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Alumni Awards Winners 2002 The Norman Maclean Faculty
Awards The Norman
Maclean Faculty Awards  John
Hope Franklin, the John Matthews Manley Distinguished Service Professor
Emeritus in the Department of History, is one of the pre-eminent American
historians of the twentieth century and a distinguished historian of
the American South. From 1964 to 1982, Professor Franklin was an active
member of the University faculty. He chaired the Department of History
for three years, and he had an exceptional influence on generations
of undergraduate and graduate students to whom he imparted a profound
respect for historical truth and justice. After retiring from the University,
he went to teach at Duke, where he is now the James B. Duke Professor
Emeritus of History. Former students recall with awe the way he modeled being an historian, producing only the finest scholarship, some of it achieved under the stress of doing research in the racist southern states during the 1930s and 1940s. Criticized in more recent times for refusing to bow to the powerful influence of identity politics, he exemplified the primacy of academic integrity and professional standards during years of turmoil. For more than half a century, he has extended his academic skills and knowledge out of the classroom to engage important societal questions, most recently as chair of President Clinton's Initiative on Race. Despite the demands of scholarship and civic involvement, Professor Franklin always had time to serve as a mentor to his students. "He does this with gentle prodding and guidance," wrote one former student, "but more, he does it by example. Because Mr. Franklin is so much admired and esteemed, because he has achieved such greatness in the face of incredible prejudice and discrimination, there is no way one could let him down." Famous for his acts of unsolicited generosity, Professor Franklin regularly championed his students for scholarships, jobs, and publishing contracts and kept in close contact long after they left his classroom.  James
Redfield, AB'54, PhD'61, is the Edward Olson Distinguished Service
Professor in the Department of Classical Languages and Literatures,
the Committees on Social Thought and the Ancient Mediterranean World,
and the College. He has had a lifetime relationship with the University,
first as the grandson and son of highly regarded professors, then as
a graduate of the Laboratory Schools, then as an early entrant and graduate
of the College, then after study at Oxford as a graduate student, and
finally as an inspired and inspiring scholar and teacher. Former students
recall the exhilaration of his classroom. "Ever since I started
to teach in 1970," wrote a classics professor at Yale, "when
I feel the greatest confidence that a class or tutorial has gone well
it is because I have managed to recreate a small crumb of the atmosphere
of Redfield's teaching." He is one of the few faculty members ever
to receive two Quantrell Awards for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching.
A classical scholar whose work has fundamentally reshaped the critical discourse on epic poetry, Professor Redfield is author of Nature and Culture in the Iliad: The Tragedy of Hector, which has been translated into French, Spanish, and Modern Greek. His classes are marked by wide-ranging discussion and a concerted effort to help each student develop the intellectual means to think independently. Professor Redfield's passion for teaching extends well beyond the University classroom. For the past ten years he has taught a small group of adults who gather twice monthly to discuss the classics. He has taught NEH summer seminars for university and high school teachers and has worked with Chicago high school teachers in and out of the classroom. A former student described him as representing "Chicago at its finest: intellectually engaged and engaging, actively committed to an ideal of liberal education, and demanding of work that is not only thoughtful but that is, in its genesis and completion, one's own." The Young
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Michael Peters, AB'90, came as a transfer student to the University, but soon developed a deep commitment to the institution, its history and traditions, and its future. One fellow student recalls him browsing through old yearbooks in Regenstein Library and emerging as a source of esoteric facts about U of C. Others are grateful to him for his instrumental work in reviving Delta Kappa Epsilon (DKE) fraternity on campus. Since graduation, Mr. Peters has remained engaged in volunteer service to the University despite numerous moves and job transitions. Mr. Peters has continued his close association with the campus chapter of DKE, serving on its alumni board. He has been particularly active in the successful efforts of the Alumni Interfraternity Council to return the Interfraternity Sing to its traditional place as a central event in the University's annual Reunion Weekend. After graduation, Mr. Peters founded and led the Columbus, Ohio-area alumni club. Upon moving to Chicago in 1995, he participated in various activities of the Chicago-area alumni club and also took a key position as a volunteer for his College reunion. Relocating to New York City in 1996, he joined the New York club's steering committee, helping with the group's affiliation with the Penn Club and serving as the first hospitality chair, welcoming newcomers to the city. In addition, he has volunteered for several years for the Alumni Schools Committee interviewing prospective students, and he served a two-year term on the Alumni Association Awards selection committee. On alumni friend wrote, "Michael does not merely recall fond memories of his undergraduate experience; he builds upon his experience through consistent service as an alumnus." "My experience at Chicago was and continues to
be enriching and rewarding. There has been no other place where I felt
so excited to learn than during my four years at Chicago. Each quarter
I would eagerly anticipate the release of a new course catalog and then,
once it was in my hands, I would spend hours pouring over the broad
course offerings. Each course description released sparks of excitement
and eagerness for the classroom -- it's a wonder I managed to select
a single concentration! My volunteer activity for Chicago gives me the
chance to maintain that spark I felt when I was a student." Tracy Yuen, AB'91, is an enthusiastic leader of the alumni community who makes sustained efforts to get others involved and excited about U of C activities, events, and news. In Washington, DC, Philadelphia, and New York, she has initiated alumni programs and stimulated alumni participation in the University's extended community. While living in Washington, DC, Ms. Yuen interviewed prospective students for the Alumni Schools Committee and assisted the local alumni club with a variety of programs, including hospitality events for student interns, events for University officers, and an ongoing series of softball games. In fact, the DC club dubbed her the "Sports Czar" because of her enthusiasm for organizing alumni athletic events. In Philadelphia, she rebuilt and revitalized the region's Alumni Schools Committee, bringing her considerate, intelligent, and personable touch to her two-year term as chair. Now living in New York, she is currently president of the alumni club and has been an active organizer of alumni club events, including an evening at the Broadway production of Proof, the Pulitzer Prize winning play by classmate David Auburn, AB'91. Ms. Yuen has used her impressive aptitude for connecting and communicating on behalf of her College classmates. She serves as Class of 1991 correspondent to the University of Chicago Magazine. For her tenth reunion, Ms. Yuen chaired the marketing and communications committee, using a class Web site, class e-mails, direct mail, personal phone calls, and pre-reunion events to build class interest and attendance. She was also instrumental to the success of a silent auction to raise funds for the class gift, soliciting auction items and even donating a hand-knitted scarf to the cause. With her help, the class both surpassed the all-time record for a tenth year gift and won the prize for highest attendance at Reunion 2001. The Alumni
Service Awards David Green, AB'42, AM'49, began his volunteer service to the University in 1992, at the time of his College class's 50th anniversary and the University's centennial celebration. Although his tenure as a volunteer leader is relatively short, the quality of his commitment and the gifts of his time and resources would seem the product of a much longer term. Mr. Green served as a volunteer for his class reunion committee in both 1992 and 1997, and he chairs this year's reunion for Alumni Emeriti. His leadership in planning for the emeritus group has helped build reunion programming that will serve as a model for the future. As part of his growing commitment to the University, Mr. Green has been instrumental in raising gifts for the institution. After his 50th Reunion, the directors of Quartet Manufacturing Company, which he founded, established a scholarship in his name. Around the time of his 55th Reunion, Mr. Green and his wife Mary established a University Professorship. The first recipient was Alexander Beilinson in the Department of Mathematics. As chair of the Alumni Emeriti, Mr. Green, along with his wife, offered a million dollar challenge to stimulate unrestricted giving among his fellow alumni. In 2000, Mr. Green joined both the College Visiting Committee and the Social Sciences Visiting Committee. He has brought to these roles the experience of many years as head of a major manufacturing firm and a deep understanding and appreciation of politics, education, and the arts. His initiative and interest immediately impressed College Dean John Boyer, who wrote, "His example is an important one for others who are now retired from their careers-it's never too late to begin a volunteer relationship with the University that can be productive and satisfying."
Larry Greenfield, DB'66, AM'70, PhD'78, has been a tireless, energetic, and discerning advocate of the University and its Divinity School for more than thirty years. He received three graduate degrees from the School, served a term as its Dean of Students (where his record for placing PhD graduates in academic jobs remains unsurpassed), and for the last two decades he has been a leader in volunteer efforts on behalf of the School. Appointed in 1997 to the Divinity School's Visiting Committee, Mr. Greenfield immediately joined the nominations subcommittee where he became a positive force in bringing valuable new members into the group. His energies not exhausted by recruitment and ambassadorial work, he became the national chair of the 2001 Fund for the Divinity School, which under his leadership raised a record amount of unrestricted support. Since 1994, Mr. Greenfield has been a trustee of the Baptist Theological Union, an institution that William Rainey Harper brought to the University in 1892. Mr. Greenfield has served as an eloquent advocate for efforts to rebuild the Union and strengthen it as a financial and historical trust of the Divinity School. Colleagues stress that the character of Mr. Greenfield's leadership makes it particularly effective. He always brings a constructive perspective to his efforts to strengthen the University. He has the courage to speak up, even when his views are unpopular, and he has the expansive vision to look beyond perceived limits to set new standards for alumni participation in support of the school. Finally, his service is educated. As one supporter wrote, "he has a sophisticated and grounded sense of where the University has been and must go as it seeks to live out its mission in the 21st century."
Hazel Vespa, AM'68, began her long term of service to the University as a volunteer for the School of Social Service Administration (SSA). She has been a tireless supporter of the School, both as a member and president of the SSA Alumni Board and as a mentor for social work students. She has contributed as a volunteer to many alumni events at SSA, including career fairs, student orientation, awards ceremonies, and reunions. Over the years, she has been one of SSA's most effective field instructors. Her reputation as a successful health care professional at Children's Memorial Hospital has ensured that SSA has been able to continue working with the Hospital in the face of budget constraints and rapid change in health care. Ms. Vespa's volunteer service to SSA led to her invitation to serve as a member of the University's National Alumni Cabinet in the 1980s. More recently, she has been a key member of the Chicago-area alumni club (UC2MC). As a member of the club's program committee, she has organized diverse and innovative social, cultural, and educational events that have drawn large alumni audiences. She took the lead in developing a handbook for new members of the club's board and has been highly successful in training and motivating board members. Fellow board members credit her concern, ability, and judgment as the reason that three club presidents have asked her to chair the nominating committee that names the slate for the UC2MC officers and board. Recently, she has participated in a serious reconsideration of the club's purpose and activities. Wrote club president Tom Berg, "Hazel's help resolving issues in a way that permitted the club to change was extraordinary." The Public
Service Awards Rachel Cowan, AM'65, is an innovative, compassionate, and dedicated activist in the realms of Jewish spirituality, healing, and outreach to intermarried and unaffiliated Jews. Devoted to social justice and the obligation to tikkun olam, the healing of the world, Rabbi Cowan has directed the Center for Jewish Life at the Nathan Cummings Foundation since its founding in 1989. Under her leadership, the Foundation has become a leader in engendering positive social change, creating new movements, and supporting gifted individuals and promising institutions in the Jewish community. The Foundation was among the first to support the creation and development of fledgling Jewish communities in the former Soviet Union, promoting human rights, tolerance, and civil society. Rabbi Cowan has also worked with and for peace and democracy in the Middle East, assisting organizations of Jews, Israeli Arabs, and Palestinians that seek to bring peace to the region by improving the lives of all populations. Under her leadership, the Foundation led the way in strengthening institutions that further the Jewish community's capacity to bring aid and comfort to the ill, the bereaved, and those in pain. A Jew by choice, having converted after marrying writer and activist Paul Cowan (who studied in the Committee on Social Thought), Rabbi Cowan is especially sensitive to the issues surrounding interfaith relationships. She also promotes work linking spirituality and social justice. She participates in many noteworthy causes beyond her Foundation responsibilities, and she sits on the boards of BrotherHood Sister Sol in Harlem, the Foundation for Self-Sufficiency in Central America, and the Jewish Funders Network in New York City. "The Chicago tradition of sociology-from Hull
House to Saul Alinsky-emphasizes social reform, linking theory and practice.
Much of my education at Chicago occurred outside the classroom, particularly
through a variety of grassroots organizations where I learned from experienced
organizers and activists. I imbibed those lessons and try to keep them
alive in my own life and in my own classroom." Peter Dreier, AM'73, PhD'77, is one of the nation's leading voices on urban policy. For more than two decades, he has devoted his professional life to public policy issues, as a scholar, government official, journalist, and activist for reform, particularly as it benefits the urban poor. Having served from 1984 to 1993 as director of housing for the Boston Redevelopment Authority and as senior policy advisor for Boston Mayor Ray Flynn, he is now the Dr. E.P. Clapp Distinguished Professor of Politics and director of the Urban & Environmental Policy Program at Occidental College. Professor Dreier has written and lectured widely on American politics and public policy. His most recent book, Place Matters: Metropolitics for the 21st Century analyzes the roots of urban crisis and outlines a policy agenda and political strategy to build bridges between cities and suburbs. He has spearheaded studies on federal housing program reforms to expand home ownership opportunities among low-income families and is the leading advocate for the growing movement toward university-community participation. Continuing his active engagement in civic and political activities, Professor Dreier has recently been a member of Los Angeles City Council task forces on economic development and on affordable housing. He recently helped organize a grassroots coalition of community groups, unions, and faith-based organizations to establish LA's $100 million annual Housing Fund Trust and is founder and co-chair of the Progressive Los Angeles Network to link policy experts with grassroots organizations. Supporters praise his "extraordinary range of community activities, his passion for community empowerment and social justice, his enormous capacity to mentor students,…and his long-standing commitment to community service." Bradford Lander, AB'91, is the executive director of the Fifth Avenue Committee (FAC), a community-based organization that advances social and economic justice in South Brooklyn, primarily through developing and managing affordable housing, creating economic opportunities, organizing residents and workers, and combating displacement caused by gentrification. Since 1993 when he became director, Mr. Lander has inspired the organization to reach beyond its established programs to meet the needs of community residents. During his tenure, FAC has grown from a staff of six to a staff of sixty and has developed more than 300 units of affordable housing for low-income families, launched several community-owned businesses and sectorally-targeted job training programs that have employed hundreds of area residents, helped welfare recipients win a 7,500-position transitional jobs program, established a Displacement Free Zone that has been replicated around the country, and launched a model program to reintegrate ex-offenders into the neighborhood. Mr. Lander serves on the boards of the Association for Neighborhood and Housing Development, Jews for Racial and Economic Justice, and Grassroots Leadership (in Charlotte, NC). He helped to found the NYC Organizing Support Center, the Alliance for a Working Economy, and Housing First! He is also an adjunct professor of City and Regional Planning at the Pratt Institute. Throughout his service at FAC and before that at the Docklands Forum Community Coalition in London and the Jewish Council on Urban Affairs in Chicago, Mr. Lander has demonstrated an acute ability to involve diverse groups of community residents in addressing issues critical to their lives and to the community as a whole. One colleague wrote, "His candor and honesty, motivated by a commitment to building alliances to advance critical social needs, resulted in an unprecedented dialogue." He added that Mr. Lander's communication skills are matched by his business acumen and command of policy.  Deborah
Leff, JD '77, is currently the director of the John F. Kennedy Presidential
Library and Museum, a position to which she was attracted because of
her commitment to public service. Her impressive career in public service
includes a focus on civil rights during her tenure with the U.S. Department
of Justice, equal opportunity for women and people of color when she
worked at the White House on federal judicial appointments, and consumer
protection when she was a lawyer for the Federal Trade Commission. For
ten years in the 1980s and early 1990s, she was senior producer of ABC
News Nightline, World News Tonight, and 20/20. Her coverage of domestic
and international news won numerous awards, including the Emmy and the
Dupont. Ms. Leff's concern with finding solutions to troubling social problems precipitated her move in 1992 to the policy-oriented Joyce Foundation, where she served as president until 1999. She helped build the Chicago-based philanthropy into a national leader for gun violence reduction, campaign finance reform, environmental improvement, and welfare reform. After leaving the Joyce Foundation, she became president and CEO of America's Second Harvest, the nation's largest hunger relief organizing, reaching one of every ten Americans. She led the organization in identifying and ultimately removing through policy changes many of the barriers that keep hungry people from obtaining food stamps. She brought the same creative energy to her work at the Kennedy Library, which she has directed since May 2001. After September 11, she quickly organized forums and discussions at the Library to help Americans understand the new challenges facing society. In addition to her professional achievements, Ms. Leff is an active volunteer, serving on the boards of CARE, the international relief and development organization, and the Children's Defense Fund. The Professional
Achievement Awards
Elenie Huszagh, AB'57, is the first woman to serve as president of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA (NCC), an organization of Protestant and Orthodox denominations that represents 60 million Christians in the United States. Her involvement with the NCC over more than two decades has strengthened the organization's work for unity, reconciliation, peace, and justice, both in churches and in society. She has worked on the NCC's diverse programs for civil and religious rights, interfaith understanding, alleviating poverty, and protecting the environment. Ms. Huszagh's involvement to the NCC grew from her service to the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America. In 1979, the Archdiocese appointed her a member of its delegation to the NCC General Assembly. She subsequently served as recording secretary and as a key member of several committees and task forces. A lawyer by profession, Ms. Huszagh has served for many years as legal advisor to the Archdiocese. In 1974, she was one of the first five women appointed to the Greek Orthodox Archdiocesan Council in the United States. She continues to serve as legal counsel to the Dioceses of Chicago and San Francisco. Ms. Huszagh also served as legal counsel in organizing the World Council of Hellenes Abroad, which was founded in 1995 to represent hundreds of organizations of Hellenes residing outside of Greece. At her installation as president of the NCC in November 2001, Greek Orthodox Archbishop Demetrios spoke of her "constant indefatigable way of working." Ms. Huszagh has used her professional skills, her leadership abilities, and her strong commitment to the common good on behalf of the Greek Orthodox Church and the Hellenic community worldwide, as well as the National Council of Churches in America. Stanley Miller, PhD'54, has done what few scientists have achieved-originated a new field of science: chemical studies in the origin of life. Fifty years ago, as a graduate student in the lab of Chicago Nobel Laureate H.C. Urey, he carried out an experiment aimed at reproducing in the laboratory the conditions believed to have prevailed on earth at the time life first arose. To the amazement of all scientists at the time, he observed the formation, in only a few days, of a number of amino acids and other basic building blocks of life. Science museums worldwide now display representations of the Miller-Urey electric discharge apparatus, crediting this historical experiment as the start of a new discipline, called prebiotic or abiotic chemistry, which now has hundreds of practitioners, and its own society, journal, and regular scientific meetings. Professor Miller has remained a leader in this field, publishing more than a hundred and sixty papers and a major text book on the subject. He served as president of the International Society for the Study of the Origin of Life, and in 1983 was awarded the Oparin Medal. A second research area to which he has made significant contributions is the study of clathrate hydrates, compounds formed in nature by gases with water molecules. Professor Miller's research has helped to answer long-standing questions about gas bubbles in polar ice cores and the composition of ice caps on Mars. In a completely different context, his research on clathrate compounds yielded new understanding of the mechanism behind anesthesia. Professor Miller is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and has been a member of the Chemistry Department at University of California at San Diego since 1960. His impact on modern science has been extraordinary.
John Morris, AB'37, is a journalist who commissioned, edited, and published photographs that have helped define our sense of recent history, from D-Day to Vietnam. A man of tenacious integrity and demanding standards, Mr. Morris has been a key staff member of some of the nation's most influential publications, including Life magazine (where he worked throughout World War II in New York, Los Angeles, Washington, Chicago, London and Paris), Ladies' Home Journal, The Washington Post and The New York Times. He was the worldwide executive editor of Magnum, the international cooperative picture agency. He handled many of the iconic images of our times, including Robert Capa's photographs of the D-Day landing in Normandy. For Ladies' Home Journal he produced a series on families around the world, a forerunner of Edward Steichen's famous Family of Man exhibition and book. Mr. Morris began his journalistic career on The Daily Maroon, and founded the student monthly Pulse in order to get himself a job. His mentor was Robert Maynard Hutchins, with whom he kept in touch long after graduation. Still teaching and lecturing in the US and abroad, he has influenced thousands of aspiring journalists. For the past nineteen years he has lived in Paris. His personal history of photojournalism entitled Get the Picture has just been republished in paperback by the University of Chicago Press.
From 1991 to 2001, Professor Stone directed the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA's primary center for development and execution of planetary exploration missions. He was at the center of the enormously successful Mars Pathfinder Mission, which landed a small rover on Mars on July 4, 1997, and produced the first in-depth look at the planet's surface. Throughout his career, both as scientist and administrator, Professor Stone has been an effective advocate for science research and an able communicator to the public of the results of science missions and the strategies and goals that defined them. His ability to explain detailed science to the larger community won him the 1999 Carl Sagan Award of the American Astronautical Society. Chicago astronomer Robert Rosner wrote of him, "he set a standard for scientific excellence….Simply put, the US-led exploration of the solar system would not have been anywhere as spectacularly successful if it had not been for Ed Stone's leadership,"
Rafael "Ray" Suarez, AM'92, is among the country's top broadcast journalists. Currently a senior correspondent on The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, he was for six years the host of the award-winning National Public Radio program Talk of the Nation. Prior to that, he spent several years covering local, national, and international news for, among others, CNN, the NBC-owned station WMAQ-TV in Chicago, ABC News Radio in New York, and CBS Radio in Rome. Between his time at WMAQ and his move to NPR, Mr. Suarez attended a special fellowship program for journalists at the University of Chicago. Friends credit the fellowship with enabling him to realize his belief in the power of journalism to help society make informed decisions. Chicago Public Radio President Torey Malatia wrote, "His shift from commercial television to public radio in 1994…came about because he felt that the role of journalism was to provide substantive value to the community." Mr. Suarez has been a mentor to many broadcast journalists and was instrumental in founding the Chicago Association of Hispanic Journalists. He has devoted his time and resources to making the Chicago affiliate of the national organization one of the strongest in the country, holding several programs each year to engage Latino high school students to stay in school and explore careers in journalism. A widely-published author, Mr. Suarez wrote The Old Neighborhood: What We Lost in the Great Suburban Migration: 1966-1999, a book that grew directly out of research and writing he did to complete his master's paper at U of C on patterns of gentrification in North Side Chicago. His essays and criticism have also appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, and The Baltimore Sun. The Alumni
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Justice Stevens grew up next door to the University of Chicago. He graduated from the University's Laboratory Schools in 1937 and received his undergraduate degree from the College, winning University honors for scholarship and extracurricular activities and graduating Phi Beta Kappa. A naval officer assigned to breaking the Japanese code during World War II, he was awarded a Bronze Star. After the war, he took a law degree at Northwestern University, clerked for Supreme Court Justice Wiley Rutledge, and built a reputation as an antitrust lawyer, forming his own law firm in 1952. He also taught antitrust law at the University of Chicago and Northwestern law schools. Justice Stevens served as associate counsel of a House of Representatives subcommittee studying monopoly power in 1951, and from 1953 to 1955 as a member of the attorney general's committee to study antitrust laws. In 1969, he was named general counsel to an Illinois commission investigating the conduct of state supreme court justices, and in 1970 he was appointed to the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals. The most prestigious award given by the Chicago Bar Association and the Chicago Bar Foundation is the John Paul Stevens Award, which annually honors an attorney who "best exemplifies Justice Stevens's commitment to public service and integrity while practicing law." |
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"Chicago
taught me far more than "Western Civ" and "Nat Sci,"
it gave me the basis on which I question and analyze the concepts of
the problems before me. So even though I left the Quad many years ago,
I carry its influences with me every day."
"The
University of Chicago taught me how to think, appreciatively and critically,
and to think about things that matter, and to act as if my life and
others' depended on it. Experience has confirmed it all. I'm grateful."
"After
Peace Corps, I encountered my most profound educational experience at
the University's School of Social Service Administration. Caring, committed
faculty provided opportunity for me to develop critical thinking and
problem-solving skills. In psychosocial research with PKU and training
of social work interns, U of C faculty and alumni serve as mentors.
Alumni Club activities provide a network of friends who stimulate my
thinking, enhance my work, and enrich my life."
"I earned a BA, MA, and PhD all in Economics at Chicago. The
economics, mathematic, and statistics that I learned as a student at
Chicago have provided the building blocks for two careers; first as
an academic, and second as a hedge fund manager."
"I
was fortunate to grow up in Hyde Park and attend U High before crossing
Woodlawn Avenue to attend the University, the central institution of
my entire life. Robert Hutchins became my lifetime inspiration. He taught
me to pursue truth and that remains my unobtainable goal."
Edward
Stone, SM'59, PhD'64, is an eminent scientist and educator and one
of the nation's leading figures in science policy and administration.
After graduate training in the laboratory of the late Professor John
Simpson during the birth of space exploration in the late 1950s, he
joined the faculty of California Institute of Technology where he is
a vice president and the David Morrisroe Professor of Physics. Professor
Stone has been the principal investigator on numerous NASA missions,
working on galactic cosmic rays, energetic particles from the sun, and
the particle population in the solar system. He received the National
Medal of Science for his leadership of the Voyager mission that explored
Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune and is now carrying instruments
beyond the edges of the solar system. 
"I
count the chance to attend the University of Chicago during the middle
years of a frantic career as one of the greatest experiences of my life.
My life in newsrooms had been dictated by editors and the caprice of
events, while my life as a student at the U of C was shaped by my curiosity
and the opportunity to pick some of the best brains on the planet. I
returned to work saner, refreshed, and a lot smarter."
John
Paul Stevens, AB'41, has served as an Associate Justice of the U.S.
Supreme Court since 1975, when President Gerald Ford appointed him to
succeed retiring Justice William O. Douglas. Recognized as one of the
ablest justices ever to serve on the Court, he brings to his role a
meaningful legal background, a firm appreciation of values, and unquestioned
integrity and judgment. Justice Stevens's decisions have been practical
and down-to-earth rather than ideological, with each case examined on
its own merits. Demonstrating considerable judicial restraint and deference
to the Congress, he does not exhibit the bias of a social agenda, seeing
himself as a problem solver rather than a crusader. His independence
has made him the least predictable justice sitting today, and his most
recent opinion to receive widespread attention was his dissent in the
December 2000 decision that overturned the Florida Supreme Court's authorization
of recounts in the presidential election. In his dissenting opinion
he stated that the only clear loser in the legal contest was the public's
faith in the impartiality of those who administer justice.