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CWRU's Undergraduate Alumni Association
(UAA) has honored three of its alumni with the 2002 Awards for
Distinction.
The UAA recognized holistic educational
therapist Judith Bluestone of Seattle, Washington; businessman
and consultant Harold McRae of Chicago, Illinois; and high school
mathematics teacher Raymon Spottsville of Cleveland in a ceremony
during the University's Alumni Weekend, June 14 and 15.
Bluestone received the Distinguished Alumni
Award, the UAA's highest honor. It recognizes an individual for
extraordinary achievement in a profession, career or avocation
or for direct service to the local, national or international
community.
McRae won the Newton D. Baker Distinguished
Service Award, which recognizes an individual for exceptional
service to CWRU; and Spottsville received the Young Alumni Award,
presented to an individual who has achieved distinction in a profession,
career or avocation within fifteen years of graduation.
Judith Bluestone
Bluestone, a native of Chicago, is a neurodevelopment and educational
therapist. She also is the clinical and educational director of
the Handle Institute, a nonprofit organization she founded in
1994. 
The Handle (Holistic Approach to NeuroDevelopment
and Learning Efficiency) is a holistic, drug-free approach to
the diagnosis and treatment of neurodevelopment disorders across
a life span, such as ADD/HD, Tourette's Syndrome, cerebral palsy,
autism and sleep disorders. She first introduced the
Handle in Israel and later opened clinics
and services in Europe (England, Spain), the United States (California,
Iowa, Alaska, Michigan, Oregon, Minnesota, among others) and in
Japan. In 1989, she received the National Prize for Early Childhood
Education, state of Israel, for her innovative work.
Bluestone attended Flora Stone Mather College,
where she majored in history with a minor in education. She earned
an master's degree from the University of Wisconsin, and is a
PhD candidate there. Now a resident of Seattle, Wash., she has
collaborated and shared her techniques with UCLA/Cedars Sinai
Hospital and the University of Washington/Harborview
Hospital. She has more than thirty-five years of experience as
an educator, therapist and clinician. She has taught and worked
in regular and special education classes and has presented workshops
and trained others in this approach.
In addition to the National Prize, Bluestone
is named in Who's Who in American Education 1992, 1994,
1995 and Who's Who in American Women, 1995.
Harold McRae
Chicagoan McRae owns a consulting business that specializes in
health-care management. A Youngstown, native, McRae majored in
chemistry at Western Reserve University's Adelbert College, where
he graduated in 1965. He also has an MBA, which he received in
1971, from Harvard University. 
Always desirous of "giving back" to his
alma mater, he became the lead donor and established, in 1998,
the Frank "Doc" Kelker Scholarship. The scholarship honors Kelker
an African-American alumnus and former Western Reserve University
athlete and scholar who went on to head the Cleveland YMCA. The
fund is a way to support CWRU's efforts to maintain a quality
diverse student body.
McRae has maintained involvement with his
alma mater over the years, representing the university at college
fairs in Chicago-area schools, serving as co-chair of the CWRU
College of Arts and Sciences Visiting Committee and chair of the
Adelbert College class of 1965 reunion held in 1997, among other
activities. He also is a member of the CWRU Leadership Advisory
Council.
He represented CWRU and then President
David Auston at the presidential inauguration of Don Randel of
the University of Chicago in November 2000.
Raymon Spottsville
Spottsville is a 1994 graduate of CWRU.
In 1991, he co-founded with Mark Wessels and Rodney Spottsville,
his twin brother, Instructional Mathematics: Helping Our Teens
Excel Program (IMHOTEP), in the Cleveland Heights-University Heights
City School District. IMHOTEP is an award-winning, comprehensive,
high-level math program for underachieving yet promising middle
and high school students. About 130 students are enrolled each
year. He became director of the program in 1994.
The program received the BEST Practices
Award in 1998 as the number one academic program in Ohio. BEST
or Building Excellent Schools for Today and the 21st Century,
is a coalition of more than 100 education, business and community
organizations that work to improve education results in Ohio.
The award honors exemplary and inventive educational programs
that have led to the successful academic performance of Ohio's
students, teachers and schools.
Students enrolled in IMHOTEP have excelled
on the Ohio ninth-grade proficiency math test. Students from IMHOTEP
have gone on to four-year institutions, such as CWRU, Carnegie
Mellon, Purdue, Emory, Ohio State, Michigan State and Xavier Universities
and Spelman and Morehouse Colleges.
Spottsville has earned several awards,
including the 2001 Outstanding Teacher Award from Who's Who
Among American Teachers. A graduate of Cleveland Heights High
School, where he teaches and directs this program, he majored
in biomedical engineering at CWRU.
Established in 1992, the Undergraduate
Alumni Association (UAA) of CWRU includes more than 44,000 bachelor-degree
alumni. The mission of the awards program is to honor bachelor-degree
alumni who have distinguished themselves for outstanding personal
and or professional achievement, and to recognize individuals
for their loyal service to CWRU
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