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Alumni Association Award Recipients for 1997

I am pleased to announce the recipients of the 1997 Alumni Association
Awards for Excellence. John Orcutt, Ph.D. '76, one of the world's
leading marine seismologists, has been selected to receive the
Outstanding Alumnus Award. Professor Orcutt is Director of the Scripps
branch of the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, one of the
largest and most successful research divisions within SIO. His national
and international reputation has been recognized by his receipt of the
prestigious Ewing Medal of the American Geophysical Union and the U.S.
Navy and the Secretary of the Navy/Chief of Naval Operations "Chair in
Oceanography," which honors distinguished academic ocean science, past
and present research contributions, and national leadership among his
peers.

David Brin, '81 will be presented the Professional Achievement Award.
Brin received his doctorate in space physics from UCSD and has gone on
to become an enormously successful writer of science fiction. He is the
author of ten novels as well as the short-story collections The River of
Time and Otherness. He has won numerous science fiction writing awards,
among them the Hugo, Nebula and LOCUS. Brin has been a NASA consultant
and a physics professor. One of his novels is currently being made into
a movie by Warner Brothers starring Kevin Costner.

David Miller, Professor of AMES, will be honored for Distinguished
Teaching. Highly recommended by his peers for teaching excellence,
Professor Miller has had a successful career of inspiring many
undergraduate engineers, as reflected in his outstanding CAPE reviews.
As department chair he developed a teaching review system within the
department which has enhanced the instruction of thousands of
engineering students.

Lenny Goins '73, will receive the Distinguished Service to the
University Award for his exemplary contributions as a dedicated alumnus,
giving generously of his time, energy and resources on behalf of the
University, the Alumni Association and UCSD students. His skillful and
dedicated fund raising efforts for the Black Alumni Scholarship
Committee have raised over $270,000 for scholarships in addition to two
scholarship endowments. He has also served as a member of the Board of
Directors of the Alumni Association and is currently a trustee of the UC
San Diego Foundation.

Kwan So, president of EVG Enterprises Inc. of La Jolla, will be given
the distinction of Honorary Alumnus for the service he has rendered to
the university as a trustee with the UC San Diego Foundation. He has
served on the Foundation's Development and Scholarship Selection
Committees and is a member of the IR/PS Dean's Roundtable. A native of
Hong Kong, he is a dedicated conduit in building academic partnerships
between his vast Eastern network and UCSD. In 1991, he and his wife
established the Ho Miulam Fellowship at IR/PS.

The recipients will be honored on Saturday, June 14 at the Awards for
Excellence Gala to be held in the Price Center Pavilion. We welcome
participation by all faculty, staff and students. Please call the
Alumni Relations office at 534-3900 for your invitation.

Bernie Farrow Executive Director