2010 ALUMNI AWARDS - Cal Aggie Alumni Association - UC Davis

Cal Ag g i e Al u m n i As s o c i a t i o n
2010 Al u m n i Aw a r d s
No m i n a t i o n Packet
No m i n a t i o n s due by August 14, 2009

caAA Alumni AWARD categories
Je r ry W. Fielder Me m o r i a l Aw a r d
This award honors a UC Davis graduate in recognition of service to and support of the Cal
Aggie Alumni Association, the UC Davis Foundation and the university. The award was established
in 1973 to perpetuate the lifelong interests of one of the university’s most esteemed and
supportive alumni, Jerry W. Fielder ’39 (1915–1972). Specific criteria used during the selection
process include service to and support of 1) UC Davis, 2) the Cal Aggie Alumni Association and
3) the UC Davis Foundation.
Distinguished Achievement Aw a r d
This award honors a graduate of UC Davis whose entire life since graduation reflects exemplary
and outstanding performance and achievements. Specific criteria used during the selection process
include 1) a culmination of lifetime achievements, 2) service to the university and 3) community
and public service.
Em i l M. Mr a k In t e r n at i o n a l Aw a r d
This award honors a graduate of UC Davis who is distinguished in his or her career or in service
outside the United States. Specific criteria used during the selection process include 1) advancement
of their profession outside the United States, 2) outstanding contributions in research that
benefit the country served and 3) outstanding service and problem solving outside the United
States.
Ou t s ta n d i n g Al u m n u s(a) Aw a r d
This award honors a UC Davis graduate who is in the mid-point of his or her career, who does
not specifically qualify for the Distinguished or Young Alumnus(a) of the Year Awards and who
has displayed outstanding achievement, promoted innovative change and made outstanding
contributions professionally, to the community and to UC Davis. Specific criteria used during the
selection process include 1) career achievement, 2) leading innovative change in their fields, 3)
community and public service and 4) service to the university.
Yo u n g Al u m n u s(a) Aw a r d
This award honors a graduate of UC Davis who is no older than 35 or has received his or her
first degree within the past 10 years and has made outstanding contributions professionally, to the
community or to UC Davis. Specific criteria used during the selection process include 1) contributions
to profession, 2) community service and 3) UC Davis volunteerism.
Ag g i e Se rv i c e Aw a r d
This award honors a UC Davis graduate who has demonstrated exemplary Aggie pride and
dedication to UC Davis through personal commitment of time and energy, volunteerism and leadership,
which had the purpose or effect of furthering the Cal Aggie Alumni Association or the
University of California, Davis. Specific criteria for this award include 1) commitment of personal
time and energy, 2) personal leadership and 3) service to the Cal Aggie Alumni Association or
UC Davis.
For additional information, contact the Cal Aggie Alumni Association at (800) 242-4723 or alumni@ucdavis.

PRIOR RECIPIENTS OF caAA Alumni AWARDs
JERRY W. FIELDER MEMORIAL AWARD
1973 Bert L. Smith ’26
1974 Dean C. DeCarli ’28
1975 Waldo W. Weeth ’30
1976 Carl L. Garrison ’33
1977 Herbert E. Barker ’26
1978 Richard E. Rominger ’49
1979 Warren D. Mooney ’55
1980 Ralph H. Moss ’27
1981 Gene E. Pendergast Jr., ’61
1982 John L. Hardie ’58
1983 John P. “Jack” Underhill ’41
1984 Marion F. Minger ’42 & Walter W. Minger ’43
1985 Lois W. Weeth ’43
1986 Will W. Lester ’40
1987 Robert W. Munyon ’40
1988 Richard M. Ortega ’54 & Howard B. Shontz ’41, M.Ed.
’58
1989 James M. “Scud” Marshall ’37
1990 Jacque Bartholomew ’64
1991 Gary M. Cusumano ’65
1992 Ronald A. Enomoto ’64
1993 Orville E. Thompson, M.Ed. ’52
1994 Eugene Boone ’32
1995 Harold E. Kendall ’29
1996 Wayne A. Bartholomew ’64, J.D. ’71
1997 Lester S. Heringer Sr. ’41
1998 William F. Allewelt Jr. ’50
1999 Carol J. Sconyers ’04 & Hal W. Sconyers ’52
2000 Charley J. Soderquist, M.S. ’73, Ph.D. ’78
2001 J. Rodney Davis ’71
2002 Robert E. Murphy ’63
2003 Karl F. Gerdes, M.S. ’73, Ph.D. ’84
2004 Meg Stallard ’68 & Tom Stallard ’68, J.D. ’75
2005 Norm Weil ’73, J.D. ’76
2007 Rex Hime ’69, J.D. ’72
2008 Alan W. Hoefer ‘55
2009 Ronald Schuler ‘60
DISTINGUISHED ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
1980 Gordie C. “Jack” Hanna ’28
1981 Robert E. Osborne ’26
1982 John W. Oswald ’42
1983 William F. Allewelt Jr., ’50
1984 Harold E. Kendall ’29
1985 Abdalla A. Abdalla, M.S. ’59, Ph.D. ’63
1986 Bert Crane ’56
1987 Alyce Williams Jewett ’31 & Lindsay M. “Red” Jewett ’32
1988 George H. Wilson ’15
1989 John B. Shirley ’50, D.V.M. ’52
1990 Eugene Boone ’32
1991 William B. Hewitt ’33, M.S. ’34, Ph.D. ’36
1992 Clarence W. “Spider” Jones ’39
1993 Wendell Kilgore ’51, Ph.D. ’58
1994 Roy H. Saigo ’62
1995 Vincent E. Petrucci ’47, M.S. ’48
1996 Robert B. Bushnell ’53, D.V.M. ’56
1997 Floyd D. Shimomura ’70, J.D. ’73
1998 George B.E. West ’53, D.V.M. ’57, M.P.V.M. ’77
1999 Carolyn F. Wall ’63, M.A. ’65, Ph.D. ’71
2000 John H. Pryor ’37
2001 Jack Thomson ’46 & Chris “Floyd” Zaiger ’52
2002 Delaine Eastin ’69
2003 Augustine P. Gallego, M.A. ’76 &
Richard E. Rominger ’49 and Evelyne Rowe Rominger ’51
2004 Joseph W. Lin, Ph.D. ’75
2005 Koichiro Aramaki, M.S. ’78
2007 John Patrick Jordan ’55, Ph.D. ’63
2008 Jon R. Jessen ‘56
2009 Zelma Long
Citations for Excellence
CAAA pays tribute to alumni who have brought distinction to UC
Davis and were honored by their college, school or program with a
Citation for Excellence. For a complete list please visit
www.alumni.ucdavis.edu/awards.htm or call (800) 242-4723.
EMIL M. MRAK INTERNATIONAL AWARD
1988 Phaitoon Ingkasuwan ’53
1989 Charles E. Cornelius ’49, ’51, D.V.M. ’53, Ph.D. ’58
1990 Gurdev Khush, Ph.D. ’60
1991 Gajendra Singh, Ph.D. ’73
1992 Joe Roger Held ’53, D.V.M. ’55
1993 Syed F. Imam ’66
1994 Wyland S. Cripe ’50, D.V.M. ’52
1995 Thomas A. Bickle, Ph.D. ’72
1996 Jerome F. Harrington ’44
1997 Thira Sutabutra ’64, Ph.D. ’68
1998 Jon K. Andrus, M.D. ’79
1999 Peter N. Quesenberry, D.V. M. ’78, M.P.V.M. ’91
2000 Rosanna Y. Wong, M.S. ’93, Ph.D. ’97
2001 Arturo Lara-Lopez, Ph.D. ’80
2002 Kenneth S. Milne, Ph.D. ’68
2003 Jay Kun Yoo, J.D. ’77
2004 Richard M. Cirami ’63, M.S. ’68
2005 Qifa Zhang, Ph.D. ’85
2007 Sarah Marie Otterstrom, Ph.D. ’04
2008 Mahmoud A. Abu-Zeid, M.S. ‘60, Ph.D. ‘62
2009 John Landers, M.S. ‘65
OUTSTANDING ALUMNUS(A) AWARD
1999 Stephen K. Robinson ’78
2000 Linda A. Boehm ’68
2001 Ann Veneman ’70
2002 Sue Ellen Wooldridge ’83
2003 Jananne Sharpless ’67
2004 Robert Steven Tharratt, M.P.V.M. ’01
2005 Masoud Kayhanian, Ph.D. ’88
2007 Francisco Rodriguez ’85, M.S. ’97
2008 Timothy Bucher ‘86
2009 Catherine “Katie” Hunt, Ph.D. ‘81
YOUNG ALUMNUS(A) AWARD
1979 Michael L. Campbell ’68
1980 Dennis L. Vanderpol ’69
1981 Rolf J. Benirschke ’77
1982 Gordon S. Baranco ’69, J.D. ’72
1983 Margaret Sears McLaughlin ’72, M.S. ’74
1984 K. Jacqueline Speier Sierra ’72
1985 John Vickery ’72
1986 Sarah Joan Woerner ’72, M.D. ’76
1987 Steven Mackey ’78
1988 Peter K. Thor ’76, M.S. ’77, Ph.D. ’80
1989 Balazs Imre “Ernie” Bodai, M.D. ’77
1990 Cynthia M. Friend ’77
1991 Kenneth W. Campbell, D.D.S. ’79
1992 Jeffrey L. Tanji, M.D. ’82
1993 Constance J. Chang-Hasnain ’82
1994 Melinda Guzman-Moore ’85, J.D. ’88
1995 Darryl Covington Hunter ’84
1996 Mark S. Ghilarducci ’87
1997 Daniel E.E. Hayes Jr., Ph.D. ’91
1998 Elizabeth Nolan Fielding ’88
1999 Michael W. Dawson ’92
2000 Jennifer L. Fearing ’93
2001 Paul Chapao Lo ’91
2002 Christine A. Smith ’94, M.S. ’96, M.B.A. ’96, Ph.D.
’97
2003 Tamara Thornell ’93
2004 Christina V. Kirk Kazhe ’93
2005 Dawn Imamoto, Cred. ’95
2007 Ernesto Sandoval ’96
2008 Tracy E. Caldwell, Ph.D. ‘97
2009 John Thomas “J.T.” O’Sullivan ‘01
AGGIE SERVICE AWARD
2001 Michael Levy ’88
2002 Reza Mahdavi, M.A. ’83, Ph.D. ’88
2003 Gavin K. DiMundo ’97
2004 Carol J. Sconyers ’52
2005 Joaquin D. Galvan ’81, M.Ed. ’93
2007 Douglas J. Muhleman ’77, M.S. ’79
2008 Cheryl E. Harrison ‘79
2009 Bobby Woods ‘76

2010 CAAA alumni Awards nomination form
No m i n e e f o r (check o n l y o n e):
Jerry W. Fielder Memorial
Emil M. Mrak International Award
Young Alumnus(a) Award
Distinguished Achievement Award
Outstanding Alumnus(a) Award
Aggie Service Award
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Selection of recipients will be based on submitted materials only.
Pl e a s e return completed f o r m a n d supporting d o c u m e n t s by Fr i d ay, Au g u s t 14, 2009 to:
Alumni Awards
Cal Aggie Alumni Association
University of California, Davis
One Shields Avenue
Davis, CA 95616-8517
You may also submit your nomination materials via fax at (530) 752-3395 or
online at www.alumni.ucdavis.edu/awards.

2010 CAAA alumni AWARDS LETTER OF SUPPORT
No m i n e e Na m e
Aw a r d Ca t e g o r y
Please prepare a statement which outlines
• Education: degree(s), year(s) received, institution(s)
• Outstanding contributions or achievements
• Professional and volunteer activities and recognitions
• Updated biography and current resume.
Be sure to include examples of your candidate’s accomplishments as they relate to the specific criteria for the award. Limit
your comments to the space below and one additional page.

2010 CAAA alumni AWARDS Checklist
Should your nominee be selected, please include the following information and send to:
Jennifer Thayer
Assistant Director of Programs
Cal Aggie Alumni Association
University of California, Davis
One Shields Avenue
Davis, California 95616
Phone: (530)754-9098
Fax: (530)752-3395
Email: jsthayer@ucdavis.edu
Please include:
• Names and addressess of anyone you or the nominee would like invitations
to be sent to. The Cal Aggie Alumni Association will host the awardee and their
selected guest. If you have additional guests you would like to invite, tickets
can be purchased at www.alumni.ucdavis.edu/rsvp or by contacting CAAA at
(530)752-0286.
• A biography, resume, CV or any available press materials about the nominee.
• A list of names and addresses for local papers and media, organizations, trade
journals, Web sites or electronic media for press releases.
• One recent, posed, high resolution (300 dpi) digital headshot of the nominee.
• 20-30 other photographs of the nominee to be includee in a video presentation
the night of the ceremony. Please send a variety of photographs from both his/
her personal and professional life and photos of their time here at UC Davis.
Please scan and burn them onto a CD or DVD. Special arrangements can be
made to send originals.