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Rolling Out the Red Carpet for Gala 2008 THE NINTH ANNUAL Alumni Association
Awards Gala will be held on April 12 at the Samuel Riggs IV Alumni Center. The black-tie event will recognize 20 distinguished individuals across several disciplines for their outstanding contributions to their professions, to society and to the university. The Maryland Alumni Association is pleased to announce and to congratulate this year’s awardees.
Alumni Association Awards PRESIDENT’S DISTINGUISHED ALUMNUS AWARD Lt. Gen. Julius Becton Jr. (ret.) ’67 Former Commissioner, American Battle Monuments Commission INTERNATIONAL ALUMNUS AWARD Liuqing Huang Ph.D. ’83 President, Actiz Software and CTO, Primeton Technologies OUTSTANDING YOUNG ALUMNUS AWARD Christina Maria Lagdameo ’98 Social Welfare Advocate
College/School Distinguished Alumni Awards AGRICULTURE AND NATURAL RESOURCES Bruce Berlage ’56 Managing Partner, Beck & Berlage Real Estate ARCHITECTURE, PLANNING AND PRESERVATION Alex Klatskin ’88 Partner, Forsgate Industrial Partners ARTS AND HUMANITIES Yuriko Yamaguchi ’79 Artist BEHAVIORAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCES Lt. Gen. James Clapper Jr. (ret.) ’63 Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence ROBERT H. SMITH SCHOOL OF BUSINESS Richard Schaeffer ’74 Chairman, New York Mercantile Exchange, Inc. CHEMICAL AND LIFE SCIENCES Joseph Rodricks ’63, Ph.D. ’68 Principal, Environ Holdings, Inc.
TYSER GOTTWALS AWARD Pedro Wasmer ’62 Retired President, Somerset Capital Group, Ltd.
COMPUTER, MATHEMATICAL AND PHYSICAL SCIENCES Jordan Goodman ’73, M.S. ’75, Ph.D. ’78 Professor & Former Chair, Department of Physics, University of Maryland
HUMANITARIAN AWARD Avis Robinson ’74 President & CEO, Washington Metro Scholars
EDUCATION Christine Courtois ’73, Ph.D. ’79 Principal, Christine Courtois, Ph.D. and Associates
HONORARY MEMBERSHIP The Hon. Timothy Maloney Partner, Joseph Greenwald & Laake, P.A.
A. JAMES CLARK SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING Michael Torok ’86, Ph.D. ’89 Chief Engineer, Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation
Nominations Needed for Milestone Year!
The alumni association is now accepting nominations for the 2009 awards program. Next year will mark the 10th anniversary of the alumni association’s gala—an event bringing the Maryland community together to recognize the university’s shining stars. For a complete list of awards and to nominate a fellow Terp online, go to www.alumni.umd.edu/ programs/annualawards.
SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH Kevin Clair ’82 President, Health Solutions INFORMATION STUDIES Jane Kinney Meyers ’78 President, Lubuto Library Project, Inc. PHILIP MERRILL COLLEGE OF JOURNALISM Connie Chung ’69 Broadcast Journalist PUBLIC POLICY Lisa Calise Signori ’92 Director of Administration & Finance, City of Boston
Robert Parker ’70 (seated, center), publisher of The Wine Advocate, was the 2006 recipient of the President’s Distinguished Alumnus Award.
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Broadcast journalist Connie Chung ’69 will be among this year’s honorees at the Ninth Annual Alumni Association Awards Gala.
UNDERGRADUATE STUDIES Steven Leonard ’78 President & CEO, American Truck & Bus
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