2003 Alumni Association Award Recipients
Distinguished Achievement Award Recipients
Robert L. Gale '48 of Bethany Beach, Delaware, retired in 1992 after 18 years as president of the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges (AGB). He established the National Center for Nonprofit Boards (now known as BoardSource). Before joining AGB, Gale was Carleton's vice president for public relations and development, and was the first Peace Corps director of recruiting. He also was director of public affairs for the Equal Opportunity Commission. Gale received Carleton's Cowling Cup in 2002 and is a veteran of more than 40 nonprofit boards. He and his wife, Barbara, have three children.
Mary Balzer Buskirk '53 of Monterey, California, is a celebrated fiber artist who earned a master of fine arts degree in weaving from the Cranbrook Academy of Art in 1956. Her artwork-mostly weavings-has been displayed in and purchased by museums around the United States and throughout Europe. Buskirk is a past president and founder of the Monterey Bay Artists Equity Fund and a founder of the annual Monterey Bay Artists Day. In 1997 she received the Benefactor of the Arts Award from the Monterey County Cultural Council. She and her husband, Fred, have two daughters.
Hollis L. Caswell '53 of Moultonborough, New Hampshire, a globally recognized expert in the fields of thin-film semiconductors and superconductivity, earned M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in engineering physics at Cornell. After leaving IBM in 1984, he served as senior vice president and president of the computer systems division at Burroughs Corporation and Unisys Corporation. In 1990 Caswell became CEO of HYPRES, a superconducting electronics company. In 1997 he joined Advanced Energy of Fort Collins, Colorado. He and his wife, Dorothy, have five children, including Lee Caswell '81.
Harold H. Klepfer '53 of San Jose, California, is an internationally respected materials scientist who made significant contributions to the development and safety of nuclear boiling water reactors. Klepfer, still an active consultant to the nuclear power industry, worked for General Electric from 1957 to 1986 and was president and chief operating officer of S. Levy from 1986 to 1997. Klepfer holds a Ph.D. in metallurgy from Iowa State University. He and his wife, Sally, have five children.Peter J. Puchner '58 of Englewood, New Jersey, is an internationally respected urologist and much-decorated teacher. Puchner earned an M.D. degree in 1962 from the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons (P&S). He spent two years as a captain and general surgeon in the Strategic Air Command, and in 1970 he began a career in clinical urology at P&S. He has received several awards for his teaching and is a past president of state and national urological associations. Puchner and his wife, Betsy, have three sons, including Ned Puchner '98.
Kathy Dahl-Bredine '63 and Phil Dahl-Bredine '63 of Oaxaca, Mexico, have worked since 2001 as Maryknoll lay missioners in Mexico; Phil has focused on local farmers and Kathy on children's health and nutrition. They earned master's degrees at Northwestern University and during the 1970s lived at a Franciscan monastery farm in Burlington, Wisconsin, where they practiced organic farming and beekeeping. In 1979 they moved to Silver City, New Mexico, where Kathy started the Guadalupe Montessori School. Phil was a lay priest and founded the Cooperative Ownership Development Corporation and the New Mexico Community Development Loan Fund. He has spoken to the U.S. Senate and the United Nations about the effects of world trade on South American farmers. They have seven children.
Stephen P. Hubbell '63 of Athens, Georgia, has made landmark contributions to the field of theoretical ecology, focusing on the long-term dynamics of tropical rain forests. A professor of botany at the University of Georgia, Hubbell was previously a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at Princeton and a staff scientist at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. In 1992 Hubbell received a distinguished national service award from the Society for Conservation Biology. He founded the National Council for Science and the Environment in 1990. Hubbell has two children and is married to Patricia Gowalty.Stephen M. Stigler '63 of Chicago is one of the world's foremost authorities on the history of statistics and mathematical statistics. He earned a Ph.D. in statistics at the University of California–Berkeley and taught at the University of Wisconsin–Madison until 1979. In 1976 he received a Guggenheim Fellowship. In 1979 Stigler took a job at the University of Chicago, where he has received several distinguished teaching awards. He is a celebrated author and a member of the Carleton Parents' Council. He and his wife, Virginia (Lee) Stigler '64, have four children, including Elizabeth Stigler '05.
Stephen C. Bayne '68 of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, is an internationally respected dental materials clinical researcher. Bayne has set up clinical research programs in Brazil, Peru, and Malaysia. Since 1984 he has been professor of biomaterials at the University of North Carolina School of Dentistry, and has received 19 teacher excellence awards. He has been a consultant and reviewer for the National Institutes of Health, the National Institute of Dental Research, and many other groups. Bayne's wife is Sharon Grayden.
Roger E. Clark '73 of Ambler, Pennsylvania, is a national leader in promoting renewable energy, advanced clean energy technologies, and energy conservation. Clark worked for the Pennsylvania Energy Office for 10 years, serving as chief council from 1986 to 1993. In 1993 Clark became program director for the Nonprofits Energy Savings Investment Program. He currently manages technology and policy for the Sustainable Development Fund in Philadelphia and is program manager for Clean Energy States Alliance. He and his wife, Nancy, both active disability-rights advocates, have two sons.
Danny K. Patterson '78 of Mobile, Alabama, was IBM's first African American marketing manager for sales operations on the Gulf Coast. He is now the senior location executive for IBM's Mobile and Pensacola locations, and a principal in the Business Consulting Services Group. In 1996 Patterson was named Mobile Rotarian of the Year, and in 1998 he was Mobile's United Citizen of the Year. In 2002 he established the Lighthouse Community Development Corporation. He has been an alumni admissions representative and a Reunion committee member. Patterson and his wife, Paulette, have two children, Betty Patterson '95 and James Patterson '97.
Exceptional Service Award Recipients
David A. Sipfle '53 of Northfield retired in 1998 from the Carleton philosophy department as the William H. Laird Professor of Philosophy and the Liberal Arts. Sipfle joined the Carleton teaching staff in 1960 and was named a full professor in 1970. He coached the Carleton cross-country ski team from 1979 to 1984, finishing with a national championship for the women and a second-place national finish for the men. He was elected faculty chair in 1976 and played his clarinet in the College orchestra. He is a Heywood Society member and was a cochair of his 50th reunion program committee. Sipfle and his wife, Mary-Alice, have two daughters.
Tucky McCarthy Elliott '58 of Kalamazoo, Michigan, was the first executive director of the Carleton Alumni Annual Fund (AAF) and served as the '50s decade director on the AAF from 1992 to 1998. She was alumni trustee from 1998 to 2002 and helped coordinate the 35th and 40th reunions for her class. As a class agent in the early 1970s until 1984, Elliott kept her classmates on the forefront of giving and participation. From 1983 to 1988, she was a development officer at Kalamazoo College, and she has served on the boards of numerous organizations. Elliott has four children.
Ann Crosby Nicholson '58 and Jon M. Nicholson '58 of Northfield have helped plan every class of 1958 reunion and have been class correspondents and class agents. In 1969 Jon joined the Carleton staff and settled into the admissions office in 1972. He was a founder of the Alumni ‘C' Club Hall of Fame and helped start the annual Casey Jarchow golf outing. Ann worked in Carleton's student financial services office for nearly a decade, retiring as associate director in 1993. For years, Ann knitted Icelandic sweaters for the student phonathon silent auctions. The couple received the Cowling Cup from Carleton in 2002. They have three children, including Eric Nicholson '88 and Kris Parker, who works in Carleton's admissions office.John C. Lin '78 of Newtonville, Massachusetts, began his service to Carleton shortly after graduation. From 1978 to 1981 he was an assistant director of admissions at Carleton. He coordinated the Alumni Admissions Representatives (AAR) program and was an assistant coach for JV baseball. From 1982 to 1984, Lin was an alumni board member, and from 1978 to 1989 he was a class agent. He has been an AAR volunteer for nearly 25 years and was an original member of the Alumni Admissions Board. Lin is a member of his 20th reunion gift committee. He and his wife, Marilee Chang Lin, have two sons.