Consistent and unflagging
“Constantly astonished” by the achievements of so many alumni, awards- committee chair Steven Cohen ’72, P ’10, told the Reunion audience he was pleased to “recognize the application of the Skid- more experience in the pursuit of excel- lence and to express our deep apprecia- tion to those whose support of the Col- lege has been consistent and unflagging.”
Creative Thought Matters Award. Jill Holler Durovsik ’78, founder of the Corporate Concierge commercial real- estate services firm, wanted to improve support for cancer patients and their fam- ilies. With Connie Masciale Carino ’58, chair of mental-health nursing at the University of Pennsylvania, who was starting a wellness community, Durovsik helped replicate centers nationwide to create the Cancer Support Community. She now serves on CSC’s national board and is slated to become its chair in 2014. She says she’s delighted that CSC has grown “from a fledgling organization that called the basement of a mattress store home” into “a global force of licensed mental-health professionals.”
Distinguished Achievement Award. Business major Shep Murray ’93 and brother Ian started a small necktie busi- ness in 1998; by 2012 their Vineyard Vines apparel firm was doing more than $100 million in sales and signing licens- ing agreements with the likes of Major League Baseball. With their commitment to “the good life” not just in their mer- chandise but in their employee relations and community philanthropy, the Mur- rays were profiled in Entrepreneur maga- zine’s “Hot 500” list in 2007. As Shep Murray told the Reunion crowd, “‘Every day should feel this good’ is the Vineyard Vines motto, and quite frankly that’s how I felt every day I was at Skidmore.”
Palamountain Award for Young Alumni Achievement. Jonathan Bres - toff Parker ’08, who won a Goldwater Scholarship as a chemistry and exercise-
science double major, is now a joint MD-PhD candidate at the University of Pennsylvania. He already holds a mas- ter’s in public health. On a Mitchell Scholarship to study epidemiology in Ireland, he co-wrote a textbook on the topic. He is also the co-discoverer, with Skidmore professor T.H. Reynolds, of a patent-pending anti-obesity compound. His goal is to direct a biomedical re- search lab to help develop new ways of fighting obesity and other metabolic dis- orders. The most important key to his accomplishments, he says, “has been the interdisciplinary nature of inquiry that Skidmore infused in me.”
50th-Reunion Outstanding Service Award. Joan Layng Dayton ’63, P ’90, ’93, went from president of the alumni club in Minneapolis in the mid-1970s to chair of the Skidmore Board of Trustees by 1998. Her many volunteer roles in be- tween—and up to this day—have includ- ed leadership in the past two major cam- paigns and helping to launch the Tang Museum, chairing its National Advisory committee, and endowing its director- ship. She says, “Skidmore just keeps giv- ing me more and more wonderful people to work with.”
Porter Young Alumni Service Award. Patrick McEvoy ’03, a varsity tennis star, joined the Friends of Skid- more Athletics as a brand-new grad. Still active in FOSA and the Hall of Fame, he has also been a class and national Annual Fund and Friends of the Presidents vol- unteer and an alumni board member. He told his fellow alumni at Reunion, “We’re all different. We all have different back- grounds. We’re so interdisciplinary. I love that about Skidmore.”
Outstanding Service Awards. Eliza- beth VanNess Reid ’48, known her for her outgoing warmth and friendliness, has been a reunion and fundraising vol- unteer, class president, class historian, and—as she was in her student days—
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