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The University will honor five of its outstanding sons and daughters
with Distinguished Alumna/Alumnus Awards at the 206th University Day
convocation on Oct. 12.
Award recipients are:
* Jerry Dean Campbell of Pasadena, Calif., University of Southern California
chief information officer;
* Joel Lawrence Fleishman of Durham, Atlantic Philanthropic Service Co. Inc.
president;
* N.C. Sen. Howard Nathaniel Lee, D-16th District, of Chapel Hill;
* Peggy Senter of Dunbarton, N.H., Concord Community Music School founder;
and
* Edward Harris Wagner of Seattle, Wash., MacColl Institute for Healthcare
Innovation director.
Established in 1971, the annual awards honor alumni who have made outstanding
contributions to humankind. Recipients will be recognized during the University
Day convocation, which starts at 11 a.m. in Memorial Hall. University Day
commemorates the laying of the cornerstone of Old East, the nation's first
state university building, on Oct. 12, 1793. Classes will be suspended from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. so faculty, staff and students can attend the
ceremony.
The Faculty Council approved the recommendations of the Committee on Honorary
Degrees and Special Awards. University faculty and trustees nominated the award
winners.
Campbell
Campbell, a Texas native, received a master's degree in 1972 from the School
of Information and Library Science, where he was a founding board of visitors
member in 1993.
In 1982, Campbell earned a doctorate from the University of Denver. He also
holds a master's of divinity degree from Duke University, where he served as
vice provost for library affairs and university librarian from 1985 to 1995.
Campbell has been university librarian at the University of Southern
California since 1996. He was named the university's chief information officer
in 1997.
Fleishman
Fleishman, a Fayetteville native, has earned three degrees at Carolina: a
bachelor's of arts in history in 1955, a law degree in 1959 and a master's of
arts in drama in 1959. In 1960, he received a master's of law degree from Yale
University.
Fleishman began his long career of public service in 1961 as legal assistant
to N.C. Gov. Terry Sanford, during which time he was instrumental in creating
the N.C. School of the Arts. Fleishman served in the Duke University
administration from 1971 to 1993, most recently as the university's first
senior vice president.
In 1972, Fleishman co-founded the Sanford Institute for Public Policy.
Lee
Lee, a Georgia native, earned his master's degree in social work from Carolina
in 1966. In 1969, when he was elected to the first of three terms as mayor of
Chapel Hill, he became the first African American to win a mayoral election in
a predominately white community in the South.
Lee held administrative positions at Duke University from 1966 to 1975, and he
served from 1977 to 1981 as secretary of the N.C. Department of Natural
Resources and Community Development. In 1990, Lee was appointed senator for the
state's 16th district - Chatham, Moore, Orange and portions of Lee and Randolph
counties. He has been elected to four additional terms.
Senter
Senter, a 1973 Carolina alumna and Phi Beta Kappa, earned a master's degree in
1975 for piano performance at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Senter
founded the Concord Community Music School in Concord, N.H., in 1984 and has
served as school director ever since.
In addition to teaching piano, music appreciation, music theory, and music and
movement courses at the Concord school, she has taught music and piano at a
variety of other institutions.
In 1993, Senter was honored with the New Hampshire Governor's Award in the
Arts for Arts in Education.
Wagner
Wagner earned his master's degree in epidemiology from the School of Public
Health in 1972 after receiving a doctor of medicine degree in 1965 at the State
University of New York at Buffalo.
Wagner served for 12 years as a Carolina faculty member with a joint
appointment in medicine and epidemiology.
He currently serves as director of the MacColl Institute, a branch of the
Center for Health Studies at the Group Health Cooperative of Puget Sound in
Seattle, Wash.
The center aims to evaluate and improve health care for chronically ill
patients.
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