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Golf tournament to benefit Travis Roy Foundation
The
seventh annual Beanpot Benefit Golf Tournament will be held on Monday,
October 20, at the Willowbend Golf Course in Mashpee, Mass., with NHL
legend Bobby Orr joining Travis Roy (COM’00) in hosting the event.
The tournament will benefit the Travis Roy Foundation, a nonprofit
organization that provides grants to victims of spinal cord paralysis
based on financial need and supports spinal cord research. The foundation
has distributed more than $1 million in individual grants and to research
projects since 1997.
The tournament takes place on the eighth anniversary
of Roy’s injury,
when 11 seconds into the first shift of his college hockey career, Roy
shattered his fourth cervical vertebra, severely damaging his spinal
cord. Now a quadriplegic, with only limited control of his right bicep,
he is a popular motivational speaker and is actively involved with the
foundation.
For more information, call 617-239-0556 or e-mail beanpot@travisroyfoundation.org.
Stith receives WorldBoston 2003 International Citizen Award
Charles
Stith, director of BU’s African Presidential Archives and
Research Center and a former U.S. ambassador to Tanzania, will receive
WorldBoston’s 2003 International Citizen Award on November 4. The
award is one of two WorldBoston awards presented biennially to “a
member of the greater Boston community who has made an exceptional contribution
to international understanding and who continues to influence global
relations in an outstanding manner.” Stith is being recognized “for
a career marked by a unique gift for building bridges both in Boston
and around the globe, finding ways of bringing diverse people together
from communities and countries that eye one another with mistrust and
distance.”
Those who wish to attend the reception and dinner on
November 4, which will be held at the Fairmont Copley Plaza Hotel at
6 p.m., should contact
WorldBoston at 617-542-8995, ext. 112, or e-mail wac@worldboston.org.
SMG prof named faculty rising star
Andrew Hoffman, an SMG associate professor
of organizational behavior, has been honored jointly by the Aspen Institute
and the World Resources
Institute with a faculty pioneer award for his leadership in integrating
social and environmental impact management into BU’s MBA program.
The Rising Star Award, which was announced on October 8 on the Web
site Beyond Grey Pinstripes 2003: Preparing MBAs for Social and Environmental
Stewardship, is presented to a business school faculty member for extraordinary
contributions early in an academic career. Hoffman was recognized for “his
first-rate research, classroom innovations, and ability to stimulate
public debate on key social and environmental issues. His use of organizational
theory to explain the environmental practices and strategies that affect
modern organizations has been a significant intellectual contribution
to discussions about the role of business in recent years.” The
Beyond Grey Pinstripes 2003 Web site, located at http://www.beyondgreypinstripes.org,
is the only source for prospective MBA students to access a global
database of more than 1,000 courses and 800 extracurricular activities
at 100 business schools.
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October 2003
Boston University
Office of University Relations