Antioch College Alumni Awards
The Antioch College Alumni Association is pleased to announce the recipients of the Antioch College Alumni Awards for 2008.
Each year, during Reunion, the Antioch College Alumni Board recognizes those alumni and friends who, by their achievements and actions, best exemplify the values and successes held in high esteem by Antioch College. Four different awards are bestowed: The Horace Mann Award, The J.D. Dawson Award, The Arthur Morgan Award, The Rebecca Rice Award. The Nominating Committee of the Alumni Board accepts nominations for award candidates throughout the year and reviews them during its regular meetings.
Mary Ellen Skarie will receive the Horace Mann Award, which recognizes a contribution by alumni of Antioch College who have “won some victory for humanity,” following Mann’s advice to the graduating class of 1859. Nominees should be persons, or groups of persons, whose personal or professional activities have had a profound effect on the present or future human condition. Skarie works with the Central Asia branch of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), a federal organization that helps countries in need. Specifically, Skarie has managed programs that strengthen primary health care and restructure health care systems in Pakistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.
Robert Zevin will receive the Rebecca Rice Award, which recognizes alumni of Antioch College who by their actions, achievements, and leadership in their field have distinguished themselves. The nominees for this award should be persons who have excelled in their vocation or field of study. Zevin has been a leader in socially responsible investing since he started the first investment advisory firm specializing in such work forty-one years ago. Along the way he took twenty-two years off from running his own company to build the first socially responsible investment unit at a bank, United States Trust Company of Boston. Starting in the 1960s Robert was equally a pioneer in the use of Modern Portfolio Theory and computer technology applied to real investment decisions. He was a co-creator and principal designer of the Calvert Social Investment Fund, the first mutual fund in America to apply broad-based social screens.
Robert Parker will receive the J.D. Dawson Award, which recognizes significant contributions to Antioch College by alumni or friends of Antioch. The nominees for this award should be persons who have contributed in a significant way to Antioch College or to a program of Antioch College. Parker is Antioch College Professor of Cooperative Education, Emeritus. He started teaching at Antioch in 1957 and has touched the lives of thousands of Antiochians, and continues to stay in touch with many former students. He was named Emeritus faculty in 1991 and continues his involvement with the College through Glen Helen.
The collective Antioch College faculty and staff will receive the Arthur Morgan Award, which recognizes alumni contributions which exemplify the concept of “community” advocated by Morgan. The nominees for this award should be persons, or groups of persons, who have contributed to their community — either local, national or world — in a manner which brings members of the community together in order to work toward common goals. Members of the staff and faculty, including emeriti faculty who stepped forward to support the community at this critical time, being cited for their excellence in teaching and scholarship, for their extra efforts to support the student body, for their courage and dedication to Antioch College, and for their highest ideals of service in a time of extreme duress and uncertainty.