The Case Western Reserve University Undergraduate Alumni Association (UAA) will honor four alumni with its 2003 Awards of Distinction during Alumni Weekend June 20 and 21.

UAA will recognize modern architect James Polshek; Flora Stone Mather Association member and past chair Alberta Lantz Kelvie; Kenneth L. Kutina, vice president emeritus for institutional planning; and Jeremie R. Maehr, who has been actively in involved in community service efforts.

Polshek will receive 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.

Kelvie and Kutina each will be honored with the Newton D. Baker Distinguished Service Award, which recognizes an individual for exceptional service to CWRU. Maehr will receive the Young Alumni Award, presented to an individual who has achieved distinction in a profession, career or avocation within fifteen years of graduation.

James Polshek (WRC '73)

A modern architect, Polshek, who also has a master's degree in architecture from Yale University (1955), is head of Polshek Partnership Architects in Greenwich Village, a firm he began in 1963. Today the firm employs more than 130 partners, associates, architects and support staff. One of his current projects is to design the William Jefferson Clinton presidential Center in Little Rock, Ark., as assignment awarded hm in 2000.

Alberta Lantz Kelvie (FSM '48)

Kelvie is a member of the Flora Stone Mather Alumnae Association and a past president of its board of directors. For the last five years, she has worked closely with other alumnae and campus organizations to help create a campus women's center. Last fall, the University hired a director fof the new Center for Women, now housed in Thwing Center. Earlier she chaired the Woman2000 symposium at CWRU, a daylong event that brought in national speakers and experts on women's issues-and an audience from around the country.

Kenneth L. Kutina (CIT '58, MGT '67, GRS '74)

During his tenure as chief planner, Kutina, now vice president emeritus for institutional planning, spearheaded the recent campus master plan project that is to feature new student residence halls, an alumni house and a student center, among other amenities. He also led numerous building and construction projects, including the Agnar Pytte Center for Science and Education Research, the Peter B. Lewis Building of the Weatherhead School of Management and the renovation of Clark Hall.

Jeremie R. Maehr (CWR '00)

Maehr distinguished himself while a student at CWRU, in part, because of his involvement in the Office of Student Community Service (OSCS), where he volunteered his way to a job with the Nature Center at Shaker Lakes near campus. There he took part in an extensive research project concerning the cleanliness and functionality of Doan Brook. Through the OSCS, he helped develop and AmeriCorps National Service Project and recruited CWRU students to examine regional environmental priorities. His community service as a student led to his becoming the first individual to receive CWRU's Ambassador Award for outstanding service to Greater Cleveland. He is employed at Geomatrix Consultants, a geological and environmental consulting firm in Oakland, Calif.

 

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