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Dr. Marilla D. (Scott) Svinicki--Class of 1964
Dr. Svinicki is an international leader in the field of teaching and higher
education. After completing her high school education as a National
Merit Scholar, Dr. Svinicki graduated Summa Cum Laude from Western Michigan
University, where she also received a Master's degree in psychology.
She then earned her Ph.D. from the University of Colorado in Boulder, with
specialties in Experimental Psychology and Developmental Psychology.
Her teaching and research career in higher education began in the late
1960's and her list of publications is extensive, including books and professional
publications on the general theme of teaching and learning in higher education.
She is presently serving as the Director of the Center for Teaching Effectiveness
at the University of Texas at Austin. She has also served as President
of a national organization in faculty development and is a much sought-after
speaker on topics related to teaching and higher education. |
Robert W. Doubek--Class of 1962
After graduating from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Mr.
Doubek served in the U.S. Air Force in Vietnam. He received a degree
in law from Georgetown University Law Center in 1974. Mr. Doubek
is the Executive Vice President of the Deafness Research Foundation and
is co-founder of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund, serving as Executive
Director and Project Director. He was responsible for fund raising
and coordination of the legislation which resulted in the acqusition of
land, the architectural design, and the construction of the present Vietnam
War Memorial in Washington, D.C. In 1995 he founded the American
Friends of the Czech Republic, a national, non-profit advocacy group promoting
U.S. and Czech business and political relationships. Mr. Doubek resides
in the Washington, D.C. area.
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Jack Dykinga--Class of 1961
Mr. Dykinga is a renowned nature photographer and environmentalist, specializing
in the Southwestern United States and Mexico. He is the author of
four wilderness advocacy books and has had his images published in Arizona
Highways, Time, Natural History, Outside, Harpers,
Sierra
Club, Audubon, Wilderness Society, and National Geographic
magazines. His book Stone Canyons dramatized the need for
preserving 5.7 million acres out of 22 million acres of Bureau of Land
Management's Federal lands and was featured on CNN's environmental program,
"Earth Matters." He was the recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for feature
photography in 1971 and resides in Tucson, Arizona. |
Dr. Dorothy E. Patton--Class of 1956
Dr. Patton received her Bachelor's degree in Chemistry from the University
of Wisconsin, a Ph.D. in Biology from the University of Chicago, and her
law degree from Columbia University, School of Law in New York before joining
the Environmental Protection Agency in 1976. During her time as a
student she had eight years experience in bio-medical research and college
teaching at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and the City University
of New York. During her professional career, she served as Chief
Legal Counsel for the EPA and acted as the legal advisor on teams that
developed national standards for contaminants such as particulate matter,
sulfur dioxide, and carbon monoxide. In 1985 she assumed leadership
responsibilities within the Agency as the Executive Director of the Risk
Assessment Forum, Executive Director of the Science Policy Council, and
Director of the Office of Science Policy. In these capacities, she
exercised significant influence over national policies related to protection
of the health and safety of the citizenry of the United States. |
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Mrs. Carol Smith--Class of 1944
Ms Smith is semi-retired and lives in Zurich, Switzerland after a long
and distinguished operatic career. She is an internationally recognized
operatic mezzo soprano and has recently retired as a professor of voice
at Indiana University in Bloomington. During her career, she
received a Rockefeller grant to study in Italy and debuted at La Scala
in Milan in 1962. She participated in a number of concerts in Europe
and was a soloist under Leonard Bernstein, Herbert Von Karajan and most
of the other major conductors of the last century. She also had a
distinguished recording career with RCA Victor and was featured in the
lyric Opera's performance of "Prince Igor" in which Rudolph Nureyev made
his American debut. |
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