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Alumni reminisce at Knox College Founders Day Convocation

Celebrating the 179 years since the school’s founding, Knox College honored five former students with Alumni Achievement Awards at yesterday’s Founders Day Convocation.

Each award recipient shared a little about their successes since their time at Knox.

Marcea Bland Lloyd is a former lawyer and retired senior vice president of Amylin Pharmaceuticals. She brought bouts of laughter from the crowd of about 100 people as she walked the audience through her college career.

“I said I would like to be a political science major,” she said, “and my parents confirmed that there were no entry level political science jobs in the Sunday paper and told me, ‘no, pick something else.’ So I was a sociology and psychology major.”

Graduating from Knox in 1968, she went on to earn a law degree at Northwestern University before practicing law in Chicago, representing the African American Patrolmen’s League and volunteering for the ACLU Ghetto Project.

Also honored were Thomas Brown, a clinical psychologist, teacher, researcher and writer at Yale University School of Medicine focusing on ADHD research, and Ernest Buck, a physician practicing pediatric medicine in Corpus Christi, Texas and working as medical director of the Driscoll Children’s Health Plan.

Further, Young Alumni Achievement awards went to Rachel Abarbanell, who has helped produce films, including “Interstellar,” and the pilot for the Amazon video series “Good Girls Revolt,” and Katie Bell, who exhibits her artwork around the country.

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