ALUMNI also chaired the mid-Mis- than 130 members. Palm- HAA Awards souri subcommittee of the er is also co-chair of the EstablisheD in 1990, the Harvard Alum- St. Louis Harvard Club’s Chicago area schools and ni Association (HAA) Awards recognize schools committee since scholarships committee. outstanding service to the University. This 2006. E. Douglas Richards year’s awards are scheduled to be presented Vivian Lee ’81, of Los ’80, of Lexington, Ken- on September 18 during the HAA board of Altos, California, served tucky, was both inter- directors’ fall meeting. as chair of the New York Vivian Lee Randall A. viewer for and chair of Robert R. Bowie Jr. ’73 City schools and scholar- Mackey the local Harvard club’s of Monkton, Maryland, has ships committee from 1989 to 2000, and as schools dedicated countless hours co-president of the Harvard Club of Silicon and scholarships com- to Harvard across nearly Valley from 2008 to 2009. mittee for many years, four decades, starting with Randall A. Mackey, M.B.A. ’70, of Salt and oversaw an expand- his work as an alumni inter- Lake City, is a former president of the Har- ing pool of applicants from viewer for his local Harvard vard Alumni Association of Utah, and has the region. club. A former HAA presi- Robert R. been a director there since 1987. Since 1995, Betsy K. Wanger ’85, of dent, Bowie has also led the Bowie Jr. he has served as chair of the Washington, D.C., has in- E. Douglas national schools and scholarships commit- Utah schools and scholar- terviewed candidates in Richards tee, and co-founded the HAA’s Early Col- ship committee. Washington, D.C., since lege Awareness program for Julie Gage Palmer ’84, of the late 1980s, served as middle-school students. In Deerfield, Illinois, has been area co-chair for the local 2009, he received the Hiram an alumni interviewer since club’s schools and schol- S. Hunn Memorial Schools 1985. In 2006 she joined the arships committee, and and Scholarships Award Harvard Club of Chicago’s Julie Gage coordinates the Harvard for his more than 30 years board of directors, where Palmer Prize Book awards for high of service as an interviewer. she coordinates a program that pairs alumni schools in the greater D.C. Betsy K. Marilyn J. Holifield, J.D. Marilyn J. with local schools that now include more area. Wanger ’72, of Miami, helped initi- Holifield THE ROBERT C. COBB, SR. MEMORIAL LECTURE Sponsored by the Harvard Institute for Learning in Retirement Erik Brynjolfsson & Andrew McAfee Co-founders of MIT’s Initiative on the Digital Economy The Second Machine Age How exponential progress with all things digital is changing our economies and societies 4 pm, Wednesday, October 1, 2014 Sanders Theatre, Memorial Hall, 1785 Cambridge Street, Cambridge Free and open to the public. Tickets available at the Harvard Box Office. 70 September - October 2014 Reprinted from Harvard Magazine. For more information, contact Harvard Magazine, Inc. at 617-495-5746 ALUMNI ate the Global Month of Service program as HAA Global Series alumni roles, such as assistant to then president a leader of the HAA’s Public Service Task event in Toronto. Derek Bok for health affairs, and assistant Force, and is also a former HAA elected di- Winifred White Neis- to the Committee on Natural and Applied rector and secretary and member-at-large of ser ’74, of Los Angeles, was Sciences of the Board of Overseers. When the executive committee. At Harvard Law a Harvard Overseer from she retired in 2005, Shore was dean for facul- School, she has helped with class fundrais- 1994 to 2000 and currently ty affairs at Harvard Medical School (HMS) ing and was an honorary committee member serves on the HAA’s Com- and deputy director of the HMS Center in for the 2013 event “Celebration 60, Women Winifred mittee to Nominate Over- Excellence in Women’s Health. She is now a Transforming Our Communities and the White seers and Elected Directors. senior consultant to the Office for Academic World.” Holifield is currently a board mem- Neisser Long active in Radcliffe af- and Clinical Affairs. She and her husband, ber of the Harvard Club of Miami. fairs, she was on the ad hoc committee for Bullard professor of psychiatry emeritus William R. Horton Jr. the founding of the Radcliffe Institute and Miles Shore ’50, M.D. ’54, initiated the HMS ’77, of Oakville, Ontario, is on its tenth anniversary regional commit- 50th Anniversary Fellowship Program for a long-time alumni inter- tee. A former HAA elected director and vice Scholars in Medicine in 1995, renamed for viewer and is a former chair president of the Harvard-Radcliffe Club the couple in 2004. of the Harvard schools and of Southern California, where she helped Maria A. Skirnick, J.D. scholarships committee in lead the schools and scholarship commit- ’69, of Plandome, New York, Alberta. In addition, Hor- tee, Neisser has also served on her class re- is on the Dean’s Advisory William R. ton was a founding ex- union-planning committee Committee at Harvard Law Horton Jr. ecutive board member of and has interviewed candi- School (HLS) and has been the Harvard Club of Edmonton, and has dates for admission to the active with the Harvard Law been a vice president of the Harvard Busi- College. School Association. She was ness School Club of Calgary and president Eleanor Gossard Shore the sponsorship chair of the Maria A. of the Harvard Club of Toronto. A former ’51, M.D. ’55, M.P.H. ’70, of HLS Public Interest Law Skirnick HAA regional director for Canada, he has Needham, Massachusetts, Celebration and has estab- recently reinvigorated the orientation pro- began her University career Eleanor lished the Skirnick Fellowship for Public gram for new board members. Horton has as a primary-care physician Gossard Interest Law. At the HAA, she has been an Shore twice chaired the annual Alumni Leader- in the health-services de- executive committee treasurer and regional ship Conference and, in 2007, he led the partment in 1961, then held administrative director, has led both the Alumni Leader- ship Conference and the clubs committee, and recently helped rewrite the HAA con- stitution. A former president of the Harvard Aloian Award Winners Club of Long Island and a director of the Harvard Club of Chicago, she is currently Seniors Rob Gunzenhauser ’15, of Adams House, and Mathilde Montpetit ’15, of on the Committee to Nominate Overseers Winthrop House, received the Harvard Alumni Association’s (HAA) annual David ’49 and Elected Directors and the Committee and Mimi Aloian Memorial Scholarships at the fall meeting of the HAA’s board of di- on University Resources. rectors. The awards, named for the master and co-master of Quincy House in the 1980s (David Aloian was also HAA executive direc- tor), recognize exemplary leadership in enhancing quality of life in the Houses. Rob Gunzenhauser, of Palos Verdes Estates, California, is co-chair of the Adams House Com- mittee. He spearheaded the renovation of the House’s cardio and weight rooms, working with fellow students and House administrators to com- plete the project, and organized an inter-House August event, College-wide Field Day. Mathilde Montpetit, of Boston, co-chairs the Winthrop House Committee and organized the Lion Buddies program (Winthrop’s shield boasts a lion rampant), which connects incoming freshmen to upperclassmen in the House. In addition, Mont- petit coordinated a Housing Day Stein Club with a live band, which drew an unusually large crowd of almost 300 students, Mathilde Montpetit across all class years. and Rob Gunzenhauser Photograph by Kris Snibbe/Harvard Public Affairs and Communications HarvarD Magazine 71 Reprinted from Harvard Magazine. For more information, contact Harvard Magazine, Inc. at 617-495-5746.