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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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