Alumni Group Creates New Award
The University of Pittsburgh at Bradford has created a new award to recognize alumni for outstanding professional achievement and/or exemplary service to the community.
Nominations are currently being accepted for the first Pitt-Bradford Alumni Association Alumni Award of Distinction.
“This new award is a way for us to honor our alumni who are doing great things outside of their service to the university,” said Lindsay Hilton Retchless ’98, director of alumni relations. “There are so many deserving candidates who have made significant advancements in their careers and contributed their time and talents to their communities.”
The award will be presented during commencement exercises next April by Dr. Livingston Alexander, university president, and Stacey Sorokes Wallace ’00, who will become president of the PBAA in October.
“The fact that we will present this award during commencement is very important,” said Tim Fannin ’78, current president of the PBAA. “To our current graduates, it will highlight the achievements of their predecessors.”
The award is open to anyone who attended Pitt-Bradford, including those who went onto graduate from other institutions.
Candidates will be evaluated based on their outstanding level of professional achievement and their service to the community. Nominations will be reviewed by the awards committee of the alumni association’s board of directors, which will make its recommendations to the alumni board and its executive committee.
Nomination forms are available on Pitt-Bradford’s Web site at www.upb.pitt.edu/alumni or from Retchless at lhr2@pitt.edu or 814-362-5273.
The idea for creating the award came in 2006, when the alumni association discussed the possibility of establishing the award to honor distinguished graduates.
This isn’t the first award that the PBAA presents to a graduate. For the past several years, the alumni association has annually presented the Distinguished Volunteer Award to an alumnus or alumna who has enriched the university and the alumni association through volunteer efforts.
Nominations are currently being accepted for the first Pitt-Bradford Alumni Association Alumni Award of Distinction.
“This new award is a way for us to honor our alumni who are doing great things outside of their service to the university,” said Lindsay Hilton Retchless ’98, director of alumni relations. “There are so many deserving candidates who have made significant advancements in their careers and contributed their time and talents to their communities.”
The award will be presented during commencement exercises next April by Dr. Livingston Alexander, university president, and Stacey Sorokes Wallace ’00, who will become president of the PBAA in October.
“The fact that we will present this award during commencement is very important,” said Tim Fannin ’78, current president of the PBAA. “To our current graduates, it will highlight the achievements of their predecessors.”
The award is open to anyone who attended Pitt-Bradford, including those who went onto graduate from other institutions.
Candidates will be evaluated based on their outstanding level of professional achievement and their service to the community. Nominations will be reviewed by the awards committee of the alumni association’s board of directors, which will make its recommendations to the alumni board and its executive committee.
Nomination forms are available on Pitt-Bradford’s Web site at www.upb.pitt.edu/alumni or from Retchless at lhr2@pitt.edu or 814-362-5273.
The idea for creating the award came in 2006, when the alumni association discussed the possibility of establishing the award to honor distinguished graduates.
This isn’t the first award that the PBAA presents to a graduate. For the past several years, the alumni association has annually presented the Distinguished Volunteer Award to an alumnus or alumna who has enriched the university and the alumni association through volunteer efforts.
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