Alumni gala to honor four for outstanding achievements
The annual presentation of the Stevens Honor Awards and the Stevens Alumni Award will take place during a gala dinner dance on Saturday evening, Oct. 14, in the Pierce Room on the second floor of the Wesley J. Howe Center on the campus of Stevens Institute of Technology (about one block east of 8th Street and Castle Point Terrace in Hoboken). Festivities will begin with a pre-dinner reception at 6 p.m. Dinner and dancing to the beat of a 17-piece swing band will round out the evening.
Reservations can be made for $40 per person by calling the Stevens Alumni Association office at (201) 216-5163. Please call before 5 p.m., Oct. 13, 2000.
About the honorees
Recipients of the 2000 Stevens Honor Award, given jointly by the Stevens Alumni Association and the Board of Trustees for notable achievement in any field, include: Major John A. Cherrey '88, of Dumont, N.J.; Nicholas R. Marcalus of Wyckoff, N.J.; and Lynn M. Otten. of Minneapolis, Minn.
Major Cherrey received the Silver Star - the United States' third highest military medal - in November 1999 for "courageously and repeatedly risking his life" to rescue a fellow American pilot downed inside enemy lines in Kosovo in 1998. Cherrey was invited to be present during the national State of the Union address last January, where President Bill Clinton recognized his heroism before the House Chamber and a television audience of millions.
Marcalus is president and C.E.O. of Marcal Paper Mills, Inc. He is being honored for the firm's pioneering efforts in manufacturing products from recycled paper and its development of new products from the waste stream of its paper processing. Building on his father's and grandfather's innovative use of recycled paper, Marcalus has created a model of sustainable industrial growth and an enterprise that embodies the "green company" ideal.
As a biomedical design engineer with Medtronics Inc., Otten spearheaded a five-year effort to develop the Activa Tremor Control System, a new technology to control the tremors of Parkinson's disease. The resulting product was the first FDA-approved neurostimulation device for permanent implant in the brain. The device has dramatically improved the lives of thousands stricken with Parkinson's and other movement disorders.
The 2000 Stevens Alumni Award will be given to Donald E. Daume '67, M.Eng.'68, of Teaneck, N.J. Twice president of the Stevens Alumni Association, Daume will be recognized for his outstanding loyalty and devotion to Stevens. He has served the Alumni Association in many capacities and is a former member of the Stevens Board of Trustees. Now retired, his professional career in engineering and construction has spanned air and water pollution control, power boilers, pharmaceutical systems, paper manufacturing facilities and solid waste/resource recovery at companies such as Babcock & Wilcox, General Electric, M.W. Kellogg and Scott Paper.
About Stevens Institute of Technology
Founded in 1870 and celebrating 140 Years of Innovation, Stevens Institute of Technology, The Innovation University TM , lives at the intersection of industry, academics and research. The University's students, faculty and partners leverage their collective real-world experience and culture of innovation, research and entrepreneurship to confront global challenges in engineering, science, systems and technology management.
Based in Hoboken, N.J. and with a location in Washington, D.C., Stevens offers baccalaureate, master’s, certificates and doctoral degrees in engineering, the sciences and management, in addition to baccalaureate degrees in business and liberal arts. Stevens has been recognized by both the US Department of Defense and the Department of Homeland Security as a National Center of Excellence in the areas of systems engineering and port security research. The University has a total enrollment of more than 2,200 undergraduate and 3,700 graduate students with almost 450 faculty. Stevens’ graduate programs have attracted international participation from China, India, Southeast Asia, Europe and Latin America as well as strategic partnerships with industry leaders, governments and other universities around the world. Additional information may be obtained at www.stevens.edu and www.stevens.edu/press.
