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Alumni Almanac
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Career Achievement Awards Come
to Campus
After eight years off campus, a new stage is set for the
presentation of the ninth annual Author E. Hughes Career
Achievement Awards. Traditionally held at the Manchester
Grand Hyatt, the ceremony this year will take place at
the Jenny Craig Pavilion.
In another new twist, current students will join the celebration, scheduled for May 3.
"We want to expose students to our outstanding graduates and the tradition of excellence that USD upholds," says Jack Kelly '87, director of alumni relations, who adds that students should understand "their relationship with the university is lifelong, and does not end at graduation."
Named for President Emeritus Author E. Hughes, the awards are given to USD alumni who achieve outstanding success in their career fields. Honoree selections are made by faculty and alumni of the College of Arts and Sciences, and the Schools of Business Administration, Education, Law and Nursing.
This year, the College of Arts and Sciences recipient is dot-com entrepreneur John Carrieri '91. Carrieri is president and CEO of Colleges.com, rated as the top college Web site by USA Today, and publisher of U. Magazine, the nation's largest circulation on-campus publication. He has designed and built Web sites for a number of Fortune 500 companies, and founded two of the most visited sites on the Internet, jobs.com and jokes.com.
Gina Champion-Cain '94 (M.B.A.) is the School of Business Administration's honoree for 2003. As president and CEO of American National Investments, Champion-Cain oversees all commercial real estate services, which revitalize and preserve urban areas such as San Diego's Gaslamp Quarter.
The School of Education will honor Anthony F. Smith '87 (Ed.D.), managing director of the Leadership Research Institute. Smith is a consultant and educator in organizational change, executive development, and leadership training and design. He recently was appointed as a post-doctoral fellow of anthropology at the University of California.
David S. Casey Jr. '74 (J.D.) is the School of Law's 2003 Hughes Award winner. A senior partner at Casey, Gerry, Reed & Schenk, Casey practiced law for more than 25 years in the areas of wrongful death, personal injury, and business and consumer fraud. He helped create a compensation fund for victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, was voted one of the top five lawyers nationwide, and is president-elect of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America.
The recipient from the Hahn School of Nursing and Health
Science is Sandra C. Garmon Bibb '99 (D.N.Sc).
Bibb has extensive experience in health promotion and
disease prevention, both domestically and internationally,
and is recognized as an expert in the population health
field, which aims to improve health within entire populations.Currently,
Bibb is research coordinator and director of the Southwest
Clinical Region Joint Population Health Office at Naval
Hospital Camp Pendleton.
For event information, call (619) 260-4819 or log on
to http://alumni.sandiego.edu.