Ann Taylor ’95 (M.S.N.)

Bishop Charles Francis Buddy Humanitarian Award

With a lifetime of leadership and service dedicated to people who are sick and suffering, Ann Taylor is the recipient of the 2005 Bishop Charles Francis Buddy Humanitarian Award, given in recognition of extraordinary contributions to humanitarian causes.

Taylor, a USD nursing doctoral candidate, has been an assistant coordinator for the National Marrow Donor Program in San Diego, a legislative analyst for the American Cancer Society and the California Nurses Association and a Eucharistic minister to hospital patients. She’s contributed hundreds of hours to education and medical organizations, and made countless public presentations on caregiving issues.

A proponent, practitioner and teacher of Healing Touch therapy and a faculty member at Southwestern College, Taylor’s outreach to the seriously ill includes extensive work in Tijuana, Mexico, as an associate with the Servants of the Eleventh Hour order, as a volunteer with Casa Hogar Las Memorias, an HIV/AIDS hospice, and as a volunteer at the city’s San Eugenio Clinic.

Ethel F. Yamamoto ’75 (M.B.A. ’80)

Author E. Hughes Career Achievement Award
School of Business Administration

Ethel Yamamoto’s business career spans more than 30 years in banking. She began working at Bank of America while attending USD, and was sponsored by the bank for USD’s M.B.A. program. After completing her graduate degree, Yamamoto was transferred to Los Angeles, where she was the first woman on the organization’s international banking team for Japan.

After rising to the position of assistant vice president at Bank of America, Yamamoto took a position as a corporate banking team leader for Security Pacific National Bank, becoming one of the organization’s youngest vice presidents. In 1990, she joined BNP Paribas as the senior credit officer for the West Coast. After moving into several different roles within the bank, Yamamoto moved to the London office, where she chairs global credit committees covering the Americas, Japan, the Middle East and parts of Europe.

Delle Willett Stattin ’64

Mother Rosalie Clifton Hill Service Award

It’s not unusual that Delle Willett Stattin gave her time to USD while she lived in San Diego — many outstanding alumni do the same. What’s amazing is that she continued to tirelessly work on behalf of the university while she lived for eight years in St. Louis. For her nearly four decades of service to USD, Stattin will be recognized with the 2005 Mother Rosalie Clifton Hill Service Award, given to alumni who exhibit significant service, contributions and commitment to the university.

In the 1970s, Stattin donated her time and graphic design talents to bolster attendance at the annual Alumni Mass, and in the 1980s she joined the Alumni Association board. Moving to St. Louis in 1991, she acted as a USD ambassador in the region, representing the university at college fairs, attending events at other universities and participating in USD’s Volunteer Action Network by calling and welcoming students accepted to USD. Upon her return to San Diego in 1999, she rejoined the board, acting as a communications and marketing adviser and helping to plan Homecoming Weekends and reunions. In her work as a marketing professional, she has continually mentored and offered career guidance to USD students.

Lawrence Shea ’62

Author E. Hughes Career Achievement Award
College of Arts and Sciences

Lawrence Shea is the managing principal for Barney & Barney LLC, a private insurance agency and brokerage firm established in 1909 and considered one of the premier companies of its kind in the San Diego region. He joined Barney & Barney in 1968 and became CEO in 1982. He is known for leading the company with the principle of excellence in service. He has brought Barney & Barney recognition that includes the Insurance Journal Agency of the Year award and the Robert P. Ashock Quality Award for outstanding quality control.

Shea mirrors his professional philosophies in his personal life. He is a member of the San Diego Rotary, the San Diego World Trade Association, the San Diego Regional Chamber of Commerce and many other service organizations. A former chairman of the board of the YMCA, he is a recipient of the YMCA’s Golden Triangle Award, the organization’s highest award for volunteerism.

Julie C. Novak ’89 (D.N.Sc.)

Author E. Hughes Career Achievement Award
Hahn School of Nursing and Health Science

Julie Novak, who earned the first doctorate awarded by the School of Nursing, is the associate dean of the School of Pharmacy, Nursing and Health Science at Purdue University. She has developed, taught and achieved funding for nurse practitioner programs, research and global community initiatives in international settings, and is the recipient of awards that include the Loretta C. Ford Award for excellence in nurse practitioner education from the University of Colorado.

The author of more than 50 publications including journals, book chapters and a textbook, Novak has given more than 150 national and international presentations and has been awarded more than $4 million in grants. She has served as president of the National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners, and currently chairs the American Nurses Foundation National Coalition for School Health.

The Honorable Napoleon Jones Jr. ’71 (J.D.)

Author E. Hughes Career Achievement Award
School of Law

Prior to attending law school at USD, Napoleon Jones was a social worker in Foster Home Placement and Child Protective Services. After graduating, he worked for California Rural Legal Assistance, which advocates on behalf of farm workers and other impoverished peoples, and for Defenders Inc., which represents indigent people in federal cases.

Jones worked in private practice from 1975 to 1977. He subsequently served as a San Diego Municipal Court Judge and a San Diego Superior Court judge, and in 1994 he was appointed by President Bill Clinton to the U.S. District Court, Southern District of California.

A member of numerous professional organizations — including the California Judges Association and the California Black Attorneys Association — Jones has said he believes the greatest benefit of being a judge is creating an atmosphere in which justice can be pursued.

David Herrera ’04 (Ed.D.)

Author E. Hughes Career Achievement Award
School of Education

After 25 years as vice president and president at the multinational Sonoco Products Company, David Herrera left his career in international business to pursue a doctorate in education and to work on behalf of social justice and workers’ rights. Herrera has taught a School of Education course titled “Models of Worker Owned Organizations,” and he has led a travel/study program to Mondragon, Spain, to allow students to observe the city’s cooperative style of management and economic justice.

Herrera has made numerous presentations and published on the topics of social justice and workers’ rights, and he recently was invited to the Vatican to present a paper on Catholic social teachings. His goal is to contribute to the betterment of the practice of management, especially as it applies to organizations in multicultural environments, and to participate in the creation and maintenance of a more ethical environment in these organizations.