This week Knox College is celebrating it’s 179th year in existence and will honor five alumni and their accomplishments with Alumni Achievement Awards at the Founder’s Day Convocation.
Knox’s Director of the Alumni Program Carol Brown tells WGIL recognizing alumni accomplishments are important for several reasons.
“First and foremost the alumni selected to receive this award are most deserving of this honor,” Brown says.
The alumni honorees include; clinical psychologist Thomas Brown, physician Ernest Buck and retired senior vice president at Amylin Pharmaceutical Marcea Bland Lloyd.
Katie Bell, a nationally recognized artist, is the recipient of the 2016 Young Alumni Achievement Award.
The 2015 winner of the honor, actor Rachel Abarbanell, was unable to attend last year’s ceremony because she at the Academy Awards so she will be included in year’s event.
Abarbanell was named president of production for Lynda Obst Productions last year, the same year the company produced “Interstellar” starring Matthew McConaughey which went on to be nominated for five Academy Awards.
Brown says the honors are to remind current prospective students of what alumni can go on to do.
“We are very proud of their accomplishments and want to recognize achievements and also their contributions to their communities,” Brown says.
The convocation is set for 4:30 p.m. Friday Feb 19 in the Muelder Reading Room in the Seymour Library at Knox.
