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High-achieving alumni recognized
Six alumni were presented with BU’s Alumni Award, the highest alumni
honor bestowed on BU graduates, at the Homecoming and Parents Weekend
welcome breakfast and alumni awards ceremony, which was held at Metcalf
Hall on Saturday, October 19. The winners are Maxwell Blum (SMG’48),
founder and former CEO of the Maxwell Shoe Company, which designs and
manufactures women’s and children’s shoes under several brand
names; Wendy Chamberlin (SED’71), a former U.S. ambassador to Pakistan,
whom President Bush has nominated as assistant administrator of the U.S.
Agency for International Development Bureau for Asia and the Near East;
Peter Deckers (SED’66), dean and Murray-Heilig Professor of Surgery
at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine; Ernesto Muller (SDM’61),
an internationally regarded periodontist who taught at the Universidad
Central de Venezuela from 1962 to 1995 and later was the founder and director
of the Dental Implant Center at the Universidad Santa Marta in Caracas;
Bill O’Reilly (COM’75), host and anchor of The O’Reilly
Factor on Fox News; and Marcy Syms (COM’75), CEO of the Syms Corporation,
a chain of off-price designer and name-brand clothing stores. Pictured
(seated, from left) are Deckers, Blum, O’Reilly, and Muller; (standing)
Chamberlin, BU trustee Judith Friedberg-Chessin (SED’59), president
of the Boston University Alumni, Syms, and Chancellor John Silber. Photo
by Fred Sway
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October 2002
Boston University
Office of University Relations