Awards, Jul 29, 1999

The following awards have been presented for work in philanthropy, fund raising, volunteerism, and non-profit management:

Education fund raising. The Council for Advancement and Support of Education (Washington) recently presented several awards.

The 1999 James L. Fisher Award for Distinguished Service to Education went to the Lilly Endowment (Indianapolis).

The 1999 Frank L. Ashmore Award for Service to CASE and the Advancement Profession was presented to Curtis R. Simic, president of the Indiana U. Foundation (Bloomington).

The 1997 Ernest L. Stewart Award for Alumni Volunteer Involvement went to Arthur Lim Siew Ming, professor and head of the ophthalmology department at National U. of Singapore, for his work as president of the medical alumni association and chair of the Endowment Fund.

CASE has presented its 1999 Circle of Excellence in Educational Fund Raising Awards in two categories: overall performance and overall improvement.

The winners in the performance category:

— Colleges and universities: Amherst College (Mass.), Bay Path College (Longmeadow, Mass.), Baylor College of Medicine (Houston), Bellarmine College (Louisville, Ky.), Bethel College (North Newton, Kan.), Bowdoin College (Brunswick, Me.), California Polytechnic State U. (San Luis Obispo), Carleton College (Northfield, Minn.), Centre College (Danville, Ky.), Claremont McKenna College (Claremont, Cal.), Colgate U. (Hamilton, N.Y.), Concordia Seminary (St. Louis), Cornell U. (Ithaca, N.Y.), Duke U. (Durham, N.C.), Harvard U. (Cambridge, Mass.), Hillsdale College (Mich.), Indiana U. (Bloomington), Loyola Marymount U. (Los Angeles), Middlebury College (Vt.), Princeton U. (N.J.), Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology (Terre Haute, Ind.), San Jose State U. (Cal.), Scripps College (Claremont, Cal.), Smith College (Northampton, Mass.), Southwest Texas State U. (San Marcos), Texas A&M U. (College Station), U. of California at Berkeley, U. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, U. of Notre Dame (South Bend, Ind.), U. of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, U. of Virginia (Charlottesville), U. of Washington (Seattle), Washington and Lee U. (Lexington, Va.), Wellesley College (Mass.), Westark College (Fort Smith, Ark.), and Wheaton College (Ill.).

— Private schools: Baylor School (Chattanooga, Tenn.), the Brunswick School (Greenwich, Conn.), Cate School (Carpinteria, Cal.), Chaminade-Julienne Catholic High School (Dayton, Ohio), Chapin School (New York), Deerfield Academy (Mass.), Eaglebrook School (Deerfield, Mass.), Groton School (Mass.), Lakeside School (Seattle), Laurel School (Shaker Heights, Ohio), McCallie School (Chattanooga, Tenn.), Phillips Academy (Andover, Mass.), Phillips Exeter Academy (Exeter, N.H.), Roxbury Latin School (West Roxbury, Mass.), St. Xavier High School (Louisville, Ky.), and the Taft School (Watertown, Conn.).

The winners in the improvement category:

— Colleges and universities: Abilene Christian U. (Tex.), Arizona State U. (Tempe), Ball State U. (Muncie, Ind.), Bennington College (Vt.), California State U. at Fresno, Capital U. (Columbus, Ohio), Cheyney U. of Pennsylvania, Dordt College (Sioux Center, Iowa), Fairfield U. (Conn.), Hendrix College (Conway, Ark.), Illinois College (Jacksonville), Kenyon College (Gambier, Ohio), La Grange College (Ga.), Louisburg College (N.C.), Medical U. of South Carolina (Charleston), Methodist Theological School (Delaware, Ohio), Michigan State U. (East Lansing), North Carolina State U. (Raleigh), Oglethorpe U. (Atlanta), Patrick Henry Community College (Martinsville, Va.), Pennsylvania State U. (University Park), Rhode Island School of Design (Providence), Roger Williams U. (Bristol, R.I.), Shorter College (Rome, Ga.), Southern Methodist U. (Dallas), Saint Joseph’s College (Standish, Me.), Thiel College (Greenville, Pa.), Tiffin U. (Ohio), U. of Colorado at Boulder, U. of Detroit Mercy, U. of Scranton (Pa.), U. of Tulsa (Okla.), Wesley College (Dover, Del.), West Chester U. of Pennsylvania, Westmont College (Santa Barbara, Cal.), and Wichita State U. (Kan.).

— Private schools: Asheville School (N.C.), Belmont Hill School (Mass.), Casady School (Oklahoma City), Hebron Academy (Me.), Hyde School (Bath, Me.), John Burroughs School (St. Louis), Marmion Academy (Aurora, Ill.), Maumee Valley Country Day School (Toledo, Ohio), Mercersburg Academy (Pa.), Norfolk Collegiate School (Va.), Purnell School (Pottersville, N.J.), and Woodward Academy (College Park, Ga.).

The 1999 Leadership Awards, which recognize successful and innovative programs that are conducted as part of an overall institutional-advancement effort, went to Metropolitan Community Colleges (Kansas City, Mo.) and Universidad Anahuac (Mexico).

Housing. The Fannie Mae Foundation (Washington) has named the inaugural recipients of its James A. Johnson Community Fellows Awards, which honor individuals for significant contributions to providing decent and low-cost housing in urban neighborhoods and rural and other underserved areas. Each fellow will receive a grant and a stipend for living expenses so that they may work on a year-long, self-designed program. The fellows:

— Robert Boulter of Jubilee Enterprises (Washington).

— Lorna Bourg of the Southern Mutual Help Association (New Iberia, La.).

— James Buckley of the University Neighborhood Housing Program (Bronx, N.Y.).

— Gordon Chin of the Chinatown Community Development Center (San Francisco).

— Rodney Fernandez of the Cabrillo Economic Development Corporation (Saticoy, Cal.).

— H. Lewis Kellom of Homes in Partnership (Apopka, Fla.).

Leadership. Independent Sector (Washington) has presented its 1999 John W. Gardner Leadership Award to Lois Gibbs, founder and executive director of the Center for Health, Environment and Justice (Falls Church, Va.), for her work to educate the public about the environmental and health hazards of chemicals and toxic waste. The award carries a $10,000 prize.