HAVERFORD ALUMNI AWARDS

The 2006 Alumni Awards Ceremony was held during the Opening Ceremonies of Alumni Weekend on Saturday, May 27th. The awardees were as follows:

President Tom Tritton congratulates Joe Quinlan '75

The Alumni Award – Joe Quinlan ‘75

The Alumni Award, the most distinguished award for alumni activities given by the Association, honors an individual who, in a variety of ways, has provided sustained service to Haverford. It recognizes especially loyal and active support of the work of the College.

Over the years, Joe has donated countless hours on behalf of the College as an admissions representative, as a special gifts volunteer, and as a member of the Alumni Association Executive Committee, the Athletic Steering Committee, and the Committee of One Hundred.

One of Joe’s most notable contributions to the College is his active career mentoring of literally hundreds of alums in the world of media, and his endless creation of internships benefiting alums at media powerhouses such as McNeil-Lehrer and HBO.

The Forman Award – Anthony J. Petitti ‘83

The Lawrence Forman Award goes to a superior Haverford athlete who, throughout his or her career or volunteer time, has devoted a significant portion of their energy to the betterment of society.

While at Haverford, Tony Petitti was a leader in athletics as the Baseball team’s Catcher and Co-captain, and a member of the Varsity Club. Not only was Tony an athlete—he was also a sports fan. So much so, that he made it a career. For almost 2 decades, Tony has been a top figure in the world of sports television.

Tony was instrumental in the development of the unprecedented Bowl Championship Series, and in 1997 he was hired by Sean McManus, then president of CBS Sports, as Senior Vice President of Business Affairs and Programming. Here, Tony was instrumental in the network’s re-acquisition of the NFL.

After a stint at New York’s WCBS-TV, Tony returned to CBS Sports in 1999 where today, he acts as Executive Vice President and Executive Producer of CBS Sports where he oversees daily operations and the acquisition of new programming, and maintains relationships with rights’ holders for: The NFL, The Super Bowl, The NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship, the Masters, and the U.S. Open, among many others.

He has devoted countless volunteer hours to his role on the board of directors for the Youth Advocacy Center in New York, and as youth soccer coach and volunteer at The Hackley School.

The Haverford Award – Dr. Kent Campbell ’66 and Dr. Louis Miller ‘56

Kent Campbell '66 (left) and Louis Miller '56

The Haverford Award supports and demonstrates the College's expressed concern for the application of knowledge to socially useful ends. It seeks to identify, reward and focus public attention on those alumni/ae who best reflect Haverford's concern with the uses to which they put their knowledge, humanity, initiative, and individuality.

Both of the two recipients of this year’s Haverford Award have devoted their respective careers and life’s work to the research, control and treatment of malaria, the most widespread of tropical diseases.

Dr. Carlos C. (Kent) Campbell has been a leading authority on international public health and the control and therapy of malaria for over 30 years. Kent began his professional career with the US Public Health Service at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), with most of his 21 years of service as the Chief of the Malaria Branch. His team at the CDC was instrumental in major advances in the therapy of drug resistant malaria, the impact of malaria on pregnant women and young infants, and in the demonstration of the effectiveness of insecticide-treated bednets. Following his service with CDC, he joined the faculty of the University of Arizona Health Sciences Center where he served as the Interim Dean of the College.

In 2003 Kent began serving as a consultant to the “Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Infectious Diseases Program” where he helped develop the Foundation's program directions in support of malaria control in Africa. This work resulted in the funding of the “Malaria Control & Evaluation Partnership in Africa” of which he is currently the Director.

Kent has been awarded “The Meritorious Service Medal of the U.S. Public Health Service”, has served as the Senior Malaria Advisor for UNICEF based in New York City, has published over 150 peer reviewed articles in the fields of public health, maternal and child health, and malaria, and is President-elect of the “American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene”.

Dr. Louis Miller is a world-renowned malaria researcher. After graduating from Haverford College, Louis Miller went on to Columbia University and the medical school at Washington University, where he began his life work on malaria. In 1971, he came to the National Institute of Health (NIH) to head the malaria section of the Laboratory of Parasitic Diseases.

During his career, Louis has made important discoveries about how malaria parasites infect and survive in humans and mosquitoes. Of particular significance, Louis identified a molecule on red blood cells that gives the malaria parasite passage to invade and proliferate in the bloodstream. These molecules are now being tested for possible development into a malaria vaccine.

During the last 10 years, in response to the need for more effective tools in the face of drug resistance, Louis has led a program in developing vaccines against the malarial parasite. Louis currently heads the malaria section of the “Laboratory of Parasitic Diseases at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases” at the “National Institute of Health” in Bethesda, MD.

He is a previous recipient of many other prestigious awards and honors, including: The Bristol-Myers Squibb Award for Distinguished Achievement in Infectious Disease Research; Election to the National Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Medicine; The Paul Ehrlich-Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize, and, from the Office of the President of the United States, the “The Presidential Award”.

Louis’ research has advanced the understanding of malaria at the molecular level, and is credited with providing hope that a cure may eventually be found for this devastating disease. He is a tireless advocate for applying that knowledge to benefit affected regions of the world.

For additional information on Alumni Awards, including past recipients, please see http://www.haverford.edu/alumni/awards/.