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Nearly 1,700 attend Alumni Day activities

Nearly 1,700 alumni and parents of current undergraduates came to the Princeton campus for a day of lectures, ceremonies and other events Saturday, Feb. 22.

The annual Alumni Day and Parents' Program, coordinated by the Alumni Council, featured speeches by Peter Bell, president of CARE USA, and William Frist, U.S. senator from Tennessee and Senate majority leader.

Bell, a 1964 alumnus of the Graduate School, received this year's James Madison Medal at a luncheon following his morning speech on "Where the End of Poverty Begins." Frist, a 1974 Princeton alumnus, spoke in the morning on "The Floor of the U.S. Senate as the Operating Theater: Is Transplanting Ideas Any Different From Transplanting Hearts?" and received this year's Woodrow Wilson Award.

Also honored at the luncheon were four students who earned Princeton's highest honors. Seniors Daniel Hantman and Christopher Wendell received the University's Moses Taylor Pyne Honor Prize, and graduate students Sarah-Jane Murray and Joshua Plotkin were recognized as co-winners of the Porter Ogden Jacobus Fellowship.

Webcasts of speeches by Bell and Frist in WebMedia archives
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Text of Peter Bell's speech
William Frist speech coverage
Text of Frist's speech
Text of William Frist's speech
Pyne and Jacobus award winners
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Peter Bell (left) and Willam Frist received their awards at the Alumni Day luncheon after their talks.

The Pyne Honor Prize was given to Christopher Wendell (left) and Daniel Hantman (shown in the front row), while the Jacobus Fellowship was given to graduate students Sarah-Jane Murray and Joshua Plotkin (back row) at the luncheon.

photos: Denise Applewhite