Alumni Awards 2009 Brian Curtis Mand ’90 Young Alumnus of the Year
Pamela Perkins Young ’64 Outstanding Service Award
From Brian’s remarks: “Friends is understanding how to challenge yourself, without even knowing it. Friends is compassion and empathy and a recognition that not everyone in the world has our same opportunities. Friends is learning from Meeting for Worship that silence in life often speaks louder than words. Friends is knowing that you can be whoever you want to be. Friends is acknowledging that giving something a try and coming up short is better than sitting it out. Friends is understanding that although we may not look the same, common bonds are more easily forged than the pointing out of differences. Friends is learning to study, to think, to imagine, to create, to explore, to build, and to inspire. Friends is realizing that competition on the field is healthy as long as it is executed with class, integrity, and sportsmanship. Friends is a collection of bright minds and strong hearts. Friends is more than a school; it is a community that extends beyond our campus and past our time inside of these walls. Friends is a part of all of us, and though distance and time may cause memories to fade, the lessons learned and the light of the spirit burn brighter than ever.”
From Pam’s remarks: “I believe that the way I formed my beliefs about equality and social justice was the result of very early learning in my Quaker school, not something I came to later as a result of the liberation movements sweeping the United States during my adolescence and young adulthood. Since then, I have tried to build a purposeful life with a career in social work, developing programs that seek to combat those very structures of inequality that are built into the fabric of the society in which we live. And service to others can be demonstrated in a variety of ways, as the very rich and purposefilled stories of my classmates indicate: not only in careers, but in families and communities, as we commit our lives to making personal meaning while contributing to our shared human experience. That is what the combined stories of my classmates’ experiences, beginning together at Friends School and moving out through our adult lives, has demonstrated to me.”
Brian Curtis Mand is a New York Times bestselling author, a former television reporter and host, a national radio contributor, and a consultant. He is the author or co-author of five books: A Team to Believe In (with Tom Coughlin), Go Long! (with Jerry Rice), a New York Times bestseller, How Good Do You Want To Be? (with Nick Saban), Every Week A Season and The Men of March. Brian was the lead college football and basketball reporter for CBS College Sports, co-hosting studio shows, breaking stories, and reporting features. As the host of Taking Issue with Brian Curtis, he took an in-depth look at the major issues impacting sports today, interviewing many high profile guests. He was also a contributor to CBS News’ The Early Show. Prior to his work at CBS College Sports, Brian was a Los Angeles-based sports reporter and broadcaster for Fox Sports Net and was nominated for two local Emmy Awards. 4 Spring 2010 • Friends magazine
Brian Mand ’90 A contributor to Fox Sports Radio and regular guest on The Jim Rome Show, Brian has also been a contributor to ESPN Radio’s GameDay and ABC Sports Radio and has appeared on The Best Damn Sports Show Period and ESPN’s Cold Pizza as well as hundreds of radio and television stations around the nation. His work has been covered by USA Today, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and The Los Angeles Times among others. Brian holds a Master’s Degree with Honors in Sports Management from Brian Curtis Mand ’90 Ohio University and a Bachelor’s Young Alumnus of the Year Degree with Honors in Government from the University of Virginia. From Brian’s remarks: Brian’s volunteer interests include “Friends is understanding how to chalthe National Center for Missing and lenge yourself, without even knowing Exploited Children, as well as Wilmit. Friends is compassion and empathy ington Friends School. His leadership and a recognition that not everyone in was instrumental in the success of the the world has our same opportunities. Auction for Friends fundraiser in the Friends is learning from Meeting for spring of 2009. In addition, Brian has Worship that silence in life often speaks been a class agent for the past 19 years, louder than words. Friends is knowing has been a mentor for Friends students, that you can be whoever you want to and has shared his experiences as a be. Friends is acknowledging that giving guest speaker in classes. something a try and coming up short is better than sitting it out. Brian and his wife Tamara have two Friends is understanding that although • daughters and livethe in same, Atlanta. we may not look common bonds are more easily forged than the
Pamela Perkins Young is a professional social worker who develops and administers programs to enhance the capacity of the health care system to meet the psycho-social needs of patients and their families and to extend the system’s outreach into the community. She has devoted her career to the health and well-being of women and children, especially those living in poverty or with other disabling conditions. In her 30 years of human services practice, Pam has been a direct practitioner, supervisor, administrator, and field instructor of graduate social work students. In her current position as Director of Community Initiatives for the LifeBridge Health System in Baltimore, Pam works through partnerships with community organizations and residents to improve the general health of communities near the health system’s facilities. Pam attended Occidental College and the Johns Hopkins University for her undergraduate education, and then received her graduate training in social work at the University of Chicago,