Lucia R. Briggs Distinguished Achievement Award
George B. Walter '36 Service to Society Award
Gertrude Breithaupt Jupp M-D'18 Outstanding Service to Lawrence Award
The Marshall B. Hulbert '26 Young Alumni Service Award
Presidential Award
David Mulford '59
The Lucia R. Briggs Distinguished Achievement Award
David Mulford was appointed ambassador to India in 2004 by President George W. Bush and served until February of this year. His previous public service includes an appointment as undersecretary and assistant secretary of the U.S. treasury for international affairs, serving as the senior international economic policy official at the department of the treasury. Mulford received an honorary Doctorate of Laws degree in 1984 from Lawrence and in 2000 was inducted into the college’s athletic Hall of Fame. He has been recognized with the Legion d’Honneur from the President of France (1990), the Alexander Hamilton Award, the highest award bestowed by the Secretary of the Treasury for extraordinary service (1992), the Order of May for Merit from the President of Argentina (1993), and the Officer’s Cross of the Medal of Merit from the President of Poland (1995).
Michael Lepawsky '59
The Lucia R. Briggs Distinguished Achievement Award
Michael Lepawsky is the former medical director of the hyperbaric unit at Vancouver General Hospital in British Columbia. While at Vancouver General Hospital, he helped develop a state-of-the-art hyperbaric chamber for patients needing hyperbaric oxygen therapy, setting the benchmark for hyperbaric medicine in North America. For more than 30 years, Lepawsky worked with the diving community to improve safety, creating a guide that established standards and protocols for those training for underwater diving. His efforts were recognized in 2004 with the Third Ocean Pioneer Award from the Underwater Council of British Columbia. A respected scholar, he has published more than 150 articles in publications ranging from Diver magazine to the American Journal of Surgery.
Robert Mac West '63
The Lucia R. Briggs Distinguished Achievement Award
Mac West is the founder and president of Informal Learning Experiences, Inc. The Washington, D.C.-based company, started in 1992, promotes science learning throughtraveling exhibitions. It also offers consulting services to organizations and agencies involved in informal and recreational learning, ranging from the National Geographic Society and the Gettysburg National Battlefield Museum Foundation to the National Institutes of Health and the U.S. Department of Energy. West also has spent more than three decades working for and consulting with museums around the country. He is the former director of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh and the Cranbrook Institute of Science in Bloomfield Hills, Mich., and served as curator of geology at the Milwaukee Public Museum. During his career, he has written widely on paleontology museum science and has taught at the University of Pittsburgh, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and Adelphi University.
Elizabeth Cole '63
The George B. Walter ’36 Service to Society Award
Elizabeth Cole has enjoyed a near 40-year career as a professional actor. Using the stage name Megan Cole, she has performed everything from classical roles in repertory theatre to guest appearances on numerous television series. A hallmark of her career has been her passion for using her talents and training as an actor to give back to her audiences. One of her most noteworthy roles came as the lead character in the first production of the Pulitzer-prize winning play “Wit” in Southern California, for which she earned a Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award. The role inspired her to develop a course for medical students called The Craft of Empathy, which she has taught for nearly 10 years at the University of Texas-Houston. She also has taken the course on the road, giving presentations on the personal aspects of cancer care to medical and health professionals at conferences and conventions around the country.
Bonnie Laird '64
The Gertrude B. Jupp M-D’18 Outstanding Service Award
Bonnie Laird has advanced the college through a number of leadership roles on the LUAA Board of Directors. She has served on the LUAA Executive Committee, as chair of the Communications Committee, as the first chair of the More Light! Capital Campaign Liaison Group and as co-chair of More Light! Alumni Advisory Committees. She also has served as a leader of the Class of 1964’s 40th Reunion Gift Committee and as a member of the Steering Committee for her 45th reunion in 2009. For the past nine years, she has stayed connected with her classmates as class agent.
Susan Voss Pappas '69
The Gertrude B. Jupp M-D '18 Outstanding Service Award
Susan Voss Pappas has spend the past 20 years serving as class secretary. She also served four years (2002-05) on the LUAA Board of Directors, serving on the Executive Committee and as chasir of the Student Relations Committee. In that role, Pappas led efforts to foster increased diversity at Lawrence and introduce new ways to facilitate meaningful interactions between students and alumni. She has served as a member of the Cluster Reunion Steering Committees, the 25th Reunion Steering Committee and this year's 40th Reunion Steering Committee chair. She is the third member of her family to receive the Jupp award, joining her mother, Clarmarie White Voss M-D '35, and her sister, Jane Voss Holroyd '61, who received the award in 1982 and 2001, respectively.
Kathleen Callaghan '99
The Marshall B. Hulbert '26 Young Alumni Service Award
Kathleen Callaghan was elected class agent during her senior year, a role she has willingly filled ever since. Following
graduation she spent nine years as a member of the Viking Gift Committee and also served five years on the Lawrence University Alumni Association Board of Directors, working with the Development and Program Committees. As a regional event coordinator, she has helped organize the annual Madison-area student send-off picnic each fall. She served on the steering committee for her 5th and 10th year class reunions.
J. Gilbert Swift III '59
The Presidential Award
Gil Swift served as Lawrence University’s director of alumni relations from 1974 through 1995. During that time Gil
revolutionized the Lawrence alumni relations program, creating the first June Reunion Weekends, establishing regional alumni programs, re-energizing the Lawrence University Alumni Association’s Board of Directors, and launching the Senior Class program — initiatives that continue to flourish today. In the process, countless Lawrentians and Downerites came to know Gil as both a natural leader and a friend. On the occasion of his 50th Reunion, Lawrence recognized Gil’s service to alumni and his alma mater with a special presidential award.
