Congratulations to the CAS alumni being honored at the upcoming 2009 UVM Alumni Association Awards during Reunion weekend, June 4-7.

Distinguished Service Award:

James Betts '69, MD '73
Alameda, California
James Betts has been a loyal and dedicated volunteer for UVM for more than twenty years. He is a class officer in both his undergraduate class of 1969 and his Medical School class of 1973. He has served on the Reunion Gift Committee for both his undergraduate and medical school classes and has served in leadership roles as either chair or co-chair. He also served as interim chair of the Planned Giving Committee. He took a leadership role as a member of the Campaign Planning Study and later served on the National Campaign Steering Committee. Currently a member of the Medical Dean's Advisory Board, he also serves on the University's Board of Trustees.

Thomas "Ted" Child '74 South Burlington, Vermont
Ted Child has dedicated great time and effort in support of UVM for many years. As a former UVM hockey player, he has been dedicated to UVM Athletics and served on numerous committees, including the Catamount Club Executive Committee and the Hall of Fame Committee as well as the Victory Club Executive Committee. Always working in support of his alma mater, he has been a member of the Ira Allen Society Committee, actively fundraising to help UVM reach its goals. Ted has also been a Reunion volunteer and served as a class agent.

Herbert Brown '57
Atlanta, Georgia
Currently an assistant coach with the Charlotte Bobcats basketball team in Charlotte, North Carolina, Herb has spent most of the last half-century as a basketball coach at all levels of the game. In 2004, he was an assistant with the Detroit Pistons when they won the NBA Championship, and following the Championship, he moved to the Atlanta Hawks, where served on the coaching staff until 2008 when he moved to Charlotte. He earned three championship rings as an NBA coach, and he is a six-time coach of the year. As an undergraduate, Herb was a two-time varsity letter winner as well as a sports columnist for the Vermont Cynic. After receiving his master's degree, he began his coaching career at C.W. Post College, where he served as an assistant coach until he became head coach at S.U.N.Y. Stony Brook in 1969. He also was Stony Brook's first baseball coach. He was named Conference Coach of the Year at both Post and Stony Brook.

R. Jarrett Lilien '84
New York, New York
R. Jarrett Lilien became president and chief operating officer of E Trade Financial Corporation in 2003. In that role, he has been responsible for the tactical execution of the company's global business strategies. He joined E Trade Financial in 1999 after having served as chief executive officer of TIR Holdings Limited for ten years. While at E Trade, he drove revenue growth and enhanced profitability, strengthening E Trade's value for customers. In 2006, the company's Board of Directors was expanded, and in 2008, they elected Jarrett president and chief operating officer. During his tenure, he effectively reorganized the business, focusing on providing leading-edge brokerage capabilities to the company's global customer households and market segments. Jarrett has held numerous positions in companies such as Paine Webber and Autranet, a division of Donaldson Lufkin & Jenrette, Inc.

Eric Lipton '87
Washington, D.C.
Eric Lipton began his career in journalism as a member of the Vermont Cynic staff when he was a student. By the time he graduated, he had risen to the position of editor-in-chief, and he had brought the Cynic to new heights of reporting. He also served as a Student Trustee during his undergraduate years. Since graduating from UVM, Eric has worked for several major, well-respected newspapers, including the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Hartford Courant as he built his career in journalism. In 1992, he shared a Pulitzer Prize in Explanatory Journalism for his investigation and reporting of how the flawed Hubble Telescope had escaped detection. Recently, his insightful investigation of the rise and fall of New York's World Trade Towers received acclaim as "the definitive biography of the iconic skyscrapers and the ambitions that shaped them."

Keith Meurlin '72
Oak Hill, Virginia
Keith Meurlin has had a notable career in military service since his graduation from UVM. After his graduation, he spent many years training to be a pilot and to be a knowledgeable and strategic leader. He earned his commission through the Army Reserve Officers Training Corps program in 1972, and since that time he has risen through the ranks to become a major general, a high-level rank that was earned during his more than thirty years of service. He has served on active duty as a KC-125 pilot as well as in the Air National Guard as a C-7 pilot. He later joined the Reserve and served in numerous positions in aircraft maintenance, at the Air Staff, and at the Air Logistics Center. Keith was employed by the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority as vice president and airport manager of Dulles, and he was recognized with the Tower of Dulles Award in 2002. He retired from the position in 2005.

2009 Young Alumni Award:

Caitlin McPherran '04
Boston, Massachusetts
Caitlin McPherran served as a member of the Washington, D.C. board, and when she moved to Boston, she offered to help recruit alumni to bring new enthusiasm to UVM's effort there. She has attended numerous activities, and she usually works at these events as well. Caitlin has attended numerous admitted student receptions and student sendoffs in Washington over the past three years. She volunteered to help at the Glen Echo Park events even when she was no longer a member of the Board. Now in her fifth Reunion, she worked hard to make her Gift Committee calls.

Marissa Stokes '99
Burlington, Vermont
Marissa Stokes has been a loyal and dedicated alumna since her graduation from UVM. She was on the UVM Alumni Events Committee in Los Angeles, and she tried to get other young alumni involved with UVM. She is currently working on her tenth UVM Reunion, and she was also a member of the planning committee for her fifth Reunion. In her role as leader of the Los Angeles chapter, she planned numerous events, from social gatherings to watch UVM hockey games to a beach clean up, where she mobilized twenty-five alumni to help tidy up Will Rogers Beach. She has also served on her class's Reunion Committee as an outreach volunteer.

Gregory Schultz, Class of 2000, will be a juror for this year's prestigious International Design Excellence Awards (IDEA, the awards ceremony in which he was a recipient just last year). Gregory and the other jurors can be found at www.idsa.org/absolutenm/templates/?a=3913&z=162.

There are three rounds of judging and Gregory has been teamed up with Hugo Eccles, a 1996 IDEA winner, and they have thoroughly read through, reviewed the products in their chosen categories (a total of 207 entries for just their section—so, roughly 4000 entries total, divided among the 20 jurors—based on the jurors experience and background), and discussed the entries for a period of two to three weeks. IDSA and Businessweek will be flying the jurors out to Washington, D.C. where they will be participating in the live judging of these products and concepts. The winners will be announced later on this year and will appear in Businessweek's annual design issue. The awards ceremony this year (sponsored by Businessweek, IDSA, and Target) will be held in August in Miami.

Gregory says: "I wanted to share this great news with CAS in hopes that it would further inspire current/future students to pursue their dreams during and post their tenure at UVM. UVM has laid the foundation of my industrial design thinking and pushed me to further education with CCA and various organizations along the way."