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March 25, 2016
Homegrown success returns for motivational event Salisbury native Alex Azar II, president of Lilly, USA, Eli Lilly biopharmaceutical company’s largest affiliate, returns to his roots April 13 for a motivational presentation on business and personal success. The 3 p.m. talk in the University of Maryland Eastern Shore’s Student Services Center Theater is the inaugural event in the Dr. Nicholas R. Blanchard Health Care Speakers Series. Blanchard is the founding dean of the university’s School of Pharmacy and Health Professions. A reception follows at 4 p.m. “We are pleased to welcome Dr. Azar to the UMES campus,” said Kimberly Dumpson, UMES’ executive vice president and a 1986 graduate of James M. Bennett High School. “I am personally delighted that one of my fellow local high school graduates is returning to the Shore to inspire our students and guests from the community.” Azar’s topic is “Succeeding On Purpose: How Purpose is Helping Institutions Win in the 21st Century.” The event is free and open to the public. “Anyone with an interest in health care trends, branding or leadership should attend,” Dumpson said. Azar, “skipped” his senior year at Parkside High School in Salisbury for early admittance to Dartmouth College but returned to walk for his class’ commencement. He earned a bachelor’s in government and economics from Dartmouth and a law degree from Yale University. After law school, he clerked for the late U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Antonin Scalia. Azar has spent the past 15 years in health care, nine with Lilly and prior to that six with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services — including two as deputy secretary, the number two official and chief operating officer for the federal government’s largest civilian AZAR / continued on page 6
Perdue sponsors UMES students for national conference
Karl Binns Jr., coordinator of recruitment, retention and experiential learning in UMES’ School of Agricultural and Natural Sciences, was instrumental in securing a $10,000 gift from the Perdue Foundation to fund students’ attendance at the 2016 MANNRS conference in Jacksonville, Fla. later this month. From left are: Binns; Lester Gray, senior vice president of operations for Perdue Foods; UMES President Juliette B. Bell; and Mark Garth, chief financial officer for Perdue Farms Inc and a member of UMES’ Board of Visitors. UMES MANNRS students will compete for National Chapter of the Year as well as individual contests such as public speaking and undergraduate research. (See article on page 5).
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