Alumni Association

Kenneth J. Shouldice Achievement Award Recipients

Awarded for 2008

Claude H. (Bud) Denker III ‘80

• Senior Vice President, Penske Corporation
• Given the Cadillac Award by the Detroit Metro Convention and Visitors Bureau January 2008.
• Chairman of Detroit Belle Isle Grand Prix which returned world-class racing to the motor city in 2007
• Previously worked as Director and Vice President, Brand and Marketing Development with Eastman Kodak Company
• Spent 13 years with PepsiCo Inc., in marketing and management positions

Awarded for 2007

Kevin Borseth ‘76

• Named head women’s basketball coach for University of Michigan, 2007
• Led three women’s basketball programs - Gogebic Community College, Michigan Tech and Wisconsin-Green Bay - to 13 regular-season titles, 8 league tournament titles and 14 NCAA Tournament appearances
• 12-time conference coach of the year  - 7 Horizon League & 5 GLIAC
• Naismith National Coach of the Year finalist, 2003
• Head coach of the University of Michigan Women’s Basketball team
• Horizon League Coach of the Year honors in all but two of his nine seasons at UW-Green Bay
• 2002-2003 Women’s Basketball Coaches Association Region VI Coach of the Year
• Finalist for Naismith Coach of the Year award
• Upper Peninsula Sports Hall of Fame Class of 2004

Awarded for 2006

Dr. Richard Gray ‘91

• Assistant professor of surgery at Mayo Clinic Scottsdale since 2002
• Teaching at Mayo Clinic Scottsdale since 1999
• Leading researcher in breast cancer
• Dozens of presentations at medical conferences nationwide
• Mayo Foundation Scholar
• Mayo Clinic Educator of the Year in Surgical Specialties
• Mayo Clinic Excellence in Teaching award five times

Awarded for 2005

Tom Farnquist ‘62

• Executive Director and curator of Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society since 1985
• In 1994, the museum was designates as Chippewa County’s Business Organization of the Year
• Received the Charles Follow Award from the Historical Society of Michigan for outstanding work in historic preservation for Michigan’s Upper Peninsula
• Taught at Sault Area Public Schools 1968-92

Awarded for 2004

Cyd Shields Teare ‘82

• Hospital manager and senior veterinary technician at White Oak Conservation Center, FL, one of the world’s premiere centers of its kind
• Published more than a dozen articles
• Twice honored by the American Association of Zoo Veterinarians (AAZV) with the Presidential Service Award, 1991 and 1994
• Initiated an intern program for post-graduate veterinary technicians to give them hands-on experience with exotic animals in a captive setting
• Part of a two-person team with her husband, Andrew Teare, DVM, in shaping the future of animal medicine through the Medical Animal Record Keeping System (MedARKS), software designed for keeping medical records in a zoo
• Lifetime member, LSSU Anchor Club (Alumni Association)

• Current LSSU donor

Awarded for 2003

Dr. Collette Coullard, '80

• Professor of Industrial Engineering and Management Services (IEMS) at Northwestern University (Illinois)
• Received several honors for excellence in research and teaching including the distinguished Charles Deering McCormick Professor of Teaching Excellence from 1996-1999.
• Holds both a master's degree and a Ph.D. from Northwestern University
• Research interests include modeling, solution techniques and the fundamental mathematics of combinatorial optimization
• Efforts focused on network optimization and network-based modeling, polyhedral theory and matroid theory.

Awarded for 2002

Paul MacDonald, '81

• Chief Financial Officer for the Detroit Red Wings
• Earned CPA certificate
• Started out in manufacturing, first as a controller and within five years promoted to president of Prestole Corporation, a stamping plant and steel service center

Awarded for 2001

Daniel J. Pepin, DDS, '72

• Opened own practice in Birch Run following graduation from the University of Michigan Dental School
• Retired from dentistry in 1991
• Now teaches anatomy and physiology at North Central Michigan College as well as Florida Gulf University
• Lives in East Jordan with wife, Penny and three children Joshua, Amanda and Tammy

Awarded for 2000

Ian Ward, '76

• Vice President of the Investment Department for Auto-Owners Insurance Company based in Lansing
• Responsible for all investment activities of all companies in the Auto-Owners Insurance Group; assets total more than $6 billion
• Received Chartered Financial Analyst designation by the Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts, 1984
• Awarded Certificate of Achievement from the ICFA, 1988
• Chairman, Investment Committee of the Michigan Catastrophic Claims Association, 1994 to present
• Member and past chair of the Investment Committee of the Michigan Automobile Insurance Placement Facility
• Serves on the Investment Committee of the National Association of Independent Insurers
• He and his wife Toni have two children, Brad and Brittany

Awarded for 1999

Napoleon A. Chagnon '57

• Currently on leave of absence from the University of California at Santa Barbara; temporarily living in Traverse City.
• His long-term and repeated field trips to the Yanomamö Indians of the Venezuelan-Brazilian border have made him one of the most accomplished anthropological field researchers in the history of modern anthropology
• Has also been a pioneer in the application of Darwinian theory to students of human sociobiology
• Has published some 100 technical papers and book chapters, four books and 21 documentary films
• Has been a guest lecturer at many of the world's major universities including Cambridge, Oxford, London, Rome, Tokyo, Harvard, Chicago, Berkeley and UCLA
• Has also appeared on local and national TV and radio talk shows
• In 1991, ABC's Prime Time Live earned an Emmy Award winning program that focused on his successful efforts to encourage the Venezuelan government to lay aside a tract of land to safeguard the Yanomamö and their tropical forest environment from development and commercial exploitation

Awarded for 1998

Ezio DiEmanuele, '78

• Deputy director for Agriculture and Agri-food Canada
• Formerly served the Canadian High Commission in London as a representative for agriculture and fisheries
• Elected chair of the International Grains Council, June 1997
• First position out of graduate school was as an assistant to a member of Ontario's Parliament
• Invited to join the Ministry of Agriculture as a junior policy advisor in 1980
• Promoted to senior international trade office in 1984, and again to trade commissioner for Agriculture and Fisheries in 1988
• Assigned to Japan as First Secretary for Commercial Affairs at the Canadian Embassy, 1990

Awarded for 1997

Dr. Robert W. Blackstock, '74

• Provost of Hillsdale College
• Professor of Law at Hillsdale College
• Has taught at Hillsdale since 1977 and was twice named “Professor of the Year”
• Has published articles in the Wall Street Journal and the Journal of Business and Economics Perspectives
• Founded the Hillsdale Hostel summer seminar series that explores the roots of American freedom
• Appointed by then-governor John Engler to the Board of the Michigan Higher Education Assistance Authority and Loan Authority
• Member of State Bar of Michigan and Hillsdale County Bar Association
• He and his wife Jackie (Old), also a Sault Ste. Marie native, have three children, Thomas, Christopher and Sarah

Awarded for 1996

James A. Booth '70

• President, J.B. Insurance Services, Inc
• Vice President, Interpose, Inc
• One of the youngest ever to achieve Million Dollar Round Table status in the insurance business; now lifetime member
• Past President, Life Underwriters Association of Canada
• Chartered Life Underwriter
• Chartered Financial
• Consultant
• Working with LSSU Alumni Association to establish chapter in Toronto
• Inducted into LSSU's Athletic Hall of Fame, 1997

Awarded for 1995

William Adams, PhD., '69

• Vice President for Environmental Toxicology and Managing Director for ABC Laboratories in the United States and Europe
• Responsible for technical operations and business direction of ABC's environmental Toxicology program
• Leads team of 42 associates in the US and seven in Europe in contract environmental research
• Earned numerous award for his work, including Exceptional Service Award by the Committee on biological and environmental fate, American Society for Testing and Materials
• Recipient of Achievement Award from the MIC National Aquatic Monitoring Program
• Presented at the first Industrial Chemical Engineering Symposium, Cambridge, England and at the ASTM Aquatic Toxicology Symposium
• Appointed to the Environmental Protection Agency Science Advisory Board's Ecological Processes and Effects Committee

Awarded for 1994

Gerry McGuire '66

• First recipient of the Kenneth J. Shouldice Achievement Award
• President and CEO of Sault College of Applied Arts and Technology, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario
• Member of Rotary Club, Sault, ON Chamber of Commerce and the Sault Ste. Marie Community Action Team
• Served six years as city alderman, 1970-76
• Serves on City Planning Board, Algoma Health Unit, Children's Aid Society and Algoma District Mental Retardation Working Group
• LSSC Student Government President, 1965-66
• Earned bachelors degree at CMU in 1971; masters at MSU in 1981; pursuing PhD in higher education management from MSU