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status. Instead of interacting ‘wall’ to ‘wall,’ try face to face. And instead of exchanging pleasantries, try exchanging ideas.” He went on to summarize by adding, “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to the people you know. So reach out, engage. Because the universe is as big as you make it.” As chief executive of the AMA, Madara oversees the medical association’s efforts in improving public health, physician practice, patient care and the betterment of the American health care system. Before joining the association, Madara built a career as both a biomedical scientist and one of the nation’s leading medical administrators at several nationally known university medical centers. He was chief executive officer of the University of Chicago Medical Center from 2006 to 2009. From 1997 to 2002, Madara served as professor and chair of the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, Ga. Henry H. Gibbel served as chair of the Juniata Board of Trustees from 2001 to 2006 and received the John C. Baker Award for Exemplary Service from the board in 2006. Gibbel has served as a trustee since 1973. He also was president of the College’s national Alumni Association. In 1992 he received the Juniata College Alumni Service Award. In 2005, he received Juniata’s Church College Service Award. Timothy Statton ’71, a Juniata Trustee since 1998, earned a bachelor’s degree in business and earned another bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from San Francisco State University. Bechtel is an international engineering, construction and development company that has built countless American and international projects including the Hoover Dam, the Channel Tunnel connecting Britain and France, Hong Kong International Airport and Washington’s Metro and the San Francisco’s BART rapid transit systems. He was president of Bechtel Enterprises from 2001 to 2004, Bechtel Communications from 2004 to 2007 and Bechtel Power from 2007 until his retirement in 2009. The 2012 Senior Class Gift collected more than $40,450 (80 percent of the class contributed), for a pavilion to be located near Sherwood and two smaller projects.