Awards, Jun 14, 2001

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

Education fund raising. The Council for Advancement and Support of Education (Washington) has announced winners of its 2001 Circle of Excellence in Educational Fund Raising Awards:

The winners in the performance category:

— Colleges and universities: California Polytechnic State U. at San Luis Obispo, Duke University (Durham, N.C.), East Carolina U. (Greenville, N.C.), Emory and Henry College (Emory, Va.), Fairfield U. (Conn.), Gonzaga U. (Spokane, Wash.), Greenville Technical College (S.C.), Harvard U. (Cambridge, Mass.), Lafayette College (Easton, Pa.), Loyola College in Maryland (Baltimore), Mary Washington College (Fredericksburg, Va.), Maryville College (Tenn.), Middlebury College (Vt.), Northampton County Area Community College (Bethlehem, Pa.), Stanford U. (Palo Alto, Calif.), State University of New York at Purchase, Stetson University (DeLand, Fla.), Trinity College (Hartford, Conn.), U. of Florida (Gainesville), U. of Michigan (Ann Arbor), U. of North Carolina at Charlotte, U. of Texas at Austin, U. of Texas Southwestern Med-ical Center at Dallas, U. of Washington (Seattle), U. of Wisconsin at Madison, William Mitchell College of Law (St. Paul), and Williams College (Williamstown, Mass.).

— Private schools: the Asheville School (N.C.), the Brearley School (New York), Cate School (Carpinteria, Calif.), Colorado Academy (Denver), Groton School (Mass.), the Kinkaid School (Houston), the Loomis Chaffee School (Windsor, Conn.), Montgomery Bell Academy (Nashville), Phillips Academy (Andover, Mass.), Phillips Exeter Academy (Exeter, N.H.), Saint Xavier High School (Louisville, Ky.), and Sonoma Country Day School (Santa Rosa, Calif.).

The winners in the improvement category:

— Colleges and universities: Asbury College (Wilmore, Ky.), Baylor U. (Waco, Tex.), Florida Atlantic U. (Boca Raton), La Sierra U. (Riverside, Calif.), Lynchburg College (Va.), MacMurray College (Jacksonville, Ill.), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge), Montana Tech of the U. of Montana (Butte), Northwest Nazarene U. (Nampa, Idaho), Pfeiffer U. (Misenheimer, N.C.), Roberts Wesleyan College (Rochester, N.Y.), Texas A&M International U. (College Station), U. of Arkansas (Fayetteville), U. of North Carolina at Asheville, U. of Rochester (N.Y.), U. of Washington (Seattle), and William Jewell College (Liberty, Mo.).

— Private schools: the Gunnery School (Washington, Conn.), Hackley School (Tarrytown, N.Y.), the Hockaday School (Dallas), the John Thomas Dye School (Los Angeles), the Leelanau School (Glen Arbor, Mich.), Northfield Mount Hermon School (Northfield, Mass.), Oldfields School (Glencoe, Md.), the Seven Hills School (Cincinnati), and Vermont Academy (Saxtons River).

Environment. Edward (Ned) Ames has received the 2001 Robert Marshall Award from the Wilderness Society (Washington). Mr. Ames is a member and former chair of the society’s governing council and is a trustee and manager at the Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust (New York). The award, which honors long-term service to and notable influence on American conservation efforts, recognizes his decades of work with several environmental groups and his accomplishments, such as helping to create the Cary Trust’s Institute of Ecosystem Studies in Millbrook, N.Y.

Fund raising. The Salvation Army (Alexandria, Va.) has named the first recipient of its national Community Relations and Development Award of Excellence: J. Harris Payne, development director of the Metro Richmond Salvation Army (Va.). Under Mr. Payne’s leadership, the development department has seen donations increase by 123 percent over the past seven years and the number of donors rise from 10,000 to 49,000.