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FREE AGENT: Marcellus Wiley '97, Columbia's only player currently
in the National Football League, cashed in big when he became a
free agent at the end of the 2000 season. Wiley, who had played
three seasons with the Buffalo Bills, became the second highest-paid
defensive lineman in the NFL when he signed with the San Diego Chargers
for a reported $40 million over six years.
Wiley,
who led the Bills with 10 1/2 quarterback sacks last season despite
a slow start due to offseason surgery for a bulging disc, was the
subject of a feature article in the March 19 issue of Sports
Illustrated. Commenting on his good fortune in the free agent
market, Wiley is quoted as saying, "That's just incredible.
Just to be in the NFL is enough, but that kind of cheese is for
the poster boys. I mean, damn - me? Wow!"
SUPER MARIO: Congratulations to CCT class correspondent Mario
Palmieri '50, who was slated to receive the President's Cup
for outstanding service to his class at the annual luncheon of the
Columbia College Alumni Association on May 4 at the Columbia Club.
FEDS: Bob Berne '60, Stuart Kricun '78 and Charles
O'Byrne '81 are among the recipients of this year's Alumni Federation
medals for exemplary service to the University. They will be honored
at a luncheon in Low Library Rotunda following Commencement. Congratulations
to all.
AWARDED: Ammee R. Manges '90, a graduate student in epidemiology
at the University of California-Berkeley, has been awarded a Woodrow
Wilson Dissertation Grant in Women's Health for 2001. Manges, who
in 1999 received a Vice Chancellor's Research Award from Berkeley
and a Public Health Research Fund Award, is completing a dissertation
on the sexual transmission of uropathogenic strains of escherichia
coli and the risk of recurrent urinary tract infections in women.
The grants, awarded by the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation,
support research on issues related to women's and children's health
and their implications for public policy.
CHRISTENED: At a ribbon-cutting ceremony at Columbia's nearly completed
new boathouse at Baker Field on March 24, two shells were dedicated
to former rower and longtime Columbia crew supporter Reginald
H. "Reggie" Thayer, Jr. '47 and longtime men's heavyweight
crew coach Scott McKee. The ceremony, which preceded the
annual crew banquet, marked another milestone in the $6 million
refurbishment of Columbia's rowing facility, located at Baker Field.
HONORED: Arthur C. Helton '71, senior fellow at the Council
on Foreign Relations, was presented with the 2001 Immigration and
Refugee Policy Award by the Center for Migration Studies on Thursday,
April 5, in Washington, D.C. Helton, who has written extensively
on refugee law and policy, is director of Peace and Conflict Studies
at the CFR and the author of more than 80 articles and scholarly
publications, including Forced Displacement and Human Security
in the Former Soviet Union: Law and Policy (2000), which he
co-wrote with Natalia Voronina. Helton, who founded then directed
the Forced Migration Projects at the Open Society Institute in New
York from 1994-99, was recognized by the CMS, a New York-based educational,
not-for-profit institute, for his many years of dedication and significant
achievements in the field of refugees and migration. Helton received
his award at the CMS's 24th Annual National Legal Conference on
Immigration and Refugee Policy, where he delivered the keynote address.
Helton is currently at work on a book about U.S. and international
responses to refugee emergencies since the end of the Cold War.
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