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Dr. Hugh 'Chip' McAllister Jr., a former Lumberton resident, recently donated $8 million in artwork and $2 million to the Ackland Museum and School of Medicine at the University of North Carolina. This piece is at the entrance of UNC Hospital.

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CHAPEL HILL A 1957 graduate of Lumberton High School, Dr. Hugh Chip McAllister Jr., recently donated $10 million in artwork and money to the University of North Carolina. The donation benefits the Ackland Art Museum and the McAllister Heart Institute at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine.

The gift, which was announced on April 12, includes a bronze sculpture that now welcomes motorists at UNC Hospitals driveway.

Im told, McAllister said, with abstract art you never know the larger figure is the father, and the smaller is the child. Information is being passed from one to the other.

McAllister donated the sculpture, Next Generations II by Allan Houser, in honor of his father, Hugh McAllister Sr., who received a medical degree from UNC in 1935, and practiced obstetrics and gynecology in Lumberton. The two are the only father and son to serve as presidents of the UNC Medical Alumni Association and to receive the School of Medicines Distinguished Medical Alumni Award.

Dick Taylor, a graduate of UNC and member of the UNC Board of Governors, knew McAllister Sr.

His father was a gynecologist here for many years, said Taylor, who owns Taylor Insurance Agency. He was a very outstanding and prominent physician. I think I met his son once. His generosity is to be applauded.

The portion benefiting the Ackland Art Museum artwork valued at $5.5 million is the largest gift of art in the museums history. It includes works by 19th century painters Albert Bierstadt and Thomas Moran; examples by members of the Taos School, such as Oscar Berninghaus, E L. Blumenschein and Joseph Sharp; and contemporary sculpture by Willem de Kooning, Allan Houser, Jesus Moroles and Reuben Nakian. Several examples of American Indian pottery and textiles are also included.

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Pittsburg State University bestowed its prestigious Meritorious Achievement Award on three distinguished alumni Friday afternoon. This year's recipients are John C. Dormois, a retired cardiologist from Durham, N.C.; Barron H. Harvey, dean of the Howard University School of Business in Washington, D.C., and Glenna J. Wallace, chief of the Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma and a retired English teacher and administrator at Crowder College.

The PSU Alumni Association established the award in 1958 as the highest award given to alumni for career achievement, said Johnna Schremmer, director of alumni and constituent relations. Alumni are nominated, and a committee chooses the finalists.

The recipients spent the day touring campus and visiting with students and teachers. In the afternoon they held an open panel session in the Wilkinson Alumni Center and shared their life and career stories.

Toward the end of the discussion, moderator Chris Kelly, associate vice president of university marketing and assessment, asked the recipients about their impressions of the university upon returning after so many years. Wallace said she was impressed with the facilities and the scope of growth PSU has undergone.

I cant give enough accolades to the presidents and to the deans, Wallace said. When you come back and see the changes theyre always in a positive direction.

Harvey agreed.

This institution has continued to move forward, and thats a tribute to the leadership of the university, he said.

Dormois, who is studying to teach doctors how to be more spiritual in their dealings with patients and their families, said he is impressed with the type of technology-savvy graduates PSU is producing.

You hear over and over in reports that there are not enough people that can use these new machine, Dormois said. What I see here is a university that is creating a product that is definitely needed in our country.

After the panel, the recipients were officially presented with the awards at a ceremony and reception afterward.

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Carleton seniors, you are making mistakes.

During the past few years, it has been a great joy of mine to work with a number of students from Carleton and a few other elite colleges. Like many alumni, I have been emailed and approached by Carleton students looking for career and/or grad school advice. The Engagement Wanted emails sent out by the Career Center allow student advice seekers to contact alumni even more efficiently. I, like so many others, am always more than happy to offer any assistance that could be useful. It breaks my heart to say it, but dear fellow Carls, I see some of the same mistakes made over and over again. I see them from Carleton students and from students at other wonderful colleges and universities. I made many of them myself. Now, I am just one person with one opinion, but I ask you to consider my advice. Along with the rest of the alumni, I only want you find the greatest success and happiness.

1. Do not put anything from high school on your resume.

Take absolutely everything from high school off your resume unless it translated to an important scholarship in college, for example, a National Merit Scholarship. I cant tell you the number of resumes Ive seen resumes that have SAT and ACT scores on them, parts people had in high school plays, etc. Those things are unprofessional.

2. If there is a discrepancy between your education / experience and what you want to do with your life, you need to address it.

If you are a chemistry major and you want to go into fashion merchandising great, good for you. But you need to explain, and figure out for yourself, what work experience you are going to get (or have already gotten) and/or what additional classes you are going to take (or have already taken) to make up for your lack of a degree in fashion merchandising. It will be to your advantage to explain all these things to possible employers and people you are asking for advice.

3. If you ask someone for job advice, you need to return his or her emails or calls in under 24 hours.

I once had a good friend who had to staff a wonderful entry-level position at the well-regarded institution where she works. I knew two young people who would be qualified. One was a young woman who was a senior at Carleton, the other was a young man who was a student at the (much easier to get into) local public city university. The woman from Carleton took twelve days to get back to me, while the young man from the local city university consistently responded to my emails within two hours. It was an easy decision to pass his resume along instead of her resume. Yes, I love the arb, Schiller, and Sayles too but nostalgia only goes so far. The young man got the job and is now enjoying a wonderful opportunity at a famous company and making good money. Even if you are not interested in what an alum has to tell you, you need to take five minutes to email, Thank you for thinking of me, but I have decided to pursue other avenues at this time. Its awkward, but its better not to burn bridges.

4. Do not act like you want a job so that you can goof off or find yourself before starting your real career.

If you are an employer, would you rather hire somebody who says, I want to give trail tours in a national park for a year before applying to medical school or somebody who says, I want to give trail tours in a national park because I have always been interested in working with people, science, and nature. It would be a no-brainer. Which one of those applicants sounds like he or she would take the job more seriously? Banish the term gap year from any conversation with a possible future employer. Youre not being dishonest. Employers understand that first jobs out of college are often only kept for a year or two. They know that young people go back to school. You are better off if you just act like you want the job because it sounds like a good job, not because you want a yearlong pit stop before you get back to what you really wanted to do all along.

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By M. English Journal Register News Service

Like many proud mothers, Maria Picasso Y Lopez saw her sons potential early on.

As the artist later mused, When I was a child, my mother said to me, If you become a soldier, youll be a general. If you become a monk, youll end up as the pope. Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.

Theres not a general, a pope or a Picasso among the trio of area natives about to be inducted into Central Montco Technical High Schools Distinguished Alumni Association. But all three have achieved above-average success in their fields and as the DAAs founding mission requires provide positive role models for subsequent classes at the Plymouth Meeting-based school.

Central Montcos ninth annual Distinguished Alumni Dinner and Presentation is scheduled for April 26 at 6:30 p.m., and 2012s event will honor Daniel Dietrich, Class of 1997, culinary arts; Dennis McCarraher, Class of 1970, collision repair; and Jaclyn Wait, Class of 1998, allied health.

The new inductees will join the roughly three dozen alums from the Colonial, Norristown and Upper Merion Area school districts recognized since the DAA was established in 2004.

Dietrich studied culinary arts under former Montgomery County Technical high School teachers Alan Nesensohn and Seth Schram. Following graduation, he continued his education at the prestigious Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, N.Y., and Philadelphias Temple University. The 2012 honoree has worked as a line cook, rounds person, sous chef and chef-manager and is now a culinary arts instructor at Chester County Technical College High School in West Grove.

According to his colleagues there, Dietrich has created and implemented all of the systems that have made his culinary arts program a success.

This includes curriculum writing, volunteering for community events, researching and interviewing prospective restaurants for co-op opportunities, advisory committee recruitment and even checking on students who are employed in the field, according to colleagues.

Schram remembers Dietrich as an outstanding student.

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Killeen ISD honors distinguished alumni Posted On: Saturday, Mar. 31 2012 10:18 PM By Todd Martin Special to the Daily Herald

Killeen Independent School District honored some of its high achievers from the past and thanked top donors to its Education Foundation during a reception Thursday.

The Killeen ISD Education Foundation's Alumni Association added six district graduates to its growing list of distinguished alumni in a ceremony at the Harker Heights Activities Center.

The honorees are vascular surgeon Todd Bohannon, district attorney Henry Garza, celebrity stylist Ted Gibson, Travis County Sheriff Greg Hamilton, college basketball coach Jason Hooten and health care regulatory expert Lisa Buckley Robin.

All six thanked family members and highlighted the influence of their teachers for propelling them on a path of success.

Bohannon, a 1986 Ellison High School graduate is a vascular surgeon at Scott & White Hospital in Temple. He was part of the agriculture and FFA programs in Killeen ISD before going to Texas A&M University and medical school and residency.

Garza is a 1974 Killeen High School graduate. He noted history teacher J.D. Lawler and band director David Pennington among his educational influences. He is serving his third term as Bell County district attorney.

"I'm so grateful for my teachers, leaders who opened pathways of encouragement," Garza said. "They instilled in me a belief and encouragement to do anything and be anything I wanted to be."

Gibson graduated from Ellison High School in 1985. He is a celebrity hair stylist with salons in New York and Florida. He has worked with Anne Hathaway, Angelina Jolie, Ashley Greene and many other celebrities.

Upon accepting the alumni award, he quipped that he was more nervous than when he appeared on Oprah. "I am truly humbled," said Gibson. "I tell people from all over the world I am from Killeen."

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Ed Coburn, director of the health media group at Harvard Med School, helped Tecco expand the program from its San Francisco base to Boston. Already signed on to mentor are local entrepreneurs like Jason Jacobs of RunKeeper, Ben Rubin of Zeo, Erika Pabo of Harvard Med School, Sonny Vu of Misfit Wearables, and Jacob Sattelmair of WellFrame. Former MIT Media Lab director Frank Moss, a co-founder of Infinity Pharmaceuticals, has been a mentor for the San Francisco program and will participate in Boston as well.

Tecco says the program's goal is to bring "radical innovation" to healthcare. The Harvard Med School relationship and the Longwood location of the program will give entrepreneurs who participate an opportunity to test their prototypes in partnership with experienced docs and other medical professionals, she says.

Tecco says that Rock Health was the first incubator program exclusively targeting health startups (there are now others, like Blueprint Health and Healthbox.) She launched it after getting her MBA from Harvard Business School, and spending a summer assessing and organizing health-related apps for Apple's iTunes Store. The program is underwritten by sponsors that include Genentech, Nike, and the Mayo Clinic. Among Rock Health's San Francisco alumni are Chronology, a social network for people with Crohn's disease and colitis, and Cellscope, which builds attachments for smartphones that enable medical diagnoses to be done at home or in village clinics. Interestingly, a Cambridge startup called Ginger.io acquired Pipette, a Rock Health alum that uses mobile phones to monitor patients' conditions, earlier in March.

Application info for the Boston program is here.

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When a car struck and injured two former El Camino Junior High students last week, the schools staff decided to support their alumni and their families through an impromptu tri-tip barbecue fundraiser.

Organizers were pleasantly surprised to learn this week that 1,130 tickets had been sold at $7 a piece for Thursdays event way more than the 300 they expected.

All donations will go toward the recovery of Vicente Ortiz, 14, and Noelia Lopez-Ortiz, 17, both students at Pioneer Valley High School.

They were struck by a vehicle while walking March 19 near Donovan Road and Railroad Avenue, and are now home from Marian Regional Medical Center recovering from extensive injuries.

Since their parents have been home caring for their kids instead of going to work, El Camino staff, parents and volunteers took charge of raising money to help the families through this rough time.

Vicente, a freshman, has a broken leg and shoulder injury, and Noelia, a junior, has head and facial injuries.

They are going to have a long recovery, said Principal Ann DAngelo-Orton. These are serious injuries. Its just an outpouring of people asking what they can do to help.

El Camino office manager Diane Araujo and teacher Espie Ruiz spearheaded the fundraiser and helped spread the word via emails, fliers, Santa Maria-Bonita schools and other community connections.

Volunteers began barbecuing at 6 a.m. Thursday, with staff and volunteers packing lunch bags of a sandwich, chips, soda and salsa for delivery or pick up from morning to afternoon.

Local businesses provided donations and discounts for supplies, Araujo said, and countless volunteers donated time to help two student standouts.

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Carolyn Lentman Hunter Burford, a 1968 graduate of Woodland High School, has been selected for induction into the Woodland Hall of Fame for 2012.

The Woodland Education Foundation is in its 15th year of honoring Woodland alumni.

Burford's selection is based on leadership, high standards, uncompromising integrity and lifetime achievements.

Burford was born and raised in Streator. She graduated from Southern Illinois University dental hygiene school in Carbondale.

After practicing eight years as a dental hygienist, she went back to undergraduate school and continued her studies in dental medicine.

She received her dental medical degree in 1983 from Southern Illinois University School of Dental Medicine in Alton.

In 1984, she purchased Dr. Estel Landreth's dental practice in Cassville, Mo., and has practiced in Cassville for nearly 29 years.

Burford has taken many continuing education courses to learn and develop the latest techniques pertaining to comprehensive, restorative and cosmetic dentistry.

In the spring of 2009, Burford built a state-of-the-art dental facility.

Burford is a member and president elect of the Cassville Rotary Club, serving as a member for 20 years. She and her husband, Craig, sponsored a foreign exchange student from Bolivia through the Rotary program. This was a very special and valuable experience for them as well as their foreign exchange student.

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Mike Ivey writes on all matters money in the spirit of Capital Times founder William T. Evjue, who believed that the concentration of wealth in the U.S. is not healthy for the Democracy.

One of Wisconsins leading exportsoffers an encouraging sign.

Its not cheese, motorcycles or football.

Its high-end medical equipment. Think MRI, CAT scan, colonoscopyand ultra-sound.

Thanks in part to the presence of GE Medical and spinoffs from research at UW-Madison, Wisconsin is third in the nation in electromedical equipment manufacturing employment, with 6,100 jobs. Only California and Minnesota employ more in the field.

Our footprint in Wisconsin is huge, says Mike Harsh, vice president and chief technology officer at GE Medical.

Harsh appeared Tuesday with Tom Grist, who chairs the UW-Madison Med School's department of radiology, to talk about the collaboration between the two parties. The event titled Wisconsins medical imaging cluster: From discovery to delivery was hosted by the Wisconsin Technology Council.

Based in Wauwatosa, GE Medical is one of the largest companies in Wisconsin with some 6,500 employees, including 2,800 engineers. It works with 1,110 different suppliers around the state, from Neenah-based Plexus Corp. to Allied Panels in McFarland.

The company has invested millions of dollars in the UW, most visibly $15 million in seed money to help construct the $138 million Wisconsin Institute for Medical Research. The UW gets discounted prices on GE equipment.

The relationship goes beyond money.

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Wednesday March 28, 2012

ST. JOHNSBURY (AP) -- The Vermont prep school teacher whose toddler was found alone in her idling SUV over the weekend was killed, a medical examiner ruled Tuesday as an autopsy confirmed a body found along an isolated stretch of road was indeed hers.

Melissa Jenkins' exact cause of death was not released so as not to inhibit the investigation, authorities said. Police did not say whether they had a suspect in their sights, and detectives returned Tuesday to the area where the body was found to collect more evidence.

"We are deeply saddened by the tragic death of Ms. Jenkins, and our thoughts are with her family and friends," said the lead investigator, State Police Maj. Ed Ledo. "We remain committed to solving this case and to identify and bring to justice the person or persons responsible for the death of Ms. Jenkins."

Community members are speculating who could have killed the single mother and anxiously awaiting an arrest.

"I just hope they find whoever did it," said a tearful Marion Beattie Cairns, who owns The Creamery Restaurant in Danville, where Jenkins had worked as a waitress at night. "Her little boy -- that's what breaks my heart right now."

A shrine to the 33-year-old science teacher at the prestigious St. Johnsbury Academy was set up in the entry to a main building at the school, a boarding school also serves as the public high school for St. Johnsbury, a town of about 6,200 about 40 miles south

Between 100 and 200 students and faculty members gathered at the academy Monday night after the news came out that a body had been found. Classes were canceled Tuesday.

"They have a range of emotions, just like me," headmaster Tom Lovett said Tuesday of his students. "I'm done with the numbness and I'm done with the confusion; there's a lot of sadness and a lot of anger starting to arise."

Students were writing letters to Jenkins' 2-year-old-son, Tyrell Javon Robertson, known as Ty, so he could eventually know how she had changed their lives, Lovett said.

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