News Release
October 2003
(Bethlehem, Pennsylvania)— The Moravian College
Alumni Association will hold its Fourth Annual Alumni Association
Awards Ceremony on Friday,
October 24, 2003, on the Priscilla Payne Hurd Campus. The evening will
begin with a light dinner reception in Payne Gallery at 6:00 p.m. and
will continue with the Awards Ceremony at 7:30 p.m. in Peter Hall.
, will be honored with The Comenius
Award, Moravian’s Alumni Association's lifetime achievement award—it’s
most prestigious alumni award—given in recognition of outstanding
achievement or service in an alumna's or alumnus' field of work. Dr.
Yaphe is a distinguished research professor at the Institute for National
Strategic Studies (INSS), the National Defense University, Washington
D.C. She is a specialist in Middle Eastern political analysis, with
a focus on Iraq, Persian Gulf, Arab, Islamic and regional issues. Prior
to joining the INSS in 1995, Dr. Yaphe served with the Directorate
of Intelligence, Office of Near Eastern and South Asian Analysis at
the Central Intelligence Agency. Considered to be one of the most respected
authorities on Iraq in the U.S., Yaphe received the Intelligence Medal
of Commendation for her work on the 1990-1991 Iraq/Persian Gulf war.
will be honored with the Haupert Humanitarian
Award. The Award is given to an alumna or alumnus who has rendered
outstanding service in the cause of human welfare. Born in Czechoslovakia,
Backer came to the United States in 1944, where he eventually became
the driving force for revitalization of Hartford, Connecticut’s
blighted Southside Neighborhood. During Backer’s seventeen years
as president/executive director of the Southside Institutions Neighborhood
Alliance (SINA), that organization evolved into a highly effective
force for positive change in Hartford and became nationally recognized
as a model for community revitalization.
Carol Mooney Kemp ’80 will receive the Benigna Education Award
for her outstanding contributions to the field of education. Since
graduating from Moravian in 1980, Mooney Kemp has dedicated her life
to her career as an eighth grade English teacher at Old Turnpike Middle
School in New Jersey’s Tewksbury Township. A 1996 Hunterdon County
Honored Teacher, she has been the recipient of numerous awards for
teaching, including the 1998 and 2000 New Jersey Department of Education
Best Practice Award for innovation in Language Arts teaching. In 1986,
her eighth grade English class ranked first in the nation on the National
Language Arts Olympiad. Although multiple sclerosis has confined Carol
to a wheel chair for over a year, she continues to model her class
theme of “Be Your Own Advocate” to her students and plans
to serve as an example of positive thinking to them for many more years.
will be granted the Young Alumni Achievement
Award which is given to an alumna or alumnus who has achieved exceptional
success in his or her profession and who has graduated within the past
two to ten years. After graduation in 1996, Major became director of
operations at Villanova’s Center for Information Law and Policy,
a think tank dedicated to exploring the intersection of law and technology
and its global implications for modernizing legal systems. From 1996
to 2000, Major served as manager and faculty director of Project Bosnia,
a project established to use modern information technology to help
rebuild the rule of law and civil society in Bosnia-Herzegovina. She
also helped promote the Global Democracy Project, which extended the
use of technology to help rebuild a system of law in nations such as
Russia and Croatia. She is currently Assistant Dean for Academic Computing
at Villanova.
will receive the Emerging Leader
Award which is presented to an alumnus or alumna who graduated within
the last 10 years, for his or her dedicated service and leadership
to Moravian College. A 1993 graduate in International Management, Trent
studied abroad in Toulon, France during her junior year of college.
From 1999 to 2001, she chaired the Young Alumni Board’s Career
Development Committee, where she used her outstanding organizational
skills to help develop mock interviews for juniors and seniors and
to organize career panels. A member of the Alumni Career Advising Program,
Trent has participated in the student-alumni career networking reception
and as a career panelist. Since receiving her MBA from Lehigh University,
Trent has been director of sales of ACBS Group, Inc., where she has
already received their distinguished SME Award for recruitment, training,
and management of the ACBS sales force.
In acknowledgement of his outstanding dedication
to Moravian College, the Alumni Association will recognize with the distinction
of honorary alumnus. Since his daughter, Joan ’86 and son, Jeffrey ’90
began attending Moravian College, Reinhard has been one of Moravian
College’s most enthusiastic and effective ambassadors and supporters.
As a longstanding member of the Board of Trustees, as a proud parent
of college graduates, and as an avid promoter of our athletic programs,
Reinhard had made a profound and lasting difference in the life of
our institution and its students. As a College trustee for more than
seven years, he has provided strong direction to Moravian from the
boardroom. Honored as the 2003 Gillespie Award recipient for his unwavering
support of Hound athletics, Reinhard has been a true and loyal fan,
faithfully attending at-home and away events in virtually every sport.
He has hosted many receptions for current and prospective student-athletes.
At the same time, his financial leadership has greatly enhanced Moravian’s
athletic programs, helping to initiate our men’s lacrosse program,
to establish athletic internship positions, and to provide leadership
in the athletic campaign. Through his newspaper, cable television,
and internet companies, Reinhard has generously offered invaluable
public relations support to the College.
In acknowledgement of his outstanding dedication
to Moravian College, the Alumni Association will recognize with the distinction
of honorary alumnus. After spending twenty-five years as a mining engineer,
Lanning began his second career at Moravian College in 1967. With a
B.S. in Engineering from Lafayette, and an M.S and M.B.A. in Economics
from Lehigh University, Mayo used his varied background to help support
the Economics and Business Department and Moravian’s expanding
Division of Graduate and Continuing Studies program. After retiring
from full time teaching in 1981, Lanning spent the next eighteen years
counseling DCS students on a part-time basis. In 1998, his work with
Moravian took yet another turn when he began to volunteer as a tutor
and counselor with DCS students. In 2002, the Accounting Club recognized
Mayo with its Pinnacle Award for his contribution to the College and
the accounting profession.
For more information, visit http://www.moravian.edu/alumni/awards.htm
