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FISK University
Reunion 2013
May 3-6, 2013

Alumni Achievement Criteria

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 All Fisk graduates are invited to nominate alumni for the 2013 Alumni Achievement Awards. The following criteria shall govern the selection made by the Alumni Achievement Award Committee.

The recipient should be one who has excelled in his/her profession or endeavors and who has made a significant contribution by his/her work to his/her profession or to his/her community. The recipient should be one whose overall stature reflects the Fisk ideals and is a member of the General Alumni Association of Fisk University, Inc.

Awards will be considered in three (3) main categories:
1.      Professional achievement
2.      Service to the nation or to one’s community
3.      Service to Fisk University.

The nomination is to be accompanied by the following and submitted no later than March 4, 2013.
1.      A brief letter of introduction from the person making the nomination
2.      A brief statement (no more than five typed pages) outlining the accomplishments or contributions of the nominee
3.      Contact information on the nominee (mailing address, phone number, etc.)
4.      A photograph (5”x7” or electronic file as a tiff or jpg).

Materials may be electronically transmitted to: alumni@fisk.edu
OR
mailed to:
Alumni Achievement Award Committee
Office of Alumni Affairs
Fisk University
1000 Seventeenth Avenue North
Nashville, TN 37208-3051

Recipients must be present to receive the award at the Alumni Gala Banquet on Saturday, May 4, 2013 at the Loews Vanderbilt Plaza, Nashville, TN. For more information, contact the Office of Alumni Affairs, 1-800-443-ALUM (2586). 

Recipients 2011 Alumni Achievement Awards

Service to the University

Carolyn Jordan Booker '61

 

Professional Achievement

Iral Davis Porter '61

Kevin D. Poston '81

 

Service to the Community

Sandra Neilson Givings '61


Recipients 2010 Alumni
Achievement Awards

Service to University
Harold W. Kelley ’58
Gwendolyn Mills Patillo '50

Professional Achievement
June Delores Williams Colman, M.D.  '85
Alonzo Fulgham ’80 

Service to Community
Rita Sanders Geier ’65
Kimberly Houston-Philpot ’80
Barbara Lord Watkins’55

Recipients 2009 Alumni
Achievement Awards

Service to the University
Joan Adams Bahner '64

Professional Achievement
Lawrence Hamilton '79

 

 

 

 

Recipients 2008 Alumni
Achievement Awards

Service to the University
Barbara Landers Bowles ’68
Howard Daryl Melvin, MD ’73

Professional Achievement
Margo McKay, JD ’68
Acquanetta V. Wheeler, M.D. ’73

Recipients 2007 Alumni
Achievement Awards

Service to Community
Mose Yvonne Brooks Hooks '60

Service to University
L.M. Collins, Ph.D. '37

Professional Achievement
Robert A. Copeland, MD '77

Recipients 2006 Alumni
Achievement Awards

Service to Community
Marie Ford Smith '61

Service to Community
Vivian Beavers Norton '56

Recipients 2005 Alumni
Achievement Awards

Professional Achievement
Theodore Florence '85

Service to Community
Renata L. Nero, Ph.D. '80

Service to the University
JoAnn A. Bradley '55
Linda L. Smith '81

Recipient 2004 Alumni
Achievement Award

Professional Achievement
Carmen D. Smith, JD ’79

Recipients 2003 Alumni
Achievement Awards

Professional Achievement
Robert H. (Bob) Kirk H.S.D. ’53

Service to Community
Callisto F. Bell ’33
Edward L. Alexander ’83
Cheryl J. Beard ’83

Service to the University
Walter C. Watkins, Jr. ’68
William E. Settle ’77

Professional Achievement and Service to the University
Louis Phillip Clark Ph.D. ’33

Recipients 2002 Alumni
Achievement Awards

Professional Achievement
Louis Anderson, Jr., MD ’77
Cordell Orlandus Majors ’87

Service to Community
Barbara Jean Murray Alleyne ’52

Service to the University
Geraldyne Inez Pierce Zimmerman ’32
Jackie Walton Sadler ’57

Outstanding Service to the Nation
Carolynn Reid-Wallace, Ph.D. ’64

Recipients 2001 Alumni
Achievement Awards

Professional Achievement
Janice Electa Green Douglas, MD ’64

Service to Community
Charles O. Dillard, MD ’56

Recipients 2000 Alumni
Achievement Awards

Professional Achievement
Monica Rhea ’79
James Jones ’60

Service to Community
Cynthia Rawls Bond ’55

Service to the University
Bobby Austin, Ph.D. ’68

Recipients 1999 Alumni
Achievement Awards

Professional Achievement
Cynthia Turner-Graham, MD ’75
Michael A. Russell ’79

Service to Community
Ena L. Weathers, JD ’84

Service to the University
Denise Billye Sanders, JD ’74

Recipients 1998 Alumni
Achievement Awards
“Return of the Bulldogs”

Professional Achievement
Reynaldo P. Glover, JD ’65
Michael A. Russell ’79

Service to Community
Esmo Woods ’55

Service to the University
Henderson A. Johnson, II, DDS ’50

Bulldog Lifetime Achievement
Ollice C. Holden ’65
Charles Lee ’63
Ben Jobe ’56
Samuel L. Williams ’68

Recipients 1997 Alumni
Achievement Awards

Professional Achievement
Quentin Ted Smith, MD ’61

Service to Community
Delano O’Banion ’59

Service to the University
Matthew W. Kennedy ’47