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Week of 23 October 1998 |
Vol. II, No. 11 |
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Recognition for top-achieving alumni
The highest accolade conferred on Boston University alumni will be presented this weekend at the Homecoming/Family Weekend Welcome Breakfast and Alumni Award Ceremony on Saturday, October 24, at 9:30 a.m. in Metcalf Hall at the George Sherman Union. This year's award recipients are:
Eugene S. Andrews (SMG'62)
Eugene Andrews is manager of workforce diversity at the
General Electric Company in Fairfield, Conn.
After earning a B.S. at SMG, Andrews earned an M.S. in counseling in 1972 and a Ph.D. in organizational behavior in 1978, both from Syracuse University. In his 20 years in the U.S. Army he was a commander and staff officer of Infantry, Special Forces, and Ranger units, serving in West Berlin, Thailand, Vietnam, and the United States. In the second half of his army career, he was an associate professor of leadership development at the United States Military Academy, West Point. There he conducted research in employment job orientation and career commitment. His publications concern group dynamics, organizational communications, and faculty and organization development.
Andrews retired from service as a lieutenant colonel in 1982 and became manager of executive education at General Electric. In 1988, he left GE to be a volunteer in general management at the Baha'i World Center in Haifa, Israel. He returned to GE three years later as manager of workforce diversity.
Active at SMG, particularly in linking the school with GE in a variety of programs benefiting students and faculty, Andrews received SMG's Alumni Award for Distinguished Service to Alma Mater in 1996.
Susan Bellinger (SSW'63)
Susan Bellinger is an independent consultant to
not-for-profit organizations, specializing in assessment and
development, strategic planning, and other management areas.
As a consultant, she is currently manager of technical
assistance for the Neighborhood Partners Initiative of the
Edna McConnell Clark Foundation, organizational development
consultant for the Ms. Foundation, and project consultant
for strategic planning at the New York Urban League.
Bellinger has been vice president for management and youth services for the Fund for the City of New York, president of the Center for Human Services Development, vice president of the Human Services Management Institute, and associate director and training director at the Industrial Social Welfare Center at the Columbia University School of Social Work. She has been a faculty member at Hunter College and Columbia University.
Bellinger received a B.A. from the University of Dubuque, a certificate in psychiatric social work from the Veterans Administration, and an M.S. from SSW. She publishes chiefly in areas of mental health care and worksite social services.
Bellinger is a founding member of the Black Leadership Commission on AIDS and a trustee of the New York Foundation. She has been honored by Columbia University, Project Reach Youth, the University of Dubuque, and BU's SSW Alumni Association.
Michael G. Contompasis (CAS'62)
This summer, Michael Contompasis became chief operating
officer of the Boston Public Schools. After serving with the
U.S. Army Medical Field Service School for two years, he
taught biology in the Boston Public Schools before joining
the biology faculty at Boston Latin School (from which he
had graduated). He became assistant headmaster in 1975 and
headmaster in 1977. From 1996 to 1998 he was also leader of
the Boston Public Schools Cluster Seven, overseeing and
mentoring principals of 10 schools.
Contompasis is a member of the Boston Public Schools Management Negotiating Team. He earned a B.A. in biology from CAS, an M.Ed. in administration from Boston State College in 1969, and an M.Ed. in administration, planning, and social policy from Harvard University in 1987.
He received the Boston Latin School Graduate of the Year award in 1988 and its Varsity Club Distinguished Service Award in 1995, the National Conference of Christians and Jews Humanitarian Award, recognition from the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund in 1995, the Milken Family Foundation National Educator Award, and last year an honorary D.Sc. from the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Allied Health Sciences. In 1986 he was inducted into the CAS Collegium of Distinguished Alumni.
Annette S. Eskind (SSW'51)
Annette Eskind earned a B.A. at Beaver College and an
M.S. from BU's School of Social Work. She worked with Jewish
Family Service in Nashville, Tenn., for 32 years, as a
caseworker from 1958 to 1980 and as a casework supervisor
for the following decade.
Eskind's many and overlapping volunteer leadership roles with some 50 civic, educational, and medical organizations began in 1965 with membership on the Metropolitan Nashville Board of Education. She is founder and president of the Metropolitan Nashville Public Education Foundation, chairperson of the Leadership Council of the John F. Kennedy Center for Research on Human Development at Vanderbilt University, chairperson of the Advisory Board of Planned Parenthood of Nashville, and serves on the boards of numerous local and regional organizations.
Over the last decade, Eskind has received the Human Relations Award from the National Conference of Christians and Jews, the Silver Hope Chest Award for Community Service from the Middle Tennessee Chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, the Alexis de Tocqueville Society Award from the United Way of Middle Tennessee, the E. Bronson Ingram Award for Citizen Involvement from the PENCIL Foundation, and the Jack C. Massey Leadership Award from the Mental Health Association of Nashville. She has been honored by the YWCA Academy for Women of Achievement and awarded Honorary Life Membership on the Advisory Board of Planned Parenthood.
Edwin D. Fuller (SMG'68)
President and managing director of international lodging
operations for Marriott International, Inc., Edwin Fuller
oversees all Marriott-managed and franchised lodging
operations outside the continental United States and Canada.
Soon after joining Marriott in 1972 as a management trainee, Fuller began moving through marketing and operations positions of increasing responsibility. He was named senior vice president and managing director of international lodging in 1991 and became president and managing director in 1997. Under his leadership, Marriott's international operations grew from 16 properties to 75 hotels in 27 countries by the end of 1996. The total now is some 200 hotels in 50 countries.
Fuller was a captain in the U.S. Army. He attended Wake Forest University before earning a B.S. at SMG and then graduated from the Harvard Graduate School of Business Advanced Management Program.
Long an active alumnus, he has served on the SMG alumni board since 1986, the School of Hospitality advisory board since 1985, and the Boston University Alumni (BUA) executive board since 1989. He was president of the BUA from 1993 until 1995 and a Boston University trustee from 1993 until 1997. He received the SMG Alumni Award for Service to Alma Mater in 1992.
Donald F. Law (CAS'68)
Donald Law is president of the Don Law Company. A
subsidiary of SFX Entertainment since earlier this year, the
company annually produces more than 400 music, dance, and
theater performances throughout New England. Law is founder
and managing partner of the Great Woods Center for the
Performing Arts in Mansfield, Mass., and developer of
Harbor-lights Pavilion on Boston Harbor. In 1996 he founded
New England Express Ticketing (NEXT), a computerized
ticketing company, which sold over a million tickets in its
first year.
Law was an advisor to Boston Mayor Kevin White for the Summerthing program, a founder of Boston's Concerts on the Common Series, and a trustee of numerous local arts and service institutions.
The Don Law Company and its affiliates have generated more than $3.5 million in contributions to nonprofit organizations. Law has also been a leader in fundraising for the Police Athletic League of Boston, over a dozen nonprofit efforts in Mansfield, Mass., and many other causes.
He received the Industry Recognition Award from Action for Boston Community Development in 1993 and a Fiftieth Anniversary Medallion from Berklee School of Music, recognizing his professional achievements and his service to the school, in 1995. He received a B.A. in English from CAS and in 1987 was inducted into the CAS Collegium of Distinguished Alumni.