippie College of Business. A strong advocate and supporter of the arts, he has given generously to the Des Moines Metropolitan Opera and the Des Moines Art Center, and he currently serves as a trustee for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the Lyric Opera of Chicago. Past chairman and a life trustee of the Aspen Music Festival and School, he helped raise millions of dollars for the festivals endowment fund.

Since graduating from the UI, Matthew Bucksbaum has done his alma mater proud as one of the UIs highest-achieving graduates in the world of business. He has further distinguished himself as a fine citizen through his continuing generosity and loyalty to the UI and to many other civic institutions.

Bucksbaum is a member of the UI Alumni Associations Directors Club Honors Circle and the UI Foundations Presidents Club.


William H. DeKock, 60BA, 63DDS, 67MS

2007 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

William DeKock, 60BA, 63DDS, 67MS, has had a profound influence at every level in his profession of orthodontics. Whether caring for patients, sharing his expertise as an adjunct professor in the UI College of Dentistry, or serving as a national leader and an international diplomat for his profession, this Iowa graduate has greatly enhanced the quality of orthodontic care.

Born in Manson, Iowa, DeKock completed his orthodontic training at the University of Iowa in 1967 and soon started a practice in Cedar Rapids that he would run full-time for 35 years. He became involved in organized dentistry early in his career, serving as the Iowa director to the Midwestern Society of Orthodontists (MSO) from 1974 to 1978 and as MSO president from 1980 to 1981. At the national level, he served from 1985 to 1996 on the board of trustees of the American Association of Orthodontists and as its president from 1994 to 1995.

DeKocks reach and vision have extended far beyond even his national contributions. Recognizing in the 1990s the importance of establishing a global network that could ensure cross-cultural interaction and sharing of ideas among his colleagues, he became the driving force in the formation of the World Federation of Orthodontists (WFO), the first international organization for his field.

After authoring the WFO bylaws, in 1995 DeKock organized the groups initial meeting in San Francisco, successfully convening individuals from 69 orthodontic organizations representing 62 countries. He went on to serve as WFOs first president from 1995 to 2000 and has served as secretary-general since 2000. Now a well-established and thriving organization, the WFO today includes 105 organizations from 100 countries.

DeKock is recognized as an international diplomat with a unique ability to bring together people from a myriad of cultures, including those with deep-seated political differences. His perseverance and sensitivity have helped establish an organization in which, even in todays complex political world, Iraqi, Iranian, Israeli, and Syrian orthodontists sit side-by-side and declare their friendship.

DeKock has received many well-deserved honors and awards, including his designation as University of Iowa Dental Alumnus of the Year in 1993. He recently retired from his practice, and he received the James E. Brophy Distinguished Service Award, the highest honor bestowed by the American Association of Orthodontists in 2005.

DeKocks untiring dedication to his profession at the highest levels has not prevented him from maintaining strong ties to his alma mater. A wonderful role model for the orthodontic graduate students he has advised and taught for the past 38 years, he is also an ardent Hawkeye fan. DeKocks father and father-in-law were both professors at the UI, while his wife, Margie, holds two UI degrees. His father-in-law, Mason Ladd, and brother-in-law, Robert Hogg, are both recipients of distinguished alumni awards from the UI Alumni Association.

Through his dedicated and exemplary efforts to his profession, William DeKock has brought distinction to the University of Iowa and earned the gratitude and respect of countless patients and colleagues all over the world.

DeKock is a life member of the UI Alumni Association and a member of the UI Foundations Presidents Club.


Franklin D. Gilliam, Jr., 78MA, 83PhD

2007 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Franklin D. Gilliam, Jr., 78MA, 83PhD, is more than a leading scholar on race and communications in America; hes also a political scientist whose sense of community responsibility has driven his academic career.

Since earning a Ph.D. in political science from Iowa in 1983, Gilliams academic career has taken him from teaching positions at the University of Wisconsin to his current position at the University of California, Los Angeles.

A full professor of political science since 1996, Gilliam also serves as UCLAs associate vice chancellor for community partnerships. In addition, he is founding director of UCLAs Center for Communications and Community, which connects research on communications to neighborhood transformation.

Gilliams lifetime of work has evolved from examining questions about black political participation and empowerment, to investigating how blacks are portrayed in the news media, and to exploring how strategic communications influence public support for a broad range of social issues. The results of his innovative and effective research have consistently appeared in leading social science journals, while a comprehensive account of his recent experimental work will soon be available in a book from Princeton University Press.

Perhaps the most noteworthy aspect of Gilliams record is his success in bridging the gap between academics and the broader community. The first person in the University of California system to hold the title of associate vice chancellor, community partnerships, Gilliam directs the Center for Community Partnerships, which identifies and supports university and community leaders to use ideas and research in finding practical solutions for challenges facing the broader Los Angeles community. In less than five years, the center has supported more than 100 projects and provided some $2.5 million for campus-community collaborations.

Gilliams distinctive approach has produced such positive results for Los Angeles that he is now involved in applying the centers strategies to other metropolitan areas across the nation.

Recognized as a leader in this field, Gilliam has a long record of funding both from leading private foundations and from the National Science Foundation. He has consulted on a wide range of projects for groups like the Aspen Institute, the Annie E. Casey Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the MacArthur Foundation. He has been quoted in the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, and the Boston Globe, and he makes frequent public appearances on the NBC Nightly News, ABC Nightly News, CNN, C-Span, and other television stations.

Despite his many professional obligations, this Iowa graduate has remained connected to the UI Department of Political Science and to the University of Iowa. His loyalty to the Iowa Hawkeyes runs deep (his father was a member of the 1957 Iowa Rose Bowl football team), and he has been a superb ambassador for the university and the state through the years.

As an educator, Gilliam has applied his ideas at a practical level to produce profound results in solving complex social issues within American culture. UI political science professor Doug Madsen says, Franklin Gilliams achievements are of great consequence. This work has deep meaning for him personally, but it also has deep meaning for Los Angeles and, really, for us all.


Ronald W. Holden

2007 Distinguished Alumni Friend Award

Ronald W. and Arlene M. Holden have given so generously of their time and resources that they fall in the category of rare and true special friends of the University of Iowa.

Ron Holden hails from a family of visionaries; his father, Roland, founded Holden's Foundation Seeds in 1973. The company, which specialized in research development and production of parent seed corn, became the primary supplier of inbred seed corn for the many independent seed corn companies serving the Corn Belt. In 1971, Ron took over the company's operations from his father, successfully running the business until selling it to Monsanto in 1997. Holden's Seeds continues to operate as a self-contained unit within Monsanto.

After Roland died of cancer in 1995, the Holdens turned their passion and commitment toward finding a cure for the disease that has so deeply affected their lives. In 1998 and 2000, the family made substantial gifts to University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics (UIHC) through the Ruby and Roland Holden Foundation, first creating the Roland W. Holden Family Program for Experimental Cancer Therapeutics, and eventually establishing the Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center (HCCC).

Today, the HCCC coordinates all cancer-related research, education, and patient care by faculty from 38 departments in six colleges throughout the university and at UIHC. Bringing world-class research and cancer care to Iowa, the Midwest, and beyond, the center delivers hope to thousands of patients every year. The HCCC has been listed by the National Cancer Institute as an "NCI-designated cancer center," joining fewer than 60 centers in the entire country (as of July 2000) that have received this honor in recognition of excellence across the areas of cancer care, research, and education.

Beyond their financial generosity, the Holdens have liberally given their time and expertise to the University of Iowa. They served unflaggingly as lead volunteers on both the Health Sciences Campaign Steering Committee and the National Comprehensive Campaign Steering Committee for the UI's recent successful $1 billion campaign, Good. Better. Best. Iowa: The Campaign to Advance Our Great University.

In addition, Arlene Holden serves on the UI Foundation's board of directors, is a member of the Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center advisory board, and the founder of the Caring Clown program for cancer patients at UIHC. The Holdens are recognized as steward-level supporters of the UI's Carver College of Medicine. Both ardent Hawkeye fans, the Holdens contributed to the renovation of Kinnick Stadium.

Lifelong Iowa residents who make their primary home in Williamsburg, Ron and Arlene are deeply involved in that community, where they have contributed greatly to the quality of life in numerous ways, including building an elementary school, a family aquatic center and sports complex, a nine-hole golf course, and an independent and assisted living retirement facility. They are also an integral part of the planning committee for the town's sesquicentennial event in July 2007.

For their remarkable combined record of support, involvement, and achievement, Ron and Arlene Holden are certainly among the best friends that the University of Iowa could have.


Arlene M. Holden

2007 Distinguished Alumni Friend Award

Ronald W. and Arlene M. Holden have given so generously of their time and resources that they fall in the category of rare and true special friends of the University of Iowa.

Ron Holden hails from a family of visionaries; his father, Roland, founded Holden's Foundation Seeds in 1973. The company, which specialized in research development and production of parent seed corn, became the primary supplier of inbred seed corn for the many independent seed corn companies serving the Corn Belt. In 1971, Ron took over the company's operations from his father, successfully running the business until selling it to Monsanto in 1997. Holden's Seeds continues to operate as a self-contained unit within Monsanto.

After Roland died of cancer in 1995, the Holdens turned their passion and commitment toward finding a cure for the disease that has so deeply affected their lives. In 1998 and 2000, the family made substantial gifts to University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics (UIHC) through the Ruby and Roland Holden Foundation, first creating the Roland W. Holden Family Program for Experimental Cancer Therapeutics, and eventually establishing the Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center (HCCC).

Today, the HCCC coordinates all cancer-related research, education, and patient care by faculty from 38 departments in six colleges throughout the university and at UIHC. Bringing world-class research and cancer care to Iowa, the Midwest, and beyond, the center delivers hope to thousands of patients every year. The HCCC has been listed by the National Cancer Institute as an "NCI-designated cancer center," joining fewer than 60 centers in the entire country (as of July 2000) that have received this honor in recognition of excellence across the areas of cancer care, research, and education.

Beyond their financial generosity, the Holdens have liberally given their time and expertise to the University of Iowa. They served unflaggingly as lead volunteers on both the Health Sciences Campaign Steering Committee and the National Comprehensive Campaign Steering Committee for the UI's recent successful $1 billion campaign, Good. Better. Best. Iowa: The Campaign to Advance Our Great University.

In addition, Arlene Holden serves on the UI Foundation's board of directors, is a member of the Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center advisory board, and the founder of the Caring Clown program for cancer patients at UIHC. The Holdens are recognized as steward-level supporters of the UI's Carver College of Medicine. Both ardent Hawkeye fans, the Holdens contributed to the renovation of Kinnick Stadium.

Lifelong Iowa residents who make their primary home in Williamsburg, Ron and Arlene are deeply involved in that community, where they have contributed greatly to the quality of life in numerous ways, including building an elementary school, a family aquatic center and sports complex, a nine-hole golf course, and an independent and assisted living retirement facility. They are also an integral part of the planning committee for the town's sesquicentennial event in July 2007.

For their remarkable combined record of support, involvement, and achievement, Ron and Arlene Holden are certainly among the best friends that the University of Iowa could have.


Ida M. Moore, 73BSN, 78MA

2007 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Ida M. Moore, 73BSN, 78MA, is internationally renowned for her distinguished career as a nurse scientist in the field of pediatric oncology.

The Emmetsburg, Iowa, native received a B.S.N. from the UI College of Nursing in 1973, followed by a masters in nursing in 1978. She left Iowa to continue her nursing education at the University of California, San Francisco College of Nursing, where she earned a D.N.S. in 1985.

Following academic appointments at the UI and the University of California-San Francisco College of Nursing, Moore has spent the past 18 years at the University of Arizona College of Nursing, where she is a professor and director of the Nursing Practice Division and Director of the Center on Injury Mechanisms and Related Responses: Genomics Focus.

A champion of childhood cancer patients and survivors, this Iowa alumna has contributed extensively to the science of pediatric oncology, helped disseminate that new knowledge through publications and presentations, and translated it into improved care of children with cancer.

Moore has devoted her scholarly studies to understanding the impact of cancer treatments on the central nervous systems of children, resulting in landmark findings that have helped alter therapies so that they remain effective weapons against cancer, but do not harm a childs neurocognitive development.

Moore is recognized for her knowledge, passion, vision, leadership, and commitment. Her peers applaud her ability to represent nursing as both a science and an art. As a nurse scholar, Moore has published widely in professional nursing and science journals, and she is in demand as a presenter for regional, national, and international research conferences. She and her multidisciplinary team have received millions of dollars in research funding from governmental agencies and private foundations, including the National Institutes of Health, the Oncology Nursing Foundation, the Arizona Disease Control Research Commission, and the Leukemia Foundation.

As director of the Nursing Practice Division in the University of Arizona College of Nursing, Moore is greatly respected as a mentor for clinical and tenure-track faculty. She also devotes time and service outside the university, serving as a member of community healthcare organizations and as an international consultant to Brazil, Taiwan, and Thailand.

For her groundbreaking work, Moore has earned the respect and recognition of her profession. She is one of six nurse researchers selected to serve as a scholar in the Childrens Oncology Group, the largest international pediatric oncology cooperative in the world.

For her significant contribution to oncology nursing education and nursing research, she has also been honored by the National Institutes of Health, the University of California-San Francisco, the University of Arizona College of Nursing, the Oncology Nursing Society/Schering Laboratory, Sigma Theta Tau International, Roche Laboratories, and the Western Institute of Nursing. In 1994, she was inducted as a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing.

Ida Moore exemplifies the excellence in scholarship, teaching, and service that reflect so positively on the University of Iowa. Most importantly, her dedicated and worthwhile career has helped—and will continue to better the quality of life for—thousands of seriously ill children throughout the world.


Kay Johnson Mussell, 65BA, 70MA, 73PhD

2007 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Kay Johnson Mussell, 65BA, 70MA, 73PhD, has achieved great distinction for her multiple talents as a scholar, a teacher, and an academic administrator.

Since her graduation from the UI, Mussell has led a long and successful career at American University in Washington, DC, where she has served since 1974. Her career in higher education has earned her national respect as a talented administrator, an esteemed scholar, an author of note, and an active participant and leader in community educational activities.

As a scholar, Mussell quickly established herself as a productive and influential expert in American literature. She is the author of two books, Fantasy and Reconciliation: Contemporary Formulas of Womens Romance Fiction and Womens Gothic and Romantic Fiction: A Reference Guide, as well as dozens of book chapters, articles, and reports, and six edited or co-edited books and special journal issues. This body of work has established her as a major figure in the analysis of romance fiction and a scholar of note in the broader field of popular culture.

In the classroom, Mussell has earned the respect of students and fellow faculty members alike. Cornelius Kerwin, interim president of American University, describes her as one of the finest in her generation of this universitys faculty. Her courses are known for their intellectual rigor, creative pedagogy, and popularity among our students.

In the course of her career, Mussell has become increasingly committed to academic administration. At American University, her positions of responsibility include serving as director of the American Studies Program, director of the College Writing Program, chair of the Department of Literature, associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, associate dean for academic affairs, and—since 1999—dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. These roles have showcased her genius for management and her strong leadership skills.

Her work has been recognized through numerous honors and awards from American University, including a Faculty-Administrator Award from the College of Arts and Sciences in 1995 and a University Faculty Award for Outstanding Service in 1980.

Mussell has also generously shared her expertise beyond the university community. For more than 15 years, she welcomed visitors to the Washington International Center and taught courses at the Smithsonian Institution. Her many endeavors on behalf of the District of Columbia public schools include serving as fiscal agent for an enrichment grant funded by the D.C. Community Humanities Council. In all of her volunteer work, she has made significant contributions that have left a profound impact on her community.

Says Kerwin, It has been my good fortune to work with influential scholars, gifted teachers, and highly effective academic leaders. In my experience, it is quite unusual to find an individual who does two of these things at a very high level. It is indeed rare to encounter an individual who is truly distinguished in all three.

For this rare combination of qualities that have distinguished her as a leader in all aspects of academia, Kay Johnson Mussell is truly deserving of this recognition by her alma mater.

Mussell is a bronze-level member of the UI Alumni Associations Old Capitol Club.


Michael J. New, 64BA, 67MA

2007 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

Michael J. New, 64BA, 67MA, was president of the University of Iowa Foundation from 1998 until his death in 2006, serving as its very capable leader during the largest capital campaign in the history of the UI and helping to raise $1 billion for the university.

News career at the foundation spanned 30 years. Hired in 1976 as associate director for health sciences development, he worked closely with the organizations legendary president, Darrell Wyrick. In 1986, he was named vice president for development programs. New played a lead role in nearly every major UI fund-raising venture during this time, from the Iowa Endowment 2000 campaign, to the renovation of Hancher Auditorium, to the remarkable expansion of the UIs medical center (both clinical and research), to the building of the Levitt Center for University Advancement, and to special efforts for the Belin-Blank Center, among many others.

Following a nationwide search for new leadership upon Wyricks retirement, New was appointed president of the UI Foundation in 1998, the decision both an obvious and unanimous one. New not only took great pride in his own Iowa roots and connection to the University of Iowa, but he also believed that the many thousands of people whose lives have been positively influenced by the university would commit to giving back once they understood the profound impact their gifts could have on the quality of a UI education.

News gift was in his passion for the university, in recognizing the potential for support among its alumni and friends, and in his ability to recruit, mentor, mobilize, and lead a team of development professionals to raise funds to support and enhance the university. He was well respected and loved by his colleagues, who were motivated by his warmth, wit, intelligence, sincerity, and above all, integrity and generosity of spirit.

Says David Dierks, UI Foundation vice president and News longtime colleague and friend, Michael led the foundation during a period of immense change . . . and his natty, confident, and professional leadership helped to pull the foundation into the 21st century and to become an increasingly important partner with the university—raising funds of critical importance and creating opportunity for greatness within the institution.

The planning for and execution of the UIs seven-year comprehensive campaign from 1998 to 2005 coincided almost exactly with News tenure as president of the UI Foundation. Under his leadership, the foundation significantly expanded its fund-raising capacity and raised more than $1 billion in outright gifts and future commitments for all areas and needs of the university.

Former UI president Mary Sue Coleman said of New, Not only has he created a sense of community within the foundation staff, he has set an ethical standard that is almost without peer.

Before his untimely death from cancer in April 2006, Michael New was able to celebrate the unparalleled success of the Good. Better. Best. Iowa campaign he helped lead, and to know the deep and lasting impact his life work would have on the university he loved.

New was a life and Old Capitol Club member of the UI Alumni Association and a bronze-level member of the UI Foundations Presidents Club.


M. Samuel Noordhoff, 54MD

2007 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

M. Samuel Noordhoff, 54MD, a world leader in cleft lip and palate surgery, has literally brought smiles to the faces of countless children throughout Southeast Asia.

After graduating from the UI College of Medicine in 1954, Noordhoff completed residencies in general and plastic surgery. His entire professional career was spent in Taiwan, where, as superintendent of Mackay Memorial Hospital and Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, he accomplished many healthcare firsts, including establishing an intensive care unit, a burn unit, polio rehabilitation clinic, and immunization services.

Noordhoff also developed a residency program in plastic surgery with his primary interest in craniofacial surgery. Today, the internationally famous Craniofacial Center at Chang Gung Memorial Hospital has provided services for more than 12,000 cleft patients in the past 22 years.

For patients who could not afford surgery, Noordhoff founded in 1989 the nonprofit Noordhoff Craniofacial Foundation (NCF) in Taiwan. The NCF expanded operations to the Philippines, Cambodia, and Vietnam in 1999, providing doctors, trained local surgeons, nurses, anesthesiologists, social workers, speech pathologists, and orthodontists to treat patients in these developing countries. Thanks to Noordhoff and the foundation he created, more than 10,000 children in Taiwan, Cambodia, Vietnam, and the Philippines have benefited from surgery and care.

Although Noordhoff retired from active surgery in 1999, he continues his involvement in raising funds, training surgeons, and overseeing the treatment of patients. He has ensured that his work will continue and that future generations of patients will receive the care they need through NCF.

Noordhoffs career has been distinguished by teaching appointments, honorary memberships, and scholarly publications. Special honors include the prestigious Jacques W. Maliniac Lecture (1994), Outstanding Medical Contribution Award by the Ministry of Health Executive Yuan (1966), Order of the Brilliant Star with the Violet Cordon in 1999 (the highest government civilian award presented by the Republic of China), and the Health Medal of First Class Award given by the Ministry of Health, R.O.C. (1999). He also received honorary awards from the Cleft Lip Palate-Craniofacial Association in 2000 and the American Society of Maxillofacial Surgery in 2006 for his leadership, his willingness to share his knowledge through teaching, and his continuous commitment to the field of maxillofacial surgery.

Although the UI graduates life and mission have taken him far from his hometown of Orange City, Iowa, Noordhoffs dedication to excellence and to helping others embodies the very best of Midwestern and University of Iowa values. Says Jeffrey C. Murray, professor and vicechair of research for pediatrics in the UI Carver College of Medicine, Dr. Noordhoff is unique in both a personal commitment he has brought to improving the lives of children in Southeast Asia as well as the technical and medical skill he has provided. He is a genuine physician, scientist, and humanitarian.

Henry R. Mol, a classmate and fellow graduate of the Class of 1954 who has remained a lifelong friend, says, Most of us hope that by our living, we have made this world a little better, but Sam Noordhoff, through his perseverance, intelligence, sense of compassion . . . and faith, has made a fantastic difference in the world.

Samuel Noordhoff is an annual member of the UI Alumni Association.


Glenn Schaeffer, 77MFA

2007 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Glenn Schaeffer, 77MFA, has earned a reputation as a renaissance executive whose substantial success in the business world has been equaled by his contributions to the literary world.

Schaeffers unlikely journey to the top of the hotel and resort industry has its roots in his years at Iowas Writers Workshop. According to his own story, a visiting novelist issued to him a professional warning that is often mentioned to aspiring writers: If you can do anything other than writing, do it.

Schaeffer took this advice to heart. After earning an M.F.A. in fiction writing in 1977, he entertained careers in finance and public relations before joining the hotel industry, where his intelligence, clear-sightedness, and imagination quickly yielded results. From his first job as corporate vice president for Ramada, he worked his way up to become the president and chief financial officer of the multibillion-dollar Mandalay Resort Group. In 2005, the year the Mandalay Bay Resort merged with MGM Mirage, the Mandalay Bay Resort Group rented one percent of all hotel nights in the U.S. With the merger, Schaeffer left the company and has now embarked upon the creation of a new multibillion-dollar hotel resort, the Fountainebleau.

As his worldly success has grown, Schaeffer has become a potent philanthropist in the national and international literary community. At the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, he established the International Institute of Modern Letters—also called the Black Mountain Institute—which promotes, translates, and protects international writers. In 2000, he established Las Vegas as the first U.S. City of Asylum, a refuge for writers who have had to leave their native countries. He has supported young writers worldwide, establishing the Schaeffer Fellowships to enable an exchange program designed to bring emerging American writers in contact with those of New Zealand.

Although his literary interests have taken him all over the world, Schaeffer has maintained his commitment to and respect for the Writers Workshop. He visits Iowa City regularly, has provided students with important opportunities through the Schaeffer Fellowships, and has made generous contributions to the Workshop Library.

Most significantly, Schaeffer is the primary donor for the new Glenn Schaeffer Library and Archives. This beautiful addition to the workshops existing home in the Dey House provides a wonderful space for creative and academic work, as well as a gathering place for community events such as the Writers Workshop Lecture Series.

Schaeffer also continues to pursue his love of literature and the arts in other important ways: he sits on the board of the National Poetry Series, is an avid collector of American minimalist paintings, and has a broad collection of first editions of American poetry, including many works by Walt Whitman, his favorite poet.

Says Writers Workshop director Lan Samantha Chang, Through his generosity that funds this beautiful space, Glenn Schaeffer has enhanced our program, and therefore the university, in a substantial way. All of us at the workshop feel proud of and grateful for his generosity, which enhances our position as the center for the best writing in the nation.

Schaeffer is a gold-level member of the UI Foundations Presidents Club.


Robert P. Stearns, 60BSCE

2007 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Robert P. Stearns, 60BSCE, has made invaluable contributions to the field of environmental engineering at a time when preserving and protecting our natural resources has become one of the nations and the worlds foremost issues.

Since receiving his Iowa degree, Stearns has led two parallel and complementary careers based on his UI engineering education. A widely respected environmental engineer with expertise in the field of solid waste management, he is also a co-founder and chairman of SCS Engineers, an international environmental engineering consulting and contracting firm that has grown from three people in 1970 to more than 550 staff today. In 2006, the company earned revenues exceeding $100 million.

Stearns and SCS Engineers are widely recognized for applying engineering principles in designing facilities that protect the environment, safeguard worker health and safety, and minimize costs. Stearns has helped pioneer techniques and procedures that are now firmly established around the world, including automated refuse collection equipment and bioreactor landfills. His groundbreaking work also formed the basis for many standard industry practices for investigating and controlling sanitary landfill gas emissions, forecasting landfill gas generation rates, designing gas extraction systems, and constructing gas utilization facilities.

In addition to leading SCS Engineers to become one of the most highly regarded companies in his field, Stearns is known for his open and fair approach to business management. In 1986, he led in establishing an employee stock ownership plan for SCS Engineers; today, 100 percent of SCS stock is owned by its employees.

In recognition of Stearns important contributions to the field of environmental engineering, in 2003 he was inducted into the Environmental Industry Associations prestigious Hall of Fame. He is a diplomate of the American Academy of Environmental Engineers, past chairman and board member of the Environmental Research and Education Foundation (EREF), and a former board member of the Solid Waste Association of North America. In 2005, the UI College of Engineering honored Stearns as one of its Distinguished Engineering Alumni.

This proud UI graduate has maintained a strong interest in Iowa students through his generous support of the UI College of Engineering Student Leadership Institute, a bi-annual weekend retreat that exposes students to real-world leadership challenges, immerses them in hypothetical situations, and introduces them to successful leaders including distinguished UI alumni.

Stearns also believes in giving back to the community in other ways. He has been a strong supporter of the emerging participation by women in track and field sports competitions. He also participates in and contributes to educational and cultural foundations and associations in the Southern California area that he now calls home. In addition, through EREF, the Robert P. Stearns/SCS Engineers scholarship fund was established to provide support for college-level environmental engineers and scientists in the solid waste management field.

Through his reputation for excellence, his dynamic and creative approach to protecting the environment, the positive example he sets through his management style, and his significant contributions to his profession, the UI, and his community, Robert P. Stearns has demonstrated that he is one of the University of Iowas most distinguished alumni.

Stearns is a member of the UI Alumni Associations Directors Club Honor Circle.


Stephen L. Ummel, 65MA

2007 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

Stephen L. Ummel, 65MA, is regarded as something of a miracle worker in the complex and challenging healthcare industry.

Born and raised in Iowa, Ummel came to the University of Iowa as a graduate student, earning his M.A. in hospital and health administration in 1965. He began his career as assistant administrator for Ohio Valley Hospital in Steubenville, Ohio, before moving on to become vice president for administration and chief operating officer of Rockford Memorial Hospital in Rockford, Illinois. In 1973, he returned to the UI as associate director and chief operating officer for University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics (UIHC).

In this role, he provided exemplary support for John W. Colloton, UIHCs longtime executive director and CEO. Former UI president Willard Sandy Boyd says, In his professional career at the University of Iowa, Steve was a key partner with John Colloton in planning, funding, and accomplishing the rebuilding of UIHC. I consider that physical and funding accomplishment an administrative miracle.

Following subsequent positions as president and CEO at Memorial Hospital in South Bend, Indiana, and Memorial Health Services in Long Beach, California, Ummel was appointed in 1989 as president and CEO of Lutheran General Health System (LGHS). One of Americas most highly regarded regional systems, LGHS includes more than 70 hospitals, clinics, and other service units throughout the Chicago area.

During Ummels six years in this role, his reputation as a successful leader grew steadily. His strategic thinking and leadership skills were pivotal in the consolidation of LGHS and the Evangelical Health System to create Advocate Health Care, which is now ranked consistently as one of Americas finest integrated healthcare systems.

In 1996, Ummel was recruited by Ernst & Young—one of the worlds largest consulting firms—to the newly created position of principal and national advisor on integrated delivery systems. Then, in 2003, Ummel was invited to join PricewaterhouseCoopers, which recruited him for a leadership role because of his unique balance of successful executive experience and proven consulting skills.

Despite the demands of his career, Ummel has maintained a strong commitment to higher education and to the University of Iowa. Since 1984, he has served as an adjunct faculty member in the UIs Department of Health Management and Policy in the College of Public Health, and as a founding member of the colleges board of advisors.

In addition, he has published numerous articles and given dozens of formal presentations on varied healthcare topics. For decades, he has served as preceptor for summer internships and post-graduate fellowships for students in health services administration, including UI graduates. As a mentor for many students starting out in his profession, Ummel is respected for his attentiveness and for his belief in honesty, integrity, and hard work.

Regarded as a transformative leader willing to challenge the status quo, Stephen Ummel has touched the lives of many people—from the patients he has helped to the students he has mentored. He clearly embodies the best of Iowa: a strong commitment to excellence, deeply held values, and a sincere interest in others.

Ummell is a bronze-level member of the UI Alumni Associations Old Capitol Club.


Thomas J. Anderson, 58PhD

2006 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Thomas Jefferson T. J. Anderson is regarded as one of the most important American composers of our time for his ability to create music that transcends national, cultural, and ethnic boundaries, melding classical Eastern and Western traditions with the modern African-American experience.

Born in Coatesville, Pennsylvania, Anderson pursued an undergraduate degree in music from West Virginia State College and a masters degree from Pennsylvania State University. He attended the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music and then came to the University of Iowa to study composition with professors Philip Bezanson and Richard Hervig and to complete his Ph.D. degree.

After graduating from Iowa, Anderson taught music at Langston University and Tennessee State University. In 1968, celebrated music director Robert Shaw selected him to serve as composer-in-residence with the Atlanta Symphony. In 1972, the same year he would embark on an almost 20-year academic career at Tufts University, Anderson achieved international acclaim for his orchestration of Scott Joplins opera, Treemonisha, which was premiered by Shaw and the Atlanta Symphony.

Anderson has published more than 80 works that include operas, symphonies, and other orchestra works, band music, choral pieces, and chamber music. Renowned musical organizations and artists, including the Symphony of the New World in New York, the American Wind Symphony, the Cantata Singers in Massachusetts, Harvard Musical Association, Yo Yo Ma, the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, and Chanticleer, have commissioned Anderson to compose music featuring his trademark rhythmic complexity and instrumental color.

Anderson has also received grants for commissions from leading cultural institutions such as the Fromm Music Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the ASCAP Foundation, and Meet the Composer.

After a long and distinguished academic career, Anderson retired in 1990 as the Austin Fletcher Professor of Music Emeritus at Tufts University, where he served as chair of the department for eight years. As a lecturer, consultant, and visiting composer, he has appeared throughout the U.S., Brazil, Germany, France, and Switzerland. He has been a fellow at the MacDowell Colony in New Hampshire and at the National Humanities Center, as well as a scholar-in-resident at the Rockefeller Foundations study and conference center in Bellagio, Italy.

Among Andersons many awards and accolades are six honorary doctorates, a Guggenheim fellowship, honorary membership in Phi Beta Kappa, a distinguished alumni award from Penn State University, and a distinguished achievement award from the National Association of Negro Musicians. In 2005, Anderson was the only composer elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Anderson presently lives in North Carolina, where he continues to compose full time. He has retained a strong connection to the UI and, this fall, as part of the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the School of Music, he will return to Iowa City to present master classes and meet-the-composer sessions. While on campus, Anderson will also attend a premiere concert of an orchestral work commissioned from him by the School of Music. In celebrating its history and legacy, its only fitting that the School of Music should turn to one of its most distinguished alumni.


Marvin Bell, 63MFA

2006 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Marvin Bell, 63MFA, is a poet of international stature and a key contributor to the widespread fame of the UIs creative writing program.

Having graduated from the Iowa Writers Workshop in 1963, Bell returned to teach from 1965 until his retirement in 2005, inspiring generations of poets to find their own voices and confidence as writers. His former students have published more than 200 books, receiving all the major book awards, and three have won Pulitzer Prizes.

A prolific poet with a lifelong habit of always writing the assignments he gives his students, Bell has garnered worldwide attention and critical acclaim for his 18 volumes of poetry and essays. He has received the Lamont Award from the Academy of American Poets, an award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the American Poetry Reviews Shestack Prize, has won Guggenheim and National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, and has held Senior Fulbright appointments to Yugoslavia and Australia. His poems have appeared in every major periodical, from the New Yorker to the Atlantic Monthly, and are included in nearly every anthology of the most important poets of the 20th century.

Christopher Merrill, director of the UI International Writing Program, says, Marvin has revealed himself to be not only a poet of depth and grace, who has at his command an astonishing array of formal strategies, techniques, and gifts, but also a relentless explorer&. His concerns—emotional, aesthetic, philosophical—are wide-ranging, as befits his restless imagination. He is by turns a prophet and a comic, a singer and a wise man&.

Respected also for his thoughtful, gentle demeanor as a lecturer and educator, Bell has given readings all over the world, including the White House during the Carter administration, the Library of Congress, and the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC—as well as in Ireland, France, the Czech Republic, Yugoslavia, Australia, and Canada.

He is equally at home reading for the Academy of American Poets or talking with readers at the Iowa City Public Library—where a poem of his written for the expansion of the library hangs near the entrance. In addition to teaching for Iowa, he has taught at scores of writers festivals and conferences. Selected to be the State of Iowas first poet laureate in 2000, Bell was reappointed in 2002 to a second term.

Another part of his literary legacy took shape in 2000, when Bell helped establish an annual workshop for inner-city public-school teachers who serve as after-school poetry coaches for the America SCORES program. Each summer, 20 or so SCORES teachers arrive in Iowa City for the Urban Teachers Workshop. They return to their colleagues armed with inspiration and methods for using poetry writing to foster confidence and imagination.

Well known to the international literary community, Marvin Bell has achieved the stature of one of the great poets of his generation. In addition, he has enriched the lives of his students and colleagues at the University of Iowa. In the words of UI President David Skorton, Marvin Bells service to the UI and to the State runs long and deep.


Greg Ganske, 72BA, 76MD

2006 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

Greg Ganske, 72BA, 76MD, possesses an exceptional record as a reconstructive surgeon, but his public service as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives is equally commendable and notable.

Born in New Hampton, Iowa, Ganske completed a B.A. degree in political science at the UI in 1972 and an M.D. degree from the UIs Carver College of Medicine in 1976. He continued his postdoctoral medical training at the University of Colorado Medical Center in Denver, Colorado, the University of Oregon Health Sciences Center in Portland, Oregon (from which he later received a distinguished alumni award), and Harvard Medical School, where he trained in plastic surgery.

For more than a decade, Ganske ran a highly successful practice as a reconstructive surgeon in Des Moines before reconnecting with his earlier passion for political science. In 1995, he successfully campaigned to become a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Iowas Fourth District—identifying himself by campaigning throughout the state in a beige 1958 De Soto—and served the state in this position from 1994 to 2003. In 1999, Congressional Quarterly named him one of the 50 most effective members of Congress.

Ganskes change in career is both laudable and significant. As health issues continue to take greater prominence in our national life, it is becoming increasingly necessary for the voices of health experts to inform and advise policy-making.

As a representative, Ganske used his medical expertise to promote patients rights and to advance other aspects of healthcare reform. He cosponsored a bill to provide funding for health care and support services for those with the AIDS/HIV virus; he appeared with Vice President Al Gore in a Des Moines-area forum on Iowas growing methamphetamine problem; and he helped pass legislation to provide improved access to healthcare and prescription medication for the poor, the elderly, and for women.

The scope of his work went far beyond the field of health care; throughout his time as a lawmaker, Ganske tackled the nations most pressing issues—from the costs of higher education to renewable energy to the threat of bioterrorism—with unmistakable sincerity and dedication.

Ganske has received numerous awards and honors recognizing his efforts on behalf of many of the important constituencies he served during his distinguished career. These include a Friend of the Farmer Award from American Farm Bureau, a Citizens Against Government Wastes Taxpayers Hero Award, an Iowa Hospitals and Health Systems Coalition for Fairness in Medicare Award, a Leadership in Advocacy for Childrens Health Award from the National Association of Childrens Hospitals, and a United Seniors Associations Guardian of Medicare Award.

In 1997, the National Multiple Sclerosis Society named him its Representative of the Year, and a year later, the American Medical Association honored him with its prestigious Nathan Davis Award for outstanding government service. In 2003, Ganske returned to private practice as a reconstructive surgeon in Des Moines.

Through his dedicated and exemplary efforts as a physician and a lawmaker, Greg Ganske has brought distinction to the University of Iowa and earned the gratitude and respect of countless patients and citizens.

Ganske is a life member of the UI Alumni Association.


Tom Gelman, 78JD

2006 Distinguished Hickerson Recognition Award

Tom Gelman, 78JD, does more than practice law in his hometown of Iowa City. For many years, he has employed his careful analysis and gentle wit in many volunteer capacities in service to the University of Iowa and other community organizations.

A West High alumnus, Gelman pursued a B.A. degree in social sciences at Harvard University, graduating with honors in 1975, before returning to Iowa to pursue a degree from the UI College of Law. Despite a demanding and successful law practice with the Iowa City law firm of Phelan, Tucker, Mullen, Walker, Tucker & Gelman, he has generously volunteered both his time and his expertise to the University of Iowa.

As a member of the University of Iowa Alumni Association (UIAA) board of directors for seven years, he contributed his considerable insight and understanding. He helped lead the association to reorganize its board of directors into a more efficient body and establish a strategic planning process that continues to provide a blueprint for effective decision-making.

In a professional capacity, he serves as the University of Iowa Foundations legal counsel, while he also volunteered as a campaign leader for the foundations Hancher Auditorium Enrichment Fund. As one of only two non-university members, he represented alumni on the last UI presidential search advisory committee. He also shares his law expertise at an annual seminar for retiring university employees and as an occasional lecturer for the UI College of Law. Most recently, he appeared as a guest speaker in the Philanthropy and Law course and presented at one of the colleges continuing education programs.

His volunteerism and professionalism have earned Gelman respect and gratitude from all levels of the university community. Outside the UI, Gelman has selflessly served the broader community. Some of his current and previous volunteer activities include working with the Iowa City Area Chamber of Commerce, the Iowa City Public Library, the United Way of Johnson County, the Community Leadership Program, the Mercy Hospital Advisory Board, the Visiting Nurse Association of Johnson County, and the Johnson County Heritage Trust. In recognition of his 23 years of volunteer service to such organizations, the Iowa State Bar Association honored Gelman with a Community Service Award in 2001.

Gelman was also named Friend of the Year by the Iowa City Public Library and awarded the librarys Volunteer Recognition Award for his service, including two years as president of the board of trustees. He has also been honored with a Sam Walton Community Leader Award for his exceptional service to the community, respect for his employees, and dedication to customer service.

The Loren Hickerson Distinguished Alumni Award commemorates the UIs first full-time alumni director and a true champion of Iowa. In his dedication to the University of Iowa, the UI Alumni Association, and the greater Iowa City community, Tom Gelman admirably carries forward Loren Hickersons legacy of generous and dedicated service.

Gelman is a member of the UI Alumni Associations Old Capitol Club and the UI Foundations Presidents Club.


Russell A. & Ann S. Gerdin

2006 Distinguished Alumni Friend Award

Russell and Ann Gerdin have left an indelible mark on the University of Iowa for their commitment to the institution and, in particular, its student athletes.

As founder, president, and chief executive officer of one of Iowas most successful businesses, the Coralville-based trucking company Heartland Express—named one of Americas 200 best small companies by Forbes magazine in ten of the last 13 years—Russ Gerdin has generously shared his own achievement to help ensure the future success of UI students. A former teacher, Ann Gerdin continues to make a difference in the lives of students and others through her philanthropic and community service efforts.

Those familiar with the UIs efforts to ensure that its students-athletes have access to the best possible education are well aware of the Gerdins primary legacy to date on the UI campus: the Russell and Ann Gerdin Athletic Learning Center, which the couple made possible with a leadership gift of $4 million.

To ensure that the universitys commitment to preparing young people for meaningful careers remains front and center, the privately financed, state-of-the-art Gerdin Center—opened in 2003 with a library, tutorial spaces, computer laboratory, and more—enables the UI Athletic Student Services office to fully integrate the athletic and academic development of more than 600 Hawkeye studentathletes each year.

The Gerdins have long combined their commitment to education with their love for the Iowa Hawkeyes. In addition to their extraordinary gift for the learning center, the couple made a $1 million commitment to support the UI Athletics Hall of Fame and have given annually to the UI athletics scholarship fund for more than 20 years.

Director of UI Athletics Bob Bowlsby notes, The quality of our athletics program relies upon first-rate student-athletes who are as strong academically as they are athletically. Russell and Anns gift for the learning center has enabled us to focus even more on the athletic development of our young people and offer potential recruits the best of what the university has to offer. The Gerdins gifts for the learning center and the Hall of Fame are far-reaching, as they touch each and every student athlete who enrolls at the University of Iowa.

The Gerdins' other philanthropic interests are a testament to their belief in the power of education to transform society for the better. Recipients of their generosity include Iowa State University, where the Gerdin Business Building houses the business college; Russs alma mater, Minnesota State University; and various local community initiatives. They have also provided more than $2 million toward the educational pursuits of Heartland employees and their children.

With the Russell and Ann Gerdin Athletic Learning Center, the Gerdin name will be forever connected to academic and athletic excellence at the University of Iowa. Even more important, however, is that the Gerdins hearts are with the UI as it pursues its vital mission of educating the young people who will become future leaders in Iowa and beyond. True Hawkeyes—and true friends of the university—the Gerdins are clearly deserving of this Distinguished Alumni Award.

Russ and Ann Gerdin are members of the UI Presidents Club.


Shanto Iyengar, 71MA, 72PhD

2006 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Shanto Iyengar, 71MA, 72PhD, is one of the worlds leading scholars on the relationship between media and politics. During his distinguished career as a professor, author, and speaker, he has earned the respect both of experts in the field and a broad popular audience.

After coming to the United States in 1966 to pursue his chosen field of study, Iyengar quickly distinguished himself. Already the recipient of a bachelors degree in his native India, he completed an American undergraduate degree at Linfield College in Oregon. In 1968, when he entered the UI graduate program in political science, he impressed his professors as an outstanding student.

After graduating from Iowa, Iyengar became a member of the political science faculty at Kansas State until 1980, when he was drawn to Yale University by a postdoctoral fellowship to study political psychology. He taught at Yale and SUNY-Stony Brook before UCLA recruited him in the late 1980s. Stanford University approached him a decade later, and Iyengar now holds senior positions in the political science department, which is ranked second in the country by U.S. News & World Report, and in the Department of Communication, where he is Chandler Chair in Communication and director of the Political Communication Lab.

Considered one of the top political scientists in the nation, Iyengar has published in all of the major journals in this field and received the prestigious Murray Edelman Lifetime Career Award from the American Political Science Association. In addition to this area of expertise, he is viewed as a pioneer in the field of political communication. His achievement in these two areas represents no small triumph in an age of high professional specialization.

Iyengar has published six books and countless academic articles. His work on the effects of negative campaign advertisements in American politics, Going Negative: How Political Advertisements Shrink and Polarize the Electorate, has not only gained widespread attention, but also contributed an important voice in the national debate on the subject. Another book that garnered international attention, Is Anyone Responsible?: How Television Frames Political Issues, appeared in paperback and was reprinted in a Spanish edition.

These works, and many others, are examples of how Iyengars writing combines high standards of scholarship even as it grapples with the most pressing questions our nation and world face about the nature of contemporary politics. His research has been supported by the Pew Charitable Trusts, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the National Science Foundation.

While Iyengar has undoubtedly made his mark in the elite academic world, he has maintained strong ties with the University of Iowa and the Department of Political Science. He regularly collaborates with faculty and graduates from Iowa, returns to offer seminars, helps UI graduates in their careers, and generally remains extraordinarily loyal to the university.

In Iowa and much farther afield, Shanto Iyengar is recognized for his impressive service as a teacher and for his invaluable contributions to the national and international discussion of media and politics.


David Milch, 70MFA

2006 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

David Milch, 70MFA, is known across America for his involvement in creating some of the most groundbreaking television programs of the past two decades, including Hill Street Blues and NYPD Blue.

A native of Buffalo, New York, Milch received a B.A. degree in English from Yale University in 1966 before pursuing an M.FA. degree at the Iowa Writers Workshop. In 1982, while a lecturer in English literature at Yale University, Milch began to dabble in screenwriting. The premiere episode he wrote for Hill Street Blues third season won an Emmy, a Writers Guild Award, and a Humanitas Prize.

The success of his first script marked the end of Milchs time in academia and the beginning of a career in dramatic television. He spent five seasons with Hill Street Blues, first as executive story editor and subsequently as executive producer. During that time, he earned two more Writers Guild Awards, a second Humanitas prize, and another Emmy.

In the 1980s, Milch worked on two other series, Beverly Hills Buntz and Capital News, but it was in 1992 that he helped make television history. He co-created the police drama NYPD Blue, which set a record by garnering 26 Emmy nominations in its premier season. The show went on to win the award for Best Drama Series in 1994-1995, while Milch took home Emmys for Best Writing in a Drama for the 1996-1997 and 1997-1998 seasons. The first season of this hard-hitting police drama also earned him a Humanitas Prize and an Edgar Allan Poe Award for screenwriting.

While still involved in NYPD Blue, the prolific writer created another police drama, Brooklyn South, co-authored True Blue: The Real Stories Behind NYPD Blue, and served as creative consultant for Steven Bochcos Murder One and Total Security television shows.

Since forming his own production company, Redboard Productions, the Workshop graduate has co-created two new series: 2001s Big Apple, a drama surrounding the FBI in New York City, and the highly popular and somewhat controversial Deadwood series launched on HBO in 2003. In a departure from dramatic, contemporary police dramas, Deadwood is set in the violence- and profanity-filled American Wild West of the late 19th century. The program received 11 Emmy and two Golden Globe Awards nominations in its debut season—and continues to garner a large, faithful following among viewers and critics alike.

Well-known writer and director and fellow UI alumnus Nicholas Meyer, 68BA, says, There can be no doubt that the teleplays of David Milch have significantly altered the contemporary American cultural landscape—for the better. Not content to replicate and recapitulate the reassuring pap designed to keep the nation infantalized, Milch. . .has found favor with audiences by providing and unsettling them with stories and characters for whom there are no easy solutions.

One of the universitys most creative and accomplished alumni, Milch dares audiences to rise above the facile and the superficial. His unflinching artistic vision may eschew the comforting glow of rose-tinted glasses, but David Milch offers compelling insights into the human condition.


Ronald Ross, 75MS, 75MD

2006 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Ronald Ross, 75MS, 75MD, is a pioneering researcher whose breakthroughs in understanding the causes and prevention of cancer bring hope to sufferers of this dreaded disease.

Chair of the Department of Preventive Medicine at the University of Southern California—the nations highest-ranking preventive medicine department in terms of National Institutes of Health funding—and deputy director of the USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Ross has blended a professional and research education that began at the University of Iowa into a highly productive and internationally recognized research career.

Born in Muscatine, Iowa, Ross earned a bachelors degree at Rutgers University and then returned to his native state to attend graduate school at the University of Iowa. There, in 1975, he received both his medical degree and his masters in preventive medicine and environmental health. After a year-long fellowship in cancer epidemiology at the UI, he headed west to begin a remarkable 30-year career at the University of Southern California (USC).

Ross joined USC as an instructor in what was then the Department of Community and Family Medicine and took up a succession of increasingly senior positions. Since 1987, he has also served as director of the Los Angeles County/University of Southern California Cancer Surveillance Program, a leader in conducting population-based studies of disease and evaluating demographic patterns of cancer risk.

Ross is now one of USCs top-funded faculty members, attracting research grants, kudos, and awards from the National Institutes of Health, the National Cancer Institute, and the National Center for Environmental Health Sciences. Through his research and more than 300 scientific publications, he has greatly advanced our understanding of cancer.

In particular, Ross is a leading expert in hormone-related cancers, especially of the breast, ovary, endometrium, and prostate. He correctly predicted the potential chronic health risks faced by women who are prescribed hormone replacement therapy, and he was the first researcher to demonstrate that regular use of permanent hair dyes is a strong risk factor for bladder cancer in women. Some of his current research projects aim to prevent prostate cancer by blocking the activity of an enzyme, to determine why certain high-risk populations have lower incidences of bladder cancer, and to help scientists in China identify dietary causes of cancer in their country.

Such far-reaching work has garnered international acclaim, including an award from the International Union Against Cancer, and invitations to teach and study at universities in England, Australia, and Japan. At home and abroad, though, Ross is appreciated for far more than his scientific excellence. Colleagues and peers speak highly of him as an inspirational role model, mentor, and leader who displays integrity and high ethical standards.

Ross is also generous with his time and expertise, having served as an advisor to several cancer and research programs. At his alma mater, he put his expertise in cancer prevention to valuable use as a member of the UIHCs Holden Cancer Comprehensive Center External Advisory Committee. Currently, he is a member of the board of advisors for the College of Public Health, which in 2004 awarded him its Outstanding Alumni of the College Award.

Through his passion and commitment to legions of cancer sufferers, to his alma mater, and to scientific research, Ronald Ross has demonstrated that he is one of the University of Iowas most distinguished alumni.


Jerome K. Sherman, 54PhD

2006 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Jerome K. Sherman, 54PhD, who is known as the father of cryobiology for his pioneering research in the cryopreservation of semen, has offered hope to hundreds of thousands of couples who might not otherwise have been able to conceive. In addition, his groundbreaking work has served as the model for tissue preservation throughout the world.

Born in Brooklyn, New York, Sherman completed an A.B. degree in biology from Brown University in 1947 and an M.S. degree in the same discipline from Western Reserve University in 1949. He received a Ph.D. in zoology in 1954 from the University of Iowa. As a doctoral student, Sherman discovered and described a then-controversial technique for freezing and storing human semen. In 1953, he established the worlds first human semen cryobank in Iowa City, from which the first human birth with cryopreserved semen was realized.

Four years later, Sherman joined the faculty in the anatomy department at the University of Arkansas College of Medicine, where he led a long and distinguished career until his retirement in 1992. As a teacher and mentor, Sherman was highly respected for his personal commitment to excellence and his first-class communication and follow-through with his students and colleagues. Recognized by his peers for his thoughtfulness and fairness, he was elected president of the faculty senate.

Throughout the years, Sherman continued his scholarly research in conjunction with a wide range of medical and graduate students, exchange scholars, and visiting faculty; thus, he trained hundreds of colleagues throughout the world. He also developed standards for safe and efficient clinical semen cryobanks. Upon his retirement, he was honored with a Distinguished Faculty Award from the University of Arkansas College of Medicine.

Now an emeritus professor, Sherman has remained active as a consultant on the national and international levels in both the scientific and the operational aspects of semen cryobanking, appearing as an expert witness at various court trials related to required standards of practice. His work continues to have a far-reaching effect in the medical world, as todays methods of organ transplantation, bone marrow transplantation, and vaccine/viral preparation are based on his original work. Such were the high standards he set in the early days of this technology that many of his techniques and methodologies are still followed.

Shermans energy, winning personality, and strong commitment to humankind are also reflected in his service to the community. At age 17, during World War II, he enlisted in the U.S. Navy, earned a commission, and served on destroyers in the Pacific. As a retired lieutenant (Commander), Sherman continued a lifelong commitment to servicemen and their families by working as a volunteer at veterans hospitals. From 1989 through 2005, he received the Outstanding Service Award from the Veterans Administration for this work.

Sherman and his wife, Hildegard, are also recognized as leaders in a wide variety of programs for disadvantaged children, racial and religious reconciliation and understanding, and prevention of poverty. At the University of Arkansas, Sherman received the Faculty Volunteer Service Award for his numerous community activities. In addition, he has been a vigorous leader in Boy Scouts of America, the Jewish War Veterans organization, and the Lions Club.

Jerome Sherman serves as a leader and a source of inspiration not only in the field of scientific endeavors but also in his unwavering commitment to humanitarian service.

Sherman is a life member of the UI Alumni Association.


Luther H. Smith, 50BSME

2006 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Luther H. Smith, 50BSME, has fought for racial equality in the skies of war-torn Europe and in his peacetime career in America.

As a young boy, Smith dreamed of becoming a pilot—at a time when few blacks had managed to breach the color barrier and enter the field of aviation. So, in 1938, Smith enrolled at the University of Iowa to study engineering, hoping to join the ranks of the countrys military pilots. Two years into his studies, World War II began. Rather than integrate troops, the government formed all-black military units, including the much-lauded Tuskegee Airmen, which Smith joined in 1942.

Between July 1944 and May 1945, the famed troop flew 200 escort missions over nine European countries without the loss of a single bomber to enemy aircraft—a feat that remains an astonishing achievement.

Based in Italy, Captain Smith flew 133 missions and is credited with destroying two enemy aircraft. On his final mission in October 1944, his plane was hit over Yugoslavia. Against all odds, Smith managed to free himself from his burning aircraft and open his parachute—although he sustained severe injuries to his hip and foot.

Smith was captured by German soldiers and endured two years in hospital and prison camps. By the time Allied soldiers liberated him in May 1945, he weighed just 70 pounds. Back in the U.S., he spent another two years in the hospital before being released, his injured leg seven inches shorter than the other. His flying career over, Smith retired at the age of 27 as a captain and a war hero.

Smith then returned to the UI and completed a degree in mechanical engineering in 1950, going on, despite continuing racism, to a long and successful career as an aerospace engineer with General Electric. In the years until his retirement in 1988, he published numerous papers, was awarded two patents, and was frequently called upon by the Department of Defense and defense-related agencies for special assignments. He earned an M.E. degree from Pennsylvania State University in 1977.

Smith represented the U.S. Army Air Corps as one of seven WWII veterans selected by President Clinton to attend the 50th anniversary V-E celebration trip to the United Kingdom, the Czech Republic, and Russia. He also served on the evaluation board that selected the WWII memorial on the Mall in Washington, DC, and was instrumental in the establishment of a memorial to the Tuskegee Airmen.

A member of the Iowa Aviation Hall of Fame, Smith has received countless honors for his service to his country and for his success in the field of engineering: the Distinguished Flying Cross, the Air Medal with six Oak Leaf Clusters, a Purple Heart, European and Mediterranean Theaters Campaign Ribbons, a Prisoner of War Medal, the Franklin W. Kolk Aerospace Industry Award from the Society of Automotive Engineers, and election to the UI Distinguished Engineering Alumni Academy.

Now, the University of Iowa is proud to add another medal to that collection. This Distinguished Alumni Award recognizes Luther Smiths courageous wartime service, his outstanding career, and his significant contributions to racial equality in this country.


Gary J. Streit, 75JD

2006 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

Gary J. Streit, 75JD, is recognized as one of the best taxation and employee benefits lawyers in America, but perhaps his most rewarding and inspirational service takes place outside his profession.

For three decades, the native of Sibley, Iowa, has dedicated his time and energy to numerous nonprofit organizations, perhaps most significantly in helping the American Cancer Society (ACS) prevent cancer, save lives, and diminish suffering.

Since earning a B.S. degree in industrial administration from Iowa State University in 1972 and his J.D. from the University of Iowa in 1975, Streit has enjoyed a successful career as an attorney at Shuttleworth & Ingersoll in Cedar Rapids, where he has served since 2002 as president of the firm. For the past 16 years, Streit has been listed in the Best Lawyers in America, and he is a fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel, an honor extended only to the countrys most accomplished trust and estate lawyers.

Even as he has achieved three decades of dedicated service to the law profession, Streit has contributed to the betterment of humanity through his work for the American Cancer Society. He has selflessly served at the local, regional, state, and national levels on ACS committees almost too numerous to count—including as president of the Iowa Division of ACS, the first president of the societys Midwest Division, and chair or vice-chair of many national committees and workgroups. He also founded the societys sister advocacy organization, the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network.

Streit has been a member of the ACS national assembly since 1991 and a member of the national board of directors since 1998. After being elected chair of the latter organization in 2003, he put his remarkable leadership skills and energy to good use on the national and international level, leading an ACS delegation to China in 2004.

Streit has been recognized through numerous awards for his volunteer efforts, including the Community Service Award from the Iowa State Bar Association, a Citation of Achievement from the Iowa State University College of Business, the ACS Outstanding Division Volunteer Award in 1989, and the ACSs Saint George Medal in 1992.

Streit also willingly commits his considerable energy and expertise to many other charitable and civic organizations, as well as the University of Iowa. He has served as a prolific volunteer lecturer at UI College of Law continuing legal education seminars (having made presentations at 19 programs), and he has helped arrange funding from his law firm to host a cookout before a football game each year for several hundred alumni and friends of the UI College of Law.

A friend who notes Streits integrity, energy, and compassion says that this distinguished alumnuss middle name could well be Service. Indeed, as a volunteer and leader, Gary J. Streit truly exemplifies the University of Iowas ethos of service to others.

Streit is a life member of the UI Alumni Association and an associate member of the UI Presidents Club.


Ruth Van Roekel McGregor, 64BA, 65MA

2006 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Ruth Van Roekel McGregor, 64BA, 65MA, has devoted her life to the law, bringing to it qualities of calm, practicality, and fairness derived from her Iowa roots. Recognized as one of the leading judges in the nation, McGregor was appointed as Chief Justice of the Arizona Supreme Court in 2005.

A native of Manson, Iowa, McGregor graduated summa cum laude with a B.A. degree in communication and theater studies from the University of Iowa in 1964. She then pursued an M.A. degree in the same discipline at Iowa before completing a J.D. degree from Arizona State University College of Law in 1974—where she graduated summa cum laude and received the Armstrong Award as the outstanding graduate. In 1998, she was awarded an LL.M. degree from the University of Virginia.

McGregor worked in a private law practice for 15 years with the Phoenix law firm of Fennemore Craig, one of Arizonas largest and most respected firms. She interrupted a very successful labor and employment practice to accept a one-year judicial clerkship with United States Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day OConnor when OConnor joined the Supreme Court in 1981.

McGregor returned to private practice for seven years before becoming a member of the Arizona Court of Appeals from 1989 to 1998, serving as Chief Judge from 1995 to 1997. She has been a member of the Arizona Supreme Court since 1998.

In 2005, McGregor was honored as the second-ever recipient of the American Judicature Societys Dwight D. Opperman Award for Judicial Excellence. The award was presented on September 19, 2005, at a ceremony presided over by McGregors friend and mentor, Justice OConnor.

McGregors distinguished career on the bench has also been reflected in her exemplary history of public service. She has been active in the Arizona Judicial Council for the past 15 years and is currently serving her second term as a council member. She is a member of the Arizona Judges Association and served as its president in 1993 and 1994. She has been a member of the National Association of Women Judges since 1990, serving six years on its executive committee and two years as vice president, and she has also contributed her skills on behalf of the American Inns of Court Foundation and the Arizona Inns of Court.

McGregor has shared her considerable wisdom and experience on the international level, too. As a member of the American Bar Association, she has been a participating member of the Central and East European Law Initiative since 1991, including two tours in Lithuania to help that countrys parliament draft a constitution and restructure its judicial system. She also served as a member of a training seminar for members of the Constitutional Court of the Federation of Bosnia-Herzegovina.

In addition to being noted for her intellect, integrity, and non-partisan approach to law, Justice McGregor is well respected and loved by many in her field, who praise her warmth, generosity, humanity, empathy, and mischievous sense of humor.

The University of Iowa is proud to recognize Ruth Van Roekel McGregor for her distinguished legal career that bestows so much credit upon this institution and this state.


Jude West, 69PhD

2006 Distinguished Faculty Award

Jude West, 69PhD, is professor emeritus of the UIs Henry B. Tippie College of Business, where he is recognized as a superb teacher knowledgeable in all areas of organizational operations. For more than 40 years, he has also quietly assisted dozens of troubled university departments and units with his gift for mediation, counseling, crisis intervention, and negotiation.

Originally from Chicago, West received a B.A. degree in philosophy from the University of Saint Mary of the Lake in 1953 and an M.B.A. degree from the University of Chicago in 1961. After working briefly as the director of education for Motorola, West came to the UI in 1963 to serve as programdirector of the Bureau of Labor and Management in the College of Business and to pursue a Ph.D. degree in social foundation of education, which he completed in 1969. He has worked for and with the University of Iowa ever since.

As a professor, West is known for treating his students as colleagues, respecting their opinions while he helps them learn. In 1998, he was recognized by Business Week magazine as one of the six most popular M.B.A. professors at the UI, and he was invited to give the commencement address to B.B.A. graduates in 1994.

Because of his expertise in conflict management in the business setting, West has been called upon to serve as a campus mediator and has frequently helped resolve conflict issues within and among departments and units on campus. The contributions he has made to the university in this role, often in response to requests from UI presidents, are incalculable. West has clearly proven his integrity and trustworthiness—and earned the respect of many across the campus—as he has helped to bring these critical issues to resolution.

While West officially retired from teaching in 2001, he became co-director with president emeritus Willard Sandy Boyd of the Larned A. Waterman Iowa Nonprofit Resource Center in 2002. In that role, he has assisted the Endow Iowa program at the state level, taught short courses on nonprofit organizations throughout the state, and pioneered a very successful Nonprofit Organizational Effectiveness class—bringing together some 22 different faculty members to make it happen.

Wests work has been recognized with numerous awards and honors. He was named a Friend of Systems Unlimited for his long years of service to that organization; he received the Ruth Becker Award for Outstanding Contribution to The Arc of Johnson County; and he was given an Isabel Turner Award by the Iowa City Human Rights Commission. In 2000, he received the universitys Michael J. Brody Award for Faculty Excellence in Service; and in 1985, he earned a Hancher-Finkbine Medallion for learning, leadership, and loyalty from the UI.

As a highly respected and admired faculty member, whose dedicated decades of service have improved the lives of so many, Jude West richly deserves this award. Throughout his career, he has made countless friends for the university—in Iowa and beyond.

West is a member of the UI Alumni Associations Old Capitol Club.


Albert Bandura, 51MA, 52PhD

2005 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Albert Bandura, 51MA, 52PhD, is one of the most eminent psychologists of our time, having been recently ranked in the Review of General Psychology among the top psychologists of the 20th century—fourth only to B. F. Skinner, Jean Piaget, and Sigmund Freud.

Bandura is known as psychologys most cited contributor for his many influential theories, innovative experimental research programs, and significant applications of that wisdom to practical domains. His brilliant scholarship has been an invaluable resource for academics, practitioners, and public policymakers.

Best known as a leading proponent of Social Learning Theory, Bandura has influenced many areas of psychology, from psychotherapy and behavior modification, to the fields of medicine and criminology and the roots of aggression. His Social Cognitive Theory is regarded as one of the most powerful and frequently quoted formulations ever developed. It is recognized by psychologists and other social scientists and educators throughout the world.

Banduras original insights into the links between mind, behavior, environment, and culture are having an enormous impact through their translation into social action, and he has contributed to public television programs around the globe that are promoting personal and society-wide changes that are bettering peoples lives.

The David Starr Jordan Professor of Social Science in Psychology at Stanford University, Bandura holds honorary degrees from Penn State and Indiana University, as well as a dozen other universities in this country and abroad.

A direct indication of Banduras far-reaching impact is the phenomenal number of his scholarly articles that have come to be considered major works in the field; his original paper on self-efficacy and its role in performance, psychopathology, and personality development has been cited nearly 5,000 times. His publications have been translated into several languages, attesting to the importance of his work on an international scale.

Among his many awards and accolades, he is the recipient of the William James Award of the American Psychological Society and the Thorndike Award for Distinguished Contributions of Psychology to Education. The American Psychological Association honored Bandura for his work with its Outstanding Lifetime Contribution Award in 2004. He has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences.

Bandura served as president of the American Psychological Association in 1974 and chair of the board of directors of the American Psychological Association from 1972 to 1976. He was president of the Western Psychological Association in 1980, honorary president of the Canadian Psychological Association in 1999, and has served on numerous other national and international boards and committees in his field.

Bandura has brought distinction to the University of Iowa, most particularly to the Department of Psychology. For his unparalleled career as one of psychologys premier theorists, scholars, researchers, and social reformers, the UI Alumni Association is proud to present him with this Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award.


James A. Dixon, 52BM, 56MA

2005 Distinguished Faculty Award

James A. Dixon, 52BM, 56MA, chose to lead the majority of his career from his position as conductor of the University of Iowa Symphony Orchestra, a post he held for 40 years. Focused always on the music and showing a remarkable empathy for the musicians under his baton, Dixon, now an emeritus professor, has brought national attention to Iowas School of Music and made this region a center for American orchestral music.

In addition, Dixon served for 29 years as music director and conductor of the Quad City Symphony Orchestra, retiring from that position in 1994. He is widely credited with building the Quad City Symphony Orchestra into an ensemble of musical distinction that is respected to this day for the innovation of its programming and unquestionable artistic integrity.

Born in Estherville, Iowa, and raised in Guthrie Center, Dixon studied privately for nine years with his friend and mentor, the renowned Greek conductor, pianist, and composer Dimitri Mitropoulos. It was when he returned to his home state that Dixons musical life crystallized. When he was awarded the Ditson Conductors Award for 1980 by Columbia University, the presentation included the following words: You were born, nurtured, and educated in this part of our countrys heartland. After whatever sojourns&you have returned. At a time when it is tempting to identify conductors by their rootlessness and their ability to be on two continents at the same time&your centeredness is becoming.

One of the proudest moments for the UI Symphony and the University of Iowa came in 1976, when the International Society for Contemporary Music met for the first time in the U.S. The society selected just three orchestras from across the country to perform the extensive program of new works, and the UI Symphony was one of these. Seiji Ozawa, world-renowned conductor of the Boston Symphony, gave the UI Symphony further recognition following its performance, when he commended its excellence.

A great part of Dixons achievement came as the result of earning the highest admiration and respect of his orchestra members through his musical sensitivity and talent, self-discipline, and warm personality. Many attribute his success as a conductor to his ability to inspire his musicians to want to perform well.

Through his long career, Dixon won countless awards recognizing his significant contributions to the field of music, from the Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Medal in 1955, given to the finest young artist of the year for conducting, to the Gustav Mahler Medal in 1963, to a 1978 Laurel Leaf Award from the American Composers Alliance in New York, to several honorary doctorates awarded in the 1980s. He has mentored more than 30 conducting students and conducted world premieres of nearly 40 new works.

A life member of the University of Iowa Alumni Association and a member of the UI Foundations Presidents Club, Dixon has contributed greatly to the cultural life of his alma mater, his state, and beyond. For his complete commitment to an outstanding career as a musician and educator, he is most deserving of the UIAA Distinguished Faculty/Staff Award.


Nolden I. Gentry, Jr., 60BA, 64JD

2005 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

Nolden I. Gentry, Jr., 60BA, 64JD, has proven time and again in his life that he is a man to be counted on.

In 1955, when Rockford West High School played Elgin for the Illinois basketball title, it was Nolden Gentry who tipped in the victory basket in the final seconds of the game. Gentry was a natural on the court and considered playing pro basketball before pursuing a J.D. degree in the UI College of Law, which he completed in 1964.

Teacher and mentor Willard Sandy Boyd recalls that Gentry was outstanding in every respect. Nonetheless, it was a difficult time for black professionals. Deterred by the lack of opportunities for black lawyers after graduating from Iowa in the 1960s, Gentry began his legal career as a special agent for the F.B.I. A year later, he was hired as an assistant attorney general for the State of Iowa. Today, the Rockford, Illinois, native is an attorney and shareholder with the Des Moines law firm of Brick, Gentry, Bowers, Swartz, Stoltze, Schuling & Levis.

Gentry has served the university and state with distinction through his private law practice and as a citizen deeply committed to civic matters, and he has been recognized in return with several awards and honors. In 1997, he was awarded the UIs Hancher/Finkbine Medallion. He has also been honored by the Des Moines Chapter of Links, the Des Moines Human Rights Commission, and the Des Moines National Conference for Community and Justice.

Gentry was a member of the University of Iowa Foundation Board from 1973 to 1976 and rejoined the board in 2004. He is a lifetime honorary director of the Iowa Law School Foundation and serves on the board of directors of the National I-Club and the UI Black Alumni Association.

A longtime financial supporter of the University of Iowa, he made his first gift to the Iowa Law School Foundation in 1963. Since then, he and his wife, Barbara J. Gentry, have been consistent and generous supporters of the Iowa College of Law and of UI Athletics.

Gentry has contributed greatly to the civic life of Iowa. He has served on the board of directors for the Delta Dental Plan of Iowa, Firstar Bank Iowa, MidAmerican Energy, the Mid-Iowa Health Foundation, Bankers Trust, Prairie Meadows, and the Iowa Public Television Foundation. He has also been a member of the State Board of Public Instruction and the Des Moines Independent School District board of directors, which he has served as president. He is a member of the Polk County and Iowa State Bar Associations.

In addition, Gentry worked on a committee studying government ethics for the Iowa State Legislature, served on the executive committee for United Way, as governor of the Greater Des Moines Community Foundation, president of the Des Moines Housing Corporation, and former legal counsel for the Greater Des Moines Chamber of Commerce.

A life member of the UI Alumni Association, Nolden Gentry has exhibited selfless service to the University of Iowa and to his adopted state, making him a deserving recipient of the Distinguished Alumni Award for Service.


Albert B. Hood

2005 Distinguished Faculty Award

Albert B. Hood, professor of education at the University of Iowa from 1965 to 2000 and now an active emeritus professor, has been one of the outstanding researchers in the field of student development for 40 years.

Hood became one of the leading forces in the college student development (student personnel) movement, devising important instrumentation to measure the effects of college experiences on college students intellect and identity. Over the course of his leadership in the Student Development Program, he cultivated the scholarly careers of many important figures in the profession in this country and around the world. His former students include deans, professors, and vice presidents at institutions in the U.S., Portugal, Hong Kong, Japan, and Indonesia who speak frequently and humbly of the intellectual debt they owe Hood and whose work multiplies exponentially his impact.

As editor of the Journal of College Student Personnel from 1970 to 1976, Hoods influence on the development of the field has rarely been equaled. He has actively integrated his interests in psychology, counseling, and his study of college students and student affairs work, all the while demonstrating again and again his commitment to his students and supporting them through personal trials.

For his outstanding work, Hood has been honored by the American Psychological Association, the American College Personnel Association, the American Counseling Association, and the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators. Not only has his scholarship been recognized over the years, but also his teaching and service.

At the University of Iowa, Hood founded the Graduate Program in Student Development and initiated the Substance Abuse Counseling Program. He has conducted numerous studies that have helped shape a better understanding of a diverse variety of college-level concerns, including issues of college student athletes, the recreational habits of UI students, the impact of part-time work on academic pursuits, and the effects of alcohol use on students. He has published more than 100 scholarly articles and written six books. In addition, he has given generously to the institution, earning membership in the UI Foundations Presidents Club.

Since 2000, Hood has approached his retirement with the same intellectual curiosity and energy that he has brought to every other project he has undertaken, and he continues to serve others with enthusiasm. As a member of the Aging Studies program, an interdisciplinary program on campus, he has been engaged in a lively study of health and vigor in the aging populace. He also served as president of the UI Emeritus Faculty Council.

One of his most significant recent accomplishments is his work with the Senior College, which he helped create, and in which his leadership has brought together a group of active volunteers who have provided opportunities for intellectual growth in the retired community of Iowa City and beyond. Even in its first year, Senior College classes filled every term. His success in this initiative is not only a tribute to his energy and creativity, but also honors the rich resource Iowa City has in its retirees.

For his tremendous academic accomplishments—as well as his values, compassion, and unwavering commitment to all that is good—Al Hood is truly deserving of this UIAA Distinguished Faculty/Staff Award.


Brian Hook, 99JD

2005 Distinguished Alumni Young Award

Brian H. Hook, 99JD, has an office in the West Wing of the White House, just steps away from the Oval Office and only five years after graduating with distinction from the UI College of Law.

As a student in the Iowa law school, Hook proved his leadership potential, serving effectively and imaginatively as president of the Federalist Society, where he worked well with those holding political views different from his own. Respect for all and good humor are the hallmarks he honed in that positioncharacteristics that would serve him well in his later career.

Hooks career in politics began even before he finished law school. In the early 1990s, he was legislative assistant to Iowa Congressman James Leach, advising him on defense issues and national security policy.

He served Iowa Governor Terry Branstad as deputy legislative liaison from 1996 to 1997, and, in a short time, his intelligence and personality allowed him to have an impact in a legislative body often dominated by people who had served as long as he had lived.

After graduating with distinction from law school, Hook spent four years as an associate in the Washington, D.C., firm of Hogan & Hartson, the largest and oldest law firm in the nations capital. Among other assignments, he acted as counsel to various corporations regarding mergers and acquisitions and corporate governance. During his time in private practice, he also testified before the House Intelligence Committee on information sharing between the intelligence and law enforcement communities.

In 2003, Hook joined the U.S. Department of Justice as counsel in the Office of Legal Policy, where he represented the executive branch before the 9-11 Commission and worked with the U.S. Senate to confirm the presidents judicial nominees. He also developed federal regulations to address corporate fraud in the wake of the Enron scandal.

Today, Hook holds the position of special assistant to the president for policy, office of the chief of staff. In this role, he develops and coordinates domestic and homeland security policy for the president and his chief of staff, Andrew Card.

Despite his work inside the Beltway, Hook has never forgotten his Iowa roots. He has been called upon numerous times in Washington to speak to Iowa gatherings and to welcome Iowans visiting the White House, always serving as a warm and willing host.

A long-time season ticket holder for both Iowa basketball and Iowa football, he can often be found on football Saturdays not in the White House Rose Garden, but in Kinnick Stadium (or with the Washington, D.C., Iowa Club) avidly enjoying his Hawkeye team.

In only a short time since his graduation from the UI College of Law, Hook has risen to professional success on a national level. He has certainly distinguished himself as one of the universitys most impressive young alumni and he richly deserves this recognition from the University of Iowa.


John Irving, 67MFA

2005 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

John W. Irving, 67MFA, may be one of the university's best-known alumni, having achieved this distinction as a highly acclaimed writer of novels and screenplays. For the University of Iowa to applaud a writer is not unusual, but to recognize a writer who is also both a wrestler and dyslexic is unusual indeed.

Irving came to the University of Iowa Writers Workshop in 1965, where he worked closely with author and teacher Kurt Vonnegut. To this day, Vonnegut remains a very close friend.

Irving s first novel, Setting Free the Bears, was published in 1968 and was followed in 1972 by The Water Method Man, much of which is set in Iowa City. It was while Irving was a teacher at the Writers Workshop, from 1972 to 1975, that he wrote his third novel, The 158-Pound Marriage.

He moved back to New England in 1975, and in 1978 he published The World According to Garp. Although his earlier novels had received critical acclaim, Garp was a huge success both critically and commercially and was later made into a film starring Glenn Close and Robin Williams.

His subsequent novels include The Hotel New Hampshire (1981), The Cider House Rules (1985), A Prayer for Owen Meany (1989), A Son of the Circus (1994), and The Fourth Hand (2001). Other books include Trying to Save Piggy Sneed (1996); The Imaginary Girlfriend (1997); and My Movie Business (1999), documenting the struggles Irving faced in adapting The Cider House Rules into a film. This summer, Random House will release Irvings latest novel, Until I Find You.

Among other honors, John Irving has won the OHenry Award and the National Book Award. He has received grants and fellowships from the Rockefeller Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Guggenheim Foundation. In 1992, he was inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame; his screenplay for The Cider House Rules won an Oscar in 2000; and he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2001.

Reluctant to give up his IBM Selectric typewriter, Irving also writes in longhand in prose inspired by Charles Dickens. He sets a goal of working seven days a week, eight hours a day, to produce one substantial novel every four years. Irving has also continued wrestling and coaching.

Since spending time at Iowa as both a student and a teacher, Irving has maintained a strong interest in both the writing and the wrestling programs at the University of Iowa, and he has been enormously helpful in assisting the university in its recruiting endeavors through his enthusiasm for these programs. He continues to celebrate his Iowa connection both in his novels and with his periodic campus visits.

There are few living writers associated with the University of Iowa—or any college or university—who have earned the critical and commercial acclaim of John Irving. For this reason, he richly deserves to be recognized with this Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award.


Al Jarreau, 64MA

2005 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Al Jarreau, 64MA, has achieved artistic success with a musical talent and innovative style that have made him one of the most exciting performers of our time.

Jarreau began singing at the age of four, harmonizing with his brothers and performing solo in his hometown of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He received an undergraduate degree from Ripon College in Wisconsin and enrolled at the University of Iowa in 1962, earning his masters degree in Rehabilitation Counseling from the UI College of Education two years later. While at the UI, Jarreau pursued his musical interests by playing and singing in local clubs.

After graduation, Jarreau moved to San Francisco, where he worked as a rehabilitation counselor and performed part-time as a singer. In 1975, Warner Bros. Records signed him to a recording contract, and his debut album, We Got By, was released to unanimous acclaim, winning a German Grammy for Best New International Soloist. He won a second German Grammy for his follow-up album, Glow.

Jarreau embarked on his first world tour in 1977 and made a live recording, Look to the Rainbow, for which he won his first American Grammy for Best Jazz Vocal Performance. In 1978, his fourth album, All Fly Home, garnered a second Grammy for Best Jazz Vocalist. A string of innovative recordings followed, including This Time and the million-selling Breakin Away, which received Grammys for Best Male Pop Vocalist and Best Male Jazz Vocalist.

Since then, Jarreau has released recordings in a range of musical styles, including Al Jarreau Live in London, L is for Lover, and Hearts Horizon, which earned him another Grammy nomination, this time for best R&B album. His next recording, Heaven and Earth, received a fifth Grammy for Best R&B performance, making Jarreau one of the rare artists to win Grammys in the three categories of jazz, pop, and rhythm and blues.

In 1994, he released the album Tenderness, and in 1996 he accepted a three-month stint on Broadway playing the role of Teen Angel in the musical Grease! In 2001, Jarreau released the Best of Al Jarreau, and he was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Also that year, Jarreau returned to Iowa City to perform at Hancher Auditorium, at which time he publicly expressed his deep regard and affection for the University of Iowa. In June 2002, he taped an interview for the kickoff event for the UIs Good. Better. Best. Iowa campaign, which featured a student dance performance to his recording, Tomorrow Today.

At the heart of Jarreaus view of life is Accentuate the Positive, also the title of his most recent recording. According to a Rolling Stone magazine writer, the album is an important moment in the career of an important singer. By applying a masterful maturity to brilliant material, [Jarreau] has extended his reach and deepened his expression. His vocal performances are nothing short of astounding.

Jarreau continues to tour extensively throughout the world, and he is a Literacy Champion national spokesperson for the Verizon Reads program. Throughout his stellar career, Jarreau has remained a staunch supporter and an ambassador for the University of Iowa and is truly one of the most distinguished of the universitys alumni.


Colleen Kinicki DiIorio, 69BSN

2005 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Colleen Konicki DiIorio, 69BSN, has had a tremendous impact on the lives of people with epilepsy and AIDS during a career that has earned her national respect and recognition.

After earning her undergraduate degree from the University of Iowa, DiIorio completed her master's and doctoral degrees in nursing from New York University. Early in her career, she worked in a variety of clinical services as a staff nurse and supervisor. After pursuing her advanced degrees, she began her academic career, starting at East Carolina University School of Nursing and culminating with her current position as a professor at Emory University in the Rollins School of Public Health.

Raised in Iowa, DiIorio has excelled as an educator. She is highly respected as a classroom teacher, as an advisor to graduate students in research projects at the masters and doctoral levels, and as a mentor to faculty members in their acquisition of research skills. She has directed theses for more than 120 masters students, ten doctoral students, and 13 special project initiatives of students, fellows, and junior faculty members. As the first director of nursing research at Emory, a position she held from 1987 to 1993, DiIorio provided resources and support for faculty seeking funding for research programs.

DiIorio has most distinguished herself for the significant body of work she has created and disseminated as a researcher in the areas of AIDS and epilepsy. Working across disciplines with physicians, clinical psychologists, community leaders, and others, she has been awarded $26 million of research funding from organizations including the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Centers for Disease Control, and the Epilepsy Foundation. Her colleagues recognize her as the first in the nursing profession to receive funding for HIV prevention and to publish epilepsy self-management research findings.

With more than 100 published articles to her credit, DiIorio also works tirelessly on behalf of countless professional organizations, including the Epilepsy Foundation of America, the American Nurses Association, the American Association of Neuroscience Nurses, the American Public Health Association, the World Federation of Neuroscience Nurses, and the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care.

She is also currently associate editor for the Journal of Nursing Measurement and has previously served on the editorial boards of several major publications in her field. As one of her peers states, DiIorio has made an &invaluable contribution to scientific review at NIH.

DiIorios impact on the profession has not gone unrecognized. In 1991, she was inducted into the American Academy of Nursing. She recently received the Pioneer in HIV Award from the Morehouse University School of Medicine. She has also been honored with the 2004 Distinguished Scholarship in Nursing Award, Division of Nursing, New York University and the Distinguished Nurse Researcher Recognition from the National Institute of Nursing Research in 2002. From Emory University, she received the Emory Williams Distinguished Teacher Award, as well as the Professor of the Year Award from the Rollins School of Public Health.

A member of the UI Alumni Associations Old Capitol Club, DiIorio has brought great honor to the College of Nursing through her contributions to the advancement of science and the health and well-being of humankind. As an outstanding researcher, mentor, and teacher, she is simply one of the best in the world in her field.


Norman R. Nielsen, 86PhD

2005 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Norm R. Nielsen, 86PhD, has served public education in Iowa for more than 40 years as a teacher and coach, high school principal, school district superintendent, and administrator of a community college.

For 19 years prior to his retirement in 2004, Nielsen was president of Kirkwood Community College in Cedar Rapids, where he exhibited a great understanding of the community college mission and the notion of connectivity between the community and the college. Under his leadership, Kirkwood opened the doors of educational opportunity to thousands of nontraditional students, as well as people and businesses seeking workforce training.

Kirkwood has continually been recognized as a leading community college in the nation. In 2001, the National Alliance of Business selected Kirkwood as Community College of the Year, and in the same year, the Association of Community Colleges selected Nielsen as Executive Officer of the Year from 1,240 community college leaders nationally.

Kirkwood Community College offers career training and college preparation in more than 100 areas of study for its more than 15,000 students, partnering with numerous state and local government agencies and private businesses to assist with job development and training. Thanks to Nielsens educational entrepreneurship, Kirkwood was able to translate regional learning needs into innovative and valuable programs, thus educating critical components of the areas workforce.

Nielsen has also made significant contributions to the community and the social infrastructure of Iowa through his commitment to volunteer work for health care and other organizations. He served for ten years as director of St. Lukes Hospital in Cedar Rapids and was one of the longest serving directors of Iowa Health System, the states oldest and largest integrated healthcare organization. He is also an advisory board member for the UIs Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center.

Nielsen has been an active Rotarian since 1971 and was chairman of Priority One, Cedar Rapids highly regarded economic development program. He has served as a director of the Cedar Rapids Chamber of Commerce and on the board of directors of U.S. Bank, Iowa City Area Development, United Way of East Central Iowa, and Junior Achievement.

On the state and national levels, Nielsen has participated as a board member of Iowa Economic Development, Workforce Development Council, Iowa Student Loan Corporation (president), Iowa Association of Community College Presidents, American Association of Community Colleges, League for Innovation in the Community College (past president), and Community College for International Development.

Beyond his considerable accomplishments in transforming the face of community colleges in America, Nielsen has generously shared his experience with others. University of Iowa President David Skorton has called Nielsen a mentor, the exemplar of a higher education leader who is interested in the excellence of the students experience, the importance of attending to faculty and staff concerns in the institution, and the greater service role of higher education in the community and state.


Lloyd J. Palmer, 49BSC

2005 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

Lloyd J. Palmer, 49BSC, is a loyal UI supporter and accomplished businessman who has spent a lifetime giving to others, both in time and resources. This Postville, Iowa, native has made significant contributions to the University of Iowa and to his many other personal and professional communities.

Palmers many decades of tireless personal and professional contributions began at the UI business college, where he earned a B.S.C. degree in accounting after serving in the U.S. Navy during World War II. The talented graduate, one of Henry B. Tippies classmates, became a rising star in the world of business.

After spending ten years with Ernst & Ernst in Chicago—and earning his C.P.A.—Palmer joined the Nalco Chemical Company in 1959. There, he rose to the rank of chief financial officer in just seven years and subsequently held a number of high-level positions within the company, becoming vice president, executive vice president, chief administrative officer, and ultimately a member of the board of directors.

Though he retired in 1986, the longtime civic contributor has continued to work on behalf of the causes that matter most to him. In 1999, he and his wife established the Lloyd J. and Thelma W. Palmer Faculty Fellowship Fund to support distinguished faculty fellowships in the Tippie College of Business. Since that time, five business faculty members have received Lloyd J. and Thelma W. Palmer Research Fellowships, which have supported teaching and research initiatives and contributed to retaining outstanding faculty in the college. In 2000, Iowas business college recognized Palmer with an Outstanding Accounting Alumnus award.

The Palmers also gave generously to support artistic commissions for the Hancher Millennium Festival in 1999. In addition, they have given to the UI Libraries, Old Capitol Museum, the UI Museum of Art, and to mens and womens athletics. These important gifts helped earn the Palmers membership in the University of Iowa Foundation Presidents Club Silver and the Tippie College Deans Club, which recognize the universitys and colleges most generous donors.

In addition to the familys financial contributions to the university, Palmer has given selflessly of his time. He has served on the board of directors of the UI Foundation and has been the chairman of its audit committee. He was a member of the IE2000 National Steering Committee and served on the Chicago Regional Campaign Cabinet. He has served the broader community as a member of the board of trustees for Elmhurst College for 21 years—with five years as chair. For 11 years, he served on the board of the American Red Cross of Greater Chicago.

A member of the University of Iowa Alumni Associations Old Capitol Club, Palmer celebrated in the spring of 2001, when two granddaughters received B.B.A. degrees from Iowas Tippie College of Business.

The pride Palmer feels for the University of Iowa is the same pride the university takes in his accomplishments. Palmer truly stands out in his commitment to his alma mater, and for that reason is most deserving of the UIAA Distinguished Alumni Award for Service.


William Phelan

2005 Distinguished Alumni Friend Award

William Phelan has played a vital, though often behind-the-scenes, role for the University of Iowa for many years, inspiring confidence, offering wise counsel to its leaders, and lending a hand to make the university the best it can be.

As legal counsel to the UI Foundation since 1963, Phelan has worked side by side with the UI Foundation board of directors and staff. A supporter of the university both professionally and privately, Phelan has taken time away from his role as partner with the Iowa City law firm of Phelan, Tucker, Mullen, Walker, Tucker & Gelman to regularly serve as a lecturer in the UI College of Law, where he taught courses in estate planning; probate practice; and income, estate, and gift taxes, state and local taxation from 1955 to 1991.

He assisted in organizing the universitys Oakdale Research Park Corporation and served as a member of its board of directors from the time of its organization until 2004. He has served as a director of the Musser-Davis Land Company since it became wholly owned by the university until 2004. It goes without saying that the UI Foundation board and staff, members of the university administration, and the university community as a whole have great confidence in Phelan and have benefited enormously from his perspective.

Phelan has provided annual support to the University of Iowa for 41 years and has been recognized for his generous giving to the university as a Presidents Club member. He is also a member of the University of Iowa Alumni Association, emeritus member of the Friends of the Library advisory board, emeritus member of the Museum of Art Friends Development Council, and a Hancher Gold Circle member. In his longtime role as legal counsel for the UI Foundation, he has assisted the staff in raising millions of dollars through the planning and legal considerations of numerous major gifts.

He has participated in UI Alumni Association and Presidents Club tours and donated artwork to the Levitt Center for University Advancement. His interests are varied but, true to the UI spirit, he has cheered on the Hawkeyes as a season ticket holder for multiple sports.

Beyond this, Phelan is a true friend to Iowa City, the state of Iowa, and the legal profession. He is renowned as one of the best planned giving attorneys in the country, and he was listed in the initial publication in 1983 and annually thereafter in the prestigious Best Lawyers In America, recognized specifically for excelling in the areas of trusts and estates. He is a member of the Johnson County, Iowa State, and American Bar Associations, serving one term as president of the county association, and serving as member and chairman of the state associations tax committee for several years.

A good citizen, Phelan served the Iowa City Community School District for six years as a director, with one term as president. In addition, he served as a director of the Mercy Hospital Foundation and as a member of the Advisory Board for Mercy Hospital in Iowa City. One of the universitys most passionate advocates, he is truly deserving of the UIAA Distinguished Friend of the University Award.


Brian Ross, 71BA

2005 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Brian E. Ross, 71BA, is a familiar face on network television, where he has achieved a reputation for unquestioned professionalism and ethics while gaining national acclaim as an investigative journalist.

Born and raised in Chicago, Ross developed a keen interest in revealing corruption and seeking justice. As a journalism student at the University of Iowa, he worked for KWWL-TV in Waterloo, where his coverage of the Vietnam anti-war demonstrations won him early recognition. Since then, he has broken national and international stories that have made headlines around the world—covering everything from Colombian drug cartels to exploitation of workers to the links between politics and money to the Teamsters Union to organized crime. His hard work has earned him nearly every major award in journalism.

From his first full-time job at KWWL, Ross moved on to work for WCKT-TV in Miami and WKYC-TV in Cleveland, before joining NBC News in New York City. From 1975 to 1994 he served as a correspondent for NBC News, and from 1994 to the present he has been chief investigative correspondent for ABC News. He has reported extensively for World News Tonight with Peter Jennings, 20/20, and Good Morning America.

It is not just the breadth of Rosss reporting that has won his work national acclaim, but the depth of his belief in telling the public the truth. Even in his most controversial stories, which have explored topics from campaign finance reform to child labor in third world countries, he focuses on the facts and the larger truths they reveal. I put my heart and soul into every single story, Ross has said. I owe that to these people to bring every ounce of skill to a story.

Rosss numerous honors include the Robert F. Kennedy Award in 1979, two Sigma Delta Chi Awards for excellence in journalism, four National Emmy Awards, three Overseas Press Club Awards, four National Headliner Awards, and two Peabody Awards. In 1998, he was inducted into the University of Iowa Journalism School Hall of Fame.

When he spoke at the School of Journalism and Mass Communications Fourth Estate Banquet in 2000, Ross called his UI degree one of his greatest accomplishments. He has shown his appreciation by giving back to the school in valuable ways.

Ross serves on the professional advisory board for the journalism school, where he helps guide the curriculum and ensure that students are learning the skills they will need in real-world journalism. He shares his expertise both as a consultant and through presentations to UI faculty and students. Ross is also a member of the fund-raising campaign committee for the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, where he has been a strong advocate for the new journalism building, participating in key fund-raising events and appearing in the schools campaign video. His ongoing support has proven invaluable in reinforcing the UI programs excellent reputation and ensuring its growth far into the future.

A life member of the UI Alumni Association, Ross warrants media coverage as one of the most prominent and respected graduates of the University of Iowa.


James L. Watson, 65BA

2005 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

James L. Watson, 65BA, who grew up in the tiny southwestern Iowa town of New Market, credits opportunities afforded him at the University of Iowa for launching a career that has gained him international recognition as one of the most distinguished and important anthropologists of China.

One of the first graduates of Iowas Chinese Studies program, Watson went on to graduate studies in anthropology at the University of California-Berkeley. After holding faculty positions at the University of Hawaii, the University of London (where he also served as director of Londons Contemporary China Center), and the University of Pittsburgh, he has taught since 1989 at Harvard.

He holds a well-deserved reputation for in-depth and influential studies in a number of aspects of Chinese culture, including the changing face of village life, family and kinship, popular religion and ritual, and migration and globalization. He is particularly known for challenging long-held beliefs that have traditionally separated the work of anthropologists and historians and for bringing the two disciplines closer together.

Watson has published a great deal on a range of topics and is known for writing about his areas of expertise in a way that makes his knowledge broadly accessible. He has written or edited eight books, most recently the widely reviewed Golden Arches East: McDonalds in East Asia. In addition, he has scores of articles to his credit, some of which, such as Standardizing the Gods: The Promotion of Tien Hou (Empress of Heaven) Along the South China Coast, 960-1960, have been extremely influential and are regularly cited by experts in the field. His writings on the Chinese kinship system are fascinating, showing how powerful land-owning lineages, or clans, operate in many ways like corporations.

Watson has a reputation as an extraordinary mentor to students and younger scholars, having produced a host of Ph.D.s who have become productive scholars in their own rights. He is also well-respected among his colleagues, and was elected to the presidency of the Association of Asian Studies (AAS), the single highest honor for someone in his field.

A life member of the University of Iowa Alumni Association, Watson remains a proud Iowan and retains strong ties to Iowa and the University of Iowa, returning often with his wife, Rubie, also a well-known anthropologist and a native Midwesterner. Despite a hectic professional calendar, he has accepted invitations to visit the UI campus to speak with classes and to share his expertise.

Watsons tremendous achievements in his academic career certainly distinguish him as one of the UIs most accomplished alumni, and his commitment to enhancing understanding across cultures—particularly at a time when such communication is greatly needed in the world—is precisely in keeping with the universitys values. Finally, his eminence as a scholar, writer, teacher, and educational administrator are matched by his generous disposition.

For all of these excellent qualities and their positive reflection on the University of Iowa, Woody Watson is greatly deserving of this University of Iowa Alumni Association Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award.


Donald E. Bently, 49 BSEE, 50MS

2004 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Donald E. Bently, 49BSEE, 50MS, possesses the mind of a scientist and the spirit of an entrepreneur, which is why this Muscatine, Iowa, native has been able to craft a lifetime of accomplishments as an inventor, scholar, engineer, business owner, and environmental advocate. The University of Iowa graduate not only started a company in his garage that eventually transformed the world of industrial machinery, but also has championed the cause of environmentally sustainable agriculture and renewable resources.

Bently launched this career not in a classroom, but on a battleship in the Pacific, where he served with the U.S. Navy during World War II and took University of Iowa extension courses at the same time. After earning five battle stars, the serviceman returned home to complete his engineering studies and then worked briefly at the family bowling alley after graduation.

Once he tired of setting pins, Bently took a job as the lead azide and mercury fulminate assembly line engineer at the Iowa Ordnance Plant in Burlington, Iowa, going on to a stint as an engineer with North American Aviation/Rocketdyne in California. Throughout these years, Bently brainstormed ideas and tinkered with gadgets. By 1955, he had created the Bently Scientific Company and was selling instruments from his garage via mail order. One particularly hot seller was his own invention: an eddy current proximity transducer that measured vibrations and other parameters in rotating machinery.

This device revolutionized the industry of protecting and diagnosing machinery and also led to safer machinery operation. In addition, it helped launch the Bently Nevada Corporation, which has grown to 1,700 employees—with more than 100 offices in 43 countries and nearly $300 million in annual sales. Though Bently sold this company to General Electric in 2002, he is the owner, chairman, and chief executive officer of Bently Pressurized Bearing Company and also runs Bently Agrowdynamics, which focuses on using renewable resources and efficient practices to protect the scarce water resources in Nevadas Carson Valley.

Despite his business commitments, Bently still has found time to conduct research and publish his findings. The globally recognized authority on rotor dynamics and vibration monitoring and diagnostics has authored or co-authored more than 140 papers, is the holder of two patents, and recently published a book, Fundamentals of Rotating Machinery Diagnostics.

Such achievements have brought Bently numerous awards and distinctions. He is a foreign member of the Saint Petersburg Academy of Engineering in Russia and a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. In addition, Bently is one of only 43 Iowa engineering alumni in the colleges Distinguished Engineering Alumni Academy. This is not the loyal graduates only connection to his alma mater, where he is a member of the UI Foundations Presidents Club. He continues to mentor UI engineering students and faculty and also has provided visionary private support for the college.

Thanks to his Iowa-bred work ethic—and his unflagging commitment to innovation and inspiration—Donald E. Bently has earned his place among the universitys most eminent alumni as someone who cares not just about the life of the mind, but also about the quality of life for others.


Orville W. Bloethe, 41BSC, 47JD

2004 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

Orville W. Bloethe, 41BSC, 47JD, knows that it takes roots to grow anything worthwhile. This understanding helped the Victor, Iowa, farm boy nurture a notable and nationally recognized legal career that has spanned more than half a century. Its also what inspired him to return home after finishing law school at the University of Iowa—and to devote the rest of his life to giving back.

Bloethe learned at an early age how to help others. When his father died, the young man and his two brothers provided for their family by farming near Victor; however, this commitment did not stop Bloethe from attending college. After finishing his undergraduate degree and serving during World War II, he followed in the footsteps of a favorite uncle and pursued law school.

During his years at the UI College of Law, Bloethe excelled. He was famous for his Bloethe books, which were summaries of legal concepts and case theories that he shared with classmates. In addition, Bloethe was a member of the Order of the Coif, which recognizes academic achievement.

The intelligence and community spirit that set Bloethe apart during his student days also have defined his professional life, which he spent in his hometown after graduation. Bloethe has been Victors city attorney for 56 years—even representing those without adequate financial resources—and school board secretary for some 40 years, but his service is not limited to that community. Throughout his career, Bloethe has distinguished himself as a nationally recognized expert in tax and estate planning and is a leading authority on estate planning for farmers.

This attorney and civic leader has provided important advice to national legislators and, along with two other lawyers, wrote the Iowa State Bar Associations widely used Income Tax Manual. He did likewise with the Fiduciary Manual. Bloethe also is a prolific speaker and author who has presented numerous lectures on tax and estate planning across the state and nation.

Though such career contributions have kept him busy, philanthropy is his first priority. Bloethe has been a significant contributor to numerous causes, including the UI College of Law, where he has helped with fund-raising and served as class agent for his 50-year reunion. In addition, he and his wife, Loanna Schnoor Bloethe, 44BA, are members of the colleges Deans Club, which recognizes generous contributors. A member of the UI Foundations Presidents Club, Bloethe is also a member of the UI Alumni Associations Old Capitol Club.

Bloethe has found numerous other ways to support education as well. He is a significant contributor to the State Bar Association and served with distinction as a fund-raising leader for Kirkwood Community College. On a local level, he and his wife invest in student scholarships and also sponsor an innovative program that brings Victor high school students to Iowa City for dinner and a Hancher Auditorium event.

Bloethe and his wife gave a challenge gift of $100,000 if the Victor community would provide the balance of twice that to build a new modern medical clinic. The community met the challenge.

No matter what cause or legal case he is championing, Orville W. Bloethe knows that his Iowa background gives his efforts meaning. He steadfastly states that none of this would have been possible except for the University of Iowa believing in a country boy who continues to be proud of his roots.


James A. Clifton, 51R

2004 Distinguished Faculty Award

James A. Clifton, 51R, possesses the vision to see both the small details and the big picture. Thats what made this Midwestern transplant such an adept physician and accomplished administrator. Its also what allowed the former UI resident, faculty member, and leader to help implement extraordinary changes on Iowas health-sciences campus.

Though he was born in Fayetteville, North Carolina, and educated in Nashville, Tennessee—where he received both his bachelors and medical degrees from Vanderbilt University—this Southerner eventually became an Iowan at heart. After completing his internal medicine residency at the University of Iowa in 1951, Clifton returned to a faculty position at Vanderbilt; it wasnt long, however, before Iowa called him back.

At the urging of William Bean, a well-known UI physician and student mentor, Clifton returned to the university in 1953 and immediately became involved in a pivotal expansion and reorganization of its health sciences. This transformation helped establish Iowa as the world-class center for biomedical research, education, and health care that it is today.

While these changes were taking place, Clifton was hard at work, serving as chief of the Division of Gastroenterology from 1955 to 1971 and then as head of the UI Department of Internal Medicine. During these years, he also demonstrated national leadership skills. Clifton led committees at the National Institutes of Health and the American Gastroenterological Association, an organization of which he was president from 1970 to 1971. In addition, this distinguished UI leader was president of the American College of Physicians in 1977 and was a member of the American Board of Internal Medicine from 1972 to 1981, serving as chairman from 1980 to 1981.

Later in his Iowa career, Clifton also spearheaded the creation of the innovative UI Center for Digestive Diseases, which coordinated the clinical activities of several departments within the College of Medicine. The center was named after him in 1991.

Despite these varied commitments, Clifton still found time to communicate effectively with everyone from patients and residents to university staff and administrators. He was a gifted clinician and professor who, like Bean, also served as a student mentor. In 2002, Clifton received the College of Medicines first Distinguished Mentoring Award.

It was such leadership skills that prompted UI President Hunter Rawlings to ask Clifton to return from a short retirement in 1990 to serve as interim dean of what is now the Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine. Clifton held this position for two years, guiding the college through a significant reorganization.

Though he began his second official retirement in 1993, Clifton remains a tireless UI supporter as a member of the UI Foundations Presidents Club and the UI Alumni Associations Old Capitol Club. He helped form a group of retired faculty, the UI Emeritus Faculty Council, and was its first president. He and his wife, Kathy Rathe Clifton, 49BA, have been generous contributors to the UI Foundation for 39 years.

From the beginning, this dedicated physician knew what UI health care could achieve. By paying attention to both the small details and the big picture, James A. Clifton has helped transform Iowas health-sciences community.


Norman B. Coleman, 76JD

2004 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Norm B. Coleman, 76JD, knows how to accomplish change through action. Even as a University of Iowa law student, the Brooklyn, New York, native was honing the leadership skills he would need to implement local and global change throughout his professional life. These skills would inform his work in law, public policy, and politics—and eventually would help launch his career as a prominent United States senator.

Long before he was elected to this prestigious position, however, the UI graduate was busy working at the grassroots level. After finishing his undergraduate degree at New Yorks Hofstra University in 1971, Coleman arrived at the University of Iowa law school and quickly became involved in student government. He was president of the Student Bar Association and also chaired the Collegiate Associations Council, where he served with representatives from all of the UI colleges in addressing students academic concerns.

During his senior year at Iowa, Coleman received the Hancher-Finkbine Medallion in recognition of his outstanding academic and leadership achievements. He sustained this record of success after graduation, when he moved to Saint Paul, Minnesota, to work in the attorney generals office. Throughout his 17-year tenure with that office, the UI lawyer served as chief prosecutor and solicitor general and tried several high-profile and difficult cases.

In 1994, Coleman shifted his leadership focus to become Saint Pauls mayor, a position that allowed him to play a visionary role in transforming the city. By forging new partnerships between business and government, the transplanted Midwesterner revitalized Minnesotas capital. He created 18,000 new jobs through more than $3 billion in new development. In addition, he secured a National Hockey League franchise; helped create a new $90 million Science Museum of Minnesota; and made public safety, school initiatives, and land renewal among his top priorities.

These accomplishments did not go unnoticed: Coleman received the United States Conference of Mayors Award of Excellence in Public/Private Partnership in 2001 and also was the recipient of a public-service award from the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.

Colemans terms as mayor reinforced his interest in government, and in 1998, he was the Republican nominee for governor, narrowly losing to Jesse Ventura. This did not dampen Colemans enthusiasm for politics, however. One year after leaving the mayors office in 2001, he was elected to the United States Senate.

In his new leadership role, Senator Coleman serves as chairman of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations and also sits on the Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere, Peace Corps, and Narcotics Affairs. He also is a member of four committees: the Committee on Foreign Relations; the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry; the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship; and the Committee on Governmental Affairs.

Though Washington, DC, is a long way from the University of Iowa campus, Senator Norm B. Coleman still uses the skills he honed as a young law student. His UI values of commitment and service continue to define the quality of his leadership.

Senator Coleman is a life member of the University of Iowa Alumni Association.


Kent P. Falb, 65BS, 65PT

2004 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Kent P. Falb, 65BS, 65PT, knows the true meaning of the phrase blood, sweat, and tears in the world of professional football. As one of the nations most respected athletic trainers, he has helped generations of athletes both prevent and recover from a host of sports-related injuries. With a talent that took shape on the University of Iowa campus, Falb has achieved a lifetime of accomplishments.

The Elgin, Iowa, native first worked as an assistant athletic trainer for the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1959. Soon after returning to the University of Iowa campus, he began work as a student athletic trainer, eventually moving up to the role of assistant athletic trainer—and also working two summers for the Minnesota Vikings before completing his undergraduate work.

After his Iowa graduation, Falb put his UI experience to work as the head athletic trainer for Boston College. It wasnt long, however, before this small-town boy landed a high- profile position with the Detroit Lions—and joined a team to which he would belong for 34 years. Falb began his lengthy tenure with the Detroit Lions as assistant athletic trainer but quickly became head athletic trainer, a job he would hold until his retirement in 2000.

Throughout these years with the National Football League, the dedicated trainer also found time to make other important contributions to his field. He devoted his career to promoting athletic-trainer advancement, both as a lecturer on the subject and as a leader in various related organizations. Falb served as president of the Michigan Athletic Trainers Society (MATS) from 1989 to 1990 and became president of the National Athletic Trainers Association (NATA), where he served two terms, from 1996 to 2000.

The NATA recognized his achievements by naming him Professional Athletic Trainer of the Year in 1984 and inducting him into its Hall of Fame in 1999. Falb also is a member of the MATS Hall of Fame, and he received the Fain-Cain Award as the Outstanding NFL Athletic Trainer in 1999. These are just a few of the numerous awards and honors he has earned from a lifetime of hard work and distinguished service.

Though he has retired from his position with the Detroit Lions, the Aiken, South Carolina, resident has not stopped working. Falb has been a tireless athletic-training advocate, encouraging athletic trainers, physical therapists, and students to pursue their dreams in this field. He continues to travel the nation—visiting 35 different states to date—as a professional speaker on the topics of athletic training and sports medicine and he currently lectures in the Athletic Training Program at Erskine College in South Carolina.

Kent P. Falb embodies the commitment and discipline of a true UI graduate. After experiencing both the glory and agony of life as an athletic trainer in professional sports, this dedicated leader has continued to inspire others with the valuable lessons he learned from his teamwork at Iowa and the NFL.


Anne Hawley, 66BA

2004 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Anne Hawley, 66BA, keenly understands the art of nonprofit management. The one-time Iowa farm girl grew up to distinguish herself in the world of arts and humanities by expertly leading a variety of important cultural initiatives and institutions on the East Coast. Throughout this lengthy and prestigious career, Hawleys interdisciplinary University of Iowa education has shaped her innovations and accomplishments.

Though Hawley traveled only about 20 miles from her hometown of West Liberty, Iowa, to become a UI English major and member of Pi Beta Phi, her career eventually would take her far from Iowas rolling hills. After her UI graduation, Hawley completed a masters program at George Washington University in Washington, DC.

These experiences led to her early professional work, first as a research associate with the National Urban League and then as a research associate with the Ford Foundation Study in Leadership in Public Education. It was not long, however, before she left Washington, DC, for Boston, where she founded the Cultural Education Collaborative and assumed the position of executive director in 1974. She stayed in this role until 1977, when she became executive director of the Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities, a state agency.

Under her entrepreneurial leadership, the council instituted a variety of forward-looking programs. Hawley developed a number of art, conservation, preservation, and public-design initiatives. She also was instrumental in the passage of three new laws designed to significantly enhance the states cultural life. This work earned her the Lyman Ziegler Award for Outstanding Service to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in 1988. While at the Massachusetts Council, she completed the Senior Executive Program of Harvard Universitys Kennedy School of Government.

Such success helped prepare Hawley for a challenging—and rewarding—career as the first female director of Bostons famous Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. When Hawley started her work there in 1989, the Gardner had a deficit of $150,000. By 1999, she had tripled the museums budget and increased its attendance by 45 percent.

Hawley implemented other bold changes as well. To broaden the museums focus beyond the visual arts, she inaugurated an artist-in-residency program, established a community education program with five neighborhood schools, and began an annual scholarly symposia and exhibition program. In addition, Hawley launched the ambitious Second Century Capital Campaign, which raised $26 million.

Publications such as the New York Times and the Christian Science Monitor have praised Hawley for her outstanding work at the museum, and she holds honorary doctorates from Babson College, Lesley College, Williams College, and Montserrat College of Art. Though she maintains a busy museum schedule, Hawley still finds time to serve as a trustee on the boards of the Association of Art Museum Directors, Save Venice, the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, and the Fenway Alliance of Boston. Hawley is also an active member of the Massachusetts Historical Society and the Massachusetts Womans Forum.

Such broadly diverse experiences have helped define Anne Hawley as a visionary cultural leader. She is living proof that a liberal arts education from the University of Iowa can prepare students for lifetimes of exceptional achievement.


Ruby Holden,

2004 Distinguished Alumni Friend Award
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Lee D. McMullen, 68BSCE, 72MS, 75PhD

2004 Distinguished Hickerson Recognition Award

L.D. McMullen, 68BSCE, 72MS, 75PhD, believes in achieving quality in all he does, whether hes guiding water management, providing educational leadership, or brainstorming innovative solutions. This skilled engineer applies the best of his University of Iowa experience—academic expertise and practical know-how—to all the challenges he tackles.

From his earliest days at the UI, the Cresco, Iowa, native distinguished himself as an able leader with a talent for the field of water management. While he was an undergraduate, McMullen worked as a plant operator and supervisor at the universitys water treatment plant, an operator at the Oakdale wastewater treatment plant, and a plant chemist at the Iowa City water pollution control plant. This diverse background prepared him for a position he took after graduation in 1968 as a sanitary engineer for the U.S. Public Health Service.

McMullen stayed in this role for two years and then returned to the UI to complete his masters and doctoral degrees, beginning a job as assistant professor in the College of Engineering in 1975. He remained at Iowa until 1978, when he made a career change, to the Des Moines Water Works, that would shape the rest of his professional life.

Though he began at the Des Moines Water Works as a design engineer, McMullen quickly rose through the ranks to become the plants CEO and general manager in 1986. Since then, he has expertly guided the citys water resources through times of both calm and crisis. When the infamous floods of 1993 hit the Midwest, McMullen skillfully restored the citys water supply through some remarkable engineering.

This kind of innovation has secured McMullens standing as a national leader in the arena of water resource management. He has been a consultant to the National Drinking Water Advisory Council, has published numerous professional papers, and is a national speaker on the issues of water quality. He was a key developer of the Partnership for Safe Water, an initiative that the Environmental Protection Agency and large water utilities have adopted, and he now is working with planners and engineers in Cherkassy, Ukraine, to help that community solve its water-quality challenges.

McMullen does not just excel at water management; he also is a savvy educational leader. As a past president and former executive member of the UI Alumni Association Board of Directors, he chaired the boards finance committee and helped guide its strategic planning during six years of service. McMullen is a member of the UI Alumni Associations Old Capitol Club.

He also was a member and chair of the UI College of Engineering Advisory Board from 1990 to 1998 and was influential in persuading the state of Iowa to invest in the colleges facility renovation. In recognition of such accomplishments, the College of Engineering inducted him into its Distinguished Alumni Academy in 2000; he is one of only 43 UI alumni who have earned this honor.

Whether the challenges that face him have to do with education or water, L.D. McMullen is committed to giving it his best. The accomplished Iowa graduate has devoted his career—and his life—to ensuring that quality matters.


Elizabeth Sele Mulbah, 77MA

2004 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

Elizabeth Sele Mulbah, 77MA, has devoted her life to helping heal both people and places. This nurse educator, teacher, and humanitarian has used educational experiences from her home country of Liberia and from the University of Iowa to effect significant changes in the areas of health care and community action.

As the 11th of 15 children born to a tribal chief, Mulbah had few educational opportunities. She obtained much of her schooling at home but eventually attended a Liberian high school, where she was one of just three women to graduate.

The disciplined scholar went on to receive a bachelors degree in nursing from Liberias Cuttington University College in 1972. After graduation, she became a lecturer, clinical instructor, and director of nursing services at the Curran Lutheran Hospital and the Esther Bacon School of Nursing. She remained in these positions from 1973 to 1980, even while completing a masters degree in nursing service administration at the University of Iowa, where she distinguished herself as an outstanding student.

Mulbah soon put her Iowa education to work helping people in her war-torn country. When she returned to Liberia, the UI graduate took a job as a lecturer, clinical supervisor, and chair for Cuttington University Colleges Department of Nursing, where she worked from 1980 to 1986. During this time, she also sat on the Liberian Board for Nursing and Midwifery, serving as its president from 1983 to 1986.

Eventually, Mulbah left her job at Cuttington to spend a decade as the primary healthcare coordinator, program manager, and executive director of the Christian Health Association of Liberia. Through this position, Mulbah served as a community health development officer, helping to demobilize Liberian fighters and government soldiers.

In addition, she has worked with the United Nations Development Program, first as the community development officer for the Microcredit Program and then as community development specialist for the Reconstruction of Rural Housing in Liberia Program. She also has drafted training manuals on the topics of community development, leadership training, and holistic healing and has devoted herself to the areas of trauma healing, reconciliation, community leadership, and community health. She is currently serving in her countrys transitional government as advisor to the National Chairman on Health and Social Welfare.

This indefatigable educator is a recognized peace promoter who co-facilitated a four-day peace meeting with leaders of her countrys warring factions and also is a founding member of the Mano River Women for Peace Network. Her home has been a refuge for hundreds of people seeking shelter during Liberias civil war.

Such actions have earned Mulbah international recognition, and she is a prolific public speaker, lecturing in places such as the Carter Center in Atlanta, the Institute of Peace in Washington, DC, and the International Peace Academy in New York, as well as in countries throughout Africa. Mulbah is currently working on a story about these and other experiences in her autobiography, Blessed Tears.

Elizabeth Sele Mulbah has transformed her Iowa education into a global experience. She is a true citizen of the world, working at the local, national, and international levels to bring healing and change to her many communities.


Ignacio Vives Ponseti, 44R, 07DSC

2004 Distinguished Faculty Award

Ignacio Vives Ponseti, 44R, 07DSC, has changed the future for literally thousands of people worldwide. When the Spanish-born and -educated physician arrived at the University of Iowa in 1941 to begin his residency, he embarked upon a decades-long career in orthopaedic surgery that would transform countless lives.

This distinguished journey started at the University of Barcelona in Spain, where Ponseti completed a B.S. degree in 1932 and a medical degree in 1936. After graduation, the young doctor served as a captain in the Spanish Republican Army, treating hundreds of soldiers wounded during his country's civil war.

Such experiences marked the beginning of Ponseti's commitment to caring for others. When the war ended, he traveled first to France and then to Mexico, where he operated a medical practice until deciding to come to Iowa to pursue his residency. Once he arrived on the UI campus, Ponseti began working with Arthur Steindler, a skilled surgeon and the well-known chair of the UI Department of Orthopaedics.

Throughout his years as a resident and then as an instructor and professor in the department—roles he assumed in 1944—Ponseti observed how Steindler and other surgeons treated clubfoot, a condition that causes babies to be born with severely twisted ankles, which often turn the feet almost completely upside down. Ponsetis conclusion that surgery was not the most effective treatment prompted him to develop an innovative, nonsurgical method, which he began applying in the early 1950s.

This approach, now known as the Ponseti Method, has earned global accolades for the UI professor emeritus. His technique for gently stretching ligaments and applying a series of plaster casts to painlessly mold feet into the proper shape has been in use by hundreds of doctors for more than five decades. It has allowed children around the world to walk, run, and jump without pain.

Though Ponseti left the operating room at the age of 70 in 1984, he continues to see patients, whose parents seek him out because of his gentle technique and special way with children. He also continues his research and has published a book, Congenital Clubfoot: Fundamentals of Treatment, which came out in 1996.

In recognition of the renowned physicians many accomplishments, the UI dedicated the Ponseti Clubfoot Treatment Center within the Reginald R. Cooper Orthopaedic Surgery Clinic. New York University Hospital for Joint Diseases named its clubfoot treatment center in Ponsetis honor as well.

Recently, a group of former colleagues and grateful patients and parents established an endowed chair in Ponsetis name to sustain his legacy. This legacy includes a commitment to Iowa. In addition to his professional contributions, Ponseti also gives generously, supporting a variety of UI programs and projects, including the Museum of Art and Hancher Auditorium. He is a member of the UI Foundations Presidents Club, as well as the UI Alumni Associations Old Capitol Club.

This Spanish watchmakers son is many years—and many miles—from his professional beginnings in medicine. However, since then, Ignacio Vives Ponseti has used his Iowa career to make every year and every mile count for his lucky patients.


Ronald W. Roskens, 58PhD

2004 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Ronald W. Roskens, 58PhD, has gone from his boyhood on an Iowa farm to the national and global arenas of higher education and international relations. This accomplished University of Iowa graduate finished his doctoral degree and went on to a lifetime of exceptional achievements that have allowed him to share his UI experiences with the world.

After completing an undergraduate and masters degree at the University of Northern Iowa and a doctoral degree at the UI, the Spencer, Iowa, native began his professional career in 1959 as a professor at Kent State University, where he eventually was named executive vice president. This role became the springboard for a lengthy and distinguished tenure in higher education, including a position as chancellor of the University of Nebraska at Omaha and as president of the four campuses of the University of Nebraska system. During this period, he also served as chairman of the board of the American Council on Education.

Roskens has been an indefatigable educational leader who has brought an international perspective to his lifes work. He developed faculty exchange programs for the University of Nebraska system that encompassed partnerships with Kabul University in Afghanistan and with higher education and medical institutions in the Soviet Union and China.

Such global vision earned the UI graduate the recognition of former President George H. Bush in 1990, when he appointed Roskens as the administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development. In this role, Roskens served as chief executive officer of an $8.1 billion annual program offering economic and humanitarian assistance to more than 100 countries throughout the developing world.

In 1993, Roskens became president and chief executive officer of Action International, a think tank comprised of 35 former heads of state and other policy leaders. Just two years later, the Omaha, Nebraska, resident was named honorary consul general of Japan and was elected to the board of the Friends of the World Food Programme, a United Nations agency headquartered in Rome, Italy.

This kind of work in the international community helped Roskens begin a business consulting firm—Global Communications—in Omaha in 1997. While continuing as president of Global Communications, Roskens also has served as director of ConAgra Foods, the Russian Farm Community Project, and the Capitol Federal Foundation of Topeka, Kansas.

Despite his international focus, Roskens still makes time for causes closer to home. He served as interim executive officer of the Omaha Public Library from 1996 to 1998 and has served since 1997 as chairman of the Omaha/Douglas County Building Commission. In addition, he has served on numerous national boards and committees—including the U.S. Department of Educations National Advisory Committee on Institutional Eligibility—and currently is a member of the University of Iowas National Campaign Steering Committee. He is a member of the UI Foundations Presidents Club, as well as a life member of the UI Alumni Association. Roskens credits his wife, Lois, as an invaluable partner throughout his successful career.

Ronald W. Roskens has made diverse and significant contributions to the field of higher education and policy. Though his work has taken him from an Iowa farm to a much broader global arena, he has stayed true to his most important UI values and has used them to shape a career of international significance.


Mark S. Shapiro, 92BA

2004 Distinguished Alumni Young Award

Mark S. Shapiro, 92BA, knew what it takes to achieve a competitive advantage in the world of sports as early as third grade. Thats why its easy to understand how this University of Iowa graduate launched a cable-access sports show in high school, landed an internship with NBC Sports while he was still in college, and began a prestigious career with ESPN right after his UI graduation.

The Glenville, Illinois, native made good use of his time at Iowa, completing a bachelors degree in communication studies while simultaneously interning—and then working—for NBC Sports. He got started on his career path as an intern in Cedar Rapids for a CBS affiliate, then as an intern with NBCs SportsWorld in 1989. He quickly moved up the ranks to become a production assistant for a variety of events and shows, including the NBA Finals, the Super Bowl, Wimbledon, NFL Live, and the Breeders Cup.

In 1991, the hardworking student was promoted to associate producer, a role he held while covering a variety of national and international sporting events, including Notre Dame football and the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. By the time Shapiro graduated from Iowa in 1992, he already had four years experience in television production and programming to his credit.

Such experience might help explain his swift rise to professional fame. Within just ten years of graduation, Shapiro had earned a place among Sports Business Dailys Top 40 Under 40, Sporting Newss Power 100, and Hollywood Reporters 35 Promising Executives on the Rise, and had six Emmy Awards to his credit. In 2003, Shapiro was named a rising star in Entertainment Weeklys annual 101 Most Powerful People in Show Business. His meteoric ascent in the field of sports broadcasting took off at ESPN, which hired the accomplished UI alumnus as a production assistant on the call-in show Talk2 with Jim Rome in 1993. One year later, Shapiro became a producer, working on the daily interview show Up Close and eventually producing ESPNs Emmy and Peabody Award-winning SportsCentury: the Top 50 and Beyond.

Only nine years older than the ESPN network itself, Shapiro has distinguished himself there as a visionary and energetic leader. In 2001, he became senior vice president and general manager of programming. Just one year later, he was promoted to executive vice president of programming and production.

Today, Shapiro is responsible for the development, acquisition, and scheduling of all programming for ESPN, ESPN2, ESPN Classic, ESPNEWS, ESPN Regional Television, and ESPN Radio. He oversees all remote and studio production for ESPNs domestic and international entities and for ESPN Original Entertainment (EOE), which includes the X Games and ESPN Outdoors.

The Westport, Connecticut, resident doesnt have a typical desk job, however; his office has no desk at all. It contains a podium, telephone, sports memorabilia, and a coffee maker. Shapiro thinks on his feet, pacing his office and fielding fast-paced work demands.

By combining his personal passion and professional experience with his valuable UI education, Mark S. Shapiro has established himself as a talented and unstoppable force in the arena of sports production and programming.


Edward J. Wegman, 67MS, 68PhD

2004 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Edward J. Wegman, 67MS, 68PhD, has skillfully used the life of the mind to transform the role of machines. The visionary professor and statistician has blended theory and practice throughout a lifetime of teaching, research, and discovery. He built his career, which gave birth to the field of computational statistics, on experience he gained at the University of Iowa.

When the Saint Louis, Missouri, native finished his undergraduate degree in mathematics at Saint Louis University in 1965, he headed for the UI campus. It was here at Iowa that Wegman began narrowing his passion for numbers into the field of mathematical statistics. Combined with his talent, this passion eventually earned the UI graduate a faculty position in the premier Department of Statistics at the University of North Carolina (UNC).

During his decade at UNC, Wegman researched theories of mathematical statistics, a background he used to inform his work in the Office of Naval Research (ONR), which he joined in 1978. He began at ONR as director of the Statistics and Probability Program and became head of its Mathematical Sciences Division in 1982. These positions, which gave Wegman responsibility for research programs in a range of mathematical fields, ultimately allowed him to revolutionize contemporary statistics. His ONR research helped him coin the phrase computational statistics and develop a high-profile research program around the concept that computing resources could transform statistical techniques and methodologies.

This innovation not only launched a new field, but also propelled Wegman to new heights of professional recognition. He joined the faculty at George Mason University in 1986, the same year in which he created the Center for Computational Statistics and developed a masters degree program in statistical science.

More recently, Wegman has helped establish the Institute for Computational Science and Informatics—as well as a new doctoral program in computational sciences and informatics. He currently is the Bernard J. Dunn Professor of Information Technology and Applied Statistics and the director of the Center for Computational Statistics at George Mason University. Wegman was also the founding chair of the Department of Applied and Engineering Statistics.

Despite the demands of such academic commitments, Wegman still has found time to serve as consultant for a variety of private-sector and governmental organizations, including the Strategic Defense Initiatives Innovative Science and Technology Office. He also has been the associate editor of seven academic journals, a member of numerous editorial boards, and the author of more than 160 papers and five books.

Wegmans numerous honors and accolades include his election as a fellow of the American Statistical Association, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Washington Academy of Science, and the Institute of Mathematical Science. In addition, he has received numerous military and academic awards for outstanding research, teaching, and service.

Edward J. Wegman has been a guiding force in the evolution of statistics into modern computational science. This achievement, which has broad applications across disciplines, is just one of many that show the UI graduates commitment to the life of the mind.


Patrick Baird, 76BBA

2003 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Patrick Baird, 76BBA, serves as president and chief executive officer of AEGON USA, the fifth largest insurance company in the U.S., where he has received national recognition for his successes throughout his 20 years with the company.

Baird's achievements have extended to his support of the University of Iowa. A former member of Iowa's golf team, he was the driving force behind the AEGON Advantage Golf Tournament, which has raised more than $400,000 for the Athletics Hall of Fame and the renovation of the Finkbine Golf Course.

Baird's Iowa upbringing and education have served him well during his successful career. Raised in the small town of Vinton, he attended Vinton High School and practiced his leadership skills early as the manager of the Vinton Municipal Swimming Pool for two summers. After enrolling at the UI, he completed an accounting degree in 1976 and became a Certified Public Accountant.

He was soon hired at AEGON, where his hard work and business acumen helped move him quickly up the ranks. Baird served in various key positions including executive vice president and chief operating officer, chief tax officer, and chief financial officer. Since 1990, he has held responsibility for leading the major acquisitions of the company.

In 2002, Baird became president and chief executive officer of AEGON USA. In this role, he leads the U.S. operations, which generate 63 percent of the revenues for the entire worldwide operations of AEGON NV, one of the top ten insurance companies in the world.

While his accomplishments have lead to international success, some of his greatest business contributions have been to the UI and the state of Iowa. Under Baird's leadership, AEGON has opened career opportunities for many graduates of the Henry B. Tippie College of Business by recruiting them for AEGON's Leadership Development program. He has also been committed to bringing new business units and jobs to the Cedar Rapids area. AEGON employs 14,000 staff across North America, close to 2,300 of them in the Cedar Rapids offices.

Beyond his business contributions to his home state, Baird serves the community through his participation on numerous boards that share a common theme of making the Cedar Rapids/Iowa City corridor a better place to do business and raise a family. Currently, he serves on the Waypoint board, the Kirkwood Foundation board, the Financial Services Roundtable, the Institute for Legal Reform, and the Cedar Rapids Bank & Trust board. Believing in the valuable lessons that young people learn through competition-and the recognition that the UI and the state receive from the university's outstanding Hawkeye teams-one of his priorities is supporting the UI athletics programs in which he once participated.

While Baird has gone far in his career, he remains close to the people he grew up with and to his alma mater, and his exceptional life achievements and long commitment to Iowa have made him one of the university's most valued alumni.

Baird is a member of the UI Foundation's Presidents Club.


Doris J. Biester, 63BSN

2003 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Doris J. Biester, 63BSN, has distinguished herself as a pioneer in pediatric health care. The president and chief executive officer of the Children's Hospital of Denver, she is the first nurse and woman to serve the institution as its CEO. Biester is also the first nurse CEO to hold the position of chair of board of trustees for the National Association of Children's Hospitals and Related Institutions.

Biester's interest in helping others came to her early in life, when she chose to enroll in the University of Iowa College of Nursing. After completing her degree, she worked in several positions at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, where she demonstrated her exceptional leadership skills. She served from 1963 to 1965 as a pediatrics staff nurse, and from 1969 to 1972 as head nurse in the pediatric nursery and special care clinic and as a clinical nursing specialist and administrator in pediatrics.

From Iowa, she took a position as assistant director of pediatric and obstetric nursing at the Women and Infants Hospital of Rhode Island, then went on to The Children's Hospital in Denver, Colorado, where she has made a long career of influencing the world of children's health. She began as senior vice president, director of nursing, and continued up the ranks to become chief operating officer in 1995, before achieving her current role as president and CEO of the hospital in 1998.

The key to her success includes both excellent judgment and strong interpersonal skills. When the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center moved its department of pediatrics into the Children's Hospital in 1990, she helped oversee the challenge. Biester worked thoughtfully to explore the best approach and help bring the two boards to agreement, keeping as her guiding principle at all times the question, "What is best for the children?" Not only did her efforts result in a smooth transition, she was instrumental in ultimately raising the position of the hospital to the number four ranking in the nation given by U.S. News & World Report.

Biester is known as a visionary who combines commitment with strategic, thoughtful action, and in so doing, inspires and motivates others. She has made a mark on the nursing profession with her innovative ideas, including finding ways to increase nurse retention rates, establishing an all-registered nurse staff for direct patient care, and establishing the baccalaureate nursing degree for entry into practice as a means of enhancing quality of care.

Biester inspires others by sharing her work as an educator, as the author or co-author of numerous professional papers, and as a presenter at key professional conferences across the country.

Among the many boards on which she has served, Biester currently works with the Children's Miracle Network and has spent many hours participating in fundraisers for children at the hospital. She is known for her consistently cheerful and upbeat demeanor.

For Biester, improving the quality of life for many children is a worthwhile goal for her own life's work.

Biester is a member of the UI Alumni Association's Old Capitol Club.


John Bouma, 58BA, 60JD

2003 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

John Bouma, 58BA, 60JD, heads one of the nation's premier law firms, yet finds the time to lend his considerable leadership skills to the University of Iowa.

Chairman of Snell & Wilmer of Phoenix, Arizona, one of the largest law firms in the Southwest, Bouma is a longtime member of the Iowa Law School Foundation Board of Directors, serving both as its vice president and chair of the fund-raising committee.

A native of Pocahontas, Iowa, Bouma received a B.A. in political science from the UI in 1958. He attended the College of Law, where he served as editor-in-chief of the Iowa Law Review and graduated with highest honors, and then he served his country for two years in the Army Judge Advocate General Corps in Arizona.

In 1962, Bouma joined the law firm of Snell & Wilmer in Phoenix, where he advanced rapidly, making partner in four years. He was named to the executive committee at age 35, and by 1982, at age 45, he became chairman. With approximately 350 lawyers, the firm is one of the most respected and successful in the country.

Bouma holds a reputation as one of America's finest attorneys and has been included in annual editions of The Best Lawyers in America for nearly 20 years. He has been named by the National Law Journal as one of the "100 Most Influential Lawyers in America." A Fellow in the American College of Trial Lawyers, Bouma has served as president of both the Arizona Bar and the National Conference of Bar Presidents and as a member of the American Bar Association board of governors.

In 1998, Bouma received the prestigious Walter E. Craig Distinguished Service Award from the Arizona Bar Foundation, a distinction that recognizes an Arizona attorney "who has manifested adherence to the highest principles and traditions of the legal profession and service to the public and the community."

Besides giving selflessly of his time and expertise as the chair and a member of the Iowa Law School Foundation board of directors, he is a member of the College of Law Dean's Club. He and his brother, Bob Bouma, 62JD, recently made a generous gift to create the Bouma Fellowship in Trial Law, the College of Law's first endowed faculty fellowship.

Bouma's Midwestern values have remained with him, and service to the community has been an important priority in his life. He has served as president of the Phoenix Art Museum and the Arizona Opera Company. In 1998, he received the Community Legal Services Decade of Dedication Award for more than 15 years of pro bono legal services for the poor on national, state, and local levels. Under his guidance, his firm encourages employees to contribute a minimum of 50 hours a year to community legal service.

Bouma's outstanding accomplishments place him in a premier group of Iowa graduates who have tirelessly dedicated their lives to service and leadership.

Bouma is a member of the UI Foundation's Presidents Club and a UIAA life member.


James Bramson, 76BS, 79DDS

2003 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

James Bramson, 76BS, 79DDS, has had a significant impact on the quality of dental care and education in the United States and the world through his role as executive director of the 150,000-member American Dental Association (ADA). In the words of one of his fellow professionals, "When Dr. Bramson speaks, the world of dentistry listens."

At the University of Iowa, Bramson was an exceptional undergraduate and graduate student in the College of Dentistry, where he won first place in the University of Iowa Table Clinics in 1977. He began his professional life by running a small, successful, general dental practice in Parkersburg and Ackley, where he served those Iowa communities for seven years.

Receiving the prestigious Hillenbrand Fellowship from the ADA in 1986 presented a critical turning point in his career. During his internship with the ADA in Chicago, he received practical experience in various aspects of dental administration and began developing the interest and expertise in national policy that has determined his professional path.

After his yearlong fellowship expired, Bramson was hired permanently by the ADA and took on increasingly responsible positions, serving as associate director of the council on dental practice, secretary/treasurer for the ADA Emergency Fund and the ADA Endowment and Assistance Fund, and director of the Commission on Relief Fund Activities. From 1990 to 1997, he was director of the ADA Council on Dental Practice.

By this time, Bramson's work had begun to attract national attention, and he was selected as executive director for the Massachusetts Dental Society, where he served from 1997 to 2001.

Bramson's subsequent appointment to the position of executive director of the ADA in 2001 represents a meteoric rise that stands as testimony to his singular dedication to the dentistry profession. His work has helped shape procedures and policy for nearly every major issue in this field. Throughout his career, Bramson has been appreciated for his ability to tackle tough issues while demonstrating a good Midwesterner sensibility and community spirit.

Despite his busy schedule, Bramson has found time to give back to the community in numerous ways, including as a member of the Parkersburg Iowa Rotary Club, the Parkersburg Lions Club, and the Parkersburg Chamber of Commerce, and as a coach for district youth baseball in Wheaton, Illinois.

Bramson remains committed both professionally and personally to the state of Iowa and the UI. He received the President's Award from the Iowa Dental Association (IDA) and served for four years in the Iowa Dental Association's House of Delegates.

Proud of his Iowa roots, Bramson often mentions Iowa and the UI College of Dentistry in his many appearances around the country. Although he currently lives in Chicago, Bramson still considers himself an Iowan-and the UIAA is proud to recognize him as an exemplary one.


Michele M. Crider

2003 Distinguished Alumni Young Award

Michële M. Crider showed such promise as a graduate voice student in the University of Iowa School of Music from 1986 to 1988 that Simon Estes, 86BM, recommended she interrupt her degree studies to join the Zurich Opera Studio. Today, Crider is considered one of the leading sopranos of the Italian opera repertoire, singing in all of the major opera houses in Europe and appearing in highly acclaimed performances in the United States.

From the time Crider came to the UI, her professors recognized her exceptional talent. She performed leading roles in a succession of operas, and her vocal and acting abilities raised the popularity of University Opera to new heights. She first came to the attention of Simon Estes when she performed with him at the Governor of Iowa's Homecoming Benefit in 1987.

The next year, Crider was a finalist in the Luciano Pavarotti competition, and in 1989 she won one of the three first-prizes in the Geneva International Music Competition. The latter prize included a chance to sing the role of Leonora in Il Trovatore in Germany and an opportunity to compete for the International Grand Prize, which she went on to win.

Since 1991, Crider has showcased her remarkable talent in the major houses throughout Europe, including the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Arena di Verona, Vienna, Munich, Hamburg, Stuttgart, Deutsche and Staatsoper Berlin, Wiesbaden, La Scala Milan, Florence, Zurich, St. Gallen, and Barcelona.

Crider made her American debut in San Diego in 1996 in a new production of Aida, followed this with a San Francisco performance in the same role, and then performed at the Metropolitan Opera in New York as Madama Butterfly. She has since returned to San Francisco, New York, and other U.S. opera houses where her performances have been well received by critics and the public.

Although she currently makes her home in Switzerland, Crider readily acknowledges her roots and exudes the Midwestern values of humility, graciousness, and appreciation for the support of people who have known her since the early days of her career. She's never forgotten that a group of Iowa City opera fans organized a fundraiser to help her attend the prestigious Zurich Opera Studio in Switzerland.

When Crider returned in the fall of 2002 to give a recital on the Hancher stage-the first performance at the UI she has been able to fit into her demanding schedule since the 1980s-her enthusiastic audience included Iowa City fans who have known her and followed her exceptional career since she was a student here. Crider also generously shared her skills and experiences with several UI students at a master class.

Crider has never forgotten the encouragement and support she received from her UI teachers and fans. She takes pride in her Iowa education, and the first sentence of her professional biography reads, "Michèle Crider studied voice at the University of Iowa in America."


Jim Hanson, 58BSC

2003 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

Jim Hanson, 58BSC, and Joann Slager Hanson, 56BA, met at the University of Iowa as undergraduate students and have maintained their Iowa ties since Joann finished her B.A. in education and Jim finished his B.S.C. in marketing. Since they married in 1957, they have been indefatigable leaders, volunteers, and contributors to a wide variety of UI projects and programs.

Jim's marketing degree served him well when he became president and CEO of Hanson Watson Howe, an advertising agency founded by his father in Moline, Illinois. Joann enjoyed teaching cooking at Scott Community College-in 1981 a book of her recipes was published by Magic Chef-and raising their two sons.

The two have remained in Jim's hometown of Moline (Joann was born in Williamsburg, Iowa, and grew up in Iowa City), and have followed closely in the footsteps of Jim's parents, Clement and Sylvia, who also met at the university-and were tireless Iowa champions. Jim's mother, Sylvia, often told him that "giving is a healthy thing to do," and Jim and Joann have taken that advice to heart.

The Hansons have dedicated numerous hours to various UI boards and campaigns. A member of the UI Foundation board of directors since 1992, Jim has served on the executive committee and as chair of the audit committee. Joann served on the Alumni Association board of directors from 1989 through 1992. They both were members of the Iowa Endowment 2000 Campaign national committee and also served as volunteers on Hawkeye athletics campaigns.

In addition, Jim and Joann have made significant contributions to the UI, providing a major leadership gift in 1995 to name a room within the Levitt Center for University Advancement and establishing the James C. and Joann Slager Hanson Scholarship Fund in 2000.

The Hansons have been longtime supporters of numerous other UI programs, including WSUI/KSUI, the School of Art and Art History, the Tippie College of Business, Old Capitol, and the Iowa Impact Fund.

The couple's generosity extends far beyond the bounds of the UI community. Jim has served as a director of the Moline Public Library, the Moline Education Foundation, and the Moline Public School Foundation, worked as the personnel manager for the Tri-City Symphony Orchestra, and volunteered for the Ronald McDonald House. He was also chairman of the Moline YMCA and of Trinity Medical Center and Trinity Regional Health System in Moline/Rock Island.

Joann participated in Moline's Bedside Tutoring program, where she tutored sick children for 12 years. She is past president of Junior Symphony Board of the Quad Cities, a former secretary of the Junior Service League of Moline, and a member of the PEO women's organization. She is also an active alumna of Alpha Chi Omega, of which she has been a member for 50 years.

The Hansons have touched the lives of many, and they are truly exemplary in their dedicated service to the university and the community.

The Hansons are members of the UI Foundation's Presidents Club and members of the UIAA's Old Capitol Club.


Joann Slager Hanson, 56BA

2003 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

Jim Hanson, 58BSC, and Joann Slager Hanson, 56BA, met at the University of Iowa as undergraduate students and have maintained their Iowa ties since Joann finished her B.A. in education and Jim finished his B.S.C. in marketing. Since they married in 1957, they have been indefatigable leaders, volunteers, and contributors to a wide variety of UI projects and programs.

Jim's marketing degree served him well when he became president and CEO of Hanson Watson Howe, an advertising agency founded by his father in Moline, Illinois. Joann enjoyed teaching cooking at Scott Community College-in 1981 a book of her recipes was published by Magic Chef-and raising their two sons.

The two have remained in Jim's hometown of Moline (Joann was born in Williamsburg, Iowa, and grew up in Iowa City), and have followed closely in the footsteps of Jim's parents, Clement and Sylvia, who also met at the university-and were tireless Iowa champions. Jim's mother, Sylvia, often told him that "giving is a healthy thing to do," and Jim and Joann have taken that advice to heart.

The Hansons have dedicated numerous hours to various UI boards and campaigns. A member of the UI Foundation board of directors since 1992, Jim has served on the executive committee and as chair of the audit committee. Joann served on the Alumni Association board of directors from 1989 through 1992. They both were members of the Iowa Endowment 2000 Campaign national committee and also served as volunteers on Hawkeye athletics campaigns.

In addition, Jim and Joann have made significant contributions to the UI, providing a major leadership gift in 1995 to name a room within the Levitt Center for University Advancement and establishing the James C. and Joann Slager Hanson Scholarship Fund in 2000.

The Hansons have been longtime supporters of numerous other UI programs, including WSUI/KSUI, the School of Art and Art History, the Tippie College of Business, Old Capitol, and the Iowa Impact Fund.

The couple's generosity extends far beyond the bounds of the UI community. Jim has served as a director of the Moline Public Library, the Moline Education Foundation, and the Moline Public School Foundation, worked as the personnel manager for the Tri-City Symphony Orchestra, and volunteered for the Ronald McDonald House. He was also chairman of the Moline YMCA and of Trinity Medical Center and Trinity Regional Health System in Moline/Rock Island.

Joann participated in Moline's Bedside Tutoring program, where she tutored sick children for 12 years. She is past president of Junior Symphony Board of the Quad Cities, a former secretary of the Junior Service League of Moline, and a member of the PEO women's organization. She is also an active alumna of Alpha Chi Omega, of which she has been a member for 50 years.

The Hansons have touched the lives of many, and they are truly exemplary in their dedicated service to the university and the community.

The Hansons are members of the UI Foundation's Presidents Club and members of the UIAA's Old Capitol Club.


Jack Hartley, 50MA

2003 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

Jack Hartley, 50MA, is a civil rights champion and a hero to the many students whose lives he has influenced. One of the first teachers in Iowa to include black history in a high school curriculum, Hartley employed an innovative, imaginative teaching style to reach two generations of high school and community college students in Iowa and Arizona.

Born in Mount Pleasant, Iowa, he attended a one-room schoolhouse and went on to enroll at Grinnell College, where he completed B.A. degrees in English and history in 1946. After three years of teaching high school English, speech, and theatre, he came to the University of Iowa to complete a master's degree in English.

Hartley's long and successful teaching career extended from 1946 to 1986, with summers spent pursuing several more advanced degrees, including an M.S. in L.S. degree from the University of Illinois and a Ph.D. in English from Arizona State University.

Hartley's teaching style was ahead of its time. His groundbreaking "American Heritage" course, which he taught at the high school level, was characterized by inventive techniques including role-playing, debate, in-class speakers, class trips, and weekly essays. Hartley's inclusion of slavery and black history in his curriculum in the late 1950s was considered bold at the time, preceding the Civil Rights movement by several years.

Over the years, hundreds of students have had the good fortune of sitting in Hartley's classroom. More than 20 of his former students who have gone on to distinguished careers themselves wrote letters supporting his nomination for this award.

Comments from these letters speak volumes about Hartley's contribution to their lives:

"Before Mr. Hartley, I was a 'good' student; after Mr. Hartley I was a real student." "I consider Mr. Hartley to be, hands down, the best teacher I have ever had." "Thanks, Jack, for being such an inspiring educator; a real-life testament to the superb Iowa educational system." "Mr. Hartley created a community of generosity.... After I'd had a serious illness, he tutored me in my backyard so I could graduate with my class." "The benefit I derived from this [American Heritage] course has had a greater impact on my life than any other single course I took in high school or college."

Hartley has been honored for his achievements many times. In Cedar Rapids, he was named teacher of the year and was president of the city's Education Association. In Arizona, he was president of the county Community College District Faculty Association, and he was elected president of the Glendale Community College Faculty Senate.

Perhaps one former student's comment best sums up Hartley's gift to his students: "To be involved passionately, yet with the discipline of thought and a long view of history-that's it, I think-Jack Hartley's legacy in my own life." Or, as several others said more simply, "Jack Hartley changed my life."

Hartley is a member of the UIAA's Old Capitol club.


Robert V. Hogg, 48MS, 50PHD

2003 Distinguished Faculty Award

Robert V. Hogg, 48MS, 50PhD, was a highly visible faculty member and administrator at the University of Iowa for more than half a century, first in mathematics and then in the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, which he helped found in 1965. Known for his gift of humor and his passion for teaching, Hogg has had far-reaching influence in the field of statistics.

A native of Hannibal, Missouri, Hogg pursued his B.A. in mathematics at the University of Illinois, then came to the UI in 1947 to pursue his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in mathematics, specializing in actuarial sciences and statistics. Fortunately for the UI, he never left.

Hogg's distinguished UI career began when he was a student and part-time instructor from 1947 to 1950. He remained as a professor from 1950 until his retirement in 2001, and he continues to influence the department as an emeritus professor-though from the comfort of his retirement home in Buena Vista, Colorado.

Throughout his career, Hogg has played a major role in defining statistics as a unique academic field, and he almost literally "wrote the book" on the subject. Four textbooks Hogg has co-written have become classroom standards used by hundreds of thousands of students nationwide. The classic texts Introduction to Mathematical Statistics and Probability and Statistical Inference, first published in 1959 and 1977, respectively, have reached their fifth and sixth editions.

Under Hogg's leadership as chair from 1965 to 1983, the UI Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science became known throughout the profession as one of the top programs in the country. While Hogg is recognized worldwide as an innovative researcher and writer, many of his UI students can testify to his outstanding abilities as a teacher.

Hogg is also known for his untiring involvement in professional organizations, particularly the American Statistical Association (ASA), which stands as the largest body of professional statisticians in North America and perhaps the world. His work with ASA spanned more than 40 years, and included serving for three terms on the executive council, as well as chairing and participating as a member on many of the organization's committees. Being elected president of ASA-as Hogg was in 1988-is one of the most prestigious honors a statistician can receive.

Among the many awards he has received for distinction in teaching, Hogg has been honored at the national level (the Mathematical Association of America Award for Distinguished Teaching), the state level (the Governor's Science Medal for Teaching), and the university level (Collegiate Teaching Award). His important contributions to statistical research have been acknowledged by his election to fellowship standing in the ASA and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.

The Alumni Association is proud to honor a man whose career has helped define the field of statistics, and whose work as an educator has benefited-and will continue to benefit-generations of students at the UI and throughout the world.

Hogg is a member of the UI Foundation's Presidents Club and the UIAA's Old Capitol Club.


Alan P. Larson, 71BA, 78MA, 82PhD

2003 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Alan Larson, 71BA, 78MA, 82PhD, will mark 30 years of distinguished and extraordinary service to the United States this year. As Under Secretary of State for Economic, Business and Agricultural Affairs, he is the senior economic advisor to Secretary of State Colin Powell, and his responsibilities include the entire range of international economic policy.

Larson's impressive academic career at the University of Iowa includes earning a B.A. degree in political science and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in economics. Along the way, he studied at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.

Larson joined the U.S. Department of State in 1973 as a Foreign Service officer and began his career as economic officer in the American Embassy in Sierra Leone from 1973 to 1975 and in Zaire from 1975 to 1977. Since then, he has earned international respect as an advocate for sound international economic policy. Among other assignments, he has served as U.S. ambassador to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, led efforts at the Denver Group of Eight Summit in 1996, and provided advice during the Asian economic crisis.

When he was appointed to his current position as Under Secretary by President Clinton in 1999, he became the first career Foreign Service officer to hold this high office. Larson was further distinguished by being reappointed by President George W. Bush in 2001, thereby becoming the only individual in this role to be supported by both Democratic and Republican administrations. This recognition by both of America's leading political parties is perhaps the greatest testament to his expertise and skill as a leader and negotiator.

In his current position, Larson has represented the United States in the highest level negotiations on key international issues, from agricultural trade and the constructive use of biotechnology as a tool to fight world hunger, to energy security.

During the challenging days since September 11, 2001, Larson has been at the forefront of U.S. dealings with the Group of Eight industrialized countries in encouraging concerted efforts to thwart terrorism and the global financial structure that supports terrorist organizations. His non-confrontational diplomatic style and skill at bringing intellectual adversaries closer to agreement are put to excellent use in this position.

Even as he has pursued this demanding career, Larson has been an exemplary parent and family man. His wife, Nancy Naden Larson, 71BA, who graduated from the University of Iowa with a degree in elementary education, and their three children traveled with him to overseas assignments in Sierra Leone, Zaire, Jamaica, and France.

While Larson's career has taken him to the far reaches of the world, he and Nancy remain connected to the state of Iowa and the UI.

Larson's achievements exemplify the best of what an Iowa education has to offer, as well as the best that our nation has to offer the world.

Larson is a life member of the UI Alumni Association.


Martin J. Sepulveda, 85F

2003 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Martin J. Sepulveda, 85F, is highly respected as one of the leading occupational health physicians in the country. As vice president of global occupational health services and health benefits at IBM, he has helped IBM achieve national distinction as the only corporation to twice receive a national award given to the company with the most outstanding occupational health and safety program.

Sepulveda graduated magna cum laude from Yale University in 1974 and attended both Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of Public Health, graduating with an M.D. degree and an M.P.H. degree in 1978. His residencies brought him to Moffitt Hospitals at the University of California in San Francisco and to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Morgantown, West Virginia. From 1984 to 1985, he was a fellow in internal medicine at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics.

Upon completion of his training at the UI, Sepulveda began a career with IBM, where he served in a variety of capacities, both as a physician delivering clinical care and a manager solving the occupational health problems of a large workforce.

Whether he is designing multicultural AIDS education modules for IBM's diverse international workforce or elevating the level of occupational clinical practice at IBM's worldwide facilities, Sepulveda brings quality to all he does. His personal commitment, passion for excellence, and strategic vision have led to safety standards that have become a model for the advancement of occupational health services not only for more than 300,000 IBM employees around the world, but for other international employers and communities.

Two examples of the impact of his thoughtful work include the radical enhancement of the safety standards of buses used to transport more than 6,000 employees in Guadalajara, Mexico, and the implementation of world-class food, water, and fire safety standards in employee dormitories in Asia Pacific.

Beyond his work at IBM, Sepulveda is an indefatigable leader who participates in many prestigious boards and associations, generously lending his time and expertise to protect the nation's public health. He has been a scientific advisor to the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) and a board member for the American Board of Occupational Health Nurses.

His work as a member of the board of directors of the National AIDS Fund exemplifies the strength of his commitment to the causes he embraces. When the National AIDS Fund was faced with serious financial problems, he personally orchestrated an effort to revitalize the organization and succeeded in saving the fund from disaster.

Sepulveda has generously given back to the UI as a member, since its inception, of the Board of Advisors of the UI College of Public Health, and he is an active and insightful presenter and contributor at meetings.

The UIAA is honored to count Sepulveda-who inspires others to set the highest possible professional standards and goals and pursue them with integrity and compassion-among Iowa's most distinguished alumni.


Jane G. Smiley, 75MA, 76MFA, 78PhD

2003 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Jane G. Smiley, 75MA, 76MFA, 78PhD, is one of the University of Iowa's best-known graduates. The author of eleven works of fiction, she has won numerous literary awards, including a Pulitzer Prize in 1992 for her novel A Thousand Acres, which was made into a motion picture starring Jessica Lange.

Smiley earned her B.A. from Vassar College in 1971 and came to the Iowa Writers' Workshop. After receiving her M.F.A. degree, she completed a Ph.D. from the Department of English in 1978.

Smiley's novels have achieved the rare combination of critical acclaim and commercial success. A prolific writer, she has produced nine novels, as well as many short stories and essays. Besides A Thousand Acres-a modern retelling of Shakespeare's King Lear that follows the story of a Midwestern farm family's disintegration-her novels include The Greenlanders (1988), Moo (1995), and The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton (1998).

Smiley's novel Horse Heaven (2000) focuses on the world of horse racing and reflects a longtime passion for horses that in 1996 led her to move to California, where she raises thoroughbreds. One of her more recent books, a biography of Charles Dickens, is featured in the Penguin Lives series. Her newest novel entitled, Good Faith, takes on the real estate industry.

Highly regarded by critics, she has received the National Book Critics Circle Award (1991), the Midland Authors Award (1992), a Friends of American Writers Prize (1981), and two O'Henry Awards (1985 and 1988). In 2001, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her essays have appeared in numerous publications, including the New Yorker, Practical Horseman, Harper's, the New York Times Magazine, and Vanity Fair.

A dedicated educator, Smiley taught from 1981 to 1996 at Iowa State University in Ames, where she was known for her fine sense of humor and energetic teaching style. She taught at the UI as a visiting assistant professor of English in 1981 and 1987, has given several readings here, and appeared as guest speaker at the 1991 Friends of the University of Iowa Libraries dinner.

As one of the country's most respected writers, Smiley is especially well-known for the meticulously crafted and researched portrayals of the Midwesterners who appear in many of her novels. Her work has brought national distinction to the Writers' Workshop, the UI College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and the University of Iowa.


Gene Wilder, 55BA

2003 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Gene Wilder, 55BA, is probably best known for making millions of people laugh, but his skills as an actor, screenwriter, and director have made enormous contributions to American cultural life.

From the time he appeared in The Producers (1968) and Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971), he became a well-known face in feature films. He has been twice nominated for an Academy Award, for The Producers and for Young Frankenstein (1974), and he has made countless classic comedies.

Born Jerome Silberman in Milwaukee in 1933, Wilder graduated from the University of Iowa with a B.A. in Communication and Theatre Arts in 1955. He soon made a name for himself in professional theater, winning the attention of Hollywood. The rest, as they say, is movie history.

Wilder's ingenious comic timing and delivery, his Harpo Marx hair, and his infectious smile have become well-known in the many films he has made over three decades, which include Start the Revolution Without Me (1970), Quackser Fortune Has a Cousin in the Bronx (1970), Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex But Were Afraid to Ask (1972), The Little Prince (1974), Blazing Saddles (1974), Rhinoceros (1974), Silver Streak (1976), The Frisco Kid (1979), Stir Crazy (1980), Hanky Panky (1982), The Woman in Red (1984), See No Evil, Hear No Evil (1988), Funny About Love (1990), and Another You (1992).

Wilder's acting skills represent only a part of his talent. He conceived the idea for Young Frankenstein and co-wrote the screenplay with Mel Brooks. The success of that film, along with the fact that no one else was writing the types of roles he liked to play, convinced him to write-and then star in-more film plays. One of the first of these was The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother (1975). Not only did he write and star in The World's Greatest Lover (1977), he also directed and produced it.

Wilder is a scholar as well as an artist. He based his stage name on Thomas Wolfe's character Eugene Gant in Look Homeward, Angel and from playwright Thornton Wilder.

In addition to bringing happiness to so many people through his movies, Wilder has provided a major contribution to society through his work in support of cancer patients and their loved ones. After his wife, Gilda Radner, died from cancer in 1989, he became a strong promoter of cancer research and helped found the Gilda Radner Ovarian Cancer Detection Center in Los Angeles. At the same time, he co-founded Gilda's Club, a cancer-patient support program that began in New York City and now has chapters throughout the country.

In 2001, Wilder and his brother-in-law and co-author Gil Pearlman donated a significant collection of scripts, correspondence, film memorabilia, and photographs to Special Collections at the UI Libraries, including a draft of Young Frankenstein.

Wilder's successful career and his selfless and heartfelt work in supporting cancer patients and cancer research have clearly made him one of the UI's most valued and beloved graduates.


Susan C. Winckler, 92BSPh

2003 Distinguished Alumni Young Award

Susan C. Winckler, 92BSPh, has risen quickly to a national leadership role in the area of pharmaceutical and health policy development since graduating from Iowa. As vice president for policy and communications and staff counsel for the American Pharmacists Association (APhA), the national professional society of pharmacists located in Washington, DC, Winckler is the primary spokesperson for the association and its senior lobbyist on Capitol Hill.

Winckler showed promise early on as a student in the University of Iowa College of Pharmacy. Professor Lloyd Matheson says of her, "Perhaps once in a decade a student comes through the College of Pharmacy who is so outstanding, and contributes to so many activities both inside and outside the college, that you regret that person's departure at graduation. Susan was such a person."

Winckler-whose parents both graduated from the College of Pharmacy-was an exceptional student leader involved in extracurricular and leadership activities that included organizations such as the College of Pharmacy Student Council, Alpha Xi Delta Women's Fraternity, and the UI Homecoming Executive Council. She was a member of the Hawkeye Marching Band, was named an Outstanding Collegiate Scholar, was a finalist in the National Patient Counseling Competition in 1992, and served on the dean's search committee from 1991 to 1992.

After completing her UI degree and working for the Iowa Medicaid program for a year, Winckler went to work for APhA. None of her former UI teachers are surprised by her quick ascension in the most important national organization in her field.

In her "spare time," Winckler enrolled in Georgetown Law School's evening program while continuing to work full time for APhA. She was selected for the dean's list all three years in the program, and in 2001 graduated in the top ten percent of her class.

Winckler now heads the legislative affairs programs for APhA and in that role works with legislative affairs staff from pharmacy and other health professions to develop legislation related to key healthcare-related national policy issues such as universal health coverage, Medicare reform, and Medicare drug coverage-one of the most prominent issues on our current national agenda.

As spokesperson for APhA, Winckler has given countless presentations around the country and appeared on national television programs such as CNN, Good Morning America, C-SPAN's Washington Journal, CNN Financial News, the Wall Street Journal Report, NBC's Dateline, and CBS Evening News. She has been interviewed for numerous national publications including USA Today, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post, and she has written numerous Washington Insider columns for APhA's official publication Pharmacy Today, which is distributed to more than 100,000 pharmacists.

While continuing to make significant contributions to her profession at the national level, Winckler returns to Iowa frequently to meet with students, pharmacists, and the Iowa Pharmacy Association. The UIAA is proud to honor her as an inspirational example of what a UI graduate can accomplish.

Winckler is a member of the UI Alumni Association.


Richard R. Albrecht, 58BA, 61JD

2002 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Richard R. Albrecht, 58BA, 61JD, has achieved personal and professional success that took him from a small Iowa farm to prestigious law offices with international significance. However, Albrecht has never forgotten the values instilled by his family and his origins in a small Iowa community. They shaped his global achievements in law and government, guiding him through a role as general counsel for the United States Department of the Treasury, a 22-year tenure at the Boeing Company, and a lengthy partnership in the Pacific Northwest's largest law firm.

Albrecht's Iowa upbringing and education served him well throughout this varied career. The Hartley, Iowa, native completed a UI chemistry degree in 1958 and a UI law degree in 1961. During law school, he served as editor-in-chief for the prestigious Iowa Law Review, honing his legal expertise and leadership skills.

This experience helped prepare Albrecht for his first law position at the Seattle, Washington, firm of Holman, Mickelwait, Marion, Black & Perkins (now known as Perkins Coie), where he became a partner in 1968.

During the early days of Albrecht's busy career, he still found time to perform volunteer public service at the state and local levels, serving on the boards of a number of community and nonprofit organizations. The Seattle-King County Municipal League recognized his achievements with its 1969 Outstanding Citizen of the Year award. Albrecht also served as a member (1970-74) and chair (1972-74) of the Washington State Council of Higher Education.

A career move in 1974 took him to Washington, DC, as general counsel of the United States Department of the Treasury, where he earned the Alexander Hamilton award for outstanding service. Returning to Seattle in 1976, he became general counsel and secretary of the Boeing Company. As a member of Boeing's senior management, Albrecht concluded his career there as executive vice-president, with responsibility for all commercial relations with customers of the Commercial Airplane Group. Following his retirement from Boeing, Albrecht returned to Perkins Coie as counsel.

He has continued to serve his community in many capacities, including 20 years as a board member and four years as chair of a large regional medical center, and 12 years as a Regent of Washington State University. Not having forgotten the University of Iowa's educational mission, he is a member of the College of Law Dean's Club, and he served on the Iowa Endowment 2000 National Campaign Committee.

Richard Albrecht's outstanding accomplishments-in everything from serving in high-level government, to guiding a global corporation, to volunteering for higher education and health care-place him in a premier group of Iowa graduates who have tirelessly dedicated their lives to service and leadership.

Albrecht is a life member of the UI Alumni Association and a member of the UI Foundation's Presidents Club.


C.F. Barrett, 44DDS

2002 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

C.F. "Larry" Barrett, knows what it means to serve people's needs. For 52 years, this dentist and University of Iowa graduate took pride in providing personalized care and service to patients in his Davenport, Iowa, practice. Even after his retirement in 1996, Barrett has continued to work for others. He has dedicated himself to improving his community, promoting the dental profession, supporting his alma mater, and contributing to both his state and country.

Former Iowa Governor Terry Branstad recognized Barrett for his work on the State Board of Health, on which he served for 21 years. The former U.S. Navy man also served with distinction as a delegate and alternate delegate to the American Dental Association-and has been a member of the Iowa Dental Association for more than 55 years.

Barrett's role as chair of a State Special Committee on Access led to a series of reports and recommendations that remain the foundation for current initiatives to improve oral healthcare for all Iowans, especially children

Work as a practicing dentist-and as a long-time adjunct assistant professor at the UI College of Dentistry-helped prepare Barrett for these state and national positions. In addition, he has always been committed to helping students. For more than 27 years, Barrett participated in the UI College of Dentistry's Preceptorship Program, which gives senior dental students the chance for hands-on learning from practicing professionals.

This is not the only way Barrett has worked to transform students' lives. He and his wife, Lois Krupp Barrett, 44BA, have established scholarships for the UI College of Dentistry and UI Department of Athletics, including the John C. Montgomery and James H. McLeran Pierre Fauchard Education Award and the Dr. C.F. "Larry" and Lois Barrett Football Scholarship.

Barrett's service on the UI Dental Alumni Association Board since 1975 is only a small part of his total community involvement. For 35 years, he has worked for the State Special Olympics as a board member and volunteer, and he received the Outstanding Volunteer Award for 1990. A committed member and past president of the Davenport Quarterback Club, Barrett received the UI's Honorary National Letter Winner award this year.

A fellow of the American College of Dentists, the International College of Dentists, and the Pierre Fauchard Academy, Barrett has received the Iowa Dental Association's Alumnus of the Year, Distinguished Service, and Presidential awards. And, in 1985, Pope John Paul II honored him with the Knight of St. Gregory, which is the highest recognition for a layperson in the Catholic Church.

Throughout more than 60 years of affiliation with the University of Iowa, Barrett has proven himself to be an exemplary alumnus who selflessly gives to others.

Barrett is a life member of the UI Alumni Association and a member of the UI Foundation's Presidents Club.


Martin G. Carver, 70BA

2002 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Martin G. Carver, 70BA, chairman, president, and CEO of Bandag, Incorporated, has steered his family's Muscatine, Iowa-based company to the forefront of the international tire management industry, while never losing sight of the fact that business is about people.

The youngest son of successful Iowa entrepreneur Roy J. Carver, Martin Carver has employed a highly effective personal approach to managing the company that his father founded. Among other things, he has instituted a corporate culture that motivates Bandag employees and franchisees to work together in teams to accomplish company goals.

An avid motorsports enthusiast, Carver set a world land speed record for diesel trucks in 1988. He was clocked at 151 miles per hour while driving the "Bandag Bandit" truck-equipped with Bandag retreads-at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah. Carver did this to demonstrate the quality of Bandag products, which are manufactured using state-of-the-art technology that retreads worn truck tires to maximize their service life.

Bandag's success is proven even off the racetrack. The company achieved Fortune 500 stature in 1991 and 1992. In addition, Carver was named 1986 CEO of the Year in the rubber and plastics industry by Financial World magazine. In 1989, Financial World also honored Carver as the CEO of the Decade in a broader category for the chemicals industry.

Though he is a global business executive, Carver is a true Iowa son at heart. The UI mathematics major has not lost touch with the place that started him on the road to achievement. For more than a decade, Bandag has funded an annual basketball camp for youngsters in Muscatine, and in recognition of this commitment, the University of Iowa Athletics Department designated Carver as an honorary UI men's basketball coach.

Carver also makes time for community involvements that include serving on the board of directors of the National Civility Center, a community-building organization based in Muscatine. He is a member of the Aspen Institute's Society of Fellows, and he has been a director and chairman of the board of Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois.

A big fan of the University of Iowa, Carver also supports UI athletics and Hancher Auditorium. A member of the Board of Visitors of the Henry B. Tippie College of Business, he also served on the Iowa Endowment 2000 Campaign.

These and other accomplishments clearly demonstrate that Carver has been a driving force for positive change in the business world, in his hometown, and in the University of Iowa community.

Carver is a lifetime member of the University of Iowa Alumni Association and a member of the UI Foundation's Presidents Club.


Thomas C. Dolan, 77PhD

2002 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Thomas C. Dolan, 77PhD, the president and chief executive officer of the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE), has spent his professional career working to ensure excellence in health management education. Whether serving in academia or guiding national professional organizations, Dolan has devoted his time and energy to championing causes that have challenged, but ultimately improved, the healthcare field.

He has brought his own integrity to bear on this process, continually emphasizing that values and ethics must drive healthcare leadership. In his position as president of ACHE-a preeminent professional association of healthcare executives comprising nearly 30,000 members-Dolan actively promotes the value of board certification in healthcare management. ACHE's two credentials, FACHE and CHE, which mandate that practicing executives complete formalized, lifelong-learning requirements, are considered the pinnacle of excellence in the healthcare management field.

Dolan also was influential in founding the Institute for Diversity in Health Management, an organization that plays a pivotal role in increasing the number of ethnic minorities in health services administration. Dolan is the current chair of the Institute.

This Chicago native began his career at the UI, serving from 1970 to 1972 as a research assistant and instructor in the graduate program in Hospital and Health Administration. A visiting fellowship at the Department of Health Services in the University of Washington's School of Public Health and Community Medicine followed.

In 1974, Dolan became assistant professor and director of graduate studies in the Section of Health Services Management at the University of Missouri-Columbia. From 1979 to 1986, he was associate professor and founding director of the Center for Health Services Education and Research at Saint Louis University. He left academia in 1986 to join ACHE.

Dolan has always made volunteer work a top priority. His service on national boards and organizations has included chairing the Association of University Programs in Health Administration, the American Society of Association Executives Foundation, and the Association Forum of Chicagoland. He served as president of the Mental Health Association in both Boone County and Missouri, and on the board of trustees of Alexian Brothers Hospital in Saint Louis.

Dolan also has found time to author and coauthor a large number of journal articles, columns, and professional papers, many of which he has presented at various healthcare conferences across the country.

Despite these varied demands on his time, Dolan has been an active and enthusiastic supporter of his alma mater, serving in the UI College of Public Health's alumni association and providing ongoing consultation and support to graduate students and faculty.

Though healthcare has dramatically evolved since Dolan was a University of Iowa graduate student, his commitment to integrity in the midst of change has remained the same.

Dolan is a life member of the UI Alumni Association.


Jerome R. Feniger, Jr., 48BA

2002 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

Jerome "Jerry" Feniger, 48BA, went from introducing big band leaders to University of Iowa students to introducing broadcast advertising to the world. After spending his entire career at the forefront of the communications and broadcast industry, Feniger has given back generously to the university that gave him a voice in broadcasting.

Feniger found this voice at Iowa, where, as a communications and theatre arts major, he participated in several University Theatre productions. The young entertainment lover also hosted Rhythm Rambles, a WSUI radio program that gave him the opportunity to emcee dances and meet big band leaders such as Tex Beneke, Woody Herman, and Claude Thornhill.

Feniger transformed his early entertainment interest into a lengthy and fruitful career that began with his first job as an account executive and advertising time buyer for the Biow Company in New York. Many lucrative positions followed. He was a chief time buyer for Cunningham and Walsh in New York City, a sales executive for CBS, and, as an executive of Cowles Communications, he helped the organization expand into broadcast media. From 1965 to 1970, Feniger was vice president of Grey Advertising, Inc.

In 1970, Feniger founded and became president of Horizons Communications, Inc., which owned and operated eight radio and television stations throughout the country. He is managing director of the Station Representatives Association, Inc., past president of the International Radio and Television Society, past chair of the International Radio and Television Foundation, and a member of the founding group of the Museum of Television and Radio.

Throughout these numerous leadership roles, Feniger continues to use his communication skills to connect with others. He serves as the senior director of the Advertising Council and has been deeply involved in assisting various philanthropic organizations with their public service advertising campaigns. He also has been instrumental in helping Iowa alumni find professional success on the East Coast.

Though Feniger did graduate work at Columbia University and New York University, and eventually earned an honorary doctorate from St. John's University, his Iowa affinity remains strong. Actively involved in all of the Iowa alumni gatherings in the New York City area, he is also a former national committee member for the Iowa Endowment 2000 Campaign.

In addition, Feniger has provided generous financial resources for the UI, particularly through the endowed Jerome and Marian Feniger Fellowship in Communication Studies, which offers financial aid to needy and deserving majors who plan to pursue careers in broadcasting.

It seems fitting that a student who made the most of his educational experience to become a broadcasting pioneer is now giving other UI students the chance to do the same.

Feniger is a life member of the UI Alumni Association and a member of the UI Foundation's Presidents Club.


Kelly J. Hayworth, 83BBA, 85MBA

2002 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

Kelly J. Hayworth, 83BBA, 85MBA, knows what it means to be a good neighbor. Not only is this University of Iowa graduate willing to lend a helping hand in his own town, but he's also willing to reach out to his alma mater's hometown. That's because the 14-year administrator for the city of Coralville, Iowa, understands that good neighbors-and forward-looking ideas-make for prosperous communities.

The Des Moines, Iowa, native learned such lessons during his years at the UI as an undergraduate majoring in industrial relations and human resources and a graduate student in finance and industrial relations and human resources. While at Iowa, Hayworth gained the leadership and business acumen that he still applies to his professional life today: political skills, people skills, and partnering skills.

Hayworth also honed his business and leadership skills through professional experiences that included summers working for the Iowa State Fair Board in Des Moines and a position as finance officer for Creston, Iowa, where he successfully developed and managed a $3 million budget, established new employee policies, and planned financing for capital improvements.

Just 26 years old when he became Coralville city administrator, Hayworth used his people skills, business savvy, and fiscal discipline to build the community into a place worthy of the city's "Just Can't Hide That Coralville Pride" slogan.

Hayworth's most notable achievements include spearheading major economic development projects, such as the Coral Ridge Mall; developing the Town Center, a retail and business area near the heart of town; expanding the city's infrastructure, including the wastewater treatment and water facilities; planning for an extensive trails system; and hosting city celebrations, such as the annual Fourth Fest and overnight RAGBRAI stops.

Under Hayworth's direction, the city of Coralville has earned two Iowa League of Cities All Star Community Awards-an honor that goes to a select group of Iowa communities each year-and was designated the "Most Livable City in the World" in its population category in 2002.

Though he's adept at providing big-picture guidance, Hayworth also is willing to roll up his sleeves, sometimes literally, and help his city attend to the smaller details of building a prosperous community. He has created programs to benefit young people, including the annual Northwest Junior High "Make a Difference" day, in which seventh grade students work in community service for one day each year. He also is a dedicated leader of the Iowa Valley Habitat for Humanity and a member of various local volunteer groups and organizations.

Despite this busy schedule of supporting his own city's community, Hayworth finds time to stay connected to his UI community and continues to be the best kind of neighbor.

Hayworth is a life member of the UI Alumni Association.


Judith B. Igoe, 61BSN

2002 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Judith B. Igoe, 61BSN, has made the world a healthier place for children. The associate professor and director of the Office of School Health at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center's School of Nursing is a leader in her field, with a national reputation for her expertise and commitment. Throughout her lifetime, Igoe has been a visionary and indefatigable advocate for schoolchildren and school nurses alike.

With innovative ideas and interdisciplinary approaches, this University of Iowa graduate has managed to significantly transform policy development for school health programs, shaping them to meet the wellness needs of school-age children and the educational needs of school nurses.

Early in her post-UI career, as one of the nation's first pediatric nurse practitioners, Igoe developed the specialty area of school nurse practitioner, running the prototype program at the University of Colorado School of Nursing. This is just one of many visionary developments to her credit. Igoe also created the School Nurse Achievement training program, which includes a series of training modules to help school nurses work with special needs children; the SHARE program, which brings together nursing faculty from across the country for educational programs and collaborative experiences in school health; and the HealthPACT program, which offers creative aids aimed at educating children and their families about the healthcare system and how to use it more effectively.

Igoe's ability to work effectively with healthcare providers from different disciplines-and with state, national, and international agencies-has garnered global attention for the often-overlooked issue of promoting schoolchildren's health. A renowned crusader in the field, Igoe recently assisted the American Academy of Pediatrics with literature reviews for the Health, Mental Health, and Safety in Schools project, and she often travels to Washington, DC, to participate in school health task forces.

Several different national agencies have recognized Igoe's relentless commitment to the cause of healthier children. Among her many professional accolades are the William A. Howe award from the American School Health Association, the John C. MacQueen Lecture Award from the Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs, and the Milton J.E. Senn Award of the American Academy of Pediatrics.

This national recognition has not shifted Igoe's focus from serving as a mentor for other school nurses or from advancing the field of school nursing. She has developed several summer institutes for nursing educators and is a prolific writer who has published two books, produced 26 book chapters, and authored 45 articles. She also established the Office for School Health at the University of Colorado School of Nursing.

Igoe credits her well-rounded University of Iowa education as the inspiration-and preparation-for her many professional accomplishments. Her remarkable international contributions to the field of school health nursing have connected Iowa with the rest of the world in the cause of improving children's health.


Roy G. Karro, 42BA

2002 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

Roy G. Karro, 42BA, arrived at the University of Iowa from New York City in 1939, with barely enough resources to cover the $85 out-of-state tuition. Sixty years later, the loyal Hawkeye made the largest single contribution ever in support of UI Intercollegiate Athletics-$3 million to fund the new Roy G. Karro Hall of Fame and Visitors Center.

This commitment is just one of numerous gifts Karro has made to his alma mater. He has contributed to the UI every year since 1956, when the University of Iowa Foundation began.

The son of immigrants, Karro started out as an undergraduate student at the City College of New York, working on Wall Street. He transferred to Iowa and, during his journey to Iowa City, ended up riding part of the way on a train with heavyweight boxing champion Joe Louis.

The year Karro began at Iowa as a sociology major, Nile Kinnick and the Ironmen were playing in a 1939 football season that would make them one of the most famous teams in UI history-and Karro saw it all from the stands. This might explain the UI graduate's tremendous Hawkeye spirit, which prompted him to invest in the Karro Hall of Fame and Visitors Center-a building that will pay tribute to Iowa athletes from different eras and programs.

Karro also has generously supported athletes and coaches by donating $50,000 to the Hayden Fry Scholarship Fund-awarded annually to an offensive and defensive football captain-and commissioning a bronze bust of retired UI football coach Hayden Fry. In addition, Karro established the Jim Zabel Scholarship Fund for communication students majoring in broadcast journalism.

After earning his degree from the UI, Karro served in the U.S. Air Force for three years during World War II. Soon after, he joined the Southfield, Michigan, investment firm of Salomon Smith Barney, moving up the ranks to vice president, a position he held until his retirement in 1999.

Even from his home in Michigan, Karro finds plenty of ways to stay in touch with the UI. In 1999, he was named an honorary letter winner, though he never played sports at Iowa. He also is a Kinnick Society member, a 1942 Liberal Arts Class Gift Committee member, a former Regional Alumni Telefund caller, and a member of the Iowa Endowment 2000 National Committee.

Though it's been many years since Karro first stepped off the train, checked in to the Jefferson Hotel, and began his future at the University of Iowa, he has used his outstanding generosity to keep happy black and gold memories alive for himself and countless other Hawkeye fans.

Karro is a life member of the UI Alumni Association and a UI Foundation Presidents Club Gold member.


Gwilym S. Lodwick, 42BA, 43MD, 50R

2002 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Gwilym S. Lodwick, 42BA, 43MD, 50R, a professor emeritus and former chair in the University of Missouri School of Medicine's Department of Radiology, has been a trailblazer in the field of radiology, willing to chart the unknown in hopes of bettering humanity.

The young Lodwick began this incredible journey by leaving his hometown of Mystic, Iowa, for the University of Iowa. He completed a bachelor's degree in zoology and a medical degree, before World War II interrupted his university career.

In 1943, Lodwick entered the U.s. Army as a first lieutenant in the 95th Medical Gas Treatment Battalion, serving through the Battle of France, the Battle of Ardennes, and the Battle of Germany. Afterwards, Lodwick treated prisoners from the infamous Bergen-Belsen concentration camp and scavenged German medical equipment to organize a much-needed radiographic field facility.

When his armed services assignment ended, Lodwick returned to complete a medical residency in the University of Iowa Department of Radiology-which in 1970 honored him with its Most Distinguished Alumnus Award during the UI College of Medicine's centennial celebration.

Lodwick earned this distinction through years of hard work and research at prestigious academic institutions around the globe. During his career, Lodwick's various academic appointments included deanships, directorships, and chairmanships. He also served as a visiting professor in departments of radiology at the University of Turku in Finland, the Keio University School of Medicine in Japan, and Harvard Medical School-where he continues to be a regular lecturer on bone tumors and determination of growth.

These are not Lodwick's only areas of expertise. In 1975, he received a Nobel Prize nomination for his groundbreaking work in image modeling and the computer diagnosis of bone tumors. His other major research interests have included skeletal radiology, medical decision-making, radiology information systems, radiology image management systems, and automated image analysis.

He has outlined many of his research findings in the numerous books, chapters, articles, and papers he has published throughout his career. In addition, Lodwick has been a member of several editorial boards and illustrious medical societies. He is a senior member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences and was a founding member of the International Skeletal Society.

To help ensure that students have access to the same excellent medical education that laid the foundation for his own career, Lodwick established the Dr. Gwilym Lodwick and Maria Antonia Lodwick Medical Scholarship at the UI and the Dr. Gwilym S. Lodwick and Maria Antonia Lodwick Distinguished Professorship in Radiology at the University of Missouri-Columbia.

Though Lodwick's many accomplishments have brought him international recognition and acclaim, he has never forgotten that his work is about helping others rather than earning distinctions.

Lodwick is a life member of the UI Alumni Association and a member of the UI Foundation's Presidents Club.


Fred Luthans, 61BA, 62MBA, 65PhD

2002 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Fred Luthans, 61BA, 62MBA, 65PhD, has helped revolutionize employee performance the world over. Though he's taught at the University of Nebraska for 35 years, this George Holmes University Distinguished Professor of Management has traveled the globe and published prolifically, sharing his pioneering work with everyone from corporations to institutions of higher education.

The Clinton, Iowa, native has enhanced the field of management by demonstrating a link between employeeproductivity and the approach taken by management and human resources professionals. Luthans has authored nearly a dozen books that not only have transformed the way businesses work, but also have appeared on college and university syllabi across the country.

Some of his most well-known texts include Organizational Behavior (now in its ninth edition); Organizational Behavior Modifications, which won the American Society of Personnel Administration Award for outstanding contribution to human resources management; Real Managers; and International Management. In addition, Luthans has written hundreds of book chapters and journal articles, serves as editor of three academic journals, and has been a McGraw-Hill consulting editor for more than 20 years. He was named to the Academy of Management Hall of Fame for being one of the top five published authors in the Academy's journals.

However, before Luthans was using his research and communication skills to help businesses run better, he was running the track at the University of Iowa, where he competed for the Iowa track team and discovered his love for teaching as a doctoral student. Luthans further honed this passion, as well as his leadership acumen, during a two-year academic position at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point while he was an Army officer.

After more than three decades as a professor and management educator, the UI graduate's commitment to teaching is even stronger-and it shows. In 1997, Luthans received the prestigious National Academy of Management's Distinguished Educator Award, which goes to only one such educator in the world each year.

The breadth and depth of his educating experience extends to the public and private consulting sector as well. This former president of the National Academy of Management has done national and international consulting for organizations such as Deutsche Telekom, U.S. West, Wal-Mart, and Iowa Beef Processors. For the past three years, he has been a senior scientist for Gallup, Inc. He also has worked at home and abroad-in places such as Singapore, Chile, Albania, and Russia-as a distinguished lecturer and workshop leader.

Luthans' extensive research program has earned him international recognition. Whether he is writing, teaching, consulting, or conducting research, this loyal UI graduate-who remains a Hawkeye fan, even in Husker land-is working to make today's workplace a better place for managers and employees alike.

Luthans is a life member of the UI Alumni Association.


Joseph B. Summers, 48BSCE

2002 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

Joseph B. Summers, 48BSCE, has influenced irrigation and water conservation in California and throughout the world during more than 53 years in his chosen fields of agricultural and civil engineering.

For nearly four decades, the California-based Summers Engineering firm has provided consulting services for irrigation and drainage projects around the globe. Summers' company has completed a number of prestigious assignments for urban water supply agencies and irrigation districts, and he himself has served as a United Nations consultant on irrigation and drainage in Argentina's Pampas region. In addition, Summers was the U.S. Committee on Irrigation and Drainage national chair for meetings on toxic substances in agricultural water supplies, and in 1981 he was a U.S. representative at the 11th Congress of the International Commission on Irrigation and Drainage.

Though Summers interrupted his studies to serve as a B-24 bombardier in Europe during World War II, the Ardon, Iowa, native finished his UI degree in civil engineering and went to work as a hydraulic engineer for the United States Bureau of Reclamation in Denver, Colorado. He earned a master's degree in civil engineering from Colorado University in 1951.

Summers' fascination with civil engineering goes way back. Raised in rural Ardon, Summers helped on his family's 160-acre farm. Trains rolling through his father's railroad station also piqued his early interest in engineering.

This lifetime of experience is the reason so many people in parched districts turn to Summers for assistance. He was chair of an oversight committee that took on one of the largest, most complex water conservation negotiations in U.S. history. The committee crafted a $100-million agreement between Southern California's Metropolitan Water District-which supplies water to the Los Angeles area-and the Imperial Irrigation District just north of the boundary line of Mexico.

Summers also finds time to tend his own land, using cultivation techniques on his 210-acre walnut farm that prompted a grower's cooperative trade magazine to dub him "Water Master." Summers' other accolades include the inaugural Merriam Improved Irrigation Award from the U.S. Committee on Irrigation and Drainage and a 2001 induction into the UI College of Engineering's Distinguished Engineering Alumni Academy.

A member of the UI College of Engineering Advisory Board, he established the Joseph and Rose Summers Scholarship in Civil Engineering and also made a major gift to build an interactive electronic classroom for the college. He recently established the Joseph and Rose Summers Endowed Chair in Engineering.

This "water master" who has had such a profound effect on global water preservation also will have a lasting impact on future generations of UI engineers.

Summers is a life member of the UI Alumni Association and a member of the UI Foundation's Presidents Club.


Sheba R. Wheeler, 96BA

2002 Distinguished Alumni Young Award

Sheba R. Wheeler, 96BA, became a Pulitzer Prize-nominated reporter before the age of 30, and she did so by demonstrating solid "shoe-leather" journalism, tenacity, and tremendous grace under pressure. Practically straight out of the UI's School of Journalism and Mass Communications, this Temple, Texas, native landed a staff reporter position at the Denver Post, a paper with a circulation of nearly half a million.

Wheeler earned this distinction by telling people's stories-including her own-with detail and integrity. As a young girl who endured a childhood of poverty, family problems, and years spent cycling on and off public assistance, Wheeler possessed personal insight into the complexities of welfare reform. So when the Denver Post asked her-while she was still an intern in 1997-to provide a firsthand account of this experience, Wheeler transformed her pain into powerful words that resulted in a Pulitzer Prize nomination and a job offer from a paper with a history of hiring few interns.

The Denver Post recognized Wheeler's outstanding determination and talent, and she has used these qualities to speak for those who traditionally have not been able to tell their own stories. Covering a northeast Denver neighborhood that contains the highest concentration of people of color, she writes riveting stories of people, race, poverty, and housing issues.

Wheeler also has covered the police beat and worked in the Boulder city bureau. However, one of her most important assignments was covering the April 1999 Columbine High School shootings, for which the Denver Post's staff collectively won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for spot news reporting. As part of this coverage, Wheeler wrote about senior Rachel Scott, one of the first Columbine victims, and got to know Scott's family and friends during the course of telling their very painful story.

One of the ways in which Wheeler helped overcome her own difficult story was by attending the University of Iowa as a journalism major. She worked hard to get to Iowa, and while on campus, she always held at least two jobs and participated in everything from singing for Voices of Soul to writing for the Daily Iowan. Wheeler made the Dean's and President's lists numerous times and now regularly returns to the UI. She has been a professional-in-residence, helping teach other Daily Iowan reporters and journalism majors, and is the youngest member of the journalism school's Professional Advisory Board.

Though Wheeler has earned many awards for her work-in addition to being nominated for and sharing in a Pulitzer Prize, she also was named Print Journalist of the Year by the Colorado Association of Black Journalists in 2000-she remains humble and gracious.

Wheeler is a UI graduate who uses her skills and talents to cover the news—however hard it may be—with humanity and compassion.


Rolena Adorno, 64BA

2001 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Rolena Adorno, 64BA, professor of Latin American literature at Yale University, is an esteemed scholar and leading literary critic who has helped shape the new landscape of Latin American literary studies in this country.

When she earned her bachelor's degree in Spanish from the University of Iowa, Adorno graduated "with highest distinction," a qualification that aptly describes the span of her academic career. After obtaining her doctoral degree from Cornell University, Adorno published dozens of critical articles over the next 12 years and developed imaginative, new approaches to the study of colonial Latin American literature.

She became most importantly known for the publication in 1986 of the groundbreaking book, Guaman PomaWriting and Resistance in Colonial Peru. Combining a rigorous analysis of texts by the colonial author, Guaman Poma, with an historical overview of the colonization of Peru, Adorno's book offers a vivid look at the confrontation of an indigenous culture with its colonial conquerors and reveals the survival of a vital native legacy.

Continuing to work on the frontiers of humanities scholarship, Adorno recently cowrote a prizewinning, three-volume book on early Spanish exploration in North America, Álvar Núnez Cabeza de Vaca: His Account, His Life, and the Expedition of Pánfilo de Narváez. She is currently collaborating with the Royal Library of Denmark, Copenhagen, in making Spanish colonial-era manuscripts available worldwide on the Internet.

In her re-mapping of the field of Latin American colonial literature, she is first among equals. Adorno's peers praise her commitment to careful scholarship and her openness to innovation and interdisciplinary study. According to Brian Gollnick, UI assistant professor of Spanish and Portuguese, the kinds of knowledge Adorno uses to complete her critical writing "exemplify the painstaking work of traditional philology, put to service of a new approach to cultural history."

The vibrancy and relevance of her scholarship also show up in her many journal articles. Another contemporary, UI professor of Spanish Adriana Mendez Rodenas, calls Adorno's compelling list of published research a "working model for tracing the anthropological mediation of Latin American literature and the relation between history and literature."

With scholarship that has revolutionized and reinvigorated a once-marginalized field of study, Adorno has demonstrated the highest level of accomplishment possible within the U.S. university system. Her imaginative research not only stands as a groundbreaking body of work, but also continues to inspire new scholars coming to the field.

Adorno is a member of the UI Alumni Association's Directors' Club Honor Circle.


Daryl K. Granner, 58BA, 62MD, 62MS

2001 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Daryl K. Granner, 58BA, 62MD, an international leader in molecular biology research, is held in high esteem among doctors and biologists as an extraordinary physician, a superb teacher, an inventive scientist, and a creative leader and administrator.

Granner rose to academic success early. Shortly after arriving at the University of Iowa in 1970 as a faculty member in the Department of Internal Medicine, Granner was appointed director of the department's Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism. The youngest person ever to achieve the position of division director in that department, Granner gained further recognition in 1979 as founder and first director of the UI's Diabetes and Endocrinology Research Center. In that position, he initiated imaginative inroads into cellular and molecular research on hormone action.

Granner gained worldwide recognition for his research. Heralded for his pioneering studies on the regulation of gene transcription by insulin and for applying the principles of molecular physiology to diabetes, for more than 40 years he has maintained an impressive publication record in the most outstanding peer-reviewed journals. Through his research and by establishing a superlative Department of Molecular Physiology within the School of Medicine at Vanderbilt University, he also built one of the leading centers for diabetes research in the United States.

Nominated twice by fourth-year UI medical students for the Teacher of the Year Award, Granner has excelled as an educator, as well. In large part due to Granner's work, Vanderbilt University Medical Center was listed at number 16 in a recent U.S. News & World Report ranking. Under his leadership, Vanderbilt's Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics has become one of the leading departments in the world in this discipline. Granner propelled his department to an enviable ranking in research support, attracting more national funding by 1998 than any other physiology department in the country. Granner also took over the medical scientist training program at Vanderbilt, and it grew into what is now widely regarded as the best training ground for the physician-scientist.

Granner is now the Joe C. Davis Professor of Biomedical Science and the director of the Vanderbilt Diabetes Center, as well as professor of molecular physiology and biophysics, and professor of internal medicine. He continues to play a major role at Vanderbilt as a teacher and as an advisor for a number of programs and plans, and he helps write and edit the widely used textbook, Harper's Biochemistry, now in its 25th edition and translated into nine languages.

Granner is a member of the UI Alumni Association's Directors' Club.


Joel T.S. Greer, 75BA, 78JD

2001 Distinguished Hickerson Recognition Award

Joel T.S. Greer, 75BA, 78JD, has long been an active participant in the University of Iowa Alumni Association, serving more than eight years on the board of directors, in addtiion to three years on the Old Capitol Club Advisory Board. But his affiliation with the UI and with the Alumni Association actually reaches back more than three decades.

As an undergraduate at the UI, Greer served as a representative in the Liberal Arts Student Association, founded a fraternity's little sister program, and participated in track and in intramural sports, made Phi Beta Kappa, and graduated with high distinction.

During law school, Greer clerked for a federal judge in Cedar Rapids, served as president of Omicron Delta Kappa, and participated as a member of the Moot Court Board. He is now a partner in the Marshalltown firm of Cartwright, Druker & Ryden, and he practices primarily in civil litigation.

Greer faced many unknowns when he took over as the Alumni Association's president. But, from 1998 to 1999, he resolutely saw the organization through challenging times of transition, helped plan for the changes ahead, and faced everything with humor and practicality to the task at hand. The start of his term coincided with the organization's move into the Levitt Center for University Advancement, and Greer guided the Alumni Association through a year that witnessed two milestones: the largest growth in its history, with enrollment climbing to more than 50,000 members, and the decision to redesign and increase publication frequency of the alumni magazine.

In his professional life, Greer currently serves as president of the Iowa Academy of Trial Lawyers, chairperson of the Iowa Supreme Court Grievance Committee, a member of the board of governors of the Iowa State Bar Association, a founding member of the American Academy of ADR Attorneys, and a member of the Supreme Court Judicial Nominating Commission. In the past, he has served on the Iowa Trial Lawyers Association board of governors, as chair of the Bench Bar committee, and as chair of the public relations committee of the State Bar Association.

In his community, Greer has served as president of the YMCA-YWCA, United Way, Big Brothers, Child Abuse Prevention Services, Council on Aging, the American Cancer Society's local unit, Mid-Iowa Mental Health Center, and his church cabinet. He has also been director of the Marshalltown Area Chamber of Commerce, American Red Cross Iowa River Chapter, Rotary, and Norwest Bank. Greer has coached his daughters' softball, soccer, and mock trial teams.

Greer is a member of the UI Alumni Association's Directors' Club Honor Circle and a member of the UI Foundation's Presidents Club.


Percy G. Harris

2001 Distinguished Alumni Friend Award

Percy G. Harris, the first African-American Iowa regent and an eminent Cedar Rapids family physician, has been a doctor to thousands of patients, as well as a healer to a much broader community.

On the occasion of his retirement from private practice in 1999, many noted that Harris would be missed because of his seemingly boundless empathy, not only for his patients, but also for every human being he meets. Former patients describe a doctor in step with the latest in diagnosis and treatment, but old-fashioned in the way he cared—a physician who could always spend time seeing to their emotional, as well as physical, health.

The first black person ever to intern at St. Luke's Hospital in Cedar Rapids in 1957, Harris served for more than 40 years with distinction on the staffs of both St. Luke's and Mercy Hospitals in Cedar Rapids. In 1976, he became chief of staff at St Luke's Hospital, where he led the initiative to offer open heart surgery services there. In his job as Linn County's first-ever medical examiner, Harris says he learned a lot about handling death with delicacy and concern for victims and their families  and he learned about compassion, witnessing humanitarian outpouring of help and goodwill to people who suffered tragic losses.

Friends say Harris, now retired, used to worry excessively about his patients, that he would get by on only five hours of sleep, and that his idea of relaxation would be sitting up late at night poring over patient insurance forms.

Such devotion spilled over into his two terms of service on the Board of Regents, State of Iowa, and, in fact, Harris confesses he used to wind down at the end of a hard day by reading his regents meeting material. His attention paid off, with initiatives that ensured the best doctors were running UI Hospitals and Clinics and that the UI remained an institution that gives all Iowans a fair opportunity for a college education.

Since completing his service as regent, Harris has continued to be a faithful supporter of the UI's educational departments, medical programs, arts, and athletics. An unwavering advocate of the UI's medical center through membership in the Friends of the UIHC, Harris is also an active supporter of Hancher Auditorium and the athletic department's Golden Hawk Club.

Beloved because of his uncommon care and compassion, Harris was honored in 1996 as the NAACP's Outstanding Citizen, and in 1997, inducted into the Iowa African American Hall of Fame. In 1998, Mercy Medical Center awarded Harris its prestigious Gold-Headed Cane and title Medical Laureate for his medical leadership and eminence. In 2000, the Rotary Club of Cedar Rapids recognized Harris with its eighth annual award for community service.

Harris is a member of the UI Alumni Association's Old Capitol Club and a member of the UI Foundation's Presidents Club.


Karlene M. Kerfoot, 65BSN, 70MA

2001 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Karlene M. Kerfoot, 65BSN, 70MA, has 28 years of experience in nursing and is currently senior vice president for nursing and patient care services and chief nurse executive and associate dean for clinical practice at the University of Indiana School of Nursing.

For several years, she has been the cohost of "Nursing Approach", a weekly program on CNBC cable television. This show is the first program for and about nurses. When the producer selected her to anchor the series, Kerfoot says she guessed wanted someone from "the real world."

She can certainly boast that. Founder of Iowa Citys free medical clinc, Kerfoot also served as chief of the Mental Health Assistance and Community Services Division of the Linn County Psychiatric Clinic in Cedar Rapids from 1974 to 1978. She went on to become an assistant professor at the UI College of Nursing from 1979 to 1981, and senior associate director of the UI Division of Nursing from 1981 to 1985.

After receiving her doctorate in 1983, Kerfoot joined St. Lukes Episcopal Hospital in Houston, where she translated her real-world experience into innovative management that made the hospital internationally famous. During her first months at the hospital, as the executive vice president of patient care and chief nursing officer, she implemented a "shared governance" system, giving all direct patient care nurses a say in policies related to finance, quality assurance, and nursing professional practices.

To further nurture new ideas, Kerfoot established the Center for Nursing Innovation at St. Lukes. Taking an entrepreneurial approach to nursing, Kerfoot sought help from experts in marketing, advertising, editing, and graphics to transform nurses ideas into viable, revenue-producing services and product lines that also enhanced patient care. One such venture is the Code Blue Game, a board game used for annual credentialing of nurses that stimulates critical thinking skills needed for the care of cardiac- and respiratory-arrest patients. The center also publishes a quarterly journal, The Innovator, which spreads the word about new ideas to the nursing community.

Kerfoot received the lifetime Membership Award from the alumni association of the University of Texas in 1987, and she was inducted as a Fellow into the American Academy of Nursing in 1989. For her lifelong commitment to improving clinical practices in the country, Kerfoot has received many prestigious honors, most notably, an international award from Sigma Theta Tau for excellence in leadership, and most recently, the American Association of Critical Care Nurses "Pioneering Spirits Award" in May 2000.


Charles M. Kierscht, 62BA, 62JD

2001 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

Charles M. Kierscht, 62BA, 62JD, a Chicago attorney, was once simply intent on passing the bar. Not as many University of Iowa law graduates aspire to raising the bar where giving back to the university is concerned, but Kierscht has done just that.

Kierscht credits his alma mater with giving him the start that led to 29 successful years with Kemper Financial Services, where he served as chairman, CEO, and president before his retirement. Over the years, he has more than repaid his debt of gratitude through extraordinary support of many UI programs. He made his first gift to the College of Law nearly 40 years ago, and he has shared his considerable knowledge and experience by presenting lectures to students at the Iowa Law School and Henry B. Tippie College of Business and by serving many years on the Iowa Law School Foundation Board of Directors and the UI Foundation Board of Directors.

His generosity extends beyond the bounds of the UI College of Law. To honor his father, a 1934 graduate of the UI College of Dentistry, Kierscht founded the Dr. Charles N. and Florence M. Kierscht Scholarship Fund to provide resources to dental students with financial need. He has also been an avid supporter in other areas of interest, including the UI Alumni Association, the Department of Psychology, the Iowa Women's Archives, the Parents Association, Iowa Hall in the Museum of Natural History, Hawkeye athletics programs, and Old Capitol.

Most recently, Kierscht committed to serving as chair of the Iowa Law School Endowment Campaign for the 21st Century. In this key role, he provides tremendous expertise that will help steer the course of a critical fund-raising project. As a further mark of his commitment, he and his wife, Marion, helped kick off the campaign with a $1 million gift to create the Charles M. and Marion J. Kierscht Law Endowment Fund for faculty support, merit scholarships, and the Iowa Law Library.

Whether it is his service on various boards and committees to advance the UI, his financial support for many programs on campus, or simply his cheering from the sidelines for the Hawkeyes, Kierscht's devotion embodies the spirit of the University of Iowa. Quoted in the brochure for the Iowa Law School Endowment Campaign, Kierscht summarizes his philosophy of service to the UI: "It is not often that we have an opportunity to make a positive and lasting difference. This is one of those times."

Kierscht is a member of the UI Alumni Association's Directors' Club and a gold-level member of the UI Foundation's Presidents Club.


Mauricio Lasansky

2001 Distinguished Faculty Award

Mauricio Lasansky, UI Virgil M. Hancher Professor Emeritus of Art and Art History, retired in 1985 from his position as director of a printmaking department that has garnered international respect for more than five decades.

Last years, U.S. News & World Report once again ranked the graduate printmaking department in the School of Art and Art History as number one in the country, but, long before anyone was publishing rankings of graduate programs, Iowas printmaking department was the acknowledged national leader. Outstanding student artists throughout the world sought the opportunity to come to the UI to become part of what was once called the Iowa Print Group. The reason was Lasansky — an inspired artist who has won more than 200 awards from around the world, and an exciting teacher who has drawn thousands of students from all over the map to his classroom.

The son of a banknote engraver, Lasansky came to the United States from Argentina in 1943 because of his love for the art print. He spent the World War II years in New York City on Guggenheim fellowships, studying the entire print collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and working alongside artists of the international avant-garde. In 1945, Lester Longman, then director of the UI School of Art and Art History, and UI President Virgil Hancher convinced Lasanky to move to Iowa City and create a graphic arts department.

Lasansky promised to make Iowas print shop the best in the country. By 1949, one of Lasanskys students had won his own Guggenheim, several others had received Fulbright fellowships, and some even had prints hanging on Chicago gallery walls. By the early 1950s, Lasanky had turned Iowas print shop into a germinal school. His student were going out and starting print departments of their own everywhere from UCLA to the universities of Texas, Minnesota, Kansas, and Illinois, as well as Tulane, Michigan State, and the Cleveland Institute of Art, among many others.

Lasansky also helped found the UI Museum of Art, first as it developed inside the School of Art and Art History, and again when he urged UI administrators to build a freestanding museum in 1969. The UI Museum of Art owes much of its present-day collection to the efforts of Lasansky to encourage collectors to become major donors of art and funds to the museum. When Roy J. Carver made one of his first gifts to the UI Foundation in 1974, some of those funds financed the construction of a Museum of Art wing that houses a retrospective of Lasanskys work, including his Nazi Drawings, the artists provocative indictment of the Nazi Holocaust.

Lasansky is the recipient of the 1999 Iowa Award, the states highest citizen award, and he is a member of the UI Foundations President Club.


Warren G. Lawson, 55BSC

2001 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

Warren G. Lawson, 55BSC, former Adjutant General of Iowa, has never been one to step back from a battle. From the 1954 Hawkeye gridiron as Most Valuable Player to the Vietnam combat zone to commander of Iowas Army and Air National Guard, Lawson has been the epitome of a leader who goes above and beyond the call.

Lawson returned to his native Iowa in 1979 after retiring from the U.S. Army with nearly 25 years of distinguished service. Appointed the Iowa National Guards Deputy Adjutant General, he served in that capacity until 1985, when he was appointed Adjutant General. During his 20 years in state government, Lawson became well-known for his many achievements, chief among them a revitalized Iowa National Guard, strengthened disaster response and emergency management, and selfless community outreach and public service.

Lawson inherited a Guard that had not been performing well. Convinced the answer resided in better training, Lawson envisioned the design and construction of the Iowa National Guards State Area Command (STARC) Armory Complex at Camp Dodge, where the high-tech facilities of the Guards headquarters gave rise to innovative training opportunities.

Lawson was among the first to demonstrate the power of the Iowa Communications Networks (ICN), a state-owned 3,800-mile fiber optic network that links more than 630 sites around the state. He installed the ICNs interactive video system at all of his Guard units, and, furthermore, he shared his enthusiasm with Iowa communities by providing public access to interactive video at all Guard posts across the state. Now the Iowa National Guard has training capabilities unmatched by any other National Guard in the country.

The credit for Iowas quick and comprehensive recovery from emergencies is due, in large part, to Lawsons leadership. Lawson successfully directed Iowas Emergency Response System in a host of floods, tornadoes, and winter storms and he earned national acclaim for the response to and mitigation efforts for the United 232 air crash in Sioux City, the Terra Chemical Plant explosion, and the historic 1993 floods that ravaged the state.

While the Guard has long supported Boy Scout activities, Lawson expanded the scope of the Guards community outreach. Today, the Guard sponsors weeklong summer camps for hundreds of schoolchildren, who learn about leadership, goal setting skills, and self-esteem. In addition, the Iowa Guards anti-drug abuse program, initiated under Lawson to work hand-in-hand with local law enforcement efforts, exists as one of best in the country.

Called an officer and gentleman of highest order by Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack, Lawson has received numerous military awards and decorations, including the Distinguished Service Medal, the Meritorious Service Medal, and the Humanitarian Service Medal.

Lawson is a life member of the UI Alumni Association.


Terrence J. Mulligan, 68BS, 68SE

2001 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

Terrence J. Mulligan, 68BS, 68SE, past president and seven-year member of the UI Alumni Association's board of directors, has been an outstanding advocate of the University of Iowa on many fronts.

Mulligan's family ties to Iowa go way back. In 1881, his great-grandfather graduated from the Iowa law school, followed by his son (Mulligan's grandfather), who received a law degree in 1913. Mulligan's own introduction to the UI came in the mid-sixties, when he received a football scholarship to play for the Hawkeyes. Although Mulligan remembers that Iowa's 1964, 1965, and 1966 gridiron teams lost more games than they won, he also says those years as a Hawkeye still make him proud and that his association with the UI has enriched his life immeasurably.

After graduating from the UI and completing his distinguished military service as a U.S. Army officer in 1970, Mulligan undertook a highly successful career with the American Hospital Supply Company, later acquired by Baxter International, Inc. While working as a corporate vice president at American and Baxter, Mulligan became a strong advocate for Iowa's students and projects, providing a conduit to the top administration and a contact for many students who went on to serve the company at important levels.

In the late 1980s, Mulligan joined the UI Alumni Association Board of Directors, and he was elected its president in 1994. During his tenure on the board, Mulligan oversaw a search for a new executive director of the Alumni Association, presided over a tough budget reduction process, and generally guided the organization through a vastly improved redefinition of its relationship with the UI.

In addition to his service to the Alumni Association, Mulligan has rendered yeoman service to the Henry B. Tippie College of Business by serving on its Board of Visitors since 1995. He has also contributed to the UI by serving as a guest lecturer, both in the business college and in the Department of Health Management and Policy in the College of Public Health.

Mulligan is also one of a few to be honored by two Iowa governors. In 1966, Governor Harold Hughes recognized him as the Outstanding Athlete in the Amry Brigade of Cadets. Thirty years later, Governor Terry Branstad conferred upon him Iowa's Outstanding Individual Volunteer Award.

Mulligan is a member of the UI Alumni Association's Directors' Club Honor Circle and a member of the UI Foundation's Presidents Club.


Simon O. Roberts, 59BA

2001 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Simon O. Roberts, 59BA, former director of Adult Education at Black Hawk College in Moline, Illinois, has spent a lifetime opening doors for African Americans and other minotities traditionally shut out from educational and employment opportunities. An ambassador of goodwill throughout his distinguished career, Roberts has shared his leadership skills and humanitarian compassion with his community and with the University of Iowa.

As a student-athlete, he became the first African American to win an Iowa high school wrestling championship when he defeated then two-time state champion Ron Gray. Such athletic prowess also earned him a four-year Big Ten Scholarship to the UI, and, in 1957, Roberts became the first African American to win an NCAA Individual Wrestling Championship. After graduating from the UI in 1959 with a degree in sociology, Roberts went to work for the U.S. Postal System in Davenport. In 1966, he received his teaching certification from Saint Ambrose University and began teaching and coaching at Alleman High School in Rock Island, Illinois. As the school's varsity wrestling coach, Roberts became the first African American head varsity coach in the Quad Cities area.

In 1968, Roberts began a 16-year career as a part-time television producer and on-air personality at WQAD-TV in Moline, Illinois. Through his Opportunity Line program, he kept the community informed of local educational and employment opportunities. Through his Like It Is and other public service programs, Roberts helped disadvantaged and disenfranchised parts of the community gain access to public airwaves. He helped to further strengthen the battle against economic inequity when he became founding director in 1968 of Project Now, a small social service agency that grew into the Community Action Agency that today assists low-income families in three counties.

In 1973, Roberts began a 22-year career at Black Hawk College in Moline, Illinois, as director of Adult Education. Roberts knew that higher education could be a road to success for minorities and other special needs groups, and he helped give many adults that opportunity.

Roberts has generously shared his leadership skills and resources with the UI. He has worked tirelessly with the UI Black Alumni Association since its inception in 1963, and his efforts through the years have helped provide many scholarships and other forms of support to the UI's African American students. In 1968, Roberts became the first African American president of the UI National Letterman's Club (now called the Varsity Club), and he served on the UI Athletic Department Advisory Board from 1985 to 1989.

Roberts is a member of the UI Alumni Association.


Sheldon J. Segal, 51MS, 52PhD

2001 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Sheldon J. Segal, 51MS, 52PhD, former director of population sciences of the Rockefeller Foundation and distinguished scientist for the Population Council since 1991, has brought his incisive scientific mind to bear on problems of overpopulation and other concerns of public health for more than four decades.

Segal began his work in reproductive biology as a graduate student in the UI Department of Zoology. After receiving his doctorate, Segal accepted several appointments at the UI, as a research associate and later as a research assistant professor in the Department of Urology, and as a lecturer in the Department of Biology. In 1956, he joined the Population Council at the Rockefeller Institute.

From 1978 to 1991, he served as director of population sciences of the Rockefeller Foundation. In policy making and in research, Segal has had an important impact on procedures that provide women the world over with choices about their control over reproduction. He's widely known as the originator and developer of the Norplant five-year implant for voluntary contraception.

Segal's standing has garnered recognition from foreign governments and institutions in the form of many honorary degrees and appointments. He has served on numerous national and international committees concerned with population problems and women's health, includng United States presidential and legislative committees. Additionally, he has served on boards of directors or as a trustee for a number of prestigious organizations of national and international service, including the World Health Organization, the United Nations Office of Science and Technology, the Center for Reproductive Law and Policy, the National Research Council, American Jewish World Service, and the Society for the Study of Social Biology. He is also a member of the National Academy of Sciences Institute of Medicine.

In addition to his service as an extraordinary administrator and scientist, Segal has found time to write and cowrite hundreds of scientific publications. He is responsible for more than 200 journal articles, as well as four chapters in science textbooks. He also holds an appointment to the editorial board of six scientific journals. His most recent book, Is Menstruation Obsolete?, published in 1999, has prompted a new way of thinking by women and their gynecologists.

With the help of the Rockefeller Foundation, Segal has developed summer enrichment programs for African Americans at a number of colleges and universities. He has also promoted fellowship programs to enable students from developing countries to advance their education in universities throughout the United States.

For the past ten years, Segal has served as chairman of the board of trustees of the venerable, 115-year-old Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts.


Mark K. Wuest, 84BA

2001 Distinguished Alumni Young Award

Mark K. Wuest, 84BA, UI dance department graduate and former dancer with the Joffrey Ballet, entered his first year of college with a vision of himself toting a briefcase, not a duffel bag packed with tights and legwarmers.

Wuest's story has reached almost legendary status in the annals of the UI's rich history in the arts. An accomplished high school swimmer from Marshalltown, Wuest was a UI business major in search of an elective when he observed a friend in dance professor Francoise Martinet's course, Intensive Training for the Male Dancer. He decided to drop in.

Wuest was hooked right away. His former dance instructor recalls that, halfway through the first day with Wuest, she sensed that Wuest was "a rather unusual young man." Martinet admired Wuest's aura of calm, and Wuest's conditioning as a swimmer endowed him with ideal physical attributes for ballet: perfect proportions, strength, and flexibility. His lightning-like progress during the semester confirmed Martinet's initial perception. Less than five years elapsed between that first class and Wuest's hiring by one of the foremost dance companies in the world: the Joffrey Ballet.

The five years Wuest spent with the Joffrey include a "golden age" of Iowa/Joffrey partnerships. The UI Foundation sponsored many receptions—in New York City, Los Angeles, and Washington, DC, among other places—in conjunction with Joffrey Ballet performances featuring Iowa commissions. Wuest was always on hand to ensure that other UI alumni in attendance realized that the Iowa/Joffrey connections included an Iowan in the company. He also made sure his fellow dancers shared his enthusiasm and appreciation for the major support that the university provided the often-struggling Joffrey Ballet through residencies and commissions.

Five years after having reached his initial goal as a professional dancer with the Joffrey Ballet, Wuest began to seek other challenges, and he found himself at a crossroads in his career: Should he continue to dance or take another direction? He chose both. After moving to Europe to explore the developments in dance that were happening in that arena, Wuest ended up performing with several different companies, including the Geneva Ballet and the Zurich Ballet—and he began to choreograph. His choreography projects have been amazingly diverse: trade shows, musical theater, opera, and works for other dance companies—including the UI dance department's own Dancers in Company.

Such renown, according to his former mentor, professor emeritus Martinet, comes from Wuest's "willingness to work beyond exhaustion." Bringing his gift of excellence to the world of dance, Wuest has demonstrated that persistence, commitment, and continual study lead to pinnacles of success. The respect he has earned as a noted artist enriches the UI's recognition in the arts, both nationally and internationally.


James H. Cavanaugh, 61MA, 64PhD

2000 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

James H. Cavanaugh, 61MA, 64PhD, is president and a general partner of HealthCare Ventures, LLC in Princeton, New Jersey, which manages the largest venture capital fund devoted exclusively to health care. The firm funds research in leading-edge health care products, creating and managing health science companies with a strong focus on genetics, immunology, and transplant medicine.

A leading figure in the U.S. pharmaceutical industry and recent US health policy, Cavanaugh's farsightedness and candor have made him a top corporate and governmental executive and a valued advisor to three US presidents.

Cavanaugh came to the University of Iowa as a graduate student, earning his master's and Ph.D. degrees in the College of Medicine's graduate program in hospital and health administration, then serving as a faculty member in the program from 1962 to 1966. While at Iowa, he became interested in health system economic issues and collected substantial data on the potential national implications of the planned Medicare program. His research caught the eye of officials in President Lyndon B. Johnson's administration, and Cavanaugh was appointed a special assistant to the US Surgeon General in 1966.

This post led to more than a decade of service in Washington, D.C., as director of the Comprehensive Health Planning Office and Deputy Assistant Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare for Health and Scientific Affairs. He also served for five years on the immediate staff of Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. Cavanaugh's influence on national health care policy during these years, and later as a special consultant to President Ronald Reagan, was substantial and far-reaching.

In the late 1970s, Cavanaugh entered the private sector as vice president of corporate development for Allergan Pharmaceuticals in Irvine, California. He subsequently became president of Allergan International. When Allergan was acquired by the pharmaceutical giant SmithKline Beckman, Cavanaugh became president of SmithKline's Bio-Science Laboratories and later SmithKline and French Laboratories-U.S.

Currently, Cavanaugh serves on the boards of directors of three publicly traded companies. Cavanaugh has also shown dedication and leadership in supporting organizations that advance the cause of health care and other public welfare issues. These include the American Refugee Committee, the Society for Women's Health Research, the American College of Healthcare Executives, the American Hospital Association, the Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association, and the President's Export Council.

Despite being an easterner by birth and spending much of his career on the east and west coasts, Cavanaugh has remained committed to the University of Iowa. He served as a national committee member of the Iowa Endowment 2000 campaign that raised more than $250 million, and his outstanding financial support for the College of Medicine and other UI programs has earned him membership in the UI Foundation's Presidents Club. He is also a life member of the UI Alumni Association.

One of Cavanaugh's favorite sayings is that "Man and the turtle have some unique characteristics. One is that neither gets ahead without sticking its neck out." Taking risks and making bold advances have been hallmarks of his own successful career.


James D. Ericson, 58BA, 62JD

2000 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

James D. Ericson, 58BA, 62JD, is chairman and chief executive officer of Northwestern Mutual, the largest provider of individual life insurance in America. Northwestern Mutual is headquartered in Milwaukee and has assets of $90 billion.

Ericson graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Iowa in 1958 with a degree in history. In 1962, he went on to graduate from the Iowa College of Law, where he was a member of the Law Review.

After practicing law in Omaha, Ericson joined Northwestern Mutual in 1965 as an attorney in the law department. Showing a capacity for handling diverse and complex assignments, he moved into other positions, including Assistant to the President, Vice President of Policy Benefits, General Counsel and Secretary, and in the 1980s, Chief Investment Officer. He became the company's 15th president in 1990 and added the title of chief executive officer in 1993.

As CEO, Ericson has directed a successful strategy of strengthening Northwestern's core life insurance business while adding select financial services to meet more needs of its three million policyowners. In 1996, for the first time in its history, Northwestern Mutual seized industry leadership in individual life insurance in force, a position it still holds with more than $600 billion in force.

At the same time, "The Policyowners Company" has remained true to its name by steadily increasing policyowner value. In 1997, the company became industry leader in life insurance dividends paid to policyowners. This year, the company is paying record dividends of more than $3 billion, by far the industry's highest total.

Northwestern Mutual's reputation has risen to new heights under Ericson's leadership. Each year since 1983, the company has been named the most-admired U.S. life insurance company in an annual survey conducted by Fortune magazine. A new global survey conducted by Fortune recently found that Northwestern Mutual is also the most admired life insurance company in the world.

Ericson credits his boyhood and education in Iowa for much of his success. He has said, "I grew up believing in certain ethics and morals, that there's a difference between right and wrong, and that actions have consequences. These values have proven to be invaluable in my career and in my life."

Since his graduation, Ericson has contributed annually to the Iowa Law School. Northwestern Mutual also offers UI student interns the chance to hone their actuarial, legal, marketing, and management skills and employs a number of other UI graduates.

Consistent with his values, Ericson's work in industry, civic, cultural, and educational affairs is extensive. He served as 1999 chairman of the American Council of Life Insurance, an industry trade association representing more than 500 US life insurance companies. Currently, he is chairman of the United Way of Greater Milwaukee and the Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce. He is a director of the Milwaukee Redevelopment Corporation, Greater Milwaukee Committee, Milwaukee School of Engineering, Medical College of Wisconsin, Marcus Center for Performing Arts.


Eugene Hickman, 59PhD

2000 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

Eugene Hickman Sr., 59PhD, the first African American to receive a Ph.D. in pharmacy at the University of Iowa, has been a major force in the production of African American pharmacists in the U.S. Texas Southern University, where he taught full-time from 1959 to 1998, has produced 33 percent of the nation's black pharmacists. A superior teacher and extraordinary mentor, Hickman has inspired a new generation of pharmacists and other medical professionals.

Hickman's educational accomplishments have been nothing less than historically phenomenal. After excelling in his pre-collegiate education in the segregated public schools of Louisiana and Texas, and after a tour of duty in the United States Army, Hickman enrolled in Texas Southern University and completed a four-year program in pharmacy in only three years, becoming a member of the first graduating class of the university's new School of Pharmacy. In an historic break from the tradition of racial segregation at the University of Texas, the College of Pharmacy there admitted Hickman as one of two African Americans to its graduate program. Shortly after receiving his master's degree, Hickman became the first African American to receive a doctorate in pharmacy from the University of Iowa.

His accomplishment as a faculty member at Texas Southern University over the past 40 years has been no less staggering. When he joined the faculty at Texas in 1959, there were very few African American pharmacists in Texas or even in the United States. In almost all medical and medically related careers at the time, in fact, African Americans were critically underrepresented. Over the span of four decades, Hickman helped change that scene.

As an integral component of the pharmacy program at Texas Southern University, Hickman has remained steadfastly committed to helping the school become a producer of more African American pharmacists. His institution can now boast the distinction of being the locus of training for thousands of African American pharmacists.

As a result of his dedication to clearing the road to higher education and in view of the excellence of his work, Hickman's services have been recognized through numerous awards and citations, but perhaps best by the throngs of pharmacists, dentists, physicians, and faculty members who have been his former students. Over the years, his students have sung his praises for his limitless ability to encourage and support them, for his help through their admission process to graduate, dental, and medical schools, for finding cooperative and internship opportunities, and for procuring funds to support the pharmacy program at Texas Southern.

A consummate model for faculty and teachers alike, Hickman has contributed greatly to the development of the academic program in pharmacy at his school and consequently to the evolution of pharmacy practice and higher education everywhere.


Alfred Hinton, 67BA

2000 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Alfred Hinton, 67BA, is one of the country's premier mixed-media artists and, for the past 22 years, a tenured professor of art at the University of Michigan.

Hinton studied for his degree in art at the University of Iowa on an athletic scholarship, and he excelled in both fields, balancing the demands of his art classes and his commitment to his football scholarship. A former Iowa football star, named Iowa's most valuable player and Coaches Association All-American in 1961, he originally chose a career in professional football after graduation. Eventually, he switched back from football to fine art, enrolling in graduate school and then embarking on a teaching career.

Hinton's gifts as an artist and teacher have been widely recognized. His works have been viewed in solo and group exhibitions, public and corporate collections, and in articles and reviews throughout the U.S. and the rest of the world, and he has received many awards and honors for his outstanding achievements as a professional artist. Using modern materials such as industrial polymers, plastics, silica, and metal, he creates abstract collages that often explore ancient symbols and mythology to find new meaning and spiritual significance.

In 1986, Hinton was one of four artists selected from 125 candidates to receive a State of Michigan Commission on Art in Public Places award. He spent three years creating a 36-by-11-foot mural which is now installed in the state capitol. Another large, freestanding mural consisting of 12 interlocking metal panels depicting Michigan's rural and industrial contributions to the United States stands in the State of Michigan Museum Library and Archives Building.

As a teacher, Hinton has inspired not only college students but also prison inmates, whose lives he has enriched with fine art classes taught at the federal correctional institution in Milan, Michigan.

His efforts on behalf of his community have included service for Concerned Citizens for the Arts in Detroit, as well as the Detroit Institute of Arts. Hinton currently serves on the Michigan Council for the Arts, which encourages minority participation on the panel and in projects. Committed to helping minority artists develop their talents, Hinton works tirelessly to offer them encouragement as well as practical assistance in finding financial aid to pursue their dreams and education.

Hinton is equally generous in support of his alma mater. A number of his paintings and three-dimensional metal collages are on display at the UI Museum of Art and the Iowa Memorial Union. Recently, he donated ten oil paintings to the University of Iowa Black Alumni Association. Proceeds from the sale of these paintings will be placed in the association's scholarship fund to help minority students continue their education at Iowa. Such generosity in sharing his expertise with others, as well as his distinguished professional accomplishments, make Alfred Hinton an outstanding graduate who brings credit to the University of Iowa.


Richard O. Jacobson

2000 Distinguished Alumni Friend Award

Richard O. Jacobson, a former student at the UI's business college, is president of the Richard O. Jacobson Foundation in Des Moines. His support and continuing involvement have helped the University of Iowa press ahead toward ambitious goals and high-quality programs.

In 1968, Jacobson founded Jacobson Companies, a warehouse company with six employees, and he guided the development of the firm until it now employs more than 1,000 people in transportation, investment management, and warehousing. Thanks to Jacobson's hard work and exceptional leadership, the Jacobson Companies have adopted principles of continuous improvement to ensure the highest degree of customer satisfaction, as well as employee performance and loyalty.

A true philanthropist who is eager to share his success with many worthy beneficiaries, Jacobson has provided generous support to Hawkeye athletics and to the Henry B. Tippie College of Business. He first became involved with Iowa athletics in 1973 as a member of a local I-Club, and his annual gifts have grown steadily. In 1993, he pledged $1 million to the Hawkeye Horizons Campaign, an extraordinary contribution recognized by the naming of a new football facility in his honor, the Richard O. Jacobson Athletic Building. In 1997, Jacobson became an honorary letterman of the National Iowa Varsity Club in recognition of his commitment to UI sports.

Jacobson has been quick to provide gifts to other Iowa programs, too. In 1996, his annual gifts qualified him as a member of the Henry B. Tippie College of Business's Dean's Club, and in 1997 he was appointed to the Henry B. Tippie College of Business's Board of Visitors. In addition, his company is recognized by the UI Foundation as a Presidents Club Associate, the highest honor club for contributors to all areas of the university.

Jacobson's public-spirited generosity extends beyond the university to embrace the larger community, with support to Youth and Shelter Services, the Rock in Prevention substance abuse program, the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, and Youth Homes of MidAmerica. He also works for Orchard Place, a home for children with extreme emotional disturbances. Most notably, as cofounder of the I Have A Dream Foundation, Jacobson provides hope to disadvantaged schoolchildren. His organization not only pairs them with mentors to help them make it to high school graduation, but also guarantees those high school graduates a fully funded college education at the school of their choice, in any field, for as many years as they need to pursue their degrees. So far, the I Have A Dream Foundation has found mentors for 49 children from the most impoverished neighborhoods of Des Moines.

Jacobson has been named Outstanding Individual Philanthropist by the National Society of Fund Raising Executives in Central Iowa, Humanitarian of the Year by the Variety Club of Iowa, and Outstanding Philanthropist by Youth and Shelter Services.

Jacobson is a member of the UI Foundation's Presidents Club.


W.A. Krause, 57BA

2000 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

W.A. "Bill" Krause, 57BA, is owner, president, and chief executive officer of Krause Gentle Corporation, of Des Moines, which owns more than 300 Kum & Go convenience stores and 19 other affiliate companies.

Krause graduated from the University of Iowa in 1957 with a bachelor's degree in journalism. From modest beginnings, when he pumped gas by day and drove trucks by night, he has built Krause Gentle from a small firm of three employees to a massive, multi-million-dollar organization employing thousands of people in operations as diverse as convenience stores, banking, and transportation.

In 1992 alone, his achievements were recognized with a Master Entrepreneur of the Year award from Inc. magazine, an Entrepreneurial Spirit Award from the Des Moines Business Record, and designation as Iowa Entrepreneur of the Year by national accounting firm Ernst & Young. More recently, the U.S. Small Business Administration honored him with the Iowa Entrepreneurial Success Award in 1994, and the Greater Des Moines Chapter of Commerce Federation named him the 1995 Annual Economic Impact Award winner.

Not only a successful businessman, Krause is also an outstanding citizen of Iowa. One of his favorite sayings is "Don't look back; we aren't going that way," yet he is a firm believer in giving back. The Krause Gentle Corporation contributes ten percent of net profits to area charities. Krause himself volunteers his time to help many civic and philanthropic causes. He has served as a member of the boards of Mercy Hospital in Des Moines, Junior Achievement of Central Iowa, and the State of Iowa Merit Employment Commission.

A devoted fan who describes his only hobby as the University of Iowa athletic program, Krause can boast a football attendance record of 111 consecutive games. His support for the University of Iowa is demonstrated in many other ways, too. He is a life member of the Kinnick Society, which recognizes the most generous annual contributors to UI athletics; he has served enthusiastically on numerous fund-raising campaign committees; and he provides summer jobs for Hawkeye student-athletes at Krause Gentle Corporation. In 1993, Krause was named Hawk of the Year by the Department of Athletics. He is past president and lifetime honorary director of the National I-Club and a board member of the Iowa I-Club.

Other university departments and campaigns, including the College of Liberal Arts, Hancher Auditorium, the Henry B. Tippie College of Business, and the Iowa Opportunity Fund, have all benefited from the commitment and support which made Krause a member of the UI Foundation's Presidents Club. He is also a member of the UI Alumni Association's Director's Club.

Krause Gentle's slogan is "People make the difference and the difference is Krause Gentle people." With his dedication to his business career, the University of Iowa, and the people and communities of his home state, Krause can truly be described as someone who has made a difference.


Donald P. Lay, 49BA, 51JD

2000 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Donald P. Lay, 49BA, 51JD, was appointed to the U.S. Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1966. At the time, he was 39 years old and the second youngest person ever appointed to the Court of Appeals.

Lay first enrolled at the University of Iowa to study radio journalism and then, after graduation, enrolled in law school, followed by a long legal career full of distinctions and honors. From 1951 to 1966, he practiced law in Omaha. His appointment to the Court of Appeals, just 15 years after graduation from law school, was unusual because many judges begin at the trial court level, not a court one step below the US Supreme Court.

Lay became chief judge of the Eighth Circuit Court in 1980 and held the position for a record-breaking 12 years before retiring in 1992 and taking senior status. Lay is credited with streamlining and modernizing the Eighth Circuit's administrative system, defending the constitutional rights of individuals, and producing a body of clear, concise, reasoned work.

He has written some 2,000 opinions and dissents and more than 50 articles for legal publications, taught hundreds of students, and tried hundreds of cases. In addition, Lay founded the Eighth Circuit Historical Society to preserve the history of the courts. When Lay stepped down as chief judge, the William Mitchell Law Review published a biography and two tributes in which he was remembered as someone who helped make the judiciary more accessible to the just claims of all citizens, regardless of their race, gender, or wealth.

During his 25 years on the federal bench, Lay often made clear his liberal ideology. He penned decisions for the court that supported free choice in major abortion cases and denounced capital punishment in a case. He has remained an active jurist, sitting often in various federal circuit and district courts.

Lay has also taught in the law schools of the University of Minnesota, Creighton University in Omaha, and the University of Uppsala, in Uppsala, Sweden, and in the William Mitchell College of Law in St. Paul. In 1982, Lay was named the Outstanding Federal Appellate Judge of the Year by the American Trial Lawyers and, in 1988, he received the American Judicature Society's Herbert Harley Award in recognition of his contribution to the administration of justice. He is also a recipient of the Hancher-Finkbine award from the University of Iowa. Lay has retained his links with Iowa as a life member of the UI Alumni Association and as a member of the UI Foundation's Presidents Club.

In 1992, the University of Iowa College of Law presented Lay with an Alumni Achievement Award, commending him for his commitment to legal scholarship and his distinguished career as a jurist.

Lay's passion for the law, his devotion to the welfare of society, and his commitment to the rights of the individual have been an inspiration to other lawyers and an affirmation of the US legal system.


J. Bernard Machen, 72MS, 72PedoS, 74PhD

2000 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

J. Bernard Machen, 72MS, 72PedoS, 74PhD, is president of the University of Utah and one of the most important leaders in public higher education today.

Renowned for his ability to build good relations, inter- disciplinary programs, and bridges between institutions and people, Machen is a talented administrator and an accomplished academician. When he took over at Utah in 1998, the university ranked last in a group of similar institutions in terms of state dollars per student for educational purposes, yet was recognized for its excellence in research. Machen intends to elevate the institution's standing further and to gain public recognition for the quality of the student body and the university's teaching program. He certainly has the experience and ability to do so. Before his appointment to Utah in 1998, he had a distinguished record of service at the University of Michigan and the University of North Carolina.

At the University of Michigan, Machen served as provost under three presidents and as dean of the School of Dentistry. He is credited with providing strong academic leadership, perceptiveness, and fortitude at a difficult transition time in the life of the institution. He was admired for his informal "let's work together style" and earned the respect of both faculty and staff during his time as de facto president, when he was described as the glue that held the institution together. Shared responsibility, collaboration, collegiality, mutual respect, and excellence were the hallmarks of his administration.

Machen moved the university forward with a number of bold initiatives, including the implementation of a new budget model and faculty grievance policy, the enhancement of Michigan's stature as a top research university, and the strengthening of efforts in teaching and improving undergraduate education. Another of his priorities at Michigan was to promote intellectual and social diversity. During his tenure as provost, the university raised a record-breaking $1.4 billion in a capital campaign.

Although one of Michigan's smaller schools, the School of Dentistry experienced a dramatic transformation during Machen's tenure, a shift from nonresident to a primarily resident faculty, a greater emphasis on research, and improved clinical care. When the School of Dentistry was ranked third in the nation by U.S. News & World Report, many said that it was due in large measure to Machen's leadership.

Machen is known for his devotion to excellence and the determination to accept nothing less than the best from everyone, but especially from himself. He earned a master's degree in pediatric dentistry and a doctorate in educational psychology at the University of Iowa. He has been president of the American Association of Dental Schools and has authored a number of dentistry textbooks and journal articles.

Colleagues note his outstanding leadership and distinguished service, along with his collegiality and friendship. On a personal level, they appreciate him as a loyal friend, a good father and husband, someone who laughs easily, makes others feel good in his presence, and shares accomplishments.


David L. Maher, 64BSPh

2000 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

David L. Maher, 64BSPh, a progressive leader in the pharmaceutical and food retail industry, is former vice president and chief operating officer of American Stores Company, headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah. Having spent his entire career with one company, Maher has transformed it into a fully integrated food and drug store that ranks among the top few players in a rapidly consolidating business. The pharmaceutical care initiatives he has promoted are virtually unparalleled in the chain drug industry.

After beginning his career as an Osco pharmacist in Iowa City, Maher rose through the ranks of a growing company. After 32 years with the American Drug Stores company, he spent the remaining six years of his career with the parent company, American Stores Company. Maher first learned about the rigors of day-to-day retail operations as a store manager, then stepped up to the challenge of motivating other store managers in his role as district manager. He soon became regional personnel manager and then vice president of personnel and pharmacy. For many years, he was vice president of several geographic regions of American Drug Stores, Inc. In 1990, he was named chairman, president, and chief executive officer of American Drug Stores. In 1993, he was named senior executive vice president and chief operating officer of the parent company, American Stores. In 1995, he was elected president and chief operating officer of the company, and in 1998, he was elected vice chairman of the board and president.

Combining his knowledge of pharmacy and business with superb leadership skills, Maher has implemented a simpler management structure, yielding good profit for the company. Under his tutelage, American Stores began its transformation into an operating company centralizing procurement, distribution, logistics, real estate, and other support functions. Through this process, American Stores gained recognition as a singularly bold enterprise, a fully integrated food and drug store company that ranks in the top tier of chain businesses.

His colleagues have been quick to acknowledge Maher's leadership. Serving recently as chairman and president of the National Association of Chain Drug Stores, the leading association representing the entire chain drug industry, Maher has been cited for his work in forging stronger bonds between pharmacies, the association, and colleges of pharmacy nationwide.

Maher has served on the UI College of Pharmacy Building Campaign Committee and the college's Development Council. In 1996, his company made a four-year $100,000 pledge to the renovation of the college's Learning Resource Center, providing crucial funds for updating the 36-station computer lab, classroom, and study space. Also, in the same year, Maher and his wife, Marilyn, personally gave the lead gift commitment for remodeling the UI Pharmacy Dispensing Laboratory.

Maher is presently chairman of an Internet home health care company, CareGuardian Online; a director of CornerDrugStore.com; general partner of DMM Enterprises, an investment management company; and a director of the Steadman Hawkins Orthopedic Sports Medicine Foundation in Vale, Colorado.

Maher is a member of the UI Alumni Association's Old Capitol Club and a member of the UI Foundation's Presidents Club.


Marcia J. Radosevich, 78MA, 82PHD

2000 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Marcia J. Radosevich, 78MA, 82PhD, trained in sociology and has enjoyed an impressive career in technology and information management in the health care area. Formerly chief executive officer, president, and chair of the board of HPR Inc., an emerging company in health care information technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Radosevich now serves as consultant to the Health Care Entrepreneurship Program at Boston University's Health Policy Institute.

A creative contributor to interdisciplinary research on gender, deviancy, and issues of health in her early career as a sociologist, Radosevich turned her knowledge and skills to the foundation of health care services that have made a difference in society. After research work as a fellow at Yale, Radosevich received additional training in business at the Wharton School of Business. In her subsequent position at Boston University's Health Policy Institute, she developed software to help health care providers manage the cost and delivery of medical care.

It took Radosevich only 13 years to grow her software ideas into a company that was assessed at approximately $500 million in 1997. She served as president, chief executive officer, and chair of the board of HPR, and her advocacy of the managed care alternative emerging in the 1990s was a role of enough magnitude to land her inside the pages of Newsweek, Business Week, the Boston Globe, and numerous trade journals. With annual revenues of $35 million and 340 clients with offices in Chicago, Phoenix, and Birmingham, HPR had become a leader in providing managed care organizations with what Radosevich calls "solutions to contain health care costs while maintaining high quality standards of care."

In 1997, Radosevich sold HPR to the Huff, Barrington, and Owens Company (HBOC), an acquisition which led Financial News to describe the reformed company as a leading provider of clinical information systems for the managed care industry. In 1998, HBOC with some 6,000 employees worldwide was considered the top provider in the $15 billion health care information industry.

Several agencies over the past decade recognized Radosevich's remarkable entrepreneurship. Most notably, she received the Committee of 200's Emerging Entrepreneur of the Year Award in 1992, and she was a finalist twice, in 1993 and 1996, for Inc. magazine's Entrepreneur of the Year Award.

Consistent with the spirit and passion she brought to innovations in health care, she currently serves as a consultant to the Health Care Entrepreneurship Program at Boston University's Health Policy Institute.

Radosevich has shared the proceeds of her company, both financially and in terms of her acquired skills. She has contributed materially to social causes and liberally in devoting her expertise and time as consultant and board member. Among her many civic and professional service contributions, she has been an overseer of the Boston Medical Center, a trustee of the Isabella Steward Gardner Museum, and a gubernatorial appointee to the Minority and Women Business Oversight Committee in Massachusetts.


John E. Tyrrell, 47BA, 50MD

2000 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

John E. Tyrrell, 47BA, 50MD, a major actor in Iowa's medical community and former member of the Board of Regents, State of Iowa, has been innovative in practicing rural family medicine and in building bridges among physicians statewide.

Tyrrell has undertaken the need of physicians for better and more timely information on a referred patient's treatment. By developing a new system, called UI Consult, Tyrrell helped give physicians faster access to medical staff at University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics for consultations. As a result of his work, patients now benefit from more cohesive medical treatment and information.

With his long interest in securing better community health care through dialogue, planning, and implementation, Tyrrell has held several key leadership positions. He has chaired several local and state health planning boards. For the Iowa Medical Society, he was district councilor, chairman of the judicial council, chairman of the board of trustees, and president. Nationally, he served as representative of the American Medical Association on the Advisory Committee on Outpatient Care for the Accreditation of Hospitals.

His volunteer career extends beyond medicine into community development, many programs at the University of Iowa, and higher education in general. His work for post-secondary education was recognized in 1991 with his appointment to the Board of Regents, State of Iowa. For six years he helped administer Iowa's three state universities and two state schools. Since the 1950s to the present, generous gifts from Tyrrell and his wife, Clarine, have supported everything from the College of Medicine to the UI radio stations to the University Libraries.

As he does with the medical profession, Tyrrell commits his most valuable commodity time to UI programs and special projects. The UI Alumni Association benefited from his leadership when he presided over the Old Capitol Club Board of Directors. He recently served as a member of the National Campaign Steering Committee for the College of Medicine Capital Campaign Seeking Knowledge for Healing. Presently, he and Clarine are regional co-committee members of the Hancher Auditorium Millennium Festival Fund, a $2 million campaign to commission new works, hold a cultural arts forum, and remodel the Hancher entrance.

Outside the UI, Tyrrell invests time in whatever helps the children and families of his community. The Northeast Iowa Council of Boy Scouts honored him with the Silver Beaver Award, the highest service recognition in the national organization. He also served as campaign chairman for the Delaware County United Way. Currently, Tyrrell serves as chairman of Manchester Enterprises, Inc., the industrial development organization for his community, and he is Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Greater Delaware County Foundation.

Tyrrell is a member of the UI Alumni Association's Director's Club and a member of the UI Foundation's Presidents Club, and he continues to serve as a lifetime honorary director of the UI Foundation.


Ann M. Wheelock, 84BS

2000 Distinguished Alumni Young Award

Ann M. Wheelock, 84BS, the highest-ranking Latina in the world of philanthropy, is senior vice president of the Western Regional Office of the Fannie Mae Foundation, a Fortune 100 company with the public mission of helping more families achieve the American dream of home ownership. Wheelock is responsible for achieving the $40 billion revenue, profitability, and housing goals for the nine-state region, which includes nearly 400 customers in Alaska, California, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Washington, and Wyoming.

An entrepreneur who balances business acumen with social awareness, Wheelock has advanced the mission of the nation's leading philanthropic organization. In only five years in her leadership roles at Fannie Mae, she has secured more than $33 million in grants for 1,100 of the country's nonprofit organizations dedicated to transforming neighborhoods and communities.

Under Wheelock's direction, the Fannie Mae Foundation has helped to demystify the home-buying process by providing more than 6.6 million people with free step-by-step home-buying guides in nine languages. Recently, Wheelock initiated a financial literacy program that will offer potential homeowners, particularly individuals and families in hard-to-reach neighborhoods, the vital fundamentals of personal finance.

Wheelock has led the fight to put the homeless back on the radar screen on Capitol Hill. Since 1988, Fannie Mae has sponsored the Help the Homeless Campaign, an awareness- and fund-raising effort to end the plight of the homeless in Washington, D.C. Under Wheelock's guidance, Fannie Mae's 1998 campaign raised more than $4.4 million, an increase of $1.9 million from 1997, and enlisted more than 30,000 people to participate in the campaign's publicity march.

The kind of boundless energy, talent, and commitment that Wheelock brings to Fannie Mae is also evident in her volunteer work. She is an advisory member of a number of boards that benefit those most in need, including the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, the National Council of La Raza, and Harvard University's Joint Center for Housing Studies.

Formerly a municipal bond attorney with a prestigious law firm in Denver, Colorado, and an appointee of Denver mayor Wellington Webb, Wheelock has gained nationwide respect from her peers for the innovative and bold initiatives she has spearheaded. As an associate at the Denver office of Kutak Rock, a national law firm based in Omaha, Nebraska, she received accolades from the American Humane Society for her pro bono research into the prevention of the killing of thousands of prairie dogs in Colorado. As the deputy director of the Community Development Agency, Office of Planning and Community Development for the City and County of Denver, she advised Mayor Webb on a number of economic issues and helped secure grants for housing for people with AIDS and for the poor.

Through a commitment to improving opportunities and the quality of life for every individual, Wheelock has served her community and the nation. Her contributions have been fueled by motives rare among such young entrepreneurs: compassion and a desire to help others help themselves.

Wheelock is a member of the UI Alumni Association.


Jin Wu, 61MS, 64PhD

2000 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Jin Wu, 61MS, 64PhD, an eminent engineer and internationally recognized educator, is Distinguished Professor of Engineering at National Cheng Kung University (NCKU) in the Republic of China (Taiwan), where he implemented significant reform as NCKU's president and the country's former Minister of Education. In 1980, Wu was appointed the University of Delaware's H. Fletcher Brown Professor of Marine Studies and Civil Engineering, and he was elected to membership in the National Academy of Engineering in 1995.

Wu was quick to build a solid foundation of outstanding research experience. Upon graduation from the University of Iowa, he took a position as a research scientist in the Fluid Motions Division of Hydronautics, Inc. In 1966, he became division head, and in 1972, he was named head of the Division of Geophysical Fluid Dynamics.

His academic career has also been marked by stellar accomplishment. In 1975, Wu became associate professor of Marine Studies and Civil Engineering at the University of Delaware, home of his initiative, the Air-Sea Interaction Laboratory. Among the many honors and awards that dot his career, perhaps the two most important came to him in 1986 and 1995, when he was inducted into first the Academia Sinica (National Academy of Sciences, Republic of China) and then the National Academy of Engineering (the engineering branch of the National Academies of Sciences). These are the highest professional recognitions an engineer can receive. In his induction, he was commended for his milestone research in understanding the motion of air and water at the water's surface and the resulting surface waves.

Wu left the University of Delaware in 1994 to become president of Cheng Kung University, one of Taiwan's most prestigious institutions of higher learning. Appointed Minister of Education for the Republic of Taiwan in 1996, he implemented significant reform in the country's educational system. Changes included a relaxation of government control of educational programs at all levels, development of educational programs relevant to social needs, and establishment of procedures to increase high school enrollment and expand higher education. He has been able to generate a consensus, which his predecessors had been unable to do, and get movement toward education reform rolling and on track.

Over the past few years, Wu has returned on occasion to the University of Iowa. Most recently, in 1997, Wu received the Stanley Distinguished Fellow award from the UI College of Engineering in recognition of his unwavering commitment to leadership and his passion for professional and civic duty. He has also graciously accepted an invitation to work as one of the charter members of the newly formed board for the world-renowned Iowa Institute of Hydraulic Research.

With more than three decades of service to the University of Iowa, his profession, his community, educational development, and the public in general, Wu serves as an exemplary role model for young engineers and for fellow educators.


Terry E. Branstad, 69BA

1999 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Terry E. Branstad, 69BA, stepped down this year as the nation's most senior governor and as the longest serving governor in the history of Iowa. During his 16-year tenure, he maintained a steadfast commitment to achieving his vision for the state, undertook difficult political challenges, and worked diligently to make Iowa a safe and prosperous place to live, work, and raise a family.

After graduating from the University of Iowa and following military service in the U.S. Army, Branstad earned his law degree from Drake University Law School. He embarked on his public service career in 1972, when he was elected to the Iowa House of Representatives. Branstad served six years in the Iowa legislature and four years as lieutenant governor, before becoming the youngest person ever elected governor in Iowa.

Branstad faced formidable challenges when he moved from his Lake Mills law office to Des Moines in January of 1983. Unemployment had risen to nine percent statewide, and high interest rates and declining land values were ransacking Iowa's farm economy.

Branstad immediately proclaimed economic development and education as his guiding priorities, and job creation became his battle cry. In a series of changes that included a focused effort to diversify Iowa's agriculture-based economy, a restructuring of state government, landmark spending limits and welfare reforms, Branstad helped to dramatically improve the state's fiscal position. He left the state with the largest budget surplus in history, $896 million.

By far the biggest building project of the Branstad legacy was the completion of the statewide Iowa Communications Network—a two-way, fiber-optic feed that links the state's most remote areas to the world's information superhighway. In a related effort to enhance learning opportunities in all parts of the state, Branstad established the School Improvement Technology Program that provides resources for schools to take advantage of new technology-based teaching tools.

The driving force behind increasing efficiency, Branstad oversaw reorganization of the state government in 1986 and significantly reduced the number of departments and agencies. In the first year after the reorganization, the state achieved a savings of approximately $40 million. Branstad's governmental reorganization and state spending reforms received renown as a national model, and, in 1995, Iowa was recognized in Financial World as one of the best managed states.

Branstad made it a point to visit all 99 counties each year—a practice he says was spurred by his roots. Coming from a rural county close to the Minnesota border, he wished to dispel the notion that elected officials in Des Moines didn't care what went on outside the capital city. Throughout his 26 years in Iowa government, Branstad worked with this kind of tireless dedication as he helped improve the lives of Iowans.

Branstad is a life member of the UI Alumni Association.


John W. Colloton, 57MA

1999 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

John W. Colloton, 57MA, UI vice president for statewide health services, dedicated more than 40 years of his professional career to the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics (UIHC). Under his leadership, UIHC developed into one of the premier medical centers in the world.

After graduating magna cum laude from Loras College in Dubuque in 1953 and serving two years in the U.S. military, Colloton earned his master's degree in hospital and health administration from the University of Iowa in 1957. Embarking on his professional career as an administrative resident at UIHC, Colloton rose through the ranks to become the hospital's chief executive in 1971. After more than two decades at the helm of UIHC, he resigned the directorship in 1993 to become UI vice president for statewide health services, a position from which he could focus more intensively on health reform issues of import to the university, as well as the entire state.

Through more than four decades of service in health care, Colloton's vision and drive were crucial to the development and advancement of UIHC. He conceived and led the effort to construct more than $500 million of new clinical facilities at UIHC. These facilities have been vital to the recruitment of outstanding clinical physicians and other health professionals, and to the development of a world-class health care center for the people of Iowa. UIHC now ranks at or near the top of the nation's teaching hospitals in almost every medical specialty.

Colloton's accomplishments outside Iowa City have also brought honor and visibility to the university. Serving both the state and national healthcare communities, he was elected chairman of the National Council of Teaching Hospitals in 1979 and he was appointed an inaugural member of the prestigious Congressional Office of Technology's Prospective Payment Commission in 1983. He was elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences in 1987, and in 1988, he became only the second non-physician chairman of the Association of American Medical Colleges.

He has brought his expertise to other academic medical centers around the nation by accepting invitations to work on the policy and advisory boards at Duke University, Yale, Johns Hopkins, and the Universities of Michigan and Pennsylvania. In 1982, the Iowa State Board of Regents recognized his accomplishments by designating a new, $90 million UIHC addition the John Colloton Pavilion

Throughout his career, Colloton has generously supported many disparate areas of the university. In 1997, he and his wife, Mary Ann, donated $1 million for the advancement of the University Libraries, the School of Religion, Hancher Auditorium, medical research, and men's and women's athletics. In 1998, Colloton was inducted into the UI's National Varsity Club as an honorary letter winner.

As a result of his vision and an exceptional ability to make his vision a reality, the University of Iowa has clinical care and educational facilities that are second to none in the nation, a remarkable achievement realized without any state capital appropriation. Colloton's devotion and commitment to the University of Iowa have created an enduring legacy for the future of UIHC, even as he continues to contribute to the university's advancement in many other ways.

Colloton is a member of the UI Alumni Association's Old Capitol Club and a member of the UI Foundation's Presidents Club.


McKinley Davis, 55BA

1999 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

McKinley "Deacon" Davis, 55BA, co-founder of the Iowa Black Alumni Association, is a national sales director with Primerica/A Member of Citigroup and a former Harlem Globetrotter. An ambassador of goodwill throughout his distinguished career, Davis has shared his leadership skills and financial resources with his community and with the University of Iowa.

Basketball stardom wasn't enough for Davis. The ex-Hawkeye team captain came out of college with a three-year contract to play with the Harlem Globetrotters. But after riding with his new team through the country's southern cities, where he witnessed firsthand the racial segregation and extreme poverty that Martin Luther King, Jr. and other black leaders were fighting, Davis asked the Globetrotters to let him go. He had decided he wanted to do something more than entertain people. He wanted to help them.

Determined to join the battle against the social and economic inequities plaguing black communities, Davis began work in 1958 as director of Washington Park Community Center in Rockford, Illinois, near his hometown of Freeport. Over the next ten years, he helped thousands of people in his old neighborhoods achieve greater prosperity, working with various community organizations as either a director or board member.

Recognizing higher education as a road to prosperity minorities might miss, Davis took a position as assistant to the president of Northern Illinois University (NIU) in 1968. He developed the Complete Help and Assistance Necessary for a College Education (CHANCE) program, enabling many students to secure the financial means for obtaining a college degree. Davis spent his last five years at NIU as executive director of Intercollegiate Athletics, and, during this time, he created a women's athletics program to meet new Title IX regulations requiring equal status with the men's program.

In his latest role as a national sales director with Primerica/A Member of Citigroup, Davis creates opportunities for families to improve their security and quality of life through customized analysis of their financial situations. As a successful entrepreneur in this field, he is a valued member of Primerica's Golden Eagle Club, as well as the organization's Office Supervisory Jurisdiction Board.

Davis has generously shared his leadership acumen and resources with the University of Iowa. In 1963, he helped launch the IBAA, and for 20 years he served as the organization's chair. From 1978 to 1988, he served as the university's representative on the Big Ten Advisory Board. Working with the UI, Davis promoted alternatives to assist African-American students academically and financially. And, over the years, many black students have benefited from the Iowa Black Alumni Association Scholarship Fund that he organized.

Davis is a life member of the UI Alumni Association.


Lois H. Eichacker

1999 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

Lois H. Eichacker, a community activist who has dedicated her career to helping the disadvantaged, has been guided in her efforts, professionally and personally, by a compassion that is profound. From education and employment to affirmative action and healthcare issues, she has had a tremendous impact on the people of Iowa.

Whether as executive director of the Southeast Iowa Community Action Organization, school board member, or volunteer on community projects, Eichacker has advocated for women, children, minorities, and the working poor. Her tireless work to help formulate public policies at the local, state, and regional levels continues to create new opportunities for those unable to fend for themselves.

The first stumbling block to self-sufficiency, Eichacker believes, is lack of education, and her efforts in education have enabled scores of students to improve their desire and capacity to learn. Her contributions include initiating the Creative Learning Center and in-school and out-of-school tutoring in the Fort Madison School District. Eichacker also helped develop a "Survival Skills" course for longtime inmates facing imminent release from Fort Madison's Iowa State Penitentiary. Taught by volunteers, this course covered the essentials inmates need to know to succeed in their transition to noninstitutional living.

A strong proponent of equal opportunity in employment, Eichacker has served on the board of the Iowa Department of Economic Development, the State Job Training Coordinating Council, Investing in People, the Council on Human Investment, the State Planning Council, and the State Community Action Agencies Commission. She developed an Affirmative Action Assessment form still used by the Fort Madison School District to track the district's progress in staffing, salaries, retention, scholarship, and discipline.

The daughter of a doctor who believed that good health care is a fundamental right independent of one's ability to pay, Eichacker has played an active role in healthcare issues. A member of former Governor Terry Branstad's blue-ribbon Long Term Care Task Force, she insisted that Iowa steer away from a tiered healthcare system that would provide fewer benefits to the poor. And, in her work for the board of the Iowa Department of Economic Development, she urged healthcare system changes that would benefit all people of Iowa, especially those who could not advocate for themselves.

As a result of her dedication and the excellence of her work, Eichacker has been honored by many of the organizations and communities she has served. The Neighborhood Center and Head Start classroom site for the Southeast Iowa Community Action Organization in Fort Madison bears her name. She has received the Education Dedicated Individual of the Year Award and the University of Iowa Black Alumni Association Award for dedicated service, and she has been honored as an Outstanding Partner in Community Action for the State of Iowa. In 1994, Eichacker was inducted into the prestigious Iowa Women's Hall of Fame. Her contributions to the UIAA board of directors were recognized in 1994 when she became the first African-American elected as the Association's president. In 1997, Legal Services Corporation of Iowa awarded her its Excellence in Service Award.

Through a commitment to improving opportunities and the quality of life for every individual, regardless of economic status, Eichacker has served her community, state, and nation. Her contributions have been fueled by motives rare among the shapers of public policy: selflessness, compassion, and a desire to help others help themselves.

Eichacker is a member of the UI Alumni Association's Directors Club Honors Circle and the UI Foundation's Presidents Club.


John Hayden Fry

1999 Distinguished Faculty Award

John Hayden, who recently retired from his 20-year tenure at the helm of the Iowa football program, is the University of Iowa's winningest football coach and just the sixth football coach in Big Ten history to lead a team for two decades. Fry has a 143-89-6 record with the Hawkeyes and a career mark of 232-178-10. He ranks tenth in all-time Division I victories.

Autumn football Saturdays in Iowa City have been ruled by Fry for so long that many students now on campus were not even born when Fry started coaching at the University of Iowa. After several losing seasons on the gridiron, the Hawkeyes wanted a winner, but then-athletic director Chalmers "Bump" Elliott expected even more. He wanted someone he'd be proud to be associated with-a man capable of managing a football program that would become a key element in an up-and-coming athletic department. As Elliott said a few weeks after Fry announced his retirement last fall, "Hayden Fry far exceeded all our expectations."

And in doing so, Fry changed the culture around Hawkeye football, giving Iowans much to be proud of. Bold new uniforms. The Tiger Hawk. The Swarm. A pink locker room for the visiting team. The Bubble. Little Dumplings. The Hokey-Pokey. Dark glasses, white pants, and cowboy boots. A new industry spawned by the commercialization of UI colors and emblems. And-something unknown in the state for a long time-bowl expectations.

Along with being named Big Ten Coach of the Year three times, Fry has been named Coach of the Year, both regionally and nationally, by the media and the American College Football Coaches Association. Fry has received the Robert R. Neyland Memorial Trophy, the Johnny Vaught Lifetime Achievement Award, and the Baylor University Distinguished Alumni Award. He is also one of a select few to be named to the Texas High School Football Hall of Fame and the Texas Sports Hall of Fame, where he is honored both as a player and as a coach.

In Iowa and across the country-not just on the football field and not only on campuses or among alumni-Fry is a hero. In 1985, Fry adorned the Iowa helmets with a simple gold circle declaring "America Needs Farmers." Fry has said that the thing he is most proud of at the University of Iowa is putting the ANF on Hawkeye headgear, a small effort that helped attract national publicity to the economic plight of Midwest farmers.

Fry has served as an honorary board member for the Iowa Special Olympics, he assists in raising funds for muscular dystrophy, and he has helped raise funds for numerous organizations, including the American Diabetes Association, the Iowa Council for Better Hearing and Speech, the Iowa Association for Retarded Citizens, and the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.

Fry has been motivated primarily by what he considers right. "In football," he says, "like in life, you must learn to play with the rules of the game. We're going to foul up once in a while, but people need to know we don't do it on purpose. Playing the game with integrity-that's what it's all about."


George F. Garcia, 72MA

1999 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

George F. Garcia, 72MA, superintendent of Tucson Unified School District (TUSD) since 1991, is in the midst of a distinguished career as an educator and educational administrator. A former UI Alumni Association board member, he was named one of North America's best administrators by Executive Educator magazine in 1993, and in 1998, the Arizona School Administrators Association named him the Arizona Superintendent of the Year.

A recognized expert on nonsexist, multicultural curriculum and instruction, Garcia has led TUSD through major changes. He has systematically strengthened the school district by focusing on increased student achievement, enhanced school safety, and unprecedented community involvement in schools.

With special emphasis on accomplishment and accountability at all levels, Garcia has presided over a continuing trend of dramatically improved student performance in the Tucson Unified School District. Last year's graduating class scored above the state and national averages in reading and mathematics and above the state average in language. During his tenure, the district has experienced a continuous decrease in its dropout rate, with the current rate the lowest in the past decade. With an innovative program called "the Fourth R," community involvement in student education has escalated to unprecedented levels. Volunteer hours by Tucson's students and families-- at 40,000 when Garcia came on board in 1991-- have soared to more than 230,000.

Garcia's creativity, innovation, and willingness to take bold action benefit Tucson's students every day as he emphasizes appreciation of diversity and bilingual education. Believing that schools need to confront bias in student-teacher interaction, Garcia directs the training of teachers on the elimination of gender, racial, and ethnic disparities through research-based instructional strategies and resources. With a bilingual education plan that received national recognition, Garcia secured a grant to support a home-shared computer project that gives computer access to more than 8,400 students and their families.

A legislative advocate for children at the local and state level, Garcia has fostered stronger support for public education and better relations with elected representatives. One result of his efforts was Medicaid's reimbursement to the Tucson district for providing services to Medicaid-eligible students. Garcia was also instrumental in founding the Pima County School Board/Superintendent Collaborative, an organization that brings together all Pima County superintendents and governing board members to work towards common goals and interests through the Arizona legislature.

Through a humane, visionary approach, Garcia has developed a record of excellence in educational leadership in other major school districts. As director of urban education for the Iowa Department of Public Instruction from 1974 to 1979, he introduced the first nonsexist, multicultural curriculum to Iowa, long before such programs were common. His success in building consensus and securing funds to implement this innovation resulted in wide acclaim and national recognition. The Iowa curriculum has since become a model for many other states.

Active in many civic and philanthropic organizations, Garcia was recently honored by the Arizona-Israel Friendship League for his longstanding support of the Youth Ambassador program. He also served as chairman for Tucson's 1997 United Way fundraising campaign.

Garcia is a member of the UI Alumni Association.


David A. Hamod, 81BA

1999 Distinguished Alumni Young Award

David A. Hamod, 81BA, founder and president of Intercom, an independent consulting firm, has become highly successful in solving problems that cross borders and entangle cultures as he works with businesses worldwide to enhance U.S. competitiveness.

Hamod has carved out a niche as Washington's point man for Americans living and working abroad. He helps dozens of American chambers of commerce foster international business relationships, and he heads a coalition of some 75 associations dedicated to promoting U.S. exports.

It's not surprising to find Hamod in the middle of many sensitive situations. When Saddam Hussein released American hostages a few years ago, Hamod introduced them to the vice president of the United States and helped coordinate their reentry into American life. And, in 1996, the White House asked Hamod's company to put together the final report on the White House Conference on Aging.

On a daily basis, Hamod works with the Paris-based World Federation of Americans Abroad to tackle a variety of quality of life issues that affect Americans overseas-everything from citizenship and voting rights to taxation and health care.

Hamod's pro bono community service work is impressive. In a project through Rotary International, he helped set up an AIDS awareness and prevention program in Thailand. Current projects he's involved with include providing a minivan to an orphanage in Romania, sending books to Bhutan, and building a teachers' training hostel in Cambodia.

After graduating as valedictorian from Iowa City High School, Hamod could have gone to college almost anywhere, but he chose his hometown university. For him, he says, the university combined the best of all worlds: a high-quality education and a crossroads for international wayfarers. In his junior year, he studied abroad at the American University of Cairo, an experience he credits with opening his eyes to a more global, sophisticated understanding of the world. Hamod graduated with honors, later spent another year abroad, this time in Jerusalem, and then went on to earn his master's degree in international relations and economics from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies in 1985. Between those two years overseas, Hamod says, he gained an appreciation for all peoples in the Middle East.

Whatever venue he chooses, Hamod uses his expertise to bring people together in positive ways. He believes that the next quarter century's business opportunities will lead into uncharted territory, as cyberspace opens up new commercial horizons around the world. But Hamod is adamant about people being the key to the success of these new opportunities. "High technology alone will never replace the glue that binds international business," he says. "Those ties depend on human relationships."

Hamod is a member of the UI Alumni Association's Old Capitol Club.


I.J. Holton, 41BA, 47JD

1999 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

I.J. "Jim" Holton, 41BA, 47JD, retired chairman and chief executive officer of Hormel Foods Corporation and retired chairman of the Hormel Foundation in Austin, Minnesota, has served with distinction as a member of many professional and philanthropic organizations and has maintained generous and consistent support of the University of Iowa.

Originally from Cedar Rapids, Holton came to the University of Iowa in the depths of the Great Depression with little or no money. Once in Iowa City, he secured a job and worked his way through undergraduate school, becoming the first in his family to earn a college degree. Like many men of his generation, Holton entered the military and worked his way up to staff officer, serving in Europe from D-Day until the end of hostilities and fighting in battles from Utah Beach to VE Day in Leipzig. In recognition of his outstanding military service, he received the Croix de Guerre with Vermilion Star from the provisional French government, in addition to U.S. military decorations and testimonials from high-ranking officers.

After the war, Holton returned to the university and entered law school. Upon his graduation, he went to work in the legal department of the Hormel Corporation in Austin, Minnesota, as a staff attorney. Again, he worked his way up the ladder. During nearly four decades with the company, Holton rose from general counsel and corporate secretary to chairman and chief executive officer.

Perhaps Holton's proudest civic achievement is his service as a chairman of the fundraising campaign for the new Austin Public Library. Devoting more than ten years to leading the effort to generate support for the facility, Holton helped turn the library into a point of pride for the entire community.

Holton also served on the board of directors of the UI Foundation from 1970 to 1972. Having provided generous financial support to the Iowa Law School Foundation since its earliest days, he was recognized in 1978 as one of the leadership contributors to the law school's Second Century Campaign. Holton's ongoing support of the law school has qualified him for the College of Law Dean's Club. He has supplemented his personal contributions to the College of Liberal Arts by serving as a member of the college's 1941 50th Anniversary Class Gifts Committee and helping to generate support from his fellow alumni. He is also a member of the College of Liberal Arts Dean's Club.

A particular concern of Holton's has been providing scholarship support for students with financial need. Having found difficulty securing financial aid as a young law student, Holton for many years has unselfishly contributed to the university to help other students facing the same challenge. He has helped fund several scholarships and has arranged for a financial aid gift to the College of Law and to the College of Liberal Arts.

Holton is a life member of the UI Alumni Association and a member of the UI Foundation's Presidents Club.


Ailene H. Liechty

1999 Distinguished Alumni Friend Award

Ailene H. Liechty, a faithful supporter of the university she and her husband adopted when they moved to Iowa City in 1931, has acted with outstanding generosity for the advancement of the University of Iowa. Her support and continuing involvement have helped the university press forward toward ambitious goals and maintain high-quality programs.

For many years, Liechty and her husband, E.J. "Jack" Liechty, were active members of the Presidents Club, the UI Foundation's honor club for its most generous supporters. Since Jack's death in 1994, she has continued that support, aiding in developments such as the upgrade of facilities, enhancing educational opportunities, and enriching the university's role in the arts. Her gifts have created and endowed scholarships in journalism, family medicine, and men's and women's athletics. She has been quick to provide gifts to many ongoing programs and projects, including Hancher Auditorium, the Museum of Art, and the Museum of Natural History. She also helped fund restoration of the Old Capitol building in time for the nation's bicentennial in 1976.

Liechty's public-spirited generosity extends beyond the university to embrace the larger community, with uninterrupted financial support to First Methodist Church and Mercy Hospital in Iowa City. An avid golfer, Liechty served as president of the Iowa City Elks Country Club women's golf group, and she contributed funds to improve the facilities of the Elks Country Club. Thanks to her unselfish gift, her hometown of Zearing, Iowa, secured the means to complete major renovation and expansion of the town's library.

In addition to generously sharing her own resources, Liechty has helped the staff of the UI Foundation attract major gifts from others. She expanded her knowledge of UI Foundation policies and needs last year by attending a financial planning workshop sponsored by the Foundation.

A former president of her local chapter of P.E.O., Liechty is a member of the College of Liberal Arts Dean's Club, the Kinnick Society, and Hancher Auditorium Silver and Greenroom Circles. She is also a member of the UI Foundation's Presidents Club.


David Morrell

1999 Distinguished Faculty Award

David Morrell, a former professor of English at the University of Iowa who garnered critical attention with his debut novel, First Blood, in 1972, has become an immensely popular and prolific master of suspense. During his career as a faculty member and as a highly successful author, Morrell has demonstrated his commitment to connecting with the individual-students and readers alike.

Known for his page-turning adventure stories filled with action and intrigue, Morrell has sold more than 12 million copies of his books. Several have been made into movies, including First Blood and The Brotherhood of the Rose. He is regarded the world over for his fast-paced plots and rapid-fire action. Yet the Santa Fe resident still speaks fondly of the University of Iowa and he has generously supported areas on campus that remain dear to his heart.

Creator of the Rambo character, Morrell himself is a gentle man. Described by one magazine as someone who "prefers planting tomatoes to pulling a trigger," Morrell says he has a marked fear of violence. At one time he even dreaded watching weather reports on television, because, he says, he was always afraid a man would stop the program to say that war had been declared. The son of a Canadian Royal Air Force pilot who was killed over Europe in 1943, the year he was born, Morrell knows the cost of violence. The theme of a man living without a father echoes through some of his best-known books.

Morrell is a father, too. He endured a wrenching trauma when his high school-age son, Matt, was diagnosed with cancer and treated at UI Hospitals and Clinics (UIHC). Matt died in 1987. In spite of their grief, Morrell and his wife, Donna, expressed their appreciation for the care Matt received at UIHC by establishing the Matt Morrell Memorial Fund through the University of Iowa Foundation. The fund supports hematology and oncology in the Department of Pediatrics at UIHC. In addition, profits from the sale of Fireflies, a book Morrell wrote about the family's ordeal during Matt's illness and death, help support cancer research at UIHC through the Matt Morrell Memorial Fund.

Morrell taught in the UI Department of English from 1970 to 1986. When he left the faculty, the UI lost a terrific teacher and the public gained a prolific author. Today Morrell is teaching beyond the classroom, educating readers through his fastidiously researched novels. As he describes his approach, "I try to put in ideas that will leave the reader thinking after the thrills disappear. You can use history to fascinate people."

Through gifts of his published works and manuscripts to the Department of Special Collections at University Libraries, Morrell has made another substantial commitment to the university. Since 1988, he has donated more than 400 volumes of his works that have been published in English, as well as languages from Italian to Thai, Czech to Icelandic. He has also given the library drafts of novels and scripts that document his writing career.

Morrell's biography on the jackets of his novels almost always mentions his years of teaching literature at the University of Iowa. Over the years, the university has educated many writers and employed many educators who are writers, but few former faculty have become such popular writers who still maintain personal ties with the university.

Morrell is a member of the UI Foundation's Presidents Club.


Majorie Mowlam, 74MA, 77PhD

1999 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Marjorie "Mo" Mowlam, 74MA, 77PhD, Britain's Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, has earned worldwide respect for her distinctive contribution to the landmark peace agreement between the Irish Republic and the province of Northern Ireland.

While turning the hearts and minds of political assassins probably was not covered in any of the classes Mowlam attended while working on her doctorate at the University of Iowa 25 years ago, that's how Mowlam has spent the past several years as she endures what has been called the most frustrating and thankless job in international politics. Appointed to the cabinet of British Prime Minister Tony Blair in 1997, Mowlam has helped orchestrate a delicate peace accord within a social and political culture that's been marked by bigotry, ivisiveness, and violence for more than 300 years.

Her task has put Mowlam face-to-face with killers from both camps: loyalists desperate to preserve Northern Ireland's political and economic ties with England and nationalists willing to use violence to unite Ireland's 32 counties into a single nation. While Mowlam admits it wasn't easy to warm up to people of violence, her ability to do so proved critical to reaching the so-called Good Friday Agreement, a commitment endorsed in May 1998 by 95 percent of voters in Ireland's 26 counties and 71 percent in Northern Ireland's six. The milestone agreement is a political blueprint for building a road toward peace after 20 years of violence that spawned some of the world's most atrocious terrorist acts and left 3,000 dead.

For more than ten months, Mowlam both hosted and refereed fragile political negotiations. Among the lessons she learned from the peace process, Mowlam says, is the need to involve people at all levels, to build their confidence, and to buy them enough space and time to make progress within their own distinctive communities. "You have to overcome fear," she says. "You have to build trust and build respect."

Known for her brash populist approach, Mowlam overcame her own fears by literally going into the streets of Belfast to get to know ordinary citizens. At one point, she stunned all involved in the peace talks by entering the notorious H-Block of Northern Ireland's Maze Prison to brief senior Ulster Defence Association and Irish Republican Army prisoners on the peace process and issues such as early release of political prisoners. After meeting with Mowlam, the prisoners gave their political representatives the go-ahead to keep bargaining, and an editorial the next day in the Irish Times termed her negotiations within the high-security prison "a humane and disarming gesture by a brave woman."

Mowlam is quick to note that peace in Ireland remains a hope, not a reality, that there's "a wee way to go." Toward that end, she continues to have faith in the people of Ireland and complete confidence that peace is inevitable. "It was the people who wanted peace," she says. "If they hadn't wanted it as they so desperately do, we wouldn't have gotten to where we are now."

Before her rise in British and world politics, Mowlam lectured at Florida State University and at Newcastle Upon Tyne. She also served as an administrator for Northern College in Barnsley, England.


Darlene L. Paris, 62BBA

1999 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Darlene L. Paris, 62BBA, is founder and chief executive officer of ASI Personnel Service-the nation's largest and oldest full-service personnel firm that is both minority-owned and operated. Throughout her career, Paris has exemplified relentless dedication to excellence, in both the development of her nationally recognized Fortune 1000 company and in her leadership in the community.

ASI recruits, installs, and manages long-term, multifaceted personnel operations for large organizations, including several Fortune 1000 businesses. Honored by President George Bush in 1991 as one of ten business leaders whose corporations showed steady growth, fiscal maturity, and managerial excellence, Paris has brought her company into national prominence. Her leadership over the past 31 years has turned ASI into a multi-million dollar business. The company's longevity and success have earned ASI many accolades, including Minority Vendor of the Year and Service Firm of the Year during Minority Enterprise Development Week in Illinois.

Central to the success of her company has been Paris's expertise in responding to employment demands in the United States and her skill at forging strong strategic alliances with large corporations. In 1990, ASI won a record-setting multi-year $18 million contract from the United States Military Academy at West Point to provide staff for the academy. The contract was the largest ever awarded to a minority-owned firm in Illinois. Three years later, ASI won a multi-million dollar contract to provide managerial, clerical, operations, service, and maintenance employees for the Chicago International O'Hare Airport. Paris's other clients include the First National Bank of Chicago, the Art Institute of Chicago, and CitiBank.

Named in 1991 to the Black Woman Hall of Fame-the prestigious honor previously shared by others such as Lena Horne and Maya Angelou-Paris has been profiled by N'DIGO magazine as "a mind that contains a robust sense of humor and an appreciation of intelligence in others. There is a pride, a strong sense of purpose, an awareness of self-directed energy. There is ambition to operate on a larger scale."

A Chicago native who chose to keep her business headquartered in her hometown, Paris credits her level of success to individual determination as well as group achievement. She's quick to remind others that she didn't inherit her business. Although she admits the road has not been free of obstacles, she points out that "in this country, in this diverse and democratic society, sheer focus and ability can scale the heights."

Beyond her notable leadership and devotion to her company, Paris contributes to her community and to the University of Iowa through a variety of volunteer efforts. She has served as president of numerous Chicago agencies, including the League of Black Women; the board of directors of the Girl Scouts of Chicago; the Lyric Opera Board, Bravo! Chapter; A Better Chance Incorporated; and United Charities.

Paris is a life member of the University of Iowa Alumni Association and a charter and life member of the University of Iowa Black Alumni Association.


Richard H. Stanley, 63MS

1999 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Richard H. Stanley, 63MS, chairman of the board of Stanley Consultants, Inc., has distinguished himself both as an engineer and as a societal leader through more than 40 years of service to the University of Iowa, his profession, his community, and the world.

Beyond his leadership in the engineering field through one of the premier engineering consulting firms anywhere, Stanley has reached out to find ways to benefit humanity. His efforts began at home, in his native community of Muscatine, where he worked in varied community and church activities, served as the initial board president of the Eastern Iowa Community College, and led efforts to promote the growth and development of the Muscatine-area medical care system.

But Stanley's commitment to people embraces the globe, too. He inspires national and international initiatives for a more secure, peaceful, free, and just world as president of the Stanley Foundation, and he works relentlessly to promote improved international relations and a reformed and strengthened United Nations. As chair of the board of the Northeast-Midwest Institute, he has provided invaluable advice and assistance to U.S. congressional efforts to meet the development needs of the country's midwestern and northeastern regions.

Stanley's contributions to higher education are outstanding. As a member of the College of Engineering Building Campaign Steering Committee at the University of Iowa, he has counseled the college in achieving ambitious fundraising goals for its capital improvement project. He and his wife, Mary Jo, also generously gave to the project as part of a major leadership gift that included pledges from the HON Industries Charitable Foundation, the Stanley-University of Iowa Foundation Support Organization, and Stanley Consultants Charitable Foundation. As a result of the gift, the 160-seat lecture hall in the new portion of the Seamans Center for the Engineering Arts and Sciences will be named Stanley Auditorium.

Called a Renaissance man and "a builder in the finest sense of the word" by Iowa's U.S. Representative Jim Leach, Stanley has earned a battery of professional awards and recognition based on his lifelong commitment to industry and public service. An inductee in the University of Iowa College of Engineering Distinguished Alumni Academy, Stanley has received the American Consulting Engineers Council Distinguished Award of Merit and the American Association of Community College's prestigious Harry S. Truman Award. Presented to a person outside the field of education who makes major contributions to community colleges, the honor recognizes Stanley's work to bring "global" education to community colleges across the nation.

With his rich history of leadership and his passion for professional and civic duty, Stanley stands as an international model for young engineers and as an exemplary alumnus of the University of Iowa.

Stanley is a life member of the UI Alumni Association and a member of the UI Foundation's Presidents Club.


V. Hale Starr, 76MA ,79PhD

1999 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

V. Hale Starr, 76MA, 79PhD, is a pioneer in the field of litigation services. Owner and president of Starr Litigation Services, Inc., a communications and media research firm in West Des Moines, and a founding member of the American Society of Trial Consultants, she has been a key player in developing a field that has become an important element of the American judicial system.

Starr has helped thousands of people receive fair trials. Through studies conducted by her firm, she has provided trial attorneys with invaluable information about interpersonal communication and community attitudes. Her research has helped champion changes of venue and out-of-court settlements, legal actions that help reduce costs and curtail undue negative publicity.

Starr Litigation Services is one of the largest and most successful firms of its kind in the world. Starr launched the company shortly after she completed her doctorate degree and became intrigued with communication issues involved in American courts of law. Using theory and research skills acquired from her communications studies at the University of Iowa, she began by helping trial lawyers select jurors in a more systematic way. Before long, Starr began conducting community studies to determine whether litigants could receive fair trials in their communities. In recent years, she has advised attorneys on every aspect of their communication with jurors and judges. Through this process, she has helped make the practice of law a more sophisticated and fair enterprise, one where the role of chance or random factors is minimized.

Not only has Starr played an important role in developing the new profession of trial consulting, she has helped many Iowa graduates get their start in this and related professions. Almost from the beginning of Starr Litigation Services, Starr has welcomed Iowa alumni to her firm. She has provided postdoctoral training and helped many go on to positions in public opinion research and political consulting.

Starr has also helped advance the education of many University of Iowa students. Most notably, she has endowed an undergraduate research assistantship as a memorial to her son. The C. Jay Starr Memorial Scholarship in Communication Studies provides the opportunity for an undergraduate to experience working closely with a faculty member as co-researcher. One stricture is that scholarship recipients cannot list their research work on their resumes until the research is published. In this way, Starr helps students understand that research is a public enterprise and must be communicated in some permanent form to prove beneficial.

Starr has accepted that same responsibility. With former Iowa Supreme Court Justice Mark McCormick, she co-authored Jury Selection and she has written a second book, Witness Preparation, as well as numerous articles in law, communication, and other journals. She has also lectured and conducted workshops and seminars all over the world.

With a long record of interest in women's rights, history, and politics, Starr supports the university's Iowa Women's Archives with her endowment of a research fellowship that provides support to talented students who are interested in gaining experience in women's history and archival research.

Starr has supported the university in other ways as well. She served on the Des Moines Regional Committee for the university's Iowa Endowment 2000 campaign, and she returns periodically to Iowa City to lecture and contributes funds to a variety of campus projects.

Starr is a member of the UI Alumni Association's Old Capitol Club and a member of the UI Foundation's Presidents Club.


R. William Van Sant, 66BSME, 67MS

1999 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

William Van Sant, 66BSME, 67MS, chairman and chief executive officer of Lukens Inc. and a nationally recognized business leader, is widely respected for his ability to build shareholder value for some of America's most respected companies.

An Iowa Falls native, Van Sant launched his career at Deere & Company in Waterloo, and throughout his professional life, he has been appointed to senior management positions in industries that form the foundation of the nation's economy—manufacturing, construction, metals, and aerospace/defense. In addition to his responsibilities at Lukens, he has held executive posts at Deere, Cessna Aircraft, and Blount Inc.

Van Sant joined Lukens in 1991 as president and chief operating officer, amidst a 116-day strike at the company's headquarters. Through his leadership, an innovative contract settlement was achieved that offered job security in return for productivity gains and profit sharing. After his appointment as Lukens's chairman and chief executive officer in late 1991, Van Sant initiated the purchase of Washington Steel Corporation, a leading stainless steel producer. This $275 million acquisition allowed Lukens to enter the growing specialty steel market. In addition, the Lukens chairman implemented a $350 million capital program to integrate the company's manufacturing systems, and he launched a sweeping Total Quality Leadership process throughout the corporation. In 1995, Lukens's steel sales exceeded $1 billion.

Today, Lukens competes internationally as a Fortune 500 company and the nation's third-largest producer of plate steel. Lukens Inc. was acquired by the Bethlehem Steel Corporation in 1998. Since that time, Van Sant has worked as a senior advisor to a number of equity firms.

Van Sant has devoted his time and talents to benefit industry, as well as other professional and civic organizations. A director of Amcast Industries, he holds directorships at the National Association of Manufacturers, the American Iron and Steel Institute, the Manufacturers Alliance, the Specialty Steel Institute of North America, and the Coatesville Area Partners for Progress.

Van Sant has also remained loyal to his Iowa roots through his memberships on the UI College of Engineering Development Council and its advisory board, and he has contributed to several UI Foundation projects.

Van Sant is a member of the UI Alumni Association's Old Capitol Club.


Philip E. Bernatz, 42BA, 44MD

1998 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Philip E. Bernatz, 42BA, 44MD, is a retired thoracic and vascular surgeon who served as president of the medical staff at the world-famous Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, from 1975 to 1976. Despite numerous professional activities and affiliations and with more than 180 publications to his credit, Bernatz is perhaps most admired for the compassion he exhibited to his patients and the respect he showed to and earned from his colleagues.

After graduating Phi Beta Kappa and Alpha Omega Alpha from the University of Iowa and following military service with the US Navy, he attended the Mayo Graduate School as a surgical fellow and earned his master's degree in surgery. Appointed to the surgical staff at the Mayo Clinic in 1955, Bernatz eventually climbed the academic ladder to full professor, and in 1981, he was named the Stuart Harrington Professor of Surgery.

Throughout his medical career, peers and colleagues recognized Bernatz as an outstanding surgeon, relishing his vast knowledge in patient consultations. One colleague noted that Bernatz "thinks like an internist"—high praise for a surgeon. Much of his medical philosophy was based on his belief in sharing his expertise not only with professional colleagues and students, but also with patients and the public at large. A contributor to a variety of information published by the Mayo Foundation, Bernatz also served on the editorial board of the authoritative Mayo Clinic Family Health Book and Mayo News Letter, comprehensive medical guides designed primarily for the public.

In addition to his contributions to numerous professional publications, Bernatz also participated in a broad range of professional societies. His service as a member of the American Board of Thoracic Surgery—the body that determines guidelines for professional training, program accreditation, candidate examination, and board certification—is indicative of Bernatz's eminence in his field.

But patients and peers alike perhaps most appreciated Bernatz's compassion and the time he dedicated to his patients and their families, explaining treatment choices and their potential outcomes.

Bernatz is a member of the UI Alumni Association's Old Capitol Club.


Kathleen A. Dore, 72BA, 84MBA

1998 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Kathleen A. Dore, 72BA, 84MBA, president of the Bravo Networks, is one of cable television's top executives.

An Iowa City native, Dore worked at the University of Iowa Alumni Association from 1977 to 1981. Through her efforts as associate director, the UIAA experienced phenomenal growth in both membership and programming. While at the Association, Dore implemented the Volunteer Alumni Counselor Program and created a model women's program that was copied by other alumni associations around the country.

Dore entered the cable television industry in 1982, when she joined Rainbow Media Holdings, Inc., and, from 1986 to 1988, she served as regional director of the American Movie Classics Company.

In 1988, Dore joined Bravo as executive vice president and general manager. Over the next eight years, she worked her way to the top of the organization. Within a three-year period, she restructured Bravo and managed its turnaround from a failing premium cable network into a profitable basic network. She launched The Independent Film Channel and nurtured it into the leading independent film channel. Dore also led the successful expansion of Bravo into Canada and Latin America, and she spearheaded the vertical integration of the company into feature film production with the formation of IFC Productions and Next Wave Films. In 1996, she was named president of the Bravo Networks, which include Bravo, The Independent Film Channel, Bravo International, IFC Productions, and MuchMusic.

Although deeply engaged in one of the most competitive and demanding businesses in this country, Dore has continued to be involved with the University of Iowa, building on her earlier service to the UI Alumni Association, and she has proven herself to be an excellent role model for young women everywhere.

Dore is a life member of the UI Alumni Association.


Katherine Hammer, 67BA, 69MA, 73PhD

1998 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Katherine "Kay" (Gonet) Hammer, 67BA, 69MA, 73PhD, is cofounder, president, and chief executive officer of Evolutionary Technologies International (ETI), an Austin, Texas, firm that is revolutionizing the way companies worldwide modernize and consolidate otherwise incompatible computer systems.

Hammer, a native of Shreveport, Louisiana, has inspired entrepreneurs everywhere, particularly women and liberal arts graduates, with her success at ETI. After teaching linguistics at Coe College in Cedar Rapids and Washington State University in Pullman, Hammer divorced in 1980 and moved her family to Austin, Texas, where she studied computer science. One year later, she was working 60-hour weeks at Texas Instruments, while raising her two children. In 1984, she joined Microelectronics & Computer Technology Corporation (MCC), an industry-backed computer research consortium based in Austin.

At MCC, Hammer conceived the idea that would ultimately lead to the creation of Evolutionary Technologies. She overcame many challenges before realizing her vision of writing software that could automate the process of keeping related data consistent throughout large organizations. With another colleague, Hammer cofounded Evolutionary Technologies International in 1991.

Growing at a phenomenal rate, the company soon became an ideal investment opportunity for venture capitalists and was ranked 15th on Inc. Magazine's 1997 list of America's 500 fastest growing private companies.

Hammer received Austin's High Technology Entrepreneur of the Year Award in 1993 for demonstrating a "can-do spirit of innovation, ingenuity, and drive." One ETI investor has said, "Kay gets good work from her scientists because she works so hard herself."

A noted business leader and speaker in Austin and throughout the country, Hammer participated in President Clinton's March 1995 White House Southern Region Economic Conference in Atlanta. She also appeared in a Forbes magazine cover story on women leaders of successful high-tech businesses, and she was featured in "The Entrepreneurial Revolution," a 1997 PBS documentary focusing on the achievements of several of the country's top entrepreneurs.

Hammer is an annual member of the UI Alumni Association.


John B McLendon, Jr., 37MA

1998 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

John B. McLendon, Jr., 37MA, the only UI graduate to be inducted into the Naismith College Basketball Hall of Fame, is one of the most respected and influential innovators of college basketball.

Born in Hiawatha, Kansas, McLendon earned his bachelor's degree at the University of Kansas in 1936, where he was a protégé of Dr. James Naismith, the inventor of basketball.

Recognized as an early pioneer and advocate of the fast break and zone press, McLendon invented the four corners offense and introduced a fast-paced style of play that became his trademark.

"McLendon's influence, if not his spirit, will be felt in arenas across the nation, every time a fast break is executed, every time a team presses for 40 minutes," said a 1993 New York Times article. "McLendon didn't invent the fast break. But as the head coach of Tennessee State between 1954 and 1959, he helped popularize it and widen the concept of what a fast break could be with well-conditioned, athletic players with speed and quickness."

It was at historically black colleges and universities that McLendon had his greatest successes. He won six conference championships in 12 years at North Carolina College For Negroes (now North Carolina Central University). In 1957, when his Tennessee State team defeated Southeastern Oklahoma in the finals of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics Tournament (NAIA), McLendon became the first African-American to win a national basketball championship. With his NAIA championship in 1959, he became the first university coach to win three consecutive national basketball titles.

On the international scene, McLendon coached the US to a 6-0 record over the USSR in 1961, in a series that decided the World's Amateur Championship. The USA representative to the World Basketball Rules Committee from 1974 to 1976, McLendon was also a member of the 1968 and 1972 US Olympic basketball coaching staffs and a member of the US Olympic Basketball Committee from 1964 to 1976.

McLendon's accomplishments also include being named the first African-American to coach a professional team (Cleveland Pipers, 1961) and the first black head coach at a predominantly white American university (Cleveland State, 1966).

NAIA coach of the year in 1958, McLendon went on to amass 523 career college victories and to receive the prestigious Metropolitan Award from the New York Basketball Writers Association in 1977. Basketball Times magazine named him one of the top six coaches who changed basketball in America from 1950 to 1994, and Sports View magazine selected him as "Coach of the Century" in 1992.


H. Randolph Moore, Jr., 57LLB

1998 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

H. Randolph Moore, 61BA, 62MBA, 65PhD, 57LLB, a recently retired Superior Court judge for the state of California, is widely respected for his extraordinary contributions to the Los Angeles County juvenile court system.

After graduating from the UI, Moore returned to Los Angeles, where he worked as a prosecutor in the city attorney's office and then in private practice. For nearly ten years he served as a Superior Court commissioner, and in 1977, he was appointed to the Los Angeles Municipal Court. In 1980, Moore was elevated to the Superior Court, where he remained until his retirement in 1997. A faculty member at the National College of Juvenile Justice on the campus of the University of Nevada-Reno, Moore sits on assignment in the courts of California and teaches a summer class at the University of Missouri School of Law.

Throughout his judicial career, Moore personified a firm yet thoughtful judge. He promulgated several programs that continue to operate today in Los Angles County, including the Juvenile Alternative Work Program (JAWS), which promotes discipline and work ethic in youths, and an Arraignment, Report, Adjudication, and Disposition (ARAD) process that was recognized nationally in 1984.

Through his membership on the South Central Advisory Committee, Moore helped instigate a series of programs addressing issues such as gang violence, restitution, psychological assessment and counseling, youth services bureaus, and job training programs. Collaborating with the California National Guard, the Los Angeles Conservation Corps, and the Century Freeway Project, Moore also worked actively to secure meaningful employment for youths.

A three-time recipient of Judge of the Year honors, Moore was also honored in 1991 with the building and dedication of the H.R. Moore, Jr. Learning Center and Community Education Center in Los Angeles. Built with funds he obtained from the County Department of Education, the center is located across the street from the courthouse where Moore is assigned.

In response to Moore's recent retirement from the bench, a colleague wrote, "Your retirement truly marks the end of an extraordinary era in the history of the Los Angeles County Juvenile Court. No judge has been more dedicated to realizing the goals of the juvenile justice system than you have been. No judge has shaped it as singularly as you have. No judge has been its personification as much as you have been. And no judge has given as much to the cause of juvenile justice and contributed as much to the well-being of the youth of this country as you have."


Herbert Nipson, 48MFA

1998 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Herbert Nipson, 48MFA, an award-winning journalist, dedicated nearly four decades of his professional career to Ebony magazine.

While an undergraduate student at Penn State University, Nipson became the first African-American elected to Sigma Delta Chi, the national journalism honor society. In 1946, Nipson enrolled in the UI Writers' Workshop and soon discovered that another African-American graduate student was being considered for membership in Sigma Delta Chi's Iowa chapter; however, the national office responded that the society included no black members and did not encourage such memberships. Advised that there was a black UI student claiming membership, the national office confirmed that Herbert Nipson had received the honor in 1939his peers at Penn State had just not mentioned his color. Shortly thereafter, the University of Iowa named the second black member to Sigma Delta Chi.

Nipson earned his MFA in creative writing and became an established photographer at Iowa. He served on the staff of the Daily Iowan and worked as a photographer for the Cedar Rapids Gazette. In his last year on campus, Nipson won first, second, and honorable mention in the Iowa Press Photographer's competition.

When Nipson graduated from the Workshop, only two African-American journalists were employed by American newspapers. Undeterred, he moved to Chicago in 1949 and joined the staff of Ebony magazine, then a struggling, four-year-old publication that was striving to become for the black community what Life and Look magazines represented for the white community. Nipson subsequently moved up the editorial ladder from associate editor to co-managing editor to managing editor. He was named executive editor in 1972.

Through Nipson's editorial guidance and acumen, Ebony assumed a leading role in helping African-Americans assert their cultural identity and secure their civil rights. By the time he retired in 1987, the publication's circulation had grown to 1.75 million. Today, Ebony is the most popular magazine in the African-American community, with a circulation of more than 1.8 million.

Now retired, Nipson remains active in the Chicago community. President Emeritus of the South Side Community Art Center, he continues work on its board of trustees and is a strong supporter of the Urban League and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. In 1973, Nipson also received a distinguished alumni award from Penn State University.

Nipson is a life member of the UI Alumni Association.


Madge (Jones) Phillips, 38BA

1998 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

Madge Jones Phillips, 38BA, is a human services activist, who has committed both her professional career and her personal life to helping those who are less fortunate in and around Cedar Rapids.

During her 18 years as director of the Linn County Health Center—now the Linn County Department of Human Resources Management—and later as an activist serving the same causes, Phillips created a legacy of hard-nosed volunteerism in eastern Iowa. A trailblazer whose can-do attitude in the field of human services has helped thousands of Iowans over the years, she has been particularly supportive of children and seniors.

In 1981, Phillips helped organize the Witwer Senior Center, filling a void in the lives of senior citizens in the Cedar Rapids area. Two years later, when she began to develop vision problems, Phillips knew there must be others with deteriorating eyesight, so she worked to establish low-vision service centers in three Cedar Rapids-area locations.

In 1986, Phillips spearheaded a drive to create a center for sexually abused children. The resulting St. Luke's Child Protection Center has served as a safe haven for more than 10,000 children at risk and has focused further attention on a serious societal problem. Then, in 1989, the Cedar Rapids YMCA opened the Madge Phillips Resource Center to serve as a daytime resource for homeless women and children when other nighttime emergency shelters are closed. In 1995, the Cedar Rapids Junior League raised $1,680,000 to build a state-of-the-art center to expand the Madge Phillips shelter into a 24-hour program.

Explaining both her motivations and her philosophy, Phillips told a Cedar Rapids Gazette reporter several years ago, "When I retired, I decided to get involved in the two populations that interested me the most—abused children and the elderly. To me, children and elderly are the most at-risk, fragile populations. They just touch me."

Phillips has chaired advisory boards for the Witwer Senior Center, the COMMIT anti-smoking project, the Four Oaks program committee, the St. Luke's Child Protection Center, and the YWCA Board of Trustees. She has served as a board member for the Heritage Area Agency on Aging, the Linn County Task Force, and Linn County Aging Services.

Phillips has been named National Volunteer of the Year by the American Hospital Association and a Paul Harris Fellow by Rotary International, and she also received the Alexis de Tocqueville volunteer award by United Way of America.

Phillips is a life member of the UI Alumni Association.


Mary Louise (Reynolds) Remy, 43BSC

1998 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

Mary Louise Remy, 43BSC, has devoted a lifetime of service to furthering educational opportunities for women around the world. For ten years she served as an officer on the executive board of the International Chapter of the P.E.O. Sisterhood, serving a two-year term as its president from 1989 to 1991.

The P.E.O. Sisterhood, whose International headquarters are in Des Moines, is a philanthropic and educational organization founded in 1869 at Iowa Wesleyan College in Mount Pleasant. Since its founding, P.E.O. has assisted more than 52,000 women with scholarships, grants, loans, and awards totaling more than $81,000,000. P.E.O. also owns and operates Cottey College, a two-year liberal arts college for women in Nevada, Missouri. Today more than one-quarter million women are members of P.E.O. in 50 states and provincial chapters and in more than 5,700 local chapters.

Remy has dedicated her time, energy, and organizational skills to leadership positions at every level of the P.E.O. Sisterhood. She served as executive secretary for the California State Chapter for 14 years. Remy then served for six years as a state chapter officer, before she was elected to the executive board of the International Chapter.

As president of the International Chapter, Remy proposed and promoted the acceptance of P.E.O.'s fifth educational project, the Scholar Awards. Established in 1991 and designed to honor women in the US and Canada for their outstanding work and advanced study and research, the Scholar Awards project has honored 640 women with awards of more than $2,700,000. Each year a scholarship is awarded in Remy's name.

Remy also served ten years as a member of both the P.E.O. Foundation Corporation and the Cottey College Corporation. She is currently serving a seven-year term as a trustee of Cottey College, where she is involved with an $8.9 million expansion project to build a new academic center on the campus.

Remy is a member of the Rho Chapter of Gamma Phi Beta sorority and an ordained elder in the Presbyterian Church. In recognition of her many years of service to advancing educational opportunities for women, Remy received an honorary PhD in humane letters from Iowa Wesleyan College in 1992.


Nickolas J. Rhodes, 87BA

1998 Distinguished Alumni Young Award

Nickolas J. Rhodes, 87BA, has experienced phenomenal success in the entertainment industry since he graduated from the University of Iowa just more than ten years ago.

With his bachelor's degree in communications and theatre arts in hand, Rhodes headed for Chicago, where he worked in the television division at Arbitron Inc. In 1987, he joined Rasmussen Communication Inc. (RCM) as manager of marketing operations. During his one year in that role, Rhodes served on a management team that successfully acquired eight sports television properties, quadrupled the company's sales billing, and renegotiated station clearances that doubled the average program ratings. After leaving RCM in 1988—the same year the company was sold to Raycom—Rhodes conceived the Great Midwest Basketball Conference (now Conference USA) and developed a long-term strategy to determine the conference's television rights.

In 1989, Rhodes joined Prime Ticket Network in Los Angeles as vice president of business development. Prime Ticket held exclusive rights to the Lakers, Kings, USC, and UCLA, and Rhodes was a member of an executive team that added the Angels, Clippers, Mighty Ducks, and Pro-Beach Volleyball. At Prime Ticket, he led the development of La Cadena Deportiva, the nation's first Spanish language sports network. Today the network, renamed Fox Sports Americas, serves two million Spanish-speaking homes nationwide. Rhodes's additional accomplishments at Prime Ticket range from securing exclusive rights for interactive technology to pioneering interactive sports television concepts.

In 1994, TCI purchased Prime Ticket, and Rhodes left the company to join Roger Werner and cable entrepreneur Bill Daniels to form Daniels Programming Ventures. As executive vice president of programming, Rhodes wrote the business plans for two new cable network concepts, Speedvision and Outdoor Life. In six months, the network concepts had secured $200 million in committed equity from cable companies Cox, Comcast, and Continental. Now in 14 million homes, Speedvision and Outdoor Life have recently sold a one-third interest in both networks to Fox Sports. As senior vice president, Rhodes continues to oversee business development of both networks.

Rhodes is a member of the UI Foundation's Presidents Club.


Eugene Rousseau, 62PhD

1998 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Eugene Rousseau, 62PhD, one of the great saxophonists of the world, received his PhD from the University of Iowa, where his principal teacher and mentor was Himie Voxman.

Rousseau is Distinguished Professor of Music at Indiana University, where he also served as chair of the woodwind department for a number of years. A juror at the Munich International Competitions on several occasions, he chaired the 1991 oboe jury and the 1992 clarinet jury; and in 1997, he served as a juror for the Japan Wind and Percussion Competition. A guest professor at numerous institutions, including the Paris Conservatory, Arizona State University, and the Hochschule for Musik in Vienna, Rousseau was designated an honorary faculty member of the Prague Conservatory in 1993. His numerous students hold major teaching positions in this country and abroad.

Rousseau gave the first solo saxophone recitals in Paris, Berlin, Vienna, London, and Amsterdam. He has given a yearly master course at the prestigious Mozarteum in Salzburg since 1991, and he has premiered numerous works written for him, including those of Juan Orrego-Salas, Jindrich Feld, Bernhard Heiden, Frederick Fox, and Don Freund. For more than 25 years, Rousseau has served as Yamaha Corporation's chief consultant for saxophone research, contributing to the development of acoustic improvements in saxophones and mouthpieces.

Rousseau has appeared as soloist with the Minnesota Orchestra, the Pan-American Festival Orchestra, the Indianapolis Symphony, the BBC Orchestra, the Janácek Philharmonic, the Kansai Philharmonic, the Santiago Philharmonic, the Austrian Radio Orchestra, and the Bavarian Radio Orchestra. He has presented classical recitals and master classes throughout the world on a variety of topics related to his instrument. His solo performances include appearances with the US Army Band at Kennedy Center, the Budapest Strings in Hungary, and the Tokyo Bach Band, as well as with the Hamamatsu International Wind Instrument Festival. Rousseau's wide-ranging discography includes solo albums for Deutsche Grammophon, Delos, Liscio, Crystal, and RIAX, and collaborations with Frederick Fennell, David Baker, the Gerald Danovitch Quartet, the Budapest Strings, and the Haydn Trio of Vienna.

Rousseau cofounded the World Saxophone Congress in 1969 and has served as president of both the North American Saxophone Alliance and the Comité International du Saxophone. He has published a number of arrangements, scholarly works, and method books, many of which have been translated into French, German, and Japanese. In 1995, he was awarded the Edwin Franko Goldman Memorial Citation by the American Bandmasters Association.

Rousseau is a life member of the UI Alumni Association.


Dewey B. & Velma E. Pottorf Stuit

1998 Distinguished Faculty Award

Dewey B. Stuit & Velma E. Pottorf Stuit have exhibited a lifelong commitment to the University of Iowa. It was with great sorrow that the UI Alumni Association learned of Velma's death on November 20, 1997, just weeks after she had been named a recipient of the Faculty/Staff Achievement Award.

Dewey Stuit joined the UI faculty 60 years ago as an associate professor in the psychology department. In 1943, he accepted a commission in the US Navy and served the Bureau of Naval Personnel in Washington, DC, until 1946. While in Washington, Stuit collaborated with Kenneth Spence, head of Iowa's psychology department, to develop a proposal for a student counseling program. UI President Virgil Hancher approved the proposal, and Dewey Stuit returned to the university in 1946 as director of the counseling program and professor of psychology. Despite its humble beginnings, Iowa's Student Counseling Service now employs 11 psychologists, three interns, and numerous practicum students.

Following two years as dean of Student Personnel Services, Dewey Stuit served as dean of the College of Liberal Arts from 1948 to 1977. During his tenure, Stuit led the college through a period of unparalleled growth in faculty, staff, and students. When passions on campus erupted in the turbulent 1960s and 1970s, he worked hard to balance the needs of students and faculty to express their antiwar sentiments with the needs of the university to provide a safe and productive academic atmosphere.

While Dean Stuit handled the affairs of the college, his wife, Velma, opened her heart to the entire UI community, especially to those who were new to the university. A former president of the University Club and cofounder of the Newcomers Club and the International Women's Club, Velma welcomed hundreds of families to Iowa City.

Upon Dean Stuit's retirement in 1977, UI President Willard Boyd established the Dewey B. Stuit Scholarship to honor Dewey's many years of outstanding service. The couple then created the Dewey B. Stuit Award for Honors in 1981, the Dewey B. Stuit Fund for Psychology in 1993, the Velma E. Stuit Scholarship Fund in 1997, and the Dewey B. and Velma P. Stuit Professorship in Psychology in 1997.

The Stuits are annual members of the UI Alumni Association and members of the UI Foundation's Presidents Club.


Myrtle Kitchell Aydelotte

1997 Distinguished Faculty Award

Myrtle Kitchell "Kitch" Aydelotte, the first dean of the UI College of Nursing, has been one of the most distinguished leaders in the field of nursing education in the US for nearly half a century. Named dean in 1949 after serving in the US Army Nurse Corps from 1942-46, followed by a stint as nursing instructor at the University of Minnesota, Aydelotte has provided the college with outstanding, creative leadership that has earned recognition for both her and the university.

Born in Van Meter, she grew up in St. Paul, Minnesota, and received her bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Minnesota, eventually earning her doctorate there in 1955.

It was during her years as dean at the UI that Aydelotte conducted her landmark study, "the Investigation of the Relationship Between Nursing Activity and Patient Welfare," a pioneering body of research published in 1960 that was instrumental in establishing criteria for evaluating nursing services nationwide. Aydelotte's study was a significant benchmark in the effort to professionalize the field of nursing following World War II.

After stepping down as dean in 1957, Aydelotte continued her teaching activities at the university while holding other nursing leadership positions at Iowa City's Veterans Administration Hospital and then at University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics. A hardworking and highly visible ambassador as director of nursing for university hospitals, Aydelotte served as consultant to several other universities across the country.

As a long-recognized and respected figure on the national health care scene with an unflagging devotion to the field of nursing, Aydelotte has participated in many professional organizations. She served as executive direct of the American Nurses Association from 1977-81. She was actively involved with the American Hospital Association, The American Academy of Nursing, and the Institute of Medicine.

Aydelotte's contributions and achievements in the field of nursing have been recognized many times over. In 1987, Sigma Theta Tau, the national honor society for nursing, awarded her its highest honor, the Founders Award. At its international convention in 1993, Sigma Theta Tau recognized her pioneering contributions to the profession by establishing the Myrtle Kitchell Aydelotte Endowed Research Fellowship in the UI College of Nursing.

Aydelotte's energy and philanthropy, both creative and financial, have not been confined to the nursing profession. She served on the Campus Campaign Committee for the Iowa Endowment 2000 Campaign and with her husband, the late William O. Aydelotte, UI Carver Professor of History emeritus, has been a generous supporter of many programs and projects at the university over the years. In 1991, the couple established the Myrtle and William Aydelotte Endowment Fund, which provides annual income for doctoral education in the College of Nursing and UI Department of History.

Though Aydelotte retired from teaching in 1988, she remains a vital figure in the College of Nursing and the nursing profession. In recent years she has consulted on a faculty development project for nursing professors at historically black colleges and shared her experiences as a wartime nurse at a national colloquium. Her contributions to the UI as a whole have been enormous, making her, in the words of an admiring colleague, "a true citizen of the university."

Currently, Aydelotte is chair of the advisory committee to raise funds for the nursing classifications center in the College of Nursing. She is a member of the UI Foundation's Presidents Club.


Theodore J. Bauer, 33MD, 34BS

1997 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Theodore J. "Ted" Bauer, 33MD, 34BS, was born in Iowa City and educated in its parochial schools before entering the UI as an undergraduate. The son of a hardworking family that lost both its broom factory and farm during the Depression, Bauer worked his way through medical school, earning his degrees against long odds.

Upon graduating from the UI medical school, Bauer left Iowa for internships and residencies in Chicago and New York, experiences that furthered his interest in public epidemiology and set the bearings for the course of his career.

Beginning his medical career at a time when there were not antibiotics and when deadly diseases such as polio were widespread and indiscriminate killers, Bauer found himself on the front lines in many major public health battles. While in Chicago, a precocious Bauer established a badly needed Venereal Disease Center for that city in 1942. The fight for cures eventually took him around the country and world, and his career began to increasingly reflect his interest in public health policy.

He served as chief of the Division of Venereal Disease in US Public Health Service in Washington, DC, from 1948-53, and medical officer in charge of the Communicable Disease center (now known as the Center for Disease Control) in Atlanta, from 1953-56. Bauer also served on numerous expert committees for the World Health Organization in Switzerland, from 1948-57, and was chief of the Bureau for State Services in the US Public Health Service in Washington, DC, from 1960-62.

Bauer's medical career coincided with astoundingly rapid scientific innovations, both in treatment and prevention of disease, and he approached his work with an eye to disseminating these new discoveries and teaching techniques. Through the years, he became a fixture as a visiting lecturer at the nation's best medical schools, continued to do research in the fields of immunology and communicable diseases, published more than 50 scientific articles on infectious diseases and chronic disease control, and was editor of the Journals of Venereal Disease Information from 1948-52.

In 1962, after receiving the Distinguished Service Award from the US Public Health Service, Bauer went to work for Becton, Dickinson and Company, a major pharmaceutical company in New Jersey, where he was senior vice president for Research and Medical Affairs from 1967-75.

Bauer's many professional achievements are recorded in the history of public health medicine in our century, just as his generosity and devotion to building a better and healthier future for UI Hospitals and Clinics promises a lasting legacy. In 1994, Bauer and his wife, Helen Matters Bauer, 31BA, established a significant charitable remainder unitrust that will eventually provide scholarships for outstanding students in need of financial assistance in the UI College of Medicine.

Bauer and his wife are life members of the UI Alumni Association and members of the UI Foundation's Presidents Club.


Tom Brokaw, 10LHD

1997 Distinguished Alumni Friend Award

Tom Brokaw, anchorman and managing editor of "NBC Nightly News," only attended the University of Iowa for one year, but he is a loyal and generous alumnus of the institution.

After graduating from the University of South Dakota (USD), Brokaw enjoyed a swift rise to prominence in his field of broadcast news. Following positions as a news editor in Omaha and Atlanta, Brokaw became a reporter, correspondent, and anchorman at KNBC-TV in Los Angeles in 1966. From there he progressed to White House correspondent and anchorman of NBC's "Saturday Night News" in 1973. He hosted NBC's "Today" show from 1976 until he achieved his current position in 1982.

As correspondent for NBC, Brokaw covered the US presidential elections in 1968, 1972, 1976, and 1980, and he anchored the network's coverage of the 1984,1988, and 1992 presidential campaigns. His coverage of world-changing events such as China's Tiananmen Square massacre and the destruction of the Berlin Wall has earned critical acclaim.

Brokaw has received numerous awards for excellence in his profession, including an Emmy Award for his coverage of the Romanian revolution. He received the Alfred I. DuPont Award in 1987 for "A Conversation with Mikhail S. Gorbachev" and the George Foster Peabody Award for "To Be an American."

Besides his bachelor's degree in political science from the USD, Brokaw has earned honorary degrees from many institutions, including the University of Notre Dame, Washington University, Syracuse University, Boston College, and Duke University. Currently, he serves as an adviser to the Howard University School of Communications.

But Brokaw's ties to the University of Iowa remain strong. He has generously shared his time and professional abilities with the school on a number of occasions. Brokaw served as a Steering Committee member for the UI Foundation's Iowa Endowment 2000 Campaign and has met with and addressed the Foundation's board of directors a number of times in recent years. He provided the voice-over narration for a Hawkeye football highlights video in 1991, and one year later, he delivered a Distinguished Alumni Lecture entitled "America's Challenge: Preparing for the Millennium." Most recently, Brokaw narrated the "Portrait of Iowa" documentary.

During a visit to the UI a few years ago, Brokaw noted, "I love coming back to Iowa, and the University of Iowa especially, because the institution reflects what we have to offer the world." Brokaw's relationship with the UI has shown what he has to offer: a keen intelligence, superb professional abilities, and a caring and charitable nature.

A very generous contributor to many areas of the university and a member of the Foundation's Presidents Club, Brokaw contributed high-level support for the Iowa Endowment 2000 Campaign, the Student Aid Fund, and the UI Foundation Vitality Fund, which provides unrestricted support for the Foundation's operations and activities.

The UI Alumni Association selected Tom Brokaw to receive the Distinguished Alumni Award in 1996.


Joseph E. Callen, 42BSCh, 43MS 46PhD

1997 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

Joseph E. Callen, 42BSCh, 43MS, 46PhD, and Ursil Callen, 45BS, 45GN, have been generous and creative contributors to the UI, focusing on the lack of scholarships available to graduate students and actively working to ease the financial burdens these students often face.

A native of Moulton, Joe pursued his education while simultaneously serving his country during World War II, teaching chemistry at the UI and working as a research chemist with the National Defense Research Committee from 1943-45. He and Ursil were married in 1944, while she was studying in the UI College of Nursing.

Joe enjoyed a long and successful career in the research department at Procter & Gamble Company in Cincinnati, retiring in 1977 as the department's associate director. Together the Callens have provided generous, high-level support to a broad spectrum of UI colleges and programs, including the College of Liberal Arts, the Department for Computer Science, the University's creative writing programs, and the School of Library and Information Science, as well as the Department of Chemistry and the College of Nursing.

In 1942, Joe received the Theodore F. Sanxay Prize, which is awarded annually by the Graduate College to the UI undergraduate most likely to benefit from graduate study. The award was instrumental to Joe's success in graduate school, and in appreciation of this scholarship the Callens created a graduate scholarship fund in 1990 that provides assistance to entering graduate students in fields recognized by the federal government to be in the nation's interest. An important resource for the graduate College, the Joseph E. and Ursil I. Callen Scholarship Fund helps to improve the quality of graduate education at the UI. Income from this fund provides scholarships to students who demonstrate strong leadership skills and plan to matriculate into advanced study in chemistry, computer science, creative writing, library science, and nursing.

The Callens have also proved to be friends who can be counted on in a pinch. In addition to their financial support, they have demonstrated a willingness to work overtime to promote the university. When the UI faced the prospect of decreased state appropriations, the Callens wrote the governor to protest the proposed cuts and acted as strong committed advocates on the university's behalf. In 1996, when Gilmore Hall was renovated to provide additional space for the Graduate College, the Office of the Vice President for Research, and various other departments, a budget shortfall arose. The Callens generously stepped forward and provided funding that allowed the UI to finish the project.

The Callens are annual members of the UI Alumni Association and members of the UI Foundation's Presidents Club.


Ursil Callen, 45BS, 45GN

1997 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

Joseph E. Callen, 42BSCh, 43MS, 46PhD, and Ursil Callen, 45BS, 45GN, have been generous and creative contributors to the UI, focusing on the lack of scholarships available to graduate students and actively working to ease the financial burdens these students often face.

A native of Moulton, Joe pursued his education while simultaneously serving his country during World War II, teaching chemistry at the UI and working as a research chemist with the National Defense Research Committee from 1943-45. He and Ursil were married in 1944, while she was studying in the UI College of Nursing.

Joe enjoyed a long and successful career in the research department at Procter & Gamble Company in Cincinnati, retiring in 1977 as the department's associate director. Together the Callens have provided generous, high-level support to a broad spectrum of UI colleges and programs, including the College of Liberal Arts, the Department for Computer Science, the University's creative writing programs, and the School of Library and Information Science, as well as the Department of Chemistry and the College of Nursing.

In 1942, Joe received the Theodore F. Sanxay Prize, which is awarded annually by the Graduate College to the UI undergraduate most likely to benefit from graduate study. The award was instrumental to Joe's success in graduate school, and in appreciation of this scholarship the Callens created a graduate scholarship fund in 1990 that provides assistance to entering graduate students in fields recognized by the federal government to be in the nation's interest. An important resource for the graduate College, the Joseph E. and Ursil I. Callen Scholarship Fund helps to improve the quality of graduate education at the UI. Income from this fund provides scholarships to students who demonstrate strong leadership skills and plan to matriculate into advanced study in chemistry, computer science, creative writing, library science, and nursing.

The Callens have also proved to be friends who can be counted on in a pinch. In addition to their financial support, they have demonstrated a willingness to work overtime to promote the university. When the UI faced the prospect of decreased state appropriations, the Callens wrote the governor to protest the proposed cuts and acted as strong committed advocates on the university's behalf. In 1996, when Gilmore Hall was renovated to provide additional space for the Graduate College, the Office of the Vice President for Research, and various other departments, a budget shortfall arose. The Callens generously stepped forward and provided funding that allowed the UI to finish the project.

The Callens are annual members of the UI Alumni Association and members of the UI Foundation's Presidents Club.


Lee A. Daniels, 65BA

1997 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Lee A. Daniels, 65BA, Speaker of the Illinois State House of Representatives during the 1995-97 legislative session, has earned national recognition as one of the nation's top ten legislators for his unceasing devotion to his constituents in DuPage County. A member of the Illinois House since 1974, Daniels served as its highly effective minority leader from 1984-95, a position he serves in today.

Throughout his tenure as Republican leader of the House, Daniels has worked proactively with the legislature to develop successful plans promoting fiscally responsible state spending, producing better schools, improving Illinois's business climate, and fighting for property tax relief.

In addition to his exceptional leadership abilities, Daniels is responsible for a diverse body of legislative initiatives. The hundreds of laws authored by Daniels include measures ranging from anti-stalking legislation to tax cap legislation to bills assisting the developmentally disabled. His work on behalf of people with disabilities has earned Daniels awards from several organizations, including the National Federation for the Handicapped, the Chicago-based Community Awareness Unlimited, the Illinois Association of Rehabilitation Facilities, and the Alliance for the Mentally Ill.

Motivated by nonpartisan concerns, Daniels' legislative agenda reflects his devotion to helping those who most need it. He led the movement to reform Illinois's child welfare system through tougher child support collection efforts and to extend medical and day-care benefits for people who leave the welfare rolls to take a job. He has strongly pushed legislation that guarantees the availability of health insurance. On a similar front, he sponsored a law that demands early intervention to address the growing phenomenon of cocaine-addicted babies and infants.

Daniels has proved to be a strong advocate for the state of Illinois and DuPage County. He has proposed numerous measures to improve safety and reduce noise at O'Hare International Airport, and when torrential flooding hit Chicago's suburbs in 1987, Daniels responded immediately, unveiling an extensive program to ameliorate flood problems in the region. He is regarded as the architect of the Illinois "Fast Track" Legislative agenda, out of which arose sweeping reforms to Chicago's once-troubled school system and the state's tort liability system. The initiative brought Daniels national recognition as an innovative lawmaker.

Daniels has been recognized as an outstanding statesman on the national level for his work on major issues that affect Illinois. Since 1977, he has served in the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL), and organization dedicated to increasing the presence of state legislatures in our nation's capital. Daniels served as president of NCSL, concluding his term in 1990. His work in the conference earned him the prestigious Bill Brock Award in 1991 for outstanding leadership. In 1984, Daniels received the NCSL's award as one of the country's top ten legislators. These awards were conferred by Presidents Ronald Reagan and George Bush.

An attorney with the highly respected Chicago firm of Bell, Boyd and Lloyd, Daniels is a member of the UI Alumni Association's Directors' club and the UI Foundation's Presidents Club.


Robert B. Glidden, 58BA, 60MA, 66Phd

1997 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Robert B. Glidden, 58BA, 60MA, 66PhD, one of the nation's foremost experts on university accreditation and standards, became the 19th president of Ohio University on July 1, 1994. As head of a major academic institution, Glidden maintains a high profile as a spokesman for stringent accreditation and standards, and he regularly publishes articles in the academic press promoting his views. Previously, he served three years as provost and vice president for academic affairs at Florida State University after serving for 12 years as dean of the School of Music at that university.

Glidden began his career as a high school music teacher in Morrison, Illinois. He then taught at University High School in Iowa City and at the UI while completing his doctoral studies. After receiving his doctorate, Glidden served as assistant director of bands at Indiana University and then associate professor of music and director of graduate studies in music at the University of Oklahoma.

President of the National Association of Schools of Music form 1981-85, Glidden has been active in national higher education affairs his entire career, and his efforts in the area of accreditation have made him a national figure in higher education circles. He has served as a member (1977-84) and chairman of the board of directors (1981-83) of the Council on Postsecondary Accreditation, an organization in Washington that at that time governed accrediting in all fields for higher education, and he currently chairs the Council for Higher Education Accreditation, the organization that now performs that function.

While still in Florida, Glidden served four years as a member of the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools and chaired a task force on the restructuring of accreditation for that organization. He has worked as a consultant or evaluator for more than 60 colleges and universities nationwide and has twice been appointed to education task force for the National Endowment for the Arts.

Glidden has published more than 100 articles on accreditation in higher education journals and he has staunchly defended higher education in the face of funding cuts at both the state and federal levels. He is one of two university presidents on the Higher Education Funding Commission in Ohio.

"One of the challenges we will face together in the future is explaining to the general public the enormous contributions to society that we make in America's universities," said Glidden after becoming president at Ohio University. "Much of what we accomplish speaks for itself in practical terms, yet many of the most valuable learning experiences resist simple definition or quantification. It's difficult to quantify the excitement of discovery that results from the research actives in which our students participate. We need to find more and better ways of communicating the worth of those experiences to the general populace."

Glidden is presently vice chair of the board of the Ohio Aerospace Institute, and a member of the Governor's Ohio Science and Technology Council. He recently spoke at the Aspen Institute in Berlin on technology in American higher education.

Glidden's work on accreditation has resulted in higher standards and greater progress for American colleges and universities. Thanks in part to his efforts, higher education in the United States has more readily changed with the times and become more responsive to the needs of society.

Glidden is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Pi Kappa Lambda, the national music honor society, which he served as national president from 1981-85.

He is a life member of the UI Alumni Association and a member of the UI Foundation's Presidents Club.


Richard C. Johnston, 58MD, 68R

1997 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

Richard C. Johnston, 58MD, 68R, falls into that select group of unusually talented and innovative medical professionals who have achieved recognition as both a physician and biomedical inventor-to the benefit of his patients and the UI College of Medicine.

In 1978, Johnston invented the "Iowa Total Hip," a revolutionary prosthetic hip joint that has made Iowa a synonym for biomedical excellence and innovation among orthopedic surgeons around the world. An Iowa native, Johnston has developed and patented several other medical devices, including a socket component used in hip replacement surgery. His personal surgical skills and the devices he has developed have given new mobility, independence, and hope to thousands of grateful patients over the years.

After receiving his medical degree in 1958, Johnston interned at Madigan Army Hospital in Tacoma, Washington, continuing his military service at Luke Air Force base in Arizona. He returned to Iowa City for an orthopedic residency (1964-67) and fellowship (1967) at University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics. During his fellowship, Johnston served as clinical instructor in the Department of Orthopedic Surgery. At the same time, he began to explore new techniques for hip surgery and to investigate devices for hip replacement. In 1970, Johnston left Iowa City to join a private medical practice in Des Moines, but he continued to maintain close ties with faculty members in the UI Department of Orthopedic Surgery.

Working closely with private industry and the UI Foundation, Johnston arranged to share the royalties from many of his biomedical inventions, adding to his already generous support of the University of Iowa. The Johnston Fund for Orthopedics is an endowed resource used by the department to encourage research by orthopedic residents and faculty members-in effect serving to encourage the creativity that will, in turn, fuel future medical inventions.

In addition to his continuing relationship with UI Hospitals and Clinics, Johnston has generously contributed to the Hardin Health Sciences Library, the Carver-Hawkeye Arena/Recreation Campaign, and the Carroll B. Larson Professorship in Orthopedic Surgery.

Johnston is a life member of the UI Alumni Association and a member of the UI Foundation's Presidents Club.


H. William Lichtenberger, 57BA, 59SChE

1997 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

William Lichtenberger, 57BA, 59BSChE, one of Iowa's most successful chemical engineering graduates, is ranked by Forbes magazine as 286th among corporate American's 800 most powerful executives. Born in Novi Sad, Yugoslavia, in 1935 Lichtenberger emigrated to the US with his family in 1950 and became a naturalized citizen in 1955.

After graduating from the University of Iowa, Lichtenberger joined Union Carbide Corporation in 1959. His hard work, engineering brilliance, and business acumen enabled him to rise steadily through the corporate ranks, culminating in his being named president and chief operating officer in 1990. During a remarkable career with Union Carbide, Lichtenberger received several patents, including one for a storage process of cryogenic fluids.

Lichtenberger was one of the first chief executive officers in the country to stress the importance of "quality management principles" to a company's success in research and development. It was the engineer in him who recognized that increased global competition meant that it was not only smart to invest in pure research, but crucial to compete worldwide and into the 21st century.

Since 1992, Lichtenberger has been chairman and chief executive officer of Praxair, Inc., the largest producer of industrial gases in North America.

Throughout an exemplary career, Lichtenberger has remained dedicated to supporting the UI College of Engineering. In 1996, he created an endowed scholarship through the UI Foundation that annually provides two awards-one to a chemical engineering student and the other to an engineering student in any other field of study.

While earning his degrees at the UI in the late 1950s, Lichtenberger was an exceptional student and leader, who also served in the medical corps of the Iowa National guard. He was vice president of his fraternity, Sigma Nu, and was active in the university's chapter of AIChE, a national chemical engineering organization.

In the corporate community, Lichtenberger has continually extended the sense of service he exemplified during his student years. He has held several international posts and currently serves on the boards of directors for Ingersoll Rand Co. and Olin Corporation, as well as the National Association of Manufactures and the Business Roundtable. A former member of the advisory board for Western Connecticut State University, Lichtenberger currently chairs the United Negro College Fund Connecticut Corporate Campaign.

A lifetime member of the Engineering Dean's Club at the University of Iowa, Lichtenberger has also served on the College of Engineering Advisory Board, his Liberal Arts Class Gift Committee, and the Kammermeyer Campaign Committee that helped raise funds for the chemical and biochemical engineering programs.

Lichtenberger is a member of the UI Alumni Association's Directors' Club and the UI Foundation's Presidents Club.


Robert J. Osterhaus, 52BSP, 12DSC

1997 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

Robert J. "Bob" Osterhaus, 52BSP, 12DSC is a small town pharmacist with an international reputation. A native of Dyersville, he left the UI and served two years in the US Army before beginning his career in Anamosa, where he worked as a staff pharmacist for 11 years. In 1965, he purchased a community pharmacy in Maquoketa and gave it his family name. Since then, he has worked tirelessly to serve the health needs of Maquoketa, while becoming increasingly involved in various national and international pharmacy organizations.

In 1972, Osterhaus was appointed to a six-year term on the Iowa Pharmacy Board of Examiners and served as its chair from 1974-76. In 1983, he was elected president of the Iowa Pharmacist Association and served on the board of directors of the American Pharmaceutical Association (APhA). He was elected president of the APhA in 1991.

Osterhaus' work as a member-and then president-of the APhA successfully advanced his earlier vision of optimal drug therapy management. Recognizing the need for pharmacists to assume the responsibility for drug therapy outcomes and to reduce the costs that result from inappropriate drug use, Osterhaus used his APhA presidency to push for further reforms.

While serving on the Executive Committee of the Community Pharmacy Section of the Federation Internationale Pharmaceutique (FIP), Osterhaus and his international colleagues advocated worldwide practice standards in which pharmacists accept responsibility for drug therapy outcomes. This movement takes the best of the clinical pharmacy models and the best of the primary care delivery models and fills a major void in health care delivery system as they exist in many parts of the world. The UI College of Pharmacy is among the world leaders in providing the education model for this behavior change.

Osterhaus' work in the international arena has also enabled him to improve pharmaceutical care closer to home. A genuine community leader, he views Osterhaus Pharmacy not just a drugstore, but as a health center committed to better health for Maquoketa residents.

In January 1995, he turned over controlling interest in Osterhaus Pharmacy to his son Matt and daughter-in-law, Marilyn, both UI grads. One year later, another opportunity presented itself when Osterhaus was elected to the Iowa State House of Representatives. This gives a new venue to his outstanding career as a pharmacist whose influence has been felt at the local, state, national, and international levels.

Osterhaus is a member of the UI alumni Association's Old Capitol Club and the UI Foundation's Presidents Club.


Christian G. Schmidt, 34BSC

1997 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

Christian G. "Dutch" Schmidt, 34BS, a native of Dysart, earned nine letters in four varsity sports-football, baseball, basketball, and track-as one of the greatest athletes in Hawkeye history.

Upon arriving on campus in 1929, Schmidt demonstrated a special drive and determination to succeed that was visible from the start. He joined Delta Upsilon and eventually became the fraternity's president. Active in several campus and academic societies, Schmidt also served as president of the Lettermen's Club his senior year and was awarded the University Athletic Scholarship trophy for his academic and athletic prowess at the university.

Schmidt's service to the UI began when his professional baseball career with the Minneapolis Millers of the American Association was ended prematurely by a shoulder injury shortly after graduation. Abandoning his dream of a career in major league baseball, he returned full-time to the university to coach freshman baseball and football and pursue graduate studies in commerce and law.

In 1940, he went to work for the American Hospital Supply Corporation of Evanston, Illinois, rising over the next 36 years from sales representative, to sales manager of the scientific products division, to president of that division, and eventually to the post of executive vice president and chief operation officer/chairman of the executive committee.

In 1976, Schmidt received the highest honor of the Scientific Apparatus Makers Association "in recognition of his achievement in developing the industry's capacity for serving the nation in the fields of industry, research, education, health and defense." Through the years, he has complemented his corporate leadership with service in numerous civic and professional areas. He has been a director on the boards of more than a dozen firms in his industry, as well as for Kemper Financial Services, and he was regional chairman of Radio Free Europe in the Chicago area from 1970-74.

In honor of Schmidt's service to the industry, the American Hospital Supply Corporation established the Christian G. "Dutch" Schmidt Scholarship Fund for UI undergraduates in 1976. The award was also a reminder that through the years Schmidt was instrumental in recruiting scores of UI graduates for positions in the company.

Schmidt's unwavering support of the University of Iowa places him among the university's most consistently loyal and generous alumni. A national committee member for the Iowa Endowment 2000 campaign, he has been a proven leader in raising funds in a variety of areas, including the College of Business Administration, the Museum of Art, athletics, and the Museum of Natural History. Many of Schmidt's own gifts have been unrestricted, enabling the university to use the funds for its areas of greatest need. In 1994, the College of Business Administration named a 65-seat classroom in the Pappajohn Business Administrations Building for him in recognition of his commitment to the college.

Schmidt became the 2,000th member of the UI foundation's Presidents Club in 1983. In the 14 years since that milestone, he has continued to demonstrate an outstanding and faithful commitment to the UI and its colleges and programs.


John A. Thomas, 58MA, 61PhD

1997 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

John A. Thomas, 58MS, 61 PhD, is an innovative educator, researcher, administrator, and scientist whose varied career paths in his 30 years as a health professional have earned him a reputation of quiet brilliance.

Currently vice president of academic services at the University of Texas Health Center at San Antonio, Thomas is recognized by colleagues and peers from around the world as one of the foremost specialists in the field of endocrine pharmacology and toxicology. In 1995, he became only the ninth American to be elected to the prestigious Russian Academy of Medical Sciences in Moscow for his pioneering work in those fields. He has also received numerous national professional awards and has held offices in several scientific societies.

Thomas's research in reproductive toxicology and endocrine pharmacology is highly regarded, and his references and studies are most frequently cited in the field. Early in his career, Thomas established clear and firmly articulated goals for his research projects, many of which would later be supported by numerous academic and private institutions. The success of Thomas's research has resulted in the publication of nearly 400 scientific articles, research monographs, and several textbooks that detail his impressive work with what a colleague has called "impeccable clarity." Indeed, Thomas's extensive list of publications demonstrates his ability to render complex research in lay terms, thus broadening the audience for his important discoveries about the actions of drugs and chemicals on the reproductive system.

From 1982-78, Thomas was vice president of corporate research at Baxter Healthcare in Deerfield, Illinois, where he bridged academia and industry with much success and recognition. During his tenure at Baxter, Thomas was responsible for a range of research from new drug developments in biotechnology to the safety of medical devices, and he quickly established Baxter as an industry leader in the field.

Former dean of the School of Medicine at West Virginia University, he held pharmacology and toxicology professorships at several academic institutions, including the University of Virginia, Creighton University, and West Virginia University.

One of the most conspicuous hallmarks of Thomas's career is his reputation as an outstanding educator and mentor. He has been repeatedly honored for medical teaching excellence, and many of his graduate students in the biomedical sciences have progressed to successfully assume significant responsibilities with academic institutions and industry.

Considered a consummate gentleman by those who know him best, Thomas has honed a reputation as a professional who demands the highest ethical standards from himself and from his associates. His involvement as a founding officer of the Texas Society of Biomedical Research, an educational corporation that supports the humane use of animals in research, is an example of Thomas's ethics at work.

Thomas is a member of the UI Alumni Association's Old Capital Club.


Diane Y. Ying, 68MA

1997 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Diane Y. Ying, 68MA, has distinguished herself as a leading journalist in the Far East and throughout the world with her efforts in establishing, editing, and publishing CommonWealth magazine. Bringing substance and style to business reporting in Taiwan, she has become a significant force in promoting economic progress in that country.

Ying came to the University of Iowa with a bachelor's degree in English and literature from National Cheng Kung University in Taiwan. After earning her master's degree, she spent two years reporting local news and writing features for the Philadelphia Inquirer. Back in Asia, she covered Taiwan for United Press International, the New York Times, and the Asian Wall Street Journal. For 17 years, Ying also lectured part-time to journalism students at Chengchi University.

Gradually, Ying conceived the idea for a Chinese-language business magazine similar to Fortune. When she and two colleagues founded the magazine in 1981, business journalism in Taiwan was primitive. The first print of the new publication was 10,000 copies, and it sold out in two days. CommonWealth has since led the way not only in business reporting, but also in the fields of political, social, and environmental issues. With a circulation of more than 83,000, the publication reached approximately 630,000 readers monthly, making Commonwealth the leading political-economic journal in Taiwan, as well as the nation's largest monthly magazine.

Ying has established high standards for journalism in Taiwan. Articles for her magazine are thoroughly researched and well written, complementing fine design and printing. In achieving such high standards, Ying persists in personally training her cub reporters. She takes a hand in every phase of the magazine's production, and her attention to detail contributes to Commonwealth's increasing reputation as a "must read" publication in Taiwan's boardrooms, government offices, and academic halls.

Ying has also written seven books including Waiting for Heroes, People of the Pacific Century, The Decision Makers, and Rediscovering Taiwan.

Outside the literary world, Ying is active in national civic affairs. She has served three terms as a commissioner of Taiwan's National Unification Council, a presidential advisory committee. Commissioner of the National Cultural Association, Ying has received numerous awards honoring her achievements, including the 1987 Raymond Magsaysay Award for Journalism, Literature and Creative Communication and the Outstanding Alumnus Award at the National Cheng Kung University.

The UI Alumni Association selection Diane Ying to receive the Distinguished Alumni Award in 1996.


Earl M. Yoder

1997 Distinguished Alumni Friend Award

Earl M. Yoder, is a name synonymous with "Friend" on campus, in Iowa City, and around the state of Iowa. A successful businessman, civic leader, and former state representative, Yoder has demonstrated a generosity and devotion toward the UI that goes beyond mere boosterism.

Born in Weatherford, Oklahoma, Yoder has spent most of his life in Iowa. A veteran of the US Marine Corps, he has been the driving force behind the start-up and success of several prominent Iowa City businesses, such as Earl Yoder Construction Co. and Iowa City Ready Mix, Inc. He has owned and managed a variety of businesses, including an auto dealership, building supply firm, construction company, property development firms, and hotels that together have employed hundreds of area residents and boosted Iowa's economy.

Although he does not hold any UI degrees, Yoder had proven his deep and abiding affection for the University if Iowa. Over the years, his boundless enthusiasm has left a positive and enduring influence on campus landmarks, programs, and students. He has shared his success with the UI by contributing very generously to a variety of university programs, including the Iowa Endowment 2000 Campaign, Hancher Auditorium, the Hardin Health Science Library, the Library, the Iowa Opportunity Fund, and most recently, the new Levitt Center for University Advancement.

With his belief that athletics serve as a positive public relations tool for the entire university, Yoder has been a tireless volunteer and enthusiastic contributor in supporting intercollegiate athletics at Iowa. He has worked hard to raise awareness and funds for the Hawkeye Horizons Campaign and has served as a national member for the Carver-Hawkeye Arena/Recreation Campaign. For his efforts, Yoder was named "Hawk of the Year" in 1985 by the National I-Club. One of the UI Foundation's most willing and active volunteers, Yoder is also an honorary UI Letterman.

Yoder has given unselfishly of his time and resources to the community and to the university. His volunteer, professional, and civic accomplishments are broad and numerous. From the United Way, Goodwill Industries, and the Ronald McDonald House to the Small Business Association and the Iowa Housing Finance Authority, Yoder has generously supported the cause.

Earl Yoder stands as a shining example of the type of relationship between "town and gown" that is frequently aimed for, but rarely achieved. Through his philanthropy-time, money, and love-Yoder understand the interrelationship between the UI and the surrounding community, and he cares deeply about both.

A member of the UI Foundation's President's Club, Yoder was elected a lifetime honorary director in 1991.


John W. & Ellen(Hasse) Buchanan, 56BSC

1996 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

John W. Buchanan, 56BSC, and Ellen Hasse Buchanan, 77SE, have had an enormous impact on students and faculty at the University of Iowa. Their contributions of time, leadership, and resources have benefited the university and the entire Iowa City area.

In 1963, John co-founded the Iowa City-based insurance firm of Riepe, Buchanan & Piper, which later merged with the Marsh & McLennan Companies and now operates nationally under the name Seabury & Smith. A retired executive with the firm, John is an adjunct professor at the UI's Entrepreneurial Institute. According to evaluations forms completed by students at the end of each semester, John is a personable and enthusiastic teacher, consistently ranking in the top ten percent of the business faculty. In 1989, Buchanan was one of only 20 U.S. entrepreneurs to be selected to participate in the Price-Babson Fellowship Program at Babson College in Massachusetts, and in 1994 he received the program's Appel Prize for Leadership in Entrepreneurial Centers.

Ellen, who received a B.A. in radio and television from the University of South Dakota, served as public service director for four years for local radio station KCJJ, when she first reviewed children's books and later hosted a talk show. She received a 1995 Irving Weber Award from the Johnson County Historical Society for producing and hosting Tell Me Your Story and One of a Kind, two television interview series for the Iowa City Public Library channel. Ellen is past president and a longtime member of the Iowa City Public Library's Board of Trustees, and she currently serves on the UI School of Religion Board of Fellows.

The Buchanan's have displayed steady and substantial support of the arts at the UI. In addition to their generous gifts supporting Hancher Auditorium's programming and activities, Ellen has served as the Hancher Guild representative on the auditorium's advisory committee, while John was a vice chair of OVATION! -The campaign to renovate Hancher.

The university's nationally recognized healthcare programs have also benefited fron the Buchanan's caring involvement. Ellen served as co-chair of Emerald Fest, the tenth anniversary celebration of the Ronald McDonald House. Both Ellen and John have been active members of the Friends of UI Hospitals and Clinics and have financially contributed to the College of Medicine.

Perhaps the most visible sign of the Buchanan's' commitment to the university is through the College of Business Administration. When the campaign to finance the Pappajohn Business Administration Building was announced, John and Ellen stepped forward with the generous gift toward development of the 400-seat auditorium that now bears their name. Their gift made it possible to equip the auditorium with the latest audiovisual technology, creating a state-of-the-art lecture hall for both business and liberal arts classes, as well as for many other community purposes.

In addition to their consistent financial support of the UI's athletic programs, the Buchanans provide annual UI scholarships in religion, business, medicine, and the arts.

John and Ellen are also well known to the Iowa City community for their leadership in providing a high-level gift as a challenge match on behalf of the Iowa City Public Library. In recognition of their admirable history of service, John and Ellen were named "Outstanding Philanthropists" by the Eastern Iowa Chapter of the National Society of Fund Raising Executives.

The Buchanan's are life members of the Alumni Association and members of the Foundation's Presidents Club. John is a member of the College of Medicine Dean's Club, and they are both members of the College of Liberal Arts and College of Business Administration dean's clubs.


David Buchanan, 58BSEE, 63MS

1996 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

David Buchanan, 58BSEE, 63MS, has achieved outstanding financial and technological success through his entrepreneurial spirit and common sense management style. He has combined innovative engineering expertise, exceptional management skills, and financial insight to achieve prominence in one of the world's most volatile and competitive industries.

Buchanan served in the Marine Corps from 1950 to 1953. Wounded in action in Korea, he received the Purple Heart. He was medically discharged and entered college at Bradley University, transferring early on to the University of Iowa. After graduating, he worked in various technical and managerial positions with Fortune 500 companies, including general Dynamics and Bendix. He soon launched the entrepreneurial phase of his career, founding and investing in young high-technology companies and building them into flourishing enterprises.

The highly successful businesses Buchanan founded have helped the U.S. continue to be a player in international computer and electronic technology. With his own funds and small amount of venture capital, Buchanan started Peripherals, Inc., in 1967. The company, which designed and tested disk drive equipment, grew until it was acquired two years later in a significant stock swap with a publicly listed company. After a short retirement, Buchanan then launched Talos Systems, Inc., which he built to great success in only eight years. Now owned by Lockheed, the Talos Company has become the largest supplier of digitizers in the world.

In 1985, Buchanan again came out of retirement to rescue Three-Five Systems, Inc. When Buchanan took control, Three-Five's manufacturing plant in Manila, the Philippines, employed only 150 people; a water-fab facility that was soon closed in Troy, New York, employed about 100 people; and the company's headquarters in Tempe, Arizona, had a skeleton crew of 16. There were few engineers in the company. Today, the company that designs and manufactures light-emitting diode (LED) and liquid crystal display (LCD) components for consumer electronics, mail processing equipment, and optical scanners, employs 300 engineers and 1,100 other personnel in Manila, while the home office has grown to employ 200 additional personnel. The company has captured about 20 percent of the world market in electronic display components for cellular telephones and it has recently moved into a new $22 million headquarters that will be the largest LCD-producing facility in North America.

Three-Five has flourished under Buchanan's leadership and is now one the fastest growing companies on the New York Stock Exchange, His success has earned kudos for the company from Fortune, the New York Times, and Business Week.

Buchanan's generosity to the UI College of Engineering, including an endowed scholarship, will help ensure a steady supply of well-prepared engineers that high-tech, consumer-oriented companies demand. A member of the Foundation's Presidents Club, Buchanan has supported the college-wide development fund and the Engineering Student Loan Fund.


John A. Burroughs, Jr., 59BA

1996 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

John A. Burroughs, Jr., 59BA, a former UI football star, has dedicated 40 years of service to the U.S. government.

Born in Washington, D.C., Burroughs received his bachelor's degree in political science at the University of Iowa. He played in two Rose Bowl games for Coach Forest Evashevski and the Hawkeyes and earned recognition as an honorable mention all-American. After graduation and a brief stint as a professional football player with the Philadelphia Eagles, Burroughs returned to Washington, DC, to begin his public service career.

First employed as a passport examiner with the Department of State, Burroughs became assistant chief of the Special Services Branch of the Passport Office in 1963. In 1964, he was selected to participate in the Department of State's Management Intern Program and later became an administrative assistant in the Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs.

Burroughs transferred to the Department of Navy in 1966. During his 11-year tenure with the department, Burroughs' responsibilities focused primarily on equal opportunity, although he was also involved with the All-Volunteer Force Initiative, military recruiting, advertising, research and development, and the Department of Defense Domestic Action Program.

While with the Department of Navy, Burroughs was awarded a Merrill Trust Fellowship to attend the Stanford Executive Program at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California. In 1977, he received the Department of Navy's Superior Civilian Service Award from the Secretary of the Navy.

Burroughs returned to the Department of State in 1977 as deputy assistant secretary for Equal Employment Opportunity. In 1980, he received the department's Superior Service Award from the under secretary of management for his efforts in increasing the number of minorities and women in the US Foreign Service Officer Corps.

Burroughs became US ambassador to the Republic of Malawi in 1981. In 1984, he joined the Joint Center for Political and Economical Studies in Washington DC, as a senior research fellow. In 1985, he became the first African-American assigned US consul general in Cape Town, South Africa, where he served for three years. In 1988, he was named US ambassador to Uganda. Burroughs became a diploma-in-residence at Lincoln University in Oxford, Pennsylvania, in 1991. While at Lincoln University, he conducted seminars on major foreign policy issues and taught several courses on African politics, chiefly South African politics. In 1993, he became special coordinator for Sudan, managing humanitarian assistance to that country. Burroughs retired in April 1994 after 36 years of government service.

Burroughs is a life member of the Alumni Association.


William K. Hamilton, 43BA, 46MD, 51R

1996 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

William K. Hamilton, 43BA, 46MD, 51R, has had a distinguished medical career, leading anesthesiology departments at both the University of Iowa and the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), to the highest echelon in the country, where they have been noted for an extraordinary balance of excellence in research, patient care, and education.

After his residency in Iowa City, Hamilton became a clinical instructor in anesthesia at the UI College of Medicine. He moved rapidly through the ranks and served as professor and chairman of the anesthesia department from 1958 to 1967. Hamilton then moved to UCSF, where he served as professor and chairman for the department of anesthesia for 16 years. In 1983, he was named vice dean and associate dean for clinical affairs. For several years throughout this period, Hamilton also served as associate dean for postdoctoral education. Since 1992, he has been professor emeritus at UCSF.

Hamilton has served on numerous committees for the UCSF School of Medicine and its university hospital. In addition, he was director of the American board of Anesthesiology from 1962 to 1974 and president of that board from 1973 to 1974. He also served on the American board of Medical Specialties and its executive committee, the Association of American Medical Colleges Task Force on Support of Medical Education, as well as three National Institutes of Health study sections.

Hamilton has been a member of many professional societies, such as the American Medical Association, the American Society of Anesthesiologists, the Foundation for Anesthesia Education and Research, and the Association of University Anesthetists. He was a delegate from the San Francisco Medical Society to the California Medical Association and the Royal College of Anesthetists of England and Australia. He has assumed numerous leadership positions in many of these organizations. Hamilton also served as associate editor of two medical publications, Contemporary Surgery and Survey of Anesthesiology.

Hamilton's lectureships and consultative services for universities throughout the world, as well as his numerous publications, have made him a well-known and highly respected member of the anesthesiology and medical professions. He has been recognized with many honors and awards. He received the teaching award from 1965 UI senior medical class, the Royal Society of Medicine Medal, and the American Society of Anesthesiologists Distinguished Service Award, to name just a few. In addition, a distinguished professorship in anesthesia has been established in his name at UCSF.

Hamilton and his wife, Shyrlee Cole Hamilton, 46GN, are members of the Alumni Association's Directors' Club and the Foundation's Presidents Club.


Brad & Anna(Schuchmann) Lohaus, 90BGS

1996 Distinguished Alumni Young Award

Brad Lohaus, 90BGS, and Anne Schuchmann Lohaus, 83BSPh, have shown true loyalty and love for the University of Iowa through their generosity and support.

Currently a professional basketball player with the NBA's New York Knicks, Brad played at Iowa from 1983 to 1987 under three different head coaches. He began his Hawkeye basketball career with Lute Olson. After Olson left the University of Iowa, Lohaus played for Coach George Raveling, and during his senior year, he played for new coach Tom Davis. That year, the Hawks reached the NCAA Elite Eight, setting an Iowa record of 30 wins in a season. Originally drafted by the Boston Celtics, Lohaus later played for the Milwaukee Bucks, the San Antonio Spurs, and the Miami Heat.

Although Brad and Anne maintain other residences, they consider Iowa City their home, and they are determined to return to the university some of the benefits it has afforded them. Together, they have established the endowed scholarship awarded to member of the Iowa men's basketball team each year, Brad is the first Iowa athlete to endow a full-tuition scholarship. The scholarship does not support an additional basketball athlete, but it frees the athletic department from having to fund one of the 15 grants the NCAA allows in the sport.

"This scholarship will provide student athletes in men's basketball at the University of Iowa with the same tremendous opportunities I received during my years as a Hawkeye," Lohaus said. "I value very much the athletic and academic experience I had at Iowa, and it's my desire to enable others to have similar opportunities."

In addition to their financial contributions, the Lohauses have been very generous with their time in providing service to the university. They have supported numerous university events both in Iowa and outside the state. Brad has been a featured speaker at many of these events. He has also participated in the Aegon Advantage golf tournament that raises funds for the UI athletic department.

Brad and Anne have also helped keep an Iowa City tradition alive. On Christmas Eve, 1992, they became co-owners of the Airliner, located across the street from the Pentacrest in the heart of downtown Iowa City. A long-standing establishment, the restaurant was founded in 1944 and has only had four owners in its 52-years history. The Lohauses are proud to help continue the Airliner's rich tradition of serving both the Iowa City community and the University of Iowa.

The Lohauses are members of the University of Iowa Foundation's Presidents Club.


Elizabeth Catlett Mora, 40 MFA

1996 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Elizabeth Catlett Mora, 40MFA, recipient of the first master's of fine arts degree in sculpture granted by the University of Iowa, was born into a work of limited options, where fortunate black women could become teachers and nurses. The less fortunate would clean houses. But she would have none of it. When art school administrators praised her work but balked at the color of her skin, she kept chipping away. Today, her sculptures, paintings, and graphics offer testament not only to her talent, but to the beauty of her vision.

Born in Washington, D.C., Catlett Mora studied art at Howard University, where she majored in design and studied printmaking, drawing, and art history. I 1934, she began work in the mural division of the Public Works of Art Project (PWAP). After graduating with honors in 1936, she took a high school teaching job in North Carolina, but—frustrated by the low teaching salaries for blacks—she left after two years.

Catlett Mora then traveled to the University of Iowa, where she formally studied sculpture for the first time. At Iowa, she was influenced by American landscape painter Grant Wood, who urged his students to master disciplines on their way to working with subjects they knew best. For Catlett Mora, this meant blacks, especially black women. It was at Iowa that she began in earnest to depict the themes and lives of African-Americans in her art. Catlett Mora's graduate thesis, a sculpture of a black mother and child, received first prize in the 1940 American Negro Exposition held in Chicago, and she began to be recognized as an artist of not only technical accomplishment, but one with deeply felt purpose and artistic theme.

During the next few years, Catlett Mora became a university teacher, first in New Orleans and then in New York City. She continued to develop as an artist, gaining recognition from exhibitions at places such as the Modern Art Museum of Mexico and the New Orleans Museum of Art.

After working in Mexico with artists at the Taller de Grafica Popular, she married Mexican artist Francisco Mora in 1947 and made Mexico her permanent home. She became the first female professor of sculpture and head of the sculpture department at the national School of Fine Arts, San Carlos, in Mexico City in 1958, holding the position until 1976.

From the 1960s through the 1980s, Catlett Mora garnered much critical recognition in both the United States and Mexico. She has received numerous awards and commissions. The National Council of Negro Women in New York City commissioned her to create a bronze sculpture, and her bronze relief adorns the Chemical Engineering Building at Howard University. Catlett Mora is one of American's greatest contemporary black artists, and her work is now beginning to gain the recognition that many scholars and critics have said it has deserved.

Commenting on her passionate need to represent the human form, Catlett Mora said, "I wan the ordinary person to be able to relate to what I am doing. Working, figuratively, is the dues I must, want, and am privileged to pay so that ordinary people can relate to my work at and get lost trying to figure out what it means. True art always comes from cultural necessity."


H. Rand Petersen, 51BA

1996 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

Rand Petersen, 51BA, has dedicated much of his life to others through civic and charitable activities in his community and at the University of Iowa. He and his wife, Mary Louise Anneberg Petersen, 51BA, are pleased to carry on family traditions of volunteerism and active support of deserving projects.

After graduating from the UI, Petersen joined the family business, the Shelby County State Bank, in Harlan Iowa. He assumed the bank's presidency in 1970 and was named chairman in 1985. Now retired, Petersen maintains an active role as chairman of the board of the bank and in this capacity he assisted his community through economic development activities.

Petersen was the principal driving force behind numerous hospital and civic organization expansion plans in Harlan during the 1970s and 1980s. In large part because of the tremendous amount of support and financial investment that has been placed back into the community, chiefly through Petersen's guidance and leadership, Harlan has prospered. When compared to communities of similar size in western Iowa, Harlan stands out, offering its citizens a high quality of life.

Petersen has also worked to preserve and improve his family's farm as a resource for generations of Iowans. The farm has now been deeded to the Iowa Department of Natural Resources as a prime wildlife area. Petersen firmly believes that his commitment should benefit others and that he owes both his community and his university a debt of gratitude.

When the University of Iowa Foundation was established shortly after Petersen's graduations, he and his wife began making annual contributions through the Foundation to support a number of university programs, including the College of Education, the Iowa Women's Archives, UI Libraries, Old Capitol, the Museum of Natural History, the Museum of Art, Hawkeye athletics, and the UI Alumni Association. Their support also includes generous gifts for unrestricted use, providing a critical resource that can be directed toward areas of greatest need at the university. Petersen served on the national committee for the Hawkeye Arena Recreation Campaign and has been an active member of the advocates of UI Hospitals and Clinics.

In addition, the Petersen's have established the Mary Louise Petersen Endowed Chair in Higher Education in the university's College of Education. They are members of the College of Liberal Arts Dean's Club, the UI Alumni Association's Directors' Club, and the Foundation's Presidents Club.

H. Rand Petersen is proud to say that the four Petersen children-Steve, Katherine "Kap" Linder, Allen, and Lynn Kindem-are all graduates of the University of Iowa, while the ten Petersen grandchildren are yet to enroll.


Duane C. Spriestersbach, 40MA, 48PhD

1996 Distinguished Faculty Award

Duane C. "Sprie" Spriestersbach, 40MA, 48PhD, is a man whose life and achievements have been intertwined with the University of Iowa for more than five decades. When Iowa has needed him, he has been there. He postponed retirement twice in order to continue serving the institution during transitions in leadership, and he continues to serve the university and the Iowa City community today.

After receiving his bachelor's degree from Winona State Teachers College in 1939. Spriesterbach came to the UI to obtain advanced degrees. He joined the speech pathology and audiology faculty in 1948 and the otolaryngology faculty in 1954. In 1955, he initiated the UI Cleft Palate research Program, which continued until 1991. At the time of its termination, the 36-year, $13 million research project represented one of the longest continuing partnerships the UI had maintained with the National Institutes of Health. Established as an effort to understand the social impact of these birth defects on patients and their families, the program grew to encompass the surgical, dental, speech, and biological development aspects of the impairment.

From 1958 to 1989, Spriestersbach served as professor in the Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology and in the Department of Otolaryngology and Maxillofacial Surgery. Dean of the UI graduate college from 1965 to 1989, he served as vice president for research from 1966 to 1970, when he was named vice president for educational development and research. He is particularly proud of the record achieved by the faculty and staff in winning gifts, grants, and contracts during his term-more than $1.25 billion. Spriestersbach served as interim president of the university from 1981 to 1982, between the administrations of William "Sandy" Boyd and James O. Freedman.

Spriestersbach has also given many years of his life to military service. A U.S. Army personnel officer from 1942 to 1946 and lieutenant colonel in the US Army Reserves from 1952 to 1967, he was awarded the Bronze Star in 1945 and the Army Commendation Medal in 1946. In 1987, Spriestersbach received Iowa City's Will J. Hayek Award for outstanding military and community service.

Spriestersbach's hearty involvement in numerous organizations has earned him many leadership roles and awards. He has been active in the American Cleft Palate Association, the American Speech, Language, and Hearing Association, the Iowa Academy of Science, the Association of Graduate Schools, the Council of Graduate Schools of the US, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, to name a few. He has received the Hancher/Finkbine Alumni Award, the Distinguished Service Award from the Iowa Academy of Science,, and distinguished alumni awards fron Winona State University and the UI's Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology. The UI has established the Spriestersbach Dissertation Award and the D.C. Spriestersbach Professorship in the Liberal Arts to honor his commitment to academic excellence.

Longtime members of the UI Alumni Association's Directors' Club, Spriestersbach and his wife, Bette Bartell Spriestersbach, 43BA, 45MA, have personally assisted the UI Foundations with many fundraising campaigns. In 1992, Spriestersbach created the Bette R. Spriestersbach Endowed Lectureship in the Museum of Art to honor his wife. Members of the Foundation's Presidents Club, the Spriestersbachs' support disciplines and programs as diverse as their interests-from athletics and Hancher to the Museum of Art, the University Press, and the Museum of Natural History.


Therese Vaughan, 79BBA

1996 Distinguished Alumni Young Award

Therese "Terri" Vaughan, 79BBA, is known across the country as a judicious and innovative voice on insurance issues. Through her service and dedication to the state of Iowa, she exemplifies the spirit of excellence that is central to the University of Iowa.

After earning her degrees at the UI and the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School of Business, Vaughan held teaching positions at Philadelphia's Temple University and at the Baruch College in New York. She then worked with Tillinghast, an actuarial consulting firm in New York City.

Vaughan returned to Iowa to direct the Insurance Center at Drake University in Des Moines. At Drake, she taught and advised undergraduate students while setting up continuing education programs for consumers, regulators, and the insurance industry. Among her activates, Vaughan developed a national program on financial regulation attended by insurance regulators across the country. Her work at Drake earned her a "teacher of the year" award, the Spencer L. Kimball Award for the outstanding article in the Journal of Insurance Regulation, and a prominent reputation among insurance regulators.

Today, Vaughan is Iowa's insurance commissioner. Assuming one of the most visible jobs in state government, she is regulator of one of Iowa's largest industries. Governor Terry Branstad has focused on insurance as an engine of economic growth, and the state insurance commissioner is expected to work with the Department of Economic Development to "sell" Iowa to companies thinking of building operations in the Midwest.

As insurance commissioner, Vaughan has been active in health insurance reform efforts. She recently implemented Iowa' individual health insurance reform law, which has gained national attention, and led an effort by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) to develop a model health insurance reform law patterned after Iowa's approach. In addition, she has been working to implement an innovative insurance company structure made possible by legislation passed in 1995, and she has been active in enforcing Iowa's consumer protection laws. Recently elected chair of the NAIC's Midwest zone, she now serves on the organization's executive committee.

Vaughan's professional designations include associate of the Society of Actuaries, member of the Chartered Property and Casualty Underwriters, and associate of the Casualty Actuarial Society. Her professional service involves participation in many organizations and associations. She is chair of the board of directors of the Journal of Insurance Regulation and a member of the journal's editorial review board. A member of the Des Moines Actuaries Club and the American Risk and Insurance Association, Vaughan has also served on the board of directors of EMC Insurance Group, Inc., one of Des Moines' larger insurance companies, on the Iowa Insurance Development Board, and on the board of the Young Women's Resource Center.

Vaughan is a member of the Alumni Association's Old Capitol Club.


Shirley A. Briggs, 39BA, 40MA

1995 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Shirley A. Briggs, 39BA, 40MA, has devoted her career to educating the public about the environment and the effects manmade chemical pesticides have on the natural world.

As a UI arts graduate, Briggs landed a teaching position at North Dakota State College in Fargo, but when most of her students were drafted during World War II, she headed east. She went to work as an illustrator for Glenn L. Martin Co. in Baltimore and later held various positions with the U.S. Department of the Interior, the Smithsonian Institution, and the Audubon Naturalist Society.

While working at the US Fish and Wildlife Service, Briggs met Rachel Carson and forged a friendship that laid the foundation for her lifelong career. In 1964, Briggs helped found an organization dedicated to continuing the work of Carson, whose book Silent Spring focused world attention on the dangers of environmental pollution. Today, the Rachel Carson Council serves as a pesticide research information clearinghouse for both scientists and laypeople.

During her tenure as the council's executive director, from 1970 until 1992, Briggs worked tirelessly to promote public interest in the environment and to encourage enlightened conservation measures. Her efforts culminated in the 1992 publication of Basic Guide to Pesticides, a scholarly, scientific, and exhaustively researched study of hundreds of chemicals being used in agriculture, forestry, home gardening, and industry.

Briggs has received numerous honors, including awards from the Audubon Naturalist Society, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the University of California. Now executive director emerita of the Rachel Carson Council, Briggs continues to revise the pesticide guide and to direct the Rachel Carson History Project. She also teaches a course on the US conservation philosophy in the Department of Agriculture's graduate school.

Briggs is a life member of the UI Alumni Association.


John J., Jr. Cochran, 67MA

1995 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

John J. Cochran, Jr., 67MA, has committed his notable career to the pursuit of journalistic excellence, providing award-winning coverage and commentary on the nations major news events—for the past decade as a chief correspondent for ABC News.

A native of Montgomery, Ala., Cochran began his journalism career at the University of Alabama, where he earned his bachelors degree in broadcast and film in 1963. After an honorable discharge from the U.S. Army in 1965, Cochran decided to pursue graduate studies in journalism at the UI, where he was a reporter with WSUI radio.

Cochran moved to Charlotte, N.C., to work as a television reporter and anchor at WSOC-TV and then at WRC-TV in Washington, DC. In 1977, he joined NBC News, working first as its Pentagon correspondent and later as chief foreign correspondent, chief diplomatic correspondent, and chief White House correspondent. Cochran devoted some 20 years to NBC News, covering such events as the U.S. role in the Gulf War and the fall of Communism in east and central Europe. He also reported on Middle East peace negotiations and efforts to end the nuclear arms race.

In 1994, Cochran joined ABC News as its chief Capitol Hill correspondent and later senior White House correspondent. His many assignments over the years have included coverage of the Christmas bombing of Hanoi during the Vietnam War, the Watergate scandal and the resignation of President Nixon, and historic changes of leadership in Washington.

Cochrans reporting has been recognized with three Emmy awards: for coverage of the threat to Communism from the Solidarity labor movement in Poland in 1981; for anchoring reports during the overthrow of the Communist regime in Romania, 1989; and for his reporting on the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. For his coverage of the 9/11 attacks, he also received the Peabody and Alfred I. DuPont awards.

Among his other accolades, Cochran received an Outstanding Alumnus Award from the University of Alabama, and induction into the UI Journalism and Mass Communications Hall of Fame.


Kenneth W. Culver, 81MD

1995 Distinguished Alumni Young Award

Kenneth W. Culver, 81MD, is recognized nationally and internationally for his pioneering work in the application of gene therapy to humans.

A Des Moines native, Culver completed his internship and residency at the University of California Department of Pediatrics in San Francisco, where he served as chief resident from 1984 to 1985. After completing a fellowship in pediatric immunology, Culver joined the National Institutes of Health in 1987 as a clinical associate, and in 1990 he was named senior clinical investigator at the National Cancer Institute. From July 1993 to February 1995, Culver served as executive director of the Human Gene Therapy Research Institute in Des Moines.

In September 1990, Culver and two other physicians at the National Institutes of Health performed the first government-approved gene therapy procedure. The experiment restored the immune system to near normal in a four-year-old girl with ADA deficiency, a form of the "bubble boy" disease that laves its victims severely susceptible to common viruses. Through gene therapy, Culver and his colleagues replaced defective genes in the patient's white blood cells with genetically engineered normal genes. The procedure set the stage for further research into a new field that may revolutionize medicine. Culver is currently working with Dr. J.C. Van Gilder at UI Hospitals and Clinics to develop ways that genes could be used to destroy brain tumors.

In addition to publishing more than 50 articles on various aspects of gene therapy, Culver has presented lectures to his peers across the world. He is president of the International Society for the Advancement of Biotechnology, editor-in-chief of the Gene Therapy Newsletter, and the author of Gene Therapy: A hand book for Physicians.

Culver and his wife, Cindy Alloway, 77BSN, are members of the UI Alumni Association. They have three children, Ryan, Ian, and Kathryn.


Robert Day, 40BA, 42JD

1995 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

Robert Day, 40BA, 42JD and Cornelia "Cornie" Shrauger Day, 40 BA, have volunteered countless hours to benefit their community and their world.

Following three years in the U.S. Navy, which involved the invasion of Okinawa and service in the Philippines, Robert began practicing law in the Washington office of Schuyler Livingston in 1946. This remarkable couple still calls Washington home, and to many within the community, the Day name has become synonymous with service. Leaders and promoters of community programs designed to help people lead happier and more productive lives, the Days have also extended their efforts at the national and international levels.

Washington boasts a number of social service organizations thanks to the Days. Cornie was instrumental in the establishment of both the Planned Parenthood Program of Southeast Iowa and the Washington Area Community Action Program, an organization that monitors Head Start, congregate meals, day care, and a number of other low-income supplemental programs. Known as Washington's "Mrs. YWCA," Cornie has served in leadership roles in local, state and national YWCA programs. As a member of the YWCA board, Cornie worked to eliminate racism in the media. The state of Iowa's UNICEF chair for several years, she was inducted into the Iowa Volunteer Hall of Fame in 1990.

Robert has been active in Washington's YMCA and was chairman of the funding committee, the building committee, and the management committee of Halcyon House, a retirement home in Washington that he continues to serve. He was moderator of the Southeast Iowa Presbytery of the United Presbyterian Church in 1970 and has been secretary of the Lake Darling Youth Center since its organization in 1950.

Together, the Days have hosted hundreds of visitors from around the world and have traveled to many countries to promote world peace. Program sponsors for the American Field Service Student Program and the Rotary Club Foreign Student Exchange Program, the Days have also hosted many guests of the US State Department through the Foreign Leader Exchange Program.

In addition to their numerous civic responsibilities, the Days remain faithful UI alumni who have served on a variety of university committees. They are members of the Alumni Association's Director's Club and the Foundation's Presidents Club.


Cornelia Day, 40BA

1995 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Robert Day, 40BA, 42JD and Cornelia "Cornie" Shrauger Day, 40 BA, have volunteered countless hours to benefit their community and their world.

Following three years in the U.S. Navy, which involved the invasion of Okinawa and service in the Philippines, Robert began practicing law in the Washington office of Schuyler Livingston in 1946. This remarkable couple still calls Washington home, and to many within the community, the Day name has become synonymous with service. Leaders and promoters of community programs designed to help people lead happier and more productive lives, the Days have also extended their efforts at the national and international levels.

Washington boasts a number of social service organizations thanks to the Days. Cornie was instrumental in the establishment of both the Planned Parenthood Program of Southeast Iowa and the Washington Area Community Action Program, an organization that monitors Head Start, congregate meals, day care, and a number of other low-income supplemental programs. Known as Washington's "Mrs. YWCA," Cornie has served in leadership roles in local, state and national YWCA programs. As a member of the YWCA board, Cornie worked to eliminate racism in the media. The state of Iowa's UNICEF chair for several years, she was inducted into the Iowa Volunteer Hall of Fame in 1990.

Robert has been active in Washington's YMCA and was chairman of the funding committee, the building committee, and the management committee of Halcyon House, a retirement home in Washington that he continues to serve. He was moderator of the Southeast Iowa Presbytery of the United Presbyterian Church in 1970 and has been secretary of the Lake Darling Youth Center since its organization in 1950.

Together, the Days have hosted hundreds of visitors from around the world and have traveled to many countries to promote world peace. Program sponsors for the American Field Service Student Program and the Rotary Club Foreign Student Exchange Program, the Days have also hosted many guests of the US State Department through the Foreign Leader Exchange Program.

In addition to their numerous civic responsibilities, the Days remain faithful UI alumni who have served on a variety of university committees. They are members of the Alumni Association's Director's Club and the Foundation's Presidents Club.


Leonard A. Hadley, 58BSC

1995 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Leonard A. Hadley, 58BSC, has had a long and distinguished career with the Maytag Corporation, one of Iowa's most successful businesses.

A native of Earlham, Hadley joined Maytag's accounting department in 1959 and was named assistant controller in 1975. He steadily climbed the corporate ranks and was named vice president for corporate planning in 1979, president in 1986, and chairman and chief executive officer in 1993.

For the past 35 years, Hadley has played key roles in the growth and development of Maytag. During the 1980's, he engineered the take over operations that transformed the company from a $350 million washer and dryer manufacturer to a $3.4 billion multi-line, multinational conglomerate that produces a full range of home appliances and vending machines. Maytag's acquisitions during that decade of expansion included Admiral, Magic Chef, Jenn-Air, Dixie-Narco, Hardwick, and Norge.

Although building Maytag's stature as a major player in the global marketplace has consumed much of Hadley's energy, he has continued to devote considerable time and attention to the University of Iowa. A member of the College of Business Administration's Board of Visitors since 1991, Hadley was instrumental in securing a $250,000 commitment from Maytag for the college's building campaign. He was also a leading proponent for the recent development of the Newton Polytechnic campus of the Des Moines Area Community College and worked to establish it as a University of Iowa MBA site, providing central Iowa students access to UI faculty. Most recently, Hadley was elected to the UI Foundation's board of directors.

Life members of the Alumni Association and members of the Foundation's Presidents Club, Hadley and his wife, Corine Ashland Hadley, 59BSN, have also directed their generous support to many other areas of the University of Iowa, including athletics, the College of Nursing, and the Iowa Opportunity Fund.


Stanley M. Howe

1995 Distinguished Alumni Friend Award

Stanley M. Howe, chairman of the board of directors at HON Industries in Muscatine, has been a generous and loyal friend of the UI College of Business Administration.

With an engineering degree from Iowa State University and an MBA from Harvard, Howe joined Maxwell Stanley at the then-fledgling HON Corporation in 1948. Now a company veteran, Howe has devoted his professional career to helping build HON Industries into a Fortune 500 company and one of the nation's largest producers of fine wood and steel furniture and other office products.

Both personally and through his corporation, Howe has provided generous support to the UI College of Business Administration. He was instrumental in initiating and funding the C. Maxwell Stanley Professorship of Manufacturing at the business college, and for three years he sponsored the HON Industries Teaching Excellence Award. Most recently, Howe spearheaded HON Industries' gift of $1 million to the Pappajohn Business Administration Building campaign and personally contributed a substantial gift.

Howe has been a member of the College of Business Administration's Board of Visitors since its inception. Moreover, as the college's first executive-in-residence, Howe also shared his business acumen with UI students, helping them bridge the gap between academia and the real world. He continues to be a popular teacher as a visiting lecturer to Iowa's business students.

Howe is active in a number of civic and professional organizations, including the Muscatine Community Health Foundation, the Rotary Club, the Iowa Wesleyan College Board of Trustees, the Iowa Business Council, the Iowa Technology Transfer Council, the Muscatine Development Corporation, the Business and Institutional Furniture Manufactures Association, and the Iowa College Foundation. He and his wife, Helen Howe, are longtime members of the UI Foundation's Presidents Club.


Marion L. Huit, 49MA

1995 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

Marion L. Huit, 49MA, educator and administrator, served the University of Iowa for more than 30 years as counselor to men, dean of students, and ombudsman.

Huit's long affiliation with the university began in 1946, when the Delta, Ohio, native was appointed counselor to men. Huit was named dean of students in 1956 and dean of students and ombudsman in 1973. Under the direction of presidents Virgil Hancher, Howard Bowen, and Sandy Boyd, Huit employed savvy leadership abilities and a willingness to empathize with students to maintain high standards for student advocacy at the University of Iowa.

A champion of individual rights, Huit provided a steady and caring presence to students amid the campus unrest of the tumultuous sixties. While some top administrators remained locked inside Old Capitol during this period of campus history, Huit stayed outside and worked to soothe students' tempers. During a tenure marked by integrity and kindness, Huit served as a quiet leader, teaching by example rather than by command.

Although Huit has received numerous awards, he has been most touched by those honors that came from the students, including the M.L. Huit Faculty Award. When Huit retired in 1978, Omicron Delta Kappa and Mortar Board established the award to recognize his outstanding dedication and attentive service to students. Each spring, members of the honor societies select the faculty member whose contributions best characterize those that Huit has consistently engendered in both his personal and professional life.

A member of the UI Alumni Association, Huit has been active in a number of campus and community organizations, including Omicron Delta Kappa, Phi Beta Kappa, the UI Dads Association, the UI Parents Association (which he served as the first executive secretary), the Triangle Club, Wesley Foundation Board, the Iowa State Historical Society, and the Council for International Visitors to Iowa City.


Dorothy Kaplan Light, 59BA, 61JD

1995 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Dorothy Kaplan Light, 59BA, 61JD, one of only two women in her 1961 UI College of Law gradating class, has achieved impressive success in her legal career.

As vice president and corporate secretary for the Prudential Insurance Company of America in Newark, New Jersey, Light has reached a position thought unattainable by women in the law in 1961. She joined Prudential's property and casualty subsidiary in 1974 as assistant general counsel and played a key role in the company as director of public affairs and vice president for government affairs at a critical time of auto insurance reform in New Jersey.

In her role as vice president and corporate secretary for the largest insurance company in the United States, Light reports directly to Prudential's chairman and chief executive officer. She coordinates activities for the 23-member board of the multibillion dollar corporation and is responsible for policyholder elections and the company's conflict of interest program. Light also chairs the Prudential foundation, which oversees the corporation's philanthropic pursuits through a $200 million social investment program and grants to not-for-profit community organizations totaling nearly $18 million annually.

A former attorney with the US Army, the Alden native has been admitted to the Iowa bar, the New Jersey Bar, and the US Supreme Court. Light serves on the board of directors of the New Jersey Resources Corporation and is a member of the National Advisory Board of Leadership America. In addition, she is a trustee for the New Jersey Center for Analysis of Public Issues in Princeton and the Atlantic Legal Foundation, Inc. Light was awarded an honorary doctoral degree from Georgian Court College in Lakewood, New Jersey, in April 1991.

A member of the transition team of New Jersey Governor-elect Christine Whitman, Light serves on Governor Whitman's Economic Master Plan Commission and is a former chair of the commission's Urban Economic Development Task Force.

Light and her husband, Ernest Light, 61DDS, 66MS, are members of the UI Alumni Association's Old Capitol Club.


Trudy Huskamp Peterson, 72MA, 75Phd

1995 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Trudy Huskamp Peterson, 72MA, 75PhD, is responsible for preserving the nation's heritage through the written documents that record government in action.

Over the past 20 years, Peterson has worked her way up from an entry-level archivist position with the National Archives to her current role as acting archivist of the United States. She has worked in virtually all areas of archival endeavor during the evolution of the modern federal archival program. As acting archivist, Peterson has played a prominent leadership role in initiatives that included declassification, electronic records management, and development of the national information infrastructure. She has guided the organization's recent move to its new building in Maryland and has championed the reforms necessary to position the agency to meet the demands of the next century, such as computerizing records to allow electronic access to holdings and finding aids. To recognize Peterson's efforts, the national Archives and Records Administration has awarded her two Commendable Service Awards and two Outstanding Service Awards.

In addition to her accomplishments with the National Archives, Peterson's contributions to the archival profession are numerous and far-reaching. Since 1992, she has been a commissioner on the U.S.-Russia Joint Commission on POW/MIAs, chairing the World War II Working Group. Chief of the U.S. delegation to the 1990 Soviet-American Symposium on Archival Systems, she is president of the International Conference of the Roundtable on Archives, vice president of the International Council on Archives, and past president and fellow of the Society of American Archivists. Recently, Peterson was awarded the Order of Arts and Letters of the Republic of France. She has published extensively in such journals as The American Archivist, Janus, and The Midwestern Archivist. She and her husband, Gary Peterson, 72JD, are also co-authors of Archives and Manuscripts: Law, an authoritative work on archival and manuscript law.

Peterson and her husband are members of the UI Alumni Association's Old Capitol Club.


Mark W. Putney, 51BA, 57JD

1995 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Mark W. Putney, 51BA, 57JD, retired in 1992 as chairman and chief executive officer of Midwest Resources, Inc., Iowa's largest gas and electric utility.

A Gladbrook native, Putney was a partner in Bradshaw, Fowler, Proctor & Fairgrave, a Des Moines law firm, before he joined Iowa resources, Inc. (formerly Iowa Power & Light Company) as vice president and general counsel in 1972. Following a series of promotions, he was named president and CEO in 1984. In an effort to reshape Iowa resources, Putney worked to make the company more responsive to customer needs and instituted a series of cost-reduction programs that improved earnings and substantially increased the market value of its common stock. A longtime advocate of consolidating Iowa's utilities, Putney was instrumental in the 1990 merger of Iowa Resources and Midwest Energy Company into a new utility holding company, Midwest Resources, Inc. Following the merger, Putney was tabbed the organization's chairman and chief executive officer.

Described by colleagues as an aggressive CEO in business, Putney has proven to be just as vigorous in his industrial, civic and philanthropic pursuits. Over the years, Putney has served on the boards of numerous corporate and charitable organizations, including the Greater Des Moines YMCA, the Boys' Home of Iowa, the Episcopal Diocese of Iowa, Iowa Lutheran Hospital, the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library Association, Planned Parenthood of Iowa, the United Negro College Fund, and the Edison Electric Institute. He has also served as chairman of the Association of Edison Illuminating Companies, he Iowa Committee for Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve, the Greater Des Moines Committee, and the Des Moines Development Corporation.

Throughout his career, Putney has also maintained close ties to the University of Iowa. A member of the UI Foundation's board of directors and the College of Law Dean's Club, Putney served on the steering committee for Iowa Endowment 20000. He is a member of the Alumni Association's Old Capitol Club, and he and his wife, Ray Ann Putney, are members of the Foundation's Presidents Club.


Philip W. Tone, 43BA, 48JD

1995 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Philip W. Tone, 43BA, 48JD, a Chicago attorney, has distinguished the legal profession in his service to both the public and private sectors.

After graduating from the UI College of Law with highest honors, Tone attended Yale Law School as a graduate fellow and served a term as law clerk to Justice Wiley Rutledge of the United States Supreme Court. After completing his clerkship, he practiced law at Covington & Burling in Washington, D.C., and then joined the Chicago firm now known as Jenner & Block, where he was named a partner in 1956. He was appointed a U.S. district court judge for the Northern District of Illinois in 1972, and after serving in that capacity for two years, he was appointed to the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. He served with that court until 1980, when he returned to private practice, rejoining Jenner & Block.

Before his appointment to the bench, Tone served as counsel to the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence, also known as the Eisenhower Commission. Since returning to practice, he has served as special counsel to the U.S. Senate Subcommittee to Investigate the Activities of Individuals Representing Foreign Governments (sometimes known as the Billy Carter Committee); as lay member of the United States Judicial Conference's Committee on the Judicial Branch; as president of the American College of Trial Lawyers; and as general counsel of the United States Golf Association.

Despite his many professional responsibilities, Tone has remained a loyal and staunch supporter of the University of Iowa and has contributed his time and talents to both Iowa Endowment 2000 and the College of Law's Allan Vestal Professorship campaigns. Tone serves on the board of directors of the Iowa Law School Foundation, and he and his wife, Gretchen Altfillisch Tone, 44BA, are life members of the UI Alumni Association and members of the Foundation's Presidents Club.


Herbert A. Wilson

1995 Distinguished Alumni Friend Award

Herbert A. Wilson, an Iowa City entrepreneur, has worked tirelessly during the past 20 years to benefit both Iowa City and the University of Iowa community.

Truly a self-made man, Wilson has risen from humble beginnings to become one of the movers and shakers in the local business community. A Chicago native, he studied mechanical engineering at Purdue University and earned an MBA from the University of Chicago. Wilson gained his early work experience in the steel and printing industries. He moved his family to Iowa City in 1973, when he was named chief executive officer of Iowa Steel Mill (now North Star Steel) in Wilton. In 1980, Wilson purchased Micro-Surface Finishing Products, Inc., an abrasive specialty company, where he currently serves as president and CEO. In January 1994, Wilson established Startups Unlimited, Inc., a Coralville consulting company devoted to fostering unique entrepreneurial business opportunities.

Since moving to Iowa City, Wilson has proven himself an outstanding volunteer and contributor in a variety of arenas. Giving freely of his time and talents, Wilson's volunteer efforts and financial contributions extend to numerous community organizations, including Rotary, Riverside Theatre, the Iowa City Public Library, Preucil School of Music, the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library Association, and the Mercy Hospital Foundation.

Wilson has also been generous to the University of Iowa through his major contributions to Iowa's performing arts programs, Old Capital, athletics, the College of Business Administration, the School of Music, and the Iowa Women's Archives. He and his wife, Janice Wilson, are members of the UI Alumni Association and the Foundation's Presidents Club.


Benjamin R. Armstrong, 89BA

1994 Distinguished Alumni Young Award

Benjamin R. "B.J." Armstrong 89BA, a member of the three-time NBA champion Chicago Bulls, has established himself as one of the best point guards in professional basketball. Ranked fourth on the Hawkeyes' all-time scoring list and Iowa's career leader in assists and three-point field goals, B.J. was selected by Chicago in the first round of the 1989 NBA draft.

Although Armstrong was a sharpshooting standout for the Hawkeyes, he had to adjust his game to the role of supporting player once he arrived in Chicago. B.J. persisted, though, taking advantage of his time on the bench to develop his game and to better understand his future role with the Chicago franchise. His playing time and statistics steadily improved from sixth-man position into starting lineup as Chicago's point guard.

More recently, following Michael Jordan's retirement, Armstrong has come into his own as a strong leader of the Bulls. B.J.'s skills on the court, combined with the dignity of his play, make him a favorite of Chicago Stadium fans and the pride of the Hawkeye fans everywhere. Armstrong made his first NBA All-Star Game appearance in February 1994 as the starting point guard for the Eastern Conference. He ranked third in fan ballots for the game, just behind Charles Barkley and Shaquille O'Neal.

Despite a grueling basketball schedule, numerous requests for public appearances, and obligations for commercial endorsement, Armstrong unselfishly volunteers his time to promote a number of causes he believes in. He has appeared in a public service announcement sponsored by the National Committee to Prevent Child Abuse and serves as celebrity spokesperson for the Alumni Association's Adult Literacy in Iowa Volunteer Effort.


Samuel L. Becker, 47BA, 49MA, 53PhD

1994 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

Samuel L. Becker, 47BA, 49MA, 53PhD, has devoted most of his professional career to the University of Iowa.

A Quincy, Illinois, native, Becker began working at the UI 54 years ago, when he washed pots and pans at Currier Hall as an undergraduate student. In just a few short years, Becker went from student worker to working with students and serving the university in several administrative capacities.

A three-time Iowa Graduate in communications and theatre arts, Becker joined the UI faculty in 1950. He was appointed a full professor in 1961 and was chair of the Department of Communication and Theatre Arts from 1968 to 1982. During Becker's tenure in the department, he served on more than 50 university committees. One of Iowa's first two faculty members to receive a UI Foundation Distinguished Professorship, Becker directed nearly 60 dissertations and has written six books and more than 110 journal articles. He was appointed to the UI Board in Control of Athletics in 1978, and in 1982 he was named Iowa's faculty representative to the Big Ten Conference.

Over the years, Becker has been quick to address the needs of his university. Most recently, he postponed his retirement when UI administrators asked him to serve as interim director of the School of Art and Art History and to co-chair the committee searching for a permanent director.

Becker retired from the University of Iowa faculty in 1993. To honor his lifetime of service, the UI sponsored "Celebrating Sam," a weekend-long party. More than 300 of Becker's colleagues, former students, friends, and family members attended the event, where President Hunter Rawlings announced the naming of the Samuel L. Becker Communication Studies Building.

Becker is a member of the UI Alumni Association's Directors' Club and the Foundation's Presidents Club.


David W. Belin

1994 Distinguished Alumni Friend Award

David W. Belin, a Des Moines attorney, has been the driving force behind the creation of the Connie Belin National Center for Gifted and Talented Education at the University of Iowa.

Ranked as one of the nation's 100 most influential lawyers by the National Law Review, Belin is perhaps best known for his work as counsel for the Warren Commission that investigated the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

In 1978, Belin began working with the University of Iowa, formulation plans that led to the development of programs to meet the needs of gifted and talented students. His efforts culminated in 1988, when the Iowa Board of Regents established the Connie Belin National Center for Gifted and Talented Education. Named in honor of his late wife, Connie, a dedicated leader in education and former member of the Iowa Board of Regents, the Belin Center specialized in the educational needs of exceptionally talented children in just six years, the Center has earned national recognition for its innovative work in providing outstanding educational programs for gifted students and in training teachers to work more effectively to meet the needs of these students.

David Belin made these opportunities possible. A member of the UI Foundation's Presidents Club, he has contributed substantial funding for the center's support, as well as for a number of related UI programs, such as the Connie Belin Fellowship Program for Gifted Educations and the Invent, Iowa! Program. In addition to his own generosity, Belin has taken an active role in encouraging others to support the university and has assisted in attracting more than $2.5 million in external support for the UI, most of it for the benefit of gifted and talented education programs.


Mildred Augustine Wirt Benson, 25BA, 27MA

1994 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Mildred Augustine Wirt Benson, 25BA, 27MA, the first woman to receive a master's degree in journalism from the UI, has touched the lives of millions through her creation of female characters not bound by traditional roles.

A native of Ladora, Benson launched her writing career early in life, publishing her first short story at the age of 12. Although she wrote more than 130 children's books from 1927 to 1959, Benson is best known as a ghostwriter for the Stratemeyer Syndicate's Nancy Drew series.

Writing under the pseudonym Carolyn Keene, Benson created the Nancy Drew character, an intelligent, spunky, independent, teenage sleuth who caught the imagination of American girls in the 1930s and has remained popular ever since. Beginning with The Secret of the Old Clock, published in 1930, Benson wrote 23 of the first 30 books in the series.

Mildred Benson is as spirited as the Nancy Drew character she developed. About the time Benson stopped writing fiction in the mid-1960s, she embarked on another adventure—flying. Benson eventually became a commercial pilot and until a few years ago owned her own plane. Prompted by her interest in pre-Columbian Mayan Indian archaeology, Benson also undertook nearly a dozed expeditions to remote sites in Central America.

Today, Benson is a full-time reporter and columnist for the Toledo Blade. A 1992 inductee into the UI School of Journalism and Mass Communication Hall of Fame, Benson was also invited back to campus in April 1993 to sever as a guest of honor for the first-ever Nancy Drew Conference.

Benson is a member of the UI Alumni Association.


Samuel O. Christensen, 55DDS, 58PedoS

1994 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

Samuel O. Christensen, 55DDS, 58PedroS, is a pediatric dentist in Waterloo who has distinguished himself through his community service, in his profession, and with his long-term support of the University of Iowa.

Fondly, referred to as "Dr. Sam" by thousands of children he has treated, Christensen is also highly regarded by his colleagues throughout Iowa's dental community. During the course of his career, Christensen has been active in numerous professional associations and has served as president of the Iowa Society of Dentistry for Children, the Iowa Society of Dentistry for Children, the Iowa Society of Pedodontists, the Waterloo District Dental Society, and the Black Hawk County Dental Society. Christensen has lectured and conducted seminars across the United States, and for a number of years, he was a visiting staff person in the UI College of Dentistry.

In the public service arena, Christensen is a highly regarded community leader. A founding board member of Hockey in Waterloo, as well as the Boy's Club and Big Brothers in the Waterloo area, Christensen has also worked on the board of directors for the YMCA, Rotary Club, United Way, Sunnyside Country club, Waterloo-Cedar Falls Symphony, and the Waterloo Ambassadors. For his service to children, Christensen was awarded a lifetime membership by the Waterloo Parent-Teacher Association.

Christensen has maintained close ties to his alma mater and is quick to volunteer his time and talents on behalf of the University of Iowa. A member of the UI Foundation's Presidents Club, he has contributed countless hours to a number of UI fund-raising campaigns. Christensen has been a key volunteer for Iowa City's Ronald McDonald House and has acted both as chairman of the Waterloo regional effort and as a national committee member for Iowa Endowment 2000. A longtime advocate of the I-Club and Hawkeye athletics, Christensen led the Hawkeye Arena/Recreations Campaign in the Waterloo area. He and his wife, Jane, are also members of the Alumni Association's Old Capitol Club.


Joseph N. Crowley, 59BA

1994 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Joseph N. Crowley, president of the University of Nevada at Reno, has gained national recognition in the field of higher education.

A political science major from Oelwein, Crowley earned his bachelor's degree at the UI in 1959, his master's degree at California State University, Fresno, in 1963 and his doctorate at the University of Washington in 1967. He joined the faculty at the University of Nevada at Reno (UNR) in 1966, was appointed chair of the political science department in 1976, and was named UNR president two years later.

UNR has experienced tremendous growth and success under Crowley's leadership. A man of vision, he set far-reaching goals for the university, challenging it to become the "best small public university in America." Through Crowley's commitment to diversity in student recruitment and retention, UNR has made significant strides in programs, scholarships, and activities, and an international scholars and study abroad program is the direct result of his initiatives.

Other highlights of Crowley's tenure as UNR president include a revitalized core curriculum and honors program, major growth in sponsored research, the creation of the Donald W. Reynolds School of Journalism, the founding of the College of Human and Community Sciences, the establishment of the University Foundation, and new homes for business administration , engineering, journalism, judicial education, medicine, speech pathology, and the Mackay School of Mines.

Off campus, Crowley has been a leader in intercollegiate athletic reform through the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). A former member of the NCAA Council and the Presidents Commission and chair of the NCAA Committee on Certification, Crowley is now serving a two-year term as NCAA president.

Author of a recently published book on the academic presidency, Crowley is a member of the UI Alumni Association.


David W. Day, 48MA, 51PhD

1994 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

David W. Day, 48MA, 51PhD, and Shirley Sindt Day, 48BSC, are longtime supporters of the University of Iowa, where they met nearly 50 years ago.

The couple's ties to the university began in the 1940's, when Shirley, a Walcott native, was studying accounting and David was completing his doctorate, both in the College of Commerce. David, originally from Brighton, came to Iowa in 1946 after earning his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the University of Minnesota.

The Days left Iowa City in 1952, and David spent the next 30 years as a corporate executive for General Electric, Rockwell Collins, the Pneumo Corporation, and other industrial firms. Shirley's career as a mother was also burgeoning, with the addition of four sons to the Day family. Regardless of where they lived, the couple maintained their interest in and support of the University of Iowa.

In 1982, the Days returned to Iowa City and the UI, where David embarked on a ten-year career doing what he had always dreamed of—teaching. As an adjunct professor in the College of Business Administration, he taught Business Policy, a capstone of the curriculum and a course taken each semester by about 300 seniors. David's considerable teaching skills, combined with perspective gained from 31 years in private industry, won him the respect of thousands of students, who recognized him with the Chester A. Phillips Award in 1986.

Members of the UI Alumni Association's Old Capitol Club and the Foundation's Presidents Club, the Days have been enthusiastic supporters of many areas of the UI campus, especially the College of Business and intercollegiate athletics. With funds donated by the Days and matched by General Electric, David was able to create a high-tech classroom that has been used as a prototype for all of the classrooms in the new Pappajohn College of Business Administration Building. A reception room in the new Hawkeye Horizon facility and a classroom in the new College of Business building will be named in honor of David W. and Shirley Sindt Day.


Shirley (Sindt) Day, 48BSC

1994 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

David W. Day, 46BEE, 48MA, 51PhD, and Shirley Sindt Day, 48BSC, are longtime supporters of the University of Iowa, where they met nearly 50 years ago.

The Couple's ties to the university began in the 1940's, when Shirley, a Walcott native, was studying accounting and David was completing his doctorate, both in the College of Commerce. David, originally from Brighton, came to Iowa in 1946 after earning his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the University of Minnesota.

The Days left Iowa City in 1952, and David spent the next 30 years as a corporate executive for General Electric, Rockwell Collins, the Pneumo Corporation, and other industrial firms. Shirley's career as a mother was also burgeoning, with the addition of four sons to the Day family. Regardless of where they lived, the couple maintained their interest in and support of the University of Iowa.

In 1982, the Days returned to Iowa City and the UI, where David embarked on a ten-year career doing what he had always dreamed of—teaching. As an adjunct professor in the College of Business Administration, he taught Business Policy, a capstone of the curriculum and a course taken each semester by about 300 seniors. David's considerable teaching skills, combined with perspective gained from 31 years in private industry, won him the respect of thousands of students, who recognized him with the Chester A. Phillips Award in 1986.

Members of the UI Alumni Association's Old Capitol Club and the Foundation's Presidents Club, the Days have been enthusiastic supporters of many areas of the UI campus, especially the College of Business and intercollegiate athletics. With funds donated by the Days and matched by General Electric, David was able to create a high-tech classroom that has been used as a prototype for all of the classrooms in the new Pappajohn College of Business Administration Building. A reception room in the new Hawkeye Horizon facility and a classroom in the new College of Business building will be named in honor of David W. and Shirley Sindt Day.


John W. Eckstein, 50MD, 54R

1994 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

John W. "Jack" Eckstein, 50MD, 54R, emeritus dean and professor of internal medicine at the UI College of Medicine, has devoted his life to the medical profession and to the University of Iowa.

After completing his internal medicine residency at the UI, Eckstein soon decided on a career in academic medicine and research. He joined Iowa's College of Medicine faculty and rapidly rose from an assistant in internal medicine to the rank of full professor. Internationally respected for his cardiovascular research, Eckstein redirected his professional energies in 1970 when he was named dean of the UI College of Medicine.

During Eckstein's 20-year tenure as dean, the UI College of Medicine gained recognition as one of the top-ranked educational and research entities in the nation. Under his guidance, Iowa developed one of the country's first statewide family practice training programs. The program not only provides medical care to thousands of Iowans each year, but also guides 25 percent of Iowa's medical graduates into family medicine—twice the national average. Instrumental in recruiting and organizing the clinicians and professionals who form the UI's Cardiovascular Research Center, dedicated in 1982, Eckstein also led the effort to construct facilities for biomedical researchers, including the five-story, 125,000 square-foot research building that has been named in his honor.

In 1991, Eckstein retired as dean to return to full-time professorial duties in the College of Medicine. He continues to work on a variety of special projects for the medical college and for the UI, including serving on the Advisory Committee to the director of the National Institutes of Health and other national scientific and professional societies. Eckstein is a member of the UI Alumni Association's Directors' Club and the Foundation's Presidents Club.


Charles A. Horner, 58BA

1994 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Charles A. Horner, 58BA, has had a distinguished military career in the United States Air Force that has earned him international accolades. Promoted to general in 1992, Horner currently supervises more that 35,000 people worldwide as commander in chief of the U.S. Space Command and North American Aerospace Defense Command at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado.

Horner was commissioned a second lieutenant after he received his bachelor of arts degree in science education from the University of Iowa in 1958. In 1972, Horner received a master of business administration degree from the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. During more than 30 years of service in the US Air Force, the Davenport native has risen steadily in rank and responsibility.

Throughout his career, Horner has served in a number of posts in the United States, England, and Thailand. A command Pilot with more than 5,200 flying hours in jet fighter aircraft, he flew F-105 fighter planes in more than 100 combat missions during the Vietnam War.

More recently, Horner gained international recognition as head of the US Central Command's Air Forces during the Persian Gulf War. From a temporary home in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Horner directed the allied air assault against Iraq and has been credited with bringing the war to a quick and decisive end.

Horner's military decorations and awards are numerous and include the Distinguished Service Medal, a Silver Star with one oak leaf cluster, the Legion of Merit, and the Distinguished Flying Cross. Horner has been decorated with Canada's Meritorious Service Cross and honored by France, Pakistan, and the sovereign states of Bahrain, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates. In 1993, he was inducted into the Iowa Aviation Hall of Fame.


Philip G. Hubbard, 46BSEE, 49MS, 54PhD

1994 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Philip G. Hubbard, 46BSEE, 49MS, 54PhD, one of Iowa's most revered leaders, has left an indelible mark on the University of Iowa.

Hubbard's UI involvement spans more than five decades, dating back to 1940, when he left Des Moines to study chemical engineering at Iowa. Since then, Hubbard has earned distinction for his accomplishments as a research engineer and professor of engineering, technological innovator, university administrator, and defender of students' interests.

Hubbard, a three-time UI graduate, joined Iowa's engineering faculty in 1954 and subsequently rose through the faculty ranks in mechanics and hydraulics. Hubbard was named dean of academics affairs in 1966, and six years later he was appointed vice president for student services, becoming the first African-American vice president at a Big Ten University.

A source of counsel to six UI presidents, Hubbard provided leadership and direction as the university grew from 6,000 to 28,000 students. As dean of academic affairs, he helped guide the UI through the tumultuous '60s. And, perhaps most important, Hubbard championed diversity long before it became a buzzword. He worked to open housing, jobs, and educational opportunities to minorities, and in 1986, he founded Opportunity at Iowa, a program to recruit and retain minority students and faculty members. Over the years, Hubbard has served on and chaired countless campus committees, university task forces, and state and national advisory groups.

A member of the Alumni Association and the Foundation's Presidents club, Hubbard retired from the UI in 1990. Today he volunteers as director of the Institute for Learning and Development, a nonprofit organization that helps cities establish education, health, and job training programs.


Mary Elda Kautz

1994 Distinguished Alumni Friend Award

Mary Elda Kautz, of Muscatine, may have graduated from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, but she has wholeheartedly adopted the University of Iowa as her own. Mary Elda is one of the UI's most generous and loyal friends, although her support has most often been proffered behind the scenes.

Dick Kautz, 39BSC proposed to Mary Elda Stein on the Iowa Memorial Union footbridge more than 50 years ago, setting the stage for a long history of magnanimous support to the University of Iowa by the entire Kautz family.

Through Mary Elda's encouragement, the Kautz family and the Kent-Stein Foundation have extended nearly every corner of the UI campus from the restoration of Old Capitol to the construction of Carver Hawkeye Arena, to Hancher Auditorium and other areas of the performing arts, to the endowment of a faculty chair through the Iowa Endowment 2000 Campaign, and to the College of Business Administration's new building. Most recently, Mary Elda presented a leadership gift for the Center for University Advancement. Mary Elda, Dick, and each of their eight children are members of the UI Foundation's Presidents Club.

Mary Elda has also participated in a variety of university- and foundation-related activities and events, particularly during the ten years that Dick served as a member of the foundation's executive committee and chair of the board of directors. Her gracious hospitality in hosting board meetings and spouse events demonstrates her dedication and thoughtfulness toward the University of Iowa.

Mary Elda's principal outside involvement has been with the PEO sisterhood for more than 50 years. She has been a member of four PEO chapters and served as a chapter founder, president, and delegate to the 1947 national meeting in Los Angeles.

Mary Elda's first priority has always been as a homemaker. Even today, she spends a lot of time with her eight children, 19 grandchildren, and her great-grandson.


Shirley (Rich) Krohn, 44BFA

1994 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Shirley Rich Krohn, 44BFA, who began her career as a secretary for the American National Theatre Association, has achieved remarkable success in the entertainment industry.

Born in Chicago, Rich came to the UI in 1940. Her bachelor of fine arts degree in theatre from Iowa, followed by a two-year fellowship and an M.A. in theatre at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, laid the foundation for her steady climb to the top of her profession.

Casting positions with Rodgers and Hammerstein, MGM, and Harold Prince helped develop her talent for matching the right artist to the right role. She has cast 23 plays and musicals, Fiddler on the Roof, Cabaret, Crimes of the Heart, Zorba, and Ballroom. In 1969, she started her own casting company, branching out from theater into films and television.

Rich has cast 22 films, including The Diary of a Mad Housewife, Serpico, Three Days of the Condor, Saturday Night Fever, Kramer vs. Kramer, Taps, and Rachel, Rachel. "Andre's Mother" and "Siege" are among the television productions Shirley has cast, and she also did the original cast for the Emmy Award-Winning soap opera "Ryan's Hope."

Over the years, Rich has helped launch the careers of a number of young actors, including Rod Steiger, who presented her with the Hoyt Bowers Award in 1990 for outstanding contributions to the casting profession from the Casting Society of America. The first casting director to be honored by the New York Association of Talent Representatives for contributions to the entertainment industry, she was also among the first casting directors to be elected both to membership in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and as a voting member for the Antoinette Perry (Tony) Awards for theatrical achievement.

A member of the UI Alumni Association and the UI Foundation's Presidents Club, Shirley maintains an active interest in the university. She and her husband, Lewis Krohn, have endowed the Shirley Rich Scholarship in Acting and have established a bequest that is intended to create a visiting professorship in the Department of Theatre Arts.


Louise Rosenfield Noun

1994 Distinguished Alumni Friend Award

Louise Rosenfield Noun, author, political activist, art collector, and historian, has established close ties to the University of Iowa through her association with the Museum of Art and the UI Libraries.

A lifelong resident of Des Moines, Noun has had a successful, though oftentimes controversial, career in public affairs. During her term as president of the Des Moines chapter of the League of Women Voters, she led a successful campaign to reform that city's municipal government. As president of the Iowa Civil Liberties Union, Noun defended freedom of speech for student protesters during the Vietnam War era, and she also stood at the forefront of women's fight for legal and social equality as an active member of the National Organization for Women.

Noun is a collector of art by women, primarily of the early 20th century, and has given several works of art to the University of Iowa.

In addition to her memoir, Journey to Autonomy (1990), Noun has written two books focusing on the history of the women's movement in this state, Strong-Minded Women: the Emergence of the Woman Suffrage Movement in Iowa (1969) and More Strong-Minded Women: Iowa Feminists Tell Their Stories (1992).

While researching the history of the women's movement in Iowa, Noun was disheartened to find a lack of available primary research material. In April 1990, she joined with Mary Louise Epperson Smith, 35BA, in an effort to promote the establishment of an Iowa women's archives. Through the auction of a Frida Kahlo painting from her personal collection, Noun provided a $1.5 million endowment for the archives project. Two years later, her vision became reality with the opening of the Iowa Women's Archives at the University of Iowa.

Noun is a member of the UI Foundation's Presidents Club.


Thomas R. Schierbrock, 70BS, 74DDS

1994 Distinguished Hickerson Recognition Award

Thomas R. Schierbrock, 70BS, 74DDS, a Council Bluffs dentist, has volunteered countless hours on behalf of the UI Alumni Association.

A native of West Point, Schierbrock returned to Iowa in 1980 after a four-year stint with the United States Air Force. When he landed in Council Bluffs to set up his dental practice, Schierbrock was disappointed to learn that few students from the western side of the state were attending the University of Iowa.

That's when Schierbrock's involvement with the Alumni Association began. In an effort to recruit more western Iowa students to the UI, Schierbrock joined ASIST (Alumni Seeking Iowa Students), a program that facilitates contact between UI Alumni and prospective students.

Since then, his dedication to the University of Iowa and the Alumni Association has remained constant. He joined the Association's board of directors in 1985 and was named president in 1991. During his tenure on the board, Schierbrock helped develop the Association's five-year strategic plan and served on search committees for the Association's executive director and for the UI vice president for university relations. He continues to participate as a member of the Iowa Council Advocates legislative support group.

Schierbrock's contributions to the University of Iowa extend far beyond his participation in the Alumni Association. Over the years, he has volunteered for a number of university fundraising campaigns, including Iowa Endowment 2000 and Hawkeye Horizons.

In the Council Bluffs area, the names of Tom and his wife, Jeanette Munsinger Schierbrock, 72BA, 72SE, are synonymous with the University of Iowa. The Schierbrocks are members of the Alumni Association's Directors' Club Honors Circle and the Foundation's Presidents Club.


Lilia A. Abron, 72PhD

1993 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Lilia A. Abron, 72PhD, is the first African-American woman in the nation—and the third woman at the UI—to receive a doctorate in chemical engineering.

In 1978, after a teaching career at Tennessee State University, Vanderbilt University, Washington State University, and Howard University, Abron left academia and founded PEER Consultants, P.C., an environmental consulting firm headquartered in Washington, D.C. Today, she is president and chief executive officer of PEER, which has grown to include branch offices in ten U.S. cities and a staff of 120. Abron also serves as either the program manager or technical reviewer for all PEER projects, which generate revenues of more than $10 million annually.

A registered professional engineer, Abron is a member of several professional and technical societies, including the Water Environmental Federation, the American Society of Civil Engineers, the American Water Works Association, the Society of Sigma Xi, and the American Association of University Women. She also serves on the Board of Registration of Professional Engineers for the District of Columbia and the Engineering Advisory Board for the National Science Foundation.

Beyond her work at PEER, Abron has been active in a number of community organizations, including serving as president of the Washington, D.C., chapter of Jack and Jill of America, Inc., and as a board member for the Baptist Home for Children. She also play handbells in the Angelus Bell Choir at her church.

In addition, Abron uses business acumen and engineering expertise to promote science education in primary and secondary schools. Her company supports science fair projects by purchasing equipment and supplies for students, and Abron encourages PEER staff to work with children in their neighborhood schools. She serves as a mentor for several students each year.

Active on the lecture circuit, Abron visited the University of Iowa in February 1992 to urge UI engineering students to serve as role models and mentors for schoolchildren. "We must remember that every PhD in engineering and every CEO of a major corporation was at one time in the second grade," she said.

Abron is a life member of the UI Alumni Association.


Willard Boyd

1993 Distinguished Alumni Friend Award

Willard "Sandy" Boyd and Susan Kuehn Boyd are a remarkable couple who have directed their abundant energies to champion the arts, justice and opportunity for all, and education. A prime beneficiary of their caring attention has been the University of Iowa.

In 1954, when Sandy was appointed to the law faculty of Iowa, the Boyds began their long affiliation with the UI. Promoted to full professor in 1961, Sandy was named associate dean of the College of Law in 1964. After five years as vice president for academic affairs and dean of the facilities, he was appointed the 15th president to the University of Iowa in 1969. Sandy Boyd inherited a campus disturbed by tensions growing out of the civil rights movement and the Vietnam War, but his integrity and ability to deal with all factions evenhandedly served the institution well.

During Sandy's tenure at the University of Iowa and on many occasions since, Susan Boyd has channeled her loyalty and enthusiasm to enrich the campus in countless ways. She has served as a member of the Old Capitol Restoration Campaign National Committee, the Iowa Endowment 2000 Campaign National Steering Committee, the OVATION Campaign for Hancher Auditorium, and several others. She was a volunteer worker and later staff member of the Patient Representative Program at University Hospitals and Clinics.

In 1981, when Sandy resigned the UI presidency to become president of the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, the Boyds indicated that their 27-year commitment to the University of Iowa would not end.

Both Sandy and Susan Boyd have been deeply involved in numerous civic activities. He currently serves as chairman of the National Museum Services Board and has served as chairman of the American Association of Universities, chairman of the Council of the Section on Legal Education and Admission to the Bar, chairman of Iowa 2000, and as a member of the National Council on the Arts and the Advisory Board of the Metropolitan Opera. In addition to her ongoing involvement on behalf of the University of Iowa, Susan Boyd serves as a board member of Urban Gateways, an organization promoting arts education in Chicago schools, and is a member of the Women's Board of the Field Museum of Natural History.

The Boyds belong to the UI Alumni Association's Directors' Club and the UI Foundation's Presidents Club, which Susan currently chairs. Iowa's Boyd Law Building is named in honor of Sandy Boyd, and University Hospitals' Boyd Tower is named in honor of both Boyds.


Don W. Chapman, 37BS, 39MD, 44R

1993 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Don W. Chapman, 37BS, 39MD, 44R, a fourth generation physician, has had an accomplished career as a cardiologist and professor of cardiology at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston.

When Chapman arrived at Baylor in 1944, he found a medical center that consisted of a fledgling medical college and one 234-bed hospital. Within two years , Chapman introduced cardiac catheterization to the Texas Medical Center, allowing Baylor physician to offer precise diagnosis and heart disease intervention throughout the southwestern United States.

Under Chapman's leadership as a physician and educator, Texas became a pioneer in cardiovascular diagnostics and surgery. A member of the first Houston team that used a mechanical pump to circulate blood during open heart surgery, Chapman also participated in one of the first coronary bypass operations in a Houston hospital and was a member of the team that researched and developed initial mechanical heart implants.

As director of Baylor's Section of International Medicine, a program that sends students to teaching centers around the world, Chapman has promoted cardiology education through foreign interchange. Internationally, he has served as a visiting professor and conducted seminars in several countries, including China, Columbia, Germany, South Africa, Guatemala, Switzerland, and Turkey.

Author of more than 100 publications of medical literature, Chapman has received numerous awards for his work as a physician and educator. Named a Master of the American College of Physicians in 1983, Chapman received the Distinguished Faculty Award at Baylor in 1978 and again in 1981 and 1993. Students at Baylor voted him Outstanding Teacher in 1958 and 1962, and last year he was honored with the Cain Foundation's endowment of the Don W. Chapman, M.D., Chair of Cardiology at Baylor. In 1985, he received the first Texas Laureate Award ever bestowed by the Texas Academy of the American College of Physicians.

Though semi-retired, Chapman continues to teach at Baylor and to direct its Section of International Medicine. He also serves as a consultant for Houston Cardiovascular Associates, the partnership he founded in 1955.

Chapman and his wife Mary Louise Whitney Chapman, 45BS, 45GN, are life members of the Alumni Association.


Chalmers W. Elliott

1993 Distinguished Alumni Friend Award

Chalmers W. "Bump" Elliott, director of intercollegiate athletics for men from 1970-1991, has been a dedicated friend of Hawkeye athletics and the University of Iowa.

A team player at the UI, Elliott kept the total university's interests in mind as he molded one of the top athletic programs in the country. Under his tenure, the Hawkeyes won 27 Big Ten titles and 11 NCAA championships, while the Iowa program developed a reputation for high ethical standards and adherence to NCAA regulations. Attendance at football and men's basketball games increased dramatically under Elliott's leadership, and it became common for both sports to be sold out annually on a season-ticket basis.

Elliott's dedication extends far beyond the confines of athletic competitions. He has worked tirelessly with UI Foundation staff at numerous speaking engagements and capital campaign fundraising functions. He was instrumental in the planning and construction of Carver-Hawkeye Arena, the renovation and enlargement of Kinnick Stadium, the construction of Iowa's indoor practice facility, and improvements in several other athletic facilities on the UI campus. Elliott was a key leader in the creation of the Hawkeye Television Network, which brings both men's and women's sports into the homes of many Iowans who might not otherwise have access to Hawkeye athletics. He also served as honorary chairman of the Ronald McDonald House Campaign and was an honorary member of the Bill Barnes Capital Fund Campaign in the College of Business Administration.

A former athlete himself, Elliott is the only man who has appeared in the Rose Bowl as a player, assistant coach, assistant athletic director, and athletic director. In 1989, he was inducted into both the College Football Hall of Fame and the inaugural class of the Rose Bowl Hall of Fame.

Elliott and his wife Barbara are members of the UI Foundation's Presidents Club and life members of the Alumni Association.


William T. Hageboeck, 28BA

1993 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

William T. Hageboeck, 28BA, and Eleanor Gildner Hageboeck, 29BA, are longtime supporters of the University of Iowa, where they met and got their start in life.

Bill left Lake Park to come to Iowa City in the summer of 1924, traveling gratis in the caboose of a freight train loaded with a friend's herd of cattle. Through he didn't know what he wanted to do in college, his roommate told him of an opening selling advertising for the Daily Iowan. That first campus job proved to be just the beginning of Bill's career in the newspaper business.

Eleanor, a Mason City native who studied at Carleton College for two years before transferring to the University of Iowa in 1927, majored in art at the UI and developed her talent as a watercolor artist. The two met on a blind date and married a year after Eleanor's graduation.

After Bill's brief stint in the advertising department at the Des Moines Register, the couple returned to Iowa City, where Bill became advertising manager of the Iowa City Press-Citizen and Eleanor enrolled in graduate art classes and invested herself in community service. By 1940, Bill was publisher of the local newspaper, a position he would hold until his retirement in 1962, and Eleanor was busy volunteering and raising the couple's three children.

When the Old Gold Development Fund was formed in 1956, Eleanor Hageboeck served as a director of the annual fund that would ultimately develop to become the University of Iowa Foundation. Every year since, without fail, the Hageboecks have quietly contributed to worthy University of Iowa and Iowa City projects that depend on private support. Whether providing scholarship funds for deserving athletes, sconces and chandeliers for Old Capitol, or support for the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, the College of Business Administration, the Museum of Natural History, the Museum of Art, Hancher Auditorium, Mercy Hospital, the Iowa City Public Library, or Project Green, the Hageboecks have indicated a willingness to give wherever the need is greatest.

Both Bill and Eleanor Hageboeck have been recognized through the years for their civic involvement in organizations such as the Iowa City Chamber of Commerce, United Way, Project Green, Girl Scouts, PTA, and Kiwanis, but their real love has been the University of Iowa. They are members of the Alumni Association's Directors' Club, as well as the UI Foundation's Presidents Club.


Eleanor (Gildner) Hageboeck, 29BA

1993 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

William T. Hageboeck, 28BA, and Eleanor Gildner Hageboeck, 29BA, are longtime supporters of the University of Iowa, where they met and got their start in life.

Bill left Lake Park to come to Iowa City in the summer of 1924, traveling gratis in the caboose of a freight train loaded with a friend's herd of cattle. Through he didn't know what he wanted to do in college, his roommate told him of an opening selling advertising for the Daily Iowan. That first campus job proved to be just the beginning of Bill's career in the newspaper business.

Eleanor, a Mason City native who studied at Carleton College for two years before transferring to the University of Iowa in 1927, majored in art at the UI and developed her talent as a watercolor artist. The two met on a blind date and married a year after Eleanor's graduation.

After Bill's brief stint in the advertising department at the Des Moines Register, the couple returned to Iowa City, where Bill became advertising manager of the Iowa City Press-Citizen and Eleanor enrolled in graduate art classes and invested herself in community service. By 1940, Bill was publisher of the local newspaper, a position he would hold until his retirement in 1962, and Eleanor was busy volunteering and raising the couple's three children.

When the Old Gold Development Fund was formed in 1956, Eleanor Hageboeck served as a director of the annual fund that would ultimately develop to become the University of Iowa Foundation. Every year since, without fail, the Hageboecks have quietly contributed to worthy University of Iowa and Iowa City projects that depend on private support. Whether providing scholarship funds for deserving athletes, sconces and chandeliers for Old Capitol, or support for the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, the College of Business Administration, the Museum of Natural History, the Museum of Art, Hancher Auditorium, Mercy Hospital, the Iowa City Public Library, or Project Green, the Hageboecks have indicated a willingness to give wherever the need is greatest.

Both Bill and Eleanor Hageboeck have been recognized through the years for their civic involvement in organizations such as the Iowa City Chamber of Commerce, United Way, Project Green, Girl Scouts, PTA, and Kiwanis, but their real love has been the University of Iowa. They are members of the Alumni Association's Directors' Club, as well as the UI Foundation's Presidents Club.


James C. Hickman, 52MS, 61PhD

1993 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

James C. Hickman, 52MS, 61PhD, is internationally renowned for his role in actuarial education and research, as well as in the development of the actuarial profession.

A native of Indianola, Hickman earned his master's degree in mathematical science in 1952 and then went to work for Bankers Life Company in Des Moines. In 1957, he returned to the UI, where he received his doctorate in 1961. Hickman then joined Iowa's mathematics and statistics faculty and was named full professor in 1967. He left the University of Iowa in 1972 and moved to the University of Wisconsin at Madison, where he served as dean of the School of Business from 1985-1990.

Under his direction as dean, Wisconsin's business school raised nearly $40 million in public and private support for the construction of a new building. This external success was followed by stimulating curriculum changes that included a major revision of the M.B.A. program and the establishment of new programs in the marketing research and distribution management.

In addition to his skills as an educator and administrator, Jim Hickman excels as both scholar and author. He has written numerous articles and is coauthor of Actuarial Mathematics, a textbook published by the Society of Actuaries that is at the center of the education program for actuaries.

Hickman is a former vice president and member of the Board of Governors of the 14,000-member Society of Actuaries, the largest professional association of actuaries. He has served on the board of governors of Beta Gamma Sigma, the scholastic honorary society for business, and on the board of directors for the American Academy of Actuaries and the Actuarial Education and Research Fund, as well as the Actuarial Standards Board that sets professional standards of practice nationwide.

In the public sector, Jim Hickman has been involved with numerous organizations and advisory groups at the local, state, and national levels, sharing his expertise on a variety of issues, such as health care, workers' compensation, and social security.


Gary H Mears, 58BSC

1993 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Gary H. Mears, 58BSC, has had a long and distinguished career in the United States Air Force. Now a lieutenant general, he is director for logistics for the Joint Chiefs of Staff at the Pentagon.

A native of Grand Junction, Mears was commissioned through the Reserve Officer Training Corps program in 1958. He entered primary flight training at Malden Air Force Base, Missouri, and received his pilot wings in April 1960, after completing basic flying training at Laredo Air Force Base, Texas. In 1978, he received a master's degree from Troy State University and also graduated from the Air War College.

A command pilot with more than 6,000 hours flying time, Mears has served at bases across the country, including Donaldson Air Force Base, South Carolina; Hunter Air Force Base, Georgia; and Norton Air Force Base, California. In 1968, he was assigned to the 834th Air Division, the group that was responsible for tactical airlift in Southwest Asia. Mears, whose many decorations include the Distinguished Service Medal and Bronze Star Medal, has administered both Air Force airlift wings and logistics centers.

As director for logistics for the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Mears advises Joint Chiefs Chairman Colin Powell on logistics issues and ensures that the U.S. Armed Forces are logistically capable of supporting the nation's military strategy. In essence, he is responsible for having all equipment and materials in the right place at the right time, including combat equipment—air and ground—as well as all support requirements, such as food and shelter.

In 1989, Mears orchestrated the logistics plan behind Operation Just Cause, the coordinated rapid deployment of troops and material into Panama. The next year, he serves as the primary logistics advisor to Secretary of State Richard Cheney and General Powell during Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm. Most recently, Mears has played a key role in the planning and execution of humanitarian support around the world, including relief efforts in the former Soviet Union, eastern Turkey, northern Iraq, Somalia, and the former Yugoslavia.

In addition to his distinguished service to the nations, Mears is a loyal friend of the University of Iowa. He and his wife Jacqueline are members of the Alumni Association's Old Capitol Club.


Patricia Sleezer Ritter, 41BA

1993 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Patricia Sleezer Ritter, 41BA, is a woman with a mission. No matter where she has directed her bountiful energy and problem-solving skills—whether it be to improve civil rights, to create affordable housing, to integrate neighborhoods, to provide continuing education opportunities for prisoners of war, or to help people from different cultures understand and appreciate each other—she has succeeded in translating compassing into action.

During World War II, Pat Ritter worked with the World Student Service Fund to create ongoing university courses for American prisoners of war in Germany. When the war was over, she went to Austria to be Margaret Mead's teaching assistant; helping young people on both sides of the conflict develop new, cooperative relationships.

In the early 1950s, along with raising five children, Pat Ritter began to mend rifts in her community in Connecticut, where she became the first woman appointed to the State Commission on Civil Rights. Acting on her conviction that fair housing means nothing without the financial means to take advantage of it, Ritter and her husband George founded the Connecticut Housing Investment Fund, which has helped thousands of families buy homes in areas previously closed to them. Still effective in changing the texture of Connecticut neighborhoods, the organization as attracted corporate support that has led to its replication across the nation. In 1979, President Jimmy Carter appointed Ritter a director of the National Housing Partnerships in Washington, D.C.

It was at the peak of her career as a leader in civil rights and housing reform that the Cultural Revolution in China came to an end. In 1979, Pat Ritter was one of a small group of Westerners invited by the Chinese Ministry of Education to advise on the rehabilitation of the universities in China. Her work teaching English in that country, coupled with her founding of the Lighthouse Libraries, has earned her the trust and respect of a people long shut off from the rest of the world. The China in Connecticut foundation she established in 1980 has brought scores of Chinese students to study all across America.

Ritter received an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Heilongjiang University in Harbin, China, in 1986. In 1990, Lawrence University also recognized her with an honorary Doctorate of Laws. She is a member of the UI Alumni Association and the UI Foundation's Presidents Club.


Thomas D Smith, 62BBA

1993 Distinguished Hickerson Recognition Award

Thomas D. Smith, 62BBA, joined the Alumni Association's board of directors at a critical time in its history. As chairman of the search committee for a new executive director in 1987, Smith played a prominent role in revitalizing the organization and defining is mission. He led the search committee to a broader understanding of alumni work, later using his administrative skill to encourage both volunteer and professional input into the development of the organization's first long-range plan. Always conscious f the Alumni Association's commitment to its members, he proved to be a diligent watchdog over the financial future of the organization as chairman of the board's finance committee. Smith's service to his fellow alumni culminated in his election to the presidency of the 45,000-member UI Alumni Association in 1990.

After earning a degree in business administration from the University of Iowa in 1962, Smith spent more than 23 years with Northwestern Bell Telephone Co. and AT&T, rising from management trainee status in Des Moines to become vice president and chief executive officer for Iowa in 1983. From 1963 to 1983, he served in senior management positions at AT&T in New York City and in Northwestern Bell's Omaha office, becoming treasurer of the company in 1980. He took early retirement from the Bell system in 1986, the year he became executive vice president and chief financial officer of Bankers Trust in Des Moines.

Smith's record of volunteer service is admirable. He is currently chairman of the board of Iowa Lutheran Hospital and vice chairman of the Des Moines Metro YMCA. He has also served as chairman of the board of United Way of Central Iowa and had been a board member of Living History Farms, Drake University, the Mid-Iowa Council of Boy Scouts, the American Heart Association, and the Iowa College Foundation.

A member of the UI Alumni Association's Directors' Club, Tom Smith is known to have an insatiable appetite for anything bearing the University of Iowa logo. He is justifiably proud of his school and has worked hard to contribute to its advancement. Smith and his wife Janet are members of the UI Foundation's Presidents Club.


Himie Voxman, 22BSCHE, 34MA, 08LHD

1993 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Himie Voxman, 33BSChE, 34MA, is Iowa's own "music man." He and his clarinet came to the University of Iowa from Centerville in 1929, the year the new football stadium opened on the west side of the Iowa River. Nearly 65 years later, Voxman recalls the fraternity of musicians who sat through a drenching rainstorm to play for the stadium dedication on a gray October day.

A chemical engineering student at the university, Voxman relied on this music to get through school, teaching clarinet to high school students to pay for his college expenses. After graduating with high distinction in 1933, he entered Iowa's master's program in the psychology of music and studied under Carl Seashore, one of the pioneers in developing aptitude tests for music.

In 1939, Voxman was appointed an instructor of woodwinds at the UI School of Music, subsequently rising through the academic ranks to become full professor. When Phillip Greely Clapp died in 1954, Voxman was appointed director of the school, serving the University of Iowa in that capacity until he retired in 1980. It was in large measure due to Voxman's astute leadership that the university gained a national reputation as one of the country's premiere music schools. Not only did he attract and develop a faculty with uncommon strengths, but his attention to the music library made it an enviable resource for music scholars around the world. It was under Voxman's leadership that the school received a Rockefeller grant to establish the Center for New Music, which has added another dimension of distinction to Iowa's School of Music.

Almost anyone who has taken up a wind instrument will recognize the name of Himie Voxman. His pedagogical method books have been the mainstay of instruction around the world for more than half a century. Perhaps as much because of his gentle manner as his thorough methodology, Voxman has encouraged thousands of musicians to attain their individual potential. Active in professional organizations and duly recognized with two honorary doctorates, Voxman continues to influence new generations of music makers.

Voxman and his wife Lois Wilcox Voxman, 40MA, are members of the Alumni Association and the UI Foundation's Presidents Club.


Janet (McNeill) Bywater, 35BA

1992 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

Janet McNeill Bywater, 35BA, and the late Ray L. Bywater, 33BA, have been known by scores of people as "Mr. And Mrs. University of Iowa" for their role as unofficial ambassadors for the UI.

Ray Bywater, who passed away last November, was active in countless university programs over the past 60 years. A fan of all Hawkeye sports, he was an unmatched Iowa football booster. He attended his first home football game in 1918 at the age of seven and had missed just four home games since what is now Kinnick Stadium was constructed in 1929. A friend of gridiron great Nile Kinnick, Ray Bywater was instrumental in establishing the Kinnick Memorial Scholarship.

Following her own interests, Janet Bywater has been involved with university programs ranging from dental school studies, to the Hancher Guild, to the Old Capitol restoration project. She has touched many UI departments, donating vintage clothing to UI theaters and historical items to the libraries, serving as a student orientation hostess, and helping new faculty find housing. Always eager to continue learning, she audited one university course each year for many years.

Over the decades, the Bywater home has been an informal hospitality headquarters for alumni and friends who returned to campus with their children and grandchildren for homecomings, reunions, and other get-togethers. The Bywaters are members of the Alumni Association's Old Capitol Club and their family business, Economy Advertising, is a Presidents Club Associate. In their life, their work, and their dedication to the UI, the Bywaters have exemplified loyalty and public-spiritedness.


Ray L. Bywater, 33BA

1992 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

Janet McNeill Bywater, 35BA, and the late Ray L. Bywater, 33BA, have been known by scores of people as "Mr. And Mrs. University of Iowa" for their role as unofficial ambassadors for the UI.

Ray Bywater, who passed away last November, was active in countless university programs over the past 60 years. A fan of all Hawkeye sports, he was an unmatched Iowa football booster. He attended his first home football game in 1918 at the age of seven and had missed just four home games since what is now Kinnick Stadium was constructed in 1929. A friend of gridiron great Nile Kinnick, Ray Bywater was instrumental in establishing the Kinnick Memorial Scholarship.

Following her own interests, Janet Bywater has been involved with university programs ranging from dental school studies, to the Hancher Guild, to the Old Capitol restoration project. She has touched many UI departments, donating vintage clothing to UI theaters and historical items to the libraries, serving as a student orientation hostess, and helping new faculty find housing. Always eager to continue learning, she audited one university course each year for many years.

Over the decades, the Bywater home has been an informal hospitality headquarters for alumni and friends who returned to campus with their children and grandchildren for homecomings, reunions, and other get-togethers. The Bywaters are members of the Alumni Association's Old Capitol Club and their family business, Economy Advertising, is a Presidents Club Associate. In their life, their work, and their dedication to the UI, the Bywaters have exemplified loyalty and public-spiritedness.


John H., Jr. Falsey, 78MFA

1992 Distinguished Alumni Young Award

John H. Falsey, 78MFA, headed west to work as a writer in Hollywood soon after graduating from the UI fiction writing program and quickly became a television pioneer. Together with his partner Joshua Brand, he has created, developed, and produced some of the most innovative programs on television in the last decade. Falseys credits include the critically acclaimed series St. Elsewhere and Amazing Stories, as well as the mini-series A Year in the Life.

The teams current hits are Northern Exposure, a comedy set in the mythical town of Cicely, Alaska, and Ill Fly Away, a drama set in the South in the 1950s. Northern Exposure, which has been described as Woody Allen meets folksy Alaska, features a cast of enchantingly oddball characters who reflect on some of lifes most important questions. The story line for Ill Fly Away, on the other hand, evokes the classic novel To Kill a Mockingbird in its exploration of hard issues such as racism, mental illness, and political influence. Both series have broken new ground in their genres, earning critical praise for their excellent writing and thought-provoking subject matter.

The creative team of Falsey and Brand is recognized for producing highly intelligent and literary programs that are also entertaining and commercially successful. The duo has won two Emmys and a Golden Globe Award, while attracting a devoted audience for some of the highest quality programs on television.


Edwin E. Gordon, 58PhD

1992 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Edwin E. Gordon, 58PhD, has made music the center of his life as a scholar, lecturer, and author. An internationally recognized researcher, Gordon specializes in the psychology of music. He studies how we learn music, as well as techniques to measure music aptitude.

Through his ground-breaking research and formulation of music learning theory, Gordon has influenced the development of musical talent in thousands of schoolchildren by helping parents and teachers understand how we learn when we learn music. The unique musical aptitude tests he developed are widely used by educators and regarded as the best available.

After beginning his teaching career at the UI, Gordon went on to the State University of New York at Buffalo. He now teaches at Temple University in Philadelphia, where he received the Distinguished Teacher Award in 1987 and the Great Teacher Award in 1989. Gordon's students include the very young—he teaches a course for infants from birth to 18 months—as well as doctoral and postdoctoral scholars.

Professor Gordon and his work have been featured on public radio and television, as well as NBC's "Today Show," and in USA Today and the New York Times. His music learning theory has been cited as one of the five major approaches to music education in the world today.

In addition to his academic accomplishments, Gordon plays the string bass as a symphonic and jazz musician. He has performed with a number of orchestras and ensembles, including the renowned Gene Krupa band.

Gordon is a member of the Alumni Association's Directors' Club.


Kenneth L Otto, 56BSC

1992 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Kenneth L. Otto, 56BSC, has had a long and impressive career as a senior business executive with some of the nation's industrial giants. Now senior vice president of Tenneco, Inc., one of the nation's largest industrial companies, Otto launched his career at Ford Motor Company and has also worked for Bendix and United Technologies. In addition to being responsible for human resources at Tenneco, he has overseen the firm's automotive and shipbuilding operations, its total quality initiatives, and day-today operations at J.I. Case.

In his human resources role, Otto has made Tenneco a national model by instituting important programs ranging from parental leave to enhanced health care policies to a corporate fitness program. The company even offers innovative benefits such as spot baby-sitting services for the children of executives and auxiliary day care when employees' children are too sick to go to their regular day care.

Otto is active in a number of business associations, including the Labor Policy Association, the Business Roundtable, and the Conference Board's advisory council on management and personnel.

Throughout his career, Otto has been a tireless supporter of the UI's College of Business. He has served as a charter member of the college's Board of Visitors, recruited students for the Master of Business Administration program, hosted college receptions in Houston, and co-chaired the campaign to raise $10 million in private support for a new business building. A member of the Alumni Association's Directors' Club and the UI Foundation's Presidents Club, Otto also served on the national campaign committee for Iowa Endowment 2000.


Dorothy Ray, 44BA, 45MA

1992 Distinguished Hickerson Recognition Award

Dorothy "Dottie" Klein Ray, 44BA, 45MA, is truly an Iowa City and University of Iowa institution. Journalist, UI booster, fund-raiser for many groups and causes, Ray has long kept her finger on the pulse of her community.

Much of Ray's time is spent preparing a popular 15-minute radio show that has aired from her home each weekday for the past 35 years. Promoting local organizations, artists, and events, guests on the program discuss their subjects while drinking coffee with Ray in her cozy den. For years, Ray has also served as a commentator for broadcasts of UI commencement ceremonies, which she narrates for a dedicated radio audience.

Through her many connections in the Iowa City area, Ray has been a goodwill ambassador for the Alumni Association, opening many doors and spreading the good word about the organization in the community. For six years, she served on the Association's board, representing alumni on the Board in Control of Athletics. A member of the Association's Directors' Club, Ray is also a member of the UI Foundation's Presidents Club and has been a generous supporter of a number of UI programs.

Dottie Ray has been a dedicated advocate for many other causes in Iowa City as well. She has helped with fund-raising for the Ronald McDonald House and Lutheran Social Services, served on the board of the local United Way, and worked on behalf of Goodwill Industries, Oaknoll Retirement Residence, and the Preucil School of Music. In 1990, she received the Friend of Education Award from the Iowa City Education Association and in 1991 the Iowa City Chamber of Commerce gave her its Service to Arts in our Region (STAR) Award.


Carroll J. Reasoner, 73BA, 76JD

1992 Distinguished Alumni Young Award

Carroll J. Reasoner, 73BA, 76JD, the first woman and youngest president in the 119-year history of the Iowa State Bar Association, has already accomplished a great deal in her young legal career. A senior vice president specializing in corporate, banking, and health care law at the prestigious Cedar Rapids law firm of Shuttleworth and Ingersoll, Reasoner was named one of Iowa's "Up-and-Comers" by the Des Moines Register last year and is profiled in Who's Who in American Law, Who's Who in American Women, Who's Who in Emerging Leaders, and The Best Lawyers in America.

Reasoner is a fellow of the American Bar Association and received an Award of Achievement from its Young Lawyers Division, as well as an Award of Merit from the Iowa State Bar Association. A member of the Professional Women's Network and the American Academy of Hospital Attorneys, she has served on a variety of corporate boards.

In addition to her career accomplishments, Reasoner has been an active member of the Cedar Rapids community. She is the vice chairman of the board of St. Luke's Methodist Hospital and is an advisor to both Planned Parenthood of Linn County and the Junior League of Cedar Rapids.

Quick to volunteer to assist with any university related event, Reasoner is an individual whom the UI, the Foundation, and the Association can always count on for support. A member of both the Association's Old Capitol Club and the Foundation's Presidents Club, she has assisted with fund-raising for the College of Law and Hancher Auditorium, is a member of the Friends of University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics and serves on the UI Foundation Board.


Clifford V. Smith, Jr., 54BSCE

1992 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Clifford V. Smith, Jr., 54BSCE, has had a distinguished career as an engineer and administrator, serving in academia, government, and industry. Now president of the General Electric Foundation, Smith was chancellor of the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee from 1986-1990. Previously, he held numerous positions with the Oregon State System of Higher Education, including serving as vice president for administration at Oregon State University. Later, he held a joint appointment as director of that university's Radiation Center, director of the Institute for Nuclear Science and Engineering, and head of the Department of Nuclear Engineering. He has held positions ranging from instructor to professor of engineering at several other universities.

In government, Smith served at the assistant secretary level at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and as a regional and deputy regional administrator for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in both Seattle and Boston. For his outstanding work at the EPA, Smith won that agency's highest award, the Gold Meal for Exceptional Service.

In industry, Smith worked as an executive engineer, program manager, and business development manager for the Bechtel Corporation, one of the world's premier firms dedicated to the construction of large engineering projects.

Though a native of Washington, D.C., Smith comes from a family of dedicated Hawkeyes. His father, Clifford V. Smith, Sr., earned an engineering degree from the UI in 1925, while two of his three daughters continued the Iowa family tradition in the 1970s. He has been married to Nina Marie Singleton Smith for 39 years and they are members of the Alumni Association and the UI foundation's Presidents Club.


Jerre L. Stead, 65BBA

1992 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Jerre L. Stead, 65BBA, is described by colleagues as a visionary business leader who continues to have an illustrious career. Stead started out in the business world with the Honeywell Corporation and, during his 21 years with the company, he rose from the position of production control planner to head of the firm's Homes and Buildings Worldwide Group. In 1987, Stead left Honeywell for the Square D Company, where he served as the firm's president and chief operating officer until 1988, when he became Square D's chairman, president, and chief executive officer. Since last fall, he has been president of AT&T's Global Business Communications Systems and General Business Systems in Bridgewater, New Jersey.

Throughout his career, Stead has maintained close ties to the University of Iowa. He is a member of the Alumni Association's Old Capitol Club, the UI Foundation's Presidents Club, and the College of Business Administration's Dean's Club and Board of Visitors. In 1990, he served as the business college's John R. Hughes visiting lecturer.

In addition to his support for the UI, Stead also devotes considerable time to a number of other organizations. He is a director of Coe College in Cedar Rapids and serves as an advisor to the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University, the North Carolina A&T College, and Boy Scouts of America. He is chairman of the President's Council of the American Lung Association, a member of the Board of Directors of Garrett Theological Seminary, and vice chair of the National Electrical Manufactures Association. Stead also serves on a number of corporate boards.


Richard G. Wagner, 51DDS, 52MS, 52OrthS

1992 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

Richard G. Wagner, 51DDS, 52MS, 52OrthS, is a Sioux City dentist who has distinguished himself both through his community service and his work on behalf of the University of Iowa. A leader of a number of civic causes and organizations, Wagner is particularly well known as a friend of youth. He served nine years on the Sioux City School Board, including six as its president, and smoothed the way for the community to address the difficult issues of declining enrollments and school closings.

Wagner's involvement in community life has earned him distinguished service awards from the Sioux City Sertoma Club, the Chamber of Commerce, and Kiwanis International.

For many people in Sioux City, Richard Wagner is the primary connection to the University of Iowa. An enthusiastic volunteer for university and alumni programs, Wagner is a member of the Alumni Association's Old Capitol Club. He participated in ASIST (the Alumni Seeking Iowa Students recruitment program), works with the state legislature through the Iowa Council, and is an Iowa Club leader in Sioux City. Always ready to support his university, Wagner is a founding member of the highly successful Siouxland I-Club and has worked actively on fund-raising efforts for the College of Dentistry, including the Dental Centennial Campaign and the fund for the George Andreasen Memorial Orthodontic Research Laboratory.

Wagner's Hawkeye enthusiasm has carried over to his family. His son David earned undergraduate and medical degrees from Iowa and his son Richard, with whom he practices dentistry, earned degrees in dentistry and orthodontics from the UI. Wagner's wife Dorothy has also been a UI student, attending summer sessions on the Iowa campus.


Alan Waxenberg, 56BA

1992 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Alan Waxenberg, 56BA, has had a fascinating career in magazine publishing. Now vice president and publisher of Good Housekeeping magazine, Waxenberg launched his career in 1958 as a marketing trainee at Look magazine and quickly advanced through the managerial ranks. In 1977, he joined the Hearst Publishing Company, serving first as publisher of Motor Magazine and then Sports Afield. Named vice president and publisher of Redbook in 1982, he oversaw the complete redesign and updating of the failing magazine, transforming it into one of the nation's most successful publications.

In his current position at Good Housekeeping, Waxenberg works closely with the prestigious Good Housekeeping Institute and is responsible for administration of the Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval for consumer products. He also served on the boards of several major organizations, including the National Better Business Bureau, the American Health Foundation, the American Advertising Federation, and the Advertising Council.

Waxenberg has always been a loyal and ardent supporter of the University of Iowa. A life member of the Alumni Association, he has assisted with and sponsored university events in New York, served as a member of the Career Information Network, and hired a number of Iowa graduates for the Hearst organization. He is a member of the UI Foundation's Presidents Club and served on the national campaign committee for Iowa Endowment 2000. A frequent campus visitor, Waxenberg has a particular passion for Iowa football, cultivated while he was a student and member of the Hawkeye cheerleading squad.


Darrell D. Wyrick, 56BSChE, 57MS

1992 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

Darrell D. Wyrick, 56BSChE, 57MS, president of the UI Foundation, has devoted most of his working life to the University of Iowa. Hired in 1962 as the first full-time employee of the UI Foundation, the independent, nonprofit corporation that raises private funds for the university, he has overseen growth of that organization into a multimillion-dollar enterprise with a staff of more than 80. In his first year, the foundation received gifts and commitments of $250,000. In 1991, it raised over $52 million for the university.

Wyrick's work at the Foundation—generating funds for dozens of new buildings, programs, and renovations—has helped change the face of the UI campus. Under his leadership, the Foundation has organized more than 20 single-purpose capital campaigns, raising money for projects ranging from the Museum of Art, the Health Science Library, and the Alumni Center, to Carver Hawkeye Arena, the College of Business Administration Building, and the restoration of Old Capitol. Other campaigns have generated operating and endowment funds for many university programs, departments, and colleges.

One of the Foundation's recent successes is the Iowa Endowment 2000 campaign. Directed by Wyrick, it is a national effort begun in 1985 to secure a $150 million educational endowment for faculty chairs; graduate, postgraduate, and professional fellowships; and other permanent human resources at the UI. The program, which has already created over 50 endowed faculty chairs and more than 110 endowed graduate fellowships, has passed the $200 million level.

Wyrick is a member of the Association's board of directors and Old Capitol Club. He is president of the UI Facilities Corporation, a member of the Foundation's Presidents Club, and an honorary member of the National Iowa Lettermen's Club.


Ray V. Bailey, 35BA, 37JD

1991 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

Ray V. Bailey, 35BA, 37JD, has embodied the ideal of service in his long and fruitful career, working tirelessly to benefit his community, the state, and the University of Iowa. Whether it was a neighbor in need of legal advice or a UI event in need of host, Bailey has given generously of his time and energy.

After World War II, during which he served as an investigator for the U.S. Civil Service and patent advisor to the War Department, Bailey moved with his young family to Clarion, where he soon began his long involvement in numerous civic organizations and service clubs. The people of Wright County elected Bailey to three terms in the Iowa House of Representatives, where he served from 1965 to 1969. He was appointed to the State Board of Regents in 1969, holding that seat until 1981.

A patent lawyer by trade, Bailey is a member of the county and state bar association, as well as the American Bar Association, serving on its Patent Law Revision Committee. He has also been active in the World Peace Through Law Center, an international organization of lawyers and judges working for world peace.

Bailey's dedication to the UI is no less remarkable. As the father of two University of Iowa students in the 1960s and 1970s, he took an active role in the Dads Association (forerunner of the Parents Association); he is the past director of the UI Research Foundation and charter member of the College of Law Dean's Club. Together with his late and beloved wife Maxine, 37BA, he has been a longtime member of the UI Foundation's Presidents Club, as well as a member of the Alumni Association and a generous benefactor to the university.


John W. English, 55BA

1991 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

John W. English, 55BA, has maintained close ties with the University of Iowa throughout his distinguished career in finance, energetically promoting the Iowa Endowment 2000 fund-raising effort and serving on both its national and New York regional campaign committees.

After graduating from the UI in 1955 with a B.A. in geography, English began 26 years with American Telephone and Telegraph. There he served in a number of important capacities, including assistant treasurer of Illinois Bell Telephone Company in Chicago and eventually director of investment management at the giant corporation's headquarters in New York.

In 1981, English was named vice president and chief investment officer of the Ford Foundation in New York. Under his management, the philanthropic organization's investment portfolio has doubled in value to more than $6 billion, allowing even larger grants to charitable causes. He serves as an investment advisor to a number of organizations, including the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Smithsonian Institution, and the United Methodist Church General Board of Pensions, and is chairman of the American Red Cross Endowment Fund.

English's involvement with the UI has never flagged. In addition to working with the UI 2000 fund, he is a member of the UI Foundation's Board of Directors and is a frequent speaker and advisor to the College of Business Administration. A member of the UI Foundation's Presidents Club, English and his wife Ann Raster English, 56BSN, are life members of the Alumni Association.


James E. Hansen, 63BA, 65MS, 67PhD

1991 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

James Hansen, 63BA, 65MS, 67PhD, has stimulated debate in the scientific community and challenged public policy on an issue of immense concern to everyone: global climatic changes and the effects of so-called "greenhouse gases."

After earning his B.A. in physics and mathematics with highest distinction, Hansen went on to perform graduate research in astronomy and physics that would eventually lead him to study the composition of planetary atmospheres. This in turn led him to startling conclusions about possible climatic changes on earth due to the burning of fossil fuels.

As director of the Goddard Institute of Space Studies at Columbia University in New York, Hansen oversees the institute's research for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and other projects. His work on global warming has made him an internationally recognized expert on the subject, and he has been called many times to testify before Congress.

Warning that climatic change is already occurring because of the buildup of carbon dioxide and other gases in the atmosphere, his testimony captured international attention during the severe heat wave and drought of 1988. Hansen has called for energy conservation, increased fuel efficiency standards, recycling, and other measures.

Hansen believes "worst-case scenarios" of global warming can be avoided, but only by prompt action. If policy makers in Washington implement such measures, it will be due in no small part to this distinguished UI alumnus.


Barry M. Kemp, 71BA

1991 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Barry M. Kemp, 71BA, has fulfilled a childhood dream through his accomplishments as a television writer and producer. While a student in communications and theatre arts at the University of Iowa, Kemp wrote plays, but as a boy growing up in Kansas City, he had dreamed of writing for television.

That dream came true when he launched his career as executive script consultant for "Taxi" and then went on to create the hit series "Newhart." As president of Barry Kemp Productions, he has produced the soap opera and miniseries parody "Fresno," created and produced "The Popcorn Kid," and produced "Coming of Age."

Most recently, he created and is producing "Coach," a highly successful sitcom about Hayden Fox, a fictional football coach in small Minnesota college town. An admitted Hawkeye fan, Kemp took some inspiration for the show from the UI, using exterior shots of the campus and downtown businesses to add local color. He did not meet legendary Hawkeye football coach Hayden Fry, though, until he returned to the UI in 1990 to deliver a Distinguished Alumni Lecture.

Kemp and his wife Margaret Gomez, 74BA, have long been ardent supporters of the UI, particularly the theatre arts program. They established a scholarship fund to assist promising playwrights at the university and continue to underwrite the cost of the annual spring UI Playwright's Festival, which they initiated in 1986. In addition to serving as a role model, Kemp has given advice and employment opportunities in television to several UI graduates. The Kemps are members of the UI Foundation's Presidents Club.


Sue (Peney) McDevitt, 60BA, 62MA, 67PhD

1991 Distinguished Hickerson Recognition Award

Sue Penney McDevitt, 60BA, 62MA, 67PhD, gave leadership and direction to the University of Iowa Alumni Association during her ten years as a member of the board of directors, especially the three years she served as its president. With a calm but firm hand, she led the Alumni Association through a challenging transition period of expansion and restructuring.

During McDevitt's tenure, there was an almost complete changeover in the Association's professional staff, including the appointment of a new director. The board of directors was expanded, old programs were updated, and new ones where conceived and implemented with emphasis placed on members services and cooperation with both academic and administrative units at the university. McDevitt attended meeting after meeting, presiding over numerous committees and coordinating Association activities with volunteers and university officials alike. The abundance of time and energy she gave to the Association during that unsettled period provided an anchor to the staff.

If her time as president highlights McDevitt's involvement with the Association, it is nonetheless set against a background of active participation in the organization's programs as both member and volunteer. For many years, she has played a key role in Alumni Association activities, especially in the Quad Cities, where she lives and is active in community service organizations.

With an undergraduate degree in psychology and graduate degrees in education, McDevitt taught at Marycrest College in Davenport for 14 years. She is a member of the Alumni Association.


George A. Ojemann, 56BA, 59MD

1991 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

George A. Ojemann, 56BA, 59MD, has had an accomplished career as a neurosurgeon and professor of neurological surgery at the University of Washington in Seattle. An Iowa City native Ojemann is the son of the late Ralph Ojemann, a University of Iowa psychology professor.

Recognized nationally and internationally for his investigative work on the function of the brain, George Ojemann has done pioneering research on the surgical treatment of epilepsy. In addition to his teaching duties, he directs the University of Washington's Epilepsy Center at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle.

Through his research, Ojemann identified the source of the language function in the cerebral cortex. By finding and removing the focal point in the brain where seizures arise he has been able to treat intractable epilepsy through surgery. A complex and delicate procedure, treatment involves testing of how the patient responds to stimulation of the brain cortex during surgery.

A prolific writer on the function of the brain in language and on surgical treatment for epilepsy, Ojemann serves on the editorial boards of seven journals. He is also a member of a number of professional societies and advisory boards.

Along with his brother and sister, Ojemann has supported the University of Iowa by establishing the Ralph H. and Freda E. Ojemann Visiting Professorship in the Department of Neurology. He is a member of the UI Foundation's Presidents Club.


Robert G. Ojemann, 52BA, 55MD

1991 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Robert G. Ojemann, 52BA, 55MD, is known nationally and internationally for his work as a clinical neurosurgeon and researcher. In addition to writing more than 150 published articles and two books on various aspects of neurosurgery and brain function, he has been invited to give many distinguished lectures. He has also been elected president of four national neurosurgical societies and has been active in many other professional organizations.

An Iowa City native and son of distinguished University of Iowa educator Ralph H. Ojemann, Robert Ojemann received his B.A. from the UI in 1952 with highest distinction. In 1955, he graduated first in his class at the UI College of Medicine. He went on to become a neurosurgical resident at Massachusetts General Hospital and has maintained his association with that institution ever since. Currently professor of surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, he has held visiting professorships at more than 15 other institutions.

Ojemann's publications cover a broad spectrum of topics in neurosurgery, with special emphasis on benign brain tumors and conditions that limit blood supply to the brain. His work constitutes a meaningful contribution to the field of neurosurgery and the management of brain diseases. A hobbyist whose interests include carpentry and landscaping, Ojemann and his wife Jean have four sons. He is a life member of the Alumni Association and a member of the UI Foundation's Presidents Club.


Lance Olsen, 80MFA

1991 Distinguished Alumni Young Award

Lance Olsen, 80MFA, has established himself as an academic and creative force in the field of literature. An accomplished fiction writer and graduate of the UI Writers' Workshop, Olsen is an associate professor of English and creative writing at the University of Idaho.

Students praise Olsen for his ability to bring literature to life in the classroom. Besides teaching undergraduate and graduate courses ranging from creative writing to specialized topics in post modern literature, Olsen was instrumental in establishing a semester study abroad program in Oxford, England, as well as a summer program in London, for students at the University of Idaho.

In addition to his skills as a teacher, Olsen excels as a scholar and writer, having won many honors and been invited to read from his work in a variety of settings. He has published three books of criticism and numerous essays and reviews. He is also a prolific fiction writer who has made good use of skills developed in the Writers' Workshop, publishing a novel called Live From Earth and more than 45 short stories. He is currently working on his second novel, Speaking with Aliens, which combines elements of genres such as murder mystery, science fiction, and academic satire.

Olsen has built a substantial body of work and established himself in his field at a young age. If the critical, creative, and academic success he has already achieved is any indication, Olsen will emerge as one of his generation's leaders.


John G. Pappajohn, 52BSC, 10LHD

1991 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

John G. Pappajohn, 52BSC, 10LHD is proud to call himself a venture capitalist and actively promotes "entrepreneurism" as a means of brightening Iowa's economic future. Leading by example, he has founded more than 25 companies and has served as director of as many more.

Pappajohn's contributions go beyond economic development to encompass civic and humanitarian activities as well. His $3 million gift to the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics is helping to complete a new pavilion that will house, among other things, a state-of-the-art cancer treatment center. Pappajohn and his wife Mary also established endowments to help fund the center and support other educational programs at the University of Iowa.

In addition to his entrepreneurial activities, Pappajohn is trustee of Anatolia College in Thessakibua, Greece; a member of the advisory board to the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts; honorary trustee of the Des Moines Art Center; and a former president of Iowa Citizens for the Arts. He has also been director of Big Brothers of America, which in 1974 named him Big Brother of the Year.

Pappajohn, who is president of Equity Dynamics, Inc., of Des Moines, spoke on financing start-up companies in the health care industry as part of the Hughes visiting Lecture Series in the UI College of Business Administration in 1990. He sits on the UI Foundation's board of directors, and both he and his wife are members of the Foundation's Presidents Club and the Alumni Association.


Ann C. Petersen, 73BA

1991 Distinguished Alumni Young Award

Ann C. Petersen, 73BA, wields substantial influence as general counsel to the U.S. Air Force. As the senior lawyer among the Air Force's 1,600 attorneys, Petersen is the final authority on all issues except military justice, Nominated for the position by the US Senate. To have been selected for this important position so early in her career reflects admirably on her ability and qualifications.

A native of Muscatine, Petersen graduated with highest honors after studying political science at the University of Iowa. She went on to study law at the University of Michigan and then practiced law in the Chicago firm Wildman, Harrold, Allen, and Dixon for 13 years.

As general counsel, she guides the Air Force through a number of legal mine fields, including most recently advising the Secretary of the Air Force on issues relating to Operation Desert Storm, but also on base closures, military and civilian personnel issues, and defense contracts. In addition, she serves as an important role model for military personnel as she travels to Air Force installations worldwide.

Petersen has also been active in community and political affairs. In Chicago, she has served as an elder in the Fourth Presbyterian Church and as director of Business Executives for National Security. She is active in the Illinois Republican party and has served as a Chicago ward committeewoman. She is a member of the Alumni Association's Old Capitol Club.


David Ramirez, 78JD

1991 Distinguished Alumni Young Award

David Ramirez, 78JD, has accomplished much in his relatively young legal career, including establishing the first municipal juvenile court in Denver, Colorado. Currently a district court judge in that city, Ramirez has also served as a county court judge, a supervisor in the city attorney's office, an assistant city attorney, general counsel to Blue Cross and Blue Shield, and as staff attorney for Denver's Metropolitan Legal Aid Society.

In his role as juvenile court judge, Ramirez has spoken out against the increasing rate of juvenile crime and delinquency in Denver, his hometown. As a native of two of the city's toughest neighborhoods, Ramirez has said that he understands the sort of pressures many young people experience, that knowledge does not make him a pushover with juvenile miscreants. However, saying his goal is to educate and rehabilitate the young people who come before him, he has established a reputation for toughness on the bench.

Beyond his work with teen delinquency, Ramirez has been active in a number of legal associations, serving as a governor of the Colorado Bar Association and a trustee for the Denver Bar Association. He is a past president of the Colorado Hispanic Bar Association and regional president of the National Hispanic Bar Association.

Ramirez is also active in law-related education. He recently was certified as an instructor for the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges, and he currently teaches a seminar on juvenile justice at the University of Colorado School of Law.


W. Ann Reynolds, 60MS, 62PhD

1991 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

W. Ann Reynolds, 60MS, 62PhD, has been called one of the top women in American academia, having distinguished herself first in her academic field, anatomy, and then as chief administrator of two of the country's largest university systems.

With degrees in biology and zoology, Reynolds was for a number of years a successful and respected researcher, authoring more than 60 scientific papers and carrying out projects supported by numerous grants. She held faculty posts at the University of Illinois Medical Center in Chicago from 1965 to 1979, becoming associate vice chancellor of research and graduate college dean at that institution in 1977. Maintaining her involvement in the sciences, she has served on a number of advisory committees for professional and scientific organizations, such as the American Council on Education, the National Academy of Science, and the National Institutes of Health.

In 1979, Reynolds became provost of Ohio State University, where she was also professor of anatomy, obstetrics, and gynecology. In 1982, she was named chancellor of the California State University System. There she was credited with strengthening admission standards, improving teacher education programs, and successfully recruiting more minority and women faculty members to the system, which comprises nine campuses throughout the state.

Trustees of the City University of New York selected Reynolds as chancellor of that institution last year. She is a member of the Alumni Association.


John J Balles, 42BSC, 47MA

1990 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

John J. Balles, 42BSC, 47MA, an economist, banker, and educator, has had an accomplished career in the field of finance. After studying economics at the UI, Balles went on to Ohio State University, where he earned a PhD and joined the faculty as an assistant professor of economics and business administration in 1951.

In 1954, Balles entered banking as senior economist and then vice president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland. From 1959 to 1972, he was senior vice president and chief economist at Mellon State Bank in Pittsburgh, one of the largest banks in the United States. As a commercial banker, Balles was active in a number of organizations, including the American Bankers Association and American Finance Association.

After becoming president of the Federal Reserve Banks of San Francisco in 1972, Balles forged economic ties between the United States and central banks in Japan, China, the Philippines, Australia, Korea, and other Pacific Rim nations.

Whether as a teacher, economist, or executive, Balles has earned praise from colleagues for his expertise and analytical ability. His personal and professional styles are marked by energy, straightforwardness, and prudence.

Since his retirement in 1986, Balles has been a private business consultant and director of several corporations. He and his wife, Jane Knupp Balles, 44BS, who met at Iowa and were married in the Iowa Memorial Union, celebrated their 45th anniversary last year. They are life members of the Alumni Association.


Myron & Jacqueline Blank

1990 Distinguished Alumni Friend Award

Myron and Jacqueline Blank have been generous friends of the UI for years, vividly demonstrating their support in 1988 with a $1 million contribution to the College of Education. The gift endowed faculty chair in the Connie Belin National Center for Gifted Education, a resource center long supported by the Blanks.

Jacqueline Blank began a search ten years ago for programs that would meet the needs of Iowa's gifted students. In 1980, that search led to the creation of the Connie Belin Fellowship in Gifted Education. Through the fellowship program, teachers from around the state come to the UI for a summer session designed to help them work with exceptionally talented students. More than 300 Iowa teachers have participated in the program, which is recognized nationally.

The center is named for Connie Belin, a friend of the Blanks who died of cancer in 1980. Belin was a member of the Board of Regents, a friend of the UI, and a supporter of gifted education.

By endowing the Belin Center in 1988, the Blanks ensured that Iowa would continue to lead the nation in educating gifted students.

Myron Blank is chairman of Central States Theatre Corporation. Jacqueline Blank has served as director for a number of charitable organizations, among them Planned Parenthood, Des Moines Junior League, Goodwill Industries, and Des Moines Community Theatre.

In addition to their support of the UI, the Des Moines couple are well-known philanthropists whose generosity is legend in Iowa. They have been major contributors to Blank Memorial Children's Hospital in Des Moines, the Des Moines Art Center, and Simpson College in Indianola.

The Blanks are members of the UI Foundation's Presidents Club.


Wayne Duke, 50BA

1990 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

Wayne Duke, 50BA, now retired as commissioner of the Big Ten Conference, knows well that college sports are more than just fun and games. Duke's career began as a student intern at the UI Sports Information Office. After graduation, he directed similar offices at the University of Northern Iowa and the University of Colorado. Joining the newly organized National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) in 1952, he spent 11 years at the hub of intercollegiate athletics.

In 1963, Duke was named commissioner of the Big Eight Conference, becoming the youngest executive officer of a major athletic conference at age 34. Under his direction, the Big Eight enjoyed unparalleled success and growing fan support for all sports.

He was selected to lead to lead the Big Ten, the nation's oldest athletic conference, in 1971. As commissioner, Duke emphasized "competitive equality through legislative equality." He worked to limit athletic grants, to improve academic standards and graduation rates for student athletes, and to expand bowl participation for conference schools.

During his career-long involvement with college sports, Duke was both diplomat and disciplinarian, administrator and advocate. Despite the challenges of his work, he eased college athletics through difficult times, bringing new success to each conference for which he worked. In his 18 years as commissioner of the Big Ten, the conference emerged as the country's best, thanks to bowl and tournament invitations and NCAA championships.

A Burlington native and ardent booster of both his hometown and his alma mater, Duke is a lifetime member of the National I-Club.


David J. Fisher, 61JD

1990 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

David J. Fisher, 62JD, Des Moines businessman and lawyer, actively lends his business expertise and support to a number of UI programs.

Fisher's service to the University began as a student. While immersed in legal studies, he found time to participate in many extracurricular activities, including work on the Iowa Law Review and Moot Court sessions.

More recently, he has proven a tireless and dependable friend of the University in a variety of areas. President and owner of the Onthank Company, a carpet, wall covering, and kitchen interiors distributor, Fisher serves on a variety of boards for business and charitable organizations in the Des Moines area. He regularly offers his time, talents, and leadership ability to attract business support to the UI.

An ardent booster, Fisher is particularly concerned with the academic success of Hawkeye athletes. Each spring he hosts a reception to introduce graduating men and women athletes to potential employers in Iowa. The meetings are not simply beneficial for the graduating athletes, but also enhance the rapport between University officials and business and professional leaders in Iowa.

Former president of the Polk County I-Club and member of the board of directors of the National I-Club, he was named "Hawk of the Year" by the national club in 1984. In 1989, he was selected as an honorary letterman by the National Letterman's Club. He is also a member of the National Steering Committee for Iowa Endowment 2000 and is director of the UI Foundation.

Fisher has contributed to Carver-Hawkeye Arena, Iowa Hall, the College of Business Administration, and the Liberal Arts Placement Library in Phillips Hall. He and his wife Dorie are life members of the Alumni Association and the UI Foundation's Presidents Club.


John J. Greer, 42BA, 43JD

1990 Distinguished Hickerson Recognition Award

John J. Greer, 42BA, 43JD, is an accomplished trial lawyer who, in addition to his generous support, has served as an advocate of the UI through his involvement in many University organizations.

The Spencer attorney was a member of the Alumni Association Board of Directors from 1955-61, serving as president from 1961-65. A former member of the Law School Foundation Board of Directors, he chaired the College of Law's Second Century Fund campaign, which raised over $1 million for the college in the late 1970s. He is a lifetime honorary director of the UI Foundation, serving on the Iowa Endowment 2000 national committee.

A consistent supporter of the College of Law, Greer is also a founding partner of the law firm Greer, Montgomery, Barry, and Bovee. He is active in numerous legal associations, including the Iowa and American Bar Association, the Iowa, American, and the International Academies of Trial Lawyers, and Association of Trial Lawyers of America. A fellow in the International Society of Barristers, he served as president of that organization from 1983 to 1984.

Greer is a highly respected attorney, having tried 18 cases before the Iowa Supreme Court and two cases before the United States Supreme Court.

He and his wife Madeleine Collister Greer, 41BA, are life members of the Alumni Association and members of the UI foundation's Presidents Club. Established as one of the Midwest's finest attorneys, Greer is also one of the UI's most exemplary supporters.


Mary F. Parden, 36BSC

1990 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

Mary F. Parden, 36BSC, was more than simply secretary to four UI presidents between 1946 and 1983. She also presented a warm human face to the many students, parents, and others who sought help from the executive office.

Miss Parden's relationship with the UI is nearly lifelong; it started when she enrolled at University High School, graduating in 1932. After earning her degree from the University of Iowa, she worked in several Midwestern cities before returning to Iowa City in 1949 to join the University staff.

As secretary to the president, Parden immediately became indispensable as an advisor, administrator, and fount of information. Working with presidents Virgil Hancher, Howard Bowen, Willard Boyd, and James Freedman, Parden served as the eyes and ears of the chief executive officer. The four presidents with whom she worked are forever indebted to "her wise counsel, steadfast loyalty, and enthusiastic support of the University of Iowa," according to former President Willard Boyd.

Beyond her official duties, however, Parden also offered counsel to all those seeking information or assistance from the president's office. Whether it was soothing a concerned parent, reassuring a discouraged student, or handling an athletic booster, Parden represented the University with grace and tact.

With her extensive knowledge of the University, Parden also offered invaluable assistance to the UI Foundation in its early years. She is a life member of the Alumni Association, serves on the association's emeritus faculty advisory committee, and supports many UI programs.


Thomas D. Pawley III, 39MA, 49PhD

1990 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Thomas D. Pawley III, 39MA, 49PhD, has devoted his life to the theater, enthusiastically spreading its magic to his students at Lincoln University in Jefferson City, MO. This accomplished actor, playwright, poet, teacher, author, and administrator has packed many triumphs into a single life, writing more than ten plays, leading a variety of academic and cultural organizations, and earning numerous teaching awards.

As an actor in the 1930s, Pawley became convinced that the American theater needed more black involvement. He enrolled in the graduate theatre program at the UI, writing three one-act plays, Smokey, Jedgement Day, and Freedom in My Soul, for his thesis. In 1947, he returned to Iowa City to write two full-length plays for his PhD.

After joining the faculty at Lincoln in 1940, Pawley established himself as a challenging and innovative teacher. Known among students for stern discipline, extensive coursework, and inspiring delivery, Pawley taught subjects ranging from literature to public speaking to English composition. In 1952, he initiated the nation's first college summer theater program for black students. During his tenure at the school, Pawley also directed 75 student plays.

Until his retirement in 1988, Pawley headed a number of academic departments at Lincoln, where he also served as dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. Though "retired," Pawley has continued to teach, most recently at the University of Missouri at Columbia.

This pioneer in black college theater has enriched American culture and planted the seeds of many a creative career. He is a member of the Alumni Association.


Raymond B. Seymour, 37PhD

1990 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Raymond B. Seymourk, 37PhD, is a scientist and educator whose discoveries have not only launched products and industries, but have also brought well-deserved recognition to the study of plastics.

At his high school graduation in 1929, Seymour was named an Edison Scholar after being personally tested by the great inventor. With his own extensive list of inventions, Seymour's career now calls Edison to mind. In addition to launching several polymer industries, his innovations include household items such as Band-Aids and disposable diapers, medical developments such as plastic casts and denture materials, and industrial improvements such as plastic pipe joints.

Working in industry and academia since 1937, Seymour has earned 45 U.S. patents, written or edited over 40 books and 1,700 journal articles, taught thousands of students, and developed a variety of plastics. He has worked for well-known firms including Monsanto, Goodyear, and Johnson and Johnson; has taught at several colleges and universities; and has presented seminars or short courses at major universities on five continents.

Lauded as the world's best-known plastics scientist, Seymour continues his work as a distinguished professor at the University of Southern Mississippi. He has received numerous honors, including election to the International Plastics Hall of Fame in 1988 and the International Gold Medal award from the Society of Plastics Engineers. He was recognized as a Chemist Pioneer by the American Institute of Chemists and earned an Excellence in Teaching Award from the Chemists Manufacturing Association, the Society of Plastics Engineers, and the University of Houston.

Seymour and his wife Frances are members of the Alumni Association.


Robert L. Smith, 47BSCE, 48MS

1990 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Robert L. Smith, 47BSCE, 48MS, is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Kansas and civil engineer specializing in water resources. In both academia and government, Smith has worked to ensure the quality and availability of water. He is known as a diligent, resourceful, and conscientious engineer. Now retired after four decades of teaching, Smith's former students praise his dedication and credit him for their own successful engineering careers. More than an able instructor, his involvement with students extended beyond the classroom. Smith's colleagues and protégés from around the country praise his continuing involvement in their lives.

Teaching by example, Smith has had an accomplished career as an engineer and public servant. Instrumental in shaping water policy for the state of Kansas and Iowa, his pioneering studies became the model for other states around the nation. Smith served as special assistant on water resources for President Lyndon Johnson and his work on water availability has been used in 42 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and nine foreign countries.

Smith has earned awards for both technical achievement and public service. In 1975, he was one of the first UI engineering graduates elected to the National Academy of Engineering. In 1988, he received the Julian Hinds Award from the American Society of Civil Engineers, and in 1980 he was awarded the U.S. Geological Survey's Centennial plaque. Both honors recognized his sustained contributions to water resource management.

An enthusiastic UI supporter, Smith and his wife Lucille, 48BA, are members of the Alumni Association, the Old Capitol Club, and the UI Foundation's Presidents Club.


James E. Ashton, 64BSCE

1989 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

James E. Ashton, 64BSCE, is vice president and general manager of the Naval Systems Division of the FMC Corporation and president of Ashton and Associates, a management consulting firm.

An engineer, author, scholar, and entrepreneur, Ashton epitomizes the American success story, in spite of a mid-career setback that challenged his professional future. After graduating as valedictorian of his University of Iowa class, Ashton went on to earn advanced degrees at M.I.T. and Harvard. He joined the General Dynamics Corporation in 1967 as a senior engineer in technical and operations management and early in his career wrote three books and numerous technical articles that earned him an international reputation as an expert on composite material.

From 1975 to 1980, Ashton directed the General Dynamics team of 8,000 personnel and several international manufacturing subcontractors that produced the F-16 fighter planeahead of schedule and on budget. The plane has been called by some the most successful weapons system this nation has ever seen.

Ashton's career with General Dynamics was on the rise. After 15 years with the company, he had earned a reputation as a hands-on manager who could mobilize a complex work force to get things done. In 1982, however, Ashton was dismissed from his position as vice president of engineering for the Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics when he refused to allow the waste and mismanagement he discovered in the production of the Trident submarine and 688-Class attack submarine to continue.

Applying his leadership, planning, and organizational skills in related industries, Ashton went on to serve as president of Space Services, Inc., of America, which introduced the first private launch vehicle; vice president and general manager of Rockwell International's Tulsa facility; president of Healthdyne, Inc., chairman of Lanson Industries; and vice president and general manager of the Downhole Sensors Division of Schlumberger Well Services, where he did pioneering work in the management of job systems shops.

Despite the price he paid in his own career, Ashton holds firm to his convictions that business must be conducted honestly and ethically. He has carried that message around the world, recently presenting a seminar on the topic at the University of Iowa College of Engineering.


Dale M. Bentz

1989 Distinguished Alumni Friend Award

Dale M. Bentz has made an enduring impression on the University of Iowa through his 33 years as an administrator for the University Libraries and as a champion of everything the University represents.

As associate librarian and then director of the libraries until his retirement in 1986, Bentz was instrumental in a significant expansion of the library system that included building of the Hardin Library for Health Sciences. He linked University Libraries with other major libraries through membership in research library groups, a move that led to the beginning of computerization and automation at the University Libraries.

With others, Bentz helped establish the UI Center for the Study of Recent American History and he worked hard to expand the library's special collections. One of his greatest successes came in attracting to Iowa the late William Anthony, world-famed bookbinder and conservator. Out of that liaison grew the UI's remarkable Center for the Book, as well as the addition of Chicago Chef Louis' precious collection of rare and historic cookbooks to University Libraries.

Active in his profession both regionally and nationally, Bentz served in many leadership roles throughout his career, including president of the Iowa Library Association, president of the Resources and Technical Services Division of the American Library Association, and president of Beta Phi Mu, the international library science honorary society.

Throughout his stewardship at the University of Iowa, Bentz has been involved in innumerable volunteer efforts within the University and the community. In addition to his work on the Student Publication Board, the Faculty Council, and the Triangle Club, Bentz became active in the work of the UI Foundation in the early years of its development. He also served on and presided over the Iowa City Board of Education and helped establish Goodwill Industries of Southeast Iowa.

Bentz came to the University of Iowa in 1953 with degrees from Gettysburg College, the University of North Carolina, and the University of Illinois. He is a member of the UI Foundation's Presidents Club and is a life member of the University of Iowa Alumni Association.


Howard A. Cutler, 40BA, 41MA

1989 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Howard A. Cutler, 40BA, 41MA, is a native Iowan who helped pioneer higher education in Alaska; fostered interest, research, and publication about the undergraduate general education curriculum; and facilitated international education through study abroad programs for university faculty and students.

Cutler says the University of Iowa gave him the foundation he needed to become successful as an economist-teacher, a curriculum developer, and an administrator in international education.

Working his way through college as a housekeeper, cook, gardener, and chauffeur, Cutler achieved a superior scholastic record, earning a Phi Beta Kappa key and graduating cum laude. His was the first master's thesis from the economics department to be published in a national journal.

Described as a common man with an uncommon touch, Cutler taught with distinction at Iowa, the University of Illinois, the University of Chicago, and Pennsylvania State University, before sharpening his administrative tools at Illinois and Penn State. As editor of the Journal of General Education and director of general education at Penn State, Cutler was positioned on the frontier of the lively curriculum concerns of the 1950s and early 1960s.

In 1962, a former Iowa Colleague, William R. Wood, 36MA, 39PhD, persuaded Cutler to join him at the University of Alaska, where he was serving as president. In one of his first actions as academic vice president, Cutler defused a threatened student protest and impressed the students with his obvious concern for their welfare.

A man of style and grace and an accomplished communicator, Cutler developed a strong academic instructional program at Fairbanks and supervised establishment of an excellent outreach program. He worked hard for development of major research center for Northern Studies, attracting a small but competent and effective faculty.

From 1966-76, Cutler served as executive vice president of the Institute of International Educations, the largest private, nonpartisan manager of foreign exchange programs, including the Fulbright Program.

Cutler returned to Alaska in 1976 as chancellor of the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Though he had been gone ten years, his great popularity there is reflected in the fact that more than 100 local business persons signed a petition recommending his return.

Cutler is a life member of the UI Alumni Association and a member of the Old Capitol Club.


Charles Eble, 40BA

1989 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

Charles Eble, 40BA, owner and operator of the Eble Music Company in Iowa City for nearly 40 years, has not only had a profound impact on the quality of music education in the region, but has also earned a reputation for service to musicians around the world.

While he was an undergraduate studying piano at the University of Iowa, Eble became interested in collecting new literature and music on an international scale. As personal secretary to School of Music Director Philip Greeley Clapp, Eble made contacts with European publishers and book and music dealers who could provide new editions of works for the American market.

After completing his military service during World War II, Eble did three years of graduate study in English at the UI and taught briefly at Northwestern University. He returned to Iowa City in 1950 to purchase the community's only music store. As he built a thriving music business, Eble continued his allegiance to the UI Department of Music, accompanying Professor Himie Voxman to Europe in 1954 to procure the first of the Music Library's now extraordinary collection of rare books.

Eble's remarkable knowledge of repertoire, his uncanny ability to locate rare editions of books and music, and his commitment to assist and to serve his clients, whether they be renowned international performers or students struggling on a limited budget, have been important ingredients for his entrepreneurial success.

Today, it is said, representatives of Europe's finest music houses consider Eble one of just a few indispensable contacts in the United States. It is not uncommon for Eble to open his store at odd hours so visiting artists can browse through his collections, and he will do the same for grade school musicians anxiously awaiting their contest scores.

As president of the Bruckner Society of America, Eble has been instrumental in promoting the music of Bruckner and Mahler. As a conscientious patron of music education, he has provided generous support for many music organizations, including the Preucil School of Music in Iowa City, the Chicago Lyric Opera, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and the Cleveland Orchestra. Eble is a major contributor to the University of Iowa's music scholarship fund and is a member of the UI Foundation's Presidents Club.


Loren L. Hickerson, 40BA

1989 Distinguished Alumni Recognition Award

Loren L. Hickerson, 40BA, has given the best years of his life to the University of Iowa—as a student, a faculty member, the first full-time director of the UI Alumni Association, a founder and executive director of the UI Foundation, and director of Community Relations.

More than a magnificent advocate for the University, Hickerson was—and is—in love with the state of Iowa. In a prophetic series of essays he wrote for the Iowa Alumni Review in 1958, Hickerson make an articulate plea for the future, warning that the state was losing its most promising citizens for lack of opportunity. And he foresaw that farming alone could not sustain the Hawkeye state.

Hickerson's skill as a wordsmith was honed at the University of Iowa, where he earned a bachelor's degree in journalism and served two years as editor of the Daily Iowan. In 1942, he was commissioned a U.S. Navy officer and served two years as an air operations officer aboard an aircraft carrier in the Pacific.

After the war, Hickerson returned to the University, serving one year as an assistant to the director of publications and instructor in journalism before President Virgil Hancher named him director of alumni records and executive director of the UI Alumni Association. In 1957, Hickerson accepted the additional title of executive director of the UI Foundation, the University fund-raising entity organized by the Association. Nine years later, Hickerson was promoted to director of Community Relations and from 1972 until his retirement in 1980 he served as director of Arts Center Relations.

Always willing to share his considerable expertise, Hickerson served four years as mayor of Iowa City and was elected to two consecutive four-year terms on the City Council. He has served on many state and local agencies, including the Iowa League of Municipalities, the board of directors of FRIENDS of Educational Broadcasting, the Commission of Social and Economical Trends in Iowa, and the State Municipal Law Review Committee. As UI alumni director, he served on the board of directors, and then as president, of the American Alumni Council.

The Recognition Award is the second major honor the UI Alumni Association has bestowed on Hickerson; in 1982, the Association presented him with a Distinguished Alumni Service Award. A life member of the Alumni Association, Hickerson is also a member of the Old Capitol Club.


Leo A. Hoegh, 29BA, 32JD

1989 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

Leo A. Hoegh, 29BA, 32JD, has a record of public service that spans more than half a century and includes important contributions to his home state of Iowa and to the free world.

At the University of Iowa, Hoegh distinguished himself as a captain of the water polo team and president of Pi Kappa Alpha. He lettered in swimming and was selected for membership in A.F.I., forerunner to the national honor society, Omicron Delta Kappa.

In the mid 30s the Chariton, Iowa, lawyer began his political career. Hoegh was elected to serve three terms in the Iowa House of Representatives, where he exhibited leadership and rose successively to become Republican Floor Leader and chairman of the Judiciary Committee.

Hoegh resigned from the Iowa legislature to join the U.S. Army in 1942. For his gallant action during World War II, Hoegh received several decorations, including the Bronze Star, Croix de Guerre, and Legion of Honor, as well as a battlefield promotion to lieutenant colonel while serving with the Timberwolf Division of the 104th Infantry. He wrote a history of the division, Timberwolf Tracks.

After the war, Hoegh returned to Iowa to resume his law practice in Chariton. In 1953, he was elected state attorney general, earning a reputation as a strict law enforcer. In 1954, Hoegh was elected governor of Iowa. As chief executive, he championed the cause of education and orchestrated a major increase in funding for the state universities and the public schools. He also worked to improve the state's mental institutions, changing the focus from custody to caring for and curing the mentally ill.

State government earned a reputation for operating efficiently and honestly while Hoegh was at the helm. To balance the budget, the governor pushed for an increase in the sales tax, a move that helped bring about Hoegh's defeat in his bid for a second term.

Hoegh had hardly left the governor's chair, however, when President Dwight D. Eisenhower named him federal administrator of civil defense. One year later, in 1958, Eisenhower appointed Hoegh director of the Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization. He was a member of the National Security Council, sat on the President's Cabinet, and represented the U. S. at emergency planning meetings of NATO.

In 1964, Hoegh moved his law practice to Chipita Park, Colorado, where he continues to practice. He is a life member of the Alumni Association and a member of the Old Capital Club.


Margaret (Naumann) Keyes

1989 Distinguished Alumni Friend Award

Margaret Naumann Keyes is a name synonymous with the University of Iowa's most famous and revered building, Old Capitol. Since 1970, when former UI President Willard L. Boyd named her research director for the restoration of Old Capitol, Dr. Keys has dedicated her professional expertise to this historic building, making it a living museum that continues to provide a home for University traditions and ceremonial functions.

Professor Keyes came to the University of Iowa in 1951 with degrees in home economics, art and design in home economics, and interior design and housing. An expert in historic restoration and preservation, she was recognized as an excellent teacher and scholar in the Department of Home Economics, where her service included chairing the historic collection committee for many years.

Dr. Keyes' work with the Old Capitol Restoration Committee began in 1970 and culminated on July 4, 1976, when Old Capitol was opened to the public and dedicated as part of the United States' bicentennial celebration.

From 1975 to 1988, Dr. Keyes served as the director of Old Capitol, continuing her loving and painstaking attention to the building that holds an important place in territorial state, and University history. Shortly after her retirement in 1988, her book, Old Capitol: Portrait on an Iowa Landmark, was published by the University of Iowa Press.

Professor Keyes is an extraordinary citizen of the University of Iowa, maintaining an intense involvement with many facets of the academic community. She has also been active in professional organizations and has given her time freely in support of historic preservation projects in Des Moines and Mount Vernon, as well as Iowa City. She has served on the State Historical Society of Iowa Board of Trustees (formerly the Iowa State Historical Board) since 1982, when she was appointed by former Governor Robert Ray.

Though Dr. Keyes earned her degrees at Cornell College, the University of Wisconsin, and Florida State University, her devotion to the University of Iowa is complete. She is a life member of the UI Alumni Association and a member of the UI Foundation's Presidents Club.


Richard Maibaum, 31BA, 32MA

1989 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Richard Maibaum, 31BA, 32MA, Phi Beta Kappa, is a native New Yorker who attended the University of Iowa and then went on to a remarkable career in the entertainment world. He attributes his motivation to the legendary E. C. Mabie, his Iowa mentor, whom he described as "a powerhouse who didn't suffer fools, shirkers, or phonies gladly."

Maibaum has been involved as a writer or producer in more than 60 motion pictures, including 13 James Bond films. He has also written four Broadway plays and was active in television.

After receiving his master's degree from the UI, Maibaum headed to New York and acted in 15 plays with the Shakespearean Repertory Theatre. In 1935, MGM brought him to Hollywood.

During World War II, Maibaum headed the U.S. Army's Industrial Film Unit before becoming director of the Combat Films Division with the final rank of lieutenant colonel. After the war, he joined Paramount, where he was involved in nine films, including The Great Gatsby, O.S.S., and The Big Clock. Later, at other studios in the United States and England, a few of his screenplays were Ransom, Bigger Than Life, and The Cockleshell Heroes. From 1958-60, Maibaum served as executive producer on MGM-TV.

Then came the opportunity to write scripts for the Bond movies. The rest is history. Starting with Dr. No, Maibaum helped bring the suave British secret agent 007 to life with spicy one-liners and stirring derring-do. Half the people in the world have seen a Bond film. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has called the Bond movies, "the greatest series in the history of motion pictures." Among them are From Russia with Love, Goldfinger, Thunderball, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, and The Spy Who Loved Me. His latest, License To Kill, written with Michael G. Wilson, will be released in July.

Maibaum has received two Writer's Guild of America nominations, two Mystery Writers of America special Edgar Allan Poe awards, and an Emmy nomination for best written teleplay.

Throughout the years, he has remained a loyal friend to the University, returning to the campus at times to try out new plays and to share his expertise with students and faculty.


Richard A. McKay, 52BA, 56MD, 63R

1989 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

Richard A. McKay, 52BA, 56MD, 63R, is a Waterloo ophthalmologist whose dedicated service to the University of Iowa dates back to his undergraduate days when he worked on the Hawkeye yearbook and was active in a myriad of other extracurricular activities, including intramural swimming and the Foreign Language Association.

Since then, McKay has enthusiastically and unselfishly provided moral as well as financial support to projects throughout the University. He served on former UI President Willard Boyd's Committee on University Outreach, a group instrumental in restoring Iowa's faith in the University of Iowa following the turbulent Vietnam War era.

A dedicated volunteer on virtually every fund-raising effort undertaken by the University of Iowa Foundation, McKay was an active member of the national committees for the Hardin Library for Health Sciences Campaign and the Hawkeye Arena/Recreation Campaign. His devotion and commitment were never more evident than when he played a key role in the 1983-84 campaign to raise more than $750,000 for the Frederick C. Blodi Professorship in the College of Medicine Department of Ophthalmology.

Always available to help his alma mater, McKay served ten years on the UI Foundation Board of Directors and has chaired both the Foundation Executive Committee and the Presidents Club. He is a Lifetime Honorary Director for the UI Foundation and a member of the National Committee for the Iowa Endowment 2000 Campaign.

McKay is a vigorous, invaluable participant in every project he espouses, energetically sharing ideas and suggestions on a wide range of issues affecting the University, be it the arts, undergraduate studies, or athletics. He often participates in the monthly Clinical Conferences held in the Department of Ophthalmology and is well respected by his peers, who elected him president of the Iowa Academy of Ophthalmology.

In addition to his work with the UI Foundation and his membership in several professional and community organizations, McKay serves on the Art Acquisition Board of the Waterloo Art and Recreation Center and is a past member of the Northeast Iowa Regional Library Association.

A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Iowa, McKay is a life member of the Alumni Association.


Charles M. Peters, 74BS, 80JD

1989 Distinguished Alumni Young Award

Charles M. Peters, 74BS, 80JD, became president and chief operating officer of Amana Refrigeration, Inc. in September 1988, distinguishing himself at an early age in an extremely competitive field. In a little more than four years with the company, Peters has risen from general counsel to his current leadership position.

Described as a quick learner, Peters possesses outstanding communication skills that enable him to deal effectively with people at all levels. He was credited recently with participating in an industry task force that spearheaded the successful enactment of federal energy efficiency standards for appliances.

Colleagues say Peters' wry sense of humor, coupled with an ability to listen to others, has served him well at Amana Refrigeration, a firm that has won a well-deserved international reputation, not only for producing top-quality appliances, but also for forward-looking relation with its work force. The company is one of Iowa's premier organizations, with 2,600 employees in the state and another 1,000 in Tennessee.

Peters received his bachelor's degree in psychology from the University of Iowa in 1974, attended Harvard University for one year, and then returned to Iowa, earning his juris doctorate in 1980. For the next four hears, he was an associate attorney with the Cedar Rapids firm of Simmons, Perrine, Albright & Ellwood, where he worked with Amana Refrigeration and the Speed Queen Company, both subsidiaries of the Raytheon Company of Lexington, Massachusetts.

In 1984, he joined Amana Refrigeration as general counsel, moving up to vice president for corporate strategy in 1986. Demonstrating an exceptional ability to absorb pertinent information and analyze complex issues, Peters was promoted to senior vice president of operations in November of 1987. The following September, at the age of 35, he was appointed president and chief operating officer.

In addition to his business success, Peters has begun a career in public service as mayor of Fairfax, Iowa, where he is also active in several community organizations.

Peters is a third-generation Hawkeye and a member of the University of Iowa Alumni Association.


Phillip M. Smith, 49BA

1989 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Phillip M. Smith, 49BA, has risen from humble beginnings to become one of the most respected black physicians in the country with an impressive record as a humanitarian, physician, hospital administrator, medical school dean, and public health official.

Owner of a busy obstetrics and gynecology practice in the Los Angeles area, Smith is a dedicated public servant, serving as the only black on the Los Angeles County Hospital Commission. He has been a member of the Board of Sickle Cell Research Foundation of Los Angeles since 1967, currently serving as its president and chairman of its fund raising committee.

Long a champion for women and black physicians, Smith is a member of the 100 Black Men of Los Angeles, an organization which provides mentors for academically talented black children, encourages them to plan for college, and provides scholarships.

Smith has served as president, chairman of the board, and speaker of the National Medical Association's House of Delegates. He has also been on scores of other public boards and commissions and has been honored repeatedly for his unselfish involvement in the community and within his profession.

Born in Chicago, Smith spent his formative years in Alcorn, Mississippi, where he was valedictorian of his high school class. After a stint in the U.S. Air Force, he entered the University of Iowa, his home for the next six years while he earned a bachelor's degree and did graduate study in zoology. At Iowa, Smith had the distinction of becoming the first black member of Alpha Phi Omega.

After receiving a medical degree from Meharry Medical College, Smith spent two years in a surgery residency in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and was an instructor in general surgery at Marquette University. He spent an additional three years in obstetrics and gynecology at Kansas City General Hospital and is board certified in that specialty.

In 1962, he set up his private practice, taking time off from 1970-75 to serve as medical director of Martin Luther King, Jr. General Hospital and assistant dean of the Charles R. Drew Medical School. He was also regional director of the Southeast Health Region in Los Angeles during the mid-seventies.

Smith is a life member of the UI Alumni Association.


Dwight C. Vredenburg, 35BSC

1989 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Dwight C. Vredenburg, 35BSC, chairman and chief executive officer of Hy-Vee Food Stores, Inc., has left an indelible stamp on the Iowa business world with his humane and highly successful guidance of the Chariton, Iowa, retail food and drugstore firm.

Under his enlightened leadership, Hy-vee has grown from a 15-store operation in 1938 to a seven-state organization with more than 23,000 employees in 151 retail food stores, 22 drugstores, and 32 convenience stores.

With its homespun "helpful smile in every aisle" philosophy, Hy-Vee reflects Vredenburg's commitment to those old-fashioned principles that uncompromisingly put customers first. He is also fiercely loyal to his employees, making good on his air to assist every "Hy-Vee related" student who wishes to attend college by providing substantial grants for scholarships to the University of Iowa and other schools.

Although he once considered the music profession, Vredenburg earned his degree in commerce and chose to enter the family business. He has spent his entire professional career with Hy-Vee, the firm co-founded by his father, David M. Vredenburg, and Charles L. Hyde.

Working his way up through the retail food marketing ranks, Vredenburg managed several Hy-Vee stores before being named president in 1938. he added the title of chairman and chief executive officer in 1978.

Now well past the age when many retire, Vredenburg continues to work a 60-hour, six-day week, while devoting considerable energy and time to external organizations, including the Food Marketing Institute; the Iowa Southern Utilities Co., where he served on the board of directors until December 1988; National Bank & Trust Co. of Chariton; Iowa Beverage manufacturers, Inc. (IBMI); and Perishable Distributors of Iowa (PDI). He is a past president of Iowa Food Industries and has served in several official capacities with community and service clubs n the Chariton area.

Vredenburg was inducted into the Iowa Business Hall of Fame in 1984. His many other honors include being named Chariton Citizen of the Year and the Iowa Retail Food Dealers Association Grocer of the Year. Graceland College has presented Vredenburg is Distinguished Alumni Award and awarded him an honorary doctor of laws degree.

Vredenburg is a life member of the UI Alumni Association.


Margaret (Walker) Alexander, 40MA, 65PhD

1988 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Margaret Walker Alexander, 40MA, 65PhD, exemplifies an unforgettable generation of gifted Black Americans who were able to overcome, in part, the social inequality that still plagues our society. Her 30-year struggle to perfect the novel Jubilee—the fictionalized account of her great-grandmother's adjustment from slavery to life during Reconstruction—forms an inspiring backdrop to the career of an outstanding writer and educator.

Born in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1915, Margaret Walker remembers the bedtime stories her grandmother told about Margaret Duggans Ware Brown and recalls her youthful promise that she would someday write about her great-grandmother. Walker's poetic talent emerged while she was attending schools in Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana. In New Orleans, she caught the attention of poet and family friend Langston Hughes, who encouraged her to strive for musicality in verse.

Walker enrolled as a junior at her father's alma mater, Northwestern University, when she was just 17. During her undergraduate years, she had her first poem published with the help of W.E.B. DuBois and she began to work on Jubilee. But, by the time she graduated in 1935, the novel was still a rough, unfinished piece.

While working for the Federal Writers Project in Chicago—where she met friend Richard Wright—Walker wanted to learn more about how to write a novel. She read in Life magazine about a program of the newly created UI Writers' Workshop that offered degrees for creative work. With unfinished manuscript in tow, she came to Iowa to study English in 1939.

The move had its happy consequences. She penned a volume of poetry for her 1940 master's thesis that won the Yale Award for Younger Poets. The title poem of For My People, a much acclaimed literary tribute to Black Americans, earned her a 1942 Rosenwald Fellowship for creative writing.

Walker wrote poetry and worked on Jubilee whenever teaching responsibilities and helping husband Firnist James Alexander raise their four children allowed. She taught during the 1940s at both Livingston College in Salisbury, North Carolina, and West Virginia State College. In 1949, she accepted the English professorship that she still maintains at Jackson State College, Mississippi.

A decade of research into the historical period of her novel—including a semester at Yale financed by a Ford Foundation grant—culminated in her 1962 return to Iowa City to pursue a doctorate aimed at completing Jubilee. It was a triumphant time when she submitted her dissertation in the spring of 1965 and had it accepted for publication weeks later.

Jubilee won the Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship Award for 1966 and renewed interest in Walker's poetry. Her collection of Prophets for a New Day (1970) was followed by the melancholy October Journey (1973), its title poem composed in 1949 in reaction to the stagnation and resentment she encountered as a young woman returning to the South. In 1972, her book How I Wrote Jubilee was published and in 1974 Dr. Walker illuminated generational differences between poets in The Poetic Equation: Conversations Between Nikki Giovanni and Margaret Walker. Walker continues to teach and write in Jackson, the town she paid homage to in Poems for Farish Street (1985). Richard Wright, Daemonic Genius and a book of new and collected poems, This Is My Century, are this year's planned release.


William D. Allard (Duck's Breath Mystery Theatre), 75MFA

1988 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

Ducks Breath Mystery Theatre has been quacking up audiences for more than a decade. The Ducks' outrageous comedy troupe—William D. Allard (75MFA), Daniel J. Coffey (75MFA), Merle B. Dessler (73MFA, 74MFA), Leon C. Martell (75MFA), Jim Turner (former UI student), and Steven W. Baker (72BA)—was hatched in 1975, while several of the group were students in the UI's theatre arts and writing programs. Many Iowa Citians still recall the early days when the Ducks were perfecting irreverent sketches, like Gonad the Barbarian, in front of raucous crowds in student nightspots.

That was before Duck's Breath caught scent of the West Coast entertainment industry's bucks for yuks and promptly migrated to present headquarters in San Francisco as their growing list of stage, radio, television, and film credits indicates, California has been good to Iowa City's funnies expatriates.

Bill Allard—best known as the polyester-clad Mr. Nifty—has produced both Cinemax comedy specials and the Duck's Breath series for Viacom Cablevision. Along with producing radio and television spots through his advertising agency, Duck Spots, Allard teaches advanced acting at San Francisco State University. The director in numerous productions of fellow Ducks' plays, Allard directed cohort Kessler's play Table for One to rave reviews in New York City last fall. Now, Allard's planning to direct his first feature film, "Ticket to Paradise."

Then there's Dan Coffey's Dr. Science, a mad mix of Carl Sagan, Frankenstein, and Robert Ripley. Believe it or not, on Saturday morning's "Dr. Science," Coffey has been telling kids that the secret of gravity is Elmer's Glue All and that dinosaurs became extinct because of their whining, gimme attitude and poor posture. This campaign to misinform America's youth began when he and Kessler created "Ask Dr. Science" on public radio in San Francisco in 1982. Two years later, the show began airing on American Public Radio stations and a public television special, "Dr. Science's Official National Science Test," ensued. Today, hip science demands familiarity with Coffey's and Kessler's definitive test, The Official Dr. Science Big Book of Science.

Merle Kessler is in the same bind as Coffeya fine writer at the mercy of his comic creation, Ian Shoales. A sneering social critic of Yuppiedom, Shoales considers it his calling "to say 'no' in a nation that says 'yes' to every bad idea that comes down the pike." His snide commentaries on National Public Radio's "All things Considered" bechuckled Ted Koppel, so he became a frequent guest commentator on "Nightline." Shoales also appears weekly on Duck's Breath Homemade Radio series and even has a novel, Perfect World, due out this summer.

Kessler's Table for One, Coffey's Mark of the Beast, and Leon Martell's highly acclaimed Hoss Drawin' exhibit the superb play righting talent the Ducks can muster. Several Ducks' plays have been produced in theatres around the country and at national play festivals. Kessler has written for network specials featuring Jay Leno and David Frost, and Martell authored the screenplay for the upcoming feature film, Ticket to Paradise.

Leon Martell was a featured actor in the hit film short Porklips Now, recently appeared in the film Made in Heaven, and played the lead in The Marriage of Bette and Boo, for the Arizona Repertory Theatre company. His array of characters—from the manic security guard Zeke on the Dr. Science TV series to the mercurial Congo Bob of Duck's Breath state performances—demonstrates his versatility as an actor.

Jim Turner is another longtime Duck's Breath stage favorite. Praise for his one-man show, The Brain That Wouldn't Go Away, and proliferating film appearances—The Right Stuff, Porklips Now, Grunt: The Wrestling Movie, and Lost Boys—have groomed Turner for inevitable stardom. But the real catapult appears to be his Music Television character, Randee of the Redwoodsa lost-in-the-ozone remnant of the 60s trying to deal with perspectives of the 80s. Randee's music video, "Either Way Is fine With Me," was an MTV pleaser, and his off-again, on-again presidential candidacy has at least troubled Paulsen and Stassen.

Holding all this craziness together is a general manager Steve Baker. Keeping the Ducks in queue, arranging shows and tours, producing their daily 90-second spots for their "Homemade radio" series, and marketing books, records, and paraphernalia has become the lifework of this former UI student government activist. As former editor-in-chief for the Daily Iowan during an award-winning year, Baker, too, has a way with words. He once deadpanned that Duck's Breath is just a T-shirt company that does comedy on the side.


Steven W. Baker (Duck's Breath Mystery Theatre), 72BA

1988 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

Ducks Breath Mystery Theatre has been quacking up audiences for more than a decade. The Ducks' outrageous comedy troupe—William D. Allard (75MFA), Daniel J. Coffey (75MFA), Merle B. Dessler (73MFA, 74MFA), Leon C. Martell (75MFA), Jim Turner (former UI student), and Steven W. Baker (72BA)—was hatched in 1975, while several of the group were students in the UI's theatre arts and writing programs. Many Iowa Citians still recall the early days when the Ducks were perfecting irreverent sketches, like Gonad the Barbarian, in front of raucous crowds in student nightspots.

That was before Duck's Breath caught scent of the West Coast entertainment industry's bucks for yuks and promptly migrated to present headquarters in San Francisco as their growing list of stage, radio, television, and film credits indicates, California has been good to Iowa City's funnies expatriates.

Bill Allard—best known as the polyester-clad Mr. Nifty—has produced both Cinemax comedy specials and the Duck's Breath series for Viacom Cablevision. Along with producing radio and television spots through his advertising agency, Duck Spots, Allard teaches advanced acting at San Francisco State University. The director in numerous productions of fellow Ducks' plays, Allard directed cohort Kessler's play Table for One to rave reviews in New York City last fall. Now, Allard's planning to direct his first feature film, "Ticket to Paradise."

Then there's Dan Coffey's Dr. Science, a mad mix of Carl Sagan, Frankenstein, and Robert Ripley. Believe it or not, on Saturday morning's "Dr. Science," Coffey has been telling kids that the secret of gravity is Elmer's Glue All and that dinosaurs became extinct because of their whining, gimme attitude and poor posture. This campaign to misinform America's youth began when he and Kessler created "Ask Dr. Science" on public radio in San Francisco in 1982. Two years later, the show began airing on American Public Radio stations and a public television special, "Dr. Science's Official National Science Test," ensued. Today, hip science demands familiarity with Coffey's and Kessler's definitive test, The Official Dr. Science Big Book of Science.

Merle Kessler is in the same bind as Coffeya fine writer at the mercy of his comic creation, Ian Shoales. A sneering social critic of Yuppiedom, Shoales considers it his calling "to say 'no' in a nation that says 'yes' to every bad idea that comes down the pike." His snide commentaries on National Public Radio's "All things Considered" bechuckled Ted Koppel, so he became a frequent guest commentator on "Nightline." Shoales also appears weekly on Duck's Breath Homemade Radio series and even has a novel, Perfect World, due out this summer.

Kessler's Table for One, Coffey's Mark of the Beast, and Leon Martell's highly acclaimed Hoss Drawin' exhibit the superb play righting talent the Ducks can muster. Several Ducks' plays have been produced in theatres around the country and at national play festivals. Kessler has written for network specials featuring Jay Leno and David Frost, and Martell authored the screenplay for the upcoming feature film, Ticket to Paradise.

Leon Martell was a featured actor in the hit film short Porklips Now, recently appeared in the film Made in Heaven, and played the lead in The Marriage of Bette and Boo, for the Arizona Repertory Theatre company. His array of characters—from the manic security guard Zeke on the Dr. Science TV series to the mercurial Congo Bob of Duck's Breath state performances—demonstrates his versatility as an actor.

Jim Turner is another longtime Duck's Breath stage favorite. Praise for his one-man show, The Brain That Wouldn't Go Away, and proliferating film appearances—The Right Stuff, Porklips Now, Grunt: The Wrestling Movie, and Lost Boys—have groomed Turner for inevitable stardom. But the real catapult appears to be his Music Television character, Randee of the Redwoodsa lost-in-the-ozone remnant of the 60s trying to deal with perspectives of the 80s. Randee's music video, "Either Way Is fine With Me," was an MTV pleaser, and his off-again, on-again presidential candidacy has at least troubled Paulsen and Stassen.

Holding all this craziness together is a general manager Steve Baker. Keeping the Ducks in queue, arranging shows and tours, producing their daily 90-second spots for their "Homemade radio" series, and marketing books, records, and paraphernalia has become the lifework of this former UI student government activist. As former editor-in-chief for the Daily Iowan during an award-winning year, Baker, too, has a way with words. He once deadpanned that Duck's Breath is just a T-shirt company that does comedy on the side.


Frederick C. Blodi

1988 Distinguished Alumni Friend Award

Frederick C. Blodi, University of Iowa professor and former head of the Department of Ophthalmology, is an internationally respected eye specialist who loves to teach. Although his scholarship and diagnostic, surgical, and administrative skills have earned him recognition worldwide, his colleagues and former students assert that Dr. Blodi is as brilliant delivering a lecture as he is in any of his career roles.

Dr. Blodi is a native of Vienna, Austria, where he received his medical degree from the University of Vienna School of Medicine in 1940. During World War II, he was an intern and resident in pathology at various Viennese hospitals. He followed training in this area of interest with a three-year residency in ophthalmology at the First Ophthalmology Clinic of the University of Vienna.

In 1947, Dr. Blodi moved to the United States and accepted a research fellowship with the World Health Organization at the Institute of Ophthalmology in New York. Five years later, he came to the UI as a clinical assistant professor. He served as chief ophthalmology for the Veterans Administrations Hospital in Iowa City from 1955 to 1961. Returning to the UI, Dr. Blodi rose rapidly from associate professor of ophthalmology in 1961 to full professorship in 1965 and head of the department by 1967. During his 17 years of leadership, the UI became one of the top international centers for ophthalmological teaching and research.

Dr. Blodi's specialty is ophthalmic pathology, and he is an expert in the different techniques for diagnosing tumors of the eye and the orbit. His studies in this subspecialty contributed to the distinction of becoming the chairman of the American Board of Ophthalmology in 1975. Among many special assignments and professional affiliations, he was on the board of directors for the National Society for the Prevention of Blindness from 1973 to 1985, president of the American Academy of Ophthalmology in 1979, and 1982 president of the Association of University Professors of Ophthalmology.

Throughout his distinguished career, Dr. Blodi has published numerous articles and books, served as editor for various medical journals and publications, and been a preeminent translator of medical texts. His translation of J. Hirschberg's extensive German History of Ophthalmology has been an invaluable service to his profession. From 1976 to 1984, he served as chief editor for the Archives of Ophthalmology.

The American Ophthalmological Society awarded its prestigious Lucien Howe Medal to Dr. Blodi in 1980. He has been voted honorary member of several national ophthalmological societies throughout the world, including those in Germany, France, and Italy. Austria awarded its Cross of Honor for Science and Art to him in 1984. King Saud University School of Medicine in Saudi Arabia—where Dr. Blodi has been director of medical education and clinical professor in recent years—named him Teacher of the Year for 1984-85.

Through prodigious scholarship, decisive administration, and the humor and diligence of his teaching, Dr. Blodi has helped raise the UI Department of Ophthalmology to its lofty position in the eyes of experts the world over.


Daniel J. Coffey (Duck's Breath Mystery Theatre), 75MFA

1988 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

Ducks Breath Mystery Theatre has been quacking up audiences for more than a decade. The Ducks' outrageous comedy troupe—William D. Allard (75MFA), Daniel J. Coffey (75MFA), Merle B. Dessler (73MFA, 74MFA), Leon C. Martell (75MFA), Jim Turner (former UI student), and Steven W. Baker (72BA)—was hatched in 1975, while several of the group were students in the UI's theatre arts and writing programs. Many Iowa Citians still recall the early days when the Ducks were perfecting irreverent sketches, like Gonad the Barbarian, in front of raucous crowds in student nightspots.

That was before Duck's Breath caught scent of the West Coast entertainment industry's bucks for yuks and promptly migrated to present headquarters in San Francisco as their growing list of stage, radio, television, and film credits indicates, California has been good to Iowa City's funnies expatriates.

Bill Allard—best known as the polyester-clad Mr. Nifty—has produced both Cinemax comedy specials and the Duck's Breath series for Viacom Cablevision. Along with producing radio and television spots through his advertising agency, Duck Spots, Allard teaches advanced acting at San Francisco State University. The director in numerous productions of fellow Ducks' plays, Allard directed cohort Kessler's play Table for One to rave reviews in New York City last fall. Now, Allard's planning to direct his first feature film, "Ticket to Paradise."

Then there's Dan Coffey's Dr. Science, a mad mix of Carl Sagan, Frankenstein, and Robert Ripley. Believe it or not, on Saturday morning's "Dr. Science," Coffey has been telling kids that the secret of gravity is Elmer's Glue All and that dinosaurs became extinct because of their whining, gimme attitude and poor posture. This campaign to misinform America's youth began when he and Kessler created "Ask Dr. Science" on public radio in San Francisco in 1982. Two years later, the show began airing on American Public Radio stations and a public television special, "Dr. Science's Official National Science Test," ensued. Today, hip science demands familiarity with Coffey's and Kessler's definitive test, The Official Dr. Science Big Book of Science.

Merle Kessler is in the same bind as Coffeya fine writer at the mercy of his comic creation, Ian Shoales. A sneering social critic of Yuppiedom, Shoales considers it his calling "to say 'no' in a nation that says 'yes' to every bad idea that comes down the pike." His snide commentaries on National Public Radio's "All things Considered" bechuckled Ted Koppel, so he became a frequent guest commentator on "Nightline." Shoales also appears weekly on Duck's Breath Homemade Radio series and even has a novel, Perfect World, due out this summer.

Kessler's Table for One, Coffey's Mark of the Beast, and Leon Martell's highly acclaimed Hoss Drawin' exhibit the superb play righting talent the Ducks can muster. Several Ducks' plays have been produced in theatres around the country and at national play festivals. Kessler has written for network specials featuring Jay Leno and David Frost, and Martell authored the screenplay for the upcoming feature film, Ticket to Paradise.

Leon Martell was a featured actor in the hit film short Porklips Now, recently appeared in the film Made in Heaven, and played the lead in The Marriage of Bette and Boo, for the Arizona Repertory Theatre company. His array of characters—from the manic security guard Zeke on the Dr. Science TV series to the mercurial Congo Bob of Duck's Breath state performances—demonstrates his versatility as an actor.

Jim Turner is another longtime Duck's Breath stage favorite. Praise for his one-man show, The Brain That Wouldn't Go Away, and proliferating film appearances—The Right Stuff, Porklips Now, Grunt: The Wrestling Movie, and Lost Boys—have groomed Turner for inevitable stardom. But the real catapult appears to be his Music Television character, Randee of the Redwoodsa lost-in-the-ozone remnant of the 60s trying to deal with perspectives of the 80s. Randee's music video, "Either Way Is fine With Me," was an MTV pleaser, and his off-again, on-again presidential candidacy has at least troubled Paulsen and Stassen.

Holding all this craziness together is a general manager Steve Baker. Keeping the Ducks in queue, arranging shows and tours, producing their daily 90-second spots for their "Homemade radio" series, and marketing books, records, and paraphernalia has become the lifework of this former UI student government activist. As former editor-in-chief for the Daily Iowan during an award-winning year, Baker, too, has a way with words. He once deadpanned that Duck's Breath is just a T-shirt company that does comedy on the side.


James C.I. Dooge, 56MS

1988 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

James C.I. Dooge, 56MS, a founding father of modern computer-based, statistical hydrology, is the authority to ask about the water of bogs and fens or the sedimentary properties of peat silt. But, for most of his career, Dr. Dooge has foregone fieldwork on the floodplains of the world for careers in the classroom and in politics.

As an applied engineering hydrologist, Dr. Dooge talks and writes about flood peaks, surface runoff, groundwater recharge, and theory of flood routing. He can provide any interested audience a brief course on hydrological concepts, river improvements, and the historical development of open channel flow. As an academician, Dooge has been a professor of civil engineering at two of Ireland's leading universities—University College Cork (1958-1870) and University College Dublin (1970-1984).

Presently, Dr. Dooge is a scientist with a global view and deep sense of sociopolitical responsibility. He has written sensibly and importantly about the water balance of Europe, engineers' contributions to economic development in Ireland, the education of technologists, and the engineer's view of administrative efficiency. In recent years, he delivered World Food Day lectures for the Freedom from Hunger Council of Ireland, offering the concerned his evaluations of Third World water problems and Irish aid efforts.

Politics beckoned Dr. Dooge at an early age. He became an elected member of the Dublin County Council a few years after his 1942 graduation from University College Dublin. By 1952, when he received a master's in civil engineering from the National University of Ireland, he had already served one of two terms as chairman of the council. He resigned from office to come to the University of Iowa in 1854 as a research associate. But, after returning home with his master's in fluid mechanics and hydraulics, many of his engineering colleagues were anxious that he stand for their interests in the Irish Senate.

First elected senator by lower house members in 1961, Dr. Dooge served 16 years of several consecutive terms and was chosen to be both deputy chairman and chairman of the senate. In 1967, he had a hand in rewriting the Irish Constitution. Before a brief hiatus from political life between 1977 and 1981, he had served as a member of both the Irish Council of State and the Presidential Commission, which assumes leadership during presidential absence.

Dr. Dooge returned to politics in 1981, and, for two years, was minister of foreign affairs, the equivalent of the U.S. secretary of state. A senate majority leader from 1983 to 1987, he's been active in the New Ireland Forum, a group seeking peace and stability for Ireland. In 1984, he represented his country on the European Economic Community's Committee on Institutional Affairs and European Union.

The Institute of Engineers of Ireland twice awarded Dr. Dooge its Mullins Silver Medal for hydrological contributions. In 1986, he received the Bowie Medal fro the American Geophysical union and he has been recognized with honorary doctorates from the universities of Wageningen (Holland), Lund (Sweden), and Birmingham (England), as well as from the University of Dublin.


Richard E. Emmert, 51BSChE

1988 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Richard E. Emmert, 51BsChE, is a chemical engineer and retired businessman whose expertise in chemical reaction technology and mass transfer has been recognized by many career honors. This spring, Dr. Emmert was named executive director of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, an organization providing leadership in technology and education for the profession nationwide.

Dr. Emmert earned his master's and doctorate degrees in chemical engineering from the University of Delaware, which presented him with their Distinguished Alumnus Award in 1984. He has confessed that when he first received his bachelor's degree from the University of Iowa and joined many of the nation's best engineering graduate students in the competitive Delaware program, he was apprehensive about how well his undergraduate studies would stand up. But his graduate experience soon convinced him that the UI College of Engineering need take a backseat to no program in the preparation of its majors.

Many of Dr. Emmert's accomplishments were achieved during 33 years of service with the Du Pont Company. He joined Du Pont in 1954 as a research engineer at the company's Experimental Station near Wilmington, Delaware. After a tour of military duty with the Army Chemical Corps, Dr. Emmert returned to Du Pont's Engineering Research Laboratory as manager of industrial development in 1963. A year later, he transferred to their textile fibers department where he held several manufacturing assignments in Delaware and Virginia.

Early in 1969, Dr. Emmert joined the company's engineering department as manager of engineering technology and materials research. During the 1970s, he was director of various divisions of Du Pont's pigments, photo products, and electronic products departments. He was named general manager of the textile fibers department in 1979, but his knowledge of the company's total operations soon earned him advancement to top executive levels. He became vice president of corporate plans in 1981, vice president of photo systems and electronic products in 1983, and vice president of electronics in 1986.

Among many technical innovations Dr. Emmert helped Du Pont achieve is a patented process for rapid polymerization of condensation polymers. This process not only affected the design of polyesters and polyamides, but also improved the quality and lowered the cost of film and fiber products.

In addition to his involvement with professional organizations and his long and challenging career at Du Pont, where he retired last year, Dr. Emmert had given of his time to education. Loyal to both his alma maters, Dr. Emmert served as chairman of the advisory board to the UI College of Engineering and as a member of the board of directors for the UI Alumni Association. He is presently co-chairman of the advisory council for Delaware's chemical engineering department, a trustee of the university's research foundation, and an advisory board member to its research park. His leadership in education is also reflected by past advisory roles with the chemical engineering department at the University of California, Berkeley, the New Jersey Institute of Technology, and the Stanton, Delaware, school board.

Besides directing the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, Dr. Emmert belongs to the American Chemical Society and is an elected member of the National Academy of Engineering. He has been active in the NAE's committees on commercialization and international competitiveness—groups advising government agencies on such topics as patent systems, tax laws' effects on development, and international trade policy.

An exemplary company man, technical expert, and contributor to higher education, Dr. Emmert richly deserves recognition as a distinguished alumnus of the University of Iowa.


Charles L Grannon, 41MA

1988 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

Charles L. Grannon, 41MA, and Alice Fay Grannon, 41BA, fell in love on this campus 50 years ago. Seldom has the meeting place of any young couple benefited so much from a lifelong romance.

Charles Grannon is a life member of the University of Iowa Alumni Association and joined the prestigious Presidents Club in 1979. He has served on the UI Foundation Board of Directors since 1983 and is a member of the Steering Committee for the $150 million Iowa Endowment 2000 Campaign.

The Grannon's service to the UI extends beyond the time and influence Charles has provided on behalf of the university's major fund-raising task. As part of the campaign, the Grannons endowed a graduate fellowship in the UI College of Business Administration. They also have been extraordinarily generous in their contributions to the Iowa Hall Campaign and the Hawkeye Arena/Recreation Campaign. And they have frequently and graciously hosted UI-related receptions in their Ridgewood, New Jersey, and Boca Raton, Florida homes.

The couple's ties to the university began at the very close of the 1930s when Fay was an undergraduate sociology major and Charles was working on his master's degree in economics. Fay Conard had come to Iowa City from Uruguay, where her parents were missionaries. Indiana-born Charles had graduated from Purdue University in 1939 and accepted a teaching assistantship in the UI College of Commerce (now the College of Business Administration) while engaged in graduate studies.

At that time, Chester A. Phillips was dean of the College of Commerce. He developed an interest in the young couple and became something of a mentor and father figure to them during their courtship. The Grannons were married a short time after they both graduated in 1941 and they never forgot Dean Phillips' kindness.

Charles Grannon served in the Navy during World War II and in the United States Naval Reserve in later years. He received a Letter of Commendation during his military service. In 1945, he joined the investment banking firm of Goldman, Sachs & Co. in New York City. For years he was active in the firm's corporate finance area, attaining partnership in 1959 and a limited partnership in 1982.

The Grannons have been active community leaders everywhere they've lived. Their civic leadership includes affiliations with Ridgewood's YMCA and Valley Hospital Foundation. Charles is a trustee for DePauw University and received an honorary degree from the Indiana school in 1984.

After Dean Phillips' death in 1976, the Grannons chose to commemorate their friend's academic career by supporting a professorship in his name. The Chester A. Phillips Professorship Fund has annually sponsored a full-time faculty post for nationally recognized scholars in financial economics. The Grannons' contribution to this professorship, and the ongoing gifts of other friends and alumni who value Dean Phillips's amiable professionalism, form a testament to the special relationships highest education has a history of creating.


Alice (Fay) Grannon, 41BA

1988 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

Charles L. Grannon, 41MA, and Alice Fay Grannon, 41BA, fell in love on this campus 50 years ago. Seldom has the meeting place of any young couple benefited so much from a lifelong romance.

Charles Grannon is a life member of the University of Iowa Alumni Association and joined the prestigious Presidents Club in 1979. He has served on the UI Foundation Board of Directors since 1983 and is a member of the Steering Committee for the $150 million Iowa Endowment 2000 Campaign.

The Grannon's service to the UI extends beyond the time and influence Charles has provided on behalf of the university's major fund-raising task. As part of the campaign, the Grannons endowed a graduate fellowship in the UI College of Business Administration. They also have been extraordinarily generous in their contributions to the Iowa Hall Campaign and the Hawkeye Arena/Recreation Campaign. And they have frequently and graciously hosted UI-related receptions in their Ridgewood, New Jersey, and Boca Raton, Florida homes.

The couple's ties to the university began at the very close of the 1930s when Fay was an undergraduate sociology major and Charles was working on his master's degree in economics. Fay Conard had come to Iowa City from Uruguay, where her parents were missionaries. Indiana-born Charles had graduated from Purdue University in 1939 and accepted a teaching assistantship in the UI College of Commerce (now the College of Business Administration) while engaged in graduate studies.

At that time, Chester A. Phillips was dean of the College of Commerce. He developed an interest in the young couple and became something of a mentor and father figure to them during their courtship. The Grannons were married a short time after they both graduated in 1941 and they never forgot Dean Phillips' kindness.

Charles Grannon served in the Navy during World War II and in the United States Naval Reserve in later years. He received a Letter of Commendation during his military service. In 1945, he joined the investment banking firm of Goldman, Sachs & Co. in New York City. For years he was active in the firm's corporate finance area, attaining partnership in 1959 and a limited partnership in 1982.

The Grannons have been active community leaders everywhere they've lived. Their civic leadership includes affiliations with Ridgewood's YMCA and Valley Hospital Foundation. Charles is a trustee for DePauw University and received an honorary degree from the Indiana school in 1984.

After Dean Phillips' death in 1976, the Grannons chose to commemorate their friend's academic career by supporting a professorship in his name. The Chester A. Phillips Professorship Fund has annually sponsored a full-time faculty post for nationally recognized scholars in financial economics. The Grannons' contribution to this professorship, and the ongoing gifts of other friends and alumni who value Dean Phillips's amiable professionalism, form a testament to the special relationships highest education has a history of creating.


Robert L. Hansen, 83BBA

1988 Distinguished Alumni Young Award

Robert L. Hansen, 83BBA, was a sharp-shooting, clutch guard on the University of Iowa Hawkeye basketball team from 1979 through the end of the 1982-83 season. A two-time all-stater from West Des Moines Dowling High School, Hansen wasted no time establishing his reputation at Iowa. He played in every game and made the all-Big Ten freshmen team his first season, the year the Hawks went to the Final Four in the NCAA tournament.

In the East Regional Finals victory of Georgetown—Hansen's performance stood out in a showdown filled with great individual and team play. Coming off the bench, Hansen was perfect from the line and the field in scoring eight points, grabbing eight rebounds, and dishing out numerous assists.

That solid freshman year was a harbinger of things to come. Hansen was Honorable Mention all-Big Ten his sophomore and junior seasons and earned all-Big Ten honors by both wire services his senior year. He led Iowa to four separate NCAA Tournament appearances and eventually became one of an elite group of Hawks to score over 1,000 points in his career. As a senior, he was co-captain of the team, averaged 15.4 points per game, and was chosen the teams' most valuable player at season's end. In 1983, he received the Clarkson Award reserved for the state's top college senior basketball player.

Regardless of his talent, Bobby Hansen never really got the ink many feel he deserved during his college career. Frank Leyden, the affable coach of the Utah Jazz, has told how he was evaluating the game films of a more publicized NBA draft candidate, when he became distracted by the play of some guard from Iowa. Leyden remembers having to ask who the guy was, and when he found out, the Jazz made Hansen their third-round pick.

It's proven a choice they haven't regretted. In the 1985-86 season, injuries created a staring role for Hansen on Utah's team. He responded by being just one of five NBA players to have the durability to play in all 82 games that year. In Utah's 1986 post-season play, Hansen recorded the second all-time best shooting percentage in the NBA playoff history. The Jazz's subsequent four-year renewal of his contract signaled an uncommonly song stay in the league for a third-round pick and is a tribute to Hansen's aggressive style of play.

Hansen is the quintessential team player, a man whose loyalty knows no 24-second clock. When former UI teammate Kenny Arnold faced a long, uphill batter with cancer a few years back, Hansen was among several ex-Hawks to stage a benefit game at Carver Hawkeye Arena to aid Arnold's recovery.

Hansen later conceived and spearheaded the Iowa Farm Scholarship Game that brought 26 former Hawk players and thousands of fans together in August 1986 for a benefit game to raise scholarship money for children of hard-hit Iowa farm families. The game was a huge success, raising over $70,000 to launch the Iowa Farm Scholarship Fund. Managed by the UI Foundation, the fund's first recipient was named in 1987, and the program is expected to be of immense help in years to come for needy farm children who wish to attend the UI. Hansen is currently organizing another benefit game for the fund.

As a member of the UI Foundation's National Committee for the Iowa Endowment 2000 Campaign, Hansen continues to find ways to volunteer his services to university endeavors. The way prosperity follows this young alumnus wherever he goes makes the University of Iowa just one of many grateful benefactors of the Bobby Hansen touch.


Don E. Kash, 59BA, 60MA, 63PhD

1988 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Don E. Kash, 59BA, 60MA, 63PhD, is a pivotal adviser behind the scenes in a rapidly unfolding drama of critical importance to the future of this nation and the world—the interaction of technology with government policy. Over the past 20 years, Dr. Kash's expertise has had a major impact on several emergent issues in this area, particularly with regard to U. S. energy policy.

The public servant aspect of Dr. Kash's distinguished career was perhaps most visible during the second half of the Carter Administration when he was chief of the U. S. Geological Survey's Conservation Division. At a time when OPEC and events in Iran were making clear magnitude of the challenge to U.S. energy independence, Kash led a major reorganization and expansion of his division and helped restructure US policy concerning offshore oil resources.

There were sound reasons for Dr. Kash's presence at the center of the controversy surrounding the energy crisis of the 1970s. Prior to his appointment with the Geological Survey, he had been adviser to various congressional committees forging legislation concerned with using the oil reserves of the continental shelf. As chief of the conservation division, he was effectively administering the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act that he had helped write.

Born in Macedonia, Iowa, Dr. Kash earned all three of his degrees from the University of Iowa. Since the early 1960s, he has held various faculty positions at Texas Technological University, Arizona State University, the University of Missouri at Kansas City, and the universities of Purdue, Indiana, and Oklahoma. He is currently the George Lynn Cross Research Professor of Political Science and a research fellow in the Science and Public Policy Program at the University of Oklahoma.

Dr. Kash has published extensively—seven books, more than 20 articles, and numerous reports and papers—primarily focusing on energy policy. Two of his books, Energy Under the Oceans and North Sea Oil and Gas, drew considerable official attention after the oil embargo of 1973 and triggered his public service career. The first of these works—originally prepared for the National Science Foundation—became a model for the newly created Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) when it was determining how to perform its advisory function to the U. S. Congress.

Dr. Kash has since chaired or been a key member of several committees and panels of the OTA, the National Research Council, and the National Science Foundation. His work for the NRC—a policy making body charged determining federal support for scientific research—includes chairmanship of the Cross-Disciplinary Engineering Research Committee. That committee is largely responsible for developing engineering research centers aimed at making the US more competitive internationally.

The range of Dr. Kash's contributions as assessor and adviser for policymakers is astounding. In his OTA work alone, he has assessed the feasibility of greater use of national coal reserves, oil and gas technologies for the Arctic and deepwater, alternative energy policies' effects on maritime environments, airport system development, and technologies to control illegal drug smuggling. Colleagues attribute his brilliance on such diverse topics to a fierce intellectual independence and willingness to examine issues from unconventional perspectives.

Currently at work on a study of policymaking in the technological society, entitled—The Synthetic Society, Dr. Kash continues his inimitable leadership in an increasingly crucial, interdisciplinary field of endeavor.


Merle B. Kessler (Duck's Breath Mystery Theatre), 73MFA, 74MFA

1988 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

Ducks Breath Mystery Theatre has been quacking up audiences for more than a decade. The Ducks' outrageous comedy troupe—William D. Allard (75MFA), Daniel J. Coffey (75MFA), Merle B. Dessler (73MFA, 74MFA), Leon C. Martell (75MFA), Jim Turner (former UI student), and Steven W. Baker (72BA)—was hatched in 1975, while several of the group were students in the UI's theatre arts and writing programs. Many Iowa Citians still recall the early days when the Ducks were perfecting irreverent sketches, like Gonad the Barbarian, in front of raucous crowds in student nightspots.

That was before Duck's Breath caught scent of the West Coast entertainment industry's bucks for yuks and promptly migrated to present headquarters in San Francisco as their growing list of stage, radio, television, and film credits indicates, California has been good to Iowa City's funnies expatriates.

Bill Allard—best known as the polyester-clad Mr. Nifty—has produced both Cinemax comedy specials and the Duck's Breath series for Viacom Cablevision. Along with producing radio and television spots through his advertising agency, Duck Spots, Allard teaches advanced acting at San Francisco State University. The director in numerous productions of fellow Ducks' plays, Allard directed cohort Kessler's play Table for One to rave reviews in New York City last fall. Now, Allard's planning to direct his first feature film, "Ticket to Paradise."

Then there's Dan Coffey's Dr. Science, a mad mix of Carl Sagan, Frankenstein, and Robert Ripley. Believe it or not, on Saturday morning's "Dr. Science," Coffey has been telling kids that the secret of gravity is Elmer's Glue All and that dinosaurs became extinct because of their whining, gimme attitude and poor posture. This campaign to misinform America's youth began when he and Kessler created "Ask Dr. Science" on public radio in San Francisco in 1982. Two years later, the show began airing on American Public Radio stations and a public television special, "Dr. Science's Official National Science Test," ensued. Today, hip science demands familiarity with Coffey's and Kessler's definitive test, The Official Dr. Science Big Book of Science.

Merle Kessler is in the same bind as Coffeya fine writer at the mercy of his comic creation, Ian Shoales. A sneering social critic of Yuppiedom, Shoales considers it his calling "to say 'no' in a nation that says 'yes' to every bad idea that comes down the pike." His snide commentaries on National Public Radio's "All things Considered" bechuckled Ted Koppel, so he became a frequent guest commentator on "Nightline." Shoales also appears weekly on Duck's Breath Homemade Radio series and even has a novel, Perfect World, due out this summer.

Kessler's Table for One, Coffey's Mark of the Beast, and Leon Martell's highly acclaimed Hoss Drawin' exhibit the superb play righting talent the Ducks can muster. Several Ducks' plays have been produced in theatres around the country and at national play festivals. Kessler has written for network specials featuring Jay Leno and David Frost, and Martell authored the screenplay for the upcoming feature film, Ticket to Paradise.

Leon Martell was a featured actor in the hit film short Porklips Now, recently appeared in the film Made in Heaven, and played the lead in The Marriage of Bette and Boo, for the Arizona Repertory Theatre company. His array of characters—from the manic security guard Zeke on the Dr. Science TV series to the mercurial Congo Bob of Duck's Breath state performances—demonstrates his versatility as an actor.

Jim Turner is another longtime Duck's Breath stage favorite. Praise for his one-man show, The Brain That Wouldn't Go Away, and proliferating film appearances—The Right Stuff, Porklips Now, Grunt: The Wrestling Movie, and Lost Boys—have groomed Turner for inevitable stardom. But the real catapult appears to be his Music Television character, Randee of the Redwoodsa lost-in-the-ozone remnant of the 60s trying to deal with perspectives of the 80s. Randee's music video, "Either Way Is fine With Me," was an MTV pleaser, and his off-again, on-again presidential candidacy has at least troubled Paulsen and Stassen.

Holding all this craziness together is a general manager Steve Baker. Keeping the Ducks in queue, arranging shows and tours, producing their daily 90-second spots for their "Homemade radio" series, and marketing books, records, and paraphernalia has become the lifework of this former UI student government activist. As former editor-in-chief for the Daily Iowan during an award-winning year, Baker, too, has a way with words. He once deadpanned that Duck's Breath is just a T-shirt company that does comedy on the side.


Donald B. Lindsley, 30MA, 32PhD

1988 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Donald B. Lindsley, 30MA, 32PhD, an internationally renowned scientist in brain and behavior research, pioneered the use of electromyography and electroencephalography for research into the mechanisms of learning, perception, emotion, and sleep-wakefulness in the U.S.

Dr. Lindsley is presently professor emeritus in the psychology and physiology departments of the University of California, Los Angeles, and a member of the Brain Research Institute there. Since receiving his doctorate from Iowa, he has held positions at the University of Illinois, Harvard Medical School, Western Reserve Medical School, Brown University, and Northwestern University.

He began his work at UCLA in 1951 and has directed 50 doctoral theses while accommodating in his laboratories more than 70 distinguished visiting scientists, many of them from foreign countries. Dr. Lindsley's studies have had a major impact on the fields of neurology, psychiatry, and psychology.

Throughout much of his career, he has been active in services to government and military agencies. During World War II, he directed a project concerned with radar operator training activities wherever radar was in us at US military installations. For his wartime efforts, he received the Presidential Certificate of Merit signed by President Truman.

After the war, the Office of Naval Research and the National Research Council asked Dr. Lindsley to head a group that researched and wrote the book Human Factors in Undersea Warfare. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1952, and, as a member of their Space Science Board, he chaired a committee that prepared a monograph for NASA entitled Human Factors in Long-Duration Spaceflights. It looked into human problems that might arise during the execution of lengthy fly-by missions to major planets.

Dr. Lindsley has served a combined total of more than 20 years on various study sections and panels for government agencies such as the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, and NASA. A well-published member of several scientific journals' editorial boards, including Science, Dr. Lindsley has been a frequently invited participant and guest lecturer at various international symposia. He was asked to give the prestigious William James Lectures at Harvard in 1958 and was awarded a 1959 Guggenheim Fellowship for visits and lectures at brain research institutes throughout Western Europe, the USSR, Scandinavia, Poland, and Czechoslovakia.

In 1967, he joined a group of American and Brazilian scientists aboard the research vessel ALPHA HELIX on an expedition 1,200 miles up the Amazon River. The purpose of the expedition was to study the brain and behavior of various animals, including the boa constrictor, electric eel, and armadillo. Concentrating his research on the habits of the sloth, Dr. Lindsley tried to determine why the animal moves so slowly and how it copes in the jungle environment.

Dr. Lindsley was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1963 and to the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters in 1987. He holds honorary doctorates from Trinity College and from Wittenberg, Guttenberg, Loyola, and Brown universities. His many professional honors include distinguished scientific contribution awards from the American Psychological Association in 1959 and from the Society for Psychophysiological Research in 1984. And in recognition of his contributions to medicine, he was named Fellow of the UCLA School of Medicine in 1986. In 1987, the University of Iowa Department of Psychology honored Dr. Lindsley with its 1987 Distinguished Graduate Award.


Leon C. Martell (Duck's Breath Mystery Theatre), 75MFA

1988 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

Ducks Breath Mystery Theatre has been quacking up audiences for more than a decade. The Ducks' outrageous comedy troupe—William D. Allard (75MFA), Daniel J. Coffey (75MFA), Merle B. Dessler (73MFA, 74MFA), Leon C. Martell (75MFA), Jim Turner (former UI student), and Steven W. Baker (72BA)—was hatched in 1975, while several of the group were students in the UI's theatre arts and writing programs. Many Iowa Citians still recall the early days when the Ducks were perfecting irreverent sketches, like Gonad the Barbarian, in front of raucous crowds in student nightspots.

That was before Duck's Breath caught scent of the West Coast entertainment industry's bucks for yuks and promptly migrated to present headquarters in San Francisco as their growing list of stage, radio, television, and film credits indicates, California has been good to Iowa City's funnies expatriates.

Bill Allard—best known as the polyester-clad Mr. Nifty—has produced both Cinemax comedy specials and the Duck's Breath series for Viacom Cablevision. Along with producing radio and television spots through his advertising agency, Duck Spots, Allard teaches advanced acting at San Francisco State University. The director in numerous productions of fellow Ducks' plays, Allard directed cohort Kessler's play Table for One to rave reviews in New York City last fall. Now, Allard's planning to direct his first feature film, "Ticket to Paradise."

Then there's Dan Coffey's Dr. Science, a mad mix of Carl Sagan, Frankenstein, and Robert Ripley. Believe it or not, on Saturday morning's "Dr. Science," Coffey has been telling kids that the secret of gravity is Elmer's Glue All and that dinosaurs became extinct because of their whining, gimme attitude and poor posture. This campaign to misinform America's youth began when he and Kessler created "Ask Dr. Science" on public radio in San Francisco in 1982. Two years later, the show began airing on American Public Radio stations and a public television special, "Dr. Science's Official National Science Test," ensued. Today, hip science demands familiarity with Coffey's and Kessler's definitive test, The Official Dr. Science Big Book of Science.

Merle Kessler is in the same bind as Coffeya fine writer at the mercy of his comic creation, Ian Shoales. A sneering social critic of Yuppiedom, Shoales considers it his calling "to say 'no' in a nation that says 'yes' to every bad idea that comes down the pike." His snide commentaries on National Public Radio's "All things Considered" bechuckled Ted Koppel, so he became a frequent guest commentator on "Nightline." Shoales also appears weekly on Duck's Breath Homemade Radio series and even has a novel, Perfect World, due out this summer.

Kessler's Table for One, Coffey's Mark of the Beast, and Leon Martell's highly acclaimed Hoss Drawin' exhibit the superb play righting talent the Ducks can muster. Several Ducks' plays have been produced in theatres around the country and at national play festivals. Kessler has written for network specials featuring Jay Leno and David Frost, and Martell authored the screenplay for the upcoming feature film, Ticket to Paradise.

Leon Martell was a featured actor in the hit film short Porklips Now, recently appeared in the film Made in Heaven, and played the lead in The Marriage of Bette and Boo, for the Arizona Repertory Theatre company. His array of characters—from the manic security guard Zeke on the Dr. Science TV series to the mercurial Congo Bob of Duck's Breath state performances—demonstrates his versatility as an actor.

Jim Turner is another longtime Duck's Breath stage favorite. Praise for his one-man show, The Brain That Wouldn't Go Away, and proliferating film appearances—The Right Stuff, Porklips Now, Grunt: The Wrestling Movie, and Lost Boys—have groomed Turner for inevitable stardom. But the real catapult appears to be his Music Television character, Randee of the Redwoodsa lost-in-the-ozone remnant of the 60s trying to deal with perspectives of the 80s. Randee's music video, "Either Way Is fine With Me," was an MTV pleaser, and his off-again, on-again presidential candidacy has at least troubled Paulsen and Stassen.

Holding all this craziness together is a general manager Steve Baker. Keeping the Ducks in queue, arranging shows and tours, producing their daily 90-second spots for their "Homemade radio" series, and marketing books, records, and paraphernalia has become the lifework of this former UI student government activist. As former editor-in-chief for the Daily Iowan during an award-winning year, Baker, too, has a way with words. He once deadpanned that Duck's Breath is just a T-shirt company that does comedy on the side.


Jill N. McLaughlin, 53BA

1988 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

Jill N. McLaughlin, 53BA, has an infectious enthusiasm that makes her prodigious volunteer work for the University of Iowa a real asset. For those who have had the pleasure of meeting her, that ebullience seems a remarkably winning dimension of character. For her alma mater, the University of Iowa, it has worked wonders.

McLaughlin, a Quad Cities resident, presently serves on the Board of Directors for the UI Foundation and is a member of their Steering Committee for the UI's $150 million Iowa Endowment 2000 Campaign. Her past roles as a university support services volunteer and fund-raiser include membership on the Alumni Association's Board of Directors, association representative of the UI Board in Control of Athletics, an Old Capitol Restoration Committee member, a UI Committee on Outreach member, and vice chairman for the Carver/Hawkeye Arena Campaign.

McLaughlin's fund-raising style has been described as low-key, but extremely effective. During her UI arena campaign duties, she attended and spoke at nearly every local kickoff event throughout Iowa. Never pressuring potential contributors, she managed to stir the magnanimous sentiments of Iowa loyalists through her fervor for enhancement of university programs.

Sometimes fund raising involves an element of serendipity. In 1980, when the Hawkeye basketball team was participating in the NCAA Final Four, McLaughlin attended a party in Indianapolis for Iowa fans and alumni. She talked to a man who, upon learning that she was active in the arena campaign, mentioned that he might be interested in donating. She scribbled his name down on a cocktail napkin and, several days alter, remembered to fish that napkin out of her suit pocket to give to the UI Foundation President Darrell Wyrick. The man eventually made one of the largest contributions to the campaign.

That Jill McLaughlin likes to tell that story is a measure of both her modesty as a friend to the university and her warm sense of humor. She first showed her penchant for volunteering at the University of Iowa, where she transferred after two years at Wellesley College in Massachusetts. As an undergraduate, McLaughlin was an active member of the UI's Delta Gamma Sorority and frequently volunteered to read to ailing children in the old Children's Hospital.

That early volunteer streak in Jill McLaughlin's character has continued to find expression in the Quad Cities community long after graduation. She at one time was president of the Quad-City Symphony and is currently chairman of a committee planning that organization's 75th anniversary celebration during the 1989/90 season. She was also director of both the Putnam Museum in Davenport and the United Way of Scott and Rock Island counties and chapter chairman of the Quad Cities Red Cross. She remains an active board member for all these organizations as well as the Quad Cities Graduate Study Center.

The level of her involvement with the Red Cross alone is impressive. From 1985-86, she was a national committee member for the nomination to their board of governors and is now a member of the Headquarters Advisory Council for their Midwest operations. As a Red Cross AIDS Task Force member, she has been promoting AIDS education programs for public schools and the workplace.

In a troubled economy, voluntarism is a rare commodity. But the University of Iowa is proud to count Jill McLaughlin's dedication and exuberance among its most prized assets.


Marian Rees, 51BA

1988 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Marian Rees, 51BA, personifies a rare Hollywood success story: not the beauty-discovered-in-malt-shop myth, but the hard-earned success of an intelligent, competent, and motivated woman who worked her way up from receptionist to award-winning producer in an industry not that conscientious about providing executive opportunities for women.

Marian Rees credits her Iowa upbringing in a family that stressed social activism for a large part of her barriers-breaking style as a producer. She was born in Le Mars, Iowa, and graduated as valedictorian of her high school class in Carroll. While a sociology major at the University of Iowa, she was president of the Freshman Women's Council and a drummer in the Scottish Highlanders.

Rees landed a job as receptionist with NBC in Hollywood a year after graduation. That began a decade of rapid promotions—production secretary for "The Dennis Day Show," production assistant with "Lux Video Theatre," and assistant to the producer of "The Frank Sinatra Series."

Her big break arrived in 1959, when she was named associate producer for Bud Yorkin on "An Evening with Fred Astaire." That live NBC special garnered 11 Emmy Awards and resulted in Rees's 15-year association with Yorkin and his partner Norman Lear at Tandem Productions. As vice-president and production executive, she contributed to the entire first season of "All in the Family," the pilot for "Sanford and Son," and numerous features and specials.

In 1973, she became executive in charge of development for Tomorrow Entertainment, which produced the Emmy sweeper The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman. The television groundbreaking of that film would become Marian Rees's trademark. During her stint with Tomorrow Entertainment, she helped produce Tell Me Where It Hurts, the first TV movie to examine women's consciousness raising groups. For EMI Television in 1976, she conceived and produced the docu-dramas Orphan Train, about 19th century homeless children, and One in a Million: The Ron Le Flore Story, about the black, ex-convict baseball star.

While vice-president at NRW Company Features Division, Rees was executive producer of The Marva Collins Story, a movie portraying the nationally acclaimed educator's work with inner-city students. It was the first of six Hallmark Hall of Fame Presentations she has produced, five of them—Love Is Never Silent, The Resting Place, The Room Upstairs, Foxfire, and the upcoming Home Fires Burning—through her independent company, Marian Rees Associates, established in 1981. Another Rees film, Little Girl Lost, aired in April on ABC.

Though her programs generally address some social concern, none has done so more poignantly than Love Is Never Silent, starring Mare Winningham as the hearing daughter of deaf parents. A forerunner to Children of a Lesser God in its casting of deaf actors, Love is Never Silent won Emmys for Best Comedy/Drama Special and Outstanding Directing in a Miniseries or Special.

In her most admirable way, Rees is still beating the odds in the board rooms of Hollywood. Among many professional and civic affiliations, she has been a presiding officer for both the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and the Gwen Bolden Foundation, an organization that offers a supplemental education program for disadvantaged youths at risk. And, when all three major networks spurned her film Between Friends, presumably because it was about women in their 50s, Rees fought until she got it aired on HBO.

Considering that film's subsequent good reviews, high ratings, and ACE Cable Award, television's moguls might want to take more cues from Iowa's Marian Rees.


Paul M. Seebohm

1988 Distinguished Alumni Friend Award

Paul M. Seebohm has served the University of Iowa's Department of Internal Medicine and College of Medicine for nearly 40 years, making many contributions as a scientist, physician, teacher, and administrator. In his role as liaison between the UI and several state and national health organizations, Dr. Seebohm has become one of the people most responsible for the excellent relations between the university's medical faculty and practicing physicians in Iowa.

When Dr. Seebohm came to the UI in 1949 as an associate in the internal medicine department, he was named the first director of the newly formed Section of Allergy which soon developed a reputation for excellence in patient care, teaching, and research. He was one of the first scientific investigators to stress immunology as the critical discipline in the field of allergy at a time when allergic diseases were widely thought of as a psychosomatic. His learning and leadership were recognized by colleagues in the American Academy of Allergy and Immunology when he was elected their president in 1966 and received the academy's 1974 Distinguished Service Award. He is currently the academy's representative in the American Medical Association's House of Delegates.

Any summary of Dr. Seebohm's many national activities must include his ten-year chairmanship of the advisory panel on allergic extracts for the Food and Drug Administration. He also led a committee that created the American Board of Allergy and Immunology which certifies specialists in allergy practice. Dr. Seebohm was granted the distinction of being the first physician certified by the board.

Dr. Seebohm was born in Cincinnati and attended Oberlin College before receiving his bachelor of arts and medical degrees from the University of Cincinnati. In 1942, after completing his internship at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, he served four years as a flight surgeon during World War II. He completed residency training in internal medicine at Cincinnati General Hospital and specialty training as a fellow at Robert A. Cooke Institute of Allergy, Roosevelt Hospital, New York City, before coming to Iowa.

By 1959, Paul Seebohm had become a full professor in the internal medicine department. When the administrative structure of the College of Medicine was reorganized in 1970, he became its associate dean and was executive associate dean from 1974 to 1986. Over the years, he has served on practically every UI College of Medicine committee—from faculty coordinator for the New Hospital Addition Advisory Group (1968-1973) to chairman of the Hospital's Professional Practice Committee (1973-present). In honor of his many administrative and faculty roles, he was appointed UI professor emeritus in 1986.

Dr. Seebohm can take credit for much of the present cooperation among health groups in Iowa. During his terms as president of the Johnson County Medical Society and the Iowa State Board of Health, such cooperation was one of his priorities. As the coordinator of the Statewide Family Practice Residency Program network coordinator since its beginning in 1973, Dr. Seebohm has been a leader in reversing the trend of outmigration of family physicians in the state. His establishment of the Office of Community-Based Programs has been critical in this regard.

Even after his 1986 retirement, Dr. Seebohm still serves as consultant to the dean of the UI College of Medicine. If a doctor's career is measured in honors accrued, being named 1976 Iowa Internist of the Year by the Iowa Clinical Society of Internal Medicine speaks highly of Dr. Seebohm. But, if the measure of a physician's career also lies in the respect and admiration of thousands of patients, students, health professionals, and colleagues who have had the pleasure of experiencing first-hand his sensitivity, trust, and honesty, then this unwritten record emphatically celebrates the high professionalism of Dr. Paul Seebohm.


Jim Turner (Duck's Breath Mystery Theatre),

1988 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

Ducks Breath Mystery Theatre has been quacking up audiences for more than a decade. The Ducks' outrageous comedy troupe—William D. Allard (75MFA), Daniel J. Coffey (75MFA), Merle B. Dessler (73MFA, 74MFA), Leon C. Martell (75MFA), Jim Turner (former UI student), and Steven W. Baker (72BA)—was hatched in 1975, while several of the group were students in the UI's theatre arts and writing programs. Many Iowa Citians still recall the early days when the Ducks were perfecting irreverent sketches, like Gonad the Barbarian, in front of raucous crowds in student nightspots.

That was before Duck's Breath caught scent of the West Coast entertainment industry's bucks for yuks and promptly migrated to present headquarters in San Francisco as their growing list of stage, radio, television, and film credits indicates, California has been good to Iowa City's funnies expatriates.

Bill Allard—best known as the polyester-clad Mr. Nifty—has produced both Cinemax comedy specials and the Duck's Breath series for Viacom Cablevision. Along with producing radio and television spots through his advertising agency, Duck Spots, Allard teaches advanced acting at San Francisco State University. The director in numerous productions of fellow Ducks' plays, Allard directed cohort Kessler's play Table for One to rave reviews in New York City last fall. Now, Allard's planning to direct his first feature film, "Ticket to Paradise."

Then there's Dan Coffey's Dr. Science, a mad mix of Carl Sagan, Frankenstein, and Robert Ripley. Believe it or not, on Saturday morning's "Dr. Science," Coffey has been telling kids that the secret of gravity is Elmer's Glue All and that dinosaurs became extinct because of their whining, gimme attitude and poor posture. This campaign to misinform America's youth began when he and Kessler created "Ask Dr. Science" on public radio in San Francisco in 1982. Two years later, the show began airing on American Public Radio stations and a public television special, "Dr. Science's Official National Science Test," ensued. Today, hip science demands familiarity with Coffey's and Kessler's definitive test, The Official Dr. Science Big Book of Science.

Merle Kessler is in the same bind as Coffeya fine writer at the mercy of his comic creation, Ian Shoales. A sneering social critic of Yuppiedom, Shoales considers it his calling "to say 'no' in a nation that says 'yes' to every bad idea that comes down the pike." His snide commentaries on National Public Radio's "All things Considered" bechuckled Ted Koppel, so he became a frequent guest commentator on "Nightline." Shoales also appears weekly on Duck's Breath Homemade Radio series and even has a novel, Perfect World, due out this summer.

Kessler's Table for One, Coffey's Mark of the Beast, and Leon Martell's highly acclaimed Hoss Drawin' exhibit the superb play righting talent the Ducks can muster. Several Ducks' plays have been produced in theatres around the country and at national play festivals. Kessler has written for network specials featuring Jay Leno and David Frost, and Martell authored the screenplay for the upcoming feature film, Ticket to Paradise.

Leon Martell was a featured actor in the hit film short Porklips Now, recently appeared in the film Made in Heaven, and played the lead in The Marriage of Bette and Boo, for the Arizona Repertory Theatre company. His array of characters—from the manic security guard Zeke on the Dr. Science TV series to the mercurial Congo Bob of Duck's Breath state performances—demonstrates his versatility as an actor.

Jim Turner is another longtime Duck's Breath stage favorite. Praise for his one-man show, The Brain That Wouldn't Go Away, and proliferating film appearances—The Right Stuff, Porklips Now, Grunt: The Wrestling Movie, and Lost Boys—have groomed Turner for inevitable stardom. But the real catapult appears to be his Music Television character, Randee of the Redwoodsa lost-in-the-ozone remnant of the 60s trying to deal with perspectives of the 80s. Randee's music video, "Either Way Is fine With Me," was an MTV pleaser, and his off-again, on-again presidential candidacy has at least troubled Paulsen and Stassen.

Holding all this craziness together is a general manager Steve Baker. Keeping the Ducks in queue, arranging shows and tours, producing their daily 90-second spots for their "Homemade radio" series, and marketing books, records, and paraphernalia has become the lifework of this former UI student government activist. As former editor-in-chief for the Daily Iowan during an award-winning year, Baker, too, has a way with words. He once deadpanned that Duck's Breath is just a T-shirt company that does comedy on the side.


Irving B. Weber, 22BA

1988 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

Irving B Weber, 22BA, possesses a sense of place with the University of Iowa area, and Johnson County that few could ever approximate. He's been recognized as an athlete, business leader, local historian, writer, philanthropist, and sage. Just when you think you have a grasp on all the roles he's played in service to this community, the protean Weber improvises some fresh incarnation of himself.

A fourth generation Iowa Citian, Irving Weber was born the son of a blacksmith in 1900. He attended Iowa City public schools and obtained his bachelor of arts degree from the University of Iowa in 1922. As a UI student, he was the first Iowa athlete to be named to the All- American Swimming Team. For years, he was the official referee and starter at UI swim meets. To fire up Hawk swimmers, Weber still clangs his bell before home meets, a custom he picked up as a spectator at the Tokyo Olympics in 1964.

Following graduation, Weber began a longtime association with Sidwell's Ice Cream Company in Iowa City. Rising rapidly in the business, he eventually became one of its owners. In 1940, he co-organized his company and four other independent producers of ice cream into the Quality Checked Dairy Products Association. Weber retired in 1966, but continues to serve as honorary director of the association he helped developed into one of the major dairy organizations nationwide.

Retirement provided the chance for Weber to pursue callings other than business. He always had a memory for anecdotes and details of local history that had distinguished him as the community's unofficial archivist. It was fitting, then, that in 1973 he began writing an Iowa City Press Citizen column—part research, part personal recollection, and full of local color. Almost 700 articles and four books of collected stories and photographs later, he still entertains readers weekly—reminding people how things once were and how they got the way they are.

The proceeds from all four volumes of the very popular Irving Weber's Iowa City are donated to the city's Lions Club for public service efforts. These include several UI medical projects such as the Department of Ophthalmology's cornea transplant program, the Wendell Johnson Speech Clinic, and the Department of Otolaryngology's cochlear implant program and temporal bone bank. The Lions Club has returned honored its most illustrious member with a contribution to the Iowa City Public Library to establish a local history fund in Weber's name.

Whether he is mining some gem of local or university interest at the State Historical Society or swimming a half-mile as he still does four times a week, Irving Weber knows his surroundings well and projects for posterity the tireless enthusiasm they bring him. His career as a chronicler of local history is a tribute not only to the area, but also to his alma mater, the University of Iowa.


Donald T. Bosch, 39BS, 41MD

1987 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

Donald T. Bosch, 39BS, 41MD, is an alumnus who richly deserves to be called a humanitarian. It was in this spirit that he trained at the University of Iowa to become a physician.

After graduating, Dr. Bosch entered the U.S. Medical Corps, where he served with the 78th Infantry Division in the European Theatre and was awarded the Bronze Star for action in Germany. From 1946 to 1951, he performed his surgical residency at Bellvue Hospital, New York City, and St. Barnabas Medical Center, Newark, New Jersey.

In 1951, Dr. Bosch and his wife, Eloise, began what was to be a lifelong commitment to the people of the Middle East. Under the aegis of the Department of World Ministries, the Reformed Church of America, they traveled first to Iraq, where Dr. Bosch worked as a surgeon for two years while the couple learned Arabic. Having gained reasonable proficiency in Arabic, the Bosches moved to the Sultanate of Oman. Except for a year each in the countries of Kuwait and Bahrain, filling in for furloughing colleagues, the Bosches lived for the next 30 years in Oman, continuing a work that had been started by their predecessors in 1892.

During some of their time in Oman, Dr. Bosch was the only surgeon in the entire country of 1.5 million people. His patient log could include seeing 200 people and performing as many as ten operations daily. Working under difficult conditions (as late as 1970, electricity was a novelty and the Sultanate contained less than 30 kilometers of paved road), Dr. Bosch contributed to the modernization of health care in Oman. In recognition of his achievements, Sultan Qaboos bin Saeed presented Dr. Bosch with the "Order of Oman" in 1972. He was the first American to be so honored.

Although Dr. Bosch retired in 1984 after ten years as Medical Officer in charge of Khoula Hospital, he returned to Oman in 1985 at the request of the Sultan to serve as special consultant to the Minister of Health.

Dr. Bosch and his wife, who worked for years as a grade school teacher in Oman, have also distinguished themselves in an unusual avocation. Their interesting beachcombing in Oman developed into serious study of conchology. Together, they have thus far discovered nine new species of molluscs and have produced a book, Seashells of Oman.

Both Dr. and Mrs. Bosch received the honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters from Hope College, Holland, Michigan, in 1986.


Cornelia C. Cameron, 33BA, 35MS, 40PhD

1987 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Cornelia C. Cameron, 33BA, 35MS, 40PhD, is one of the world's foremost experts on the geology of peat deposits. Her broad academic training at the University of Iowa included serious studies in all the sciences. It is said that when she was to receive her doctorate, she was asked whether she wanted it in geology, botany, or zoology, as she was equally qualified in all disciplines.

Dr. Cameron's passion for learning and the intense energy she brings to her scientific work have earned her respect around the world and particularly from the United States Geological Survey, where she has been employed since 1951. She has accepted assignments in areas ranging from the DMZ of Korea, to Japan, Borneo, and Alaska. Field work has taken her to over 30 countries on five continents.

Early in her career, Dr. Cameron showed her professional courage by daring to disagree with her colleagues. For many years it was generally accepted that there were four major glacial advances during North American's last Ice Age, but, based on her study of modern and paleoenvironmental surface and subsurface data in Iowa, Dr. Cameron was convinced that advances and retreats of the continental glaciers had not been adequately numbered. Although she found little support for her ideas, subsequent findings have since confirmed that she was on the right track.

The same environmental approach used in interpreting glacial deposits applied to the genesis and diagenesis of peat deposits resulted in her ability to construct maps predicting the location and physical characteristics of peat deposits. This information is valued especially by the developing countries of the world, as they try to utilize peat lands as food and energy sources and conserve peat lands as sources of water.

Most recently, Dr. Cameron has been studying the jungles and lowlands of Sumatra for the government of Indonesia. Her goal has been to determine the feasibility of utilizing an immense tract of peat lands as a self-supporting site where people from overcrowded Java may be relocated. The area must permit the growth of cereals, vegetables, and fruits, and it must provide energy for pumping water and electrifying villages.

Dr. Cameron developed the concept of peat as a mineral resource and has been at the forefront of renewed interest in peat as a soil additive and energy source. She was instrumental in establishing a much-needed standard classification for commercial peat and wrote one of the first textbooks in this country that relates geology to society (The Earth in Human Affairs, 1945).

In 1977, Dr. Cameron received the Meritorious Service Award from the United States Geological Survey, the legislature of the State of Maine honored her with a special commendation in 1984, and the U.S. Department of the Interior presented her the Distinguished Service Award in 1986 in recognition of her 35-year career in military and engineering geology and in mineral resources.


B.F. Dewel, 25DDS

1987 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

B.F. "Tod" Dewel, 25DDS, entered the practice of orthodontics shortly after it was born as a dental specialty when he agreed to serve as a member of the dental faculty at the University of Iowa following his graduation. During the four years he served as teaching assistant for orthodontic chairman J. Elon Rose, Dr. Dewel had a major influence on the formation of Iowa's graduate program in orthodontics, one of the first programs associated with and recognized by a university graduate college in this country.

Throughout his long and diverse career, Dr. Dewel has distinguished both himself and his profession in many ways. When he left the University of Iowa in 1929, he established a private practice in orthodontics in Evanston, Illinois, where he continued to practice until his retirement in 1969. He was elected president of the American Board of Orthodontics in 1963; was editor-in-chief of the American Journal of Orthodontics from 1969 to 1979; became well known for his numerous publications, particularly in the area of serial extraction in underdeveloped dental arches; traveled extensively, presenting papers and conducting continuing education courses at 14 American universities and 13 professional societies in Europe and Japan.

Dr. Dewel has received every national and international award of major significance that can be given to an American orthodontist. He was awarded the Distinguished Service Scroll by the American Association of Orthodontists in 1966 and the Albert H. Ketcham Memorial Award in 1972, the highest awards presented in orthodontics in this country. In 1973, he became the second Iowa alumnus to receive the Iowa Dental Alumnus of the Year Award. In addition, Dr. Dewel was elected a Fellow in Dental Surgery of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 1973 and he was the vice president of London's 1973 Third International Orthodontic Congress. He also is an honorary member of the European Orthodontic Society, as well as of the Spanish, Italian, and Mexican orthodontic societies.

During this century, the practice of orthodontics has undergone dramatic changes, most of which Dr. Dewel has not only observed, but also recorded. He is the primary contributor and editorial consultant for a book on the history of the University of Iowa orthodontics department that is presently being written.

Dr. Dewel's ability to conduct a private practice, serve as editor of a major journal, publish nearly 200 articles, and teach part-time at Northwestern University are concrete evidence of this exceptional intellectual curiosity, which was developed and nurtured during his time at Iowa.


Johann L. Ehrenhaft, 38MD, 48R

1987 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Johann L. Ehrenhaft, 38MD, 48R, is a physician whose talents in thoracic-cardiovascular surgery have benefited the University of Iowa and countless patients for nearly four decades. Dr. Ehrenhaft became the first chairman of the Division of Thoracic-Cardiovascular Surgery at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics in 1949.

In the early 1950s, a time in the history of medicine when physicians took great steps forward in the treatment of heart disease, Dr. Ehrenhaft distinguished himself as a pioneer in cardiopulmonary surgery. He performed the first closed mitral commissurotomy in Iowa in 1950. The surgical procedure corrected the otherwise fatal ravages of rheumatic fever, which narrowed the valves of the heart, forcing it to work harder.

Early in his career at the UI, Dr. Ehrenhaft designed and constructed one of the first heart-lung machines, a device used to support heart and lung function during open-heart surgery. He used the pump clinically for the first time in 1956 to save the life of a five-year-old girl with a ventricular septal defect. Such open-heart surgeries are now fairly common, but were daring and innovative 30 years ago.

Throughout his career, Dr. Ehrenhaft wrote prolifically, extending his influence beyond the clinics and classrooms at the University of Iowa. His bibliography includes over 140 publications and book chapters, among which is one of the earliest studies encouraging surgeons to consider the removal of tumors that have spread to the lung from other sources. He also served as an editor of the Annals of Thoracic Surgery.

But his true legacy is in the thoracic and cardiovascular surgical program he built at Iowa. Dr. Ehrenhaft directed and supervised the training of 53 thoracic surgeons, 18 vascular surgeons, and seven special fellows before his retirement as chairman in 1986. Known as a deeply humane physician with a passion for excellence, Dr. Ehrenhaft's devotion to developing and maintaining surgical training programs of exceptional clinical scope and experience has been recognized by his peers, who elected him president of the Directors of Thoracic Residencies and a director of the American Board of Thoracic Surgery.

Dr. Ehrenhaft is a member of over 30 professional societies and of all the distinguished surgical societies. His exemplary career has been influenced by many outstanding mentors: by his mother, one of the first women to earn a PhD in Europe; by his father, a renowned physicist; and by his uncle, Dr. Arthur Steindler, an orthopedic surgeon at the University of Iowa.

Dr. Ehrenhaft's contributions, however, extend beyond medicine. His love of art and his interest in the political and social changes surrounding the Renaissance have combined to make him a knowledgeable and sensitive collector of prints and drawings. He was the first president of the Print and Drawing Study Club at Iowa's Museum of Art and is a member of the Friends Development Council.


Max S. Hawkins, 41BA

1987 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

Max S. Hawkins, 41BA, was a tireless champion of the University of Iowa for nearly 50 years. When he arrived in Iowa City as a 22-year-old freshman in 1937, he had one suit of clothes, two dollars, and a commitment to report to the S.U.I. football team. Though he earned glory as a guard on the legendary Ironmen team of 1939, the legend surrounding Max Hawkins grew throughout his lifetime and now extends far beyond the football field.

In 1948, Hawkins returned to his university as field secretary for the Alumni Association and was one of the architects of the organization in the years of its rejuvenation. He also helped form the Old Gold Development Fund, which became the UI Foundation. It wasn't long before Hawkins' distinctive qualities led to his principal role as a liaison between the university and the Iowa General Assembly.

For many years he was the UI's chief spokesman in the rotunda and hearing rooms of the Iowa State House, Hawkins also represented Iowa State University and the University of Northern Iowa with only slightly lesser enthusiasm. His irrepressible efforts over some 30 years of representing the interests of the Board of Regents brought many millions of dollars of additional support to the state universities.

Max Hawkins established a lofty standard for honesty and ethical behavior as director of State Relations. His uncanny memory of fiscal details and his knowledge of the finances of our state enabled him to emerge year after year with more friends and more money for his alma mater.

On the final night of his final legislative session in November 1981, both houses passed legislation authorizing the construction of the west campus hospital access road, a road that was soon after dedicated as Hawkins Drive.

Max Hawkins was able to represent alumni in a very sensitive, high-stress context for many years. His openness in keeping other lobbyists and interest groups informed, his unwavering loyalty to the University of Iowa, and his self-effacing support of policies established by the administration and faculty of his institution earned him respect from all, even those with opposing interests.

Max Hawkins' death on December 12, 1986 was a deep personal loss for his family, friends, and colleagues, but the afterglow of his efforts on behalf of higher education and the University of Iowa continues. Throughout the state, Max Hawkins remains the personification of the University of Iowa, the quintessential Hawkeye.


Jack MacAllister, 50BSC

1987 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Jack MacAllister, 50BSC, has risen to occupy one of the top jobs in the communications industry. As chairman of the board and chief executive officer of US West, Inc., the parent company of Northwestern Bell Telephone, MacAllister has earned a reputation as an exceptionally talented and highly skilled business professional. What's more, he has that rare and important ability to show his care and concern for his employees, while still keeping an eye on the bottom line.

With a service area covering one-third of the continental United States, US West has been singled out by numerous business publications as the best managed and most aggressive of the seven Bell holding companies created by the AT&T divestiture action in 1984. In its two years of operation, US West demonstrated its boldness and competitive spirit—trademarks of Jack MacAllister—by being the first to persuade half of the states in which it does business to deregulate pay telephones and cellular mobile phones.

Jack MacAllister's career at Northwestern Bell is a true success story. He joined the Bell System in 1950 as an underground cable installer and by 1961 had risen to the position of plant manager. He held a number of assignments in Iowa, South Dakota, and Nebraska before being transferred to AT&T in New York. He returned to Omaha in 1967 and held several vice presidential assignments before being named president of Northwestern Bell in 1975. MacAllister was designated chief executive officer of US West in May 1982, and he was named chairman of the board and chief executive officer in July 1986.

Jack MacAllister's leadership throughout the difficult transition years—during the deregulation of the telecommunications industry and during the period when major technological changes were introduced—has been hailed by his colleagues as "nothing short of brilliant." In the late 1970s, MacAllister took a leadership role in restructuring Bell operating companies to accommodate changes in the marketplace and in technology.

Despite his many executive responsibilities, Jack MacAllister has remained a loyal and staunch supporter of the University of Iowa, serving his alma mater in a variety of roles. A member of the University of Iowa Foundation Board of Directors, he was instrumental in the success of Hawkeye Arena/Recreation Campaign and the Iowa Hall Museum of Natural History Campaign. Currently, he is a volunteer on the Foundation's $150 million capital campaign, Iowa Endowment 2000: A Covenant with Quality.


Casey D. Mahon, 73BA, 76JD

1987 Distinguished Alumni Young Award

Casey D. Mahon, 73BA, 76JD, has amassed an impressive list of accomplishments and successes since she graduated from the University of Iowa. She began accumulating awards, in fact, even before she left the university, receiving the Iowa Academy of Trial Lawyers' Law Student Award and the Hancher-Finkbine Medallion (the university's highest academic and service award), both in 1976.

Soon after earning her Juris Doctor degree, Mahon was named assistant to UI President Willard L. Boyd, acting as in-house counsel. She held that post from 1977 to 1981 and distinguished herself during those years as a hardworking and talented employee, representing the university before state and federal agencies and providing legal advice to university officials, faculty, staff, and students. In 1981, in addition to fulfilling those many responsibilities, Mahon also served as registered lobbyist for the University of Iowa and the Board of Regents, while assisting university lobbyist Max Hawkins.

From 1978 to 1986, Mahon served the College of Law as lecturer, assistant dean, and associate professor. Former students attest that Mahon was both a gifted teacher and an inspirational mentor.

From 1982 to 1986, Mahon was associate vice president for finance and university services at the UI. Given her track record, it should come as a surprise to no one that her duties were many and that she carried them out with uncommon skill, energy, and aplomb. During those years, Mahon's responsibilities included developing the university's annual budget, planning and negotiating financing arrangement for capital and equipment acquisitions, representing the university in its relationship with the city of Iowa City and other governmental institutions, and preparing position statements on proposed state legislation. In January 1985, she was appointed acting treasurer and chaired the committee which addressed the university's stockholdings in companies that did business in South Africa.

Mahon was also responsible for the coordination and administration of athletic and recreation programs at the UI, where she was a major influence in the growth of women's athletics, continued support of men's athletics, and the development of the new track complex, as well as the indoor football and field hockey practice facility.

Since March of 1986, Mahon has served as senior vice president and general counsel for Teleconnect Company, one of the fastest growing firms in the country. But she remains, as always, a loyal booster to the University of Iowa. In the words of one of her colleagues, Casey Mahon carries her loyalty to the university like a banner, waving it proudly wherever she goes.


Margaret S Petersen, 47BSCE, 53MS

1987 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Margaret S. Petersen, 47BSCE, 53MS, entered the field of engineering long before it became widely accepted for women to do so, and she managed not only to succeed in her chosen field, but to distinguish herself as one of the nation's leading hydraulic engineers. She has attained international recognition and has received numerous awards given by the U.S. Army, Corps of Engineers.

She began her employment with the Corps prior to enrolling as an undergraduate at the University of Iowa. From her first assignment as a draftsperson with the Rock Island District, she went on after receiving her engineering degree to work on many rivers in the United States and to increasingly responsible posts in research, design of hydraulic structures, channel hydraulics, and water resource planning.

She has worked on some of the nation's largest water projects, including the Missouri River multiple-purpose storage reservoirs and navigation improvements, the Arkansas River navigation project, the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta project, and post-authorization planning for the $1 billion Marysville Lake multiple-purpose reservoir on the Yuba River in California.

Petersen's colleagues have noted that her work with the Corps was always characterized by her reasoned adherence to environmentally sound policy. An environmentalist long before the word came into vogue, Margaret Petersen was influential in guiding planning and design of numerous water projects in ways that minimized environmental damage.

Petersen's second career as an engineering professor at the University of Arizona's College of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, where she has taught full-time since 1981, has been as outstanding as her first. Not only has she been lauded as a rare species in contemporary American engineering colleges—an engineering professor who is also an engineer—but she has also developed four new graduate level courses in hydraulic engineering based on her own experiences.

Her field experiences have been invaluable in preparing the next generation of hydraulic engineers in the classrooms of today. The publication of her 1986 book, River Engineering, promises to expand her influence and is certain to become a standard engineering reference book. Her 1984 book, Water Resource Planning and Development, was one of the first books on the subject. Because it presents procedures for planning and gives special attention to problems of the lesser developed countries, it has been widely accepted internationally.

Petersen has been active in the American Society of Civil Engineers for more than 35 years and with the International Standards Organization and the Permanent International Association of Navigation Congresses. She has been involved with water resource planning for the Kingdom of Morocco, has lectured in Morocco, and will participate in a special course on water resource planning for developing areas in South Africa later this year.


Irving Ariel, 36MD

1986 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Irving Ariel is one of the eminent men in the world of medicine and research who has brought honor to himself and his industry, while keeping his patients' interests always in the forefront of his activities.

This humble scholar and gentle physician began his career in medicine at the University of Iowa in 1936, when he was awarded the M.D. His greatest contribution has been in the study and treatment of malignant diseases.

In 1949, Dr. Ariel wrote one of the first articles published on clinical cancer chemotherapy. His many interests and his concern for finding the best treatment for his patients led him to expand his scientific education even while practicing the art of medicine. In 1940, he earned his M.S. in Radiology from the University of Rochester, New York; in 1950, he was awarded an M.S. in Surgery from the University of Minnesota. Dr. Ariel's willingness to work as a trainee in radiology and surgery at a time when most surgeons would be well into the practice of their specialties is a tribute to his compassion for his patients. A major leader in the field of cancer research, Dr. Ariel moves with ease among the disciplines of surgery, oncology, and nuclear medicine. He developed surgical procedures for the treatment of cancer and pioneered in the use of radioactive isotopes for cancer treatment.

Dr. Ariel is a doctor who has made a difference—not only for the many who have benefited from his treatment, but also for his colleagues in the practice of medicine. He has written 224 articles that have been published in prestigious journals internationally. Twenty-eight medical books bear his name. Physicians today are students of his extensive bibliography, which includes a multivolume text (coauthored with George T. Pack) on the various forms of cancer and their treatment.

Dr. Ariel is professor of clinical surgery in New York Medical College, Westchester, and the State University of New York, Stony Brook, Long Island. A life member of the Alumni Association, he holds membership in many prestigious medical organizations and was founding member of such groups as the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer, the American Board of Science in Nuclear medicine, and the Flying Physicians Association.


S.J. Brownlee, 48BA

1986 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

S.J. Brownlee has a record of service and dedication to the University of Iowa that can be matched by few alumni, no matter how dedicated. During his twelve-year tenure on the Iowa State Board of Regents, Brownlee always spoke out with an articulate voice for a strong commitment to education. The fact that he felt that commitment personality is evident from his long career in support of education in the state of Iowa.

S.J. Brownlee graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Iowa in 1948 with a B.A. in economics. He attended the UI Law School for two years before leaving to help run a family business. He has worked for his community and his state at all levels—always an advocate for excellence in education. He served for seven years on the Emmetsburg Board of Education, much of that time as president.

In 1970, he was elected to the Iowa State Senate, representing Palo Alto, Pocahontas, and Buena Vista Counties. He served on the Higher Education, Judiciary, Appropriations, Conservation, and Commerce committees during his Senate term.

From 1973 to 1985, Brownlee served on the State Board of Regents, leading the board as president during his last four years. During his presidency, Brownlee directed the search for a new University of Iowa president, a search which ended in the selection of our current president, James O. Freedman. With his visionary leadership and unflagging efforts, Brownlee guided the Regents' universities through a period of hard economic times—times that threatened the excellent reputations of the state's institutions.

S.J. Brownlee has also been generous in giving his time and talent to fund raising efforts at the UI. He assisted with the Hawkeye Arena/Recreation Campaign in 1981-82 and is currently a member of the Steering Committee for the University's $100 million capital campaign, Iowa Endowment 2000; A Covenant with Quality. He is a life member of the Alumni Association and a member of the Presidents Club of the University of Iowa Foundation. He was elected to the Board of Directors of the UI Foundation in 1985.


Edwin B. Green, 29BA,

1986 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

Edwin B. Green is a dear friend to many departments at the University of Iowa. Although he received his B.A. in journalism from the UI in 1929, Eddie Green's generosity and support have been too large to be confined to a single department. He is a long-time supporter of the arts, of the medical community, and of his own field, journalism.

During his time at Iowa, Green worked as an editorial and advertising staff member of the Daily Iowan. After graduating from the UI, Green joined The Iowa City Press-Citizen, later serving as managing editor for 32 years until his retirement in 1966.

Over the years, Green has been an exceptional friend of the UI Museum of Art. On many occasions, he has lent works from his collection of Grant Wood's art. He has also helped the museum acquire several important pieces, including Eugene Berman's L'Orage, Emerson Woelffer's Max Ernst, Ulfert Wilke's Red was the Beginning, and James Rosenquist's Off the Continental Divide.

Last year, contributions from Green made it possible for the museum to acquire two major Grant Wood works. He made an outright donation of Sketch for Herbert Hoover's Birthplace (which has been called one of the most important Wood Drawings in existence), and, through his efforts, the Wood painting Plaid Sweater was donated to the University.

Eddie Green has also extended his generosity to the University's Department of Internal Medicine and Cardiovascular Research Center, including the Lewis E. January Learning Resources Unit, and to the School of Journalism. He helped in a campaign to establish a distinguished lectureship series in tribute to long-time School of Journalism Director Les Moeller, as well as generously supporting the renovation of a seminar room in the school.

His support in all areas has, in the words of Ken Starck, current director of the School of Journalism, "helped to make that critical difference between adequate and exceptional." Eddie Green is truly an exceptional alumnus.

Green is a member of the Alumni Association's Old Capitol Club and is also a member of the UI Foundation's Presidents Club.


Bingnan Lin, 47MA, 51PhD

1986 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Bingnan Lin, retired director of the Institute of Water Conservancy and Hydroelectric Power Research (IWHR) in the People's Republic of China, is one of the world's outstanding hydraulic engineers.

After being selected by his government in national competition for advance study in the United States, Lin came to the University of Iowa in 1946. He received his master's degree at the UI in 1947 and continued work toward the PhD, which was awarded to him in 1951.

Lin returned to his native China in 1955. Since 1958 he has held progressively more responsible posts at IWHR, where he was named director in 1982. Dr. Lin rose to that prestigious post because of his unique qualifications as an engineering/scientific researcher, his inventiveness as a hydraulic engineer, and his ability as an administrator.

China's great river systems have been the boon and the bane of the nation. So great is the power of these magnificent rivers that more than one-fourth of the river-borne sediment reaching the world's oceans comes from China. It was likely this consideration which prompted Dr. Lin to help the Chinese government conceive and organize, with UNESCO support, the International Research and Training Center on Erosion and Sedimentation (IRTCES), an organization which has become through his leadership one of the world's largest and most active in its concern for sediment erosion and deposition problems.

In another of his crowning achievements, Dr. Lin was able to resolve the many extremely difficult problems involved in the construction and operation of several large dams in China, including the Three Gorges Dam, located some 40 kilometers upstream from Gezhouba Dam on the Yangtze River.

During his tenure as director of IWHR, Dr. Lin upgraded its capabilities and broadened its field of activities to include such concerns as environmental engineering. He also worked to renew the international involvement of IWHR in the world community of engineers. One of the first cooperative agreements he established as director of IWHR was with the University of Iowa.

Dr. Lin's scholarship, engineering ingenuity, and scientific acumen are well recognized among his peers. When the American Society of Engineers sponsored its first annual lecture by distinguished foreign hydraulic engineers in 1985, they invited Dr. Bingnan Lin to present the inaugural address.


C. Esco Obermann, 27BA, 31MA, 38PhD

1986 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

C. Esco Obermann stands out as an articulate and forceful advocate of collegiality in an era that lauds individuality and specialization above all else. His emphasis on the broad-based multidisciplinary approach to research and education, as well as his continuing support for all programs at the University of Iowa, make him one of this university's most esteemed and beloved alumni.

Dr. Obermann's long career as an innovator in education began at the University of Iowa, where he earned a bachelor's degree in political science in 1926, a master's in education in 1931, and a doctorate in clinical psychology and speech pathology in 1938. While an undergraduate at the UI, Obermann was a member of the gymnastics team and served as one of the editors on the 1926 Hawkeye yearbook.

From 1938 to 1940, he was a research fellow at the UI and, in collaboration with the late Wendell Johnson, he designed and implemented a project to survey over 30,000 Iowa school children for disabilities and handicaps. As a reserve captain, he was ordered to active duty in 1940 and was released as a colonel in the Air Force in 1946. His last assignment in the armed forces involved planning the demobilization of the Air Force and providing for separation counseling for ten million homeward-bound servicemen.

From 1946 to 1960, Obermann was in charge of the Veterans Administration program for the rehabilitation of disabled veterans and the V.A. education program for the upper Midwest. As a research fellow in the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, he wrote a definitive History of Vocational Rehabilitation in America, completed in 1965. In 1966 he became an associate professor in rehabilitation counseling at the University of Iowa, a post he held until 1970, when he retired to work as a rehabilitation consultant in research design and program development.

Of all his contribution to education, one of the most significant is his work on a unique institution at the UI known as University House. Established in 1978, University House provides an opportunity for scholars from different disciplines and institutions to work together on research problems, using multidisciplinary approaches. Dr. Obermann has been an invaluable supporter of the idea since its inception. Through his active participation on the University House Advisory Committee, he has helped shape an institution that is on the cutting edge of educational and research development.

Dr. Obermann is a Diplomat in Counseling of the American Board of Professional Psychology and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and of the American Psychological Association. His membership included many years of service on national and international committees for the handicapped. In addition, Dr. Obermann has continued his ties to the University of Iowa as a life member of the Alumni Association and an Old Capitol Club member, sponsor of the annual Gymnastics Award Banquet and Obermann Trophy, and as a member of the UI Foundation's Presidents Club.


Jewel (Limar) Prestage, 52MA, 54PhD

1986 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Dr. Jewel Limar Prestage, educator, author, and scholar, began her remarkable career at the age of 22, when she was handed her PhD diploma at the University of Iowa. Her uncommon efforts as a student of political science made her the first black woman to receive a doctorate in that field from an American university.

From that moment on, Dr. Prestage has distinguished herself in every endeavor she has undertaken. After earning her M.A. in 1952 and her PhD in 1954 from the UI, she began her teaching career as an associate professor of political science at Prairie View College, Prairie View, Texas, in 1954. In 1956, she took a position as associate professor of political science at Southern University, Baton Rouge, where she has served a variety of capacities ever since.

The distinction and dedication that Dr. Prestage has brought to her profession over the years is exemplified in the offices she has held: as vice president of the American Political Science Association, president of the Southern Political Association, and president of the National Conference of Black Political Scientists. She has been a consultant to 26 organizations, contributed articles to scholarly journals, edited volumes in political science and higher education, and served on the editorial board of five publications, including Social Science Quarterly, Journal of Social and Behavioral Science, American Politics Quarterly, and Public Administration Review.

Dr. Prestage's life is notable not only for her broad-ranging work in the field of political science, but also by her extensive civic and community service. In 1980, she was appointed by President Carter to the National Advisory Counsel on Women's Educational Programs for the U.S. Department of Education. Dr. Prestage is a member of the Board of Directors, Voter Education Project of Atlanta, Georgia; a member of the Ford Foundation Committee on Programs to Assist Black Colleges, and, from 1975 to 1981, was chairperson of the Louisiana State Advisory Committee, U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.

As large as Dr. Prestage's contribution has been to the field of political science, the most rewarding fruits of her labor may be the impact she has had on a large number of black students who have gone on to graduate school and become leaders in their organizations.

Dr. Prestage, a life member of the Alumni Association, is currently dean of the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs at Southern University, Baton Rouge.


Eddie Robinson, 54MA

1986 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Eddie Robinson, the winningest football coach in the history of the sport, has dedicated his entire career to one institution, Grambling State University. He was hired to take over the program there in 1941 and left his 25 cents-an-hour job at the feed mill in Baton Rouge to work at turning a regional laughingstock into a national name in football.

From those early years when he literally did it all—from marking the field, taping the players, and coaching the drill squad at halftime, to writing the game story afterwards—to 1985, when he surpassed Paul "Bear" Bryant's 323 wins with a victory over Prairie View A & M, Eddie Robinson has relied on his own strict system for success. At the base of it all are hard work, discipline, and tough-mindedness.

Coach Robinson has not only made his team a winner, but he's also inspired over 200 individual players to careers in professional football. Robinson doesn't coach fancy football, but he coaches his team to meticulous execution of the obvious. Since joining the Southwestern Athletic Conference in 1958, Grambling has won or shared the SWAC Championship sixteen times.

In 1976, Coach Eddie Robinson became the first football coach to take a team outside the continental United States when the Grambling Tigers played in Tokyo; his teams have been voted National Black Champions seven times and he's coached Grambling to 26 consecutive winning seasons, currently the best among NCAA Division 1-AA schools. His career record stands at 329-109-15.

Eddie Robinson earned his M.S. in Physical Education from the University of Iowa in 1954. In 1966, the Football Writers of America cited him as the coach making the biggest contribution to college-division football during the previous 25 years, and he was inducted into the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics Hall of Fame. He was inducted into the Pop Warner Hall of Fame and the Sugar Bowl Hall of Fame in 1979. In 1982, Robinson received the American Service Award during Liberty Bowl festivities and the Amos Alonzo Stagg Award. Louisiana Tech University awarded him an Honorary Doctor of Laws degree in 1983, the same year that the new stadium at Grambling was named the Robinson Stadium. In 1986, Coach Robinson was honored with a Special Recognition Award from the NCAA.


James A. Van Allen, 36MS, 39PhD

1986 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

James A. Van Allen, has contributed so significantly to the generation of new knowledge in the field of space physics that he has gained an international renown shared by very few college professors. From those early days when he led his colleagues into Kinnick Stadium to launch balloons, to his days of glory as the discoverer of the Earth's radiation belts in 1958, James Van Allen was a pacesetter in the field of space physics. He continued in that role throughout his long and distinguished career as head of the Department of Physics and Astronomy and has remained active as a researcher and consultant since his retirement from the University of Iowa last June.

Van Allen received his M.S. degree from the UI in 1936 and his PhD in physics three years later. From 1951 until 1985 he headed the physics department, making it one of the most respected programs of its kind anywhere. Students have praised his skill as a teacher, while his research efforts alone have generated millions of dollars of support for space-related study at the University of Iowa.

An interest in cosmic rays put Van Allen at the forefront of scientific expedition to the Central Pacific, Alaska, the Arctic, and Antarctica, in the 1950s. During his career, he has been the principal investigator for scientific investigations on 24 Earth satellites and planetary missions, beginning with the first successful American satellite, Explorer I, and continuing at present with Pioneer 10 and Pioneer 11.

Van Allen's most widely known contribution was the 1958 discovery of radiation belts, now called Van Allen belts, encircling the Earth. Time editors lauded his find by putting him on the cover of the magazine. Less heralded were Van Allen's discovery of a new moon of Saturn in 1979, as well as radiation belts around that planet.

In recognition of his immense contribution to U.S. space research, Van Allen has received 13 honorary doctorates, the First Iowa Award in Science, the Elliot Cresson medal of the Franklin Institute, the Commander of the Order du Merite pour la Recherche et L'Invention, the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society, London, and the Medal of Exceptional Achievement from NASA. Iowa Governor Terry Branstad proclaimed June 28, 1985 "James A. Van Allen Day" in honor of his excellence in teaching and research.

Van Allen is Carver Professor of Physics, Emeritus at the University of Iowa. His special knowledge of planetary magnetospheres, cosmic rays, solar energetic particles, and solar x-rays, makes his continued work here a very valuable part of the educational experience for students and faculty alike. In addition, Van Allen is a member of the National Academy of Science and participates in the work of its Space Science Board.

Van Allen is a life member of the Alumni Association.


Elizabeth (Elder) Villafana, 80BBA

1986 Distinguished Alumni Young Award

Elizabeth Elder Villafana is considered by many in Minneapolis financial circles to be one of the brightest young business executives in the Twin Cities area.

Villafana, a 1980 finance graduate from the College of Business Administration, has been an impressive achiever in her relatively short professional life, while also being actively involved in community affairs and the future of the University of Iowa.

After graduation from the UI, Villafana began her career as an investment analyst with Piper, Jaffray & Hopwood, Inc. of Minneapolis, and in 1982 she was named a vice president of that securities and brokerage firm. Only three short years later she became a Chartered Financial Analyst, which is testimony to her efforts to enhance her position in her profession.

Villafana also maintains other business interests. She is vice president for finance of Greatbatch Gen-Aid Ltd. This company grew out of an association with Cornell University researchers and is currently working to develop an effective therapy for the treatment of the AIDS retrovirus, as well as conducting medical research in other disease-related fields.

Not content to merely put in her eight hours and go home, Villafana is also active in a national philanthropic organization. Her main interest is the Kips Bay Boys' Club in New York. She and her husband have provided considerable support for this particular club, and she manages its substantial endowment portfolio.

Over the years since her graduation, Villafana has maintained an interest in the University of Iowa. She and her husband have actively supported efforts to enhance the computer facilities in the College of Engineering. Both Elizabeth and Manuel Villafana are members of the President's Club.


Mikio Arie, 55MS

1985 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Mikio Arie, president of Hokkaido University, Japan, is one of the UI's most loyal graduates (55MS) and staunchest supporters. While rising to international preeminence in his field of fluid mechanics, he has always maintained a close relationship with the UI.

After receiving his Bachelor of Engineering degree from Hokkaido University, Dr. Arie received a Fulbright Fellowship to pursue advanced studies with the Institute of Hydraulic Research at the University of Iowa. During his two years here, Dr. Arie impressed his classmates and instructors as one of the institute's most energetic students and ingenious experimentalists. His M.S. thesis, which was published in the Journal of Fluid Mechanics, is considered definitive in its treatment of a specific fluid engineering problem.

In 1959, he earned the Doctor of Engineering degree from Kyushu University, Japan; and the University of Massachusetts awarded him the Doctor of Engineering, honoris causa, in 1983.

Dr. Arie has served on several influential academic and scientific organizations, including the Japan Science Council and the Senate of the National Research Institute for Polar Regions. He was vice president of the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers in 1980-81.

Despite his many responsibilities as president of the prestigious Hokkaido University, Dr. Arie still finds the time to arrange numerous faculty exchange programs between the UI and Hokkaido University, to publish first rate technical papers, and to visit the UI whenever he is in this country.

Dean of Academic Affairs Philip G. Hubbard, who was a fellow graduate student with Dr. Arie, has rightly called Arie "one of our stars on the international scene."


Bil B. Baird, 26BA

1985 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Bil B. Baird, 26BA, has made a unique contribution to society; for more than 50 years, Mr. Baird has entertained and enriched the lives of children—and adults—with his marionette and puppet shows. Since presenting his first puppet show at the Sigma Chi house in 1922, Mr. Baird has gone on to become the foremost creator of marionette theater in America.

Baird continued his studies at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts, where he dropped one of the "l's" in his first name. ("I never hear anyone pronounce the other 'l' anyway," says Baird.) Later, he formed "Bil Baird's Marionettes" and performed at the 1934 Chicago World's Fair.

During his amazing career, Baird has created more then 3,000 marionettes and 400 puppet shows, including three Broadway musicals and a puppet/concert with the New York Philharmonic at Lincoln Center. In addition, he has made countless TV appearances and participated in more then 400 TV commercials. One television show, Art Carney Meets Peter the Wolf, received an Emmy award nomination. More recently, Baird's puppet version of Igor Stravinsky's L'Histoire du Soldat garnered critical and popular acclaim.

Much of today's renewed interest in puppetry is due to Baird's work. In 1967, he and his wife, Cora, opened the first and only permanent puppet theater in the country at 59 Barrow Street, New York. Muppet creator Jim Henson credits Baird with teaching him most of what he knows about puppetry and at least 30 of Henson's puppeteers once trained with Baird.

Bil Baird lives in New York City, but continues contact with the University of Iowa through membership in the Alumni Association.


Paul F. Conrad, 50BA

1985 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Paul F. Conrad, a Cedar Rapids native, started his Pulitzer-prize-winning career in editorial cartooning during his student days at the University of Iowa. While working toward a BA in art (which he received in 1950), Conrad penned political cartoons five days a week for the student newspaper, The Daily Iowan. From the beginning, Conrad displayed a unique ability to tell hard truths with humor.

Since his initial journalistic efforts at the University of Iowa, Conrad has parlayed his talent into a brilliant career, first with The Denver Post, where his work won him a Pulitzer prize, and then with The Los Angeles Times, where he has since earned two more Pulitzers. Today, Conrad's cartoons are syndicated in 200 newspapers across the country and around the world.

Mr. Conrad has won numerous other awards for his work, including five Editorial Cartoon awards from Sigma Delta Chi, a Journalism award from the University of Southern California (1972), two Overseas Press Club awards (1970, 1980), and the Robert F. Kennedy award in 1985.

Conrad was elected by the UI journalism faculty to the School of Journalism and Mass Communication's Hall of Fame in 1969, and he presented the 1982 keynote address at the annual scholarships and awards banquet. He is a life member of the Alumni Association.


Gloria J. & Webster B. Gelman

1985 Distinguished Alumni Friend Award

Gloria J. & Webster B. Gelman, this year's recipients of the Distinguished Friend of the University Award, have indeed been good friends of the university, expressing their commitment to the UI in many ways.

Both members of the President's Club since 1970, the Gelmans have donated a variety of outstanding pieces of art to the UI Museum of Art, including a collection of 53 prints by Mauricio Lasansky, several fine examples of African and American Indian arts, and several collections of pre-Columbian artifacts.

In the early years of the Museum of Art, Gloria Gelman served as education chair and general chair of the Friends of the Museum. She served on the Museum Advisory Board and is currently a member of the Friends Development Council. She also served on the committee for the rededication of Old Capitol.

Both of the Gelmans are dedicated conservationists, having donated 50 acres of meadow and woodland areas near the Coralville Reservoir to the Johnson County Heritage Trust. For five years, Dr. Gelman also served on the Johnson County Conservation Board and was involved with the procurement and planning of the F.W. Kent County Park.

Dr. Gelman's interest in Iowa's natural heritage led him to become involved with the Iowa Hall project, a major new addition to the UI Museum of Natural History. He served as co-chair of the National Campaign Committee that spearheaded alumni efforts to fund the new museum. An active member of the board of the UI Foundation for nine years, he is now a lifetime board member.

Dr. Gelman is a retired orthopedic surgeon and an accomplished artist, with several one-man shows to his credit.


Richard C. Kautz, 39BSC

1985 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

Richard C. Kautz, 39BSC, chairman of Grain Processing Corporation of Muscatine, has long been a personal supporter of numerous University of Iowa projects. In recent years, the School of Music has been the beneficiary of corporate gifts from companies with which Mr. Kautz is associated. In 1982, a substantial orchestra scholarship fund was established; and Kautz's leadership in underwriting the 1983 European tour for the UI Johnson County Landmark jazz band was instrumental in enabling the group to represent Iowa in an outstanding fashion at the Neuchatel and Montreux festivals in Switzerland.

Most recently, Mr. Kautz and his corporate colleagues have lent their support to the UI Opera Theater production of Handel's Agrippina, as well as Simon Estes' residency for Boris Godonov in 1986.

His concern and support for his community have led Kautz to assume a variety of leadership roles in professional and charitable organizations. He has served the YMCA in numerous national and international capacities, including his positions as chair of the National Board of YMCAs and vice president of the World Alliance of YMCAs.

Mr. Kautz served as chair of the National Association of Manufacturers in 1976, the only Iowan having occupied this position. He has also been a member of the Advisory Committee of the U.S. Export-Import Bank. In addition, Mr. Kautz serves as chair of the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library Association, and was named "Significant Sig" of the Sigma Chi national fraternity.

A newly elected board member of the UI Foundation, Kautz is also a member of the President's Club and of the Alumni Association's Old Capitol Club.


Daniel J. Krumm, 50BSC

1985 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Daniel J. Krumm, 50BSC, has always been bullish on Iowa. He joined The Maytag company shortly after graduation from the UI and rose rapidly to his current position of chief executive officer. His company is widely respected as one of the country's best-managed corporations. In fact, a study recently completed at the University of Iowa concluded that Maytag is viewed by consumers as having the highest quality products of any major appliance manufacturer.

In 1978 he was honored by the National Management Association with the Gold Knight of Management award. He was selected Outstanding Chief Executive Officer of the Year in the appliance industry by Financial World magazine in both 1979 and 1981.

Krumm has also played a major role in civic, community, and university affairs. He has served in a variety of leadership positions in the Maytag Foundation, the Vocational Rehabilitation Workshop for Handicapped Citizens of Jasper County, the Newton Chamber of Commerce, the Board of Governors of the Iowa College Foundation, the Des Moines Symphony Association, and the Iowa Natural Heritage Foundation.

In 1977, Mr. Krumm was appointed to the governor's task force on ethics in state government, and he is currently serving on the governor's Iowa Venture Capital Fund.

Mr. Krumm is a life member of the UI Alumni Association.


Alfred A. Mannino, 42BSP

1985 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Alfred A. Mannino, 24BSP, has made a name for himself—both in the pharmaceutical industry and in his generous and committed relationship with his alma mater.

His list of achievements while still attending the University of Iowa is impressive: president of his senior class, member of the football team 1939-42, recipient of the 1942 Catholic All American Award.

After graduation, Mannino enlisted in the Marines, where he rose to the rank of captain while fighting in World War II. He returned to the UI in 1947 to update his professional training and then joined McKesson and Robins, one of the nation's largest pharmaceutical wholesalers.

In 1968 Mannino joined Marion Laboratories in Kansas City, Missouri, where he now serves as vice president for corporate affairs. He was instrumental in transforming Marion Laboratories from a small regional specialty firm into the $300 million world-class pharmaceutical firm it is today. In honor of his achievements in the industry, he was awarded the 1983 Timothy Patrick Barry, Jr. award.

Mannino's commitment to the UI over the years has been exemplary. He arranged for Marion Laboratories to be a corporate member of the UI President's Club, and engineered substantial support for the College of Pharmacy's Division of Pharmaceutical Service—a support which continues to this day. In addition, he has remained dedicated to assisting the football staff at the UI whenever called upon.

Mannino is a member of the President's Club and of the Alumni Association's Old Capitol Club.


Glen Terrell, 52PhD

1985 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Glenn Terrell (52PhD) has had a distinguished career in higher education. He began his teaching career as a member of the faculty in the department of psychology at Florida State University, later moving to the University of Colorado. In 1963 he became Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago Circle. He was promoted to the post of Dean of Faculties there in 1965.

Appointed president of Washington State University in Pullman in1967, Dr. Terrell has provide leadership in developing what was primarily an undergraduate state college into a comprehensive research university. He plans to retire from the presidency at Washington State University this year.

Dr. Terrell has been a leader in many academic organizations, serving as president of the National Association of State Universities and Land-grant Colleges, 1977-78; and chair of the executive committee of the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education, 1973-74.

He has also been a member of the American Council on Education, the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges, and the Society of Sigma Xi; in addition, Dr. Terrell has been recognized as a fellow of the American Psychological Association, and the Society for Research in Child Development.


Michelle (Fluckey) Thomsen, 74MS, 77PhD

1985 Distinguished Alumni Young Award

Michelle Fluckey Thomsen is remembered by James Van Allen, her major professor at the University of Iowa, as being "among the very best of the graduate students that I have had during my 34 years at the UI. She is clearheaded, hard-working, and highly competent. She writes well, speaks well and has the killer instinct for what is significant. She gets results."

While pursuing an M.S. degree at the UI, Thomsen was part of a team of scientists analyzing data from the historic Pioneer 10 spacecraft's flight to Jupiter. She received her M.S. degree (1974) and her PhD degree (1977) from the UI Department of Physics and Astronomy, and held a post-doctoral research appointment here from 1977 to 1980. She then left Iowa to continue her studies at the Max-Planck-Institut fur Aeronomie in Lindau, West Germany. Dr. Thomsen has been a permanent staff physicist in the Earth and Space division of the Los Alamos National Laboratory since 1981.

Her PhD thesis, titled "On Determining a Radial Diffusion Coefficient for the Observed Effects of Jupiter's Satellites," is considered a standard reference in the field and has been widely distributed. She has also published over forty articles in a variety of scientific journals.


Homer L. Calkin, 35BA, 36MA, 39PhD

1984 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

Homer L. Calkin former deputy director for the U.S. Department of State, began his service to his country in 1942 as organizations and propaganda analyst in the War Division in the Department of Justice. During World War II, he was an officer in the Military Intelligence Service of the War Department General Staff, and following the war he served on the National Archives for four years.

In 1950, Mr. Calkin joined the Department of State as an archivist on the Records Management Staff, of which division he later became chief. For 27 years, he worked in a multitude of capacities within the Department, serving on the planning staff for the extension of the Department of State building, traveling to some 50 embassies and consulates in Europe and Asia to assist in the transfer of occupation functions from the armed forces to the Department of State, assisting in the development of new procedures for the issuance of visas, and providing guidance in records management and archival problems.

Throughout his distinguished career, Calkin, 35BA, 36MA, 39PhD in History, has maintained his interest in historical research and writing. His articles and books have covered a wide range of subjects, including British-Irish relations, the American Revolution, the history of the Methodist Church, the Irish in America, the history of Iowa, and women and minorities in American foreign affairs.

One of only two lifetime honorary directors on the Friends of the Library at the University of Iowa, Homer Calkin has not only given the University generous financial support, but has served in many ambassadorial roles as well. He is a life member of the Alumni Association.


George H. Gallup, 23BA, 25MA, 28PHD, 67LLD

1984 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

George H. Gallup's work in developing public opinion survey techniques over the past 50 years has made his name a household word. Scandinavian countries, whose languages do not include a world for "poll," have adopted his surname—Gallup—to rectify the omission.

Gallup's career in market research began when he was a political science student at the University of Iowa in the 1920s. Between his junior and senior years, he answered an advertisement for summer employment in St. Louis and became one of the 50 students hired by the Post-Dispatch to survey each and every reader of the newspaper. A go-getter who soon realized he was continuing to get the same answers, Gallup decided there had to be a better way.

He returned to the University of Iowa and when the School of Journalism was founded in 1924, he was hired as one of its first four faculty members. In 1926, while he was enrolled as a graduate student in the University, Gallup founded the Quill and Scroll Society, and international fraternity for high school journalists that today boasts more then 11,000 chapters around the world.

By the late 1920s, Gallup was wondering if and how an election's outcome might be accurately predicted—and he hadn't forgotten that hot summer knocking on doors in St. Louis. His father-in-law, Alex Miller, had lost his bid for the governorship of Iowa, while his mother-in-law was elected Secretary of State a few years later. Gallup was convinced that the sampling technique he had developed for his doctoral dissertation ("A New Technique for Objective Methods for Measuring Reader Interests in Newspapers") could also predict the outcome of political races.

The technique worked and led Gallup to establish the American Institute of Public Opinion (the Gallup Poll) in 1935. Gallup, who earned all three of his degrees from the University of Iowa(23BA, 25MA, 28PhD), remains the world's foremost public opinion statistician today.

As the principal inventor of a surrogate for democratic decision making, Gallup was able to provide information about the will of the people. He effectively bottled the air of democracy and gave leaders a guide to leadership.


Carol (Bird) Greenawalt, 71BA

1984 Distinguished Alumni Young Award

Carol Bird Greenawalt (now McKay), 71BA, has distinguished herself and her university in the field of photojournalism. Since 1981 she has served as White House photo editor, the woman in charge of the President's "image." She oversees the historical documentation of the Reagan administration as she selects the best photographs shot by five White House photographers. Traveling with the President, preparing albums as gifts for visiting heads of state, and photo editing for releases to the media are just a few of her varied responsibilities.

Though her career seems a natural now, Greenawalt actually stumbled onto the profession in a UI photojournalism class. She had spent her first two years at Iowa enrolled in pre-medicine.

Before joining the White House staff, Ms. Greenawalt worked for United Press International, was head picture editor at the Milwaukee Sentinel, photography editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal, and director of photography and photography editor of the Kansas City Star. She also taught at the Indiana School of Journalism while working on her M.A. degree.

Greenawalt remains actively involved in the activities of the UI School of Journalism and Mass Communications. Her most recent visit to campus was in the fall of 1983, when she was the featured speaker at the 70th anniversary banquet of the Society of Professional Journalists, Sigma. She is a life member of the Alumni Association.


Robert C. Hardin, 35BS, 37MD

1984 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Robert C. Hardin, 35BS, 37MD, continues his 50-year association with the University of Iowa as professor and dean emeritus, College of Medicine. During his early experience as a resident at the University, he and Dr. Elmer L. DeGowin produced the seminal work that lead to the feasibility of shipping preserved whole blood long distances for use in transfusion. The military implications of this development were obvious. Hardin left his residency to enter the Army and, at a young age, became the commanding officer of the European Theater of Operations Blood Band and senior consultant for shock and transfusion.

When Dr. Hardin returned to the College of Medicine after World War II, he surprised his associates by forsaking the field of blood preservation for the study of diabetes mellitus. With Dr. Robert L. Jackson, he established for the first time that there was a direct relationship between the control of hyperglycemia and the development of vascular degenerative changes in diabetes patients. He published his observations in 1949-1950 and in 1956.

Hardin's work on diabetes earned him national recognition that culminated in his election to the presidency of the American Diabetes Association in 1969. Inspired by what the Association could do for patients, he helped plan and direct the change of the ADA from a purely professional organization to a lay, volunteer health organization. At the UI, he helped establish one of the country's foremost programs for diabetes treatment and research.

In spite of these national achievements, Dr. Hardin's priorities always insisted that his patients and students at the University of Iowa were his first responsibility. Today, Bob Hardin is a legend on this campus. Successively rising in the administration of the College of Medicine, he engineered the planning and funding of Bowen Science Hall, conceived the Health Sciences Library and determined that private funds could be raised to build it, supervised the revision and upgrading of the medical school curriculum, encouraged the establishment of the Veterans Administration Hospital in Iowa City, and made sure that the College of Medicine remained an integral part of the University of Iowa.

His reputation on all levels is well deserved.


H. John Hawkinson, 36BA

1984 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

H. John Hawkinson, president of Kemper Financial Services, Inc. from 1962-1977, continues as director of the company, Chicago's largest investment management firm. He currently serves as president and director of 16 Kemper Funds. In addition, he serves as a corporate director for ten major companies, including Kansas City Southern Industries, Ryder Systems, American Federal Savings and Loan Association of Central Iowa, and MAPCO, Inc. In years past, he has been a director of the Peabody Coal System, StudebakerWorthington, the Chicago, Great Western Railway, Thermogas Company, Douglas Oil Company, and many more.

Considering the extent of Mr. Hawkinson's corporate affiliations, it is remarkable that he has always made time in his busy life for the University of Iowa. Since his graduation in 1936 with a B.A. in Pre-Business Administration, Hawkinson has provided support for every major capital campaign undertaken by the University and for many other special projects. The University of Iowa Foundation has long benefited from Mr. Hawkinson's valuable guidance regarding investments policies. Elected to the Foundation Board of Directors in 1967, Hawkinson serves today as a lifetime honorary director.

Always cognizant of Iowa, Mr. Hawkinson's loyalty and commitment to his alma mater continue to be expressed in his willingness to give of his time and his expertise to assist the institution that launched him on his long and notable career.


Henry B. Hook, 33BA

1984 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

Henry B. Hook, retired Davenport newspaper publisher, has long been an enthusiastic booster of the University of Iowa.

Hook started his journalistic career at the UI in the depression years. He earned his board by working at University Hospitals and his tuition by serving as news editor and sports editor for the Daily Iowan.

When Hook graduated with a B.A. degree from the UI School of Journalism in 1933, his optimism and journalistic ability earned him a position as editor of a small Iowa newspaper. Though from a class, he was one of only two journalism students to find work at graduation time that year.

Henry Hook has always been one to enthusiastically embrace opportunity to accomplish his goals. At the University of Iowa he has responded frequently by lending his stirring voice and endless energy to one cause or another. He has been a member of the Alumni Association Board of Directors, a member of the search committee for a new director of the School of Journalism, a main speaker at the annual Finkbine Dinner, a J.F. Murray lecturer at the School of Journalism, a co-chairman of the class gift committee for 1933 graduates, and is a member of the advisory committee for the School of Journalism. He was an early member of the President's Club and is a lifetime member of the Alumni Association.

Hook's career encompasses nearly 50 years of a newspaper and broadcasting executive. In 1937, he joined the Lee organization at Mason City and was an original board member of Lee Enterprises, Inc., which owns 25 newspaper, radio, and TV operations in a dozen states. When he retired in 1974, Henry Hook had devoted 21 years as publisher of Davenport newspapers.

Always a writing newspaperman, his career has included coverage of several Democratic National Conventions and writing from African and Asian trouble spots while on tour under the auspices of the U. S. State Department.

Closer to home, Hook has rallied the troops with volunteer work that has touched practically every civic organization in the Greater Quad-Cities. His life offers a vivid example of what one person can do—for his profession, his university, and his community.


Mary Louise Smith, 35BA

1984 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

Mary Louise Smith has worked for more than 30 years within the American political system. Beginning as a volunteer campaign worker in Iowa "grassroots" politics, Mrs. Smith became the architect of the Republican Party's precinct program in the state. Her concept for that program was to become the national model. Mrs. Smith has been Iowa's Republican National Committeewoman since 1964, was a founding member of the Iowa Women's Political Caucus, was the first woman to be named chairman of the Republican National Committee, and is, to date, the only woman of a major political party to organize and call to order a national convention.

In 1974, George Bush, then national chairman of the Republican National Committee, asked Mrs. Smith to co-chair the Committee. She moved to Washington, but spent most of the next several months crisscrossing the nation presenting organizational seminars and speaking out calmly and fairly about political institutions. In spite of the tensions of that Watergate year, Mary Louise Smith demonstrated the class and integrity that renewed the spirits of others and helped restore confidence in the political system. These qualities have become the hallmarks of Mrs. Smith's political career.

After succeeding to the presidency, Gerald Ford appointed Bush to head the U.S. diplomatic mission to China and asked Mrs. Smith to assume the chairmanship of the Republican National Committee, a position which she held until 1977. After returning to Des Moines that year, Mary Louise Smith was inducted into the Iowa Women's Hall of Fame. In 1982, Mrs. Smith was named vice-chairman of the US Commission on Civil Rights, where she was heard consistently speaking out in behalf of equality for women and the protection of the civil rights of all Americans.

Mary Louise Smith represents what is best in politics and public life. A woman of the highest principles for herself and country, she is a strong supporter of human dignity and social rights at home and abroad. Known nationally, Mary Louise Smith is a tribute to her native state of Iowa and the University of Iowa, where she earned her B.A. in 1935. She is a member of the Alumni Association, and serves on the advisory council of the Hawkeye Fund Women's Program.


Janet (Taylor) Spence, 49MA, 49PhD

1984 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Janet Taylor Spence, 49MA, 49PhD, recently elected president of the 55,000- member American Psychological Association, is an educator and scientist of extraordinary accomplishment. The Taylor Manifest Anxiety Scale she developed as part of her doctoral dissertation has become one of the most widely used clinical tools for personality assessment.

Spence's latest research on gender as a dimension of personality related to achievement motivation and sex-role attitudes has created excitement in the psychological research community. Her study of gender-related attitudes toward competence has helped to dispel the theory that so-called masculine interests and drives in women will repel people of both sexes. Spence's studies form the basis of her book, Masculinity and Femininity: Their Psychological Dimensions, Correlates and Antecedents.

Currently Ashbel Smith Professor of Psychology and Educational Psychology at the University of Texas in Austin, Spence was the first chairwoman of the Department of Psychology at that University. She presently serves as a consulting editor on four major journals and during her career has held many editorial positions, including ten years as associate editor of Contemporary Psychology, one of the American Psychological Association's most widely read journals.

Her peers have chosen to recognize her with election to membership in the Society of Experimental Psychology and with fellowship status in several noted national scientific associations. In 1981, Professor Spence was awarded an Ida Beam Visiting Lectureship at the University of Iowa.


Joseph M. Welsh, 71BBA, 72MA

1984 Distinguished Alumni Young Award

Joseph M. Welsh, 71BBA, 72MA, has outdistanced his peers among the population of industrial relations professionals from schools across the country. As division vice president for personnel and industrial relations for Consolidated Aluminum corporation in St. Louis, Mr. Welsh directs the industrial relations program for some 5,000 employees in ten plants spread across the eastern half of the country. In addition to the daily management of all phase of employee relations, he serves as the corporation's chief negotiator with the Steelworker's Union at both the company and nationwide levels.

Welsh's outstanding business career is a reflection of his industrious nature and educational preparation. In 1976, Welsh joined Consolidated Aluminum, one of the top 400 corporations in the country, as the youngest corporate manger of labor relations, an in 1980 he was the youngest corporate director of industrial relations in the company. At age 32, Welsh became division vice president for personnel and industrial relations. Again, he was the youngest individual in the company ever to attain that position.

In less than ten years, Joseph Welsh has risen to a level of managerial achievement which is realized by only a small fraction of professionals in industrial relations over a lifetime.


Chen-Hsing Yen, 38MS, 41PhD

1984 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Chen-Hsing Yen has accomplished what few would aim to achieve—a trio of remarkable careers that are a tribute to his nation, the Republic of China, and to the world.

Having received his undergraduate education at China's most noted technical school in Peiping, Yen came to the University of Iowa in 1937. He earned his M.S. degree in the Department of Mechanics and Hydraulics in 1938 and completed the PhD in 1941.

Yen returned to his native China and taught in a national university while concurrently leading the construction work on the famous Burma Road. He so distinguished himself that at the end of World War II he was placed in charge of the Herculean engineering task of closing the Yellow River gap.

After moving with his government to Taiwan in 1949, he was appointed chief engineer of the Kaoshiung Harbor Bureau. His efforts in the design, construction, and initial operation of this unique harbor/industrial-zone complex have served as the model for the development of several other such complexes in the Republic of China, and are considered to be in large measure responsible for the island nation's remarkable economic success.

In 1957, Yen resumed his earlier career in education. Over the years he served as president of three prestigious universities—National Chen Kung University, National Tsing Hua University, and National Taiwan University— and as Minister of Education for the R.O.C. During his 24-year tenure as Minister of Education, he successfully extended the compulsory education of his country from six to nine years, established professional junior colleges, and enhanced the development of science and technology.

Throughout his active career as a practicing engineer, educator, and administrator, Yen has continued to produce excellent technical papers. In 1982, his peers recognized his work by electing him to the renowned Academia Sinica.

Though he has conducted his professional life over half a world away from the University, his interest in and loyalty to the UI have resulted in his urging many other Chinese to come here to study. Chen-Hsing Yen's professional accomplishments are a tribute to his character and intelligence, as well as to the quality of education he received at the University of Iowa.


Newell P. Crockett Jr., 42BSC

1983 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Newell P. Crockett, Jr. recently stepped down as managing partner of the Chicago office of Ernst & Whinney, one of the country's most eminent accounting firms. He has been with the firm since 1946, including 22 years as a partner.

Mr. Crockett has served on the board of directors of the UI Foundation and has been honored as a lifetime Honorary Director. He is a member of the advisory committee of the UI College of Business's accounting department.

Mr. Crockett's wide range of civic accomplishments includes terms as director of United Charities of Chicago, the Chicago Association of Commerce and Industry, Junior Achievement of Chicago, and Northwest Community Hospital. In addition, he served on the President's Council of the National College of Education.

He received his B.S.C from the University of Iowa in 1943, is a life member of the Alumni Association, and a member of the Presidents Club.


Robert N. Houser, 47BA

1983 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Robert N. Houser is chairman and chief executive officer of The Bankers Life in Des Moines one of the nation's leading insurance companies and the largest financial institution in Iowa. Mr. Houser joined the company in 1936 and was elected to its board on directors in 1973.

In addition to his leadership in business, Mr. Houser has contributed to a wide range of community services in Des Moines. He was general chairman of the city's United Way campaign and serves as chairman of the United Way Foundation of Central Iowa. He also serves as chairman of Mercy Health Center of Central Iowa and as a trustee of Drake University. He is on the board of directors of the Des Moines Chamber of Commerce and serves as president of the Des Moines Development Corporation. Mr. Houser is also past chairman of the Iowa College Foundation and a member of its Board of Governors.

A member of Phi Beta Kappa, Mr. Houser received his B.A. in mathematics with highest distinction from the UI in 1947. He is a member of the Presidents Club and a life member of the Alumni Association.


Lewis E. January

1983 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

Lewis E. January, professor emeritus in the University of Iowa College of Medicine, has given more than 40 years of service to the UI and continuous support to its students, artists, and athletes. He has been a member of the medical faculty since 1947, including 15 years as director of the cardiovascular training program and 8 years as associate chairman for clinical programs in the Department of Internal Medicine.

Dr. January has received awards and given service at the national and international levels in both medicine and the arts. He served as president of the American Heart Association for 1966-67; his activities on the board of directors of the Joffrey Ballet have contributed to the successful association that has developed between the University of Iowa and the Joffery II.

Dr. January is a member of the UI Presidents Club and a life member of the Alumni Association. He was honored recently when the Learning Resource Unit in the College of Medicine's new Cardiovascular Center was named for him.


Erling Larson, 48MD

1983 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Erling Larson has been a physician in Davenport, Iowa, since 1954 and clinical associate professor of internal medicine at the UI College of Medicine since 1976. He donates more than 500 hours per year of bedside teaching at the Family Practice Residency program at Mercy-St. Luke's Davenport, an affiliate of the University of Iowa College of Medicine. On May 1, he assumed the presidency of the Iowa Medical Society, the highest post of honor among the state's medical practitioners.

Dr. Larson received his M.D. from the UI College of Medicine in 1948. In the years since his graduation he has volunteered his time and resources for many University of Iowa campaigns and causes. He served on the National Committee for the Cardiovascular Research Center and the Hawkeye Arena Recreation Program. Since 1973, he has served on the UI Foundation's board of directors, including a term as president from 1978-1981. He is a lifetime Honorary Director of the Foundation and a member of the Alumni Association's Old Capitol Club, as well as the Presidents Club.

As a member of the Iowa Council, Dr. Larson is active in legislative affairs on behalf of the university. He has served on many university and university-related committees, including the Presidential Search Committee, the admissions committee for the College of Medicine, and the University Committee for Outreach. In 1979 he was awarded the Hancher Medal at the Finkbine Awards Dinner.

Until he became president of the Medical Society, Dr. Larson was senior Iowa delegate to the American Medical Association for six years.


E.J. (Jack) Liechty

1983 Distinguished Alumni Friend Award

E.J. (Jack) Liechty has had a distinguished newspaper and publishing career. He entered the business as Iowa City agency circulation manager for the Des Moines Register in 1930. He later also handled the distribution of the Iowa City Press-Citizen as an agent, and then in 1937 joined the Press-Citizen as a circulation manager. He became publisher and president of the Press-Citizen in 1962 and in 1966 was named general manager of Speidel Newspapers, Inc., parent company of the Press-Citizen and other newspapers across the United States.

He was named president of Speidel in 1968 and served in that position until his retirement in 1972. He continued as chairman of the executive committee until 1977, when Speidel merged into Gannett Co., Inc., the nation's largest newspaper company. He was a member of the board of directors of Gannett for four years and also was a trustee of the Gannett Foundation.

Mr. Liechty has been a generous contributor to many campaigns and capital projects at the University of Iowa, including the Hancher Auditorium, the restoration of Old Capitol, the Cardiovascular Center, the Carver-Hawkeye Arena, and several programs for the School of Journalism.

In 1981, he joined the University's Journalism Advisory Committee. He also serves on the national committee of the Campaign for Iowa Hall. He is a life member of the Presidents Club.


James A. Michener

1983 Distinguished Alumni Friend Award

James A. Michener, who established the James A. Michener Awards for graduates of the UI Writers' Workshop in 1980, is one of the world's most popular authors. Since 1947, starting with the Pulitzer Prize-wining Tales of the South Pacific he has written 30 books, including many novels about different cultures, and texts for five art books. His work has been translated into most major languages of the world, with a readership in the many millions.

Mr. Michener has also devoted much time to public service. In 1968 he served as secretary of the Pennsylvania Constitutional Convention; from 1970-74 he worked in 47 foreign nations as part of a commission for the U.S. Information Agency. He has also been a cultural ambassador to many countries. In 1982, at the request of the state department, he participated in a United Nations-sponsored cultural exchange in Mexico City, and in the UNISPACE Conference in Vienna. Since 1979 he has served on the NASA Advisory Council.

Mr. Michener has received honorary doctorates in five fields from more than 20 universities as well as the United States' highest civilian award, the Medal of Honor. He is a life member of the UI Presidents Club.


Mary Louise (Anneberg) Petersen, 51BA

1983 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

Mary Louise Anneberg Petersen served 12 years on the Iowa State Board of Regents, including 8 years as president. During her tenure the regents' institutions enjoyed considerable growth in enrollment and quality, despite governmental cutbacks in financial support.

Ms. Petersen's support of higher education extends to the national level. Through her work on the National Board of Universities and Colleges, she has advised many institutions on financial planning and advancement. She is active in the Carnegie Foundation and the Kellogg Foundations.

Ms. Petersen received her B.A. from the University of Iowa in 1951. She is a member of the Alumni Association's Old Capitol Club and the UI Presidents Club.


Alice (Williams) Sheets, 32BA

1983 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

Alice Williams Sheets, who graduated from the University of Iowa in 1932 with a B.A. in journalism, has provided generous support for the College of Business. She is a life member of the University of Iowa Presidents Club and a life member of the Alumni Association.

In 1978, Mrs. Sheets established the E. Lester Williams Scholarships in memory of her father. The scholarship fund provides annual support for merit students enrolled in the business program.

Mrs. Sheets fully endowed a professorship in the College of Business in 1979. The Ralph L. Sheets Professorship, honoring her husband (a 1924 graduate of the University of Iowa College of Law), aids faculty members who have excelled in teaching and research in the field of industrial relations.


Harriet B. Brady

1982 Distinguished Alumni Friend Award

Harriet B. Brady, other members of her family and many friends have created a fully-endowed scholarship at the UI College of Medicine in memory of her late husband, Harold S. Brady. The Harold S. Brady Memorial Scholarship is the most prestigious at the UI College of Medicine.

Mrs. Brady, a member of the UI Foundation's board of directors, has been an active member of the National Committee for the Hawkeye Arena/Recreation Campaign. She currently is serving on the National Committee for the School of Religion's Jewish Professorship Campaign.

Her continuous support of the University, including the prestigious International Writing Program, has qualified her for membership in the President's Club.

Mrs. Brady also is active in the Chicago community. She has served on the governing board of the Spertus College of Judaica, the women's board of the University of Chicago and the women's board of the Chicago Medical School. She currently is serving as governor of the Weizman Institute of Sciences in Rohoboth, Israel.

Mrs. Brady has served as a governing member of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, director of the Friends of the Chicago Public Library, patron of the Art Institute of Chicago, guarantor of the Lyric Opera of Chicago, and as a member of the Arts Club of Chicago.


Loren Hickerson, 40BA

1982 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

Loren Hickerson graduated from the University in 1940, after being inducted into Phi Beta Kappa. He served as editor of the Daily Iowan and assistant to the UI director of publications from 1940 to 1942.

Mr. Hickerson's career with the University was interrupted by World War II. He served in the US Navy from 1942 to 1945. He returned to the University as an instructor in the School of Journalism.

He later became director of alumni records and executive directory of the UI Alumni Association, positions he held until 1966. Mr. Hickerson helped to organize the UI Foundation and served as its first executive director from 1957 to 1966.

In 1966, Mr. Hickerson served as director of Community Relations for the University. He became director of the UI Art Center Relations in 1972 where he served until his retirement in 1980.

Mr. Hickerson also was active in the Iowa City Community and the state. He was elected to the Iowa City City Council in 1966 and served as mayor of Iowa City from 1968 to 1972. He also was a member of the board of directors of the Iowa City Chamber of Commerce from 1974 to 1977. Mr. Hickerson was named to several state commissions by Governor Robert Ray and former Governor Herschel Loveless. He also was a member of the board of directors of Friends of Educational Broadcasting.

Mr. Hickerson worked diligently to promote the state and his work was recognized by the Iowa State Bar Association, the Press Columnists of Iowa, the Iowa Federation of Women's Clubs and the UI Alumni Associations.

He is the recipient of many awards including: the American Alumni Council Distinguished Service Award; the Alumni Federation of Columbia University Medal for Distinguished Service to Education; the Midwestern Districts of American Alumni Council and American College Public Relations Association Hall of Fame Award; the Iowa City Chamber of Commerce Outstanding Citizen Award; and the UI Parents Association Distinguished Service Award.

Mr. Hickerson and his wife, Ellen (Christensen), live in Iowa City. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Iowa.


William C. Knowler, 68BA

1982 Distinguished Alumni Young Award

William C. Knowler is deputy chief of the Epidemiology and field Studies Branch at the National Institute of Arthritis, Diabetes, Digestive and Kidney Diseases in Phoenix, Arizona.

He graduated from the University with highest distinction and honors in mathematics. He was named Most Distinguished Undergraduate of 1967 and inducted into Phi Beta Kappa.

Dr. Knowler graduated cum laude from Harvard Medical School and also received a master's degree in Public Health in 1973. He received a Ph.D. in Epidemiology from the Harvard School of Public Health in 1980.

He served as an intern at Faulkner and Lemuel Shattuck Hospitals in Boston and completed his residency in preventive medicine at the Harvard School of Public Health.

Dr. Knowler began as a staff associate with the National Institute of Arthritis, Diabetes, Digestive and Kidney Diseases, Southwestern Field Studies Section in 1975. He was promoted to staff physician in 1977 and became chief of the Southwestern Field Studies Section in 1975. He was promoted to staff physician in 1977 and became chief of the Southwetern Field Studies Section in 1979. Dr. Knowler also is chief surgeon in the U.S. Public Health Service. He is a member of the committees for the National Institute of Arthritis, Metabolism and Digestive Diseases and the Health and Nutrition Examination Survey of the National Center for Health Statistics in addition to memberships in a number of other professional associations.

He has provided consultation and presented seminars and lectures at Harvard University, the Indian Health Service, the National Eye Institute, the Mayo Clinic, The University of Iowa, the University of Michigan and several hospitals in the Phoenix area.

Dr. Knowler also is a consultant to a research group from the University of Hiroshima, Japan, studying diabetes mellitus and its vascular complications among Japanese immigrants to Hawaii.

His studies have been published in numerous medical journals and he has become internationally recognized for his work.

Dr. Knowler received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University in 1968.


Richard S. Levitt, 52BA, 54JD

1982 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Richard S. Levitt, a Des Moines native, is chairman and chief executive officer of Dial Corporation in Des Moines. The Wall Street Transcript selected Levitt as the top Chief Executive Officer in the Consumer Finance Industry in 1981. He currently serves as a trustee of the Iowa Methodist Medical Center, Simpson College and Tifereth Israel Synagogue in Des Moines.

Mr. Levitt also has been actively involved with the YMCA and the Des Moines Art Center. He also is a member of the board of directors of the Meredith Corporation, the Iowa-Des Moines National Bank and the Des Moines Center of Science and Industry.

He has maintained close ties with the University of Iowa. Mr. Levitt was elected to a three-year term on the board of directors of the UI Foundation in 1976 and was subsequently re-elected to another three-year term. He currently serves as a vice-chairman of the Foundation and a member of its Executive Committee.

Mr. Levitt has placed Mauricio Lasansky's 33 Nazi Drawings on extended loan to the UI Museum of Art. Levitt also has been instrumental in the School of Religion's Jewish Professorship Campaign, serving as national chairman.

Both Mr. Levitt and his wife Jeanne (Strauss), 52BA, are members of the UI President's Club. They have four children, Randall, 22; Mark, 20; Beth, 16; and Jay, 12.

Mr. Levitt holds two degrees from the University: 52BA and 54JD.


Margaret A. Ohlson, 30MS, 34PhD

1982 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Margaret A. Ohlson, retired in 1971 as head of Nutrition at University Hospitals and professor of Internal Medicine, UI College of Medicine, after 48 years of service.

She has held faculty positions at the University of Indiana Hospitals, Michigan State College, Michigan State University, Iowa State College, University of Washington and the UI. She directed 94 MA theses and six PhD dissertations as a UI faculty member.

Her expertise in the field of nutrition has been recognized by nutritionists and dietitians across the nation. She served as a member of the National Research Council, as a consultant to the US Air Force Medical Corps and as an advisor to the Veterans Administration Dietetic Service.

Ohlson was made a fellow of the American Institute of Nutrition and of the American Public Health Association in recognition of her many services. She was awarded the Borden Award for Research in Human Nutrition in 1942 and again in 1950. She also received the American Dairy Association Service Award in 1953 and the American Dietetic Association's Marjorie Hulsizer Copher Award in 1966.

Ohlson now lives in Seattle, Washington. She is a Life Member of the UI Alumni Association

She holds two degrees from the University: 30MS and 34PhD


Harry F. Olson, 24BE, 25MS, 28PhD, 32EE

1982 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Harry F. Olson spent his professional career with the Radio Corporation of America (RCS). He started in 1982 with the Photophone Division of RCA in New Your City. He then moved to the RCA Victor Division in Camden, New Jersey and lastly served as staff vice-president with RCS Laboratories in Princeton, New jersey.

Mr. Olson retired in 1967, but was retained by the company as a consultant. Durning his retirement, Olson, who has authored seven books, also continued to add to his impressive list of publications.

During his career, Mr. Olson made a number of significant contributions to his field. He had more than one hundred patents granted in his name. In 1959, he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences. He was a member of Tau Beta Pi, Sigma Xi, the American Physical Society, the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers and he served as president of the Audio Engineering Society.

Mr. Olson was associate editor of the Acoustical Society of America's Journal for some 30 years, and served on the Society's Executive Council from 1937-1940. He also served as the Society's vice-president from 1942 to 1944, president-elect from 1951 to 1952, and president from 1953 to 1954. He was awarded the Society's first Silver medal in Engineering Acoustics in 1974.

He was awarded the Society's highest honor, its Gold Medal, in 1981.

Harry Olson held four degrees fron the University: '24BE; '25MS; '28Ph.D.; and '32EE. The Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award is being presented to Mr. Olson posthumously. He died April 1, 1982, just a few days after he was selected to receive the award.


Robert A. Olson, 33BSC, 35JD

1982 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Robert A. Olson began his career with Kansas City Power and Light as the company's secretary on February 14, 1947. A scant 13 years later, Olson was elected president and chief operating officer. He became chairman of the board and chief executive officer in 1971. Mr. Olson retired in August 1973 and was named Honorary Chairman of the Board.

Olson has been active in many civic projects. He was named "Citizen of the Year" in 1964 by the Kansas City Men's Chapter of UNICO National for his outstanding accomplishments. He was director of the Chamber of Commerce of Greater Kansas City; the Kansas City Crime Commission; United Funds, Inc.; Starlight Theatre Association; and the Downtown Committee. He served on the board of governors of the American Royal Association and is a member of the Rotary and Mercury Clubs.

Mr. Olson holds two degrees from the University: 33BSC, 35JD.


Elizabeth M. Stanley, 27BA

1982 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

Elizabeth M. Stanley, a member of the board of directors of the UI Foundation, together with her husband, C. Maxwell Stanley, have contributed generously to the University. Their gifts of African art make up the Stanley Collection at the UI Museum of Art. It is considered one of the premier African art collections in the country.

Mrs. Stanley has served as a volunteer on many UI Foundation campaign committees and has made leadership gifts to every capital campaign, including the Hawkeye Arena/Recreation Campaign.

Mr. and Mrs. Stanley established the Stanley-UI Foundation Support Organization in 1979. Its objective is to provide an endowment, which will give broad-based support to the University.

Mrs. Stanley also serves her community of Muscatine. She is a member of the board of directors of the Muscatine Art Center, the Stanley Foundation and the Julia Elizabeth Home, a retirement home for elderly women.

Mrs. Stanley received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University in 1927.


Francis O. Wilcox, 30BA, 31MA, 33PhD

1982 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

Francis O. Wilcox has served as director general of the Atlantic Council of the United States for the past seven years. The Council was founded in 1960 to promote better understanding between the United States and industrialized democratic nations in the Atlantic. Prior to that, he served as executive director of the Congressional Commission on the Organization of the Government for the Conduct of Foreign Policy.

Mr. Wilcox was a professor of International Organization and American Foreign Policy at the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University from 1961 to 1963. He also served as dean of the school and is currently Dean Emeritus.

Mr. Wilcox began his distinguished career in government service just after World War II when he founded the staff of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He served as its chief of staff for nearly ten years.

He was a member of the U.S. delegation to the United Nations Conference in San Francisco in 1945 and the first U.N. General Assembly in London in 1946. He has attended many subsequent sessions of the Assembly. He served as U.S. delegate to the General Assembly in 1960. Mr. Wilcox also was a member of the delegation to the Japanese Peace Conference of 1951. He served as U.S. delegate to annual conferences of the World Health and International Labor Organizations.

Mr. Wilcox is a member of the board of directors of the Dreyfus Corporation and is a Knight Commander of the Order of Merit (government of Italy). He also is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi, Omicron Delta Kappa, and a long list of professional organizations.

Mr. Wilcox has authored many government reports and articles. He is the author and co-author of a dozen books on international affairs. He graduated from the University with three degrees: 30BA, 31MA and 33PhD.


Florence A. Boone

1981 Distinguished Alumni Friend Award

Mrs. Boone served as a member of the UI Foundation's Board of Directors for nine years, three of those years on the Board's Executive Committee. In recognition of her service, including participation on many other ad hoc committees of the Board, she was elected by her peers as a Lifetime Honorary Director of the Foundation.

Mrs. Boone served as co-chairperson of The Presidents Club National Committee for four years until 1980. Under her leadership, Presidents Club membership tripled to nearly 1,200 members.

She and other members of her family created and fully endowed a UI College of Law scholarship in memory of her first husband, Edgar C. Corry, 34BA, 36JD, who was the executive vice-president of North American Car Company.

Mrs. Boone has hosted various outreach and fund raising campaign events in her home. She has also been a generous contributor to the Old Capitol Restoration project and to many other programs and projects throughout the University.

Currently Mrs. Boone is working to encourage on ongoing relationship between the Lyric Opera of Chicago and the Opera Program at Iowa. Her husband, Mr. William A. Boone, is an Iowa graduate, 38BSC, in Pre-Business Administration and Commerce.


Lloyd H. Rogler Canino, 51BA, 52MA, 57PhD

1981 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Dr. Lloyd H. Rogler Canino, Director of the Hispanic Research Center At Fordham University in the Bronx, New York, was born in Puerto Rico and has had a distinguished career of conduction basic studies on the family in Puerto Rico, the United States, and several Latin American countries.

Before joining the Fordham faculty, where he holds the Albert Schweitzer Chair in Humanities, Dr. Rogler Canino taught at the University of Puerto Rico, Yale University, and Case Western University. He is the recipient of numerous grants and the author of two standard reference works in the National Advisory Mental Health Counsel of the National Institute of Mental Health, U.S. Public Health Service (1972-1976), and was appointed to develop five-year research plans for the National Institute of Health and the Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration. He has also been editorial consultant to many scientific journals.

Among his many honors, Dr. Rogler Canino was named a Fellow of the Hubert Humphrey Chair on Internationally Renowned Scholars, Macalester College, St. Paul, Minn. He received the Academic Excellence Award presented in Washington, D.C., in September in 1980 during a national Hispanic conference sponsored by the National Coalition of Hispanic Mental Health and Human Services Organizations (COSSMHO). This award was granted in recognition of Dr. Rogler Canino's "career of exemplary scholarship contributing significant insights and deeper understanding of issues critical to Hispanic families and communities." For his outstanding research contributions to the understanding of the mental health problems and strengths of Puerto Ricans, Dr. Rogler Canino was recently honored with an award from the New York Society of Clinical Psychologists.

He received his University of Iowa BA in philosophy in 1951, his MA and PhD in sociology, in 1952 and 1957 respectively.

Dr. Rogler Canino is a member of the Alumni Association.


Dr. Donald Galagan, 37DDS

1981 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

Dr. Donald Galagan, held three major full-time positions during his 44 yeas in the dental profession: Assistant Surgeon General (Rear Admiral) and Director, Division of Dentistry in the U.S. Public Health Service; Dean of the College of Dentistry, The University of Iowa; and Executive Director of the American Association of Dental Schools.

Dr. Galagan has contributed to the development of the use of fluorides; in the conceptualization and implementation of four-handed, sit-down dentistry and effective auxiliary utilization; in the development of the major thrust for community water flouridation in the U.S. and abroad; in the development and later the administration of federal legislation which enabled dental schools to build or rebuild their physical plants. His work with the American Dental Association has contributed to the development of the National Dental Health Program for Children and to the 1976 Curriculum Study.

He belongs to the American Dental Association, The American Association of Dental Schools and many public health organizations and other dental associations and organizations too numerous to mention. He was secretary-treasurer and president of the American Board of Dental Public Health and served as president and as a director of the American Fund for Dental Health, the Commission of Dental Education of the Federal Dentaire Internationale, and is one of the few dentists elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences.

He is on the Board of Directors of the Sterndent Corporation, was a member of the National Advisory Dental Research Council, past chairman of the Dental Caries Program Advisory Committee of the National Institute of Dental Research and was chairman of the Dental Advisory Committee for the Veterans Administration.

Dr. Galagan received the Pierre Fauchard Gold Medal Award for outstanding professional service, the Trendley Dean Award from the International Association for Dental Research, the Meritorious Service Medal from the U.S. Public Health Service and is the recipient of the 1976 Alumnus of the Year Award from the Iowa Dental Alumni Association.

Dr. Galagan is a private consultant in dentistry, science, education and public health. He and his wife, Dorothea, reside in Lakeview, Ark., and are the parents of three children.

A Life Member of the UI Alumni Association, Dr. Galagan received his DDS from the UI in 1937.


Reynold P. Jurgensen, 31BA, 32MS

1981 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

Throughout the Clinton area, Reynold P. Jurgensen is involved with both corporate and charitable endeavors.

Serving his fifteenth year on the Clinton National Bank's Board of Directors, Mr. Jurgensen's other managerial positions include president of the Clinton National Bank, Clinton Corn Processing Plant's senior vice-president, county supervisor and as an original investor in Clinton Cablevision where he is a managerial consultant.

He was a member of the Agriculture Commission of the United States Chamber of Commerce, the Clinton Community Crime Commission, Iowa State Crime Commission and past president of the Gateway Chamber of Commerce. As a member of the Clinton Development Corporation since 1974, Mr. Jurgensen served as vice-president and president. He was also a member of the Gateway Political Action Committee and City Plan Commission.

Mr. Jurgenson served as president of Jane Lamb Memorial Hospital Board of Directors, and chaired or headed major committees of nearly all Clinton's charitable fund drives including United Way, two Y.M.C.A. building fund drives, and Boy Scouts.

A Life Member of The University of Iowa Alumni Association, Mr. Jurgensen sat on the Association's Board of Directors from 1961 to 1967. From 1967 to 1979 he was the Alumni Association's representative on the University's Board in Control of Athletics, and in 1980 became a member of The Presidents Club assisting the UI Foundation on the Hawkeye Arena/Recreation Project as a member of the National Committee and co-chairman of the Clinton/Jackson Counties' Regional Campaign.

Mr. Jurgensen married the former Ivalyn Kennedy and they have three daughters: Mrs. Joyce Krogman, Mrs. Carolyn Bohlmann and Mrs. Joan Murphy.

Mr. Jurgensen earned a 31BA and a 32MS in chemistry from the UI.


Mr. Edwin B. Lancaster, 38BA

1981 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Edwin B. Lancaster is an executive vice-president and a member of the corporate executive office of Metropolitan Life Insurance Company. In addition, he is a member of the Board of Directors of Metropolitan Property and Liability Insurance Company, chairman of the board of Metropolitan Reinsurance Company, chairman of the board of Metropolitan Insurance and Annuity Company, and chairman of the board of DTSS, Inc., all Metropolitan subsidiaries.

He is an advisor on the U.S. Social Security systems to the American Enterprise Institute, and advisor to the controller of the State of New York with respect to New York public employee pension systems, and a trustee of the Citizens Budget Committee (N.Y.).

Mr. Lancaster actively participated in civic affairs, having served 12 years on the Mt. Kisco, N.Y., Village Board and Planning Board.

He is a Life Member of the UI Alumni Association and has served as UI Foundation director from 1971-80. He is now an Honorary Lifetime Foundation director. He is also a trustee of Northwestern Westchester Hospital.

Mr. Lancaster is married to the former Marjorie Forshey. They have a son, Craig, and a daughter, Susan. He earned a mathematics BA from the UI in 1938.


Leonardo Lasansky, 71BGS, 72MA, 72MFA

1981 Distinguished Alumni Young Award

Prof. Lasansky is achieving an international reputation as an artist, working in the genres of intaglio printmaking and drawing. His biography is recorded in Who's Who in American Art.

In the past year Lasansky, who has exhibited widely in Europe as well as the United States, has received five major international awards, the most prominent being in the Krakow Print Biennale at the National Museum in Poland. He was included in an American drawing retrospective at the Brooklyn Museum this past winter.

In 1980 The University of Iowa Museum of Art was given two of his works by the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters in New York City.

Prof. Lasansky has received over 30 awards for his work. He is a native Iowa Citian, and the son of Mauricio and Emilia Barragan Lasansky.

He received three degrees from the UI, a BGS in Art in 1971, and an MA and MFA in Art in 1972.


Robert E. Moyers, 42BS, 42DDS, 47MS, 49PhD

1981 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

A former faculty member at Iowa, Dr. Robert W. Moyers has held academic appointments at the University of Toronto, University of Athens in Greece and was Chairman of Orthodontics at the University of Michigan's School of Dentistry from 1953-1965. His record may be measured by the fact that 26 of his former students have been appointed as chairmen of orthodontic departments in universities throughout the world.

He founded three unique centers for research advancement into craniofacial growth: Burlington Orthodontic Research Centre, University of Toronto, Craniofacial Anomalies Clinic, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, and the Center for Human Growth and Development at the University of Michigan where he served as director from 1964-1980.

Dr. Moyers has received numerous honors including an Alumni Honor Award from New York University's College of Dentistry Alumni Association, the distinguished Faculty Achievement Award from the University of Michigan and an honorary Doctor of Science award from the Aristotelean University of Thessaloniki, Greece. During World War II, he was awarded military honors for his service as Chief Allied Medical Liaison Officer to the Greek Resistance Movement.

His affiliations with professional and learned societies include memberships in the Orthodontic Societies of Venezuela, Chile, The Netherlands and Greece. Having made major contributions to his field, he has numerous publications to his credit including an orthodontics textbook widely used in school both here and abroad.

Dr. Moyers holds four degrees from the UI: 42BS, 42DDS, 47MS in Orthodontics, and 49PhD in Physiology and Biophysics. He is a Life Member of the UI Alumni Association.


Dr. Adolph L. Sahs, 31MD

1981 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Six years after his retirement as professor and head of the Department of Neurology at the University of Iowa, Dr. Sahs is still active as Chief of the Neurology Service at the Veterans Administration Hospital, Iowa City, as attending physician to the in-patient services of University Hospitals and as a participant in two research programs.

Dr. Sahs has been President of the American Neurological Association and of the American Academy of Neurology. He was active in the National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Blindness and served on its council and study committees. He was a member and president of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology.

He served the Veterans Administration for years as a local consultant and as a consultant to the Central Office.

Dr. Sahs has over 130 publications to his credit. He is an Emeritus Member of the Board of Directors of the Epilepsy Foundation of America and a member of the Medical Advisory Board of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society.

He also serves as a Co-Editor of Neurology Review and as a consultant to Westat Research, Rockville, MD., on the Guillain-Barre syndrome.

Dr. Sahs received his MD from the UI in 1931. He lettered in baseball at Iowa in the late 1920s.


Dr. Wallace E. Stegner, 32MA, 35PhD

1981 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Wallace E. Stegner is an author and Professor Emeritus of Literature and Creative Writing at Stanford University. He has taught at Iowa, Wisconsin, Harvard and from 1945 until 1972, at Stanford.

He established the Creative Writing Center at Stanford. He was three times a Guggenheim Fellow, the author of several prize-winning short stories and novelettes, and the Pulitzer Prize winner for fiction in 1972 with his novel Angle of Repose. Another of his many novels, The Spectator Bird, won the National Book Award for fiction in 1977.

Prof. Stegner has donated nine manuscripts and associated materials to The University of Iowa Libraries' collection of manuscripts.

He is a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Prof. Stegner has also served as West Coast Editor for Houghton Mifflin Company, publishers, as assistant to the United States Secretary of the Interior, Washington D.C. and has been a member and chairman of the National Parks Advisory Board and Editor-in-Chief for the American West Magazine, Palo Alto, Calif.

He received two degrees from the UI, a MA in English in 1932 and a PhD in English in 1935.


Henry B. Tippie, 49BSC, 09LHD

1981 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

Mr. Tippie, a CPA, has for the past several years been chairman of the Executive Committee and vice-chairman of the Board of Directors of RLC corp., Wilmington, Del; a director and member of the Planning Committee and chairman of the Audit Committee of Rollins, Inc., Atlanta, Ga. In addition, Mr. Tippie is director of South Texas Drilling Co., San Antonio, Tex.

He was one of the founders of Kingstip, Inc., and Kingstip Communications, Inc., Austin, Tex.

During 1979, Mr. Tippie founded Tippie Communications, Inc., a south Texas FM radio station owner and operator. Mr. Tippie is Chairman of the Board, and sole stockholder of the corporation.

Mr. Tippie is a member of the Iowa Society of CPAs, the American Institute of CPAs, the Financial Executives Institute and a life member of the American Accounting Association.

He has been a Life Member of The University of Iowa Alumni Association for more than 25 years, a longtime supporter of The UI Foundation and the sponsor of two first-year college scholarships for deserving graduates of the Belle Plaine, Ia., Community Schools. Mr. Tippie has also previously endowed a UI annual four-year scholarship for graduates of the Belle Plaine, Ia., community School system as well as a two-year UI College of Business Administration accounting scholarship.

Mr. Tippie and his wife, Patricia, are the parents of Henry II, Helen and Linda. He is the son of Amelia Tippie and the late Robert W. Tippie, Belle Plaine, Ia. Mr. Tippie earned a BSC degree in accounting in 1949 from The University of Iowa.


Cheryl R. Arvidson, 69BA

1980 Distinguished Alumni Young Award

Ms. Arvidson was editor of the Daily Iowan student newspaper during her senior year at the UI in 1968-69.

Upon graduation, she joined UPI in Des Moines as a staff reporter, and, in 1970, she was named bureau chief, a position which she held until her transfer to UPI's Washington, D.C., bureau in 1973.

During 1973-74 she spent her entire time covering Watergate and related stories.

During the 1976 presidential campaign, Ms. Arvidson was assigned to cover both the Republican and Democratic conventions and was UPI reporter of the Walter Mondale vice-president campaign.

More recently she has been covering the Senate Ethics Committee, preparing stories related to various scandals involving political figures.

Ms. Arvidson has served as a guest speaker at the UI School of Journalism and helped in planning for the future course structure of the journalism program. She is a member of the UI Alumni Association.


Milton E. Barrent, 40BS, 40MD, 49R

1980 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

Dr. Milton E. Barrent is a native of Sioux City and a graduate of Central High School there. After receiving his medical degree, he served with the Army medical Corps until 1946, attaining the rank of major.

In 1946, Dr. Barrent returned to finish a surgical residency at UI Hospitals and Clinics.

He began his medical practice in Clinton in 1950. from 1953-55, he served as Clinton's City Health Officer and, in addition to his surgical practice there, he is the surgical consultant to the DeWitt, Iowa; Morrison, Ill., and Savanna, Ill., hospitals.

He has served as president of the staff at both the Jane Lamb and Mercy Hospitals in Clinton, and has been president of the Clinton County Medical Society. He continues to be active on the medical staffs and, in addition, he serves as medical director at the Clinton County Care Facility in Charlotte.

Dr. Barrent helped start the School of Nursing at the Clinton Community College and serves on the advisory board for that program

As a member of the Paul B. Sharer Foundation, he helps to select worthy students for scholarships at Clinton Community College.

Dr. Barrent has been active in the American Cancer Society, the board of directors of the Clinton Chamber of Commerce, and served as president of the Clinton Art Association, helping to establish Clinton's first art gallery.

In 1979, Dr. Barrent was honored by the Iowa Football Coaches' Association for 29 years of service to high school athletes in Clinton. He continues as Clinton High School's official team physician, attending all football and basketball games, as well as being on call for all other athletic events.

In May, 1979, Dr. Barrent was named Man of the Year by radio station KROS, during the Gateway Chamber of Commerce Annual Awards ceremonies, for his many years of service to the Clinton Community.

In August, 1979, he was appointed to serve on the Divisional Board of St. Joseph Mercy Hospital, Clinton.

Dr. Barrent resides at 214 Lawrence St., with his wife, Vivian, who is a graduate of the UI College of Nursing. They have four children: Molly Holstein, Clinton; Rebecca Komp, Hartford, Wis; Elizabeth Carlson, Iowa City, and Richard Barrent, a student at Northern Illinois University, Dekalb.

He is a life member of the Alumni Association.


Alson E. Braley, 31MD, 37R

1980 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Dr. Braley performed the first corneal transplant in the state and founded the Eye Bank and the Iowa Network, an association of amateur radio operators who help to direct available donor eyes to physicians who need them for transplants.

A native of Lake Mills, Dr. Braley did his internship, a two-year residency in ophthalmology at UI Hospitals.

He was an instructor in ophthalmology from 1937-39, was in private practice in Detroit, and taught at Wayne State University, Columbia University and New York University.

He left the position of professor and head of the Ophthalmology Department at New York University in 1950 to assume the same position at the UI.

During the next 17 years, under his leadership, the UI Ophthalmology Department became an international center for eye treatment and research.

Through his efforts the UI received research and training funds from federal sources for the first time. This funding had previously been available only to a few established centers on the east coast.

Dr. Braley trained more than 100 ophthalmologists, many of whom now chair eye departments throughout the country.

He served as a member of the National Advisory Council of the National Institute for Neurological Diseases and Blindness and as a vice-president of the American Academy of Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology.


Roberta F. Fenlon, 42MD

1980 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

As president of the California Medical Society, Dr. Fenlon headed the largest state association in the country. A native Iowan, she has been in private practice in San Francisco since 1945.

She took six months off from her practice in 1965-66 to serve as chief medical consultant for the Social Security Administration to help prepare the Medicare Program.

Dr. Fenlon received the Distinguished Internist Award of the American Society of Internal Medicine in 1971 and Distinguished Internist for Medicine at the UI College of Medicine Centennial in 1970.

In 1967, Fenlon received the Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award from Iowa State University, Ames, where she earned B.S. and M.S. degrees in oacteriology.

She completed an internship and residency at San Francisco General Hospitals and was Chief Resident of Medicine at the University of California Hospital, San Francisco.

Dr. Fenlon is a member of the Board of Directors of The University of Iowa Foundation, a life member of the Alumni Association and a member of the Association's Old Capitol Club.


Jack A. Laughery, 57BSC

1980 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Mr. Jack Laughery was raised in Guthrie Center. Following graduation from the University of Iowa he worked for Connecticut General Insurance Company and served in the U.S. Army.

He joined Sandy's Food Systems in Davenport in 1962 and was promoted to vice-president in 1964, executive vice-president in 1967 and president and chief executive officer in 1971.

In 1972, Mr. Laughery was instrumental in negotiating a merger between Sandy's Systems and Hardees Food Systems, Inc. He was named executive vice-president of Hardees that year, president and chief operating officer in 1973 and president and chief executive officer in 1975.

Hardees is the fourth largest hamburger chain in the world, operating 1,200 restaurants and producing one-half billion dollars in revenue each year.

Last year Mr. Laughery was recognized for the successful turnabout of his company when the Food Service Industry named him as one of the op five multi-unit food service operators in the country.

Mr. Laughery and his wife, the former Helen Herboth of Kirksville, Mo., have four daughters—Brenda, Kelly, Christine, and Sarah.

Laughery serves on the boards of the North Carolina Restaurant Association and the National Restaurant Association and is a trustee of North Carolina Wesleyan College.

He is a life member of the UI Alumni Association.


Prof. Robert J. Myers, 34MS

1980 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Prof. Myers earned a B.S. degree in engineering physics from Lehigh University in 1933. Upon receiving his M.S. degree from the UI in 1934, Myers was employed as a junior actuary by the Committee on Economic Security, which prepared the studies on which the Social Security Act was based.

When the act was passed Prof, Myers was hired by the Social Security Administration. He resigned as Chief Actuary in 1970 and joined the Temple University faculty.

Since 1075 he has been a consultant to the House Ways and Means and Senate Finance Committees. He is currently a member of the National Commission on Social Security, which was established by the Social Security Amendments of 1977.

During his career Prof. Myers assisted 31 countries with their social security or pension systems and headed missions to study the social security systems of 10 other countries.

He has written three books on social insurance and more than 500 articles.

Prof. Myers received honorary degrees from Muhlenberg College in 1964 and Lehigh University in 1970.

He was president of the Society of Actuaries and the American Academy of Actuaries, both in 1971-72, and he is only the second person ever to head both groups.

Prof. Myers is a life member of the UI Alumni Association.


Lillian C. O'Brien

1980 Distinguished Alumni Friend Award

Lillian C. O'Brien interest in the UI Department of Ophthalmology developed through her marriage to Dr. C.S. O'Brien, the department's first head, who served in that position for more than 20 years, beginning in 1925.

In 1973, through the cooperation of Mrs. O'Brien, the C.S. O'Brien Library was dedicated in his honor, offering a central learning and research center for students in ophthalmology. This $130,000 facility was made possible through private support from Dr. O'Brien's friends, students and colleagues.

Under Dr. O'Brien's leadership, the UI Department of Ophthalmology became one of the first independent eye departments in the country. Of those who completed work in the clinic, more than 20 percent have chosen academic careers and 18 have become heads at other institutions.

Dr. O'Brien's tenure was marked by extensive research, and Mrs. O'Brien's support has assured that the research initiated by her husband has continued. She has retained close ties with the University since the death of her husband in 1978.


Helen L. Reich, 30BA, 35MA

1980 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

Ms. Reich's association with the UI spanned 43 years. A native of Moravia, she enrolled at the University of Iowa in 1928 after tow years at Iowa Wesleyan College, Mt. Pleasant. She earned two UI degrees, a B.A. in English literature in 1930 and a M.A. in psychology and journalism in 1935.

From 1933-42 she was director of student activities in the Iowa Memorial Union. From 1942-68 , Ms.Reich was assistant director in the UI Office of Student Affairs, except for a two-year period from 1944-46, when she served with the Women's Reserve of the U.S. Coast Guard.

In 1968, Ms. Reich assumed the position of associate dean of students in the Office of Student Affairs, which she held until her retirement in 1971.

She has been active in the National Council of Mortar Board, the American Association of University Women, the National Association of Women Deans and Counselors and the Iowa State Association of Deans of Women.

She served two terms on the Governor's Status of Women Commission and was the corporate delegate for the University of Iowa to the American Association of University Women.

A scholarship is awarded annually to a UI senior woman who is judged as best exemplifying Ms.Reich's qualities. The scholarship is funded by the Women's Panhellenic Association. A second scholarship is given annually in Reich's name at the UI, funded by the foundation of Zeta Tau Alpha fraternity. She served on the executive board of the foundation from its inception in 1954, being responsible for the review of all applicants.

At the time of Ms. Reich's retirement, Zeta Tau Alpha commissioned Mrs. James Kent, Iowa City artist, to do a portrait of her, which was presented to the University.

She is life member of the UI Alumni Association.


Murray Seeger, 51BA

1980 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Mr. Seeger opened the Brussels Bureau of Los Angeles Times in 1978 and soon after was named that newspaper's first European Economic Correspondent.

In 1978, the University of California, Los Angeles, presented him with the Gerald Loeb Award for distinguished business and financial journalism.

His first European assignment was in the Soviet Union, where he was bureau chief in Moscow for two and one-half-years. From 1975-78, Mr. Seeger was Bonn Bureau Chief, with responsibility for covering West Germany, all of the Communist Bloc countries and the Nordic countries.

Before joining the Los Angeles Times in 1967 as National Economic Correspondent in its Washington Bureay Mr. Seeger held a similar position for Newsweek Magazine.

He has also worked for the New York Times, the Buffalo (N.Y.) Evening News, the Cleveland Plain Dealer and KYW television and radio.

While working for the Plain Dealer Mr. Seeger was awarded a Nieman Fellowship, enabling him to spend an academic year studying American and Soviet economics, politics and history.

A native of Hamburg, N.Y., he has served as visiting lecturer in the UI School of Journalism and in 1977 was named to the School of Journalism's Hall of Fame.

He is a life member of the UI Alumni Association.


Wallace J. Sulentic, 54BA

1980 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

Wallace J. Sulentic is active in the Waterloo Industrial Development, Assoc., which promotes industry and commerce in the city. He is a former treasure, president, and trustee of Sunnyside Country Club.

He is a director and officer of Junior Achievement. He has also served as chairman for Goodwill Industries of Waterloo, and a member of the Waterloo Boys Club Advisory Board.

Currently, Mr. Sulentic is serving as campaign chairman of the Black Hawk Regional Campaign, and a member of the National Committee for the Hawkeye Arena/Recreation Project. He is also head of the Black Hawk County I-Club.

Mr. Sulentic is chairman of the Columbus High School capital campaign to raise funds for new facilities at the school.

Other boards on which Mr. Sulentic serves include the National Bank of Waterloo, Wayne Engineering Co., and Lumidor Manufacturing of Los Angeles.

An active member of the Presidents Association of the nationwide American Management Association, he received the Hall of Champions Award in 1976 for distinguished achievement in management, and in 1978, received the Beatrice Food's Award of Excellence.

He is a member of the UI Presidents Club, and a member of the UI Alumni Association.


Emory Warner, 27BS, 29MD

1980 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

A native of North English, Dr. Warner interned at the University of Rochester in 1929-30. He joined the UI Department of Pathology in 1930, was named assistant professor in 1933, associate professor in 1938 and served as professor and head from 1945 to 1970. In 1970 he accepted an appointment in pathology at the University of Arizona. Since 1975 he ahs served part-time as a professor emeritus in the Univest5y of Iowa Department of Pathology.

Much of Dr. Warner's early work in the field of blood coagulation, arteriosclerosis and thrombosis was a pioneering effort. He has maintained an interest in diseases related to blood coagulation and is active at the present time in the Specialized Center of Research in Arteriosclerosis, which is supported at the University of Iowa by the National Institutes of Health. Only five such centers exist in the country, and the UI center resulted from the efforts of Warner.

He has written more than 90 scientific papers and has contributed to several books.

Among Dr. Warner's professional memberships, he served as president of the American Society of Experimental Pathologists and a member of the federation board of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology.

In April he received the Gold Headed Cane Award, the highest honor conferred by the American Association of Pathologists at the group's annual meeting.

Dr. Warner is a life member of eth UI Alumni Association.


William R. Wood, 36MA, 39PHD

1980 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Currently the mayor of Fairbanks, Alaska, Mr. Wood is a native of Jacksonville, Ill. He earned a A.B. degree from Illinois College in 1927 and was a teacher and coach in public school systems in Michigan, Iowa and Illinois from 1928-46.

From 19480-60 he served the University of Nevada in several positions, including chairman of the English Department, dean of statewide services, academic vice president and acting President.

He was president of the University of Alaska from 1960-73.

Wood has represented the United States on education missions to Libya, Liberia, Viet Nam, Colombia, Indonesia, Korea, the Philippines and Northern New Zealand, Iceland, Greenland and Australia.

He has served as chairman of the Alaska American Cancer Society, vice president of the Alaska Council of the Boy Scouts of America, on the executive committee of the Association of Higher Education and the International Association of University Presidents, as a fellow of the Arctic Institute of North America and a long-time member of the Explorer's Club.

He has served as editor and author of a dozen publications.

Mr. Wood is a life member of the UI Alumni Association, and a Navy veteran of World War II, Captain, USNR (Ret.).


Dr. Kenneth Brinkhous, 29BA, 32MD

1979 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Dr. Kenneth Brinkhous held various posts in the U of I Department of Pathology from 1932 to 1946, when he was named professor and head of the Department of Pathology at the University of North Carolina. He has been alumni distinguished professor there from 1961 to the present.

The result of Dr. Brinkhous' work has been, since 1967, a revolution in the lifestyle of hemophilia, which led to diagnostic tests and treatment for the disease.

His honors include awards from the National Academy of Sciences in 1972 and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1973.

He served as chairman of the medical advisory council of the National Hemophilia Foundation from 1954 to '73 and continues as a member of the council to the present.

In 1973 the medical journal Modern Medicine named Dr. Brinkhous as one of 10 recipients of the Award for Distinguished Achievement "for basic discoveries and clinical applications in problems of blood coagulation."


Robert Buckmaster, 38JD

1979 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Robert Buckmaster was president of the U of I Alumni Association from 1954-57 and has been a member of the U of I Foundation's Presidents since 1974. He served as a member of the Board of Trustees of the Iowa Law School Foundation from 1970-73.

He practiced law in Waterloo from 1938 to 1969 before entering the radio and television broadcasting field full-time.

In 1978 he was named "Broadcaster of the Year" by the Iowa Broadcasters' Association.

Buckmaster has also has been a state leader in the area of environmental protection. In January he retired as chairperson of the Iowa Water Quality Commission and as executive committee chairman of the Iowa Department of Environmental Quality, after 16 years of work in this area.

In 1978 Buckmaster received the National Governors' Association Award for Distinguished Service to State Government.

He also ahs been a community leader for more than 30 years, actively participating in municipal industrial development efforts, downtown development planning in many service organizations, frequently as a director, chairperson or key organizational figure.

He received a B.A. from Iowa State Teachers College (now the University of Northern Iowa), Cedar Falls, in 1933 and an honorary degree in 1970 from Wartburg College, Waverly, where he serves as a member of the Board of Regents.


Eve Drewelowe, 23BA, 24MA

1979 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

Eve Drewelowe received the first M.A. degree in studio art granted by the University.

Her work has been displayed nationally, including a special exhibition of her paintings created while she was a student is still on display on the campus.

The first part of a retrospective exhibit of her work opened last month at the University of Colorado, as an event in the first Colorado Women in the Arts Festival. The second part of the retrospective is scheduled for September.

Eve Drewelowe and her husband, Jacob Van Ed, former dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Colorado, have supported a number of areas at the U of I, including the Museum of Art and the School of Art and Art History, the College of Liberal Arts and the Alumni Center.

She is a life member of the Alumni Association and a member of the U of I Foundation Presidents Club.

In recent years she recognized the need for space for U of I art students and faculty to exhibit their work.

Two years ago a temporary gallery in the Art Building was renovated for this purpose and named the Eve Drewelowe Gallery in her honor. A new gallery is planned for the next capitol expansion of the School of Art and Art History.

She has endowed the Jacob Van Ek Fellowship in the Department of Political Science.


Mrs. Laurence R. Fairall

1979 Distinguished Alumni Friend Award

In 1975 Mr. and Mrs. Owen Elliott established the Helen K. Fairall scholarship program to recognize outstanding juniors, seniors and graduate students in English, French, Asian languages, history, literature, comparative literature, Russian and art. In the 1978-79 academic year Mrs. Fairall added support for the music students.

The program was established as a companion to the scholarship program provided under the terms of the will of her husband Laurence R. Fairall, who died in 1973. Laurence R. Fairall scholarships are given to students in journalism, creative writing and political science.

Under the program established by Mrs. Fairall, awards have been made to 51 students from 33 communities in the state. The program established by Mr. Fairall's will has provided support for 73 students from 48 Iowa communities.

Mrs. Fairall was born in Des Moines. She graduated from Drake University with majors in English and history. She also studied piano in the School of Fine Arts. She later worked as a reporter on the Des Moines Tribune and as music editor for the Des Moines Sunday Capital.

One of the founders of the Des Moines Civic Music Association in 1925, Mrs. Fairall is also a patroness of the Drake chapter of Mu Phi Epsilon honorary musical fraternity and a member of the Ames International Orchestral Festival Association and the Metropolitan Opera Guild.

She is a sponsor member of the Des Moines Art Center, of which Mr. Fairall was a board member for 19 years and president for a two-year term.

Mrs. Fairall has contributed books from her collection of fiction, biography and essays, including books which she reviewed as a regular contributor to the Des Moines Sunday Register book review section, to the Rare Books Collection at the U of I Libraries.


George Foerstner

1979 Distinguished Alumni Friend Award

Foerstner grew up in the Amana Colonies and began his business career selling automobile accessories in his father's business at age 13. in 1934 he founded a company to manufacture beverage coolers which became Amana Refrigeration, with current sales of $300 million.

Until last month Foerstner served as president and chief executive officer of the company, and he continued as chairman of the board of Amana Refrigeration, which became a subsidiary of Raytheon Company in 1965.

Foerstner was a leader I urging businessmen to look toward worldwide export of products manufactured in Iowa. Today Amana sells its products throughout the United States, Canada and in more than 120 countries worldwide.

Along with golfer Julius Boros, Foerstner founded the Amana VIP Golf Tournament, the largest one-day pro-amateur golf tournament in the country.

The event held at the University's Finkbine Golf Course, provides national exposure for the U of I, and net receipts from the tournament are given to the "I" Club Scholarship Fund.

He organized the "I" Club Scholarship Fund Inc. in 1952 and is still the president of its Board of Directors. The "I" Club has provided more than $2 million in support for the U of I athletic program in the last ten years.

In 1974, Amana wholesale distributors established the George C. and Nora Foerstner Scholarship Fund for children and grandchildren of Amana employees. The fund began with about $30,000 and has grown to a net value of more than $300,000.

Foerstner was instrumental in establishing the Hoover Library in West Branch.


Sidney R. Garfield, 28MD

1979 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Dr. Garfield has gained national recognition for his contributions in the area of health care delivery. He organized the first Health Maintenance Organization (HMO) in 1933 at Desert Center, Calif., to care for 5,000 workers building an aqueduct to deliver water to Los Angeles.

When Henry Kaiser faced the problem of providing health care for a growing community of workers at the Coulee Dam in 1938, he recruited Dr. Garfield. The result was the Kaiser-Permanente Foundation, which became a mode for prepaid health care plans in the country.

Although initially it faced strong opposition from the medical community, the plan is now recognized by organized medicine as a contribution to medical care.

Dr. Garfield was born in Elizabeth, N.J., and completed his pre-medical studies at Rutgers University and the University of Southern California.

He entered the U of I College of Medicine in 1924 and, following his graduation, interned at Michael Reese Hospital, Chicago, and completed a residency in surgery at Los Angeles County Hospital.

From 1940-42, he was an instructor in surgery at the University of Southern California.

In 1951 DR. Garfield was certified in preventive medicine.

He has written on the future of health care delivery and national health insurance, and his advice is sought by private enterprise and government.


Linda Glazer, 70BA, 77MA

1979 Distinguished Alumni Young Award

Linda Glazer is native of the Des Moines and a graduate of Emma Willard School in Troy, N.Y. She earned a B.A. degree in religion and an M.A. in journalism at the U of I.

In 1974 Glazer joined the Gannett Newspaper chain in Rochester, N.Y., serving as public service manager and promotion director for various Gannett publication outside the New York City area during the next four years.

With her appointment at the Saratogian, the Gannett daily newspaper in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., she became one of the youngest metropolitan newspaper publishers in the country.

She was executive director of the Iowa City Volunteer Service Bureau for one year and in 1971 was appointed executive director of Iowa City's United Way when the tow groups consolidated.

In 1973 she was named communications director of the United Way of Westchester County, N.Y.

Glazer has served frequently as a volunteer for U of I events held in New York City area.

She is a life member of the U of I Alumni Association.

Currently a board member of the Adirondact Trust Co., the Greater Saratoga Chamber of Commerce, the Empire State College Foundation and the Emma Willard School, Glazer is also a past vice-chairman of the Saratoga Hospital capital fund-raising program and chairman of the Saratoga fundraising campaign for Skidmore College.

In February, 1978, she was selected as one of eleven of the nation's Outstanding Working Women by Glamour Magazine.


Lloyd Knowler, 32BA, 34MS, 37PhD

1979 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Professor Knowler has been a leader in the development of courses in the areas of actuarial science, statistical quality control and biostatistics.

He joined the U of I faculty in 1939 after two years as an instructor at Hunter College and has taught continuously, since then, with the exception of one year which he spent in India as an advisor for the U.S. Department of State.

During his time at the U of I, he taught in the Department of Mathematics and Astronomy and the Division of Mathematical Sciences, and from 1945 until the present, he has been a member of the faculty of the U of I Department of Preventive Medicine and Environmental Health.

He served as chairman of the U of I Department of Mathematics and Astronomy from 1946 to 1959.

Among the many professional organizations in which Knowler holds membership are the American Academy of Actuaries and the American Society of Pension Actuaries, where he is a fellow and certified pension consultant, as well as a member of the board.

A fellow and founding member of the American Society for Quality Control, in 1962 that organization gave Knowler its highest award—the Shewhart Medal. He is a fellow of the Iowa Academy of Science and a member of the Midwestern Actuarial Forum.

A scholarship endowed by businessmen was established in Knowler's name in 1961, to be given alternately to U of I students in science, engineering or administration.

Knowler is a member of the Iowa City Rotary Club, serving as treasurer, board member and as president in 1973-74. He is also governor-elect of District 600 of Rotary International and will be governor in 1980-81.

Since 1969 Knowler has served on the board of directors of Xi of Theta Xi Alumni Association.

He has served on the board of directors of Blue Shield of Iowa since 1966, on the executive committee since 1968 and was named treasurer in 1979. he also served as a member of the joint finance and joint management committees of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Iowa.


Randall Meyer, 48BSME

1979 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Randall Meyer is a member of the Alumni Association and the U of I Presidents Club. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of the U of I Foundation and in October, 1978, was named to that group's executive committee.

After receiving a degree in mechanical engineering from the U of I in 1948, Meyer joined Exxon, working at the company's supply and transportation department in Houston, and in 1964 he became the head of that department.

Meyer was named executive assistant to the president of Exxon in New York City in 196. he returned to Houston in 1967 as senior vice president of Exxon U.S.A., and he was named president in 1972.

He is a member of the board of directors of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States and a board member of the American Petroleum Institute. He also serves on the board of directors and executive committee of the Texas Association of Taxpayers and is a member of the board of the Houston Symphony Society.

He has offered his expertise to students in the U of I College of Business Administration and the College of Engineering, where he has also served as a Visiting Executive.

Meyer has also been an active supporter of the university's International Writing Program, which brings prominent foreign writers to the U of I campus each year.


Francis C. Miller, 41BA

1979 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

Francis C. Miller was born and received his early education in Moravia. He attended Albia Junior College from 1936 to '38 and taught in the Appanoose County Schools for one year before entering the U of I in 1939.

He worked at the Employee People's National Bank and at a dairy farm in Moravia and taught government and economics at the Moravia High School before joining the Maytag Dairy Farms in 1945.

In 1948, Miller was named to the board of directors of the dairy farms and as financial secretary to the Maytag Family. In 1954 he was named to the board of the Fred Maytag Family Foundation.

Miller became a Maytag Company Foundation Board member in 1964 and has been vice president and trustee since 1973.

He has been active in the Boy Scouts of America, Kiwanis Club and Newton Community Chest, for which he served as president from 1971-73.

In 1978 Miller was named to the board of Progress, Inc., a new Jasper County vocational rehabilitation workshop for handicapped citizens, and this year he was selected as secretary of that organization.

He has served as a deacon, elder and a member of the board of trustees of the First Christian Church of Newton, and he was chairman of the board for several years.

Miller represented the Fred Maytag Family Foundation Board at the ground breaking ceremony for the Fred Maytag II Auditorium at the U of I's Museum of Art in 1966.


George Nissen, 37BSC

1979 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

A native of Cedar Rapids, Nissen returned there after receiving his degree from the U of I and formed the Nissen Corporation, which today employs 350 people, many of them business and liberal arts graduates of the university.

Nissen has assisted the U of I gymnastic team by providing instruction. He was captain of the 1937 U of I gymnastic team, which won a Big-Ten championship. He was also a national tumbling champion in 1935, '36 and '37 and won All-American honors for diving in 1937.

One of the first United States contacts with Soviet athletes occurred in 1959 when Nissen worked with the State Department to bring a Russian gymnastic team to this country. Since that time he has promoted a number of Russian, Japanese, Chinese, Polish and other foreign athletic exchanges with U.S. teams.

Most recently he arranged a tour of this country for four members of the Polish acrobatic team, which won a Gold Medal in the World Championships.

Nissen received a Distinguished Service Award from the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports in 1973. He serves as a member of the executive board of the International Acrobatic Federation and the board of directors and is a delegate for the United States Sports Acrobatic Federation.

He holds 47 current patents and many trademarks. The name "Trampoline" was a Nissen registered trademark for more than 15 years until it became generic.


Ivan Ole Bull, 47BSC

1978 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Ivan Ole Bull is one of the most distinguished graduates of the University of Iowa's accounting department. He earned a BCS degree from the University in 1947, and started work with the certified public accounting firm of McGladrey, Hansen, Dunn and Company that June. He was promoted to partner in 1951, became an administrative partner in 1960, and was named managing partner in 1966.

Bull is past chairman of the board of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the highest elected position in the national professional organization, and has received national acclaim as an effective spokesman for accountants. Bull is also a member of the Advisory Committee on Paton Accounting Center at the University of Michigan and the Professional Advisory Board of the Department of Accountancy at the University of Illinois.

Bull is active in alumni affairs at the University of Iowa, and is a Life Member of the Alumni Association. Is addition, he has given financial support to the College of Business Administration and the Department of Accounting.

Bull lives in Rock Island, Illinois with his wife. They have four children.


Paul H. Engle, 32MA

1978 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Paul H. Engle has made internationally acclaimed contributions to creative poetry and writing during his lifetime. He is responsible for inventing and running the creative writing program at the University of Iowa, which became the famous Iowa Writer's Workshop in 1941. He also directed the International Writing Program for ten years, after founding it with his wife, Hualing Nieh. The Engles were responsible for raising $2 million to keep the programs going, and provided the catalyst to bring novelists and poets from all over the world to the University.

In addition, Engle has nurtured his own writing career. He has published books of poetry, a novel, and opera libretto which was seen on television, and many prose works. His books of reminiscence include "A Prairie Christmas" and "An Old Fashioned Christmas."

Engle received and M.A. in English from the University of Iowa in 1932, and after further work at Columbia and as a Rhodes Scholar, returned to Iowa as a professor of English and creative writing. He retired in 1977.

Engle has served on the Advisory Committee on Arts of the John F. Kennedy Cultural Center in Washington, D.C., and is the only poet on the White House National Council on the Arts.

The Engles live in Iowa City, where Mrs. Engle is the director of the International Writing Program. Engle is a Life Member of the University of Iowa Alumni Association.


Simon Estes, 86BM

1978 Distinguished Alumni Friend Award

Simon Estes, a bass-baritone of international renown, received his early formal music training on the University of Iowa campus and still holds a special regard for the school. He has returned many times for concerts, and sang at the dedication of Old Capitol in 1976.

Estes' professional career in opera began in the opera houses of Germany and in 1965 he was a prize winner in the Munich international competition. In 1966 he won the silver medal in the Tchaikovsky competition in Moscow. In addition to his operatic career, in which he has sung more than 75 leading roles with the great opera companies of the world, Estes has been soloist with many symphony orchestras here and abroad. He performed at the 25th Anniversary Celebration of the founding of the United Nations and sang at the opening of the Olympic Games in Munich.

Estes studied at the University of Iowa as a pre-med student, and later switched to theology and social psychology. He was active in student government, conducted the nurses' choir and was chosen "Campus King". He was the first black member of the Old Gold Singers. It was a campus recital which enabled him to earn the money to audition at the Julliard School of Music, where he later attended.


Ruth Haefner, 18BA

1978 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Ruth Haefner, a 1918 graduate of the University of Iowa with a degree in home economics, has risen from her first job as a home canning demonstrator to become a leading force in the fight for the rights of minorities. She has helped elderly people of all races and many minority groups achieve better lives with her work in the Gray Panther organization and the NAACP.

Haefner has devoted her energy to the Gray Panther movement in the Northwest since 1973, and is co-convener of the group in her home state of Oregon. She constantly attends workshops and travels to schools to tell students of things they have in common with the aged. It has been said that she has a virtual warehouse of material on the subject, and she has used it to persuade legislators and businessmen tat the elderly have rights. She has recently worked against forced retirement laws.

Haefner was one of the first white women to hold membership in the NAACP, becoming a life member in 1938. She also was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1940, and ran for the Oregon legislature two years later. She is currently a member of the Western Gerontology Society, and is active in the League of Women Voters and the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.

Haefner lives in Portland, Oregon.


Susan Hancher

1978 Distinguished Alumni Friend Award

Susan Hancher has been actively involved in the life of the University of Iowa for many years. As the wife of University President Virgil M. Hancher, she first came to the campus in 1940. She served as First Lady of the University until her husband's retirement in 1964. At that time, the Hanchers went to New Delhi, India, where he was employed as an education consultant by the Ford Foundation. After his death in India, Mrs. Hancher returned to Iowa City.

In 1970, she was named by President Willard L. Boyd of the University of Iowa to chair a committee to restore Old Capitol.

Mrs. Hancher attended Ferry Hall in Lake Forest, Illinois, and graduated from Northwestern University in 1924. She is active in the United Nations Association, Alphi Phi sorority, PEO, Zeta Phi Eta sorority and the Pan American Club of Iowa City.

The Hanchers have two children, Virgil, Jr., of Evanston, Illinois and Mary Susan Hockmuth of Iowa City.


Theodore F. Koop, 28BA

1978 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Theodore F. Koop attained professional prominence as vice president of CBS News in Washington, D.C. During his tenure, CBS became the leading television news network and Koop is credited wit hiring Walter Cronkite as anchorman for the national news.

Koop received a journalism degree from the University of Iowa n 1928, and was an editor of the Daily Iowan and a staff member of the Hawkeye while on campus. Koop began his career as an Associated Press reporter during the 1930s and 1940s. He also served on the editorial staff of the National Geographic Society. In 1948 he was appointed director of news and public affairs for CBS. He was promoted to vice president in 1961, and held the post until his retirement in 1975.

Koop continues his close ties with the University and the School of Journalism, frequently returning to take part in seminars and lectures. He is a member of the Presidents Club of the University, and serves on the Presidents Club National Committee as the Washington representative.


Dr. Carroll B. Larson, 31BS, 33MD

1978 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Dr. Carroll B. Larson has taken his concern for excellence in teaching, service and research and applied it to the Department of Orthopedic Surgery in the University of Iowa College of Medicine. The outcome has been one of the best, and most innovative, department in the nation. Larson headed the department form 1950 to 1973.

Dr. Larson is also recognized for his personal reputation as an outstanding clinician and an innovator in orthopedic education, believing that treatment is indicated only if it can be expected to improve the quality of the patient's life. This approach to orthopedics was unique to the University of Iowa when first begun, but has become widely spread due to the large number of orthopedic teacher Dr. Larson has trained.

Dr. Larson received a B.S. degree in 1931 and his medical degree in 1933, both from the University of Iowa. He is presently serving as Director of the Comprehensive Evaluation/Rehabilitation Unit at the Oakdale campus of the University.

Dr. Larson served as President of the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons in 1967, and is also a member of the America Orthopedic Association, the Iowa State Medical Society, and the American College of Surgeons. He is a charter member of the Orthopedic Research Society. From 1968 to 1976 he served as Director of Medical Affairs for the Shriners Hospitals for Crippled Children.


Dr. Samuel P. Leinbach, 34MD

1978 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

Dr. Samuel P. Leinbach is a 1934 graduate of the University of Iowa College of Medicine and a distinguished family practitioner who has served one community for over 40 years. His hometown of Belmond, Iowa designated a day of celebration in his honor several years ago, and named a new retirement center for him.

Dr. Leinbach has made significant contributions to medicine in Iowa, and has served as president of his county medical society, was delegate to the Iowa Medical Society, has served on various committees of the State Society and was a member of its Board of Trustees in 1957 - 65. For four of those years he was Chairman of the Board, and in 1966- 67, President of the Society. In 1974 he received the Iowa Medical Society Distinguished Service Award.

Dr. Leinbach also actively supported medical education and research, has been a member of the Board of Directors and the Postgraduate Association of North America. He has participated in the Preceptorship and MECO Programs of the College of Medicine.

Dr. Leinbach is a Life Member of the University of Iowa Alumni Association.


Marvin A. Pomerantz, 52BSC, 07LHD

1978 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

Marvin A. Pomerantz has been active in the service and promotion of the University of Iowa College of Business Administration since his graduation in 1952. In addition, he has had a distinguished career in business.

Pomerantz founded the Great Plans Bag Company in 1961 and was President until its merger with Continental Can Company, Inc. He then became Vice President and General Manager of a division of Continental Can. He is now President of Mid-American Development Co. and a member of the boards of directors of four other organizations.

His service to the University of Iowa includes membership on the Management of Advisory Council of the Center for Labor and Management, the chairmanship of a special committee for a University review of the Center for Labor and Management, membership on the Development Committee of the College of Business Administration, membership in an alumni group searching for a dean for the College, and membership on the Board of Directors of the University of Iowa Foundation. He is also a Life Member of the Alumni Association.

Pomerantz is active in civic, political and religious organizations.

He and his wife, Rose Lee, live in Des Moines. Their four daughters are all graduates or students at the University of Iowa.


Dr. Herbert W. Rathe, 23BA, 25MD

1978 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Since his graduation from the College of Medicine at the University of Iowa 53 years ago, Dr. Herbert W. Rathe has been a hard working internist in the community of Waverly, Iowa and a vigorous supporter of the University, particularly the College of Medicine.

His liberal arts degree, conferred in 1923, and his medical degree of 1925 were preliminaries to his co-founding of the Rohlf Memorial Clinic in Waverly, where he is currently chairman of the board of the Rohlf Memorial Clinic Foundation. Dr. Rathe has been a member of county, state and national medical associations, and is Fellow of the American Geriatrics Society, the American College of Physicians and the American College of Cardiology. He was also a member of the Royal Society of Medicine in London from 1944 to 1970. He has written several papers on heart disease and coronary care.

Dr. Rathe is active in such civic organizations as the Library Board, the Community Fund and the Cedar Valley Mental Health Association.

He and his wife, Dorothy, have three children.


Hayward Campbell Jr., 61MS, 62PhD

1977 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Hayward Campbell Jr., in 15 years since receiving the doctorate in bacteriology and microbiology from the University of Iowa, has risen rapidly to a position of responsibility in the drug industry. In February, 1976, Dr. Campbell was promoted to Vice President of the Lilly Research Laboratories, a division of Eli Lilly & Company, Indianapolis, Indiana.

Campbell went directly from Iowa to Lilly, where he first worked as a senior bacteriologist. He moved through several management positions, finally becoming managing director of the Lilly Research Centre, Limited, in Erl Wood, England. He later returned to the parent company, becoming director of personnel for science and medicine until his recent promotion.

In Indianapolis, Campbell has worked with the Dean's Industrial Advisory Committee of the Indiana University/Purdue University at Indianapolis; is a trustee of the Christian Theological Seminary; and is a member of the steering committee of the human Relations Task Force of the Greater Indianapolis Progress Committee. He also serves on the boards of the Boys' Club Association, Flanner House and Happy Hollow Children's camp.

Campbell is a life member of the University of Iowa Alumni Association.


Frank Chrencik, 37BA

1977 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Frank Chrencik, combining skills from his 1937 degree in chemical engineering with management skills, has risen rapidly in the chemical industry to head a division of a leading company, Vulcan Materials Company, Birmingham, Alabama.

An Osage, Iowa, farm boy, he went to work after graduation as a technical assistant for Allied Chemical Company. After serving in World War II, he returned to become plant manager for the Diamond Alkali Company in Maryland. He advanced rapidly through the ranks, being elected Vice President in 1960.

While at Diamond Alkali Company, he also became involved as a member of the board and chief executive officer of Terra Chemicals International, Inc., Sioux City, Iowa, leading the company to a profitable operation.

He has been involved in several professional organizations on a national level, as well as serving on the editorial board and Kiwanis clubs, has been involved in health fund drives and has helped form chapters of the National Hemophilia Foundation. He has actively supported the University of Iowa Alumni Association and the University Foundation.


Allin W. Dakin, 26BA, 27MA

1977 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

Allin W. Dakin, '26BA, '27MA, not only served as Administrative Dean at the University of Iowa for over 33 years,; but at the same time became involved in an impressive number of organizations, extending his influence well beyond the campus.

When he first served as Administrative Dean, under President Virgil M. Hancher, he was the only other member of the central administration. Yet he found time to become involved with such organizations as the Boy Scouts of America, Rotary International, the Unitarian Church, as a trustee in the University of Iowa School of Religion and the Iowa Partners of the Alliance for Progress, with the Governor's Commission on International Cooperation, and as president of the Iowa Division of the United Nations Association of the USA. He is a life member of the University of Iowa Alumni Association and the University of Iowa Presidents Club.


Judith 65MA, and Sutherland Dows,

1977 Distinguished Alumni Friend Award

Judith and Sutherland Dows, Jr., have supported the University of Iowa Health Center through endowment of the Dows Institute for Dental Research and support of the Human Performance Clinical Program in the physical therapy department of the University of Iowa College of Medicine. Endowment of the Dows Institute will reach the million dollar mark over a 10 year period.

Sutherland Dows, Jr., was associated with the Iowa Electric Light and Power Company in Cedar Rapids, serving as Vice President from 1961 through 1971. He also has been associated with Dows Real Estate Company, Dows Maniti Dairy Farm, Inc., and Sutherland Square Development, Ltd., all of Cedar Rapids.

He has served as a board member of the Cornell College, Mount Vernon, Iowa; J.S. Cook Company and the Oak Hill Cemetery Association of Cedar Rapids. He also has served as treasurer and director of the Cedar Rapids Chamber of Commerce.

A 1965 graduate of the University of Iowa with a master of arts, Judith Dows has taught at Coe College, Cedar Rapids, Iowa and is owner of the Wine Glass Weavers, a weaving studio in Aspen, Colorado.

The Dows live in Aspen, and are associated with the Aspen Institute of Humanistic Studies.


Jess Gorkin, 36BA

1977 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

As editor of Parade magazine, Jess Gorkin has used his influence to further international understanding, using the format of an "Open letter" to heads of state. Through the magazine, Gorkin was instrumental in promoting establishment of the "hotline" communication system between Moscow and Washington which has been used in several international times of crisis. He also was instrumental in the cooperation of Russian and American space programs leading to the Soviet-American space link.

A native Rochester, New York, Gorkin is a 1936 graduate of the University in Journalism, and was editor of the Daily Iowan in 1935-36.

After graduation he worked as an associate editor of Look magazine and later, during the war, founded Photo World OWI for distribution in Europe. In 1947 he came to Parade as managing editor and in 1949 was named editor.

Gorkin has returned often to the University of Iowa campus, joining students and other professionals in panel and seminars for journalism students. In 1974 he coordinated efforts to establish a scholarship fund in honor of the former publisher of the Daily Iowan, Fred Pownall. He has served as a volunteer for the University of Iowa Foundation in the New York City area and is a life member of the University of Iowa Alumni Association.


Andrew J. Hankins, 64BA

1977 Distinguished Alumni Young Award

Dr. Andrew J. Hankins, M.D., staff radiologist at Southwest Detroit Hospital, is known as a scholar, athlete, medical doctor and educator. In addition to his practice in radiology, Dr. Hankins is a Clinical Assistant Professor in Radiology at Wayne State University in Detroit.

Born and raised in Waukegen, Illinois, Dr. Hankins received the Bachelor of Arts with distinction from the University of Iowa in 1964. While working toward his undergraduate degree, he won letters as a member of the Hawkeye basketball team in his senior year. He won the Intercollegiate Conference Medal in 1964 and won honorable mention, Bit Tem All-Academic Basketball Team. He was Nile Kinnick Scholar for 1963-64 and was named to Omicron Delta Kappa, honor society, in 1963 and to Phi Beta Kappa in 1964.

His medical degree was earned at the University of Michigan, where he was a Sloan Foundation Scholar. He interned in Chicago, was resident in the Department of Radiology at the University of Chicago, and was certified in 1974 by the American Board of Nuclear Medicine.

A member of several professional groups, he is a supporter of the University through the University of Iowa Alumni Association and the University of Iowa Foundation.


Bertha M. Holt, 26BA, 26GN

1977 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Bertha M. Holt, 26BA, 26GN, named in 1966 as "Mother of the Year" by the President of the United States, has facilitated the adoption of thousands of Korean and Vietnamese mixed-race war orphans. Starting in 1955 with the adoption of eight toddlers (added to the Holt family of six children), the program rapidly expanded and was formalized as Holt International Children's Services, Inc.

She and her husband (who died in Korea in 1964) spent two years in Korea establishing a "city for orphans," a 60-acre center near the demilitarized zone called San Children's Center. There, orphans could be cared for, taught a trade and housed. The Holts devoted their entire energy and financial resources to the project, living through one cold winter in a tent while building the center.

Today the University of Iowa graduate can list awards and honors in an impressive way, but the real reward is in thousands of children whose lives have been affected by the caring Holt family.


Wilton J. Lutwack, 38BA

1977 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

It wasn't easy to work you way through the University of Iowa during the Depression, but Wilton J. Lutwack, 38BA, was managing. With several part-time jobs and careful use of his savings, he managed, often buying used textbooks, sometimes fourth and fifth hand. Trying to dress up such books, Lutwack came on what was a fairly simple idea; provide paper covers for used books with advertising imprints sold to local firms. The idea grew into the Colad Company, and when Lutwack retired recently, the company had become an international leader in book covers and related school items.

The Iowa Alumni Review in 1961 described Lutwack as "a man with an idea a minute" and "the greatest salesman on two legs." It also mentions an entirely different side of the management ability Lutwack uses —fairness to those who work for him. It was revealed when Lutwack served as mediator in a barber shop price cutting war during his student days; it was revealed in the equal opportunities found in the Colad Company; and it was revealed in his recent appointment to the Commercial Panel of the American Arbitration Association.

Lutwack is a life member of the University of Iowa Alumni Association and The Presidents Club of the University of Iowa.


Gary F. Seamans, 71BSEE

1977 Distinguished Alumni Young Award

Gary F. Seamans interrupted a blooming career in electrical engineering with the American Telephone and Telegraph Company to develop a whole career within the U.S. Air Force missile program in California. Following his 1971 graduation fro the University of Iowa in electrical engineering, Seamans had gone to work for AT&T in an "immediate management" program in Minneapolis, Minnesota. While there, he was able to increase performance in his division to an all-time high.

He left AT&T for three and a half years of military service. Through innovative engineering and good management he was able to serve with distinction, with several citations, including an Air Force Commendation Medal with Cluster for Meritorious Service in the program.

Returning to civilian life, Seamans moved to the Kansas City, Missouri, area office of AT&T Long Lines Division as staff supervisor, in charge of some 130 projects in 10 states.

While pursuing these careers, Seamans has been active as a guest lecturer and instructor at several colleges and universities, including Iowa.

Seamans has supported the University as a life member of the University of Iowa Alumni Association, and as a member of the "I" Club, the Silver Hawk Club and the Presidents Club of the University of Iowa.

He lives in Parkville, Missouri.


Dr. Leslie W. Swanson, 36MD, 39R

1977 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

Dr. Leslie W. Swanson, 36MD, 39R, has served not only his community of Mason City, but the medical profession at a state and national level during his 36 years of practice.

In Mason City, he has organized physicians and the institutions of health there in a program of family practice training in connection with the University of Iowa College of Medicine. The program served as a prototype for a statewide program Iowa.

In his activities with professional organizations, Dr. Swanson has consistently supported the College of Medicine and other medical schools. He has recently been elected President of the Iowa Medical Society, and has served with the American College of Physicians and as President of the Heart Association.

He established one of the early rural coronary care units in 1967, and in 1970 sparked development of one of the first mobile coronary care units.

In addition to this busy profession, he has served the community and the University. He was a member of the board of the University of Iowa Alumni Association for six years, has headed fund drivers and helped in legislative activities.


David A. Danner, 47BA

1976 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

David A. Danner's affiliation with, service to and support of the University of Iowa has been long and steadfast. While pursuing the baccalaureate degree in Spanish, which he received from the University of Iowa in 1947, Mr. Danner was an outstanding member of the Hawkeye basketball team. His dedication to these extracurricular efforts, and their quality brought honor to him and to the University though his attainment of both Big Ten and All American awards. Mr. Danner's philanthropy to the University of Iowa has focused on the College of Law, the University's athletic program and the Graduate College. He has established the Herbert P. Cormack scholarship and his contributions to the Graduate College have produced wide-ranging benefits to that College's development. Mr. Danner is Vice President of Griffith Laboratories, Inc.


William Fisher

1976 Distinguished Alumni Friend Award

J. William Fisher, a Marshalltown, Iowa, industrialist known in many circles as "Mr. Opera of the Midwest" is undoubtedly one of the nation's leading supporters of music. His generosity extends not only to the University of Iowa and Iowa State University, his alma mater, but to major opera theaters including the Metropolitan Opera and companies in Chicago, St. Paul and Seattle. His continuing philanthropy provides funds for the Fisher Chair in opera at the University of Iowa, and his generous yearly contributions help to support the Opera Theatre.


H. Clark Houghton, 44BA, 49JD

1976 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

During his tenure with the First National Bank of Iowa City, and his presidency of that institution since 1959, H. Clark Houghton, 44BA, 49JD, has established an enviable record of generosity and service to the University of Iowa, its students and faculty. He is a former Director of the University of Iowa Alumni Association and is Past President of the Iowa City Chamber of Commerce, the Iowa City Rotary Club, the Iowa Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa and the Mercy Hospital Foundation. He has also been actively associated with the Iowa Center for the Arts, the Iowa City Recreation Association, Goodwill Industries, the Parents Committee of St. Olaf College, the Iowa Law School Foundation, Friends of the University Library and the Old Capitol Restoration Committee. In addition to his personal philanthropy, Mr. Houghton has helped to raise thousands of dollars for the University and the city of Iowa City.


Roletta Jolly-Fritz, 21BS, 23MD

1976 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Joletta Jolly-Fritz, M.D., 21BS, 23MD, was Clinical Psychiatrist at Guilford County Medical Health clinic, Greensboro, N.C. from 1966 to 1973 and, at the age of 77, is a part-time staff member of Mandala Center, Inc., an in-patient and out-patient psychiatric facility in Winston-Salem, N.C. Dr. Jolly-Fritz is nationally known as a lecturer on mental health problems of emotional children and problems of the physically handicapped child.


John Martin

1976 Distinguished Alumni Friend Award

John Martin, M.D., earned his medical degree from Northwestern University medical School in 1935, and spent many years as a faculty member of the school. He has also served as Chief of the Department of Neurological Service at Walter Reed Army Hospital, Washington, D.C. Now a resident of Clarinda, Dr. Martin maintains a full and active schedule of consultation and surgery as a staff member of the Clarinda Memorial Hospital. He has given nearly $300,000 to the University of Iowa, comprised mostly of rare books. The John Martin Rare Book Room in the Health Sciences Library houses more than 800 rare books contributed by Dr. Martin. These form the nucleus of one of the country's premier collections of historic medical books. In addition, Dr. Martin has given more than 700 valuable non-medical books to the University Libraries. These gifts have substantially enhanced the growing rare-book collection in the Main Library.


Nicholas Meyer, 68BA

1976 Distinguished Alumni Young Award

Nicholas Meyer ('68BA) is the best-selling author of several screenplays, short stories and books, including The Seven Percent Solution, a detective novel based on the adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Sigmund Freud, which appeared on the best-seller lists for more than 40 weeks in 1975. He has established the Nicholas Meyer Playwriting Scholarship for students of dramatic writing for stage, television or film. As a result of this gift, Meyer became the three hundredth member of the Presidents club of the University of Iowa. Considered one of the most talented writers in the motion picture field, Meyer has written a best-selling sequel to The Seven Percent Solution. It is entitled The West End Horror.


Frank T. Nye, 36BA

1976 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

Rated by his colleagues as ranking among the finest political reporters in the state if not the entire midwest, Frank T. Nye is widely noted and respected for his objective coverage of events on the political spectrum. Nye, Associate Editor of the Cedar Rapids Gazette, has served on the staff of that newspaper since 1943. Known as a tireless volunteer worker, Nye has served as the head of such organizations as the Cedar Rapids Junior Chamber of Commerce and the Cedar Rapids Community Services Fund Drive. In 1972, Mr. Nye received a 25-year Award for his volunteer work in American Red Cross activities which he has been involved in on national, state and local levels. The Cedar Rapids Junior Chamber of Commerce and the Iowa State Education Association have both presented Nye with their Distinguished Service Awards in recognition of his work on their behalf.


Joseph F. Rosenfield, 28JD

1976 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Des Moines, Iowa businessman, attorney, community leader and philanthropist Joseph F. Rosenfield, 28JD, has amassed a distinguished record of service to the University of Iowa and to his community and state. He served as Chairman of the Board of Younkers from 1948 until 1965 when he was elected Chairman of the Company's Executive committee—a position which he still holds. He has served on the boards of directors of Bankers Trust Co., Iowa Power and Light Co., Northwestern Bell Telephone Co., Munsingwear, Inc. and National Byproducts, Co.

He has served as Co-Chairman of several United Campaign drives in Des Moines and is a former Trustee and past Treasurer of Iowa Methodist Hospital, serving from 1938 to 1963. He recently received the Des Moines Certoma Club's Service to Mankind Award. He has also served on the Executive Committee of the recent Second Century Campaign, a major fund raising drive for the College of Law.


Theodore R. Speigner, 33MA

1976 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

During his career of more than 40 years as an educator and theologian, Dr. Theodore R. Speigner, 33MA, achieved a position of widely recognized leadership as an educator and civic leader in North Carolina. Dr. Speigner is currently professor and Chairman of the Department of Geography at North Carolina Central University, Durham, N.C., having devoted the past 25 years of his career to this institution. He served as president of several education associations in the state. He has been an ordained minister since 1941 and was installed as Co-Pastor of the Church of the Abiding Savior, Lutheran, in Durham, in 1974.


MarthaEllen Tye

1976 Distinguished Alumni Friend Award

Martha-Ellen Tye is an avid supporter of the arts at Iowa and is a generous contributor to the University of Iowa Museum of Art, the School of Music and the Opera Theatre. Mrs. Tye contributed the pace-setting gift to the Second Century Fund capital campaign and the College of Law and was a key member of the steering committee for that campaign. She has established and has generously funded a scholarship in law in memory of her husband, Joe B. Tye, who was a prominent attorney in Marshalltown, Iowa, and who was a graduate of the U of I College of Law.


Martha Van Nostand

1976 Distinguished Alumni Friend Award

Martha Van Nostand, during her 26-year tenure as House Manager of Hillcrest Residence Hall, touched the lives of thousands of University of Iowa students. It seems fitting that her nominations for recognition as a Distinguished Friend of the University of Iowa were to come from the students themselves. A graduate of Parsons College, Miss Van Nostrand has been widely recognized as a friend who treated each student resident individually and with understanding of the various problems involved with college life. The students praised her enthusiasm and her willingness to extend effort in their behalf in all endeavors.


Dr. Rubin Flocks

1975 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

Rubin Flocks, a 1974 recipient of the American Cancer Society Award for Distinguished Service in Cancer Control, was Professor and Head of the UI Urology Department since 1949 until his retirement in 1974. Born in New York City in 1906, Dr. Flocks received his AB and MD degrees from Johns Hopkins University in 1926 and 1930. His entire professional career has been at the University of Iowa, joining as an assistant resident in 1931 and becoming an instructor in urology in 1934. He later served as Assistant and Associate Professor, was appointed Professor in the College of Medicine in 1947 and was named Head of the Department of Urology in the UI College of Medicine in 1949.

Dr. Flocks has co-authored textbooks on urology and has published more than 150 professional articles. He has held high office in many distinguished medical organizations including presidencies of the Johnson County Medical Society, the Iowa Medical Society, the American Society of University Urologists, and the American Urological Association. A member of the Presidents Club of the University of Iowa, Dr. Flocks is also a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha Omega Alpha, and Sigma Xi fraternities.


Mason Ladd, 23JD

1975 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

The law career of Dean Emeritus Mason Ladd spans more than half a century. The son of an Iowa Supreme Court Justice, Ladd graduated from the University of Iowa College of Law in 1923. He entered private practice with his father and brother in Des Moines, and returned to the University as a law professor in 1929. He was appointed Dean of the College of Law in 1939 and held this position until his retirement in 1966.

His extensive scholarship in the field of evidence led to his being named to the United States Supreme Court Committee to draft the newly-proposed Federal Rules of Evidence for U.S. courts and the magistrates. Dean Ladd is also the author of several legal textbooks.

In 1966, the Iowa Broadcasters Association named him Iowan of the Year and that same year he was appointed the first Dean of the new law school at Florida State University. He founded the school and served as Dean there until 1970. While maintaining an Iowa City residence, Dean Ladd continues to share his knowledge of legal evidence with students at Florida State University and Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. Dean Ladd's service to the University has included membership on the Board in Control of Athletics for 16 years and participation in ROTC programs at Iowa as a retired army colonel.


Herman J. Schmidt, 38BA

1975 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

As Vice-Chairman and a Director of the Corporation and as a member of its Executive Committee, Herman J. Schmidt is responsible for the Corporate Public Affairs of Mobil Oil Corporation.

Born in Davenport, Iowa in 1917, Schmidt graduated magna cum laude from the University of Iowa in 1938. He received his law degree in 1941 from Harvard Law School where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review.

Schmidt was associated with the law firm of Cravath, Swaine & Moore in New York from 1941 to 1944 and from 1947 to 1951. During World War II he served with the U.S. Army Military Intelligence Service.

He joined Mobil as Tax Counsel in 1951 and was made Administrative Assistant to the general Counsel in 1955 and Associate General Counsel later that same year. The following year, Schmidt was named General Counsel. He was elected to Mobil's Board of Directors in 1957 and in 1959 was named an Executive Vice-President of Mobil and President of Mobil International Oil Company. He later became a member of the Executive Committee and, in 1963, assumed the responsibility for supply and distribution, marine transportation, international sales and Middle East affairs. He was elected to the new position of Vice-Chairman for Public Affairs for Mobil in 1974.

Schmidt is Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research and is Director of CIT Financial Corporation. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations; the Board of Overseers of the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace; the Advisory Council on Japan-U.S. Economic Relations; the Stanwich Club and the Pinnacle Club.

A life member of the University of Iowa Alumni Association and Vice President of the University of Iowa Foundation, Schmidt is a member of the UI Foundation Board of Directors and has been a member of the Presidents Club of the University of Iowa since 1969. Schmidt was instrumental in obtaining a grant from the Mobil Foundation in 1973 which funds the Resident Executive Program in the UI College of Business Administration.

Schmidt has been characterized by University of Iowa administrators as a "distinguished and experienced business leader who has helped considerably with suggestions for gaining the understanding and support of the corporate community for state-supported higher education."


Professor Emeritus A. Craig Baird

1974 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

Professor Emeritus A. Craig Baird, a pioneer in the development of speech as an academic discipline, is author of numerous texts on argumentation, debate and public discussion and is the recognized authority in the field of rhetorical criticism as related to American Public Address.

Holder of A.B. and Litt. D. degrees from Wabash College awarded in 1907 and 1932, Professor Baird also received the B.D. degree from Union Theological Seminary in 1910; the M.A. from Columbia University in 1912; the L.H.D. degree from Southern Illinois University in 1970 and the L.L.D. degree from Bates College in 1973.

He joined the faculty of the University of Iowa in 1925 where he taught speech until 1969.

Professor Baird directed University of Iowa debate teams from 1925 until 1950, and served as head of the Iowa High School Forensic League during the same years. He also served as chairman of the U of I Public Address Program for many years.

In 1921, while directing intercollegiate debate at Bates College, he took his debaters to Oxford University where they argued before the Union Debate Society, establishing a tradition in international debating which continues today.

Professor Baird has been a visiting faculty lecturer in speech at many universities, including Southern California, Illinois, Michigan State, Missouri, Mississippi, Florida State and Southern Illinois.


Dr. James E. Berney, 37DDS, 38MS

1974 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

James E. Berney, prominent Davenport orthodontist and community leader, has been an active participant in University affairs since his graduation from the U of I College of Dentistry in 1938. An immediate past President of the University of Iowa Alumni Association (1969-73), Dr. Berney has served as an active member of the Association Board of Directors since 1965 and is currently a member of the Board of Directors of the University of Iowa Foundation. A past president of the Davenport I club and Davenport Quarterback Club, Dr. Berney was also a past member of the Scholarship Committee of the I Club of Iowa. He served recently as National Vice-Chairman of the Campaign for the University's new Health Sciences Library.

Dr. Berney has been active in American Dental Association programs for many years. He is past Secretary and past President of the Davenport District Dental Society and is past President of the Iowa State Dental Society. He has also served as President of the Scott County Dental society and as Chairman of the Council on University Relations of the Iowa State Dental Society.


Dr. Dean M. Lierle, 19BS, 21MD, 23MS, 26R

1974 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

Dean M Lierle, 19BS, 21MD, 23MS, 26R, Professor Emeritus in the University of Iowa Department of Otolaryngology and Maxillofacial Surgery, is internationally renowned for his contribution to otolaryngology and is generally credited with upgrading the specialty of otolaryngology and for putting the discipline on a scientific basis.

A native of Marshalltown, Dr. Lierle attended Stanford University before receiving his bachelor of science degree from the UI in 1919. He attended the College of Medicine and received his M.D. degree in 1921, and his M.S. degree in 1923. He received the honorary doctor of science degree from Wayne University in 1950.

Following an internship at Boston University, he served as an instructor in the University of Iowa Department of Otolaryngology from 1923 to 1926. He became an Assistant Professor in 1926, and in 1928 was named Professor and head of the Otolaryngology Department. He held the position until 1965.

During his time, he developed at the University of Iowa what is universally regarded as the finest department of otolaryngology in the worlddeveloped as a model department.

In the 1930s he, with a group of interested men, recognized the need for a new discipline and the American Board of Plastic Surgery was formed. A prominent figure in all national organizations related to his field, Dr. Lierle has served as president of the Advisory Board of Medical Specialties, and was secretary-treasurer of the American Board of Otolaryngology for 30 years. He has received every major award in the field, and has published over 70 scientific articles.


Juanita Kidd Stout, 39BA

1974 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

The Honorable Juanita Kidd Stout, 39BA, currently serving her second ten-year term as Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in Philadelphia, PA., has been widely recognized by her peers and by the Philadelphia electorate for her long record of steady, even-handed administration of justice.

Named "Outstanding Woman Lawyer of the Year" by the National Association of Women Lawyers in 1965, Judge Stout has received more than 50 such honors and citations during her distinguished tenure as lawyer, educator, and jurist. In addition to her baccalaureate degree from Iowa and JD and Master of Law degrees from Indiana University, she had been awarded honorary doctorates by Ursinus College in 1965, Russell Sage College and Indiana University in 1966, Lebanon Valley College in 1969, and Drexel University in 1972.

She was appointed by President Kennedy as a member of the United States delegation with the rank of Special Ambassador to the Kenya Independence Celebration in 1963, and was appointed American Specialist under the Cultural and Educational Exchange Program of the State Department in 1967, to tour African countries and to lecture at law schools, bar associations, high schools, and colleges.

Judge Stout is a member of the District of Columbia and Pennsylvania Bars. She served as administrative assistant in the U.S. Court of Appeals for over five years, and as Assistant District Attorney in Philadelphia three and one-half years, and has been a judge in Philadelphia since 1959.


John Towner Frederick, 15BA, 17MA

1973 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

John Towner Frederick, founder and editor of Midland literary magazine, published from 1915 through 1933, was cited for his impact on the university as a teacher, editor, scholar, critic, and novelist. Popularly characterized by many as being one of the last teachers to have inspired worship in the student heart, Professor Frederick drew national literary attention to Iowa through his magazine and its high standards.

Born in 1893, near Corning, Professor Frederick entered the University of Iowa in 1909, at the age of 16. He left school briefly, but returned to be elected to Phi Beta Kappa and president of his class. It was during this period he founded Midland. He received his BA degree in 1915, his master's degree from Iowa in 1917, and the honorary Doctor of Literature from the University of Notre Dame in 1962.

Except for one year at the University of Pittsburgh, Professor Frederick was a member of the Department of English at Iowa from 1921 to 1930. For 15 years thereafter, he taught at both Northwestern University and Notre Dame, and from 1945 to 1962, at Notre Dame alone, where he was chairman of the Department of English for three years before his retirement. He returned to Iowa to become visiting professor in the Department of English from 1962 to 1970.

He is a fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies and the American Philosophical Society. Professor Frederick conducted a radio program entitled "Of Men and Books" on CBS from 1937 to 1944 and for many years was a book reviewer for the Chicago Tribune. He is author of several novels and critical works.


Judge Theodore G. Garfield, 15BA, 17LLB

1973 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

Theodore G. Garfield, was cited by the university for service to his profession, to the state of Iowa, and to his alma mater through more than five decades as a distinguished jurist.

Born in Humboldt, Iowa, November 1894, Judge Garfield received BA and LLB degrees from the University of Iowa in 1915 and 1917. While a law student at Iowa, Judge Garfield was initiated into Phi Beta Kappa and the Order of the Coif.

Admitted to the bar in 1916, Judge Garfield first practiced law in Ames and became judge on the 11th Judicial District Court of Iowa in 1927. He served this post until 1940, when he was elected a justice of the Iowa Supreme Court.

During his 28-year tenure as a Supreme Court Justice, Judge Garfield wrote more opinions than any other justice in the high court's history.

Having served as chief justice in rotation for four years and continuously since 1961 through his retirement in 1969, Judge Garfield's capacity for long hours and singular dedication to the law have become legend to his peers. Despite this busy schedule, Judge Garfield always found time for additional public service. He participated as a member of the Freedoms Foundation Awards Jury in 1958 and was chairman of the Conference of Chief Justices of the United States from 1964 to 1965. He was adjunct professor of law at Drake University in 1970.

His service to the university included the presidency of the then newly-organized University of Iowa Alumni Association from 1948 through 1951, and he still serves as chairman of the board of trustees of the Law School Foundation, a post he has held since 1952.


Rozella M. Schlotfeldt, 35BS, 35GN

1973 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

Rozella M. Schlotfeldt, a native of DeWitt, Iowa, is associate in nursing at University Hospitals in Cleveland and was professor and dean at Case Western Reserve University for 12 years.

As a nursing educator and administrator, Dr. Schlotfeldt has played a major role in the planning of programs and facilities for nurse training throughout the United States. She has published more then 50 scholarly articles contributory to the advancement of her profession, and she has been a member of several local, state, and national panels on nursing education, as well as serving as a consultant to the United States Public Health Service.

Dr. Schlotfeldt's educational achievements include the Bachelor of Science degree with honors from the University of Iowa in 1935 and her Master of Science and PhD degrees from the University of Chicago in 1947 and 1956. She received an honorary Doctor of Science degree from Georgetown University in 1972. In 1970, Dr. Schlotfeldt received an honorary recognition award from the American Nurses Association and, in 1972, was elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences.


Mr. and Mrs. Roy J. Carver, non-UI grads

1972 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

Mr. Carver is chairman of the board of directors of Bandag, Incorporated, and of Carver Pump Company. The Pump Company was formed in 1938 by Mr. Carver who, as an engineering graduate of the University of Illinois, felt that he could design a better pump than anything else available at that time. He did, and the Carver Pump Company became highly successful.

In 1956, Mr. Carver purchased the North American rights to the Bandag process of cold retreading of tires and launched Bandag operations in Muscatine. The growth of this company is now legendary.

Mrs. Carver has been actively involved in all of the Carver businesses, not only as an officer, but in a managerial capacity.

In November of last year, the Carvers announced a gift of 85,000 shares of Bandag common stock, valued at $3.5 million, to the university through the University of Iowa Foundation. Numerous programs are being supported by the Carver gift. Among them are the following: the development by the UI College of Medicine of a model for a pioneering community health center in Muscatine; aid to needy students; the endowment of distinguished professorships and research fellowships for outstanding faculty members; an addition to the Iowa Museum of Art; furnishings for the new Virgil M. Hancher Auditorium; funds for the restoration of the original house chamber of Old Capitol; artificial turf for Iowa Stadium; and support for the President's Academic Development Fund.


Charles Guggenheim, 48BA

1972 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

Charles Guggenheim, a 1948 graduate of the University of Iowa, entered motion pictures in 1951, producing films for NBC and a children's series for ABC which brought him a Peabody Award. After accepting an appointment for a year as chief producer for the Ford Foundation's experimental adult education project, he headed up a community-operated educational television station in St. Louis before establishing his own film company.

Now considered by critics as probably the most accomplished maker of documentary films in the country, Mr. Guggenheim has won top awards in every major international film competition. His receipt of the Venice Film Festival's eleventh Gold Mercury Award in 1968 for "Monument to the Dream" marked the first time in the festival's long history the award has gone to an American producer.

Mr. Guggenheim, who has received five academy award nominations, won his second Oscar in 1969 for "Robert Kennedy Remembered," a dramatic and moving film which captures the spirit and dedication of the late senator's life. In 1965, Mr. Guggenheim received his first academy award for the film "Nine from Little Rock," which portrayed the Arkansas school integration crisis and the changes wrought in subsequent years.

In recent years, Mr. Guggenheim has turned his direction and talents to automated multimedia production, including the son et lumiere presentation premiered at Ford's Theatre in 1971. The production, with its recorded voices, sound effects, lighting projection, and original music, all computer-controlled, has evoked the same high degree of critical praise common to his documentary productions and his feature length motion pictures.


Dr. G. Marshall Kay, 24BS, 25MS

1971 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

G. Marshall Kay, of Leonia, New Jersey, Newberry Professor of Geology at Columbia University, was educated in Iowa City, receiving his BS degree in 1924 and the MS degree in 1925.

During succeeding years, he achieved international fame as one of the most influential scholar-teachers in the geological sciences. His contributions to international geological cooperation are reputed to have surpassed those of any other living American geologist.

He has lectured extensively in Europe and has promoted several European-American-Canadian cooperative research projects. His basic Geology text (Kay and Colbert, 1965) is regarded as one of the most authoritative in its field.

A life member of the University of Iowa Alumni Association, Dr. Kay maintains an active interest in Iowa and its geology.


Dr. E. F. Lindquist, 27PhD

1971 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

E.F. Lindquist, of Iowa City, founded, among other successful enterprises, the Measurement Research Center of Iowa City and the Iowa Educational Information Center, and was cofounder of the famous American College Testing Program.

A graduate of Augustana College, Rock Island, Illinois, Professor Lindquist received the PhD degree from the University of Iowa in 1927. He became director of the University of Iowa Testing Program in 1930, working first on the "Iowa Brain Derby" high school tests, and then originating the Iowa Test of Basic Skills for elementary pupils and the Iowa Tests of Educational Development for high school students.

In the early 1950s, he invented the first high-speed electronic machine used to correct tests.

In 1967, Dr. Lindquist received the American Educational Research Association Phi Kappa award. He was awarded an honorary doctor of letters degree from Augustana College in 1964 and has served on many boards and committees on the American Council for Education and other educational organizations.

A life member of the University of Iowa Alumni Association, Dr. Lindquist is also a member of the University of Iowa Presidents Club.


Dr. Don H. O'Donoghue, 23BS, 26MD

1971 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

Don H. O'Donoghue, professor of orthopedic surgery and chairman of the Department of Orthopedic Surgery and Fractures, the University of Oklahoma School of Medicine, is internationally known for his pioneering techniques in treatment of sports injuries.

He was inducted by the State Historical Society of Oklahoma in 1970 to the Oklahoma Hall of Fame in recognition of his achievements and contribution to the state.

Dr. O'Donoghue attended Buena Vista College, Storm Lake, Iowa, and received his BS degree from the University of Iowa in 1923. He received his MD degree from Iowa in 1926 and received an honorary DS degree from Morningside College, Sioux City, Iowa, in 1944.

Dr. O'Donoghue has been chairman of the committee on sports medicine of the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons since 1962; he is a life member of the University of Iowa Alumni Association.

He has been the recipient of many service awards during his distinguished career, including the Distinguished Service Citation of the University of Oklahoma, in 1969.


Dorothy and James Schramm

1971 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

Dorothy D. and James S. Schramm, of Burlington, Iowa, are well-known to the citizens of the state of Iowa for their philanthropy and dedicated involvement in continuing education, notably in the area of the arts.

Mr. Schramm holds the LHD degree from Amherst College and the LLD degree from Coe College. Mrs. Schramm is an alumna of Barnard and Bennett colleges in New York.

Both have worked tirelessly in the field of international understanding through their work with the United Nations Association, and both have been enthusiastically engaged in politics.

During Mr. Schramm's rise to prominence as a Burlington businessman and community leader, Mrs. Schramm contributed her own energy to the couple's increasing activity as art collectors and patrons.

Mr. Schramm served in several high offices of the American Federation of Arts, including a term as president. He held a similar position with the Acquisition and Exhibition Committee of the Des Moines, Iowa, Arts Council from 1966 to 1968.

The Schramms have assisted citizens in the state to achieve a new level of understanding of the visual arts by the generous sharing of their own collections with Iowa's educational institutions. Their gifts of artistic works to the University of Iowa's Museum of Art have established the Schramms as very special friends of the University of Iowa, the community, and the people of the state.


Walter A. Anneberg, 23BS, 23MD, 24MS

1970 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

Walter A. Anneberg moved to Carroll, Iowa, with his family as a teenager and enrolled in the University of Iowa in 1917. Seven years later, he returned to Carroll and, with the exception of World War II service, he has practiced medicine in that community ever since. He is Carroll's beloved elder statesman, long dedicated to public service.

Some highlights of those many years include Dr. Anneberg's instrumentality in the planning and construction of the community's public swimming pool and his senior membership, past presidency, and perennial chairmanship of the scholarship fund-raising committee of Carroll's Rotary Club. He has also been active on fund-raising committees for a new church and parsonage in Carroll and has served as general chairman of the fund-raising drive for a new $6 million regional hospital.

He is a lifetime member of the University of Iowa Alumni Association and has been active in the projects of the University of Iowa Foundation. Dr. Anneberg was among the founders and principal promoters of the university's Carroll County Alumni Association.


Howard R. Bowen, 35PhD

1970 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

Howard R. Bowen received his PhD degree in economics from the University of Iowa in 1935 and, 29 years later, was installed as the university's fourteenth president. In the intervening years, he had made his mark as an economist international in stature and served as president of Grinnell College.

During his five-year tenure as president of the UI, Dr. Bowen's influence set in motion the most ambitious and far-reaching physical and intellectual period of growth ever experienced at Iowa. Student enrollment increased more than 50 percent, a $125 million building program was substantially funded and begun, and some 500 members were added to the faculty. Gifts and grants from sources other than state funds and tuition increased from $11.7 million to more than $35 million, and vast expansion in the Health Center Campus, Iowa Center for the Arts, and instruction and research facilities were begun.

Dr. Bowen is currently chairman of the Claremont Graduate School's Department of Economics and recently was named president of the Claremont University Center, Claremont, California.


James W. Maucker, 36MA, 40PhD

1970 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

James W. Maucker served as president of the University of Northern Iowa at Cedar Falls for 19 years and, during his administration, that institution achieved university status and its enrollment grew from 2,688 students to nearly 10,000.

Dr. Maucker, who received an MA degree from the University of Iowa in 1936 and a PhD in 1940, has held numerous positions of leadership in professional organizations including: membership on the board of directors and various committees of the American Council on Educational; past chairmanship of the National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education and Professional Standards, and presidency of the Iowa Association of College Presidents.

Dr. Maucker was a member of the U.S. Delegation to the Organization for European Economic cooperation, Kungalv, Sweden and, in 1968, received the American Association of University Professors' tenth Alexander Meiklejohn Award for outstanding contribution to academic freedom by a university administrator.


John H. Morse, 30BA

1970 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

John H. Morse is a charter member of the board of directors of the University of Iowa Foundation. He received his BA degree from the UI in 1930, his MBA degree from Harvard in 1932, and his LLB from Yale in 1935. The following year, he joined the New York City firm of Cravath, Swaine and Moore and ten years later became partner.

Yet, despite commitments which accompany rigorous demands of a distinguished career in corporate law, Mr. Morse still finds time to serve the University of Iowa. He has been an integral part in the University of Iowa Foundation's growth. He has, for example, been active in the realization of such Foundation projects as the university's new Museum of Art and the soon-to-be-built Health Sciences Library, as well as the establishment of the Foundation's Old Gold Club and the President's Club. In addition, he was instrumental in the establishment of the Manhattan Fund, a repository for funds contributed to the university by businessmen in the New York area.


Thomas Daniels, 48BSEE

1969 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

Thomas Daniels was awarded his Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering degree from the University of Iowa in 1948 and is now chief of technical management in a U.S. Army program to implement new concepts in navigation and position finding. He holds the Meritorious Civilian Service Medal, the Army's second-highest civilian award, for his technical and managerial skills.

A resident of Oakhurst, New Jersey, Mr. Daniels has long been active in community service and leadership. He has devoted much time to wide-ranging programs for urban development, jobs for the unemployed, and gainful opportunities for youth. He is vice president and a member of the executive committee of the board of directors of the Monmouth Community Action Program, Inc., the antipoverty agency for Monmouth County, New Jersey. During the "hot summer" of 1967, Mr. Daniels headed a special committee whose objective was to reduce racial tensions in Monmouth County.


Paula P. Grahame, 26BA

1969 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

Paula P. Grahame of Worcester, Massachusetts, has long been a friend and a supporter of the university and of the arts. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree in journalism from the University of Iowa in 1926.

Paula Patton Grahame is a poet, a writer, and an artist. Her visual creations are well-known in galleries in New England and New York.

Her involvement with art has had a continuing effect on the University of Iowa. Each year, an art student is selected as a Grahame Fellow in Art and receives financial aid from the special fund Mrs. Grahame has createdthe Paula Patton Grahame Fund.

Mrs. Grahame is also a civic leader and is listed in Who's Who in American Women. She is a past president of the Worcester branch of the American Association of University Women, and charities, youth, and church work are her special interests.


George P. Lloyd, 26BSC

1969 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

George P. Lloyd is a vice president of the University of Iowa Foundation, was one of its founding directors, and has been on the Foundation's investment committee since its inception.

Mr. Lloyd received his Bachelor of Science in Commerce degree from the University of Iowa in 1926. Many years later, he was a tireless worker in the building of the Chester A. Phillips Scholarship Fund, established in honor of his former teacher and dean. Mr. Lloyd was also deeply involved in the capital campaign to provide funds for the university's new Museum of Art.

For many years, Mr. Lloyd has recruited outstanding high school students in his home community and encouraged them to attend the University of Iowa.

Mr. Lloyd is an investment counselor. His offices (Lloyd and DeGeus) are in Joliet and he has been active there in such community service projects as hospital expansion, city planning, and regional planning.


Daniel Starch, 04MA, 06PhD

1969 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

Daniel Starch, the nation's leading psychologist in the fields of advertising and marketing, began his career at the UI as an instructor in psychology. He entered the world of business in 1919 and in the 50 ensuing years became a giant in the many-faceted field of business research. In 1966, he authored Measuring Advertising Readership and Results, a book synthesizing the information culled from 40 years of research in advertising readership and effectiveness.

Dr. Starch retired last September at age 85 from the chairmanship of Daniel Starch and Stall, but he retains an office in the Mamaroneck, New York, headquarters.

Dr. Starch is an alumnus of the UI. He received his Master of Arts degree in 1904 and his Doctor of Philosophy in 1906. More than two decades ago, at the celebration of its Centennial, the University of Iowa recognized Dr. Starch as one of its outstanding alumni of that day.


Norman Felton, 40BFA, 41MA

1968 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

Norman Felton, television producer and playwright, earned a Rockefeller playwriting fellowship in 1934 while a student at the University of Iowa. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1940 and wrote three plays to earn his Master of Fine Arts in 1941. In 1950, Mr. Felton returned to New York to direct and write teleplays for such programs as "Robert Montgomery Presents," for which he received an Emmy. He has since been nominated for the Emmy six times. He is now president of his own company, Arena Productions, Inc., and among the television series it has produced for MGM are "Dr. Kildare," "The Eleventh Hour," "The Lieutenant," and "The Man From U.N.C.L.E." In 1966, Mr. Felton endowed a playwriting fellowship at the University of Iowa to encourage development of gifted writers.


Leslie M. Fitzgerald, 19DDS

1968 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

Leslie M. Fitzgerald is chief of the oral surgery staff at St. Joseph's Finley and Xavier Hospitals in Dubuque. He received his D.D.S. degree from the University of Iowa in 1919 and immediately after his graduation was appointed an instructor in the College of Dentistry. In 1920, he began his practice of dentistry and oral surgery in Dubuque where he has remained throughout his long and distinguished career. At various times, he has been a consultant and lecturer in oral surgery at the UI College of Dentistry. Dr. Fitzgerald is a past president of the Dubuque Dental Society (1920-21, 1932-33), the UI College of Dentistry Alumni Association (1931-32), the Iowa State Dental Association (1942-43), the American Society of Oral Surgeons (1941-43), and the American Dental Association (1953-54).


Harold J. Gallagher, 16LLB

1968 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

Harold J. Gallagher is a native of Clinton and a past president of the American Bar Association. Since 1940, he has been with the New York law firm of Willkie, Owen, Farr, Gallagher, and Walton, of which he is now the senior partner. At the UI centennial celebration in 1946, he was one of 99 persons selected from 40,000 living alumni to receive a citation of special recognition for his distinguished career in his profession. Mr. Gallagher received the bachelor of laws degree from the UI in 1916 and was admitted to the Iowa Bar the same year. In 1917, he attended Harvard Law School and the following year was admitted to the New York Bar. In 1954, Mr. Gallagher received the LL.D. degree from St. John's University in New York.


Bourke Hickenlooper, 22LLB, 39JD

1968 Distinguished Alumni Service Award
U.S. Bourke Hickenlooper of Cedar Rapids is the ranking Republican and senior member on the Foreign Relations Committee. He earned his juris doctor degree from the UI in 1922 and practiced law in Cedar Rapids until he began his political career in 1934, when he was elected a State Representative from Linn County. He was re-elected to the Legislature in 1936, and in 1938, he was elected Lieutenant-Governor of Iowa, a post he held for two terms before his successful bid for the Senate in 1944. He was re-elected in 1950, 1956, and 1962.

Thomas R. McConnell, 28AM, 33PhD

1968 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

Thomas R. McConnell is chairman of the Center for the Study of Higher Education at the University of California at Berkeley. He received his A.M. degree from the University of Iowa in 1928 and his PhD in 1933. He also was an instructor in education at UI for one year. He was dean of the College at Cornell for five years, and later taught for several years at the University of Minnesota. From 1950 to 1954, Dr. McConnell was chancellor of the University of Buffalo in Buffalo, New York. In 1954, he became professor of psychology at Berkeley, the position he now holds. Since 1957, he has been chairman of that institution's Center for the Study of Higher Education.


Robert H. McDonald, 22BA, 26JD

1968 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

Robert H. McDonald earned the bachelor of arts degree in 1922 and the juris doctor in 1926 from the University of Iowa, then entered the investment banking business. He became a partner of McDonald & Company, members of the New York Stock Exchange. The company, founded by his brother, is located in Lima, Ohio, where Mr. McDonald makes his home. He has been director and president of the chamber of commerce in Lima, a member and president of the board of trustees of Memorial Hospital there, and a member of the business advisory committee for Ohio Northern University. Mr. McDonald is a charter member and past president of the board of firectors of the University of Iowa Foundation.


Walter L. Stewart, 10BA, 12LLB

1968 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

Walter L. Stewart received the bachelor of arts degree from the University of Iowa in 1910 and the bachelor of law in 1912. He was admitted to the Iowa Bar that same year and began practicing law in Des Moines. He is now a senior member of the Des Moines law firm of Stewart, Garrett, Heartney, Jones and Watts. Mr. Stewart was vice chairman and is now a member of the board of Central National Bank and Trust Company, a director of the State Automobile Association, past president of the University of Iowa Alumni Association, and a past member of the UI Board in Control of Athletics. He is presently a member of the board of directors of the University of Iowa Foundation.


Charles H. Whitmore, 40JD

1968 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

Charles H. Whitmore, president and chairman of the board of directors of Iowa-Illinois Gas and Electric Company of Davenport, received his juris doctor degree from the UI in 1940. He is a member of the board of trustees of the Power Reactor Development Co., a member of that company's executive committee, and also is its executive vice president. Since 1958, Mr. Whitmore has been a member of the board of directors of the Edison Electric Institute, and he is a past vice president of the Missouri Valley Electric Association. He makes his home in Rock Island, Illinois.


Dr. Lois Austin, 31BS, 31GN

1967 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

Dr. Lois Austin, Pittsburgh, Pa., president of the national League for Nursing. Dr. Austin is a 1931 nursing graduate of the U of I and during her two terms as president of the National League for Nursing she has been recognized for outstanding national service and leadership in the fields of nursing education and service.


Clifford H. Beem, 31MA

1967 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

Clifford H. Beem, longtime dean of Mason City Junior College, now director of arts and sciences at North Iowa Area Community College. He received the B.A. degree from Drake University in 1924 and the M.A. from the U of I in 1931. During the period of his administration at Mason City Junior College, the institution grew from 200 local-area students to 1,285 students from throughout the state and from other states and countries.


Arthur A Collins

1967 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

Arthur A. Collins, Cedar Rapids, president and chairman of the board of Collins Radio Company. He founded Collins Radio in 1931 and has stimulated its extensive growth in the fields of communication, computation, and control systems. He attended Coe College, Amhurst College, Mass., and the University of Iowa. With some 12,000 employees the company ranks as Iowa's largest corporate employer in a single location.


Mr. & Mrs. Owen Elliott

1967 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

Mr. and Mrs. Owen Elliott, Cedar Rapids, whose gift of art to the University stimulated development of the University's new center for the arts.


Dr. Laurence C. Jones, 1907BPH

1967 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

Dr. Laurence C. Jones, founder and long time president of Piney Woods Country Life School in Mississippi. A graduate of the U of I in 1907, he has devoted his time to promoting broader opportunities for Negro youth in the South.


Kenneth P. MacDonald, 26BA

1967 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

Kenneth P. MacDonald, editor and executive vice-president of the Des Moines Register & Tribune Company. He received a BA degree from the U of I in 1926 and joined the staff of the Des Moines Register and Tribune in the same year. He became editor of the paper in 1953 and has been executive vice-president and chief operating officer since 1962.


C. Maxwell Stanley, 26BSE, 30MS

1967 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

C. Maxwell Stanley, Muscatine, president of the Stanley Engineering Company. He received a degree in engineering in 1926 and an MS degree in 1932 both from the University of Iowa. His company operates as a worldwide consulting firm and he has been a member of the Executive Council of United World Federalists since 1947, and has served four terms as president of that organization.


Dr. Theodore Willis, 08BS, 10HMD

1967 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

Dr. Theodore Willis, San Mateo, Calif., retired orthopedic surgeon, and long-time head of the department of orthopedic surgery at St. Luke's hospital in Cleveland, Ohio. He received a BS degree in 1908 and a medical degree in 1910, and practiced orthopedic surgery for forty years. He has been active in research in bone structure at Stanford University since his retirement and in 1960 Dr. Willis established a memorial fund at the U of I to provide scholarships for medical students.


Philip Adler, 26BA

1966 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

Davenport publisher Philip D. Alder, '26BA, a recognized "benefactor and constant friend to the University of Iowa," received one of the U of I's highest honors this June as recipient of the fourth annual Distinguished Service Award.

Adler, president of Lee Enterprises, Inc., which includes publication of the Davenport Times-Democrat, received the bronze medallion and accompanying citation from President Howard R. Bowen at the All Alumni Luncheon in Iowa City, June 11.

Loren L. Hickerson, executive director of the U of I Alumni Association read the text of the citation which called attention to Adler's "well spring of leadership and inspiration and generosity of his service.

The Distinguished Service Award, established in 1962, acknowledges "specific and meritorious services in behalf of the quality and advancement of the University; distinguished accomplishment in business or professional life and/or distinguished human services in community affairs at the local, state or national level." Adler scores highly on each count.

In 1963 he was named president of the board of trustees of the University of Iowa School of Religion for a two-year term, and has been the non-university campaign chairman for the U of I's Museum of Art. A native of Davenport, he was named Quad-City "Man of the Year" in 1964.

Adler began his newspaper career in high school as editor of the school newspaper and annual. At the University he was an editor of the Daily Iowan student newspaper, and upon graduation, became publisher of the Kewanee, Ill., Star-Courier. During World War II he served in the Office of Censorship in Washington and, after V-J Day, made a two-month survey of France, Britain and occupied Germany. He recorded his experiences in Europe in his book, "Overseas Assignment." In 1949 Adler succeeded his father, E.P. Adler, as vice president of the Lee Enterprises and publisher of the Davenport Times.

In both Kewanee and Davenport, Adler has been active in civic, welfare, educational and cultural fields. He is a member of the board of trustees of St. Luke's and Mercy hospitals in Davenport, and has served as president of the Scott County chapter of the American Red Cross and the Davenport Municipal Art Gallery. He has been interested in the Davenport educational institutions, serving as trustee of the St. Ambrose College and working with the Davenport school board on plans for expansion of school opportunities. A member of the Temple Emanuel Board of Trustees, he was chairman of the Temple Emanuel Centennial Committee in 1961.

Adler has served on boards of directors of other organizations, including the Iowa-Illinois Industrial Development Group, Davenport Chamber of Commerce and the YMCA, and has been vice-president of the Friendly House. He participated in the fund for financing Camp Conestoga for Girl Scouts near Dixon, Ill., in 1949. He has also been a member of the board of United Community Services, on the advisory councils of the Junior Achievement movement and the Davenport visiting Nurse Association, and on the advisory board of the Lend-a-Hand Club.

As the 1966 recipient of the University's Distinguished Service Award, Adler joins a select group13 men and women so honored since the inception of the award.


James W. Birkenstock, 35BSC

1965 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

James W. Birkenstock, '35BSC, a native of Burlington, joined the IBM firm directly following his graduation in 1935, and has risen from his first appointment as an assistant sales representative in St. Louis, Mo., to his present executive position held since 1958. In his career with IBM he has served as manager of the future demands department, as administrative assistant to the president, and was responsible, as executive assistant, for IBM defense contracts. In addition, he has served as director of product planning and market analysis for all divisions of the company, and as director of commercial development.

His Distinguished Service Award citation reads: "A director and executive committee member of the Business Equipment Manufacturers Association, a member of the Standards Council of the American Standards Association, now a trustee at Fairfield University in Connecticut, he has been a good citizen and servant of his industry, his government, his community, his Church, his University.." He and his wife reside in new Canaan, Conn., and have a daughter, Joyce Ann, who is presently a student at SUI.


J. Edward Lundy, 36BA

1965 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

J. Edward Lundy, '36BA, a native of Clairon, was a fellow in economics for three years at Princeton University following his graduation from SUI. He was a member of the Princeton economics faculty from 1940 until 1943, when he entered the Army Air Force to serve as director of the research and analysis department of the Air Force statistical headquarters in Washington, D.C., for which he was awarded the Legion of Merit. Lundy joined the Ford Motor Company in 1946, and has served as director of financial planning and analysis, assistant controller, treasurer, and as vice president and controller. He has held his present position as vice president of finance since 1962. His citation paid tribute to his interest in people: "In his functional supervision of the intricate financial structure of all divisions and subsidiaries of his Company, his great talent is to recognize young talent, his great challenge is to challenge it effectively and fully..In human and corporate societies which grow inexorably massive and complex, he is an executive's executive, at home in a world of challenge and of change.


Dr. Paul W. Penningroth, 22BSC

1965 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

Born in Tipton, Dr. Paul W. Penningroth, 22BSC, received the MA degree from the Union Theological Seminary following his SUI graduation, and earned the PhD at Columbia University. He taught at various institutions including the Turkish Lycee at Adana, Turkey, and American University, Beirut, Lebanon, until 1948 when he engaged in private practice as consulting psychologist in St. Petersburg, Fla. He served various Florida public agencies as a clinical psychologist, and in 1954 was appointed director of the Bureau of Mental Health for the Florida State Board of Public Health. He assumed his present position as associate director of Mental Health Programs for the South Regional Education Board in 1957. Said his Distinguished Service citation: "Organizer and director for a decade of the first child guidance clinic in the State of Florida, proponent and developer of more effective programs to meet the distinctive problems of mental health in rural communities of the South, leader in the causes of region-wide research and more effective training for the emotionally disturbed, he is a practical psychologist on the front lines of his profession." He and his wife, Persis Carney Penningroth, '24BA, reside n Atlanta, Ga. They have two daughters and a son, all of whom are graduates of SUI.


Dr. Donovan F. Ward, 30MD

1965 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

Dr. Donovan F. Ward, '30MD, is a native of Dubuque where he has practiced medicine nearly all of his medical career. Following his internship at St. Mary's Hospital in Detroit, Mich., he served a surgical preceptorship in Dubuque and practiced there until 1942 when he spent four years as a surgeon with the U. S. Naval Reserve Medical Corps. He is senior surgeon at Finley and Mercy Hospitals in Dubuque, and is a consulting surgeon at Xavier Hospital in that community.

Dr. Ward has been active in the Dubuque and Iowa Medical Societies and has held executive positions in both organizations. He is a fellow in the American and in the International College of Surgeons and is past president of the Iowa clinical Surgical Society. He began his term as President of the American Medical Association in September 1964, having previously served that organization as vice president, a member of the Committee on Medical Practices, and director of the Joint Council To Improve Health Care of the Aged.

His citation said: ".Donovan Ward has packed into his community services, practiced with an unvarying zest and brightened with an ebullience of human warmth and spirit. In each of the wide-ranging worlds of his activity, he is a force—and a credit to the force.",

Dr. and Mrs. Ward have two daughters and a son, all of whom attended the University.


David A. Dancer, 17BA

1964 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

David A. Dancer, 17BA, has served for twenty-two years as chairman of the finance committee and as secretary of the State Board of Regents. Born at Lamoni, Iowa, October 7, 1896, Mr. Dancer has engaged in livestock raising and farming in Decatur County since 1919. He married the former Florence Messerle of West Union, Iowa, in 1917. The Dancers have three daughters. Mr. Dancer is a member of Omicron Delta Kappa, honorary leadership society for men. He served as a State Representative in four Iowa General Assemblies. His Distinguished Service Award Citation reads:

Through the broad span of the years of his service to the people of Iowa, David A. Dancer has reflected a rare trilogy of strengths; tenaciousness, an infinite patience, a selflessness remarkable by any measure.

As Secretary of the State Board of Regents and Chairman of its Finance Committee since 1942, through more than two decades of rampant growth and not unpainful change in the affairs of the State's advanced public institutions, he has been a quiet, constant force for quality and progress in higher learning in Iowa.

If there were a race of Middlemen, he could be the peerless leader of that race. Relied upon alike—for all manner of aid and counsel—by governors and presidents, legislators and professors, lobbyists and laymen, he has achieved the unlikeliest accolade of all: the mutual respect and affection of all these desperate Iowa breeds. Only in such a man as this is it understandable that he has made manifest his deep-seated devotion to this, his University, without the least sacrifice of the responsibilities of his office to its sister institutions.

In these past twenty-two years, in almost any other service, Dave Dancer could have achieved far more of personal wealth and gain, her could have known fear less of disappointment and frustration, than in the course he has chosen to follow. No State was ever made richer by one man's commitment to the public good.

His University is proud to acknowledge the leadership of his example with the Distinguished Service Award.


George E. Frazer, 09BA

1964 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

George E. Frazer, 09BA, was born at Amber, Iowa, February 1, 1889. a retired Chicago lawyer and accountant, Mr. Frazer received his law degree from the University of Wisconsin in 1912 and holds three honorary degrees from American colleges. He served as assistant director of finance for the U.S. Army in 1918 and as general counsel to the governor and legislature of Ohio during the reorganization of that state in 1921. Mr. Frazer has served as professor of Public Accounting and comptroller at the University of Illinois and is currently a trustee of Kenyon College and Rockford College. Mr. Frazer married the former Helen James in 1915. The Frazers have two sons. His Distinguished Service Award Citation reads:

From the days of his youth, George e. Frazer has lived in a world that giants might have fashioned, where men's lives and works are painted on life-size canvasses of concept and accomplishment. Like the architect, Burnham, he has found his excitement in other than small plans.

As a student in the Universities of Iowa and Wisconsin, he achieved an uncommon synthesis of knowledge in accounting and the law. In his professional career, he has applied that duality of disciplines in fashioning monuments of great dimension and public impact, including the fiscal structure of the State of Illinois and aspects of the present organization of government in the State of Ohio.

The extraordinary vigor of his spirit and intellect, the sharpness of his sense of ethic and of responsibility have strengthened the quality and character of those many institutions in which he believes and which he has served through the years, variously as partner, or trustee, or counselor, or friend.

His impact for the good of this institution has been greater than he knows, ranging a gamut from forthright and objective analyses of the University's functions, to self-assumed leadership in many a campus project of alumnus example.

His University is proud to acknowledge the leadership of his example with this Distinguished Service Award.


Orville F. Grahame, 25BA, 29JD

1964 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

Orville F. Grahame, '25BA, '29JD, was born at Palo, Iowa, April 2, 1904. He has served as vice president and general counsel for the Paul Revere Life Insurance Company and the Massachusetts Protective Association, Inc., since 1949. Mr. Grahame is a Fellow of the Insurance Institute of America and a past president of the National Advisory Committee, by appointment of President Eisenhower, which set up the White Conference on Aging in 1961. Mr. Grahame is married to the former Pauline Patton, '26BA. They make their home in Worcester, Massachusetts. His Distinguished Service Award Citation reads:

In each age of history, the law has had its leaders—men of sentiment and wisdom whose insights have given solidity to human achievement and added dimension to men's dreams. In these days of vast change and growth, in the scope and body of the law as in all facets of human society, Orville F. Grahame is one of these.

As Vice-President and General Counsel of the Paul Revere Insurance Company and the Massachusetts Protective Association, he has achieved eminence in a combination of professions. His professional counsel, his writing and speaking, his studies and analyses in the interrelated and increasingly complex fields of insurance and the law are significant contributions in both professions.

He is a quiet and kindly man of intellect, whose interests and studies range the spectrum of human institutions. The breadth of his understanding of men is reflected in his view of the law as basic to wise conduct, sound growth, and fundamental security—for individuals, but alike for the corporate giants they create. Is it not through the leadership of wise men of sentiment that we shall sustain the human spirit, whatever the corporate shape of civilizations yet to come?

Professionally, and in politics, and civic affairs, and in the arts—and through his solid support of this institution—Orville Grahame has enlarged horizons of the mind and spirit.

His University is proud to acknowledge the leadership of his example with this Distinguished Service Award.


Virgil M. Hancher, 18BA, 24JD, 64LLD

1964 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

Virgil M. Hancher, '18BA, '24JD, '64LLD, retired as President of the University of Iowa on June 30, 1964, after a distinguished SUI career spanning almost twenty-four years. He was born on a farm near Rolfe, Iowa, September 4, 1896. He studied at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar and then practiced law in Chicago from 1926-40, when he became SUI's thirteenth President. In 1954 he was a member of the five-man commission which selected the U. S. Air Force Academy site. He was twice appointed to important committees by President Eisenhower in 1956. President Hancher was a member of the U.S. delegation to the United Nations in 1959. He holds honorary degrees from twelve universities. He married the former Susan Cannon in 1928. The Hanchers have two children. President Hancher now embarks on a new career which he has described as a "great new adventure in education"—he will serve in India for the next two years on an education mission for the Ford Foundation. His Distinguished Service Award Citation reads:

When Virgil M. Hancher leaves his long and distinguished Presidency, neither he nor the University will be given a time of grace to reflect upon the past. The present will be too imminent to book an intermission.

The University, larger than the lives of all its people, will proceed on its course, its retiring Captain in a new ship for awhile, a new Captain on this bridge. Below decks, the crew will perform their usual evolutions, speculating (as any crew will do) over whose ratings may rise and who's likely for mast under the new Skipper.

There are more of all these things because of Virgil Hancher. He has cast a towering shadow of intellect and spirit across this University and this State; and it has embraced and uplifted world-wide communities of scholars and of statesmen. The dimension of his eminence is reflected neither in the physical growth nor in the advancing academic stature of this University, but in the world of universities, he achieved the peerage in his years of service at Iowa.

In all names on the rolls of the world-wide fraternity of students and alumni of this University, the State of Iowa Alumni Association bestows upon Virgil M. Hancher this Distinguished Service Award.


Victor E. Henningsen, 30BA, 31MS

1964 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

Victor E. Henningsen, '30BA, '31MS, was born at Graettinger, Iowa, May 5, 1908. he is currently vice president and actuary of Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company, a firm he joined in 1932. Mr. Henningsen is a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries, was named president-elect of the Society in 1963 and has served in various executive positions of the Society since 1949. He was elected Phi Beta Kappa in his junior year at the University of Iowa. He is married and the father of four children. The Henningsens make their home in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. His Distinguished Service Award Citation reads:

Victor E. Henningsen became, at 25, one of the youngest men ever elected an officer of the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company. Now, as Vice President and Actuary of that company, he is an acknowledged leader in the insurance world. Later this year, he will become the President of the Society of Actuaries—the first graduate of the University of Iowa to be elected to this highest office in the actuarial profession.

An able scholar of the principles of actuarial science, he is a source of special strengths in his profession. As a man of high conscience in the affairs of his community, and a devoted servant in the causes of youth and of education, he has earned the respect and affection of those whose interests he has served and shared as good citizen and colleague.

For his outstanding accomplishments in all these things, he has earned the University's applause. But not for these alone. Through his leadership among fellow graduates of this University, his own company has been joined by many companies and individuals in extending a rising tide of support for students of outstanding promise in mathematics at this University. His actions have helped spark a broader and higher dimension of actuarial study on this campus, which is a fountain head of education in this field of great moment to the nation's life and work.

It may be said that in the growth and progress of his own professional career, Victor Henningsen is taking his profession upward with him. His University proudly acknowledges the leadership of his example with the Distinguished Service Award.


Dorothy D. Houghton

1964 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

Mrs. Dorothy Deemer Houghton was born at Red Oak, Iowa, March 11, 1890. she graduated from Wellesley College in 1912. Mrs. Houghton served as president of the General Federation of Women's Clubs from 1950-52, was appointed by President Eisenhower as deputy director of the International Cooperation Administration from 1953-55. Mrs. Houghton received Iowa's Most Distinguished Mother of the Year. Mrs. Houghton holds honorary degrees from four American universities an has been decorated by three foreign nations. She is honorary president for life of the U. S. Electoral College and has served as president of the National Safety Council. She represented the United States as an alternate delegate to the Intergovernmental Committee on European Migration in nine sessions at Geneva and Venice. The last Mr. Hiram Houghton was president of the Houghton State Bank of Red Oak, Iowa. Three of the four Houghton children hold degrees from the University of Iowa. Her Distinguished Service Award Citation reads:

When the definitive story of this State is told, it will be written that over a course of decades in the 20th century, there was a woman in whom the fires of purpose and of zeal burned brilliantly. It will be noted that the flame of her endeavors illuminated all of Iowa, spread outward across the nation, and leapt oceans to shine in far countries of the world.

Dorothy Deemer Houghton has given her life to service, including a dozen years as a regent of the institutions of higher learning in Iowa. Drawing upon some infinite well of energy and zest and human affection, she has been organizer and inspirator to legions, and proud servant of presidents and monarchs.

In the beginning, she raised high her personal standard of devotion in her service; to her family, her Club, the Federation of Clubs; or to the regency, or the national committee, or the international commission, or the United Nations, or any of the myriad causes she has served. She has been honored by colleges and universities, and decorated by foreign states. She is respected and admired by countless numbers whose lives have been touched by the force of her persuasion.

When the definitive story of this State is told, it well may be recorded that after the Fates had fashioned Dorothy Houghton, they lost the pattern for that special breed.

This University if proud to acknowledge the leadership of her example with this Distinguished Service Award.


W. Earl Hall, 18BA

1963 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

If there is an able laymen who has made a profession of being an able layman, he is W. Earl Hall. In strength and clarity, his editorial voice has sounded through Iowa for generations; and what he has preached, he has practiced.

His interests— and his citizen services at local, state and national levels—have ranged a gamut of causes in the public interest: from highway safety to judicial reform, from the Community Chest to Radio Free Europe, from the Salvation Army to the American Red Cross. "I'm truly sorry," he has said, "for those who have not experienced the comfort and satisfaction which come from believing—really believing—in a cause and doing something about it."

Of all his many interests, education is his shibboleth. He has called it "the one most important business in the world." Education in Iowa has had its spokesmen in each generation. Through these forty years and more, education has had no spokesman more persistent, more persuasive, more uncompromising than he. His voice has become a kind of educational conscience in the state. His words, beseeching quality in schools and teaching, have helped to strengthen that very quality, and to improve the climate in which education of quality may flourish in Iowa.

Long ago, he exercised the option—open to every alumnus—to make his University a natural and continuing part of his own life. His able service as a twelve-year member of the Iowa State Board of Education neither began that exercise, nor ended it. It merely punctuated it—with an exclamation mark.

His University is proud to acknowledge the leadership of his example with the Distinguished Service Award.


Meredith Willson,

1963 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

In the genus Homosapiens there is a species Iowan, whose natural habitat centers on the 42nd parallel at the 93rd meridian, between two great rivers in the American Midwest. The more adventurous of the species range widely about the earth, often colonizing in areas of suitable habitation, notably in the south of California and in the canyons of Manhattan Island. Even the less adventurous flock (usually seasonally) to these places, or to sunny areas in Arizona and along the coasts of Florida. The species is marked by a propensity for the fullest freedom of individual action, an inclination to become more placid in the late spring, and an abundant loyalty to its own place and kind. In colony, the species will ruffle feather and contest among themselves, but form a tight circle when attacked.

Being wary of autocracy in any form, the species has no king. If it had, he could be Meredith Willson.

This man has set the spirit of Iowa to music, in pieces and plays which rollick across the American stage and screen, but also in lyrics and melodies of love and friendship, and in songs of faith. As composer, conductor, novelist his impact on the world of entertainment is ebullient and wholesome. Like a good neighbor who has baked an extra cherry pie, he has given of himself and of his lilting music to the University.

Music can take many kinds of form, and this man has been the leader of many kinds of band. The man who played first flute for Sousa more than forty years ago also is the founder and six-times president of the Big Brothers of Los Angeles, whose work with fatherless boys makes music human, on another scale.

If there is some slight difference in this cousin of our clan, it lies not in the fact that he is a credit to the species, but in the fact that everybody in the world knows he is an Iowan, and all Iowans are the more respected. This University is proud to acknowledge the leadership of his example with this Distinguished Service Award.


John H. Witte, 10BA

1963 Distinguished Alumni Service Award

Through a growing span of years, with quiet conviction and without flourish or display, this man has strengthened the human community. In the city of Burlington, his home, and in the timeless world in which his University plays out its roles, he has touched the lives of present and future generations with human understanding and affections.

The record of his years bears testimony that when critical events might shatter the general conscience, he has led the way to restoring confidence; when special community needs became apparent, he has led the way to erasing need; when opportunities for youth might be enhance, he has spearheaded their expansion; hen the good of the community required the leadership of example, he has been that example. Burlington's Man of the Year in 1937 was Burlington's Man of the Year in 1962—a tribute to a sense of service which knows no special time of beginning, nor of ending.

He has been an amateur astronomer through the years, his upward gaze at planets, stars and galaxies but sharpening his view, it seems, of the place of man on this earth. As druggist, businessman, banker, and manufacturer he has demonstrated the capacity for sound enterprise; as humanitarian he has demonstrated the selflessness of conscience. He is the good citizen, and understands that role, and plays it with eloquent simplicity. His University is proud to acknowledge the leadership of his example with this Distinguished Service Award.


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