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Penn Alumni Club of Western Pennsylvania |
In awarding Sandra Williamson the 2002 University of Pennsylvania Alumni Award of Merit, the University acknowledged Sandra with the following citation:
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Sandra
D. Williamson
Bachelor
of Arts, 1963
An educator and a humanist, you have an especially well-honed sense of women’s issues. With ethics and intelligence matched by warmth and sincerity, you draw supporters around you to effect change.
As an undergraduate you were already leading the way, serving as Treasurer and then President of the Women’s Student Government Organization, President of the Sphinx and Key Honor Society, a member of Mortarboard, Treasurer of your freshman and sophomore classes, a member of the Newman Club, and a member of Phi Beta Kappa. In your spare time you were a member of the Drama Guild and the Campus Chest and served as a dormitory counselor.
Continuing to provide leadership for Penn as an alumna, you joined the Board of Trustees in 1990 and served as an Alumni Trustee for five years. A founding member and immediate past Chair of the Trustees’ Council of Penn Women, you serve on its Executive Committee, helping to shape its membership. You were also Co-Chair of the Advancement of Women Faculty Committee, where you encouraged faculty and deans to hire and promote qualified women. Last year, closely involved with preparations for the Celebration of 125 Years of Women at Penn, you served on the Executive, Attendance, and Steering Committees. Penn has also benefited from your participation on the University of Pennsylvania Alumni Society Board and in the Penn Club of Western Pennsylvania, where you are on the Secondary School Committee. In all of your roles, you offer strong leadership. You also put your excellent communication skills to work for Penn as a telethon caller for The Penn Fund and volunteer for the Alumni Council on Admissions.
You are now an Associate Professor at the University of Pittsburgh’s Graduate School of Public and International Affairs. In the course of a very busy professional life, first in banking and then in academia, where you earned recognition as Teacher of the Year, and with many other commitments, including serving as Vice Chair of the International Business Forum and being involved in the political campaigns of various women candidates, you always find time and energy for your Penn family, which includes your own brother and sister.
In appreciation of your ability to raise the right questions and provide
many of the right answers, and for representing Penn so well on the campus,
in your classroom, and throughout your world travels, we are delighted
to present you with the University of Pennsylvania Alumni Award of Merit.
Reprinted from the Pennsylvania Gazette Jan/Feb 2003 issue.
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