Community Service Leader to be Honored at May Commencement
By Jody Record, Campus Journal Editor
April 2, 2008
A New Hampshire resident will be honored for her outstanding community
service by UNH at the 138th commencement on Saturday, May 24. In addition,
commencement speaker Michael Brown, the U.S poet laureate, and the vice president
of B’nai B’rith International will receive honorary degrees during
the ceremony.
This year’s recipient of the Granite State Award is Joanne Lamprey,
president of Lamprey Brothers, a fuel company servicing the state for more
than 80 years.
Lamprey is a board member of First Tee, an organization that teaches children
values through the game of golf. She has also been instrumental in transitioning
the New Hampshire Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (NHSPCA)
from a small nonprofit operation to a mature organization by leveraging resources
critical to the organization’s ultimate success.
Additionally, Lamprey supports a wide variety of local concerns, such as providing
access to affordable health care, providing shelter for the homeless, encouraging
better citizenship among youth, finding homes for abused and neglected animals,
and advancing energy conservation, among many others.
Brown, co-founder of the youth service group City Year, will receive a Doctor
of Humane Letters. City Year enlists hundreds of young adults from all backgrounds
in a demanding year of full-time community service and leadership development.
Corps members meet critical needs in their communities, serving as teachers'
aides, running after-school programs and vacation camps, teaching violence
and AIDS prevention, rehabilitating public-housing units, and building parks
and playgrounds. From a 50-person pilot program launched in 1988, City Year
has grown to involve more than 1,000 corps members serving in 11 cities across
the United States.
Charles Simic, U.S. poet laureate and UNH professor emeritus, will receive
an honorary Doctor of Letters. As a poet, essayist, and translator, he has
published nearly 30 books of poetry, eight volumes of non-fiction prose, and
13 volumes of poetry in English translation. He has also edited or co-edited
three anthologies: “European and South American Poetry,” “Best
American Poetry of 1992,” and “New British Poetry.” To date,
38 volumes of his work have been published in other languages.
Daniel Mariaschin, UNH class of 1971 and executive vice president of B’nai
B’rith International, will receive an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters
at this year’s commencement.
B’nai B’rith is a world-wide service organization that unites
people of Jewish faith and enhances Jewish identity through strengthening family
life, the education and training of youth, broad-based services for the benefit
of senior citizens, and advocacy and action on behalf of Jews throughout the
world. Mariaschin has played an instrumental role at the European conferences
on anti-Semitism in Vienna (2003), Berlin (2004), and Cordoba, Spain (2005),
and works unceasingly with the United Nations to protect the rights of Jewish
communities.
Now is the time to suggest nominees for Granite State Awards, honorary degrees
and a commencement speaker for next year’s UNH commencement ceremony.
Go to: http://nominations.unh.edu/ and click on “Nominations for the
University of New Hampshire Commencement Ceremony Awards” to nominate
deserving individuals who should be recognized for their contributions to society.
Granite State Awards are given to New Hampshire citizens, agencies, corporations,
and foundations whose achievements and/or extraordinary service in their own
particular spheres have made significant beneficial contributions to the state.
For more information on award recipients visit http://www.unh.edu/commencement/awards.html.
For information on UNH’s 2008 commencement, go to http://www.unh.edu/commencement/
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