Summer 2017
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Alumni Association announces 2017 alumni award recipients
The Vanderbilt University Alumni Association Board of Directors is pleased to announce its recipients of the 2017 alumni awards: Dr. Stephen Jones, BA’74, MD’78; Joe Martin, BA’64; Doug Parker, MBA’86; and Zakiya Smith, BS’06. Read MoreSep 7, 2017
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A Vision for Change: Kutner Scholarship enhances legacy
Dr. Steve Kutner, MD’65, restored sight to thousands of refugees during his life while also helping patients in his Georgia Eye Clinic in Atlanta. Although Kutner died in 2016, his spirit of giving continues. Read MoreSep 7, 2017
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Aliza Berger, BMus’11: Sermons of song
Recently, Berger graduated from Massachusetts-based Hebrew College, where she was ordained a rabbi–cantor—the school’s first, and one of only a handful in the country. Read MoreSep 7, 2017
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George Embiricos, BS’12: Hot chicken junkie
Embiricos is associate editor at Food Republic, a New York City-based online magazine that “explores the culture of food through stories, interviews, global conversations and experiences.” Read MoreSep 7, 2017
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H. Floyd Dennis Jr., JD’58: Disability civil rights advocate
H. Floyd Dennis Jr., professor of special education, emeritus, at Vanderbilt Peabody College of education and human development, died April 17 of cancer in Chattanooga, Tennessee. He was 89. Read MoreSep 7, 2017
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Joe Thomas Ford Jr., BA’76: All-star sportsman
Former Vanderbilt basketball star Joe Thomas Ford of Paducah, Kentucky, died June 20 from injuries sustained in an automobile accident. He was 64. Read MoreSep 7, 2017
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Dale P. Andrews, MA’97, PhD’98: ‘Culture of collegiality’
Dale P. Andrews, a teacher, minister, social justice activist, and renowned scholar on the art of preaching, died June 23 in Nashville of cancer. He was 55. Read MoreSep 7, 2017
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Summer in the City: Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos hosts Vanderbilt events in New York
Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos hosted alumni, parents, and incoming first-year Vanderbilt students at two events in New York City this summer. Read MoreSep 7, 2017
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Sandra Sue Jaggard, BS’87: Passionate prosecutor
Known for her encyclopedic command of the law, Florida Senior Assistant Attorney General Sandra Jaggard helped keep some of Miami’s most notorious killers on Death Row. She died unexpectedly Oct. 11, 2016, at age 51. Read MoreSep 1, 2017