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Alumni Day entertainment. The University Band provided a festive welcome for more than 1,400 people who attended the Alumni Association Luncheon and Awards Ceremony in Jadwin Gym on February 26. The luncheon is the centerpiece of Princeton's annual Alumni Day and Parents Program celebration and honors outstanding alumni and students. (Photos by Denise Applewhite) |
At the annual Alumni Day luncheon on February 26, outstanding students and alumni received special honors.
President Shapiro awarded the Porter Ogden Jacobus Fellowship for "highest scholarly excellence" among graduate students to Jay Ladin of English and Xiaohui Fan of Astrophysical Sciences.
Ladin is a poet whose dissertation offers a new approach
to reading and teaching American poetry, with particular
reference to Emily Dickinson. Fan's work focuses on the
search for clusters and galaxies and methods of
discriminating observationally between stars and quasars. He
has been designated one of the builders of the Sloan Digital
Sky Survey.
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Jacobus Fellowship winners Jay Ladin (above
l), graduate student in English, with his son
Gabriel, and Xiaohui Fan (above r), graduate
student in Astrophysical Sciences
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Bosworth created and implemented the Princeton Millennium Project, a series of special lectures sponsored by the Class of 2000. Sommers, who was previously named Class of 1939 Scholar "for highest academic standing for all previous years," was a director of the Princeton Model Congress and active in the Princeton Bioethics Forum.
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Pyne Prize cowinner Michael Bosworth (c) with grandmother Ully Axelrod on his right, parents Judi and Jay on his left, and his brother Brian '95 and sister in law Lauren '96 |
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Pyne Prize cowinner Benjamin Sommers (l) with parents Lynn and Jeff and younger brother Zachary |
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Madison Medalist Chang-Lin Tien *59 (c) and
wife Di-Hwa with Dean of the Graduate School John
Wilson
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The James Madison Medal, which honors an alumnus or alumna of the Graduate School, was given to Chang-Lin Tien *59, former chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley, who urged Princeton to continue to make engineering "an intimate part of a liberal arts education."
Forrest Eggleston '42, M.D., received the Woodrow Wilson Award for an undergraduate alumnus distinguished "in the nation's service." He noted that his lifetime of medical missionary work was a partnership with his wife, Barbara, who was recovering from surgery.
Alumni awards
The S. Barksdale Penick, Jr. '25 award, recognizing an outstanding Alumni School Committee, went to the Princeton Club of Dallas/Fort Worth and the Princeton Area Alumni Association.
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Woodrow Wilson Award winner Forrest Eggleston
'42 (c) with President Emeritus Robert Goheen (l)
and Margaret Goheen
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Richard Scribner '58, Annual Giving Committee chair, announced that the Anniversary Campaign for Princeton, with four months to go, stands at $950 million. Annual Giving currently has a total of $18 million toward a goal of $35 million for the 1999-00 campaign year.
The Class of 1974 received the Class of 1926 Trophy, for the class that raises the largest amount for Annual Giving within each campaign; the Jerry Horton Award honoring a regional Annual Giving Committee went to the committee of Charlotte, NC; and the Harold H. Helm Award, recognizing "exemplary and sustained service to Annual Giving," was given to John Guthrie '42.
President Shapiro concluded the annual meeting by noting the upcoming Graduate School Centennial and urged all to join in celebrating "what has been an extraordinary century for our Graduate School."
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