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The University awarded its top alumni honors this year to Paul S. Sarbanes '54, recipient of the Woodrow Wilson Award given to an undergraduate alumnus or alumna whose career embodies the call to duty in Wilson’s famous speech, “Princeton in the Nation’s Service;” and Julius Coles *66, recipient of the James Madison Medal awarded to an alumnus or alumna of the Graduate School who has achieved a distinguished record of public service.
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Paul S. Sarbanes '54: Four Decades of Service to the U.S. |
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 Paul Sarbanes (left) grew up in Salisbury, Maryland, the son of Greek immigrants. He attended Princeton on a scholarship and was a Woodrow Wilson School major. After winning the Moses Taylor Pyne Prize, Sarbanes studied at Oxford University on a Rhodes Scholarship and graduated from Harvard Law School.
Sarbanes got his first taste of Capitol Hill in 1962, when he worked for President John F. Kennedy’s Council of Economic Advisers. After serving four years in the Maryland House of Delegates, Sarbanes served three terms in the U.S. House of Representatives. In 1974 he was chosen by his colleagues on the House Judiciary Committee to introduce the first Article of Impeachment, for obstruction of justice, against President Richard M. Nixon. Two years later, he won the first of five consecutive terms in the U.S. Senate, making him Maryland's longest-serving U.S. senator. He became a household name with the 2002 Sarbanes-Oxley Act, designed to strengthen good corporate governance in the wake of the scandals at Enron, Tyco, WorldCom, and other companies.
Throughout his career, Sarbanes has maintained close ties to Princeton. He just finished a four-year term as University Trustee, and he and his wife, Christine, are the parents of three Princetonians: John P. Sarbanes ’84 (elected to Congress last November), Michael A. Sarbanes ’86, and Janet M. Sarbanes ’89.
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Julius E. Coles *66: A Lifetime of Working for Africa |
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Julius Coles (right) made his first trip to Africa as a sophomore at Morehouse College in Atlanta—unaware that he was about to embark on a lifelong relationship with that continent. In both his present position as president of Africare, a leading aid organization, and previous post as an official of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), he has devoted many of the last 40 years to assisting Africa.
Coles earned his MPA from the Woodrow Wilson School, and began a career at USAID, where, for 28 years, he was responsible for efforts to eliminate poverty in Asia and all over Africa. He retired with the rank of career minister. Next were eight “wonderful” years in academia, first as director of the Ralph J. Bunche International Affairs Center at Howard University, then as director of the Andrew Young Center for International Affairs at Morehouse.
Then, in 2002, Coles accepted the presidency of Africare, an organization devoted to health, agriculture, relief, and other needs in 26 African nations. Coles is particularly proud that on his watch the organization has raised about $200 million for development programs, including refugee relief in Chad for victims of the Darfur conflict, care of AIDS orphans in Nigeria, immunization programs for children in countries ranging from Angola to Uganda, and an innovative program for the start-up of small businesses in Zambia, Zimbabwe, and Mozambique.
(Paul S. Sarbanes '54 and Julius E. Coles *66)
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Annual Giving Recognizes Volunteer Service |
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 The day also honored hardworking alumni volunteers. The Harold H. Helm Award, recognizing exemplary service to Annual Giving, went to James A. Henderson ‘56.
The Class of 1926 Trophy, for the class that raises the largest amount each year, went to the Class of 1981, led by Special Gifts Chair R. Kelly Doherty; Participation Chair Nan Sutter Hayworth; and Class Agents Mary Atwater James and Kathleen James Levin.
The Annual Giving Committee of Greenwich, Connecticut, chaired by John F. Barry III ’74, received the Jerry Horton Award, which honors the regional AG committee that most successfully expands giving amounts and participation.
(AG Chair Frederick G. Strobel '74, Nan Sutter Hayworth '81, John F. Barry III '74)
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Students Awarded Pyne Prize and Jacobus Fellowship |
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 Student achievement was on display, too. Alisha C. Holland ’07, a WWS major, and Lester W. Mackey ’07, a computer science major, received the Pyne Prize, awarded for outstanding scholarship, character, and leadership.
Four doctoral students received the Jacobus Fellowship honoring excellence in scholarship: Carmen F. Drahl of the chemistry department, whose research involves inhibiting bacteria resistant to antibiotics; Egemen Kolemen of the department of mechanical and aerospace engineering, who is working on ways to capture images of planets outside the solar system; Sarah M. Pourciau ’98 of the German department, who is examining the evolution of words; and William T. Slauter of the history department, who is studying transatlantic journalism during the American Revolution.
(Sarah M. Pourciau '98, Egemen Kolemen, Carmen F. Drahl)
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