Alumni Awards
On Reunion Weekend, schools and colleges honored outstanding alumni.
College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
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Comic Greg Fitzsimmons (CGS'87, CAS'89) makes a point after receiving the College of General Studies Distinguished Alumni Award. He also kept the crowd laughing at Alumni Comedy Night, as he has for many years running. Fitzsimmons has appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, The Late Show with David Letterman, and Late Night with Conan O'Brien. |
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Lisa A. Goodman (GRS’87,’92).
Graduate School Academy of Distinguished Alumni. Associate professor, Lynch School of Education, Boston College.
Peter M. Guralnick (CAS’67, GRS’68).
College of Arts and Sciences Collegium of Distinguished Alumni. Author on American music, including two-volume biography of Elvis Presley, Last Train to Memphis and Careless Love.
Jeremiah S. Jeremiah (CAS’57, LAW’61).
CAS Collegium of Distinguished Alumni. Chief judge of the Rhode Island Family Court.
Betty A. Papangelis (CAS’46).
CAS Collegium of Distinguished Alumni. Longtime clinical social worker and advocate, Children’s Home and Aid Society of Illinois.
School of Education
Leslye Abrutyn (’71).
Arthur H. Wilde Society Award. Superintendent, Penn-Delco School District, Aston, Pennsylvania.
Darragh Callahan (’70,’94).
Arthur H. Wilde Society Award. Supervisor of elementary and early childhood education student teachers, Boston University School of Education.
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| Leif Christian Kvaal (UNI'94) received an Alumni Award from the University Professors Program. With him at the podium is UNI Director Bruce Redford. |
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Richard L. Schwab (’74).
Ida M. Johnston Award. Dean and professor of educational leadership, Neag School of Education, University of Connecticut.
College of Engineering
Kerry Foley (’91).
Distinguished Alumni Award for Service to Alma Mater. Of counsel, the Shapiro Firm.
Patrick Foley (’91,’94).
Distinguished Alumni Award for Service to Alma Mater. Vice president and portfolio manager, Monarch Financial Corporation of America.
Chris Noel (’82).
Distinguished Alumni Award for Service to Profession. Awarded posthumously. Former vice president of engineering, Equipe.
Karen Panetta (’85).
Distinguished Alumni Award for Service to Community. Professor of electrical and computer engineering, Tufts University.
Richard "Mick" Scully (’81).
Distinguished Alumni Award for Service to Profession. Vice president, product management, Cisco Systems.
College of General Studies
Gregory Fitzsimmons (’87, CAS’89).
Distinguished Alumni Award. Comedian and television writer; longtime Reunion Alumni Comedy Night performer.
Goldman School of Dental Medicine
John Gusha (’84).
Distinguished Alumni Award for Service to the Community. Private practice, Holden, Massachusetts; founder, Central Massachusetts Oral Health Initiative.
Thomas Kilgore.
Special Dean’s Award. Associate dean for advanced education and professor of oral and maxillofacial surgery, BUSDM.
Donald Yu (’81).
Distinguished Alumni Award for Service to the School. Volunteer faculty member, BUSDM; fellow, Academy of General Dentistry
School of Law
Awarded on April 1
Peter Bennett (’85).
Silver Shingle Award for Distinguished Service to the Profession. President, the Bennett Law Firm.
Dan J. Freehling.
Silver Shingle Award for Distinguished Service to the School of Law. Associate dean, information services, and director of the Law Library, BU School of Law.
Jane Wallis Gumble (’81).
Silver Shingle Award for Distinguished Service to the Community. Director, Massachusetts Department of Housing and Community Development.
Clarence B. Jones (’59).
Silver Shingle Award for Distinguished Service to the Community. Executive advisor, Marks Paneth & Shron, LLP.
Anil D. Aggarwal (’95).
Young Lawyer’s Chair. Chief executive officer, TSYS Prepaid.
School of Management
Armand Arabian (’56, LAW’61).
Distinguished Alumni Service Award. Retired associate justice, California Supreme Court.
James Jeffrey (’77).
Distinguished Alumni Service Award. Senior advisor for Iraq to the Secretary of State; former U.S. ambassador to Albania.
Christine Poon (’83).
Distinguished Alumni Service Award. Vice chairman of Johnson & Johnson.
Rick Reidy (’82).
Distinguished Alumni Service Award. President, DataDirect Technologies; founder, Progress Software.
School of Medicine
Jeff M. Sands (’81).
Distinguished Alumni Award. Juha P. Kokko Professor of Medicine and director of the Renal Division, professor of physiology and associate director, Center for Cell and Molecular Signaling, Emory University School of Medicine.
Irvin D. Yalom (’56).
Distinguished Alumni Award. Emeritus professor of psychiatry, Stanford University School of Medicine; former medical director, Stanford University Hospital Psychiatric Inpatient Unit.
Metropolitan College
Edward M. Francis (’78).
Distinguished Service to Alma Mater. Vice president and general manager, space, land and sea, Hamilton-Sundstrand.
Leslie A. Patton (’98).
Distinguished Service to the Community. Full-time volunteer, HealthCare Dimensions Hospice.
Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences
Saralynn Hogg Allaire (’86,’90, SON’70).
Special Recognition Award. Associate director, Multidisciplinary Clinical Research Center; associate professor of medicine, Clinical Epidemiology Research and Training Unit, Boston University School of Medicine.
Barbara Merrick Bourbon (’56).
Twiness Award. Former professor, Uni-versity of Pennsylvania, University of the Sciences.
Lennox Richardson Brodeur (’56).
Dudley Allen Sargent Service Award. Former guidance counselor, South Hadley (Massachusetts) High School; former assistant to the dean of women, Ithaca College.
Janice Collins Dolan (’56, SED’60).
Twiness Award. Former physical education teacher and director of physical and health education, Winchester (Massachusetts) High School.
Merrillyn Taska Hener (’94,’96).
G.O.L.D. Award. Founder, Rehabilitation for All.
Joanne Kruger Juechter (’56).
Twiness Award. Worked at Bronx Community College for more than thirty-five years; program designer and project developer for corporations, hospitals, and educational institutions.
Martha Lynch (’85).
Special Recognition Award. Senior man-ager, Massachusetts General Hospital.
Jean Anderson White (’56).
Special Recognition Award. Chairperson, Health, Physical Education, and Therapeutic Recreation Department, Lincoln University.
School of Social Work
Dorothy Bergold (’81, SED’74).
Outstanding Contributions to the Alumni Association. Immediate past president, BUSSW Alumni Association; member, Boston University Alumni Council.
Claudia Dunne (’90).
Hubie Jones Urban Service Award. Clinical director, Youth Services Providers Network.
Patricia Hogan (’70).
Outstanding Contributions to the Field of Social Work. Professor, former BSW program director, Wheelock College.
James McCauley (’76).
Outstanding Career in Social Work. Program director, Riverside Outpatient Center, Needham and Dedham, Massachusetts.
Jamie Wyatt (’05, SPH’06).
Outstanding Contributions to the School of Social Work. Student assistant, M.S.W./M.P.H. program.
School of Theology
Earl Beane (’67,’68; CAS’63).
Distinguished Alumni Award for Service to Alma Mater. Dir-ector of college relations and director of admissions, BU School of Theology.
Henry Gerner (’56).
Distinguished Alumni Award for Service to Profession. Former director, Buchanan Council Center, Methodist Hospital of Indiana.
Tsugikazu Nishigaki (’63).
Distinguished Alumni Award for Service to Profession. Professor, chaplain, president, and chancellor, Seiwa College for Christian Workers and Hiroshima Jogakuin University.
Dorothy A. Nyland (’29).
Distinguished Alumni Award for Service to Profession. Worked with the United Methodist Church in many positions and with the Ecumenical Church Federation.
Bishop Gilbert Thompson (’75).
Distinguished Alumni Award for Service to Profession. Founder and senior pastor, Jubilee Christian Church, Boston.
University Professors Program
Sergei Kan (’76).
Distinguished Alumni Award. Professor of anthropology and Native American studies, Dartmouth College.
Leif Christian Kvaal (’94).
Distinguished Alumni Award. Managing partner, London office, Trafelet Delta Funds.
Photos by Karen Cheung, Linda Haas, Matt Kalinowski, Albert B. L'Étoile, Jr., Matthew Pearson, and Fred Sway.
