Durante, Folkman and Carbone to receive awards at Stevens Alumni Association dinner on October 17th

HOBOKEN, N.J. – Raymond Durante, ’50, M.S. ’57, president of Durante Associates, Inc., a leading technical consulting and business development firm, will receive the 1998 Stevens Alumni Award from the Stevens Alumni Association during its 1998 Alumni Banquet Oct. 17, beginning with an award ceremony at 7:00 p.m. in the Pierce Room of the Wesley J. Howe Center on the university’s Hoboken campus. The dinner dance will follow at 7:30 p.m in the Pierce Room located on the second floor of the Howe Center.

Durante is a leading expert in energy and nuclear technology. His 45 year career includes executive positions with the Savannah River Project and the Nuclear Submarine Program. The Bethesda, Maryland, resident is also credited for revitalizing the Stevens Washington, D.C. Alumni Club.

Judah Folkman, a professor with Harvard University’s Medical School and a leading cancer researcher, and Walter E. Carbone ’35, a retired president of Wilputte Corporation, will receive the 1998 Stevens Honor Award given for notable achievement in any field of endeavor by the Association and the university.

Folkman, the Andrus Professor of Pediatric Surgery and a professor of Cell Biology at Harvard, discovered the drugs Angiostatin and Endostatin and whose founding and pursuit of the field of angiogenesis research, has aided in the treatment of cancer, as well as non-neoplastic diseases. He is also a senior associate in Surgery and director of the Surgical Research Laboratory at Boston’s Children’s Hospital. Carbone had been active in the coal oven and chemical processing industries for 47 years. This past March, the Timonium, Maryland, resident received the 1998 Joseph Becker Award given by the Iron and Steel Society, Inc.

The award ceremony will follow a special dedication of Stevens’ newly renovated Grace E. and Kenneth W. DeBaun Auditorium at 5:00 p.m. in the Edwin A. Stevens Hall, located on Fifth Street, between Hudson and River Streets in Hoboken. Alumni supporters of the renovations will be recognized during the events and a special presentation will be made to the DeBauns for their efforts in the project. The DeBaun Auditorium marries the auditorium’s past grandeur of the Richard Upjohn original 1870 design with the cutting edge technologies of today’s multimedia performance and educational centers. The Auditorium will be a multi-functional center offering distance-learning programs, conferences, lectures, theatrical performances and other cultural events.

For more information, or to register, please call the Stevens Alumni Association at 201-216-5163.

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