Nov. 9, 2005

VCU to honor 2005 Alumni Stars

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By Tom Gresham

Virginia Commonwealth University will honor 14 of its most accomplished alumni during the Founders Day Alumni Stars awards dinner at the Science Museum of Virginia on Friday.

The event will begin with a cocktail reception at 6 p.m. at the Science Museum. A seated dinner, which will include awards presentations and speeches by the honorees, will follow at 7 p.m.

The Alumni Stars program rewards VCU alumni who have enjoyed notable professional success or who have made significant humanitarian, university or community service contributions. Award winners were selected from each of the 14 schools at VCU. They will receive glass awards designed and crafted by Kent Ipsen, a retired professor from the VCU School of the Arts.

 The 2005 Alumni Stars include:

  • Ira C. Colby, Ph.D., (Houston, Texas) dean of the School of Social Work at the University of Houston
     
  • Bradford A. Crosby, (Richmond) technical supervisor with Infineon Technologies and president of the VCU School of Engineering Alumni Division
     
  • Nancy C. Everett, (Richmond) chief investment officer of General Motors Corp.
     
  • Judith W. Godwin, (New York) Abstract Expressionist painter
     
  • Stephanie Holt, (Richmond) account manager with Xerox Corporation and president of the School of Education Alumni Division
     
  • Colleen K. Jackson-Cook, Ph.D., (Powhatan) director of the Cytogenetics Diagnostic Laboratory, professor of Pathology
     
  • Judge Anita M. Josey-Herring, (Washington, D.C.) Superior Court Judge
     
  • Hugh D. Keogh, (Midlothian) president of the Virginia Chamber of Commerce and former president of the VCU Alumni Association
     
  • Thomas M. Krummel, M.D., (Los Altos Hills, Calif.) chair of the Department of Surgery at Stanford University and surgeon-in-chief at the Lucille Salter Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford
     
  • Margaret Gallagher Lewis, (Midlothian) president of HCA, Central Atlantic Division
     
  • Bruce D. McWhinney, Pharm.D., (Dublin, Ohio) president of Allied Pharmacy Service, Inc.
     
  • Rebecca T. Perdue, (Richmond) group manager for the Virginia Division of Consolidated Laboratories and former president of the MCV Alumni Association of VCU
     
  • Leah T. Robinson, (Virginia Beach) retired psychologist
     
  • Roger E. Wood, D.D.S., (Midlothian) president and practitioner at Wood, Dunlevy and Lombardozzi dental practice