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2003 UCSB Alumni Awardees to Be Honored at May 31 BanquetThe annual UCSB Alumni Association Awards Banquet on May 31 at Corwin Pavilion will honor six people, including two current and two former faculty members.
Anyone planning to attend the 7:15 p.m. dinner (no-host social hour starts at 6:30 p.m.) should reserve a place by May 23. For more details, call x2957.
Acting Executive Vice Chancellor Gene Lucas, '73, will receive the association's Teaching Award. A professor of chemical engineering and member of UCSB's faculty since 1978, Lucas has recently been professionally honored with election as a fellow to the American Nuclear Society.
Research archaeologist Anabel Ford, '74 and Ph.D.'81, will receive the Distinguished Alumni Award. She has spent over a decade unearthing and conserving El Pilar, a Maya cultural site in Central America.
Ralph Nair, professor emeritus of education, who joined the faculty in 1941, will be named an Honorary Alumnus. Likewise, Santa Barbara businessman Peter Jordano, a trustee of the UCSB Foundation, has been selected an Honorary Alumnus.
Mayville "Doc" Kelliher, '34, a former UCSB athletic director and coach, will receive the Graver Alumni Service Award.
The Lifetime Achievement Award goes to chemist Jack Dixon, Ph.D. '71, whose medical research accomplishments have furthered understanding of cancer and other diseases.
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