In front of a sold-out crowd, the 2018 Founders’ Day Awards program honored members of the ASU community for the impact and excellence of their work March 21 in Tempe. The awards ceremony, hosted by the ASU Alumni Association, has been a signature event for the university for decades, and honors individuals who exemplify the spirit of the founders of the Territorial Normal School of Arizona, ASU’s predecessor institution.
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Those receiving Founders’ Day awards — click here to read more about their achievements — were Robert Page Jr. (James W. Creasman Award of Excellence), Sambo ‘Bo’ Dul (Young Alumni Achievement Award), Missy M. Farr-Kaye (Alumni Achievement Award), Nancy Gonzales (Faculty Research Achievement Award), Gerald Heydt (Faculty Service Achievement Award) and Ariel D. Anbar (Faculty Teaching Achievement Award).
In addition, the Fulton family is being honored as the 2018 Founder’s Day Philanthropists of the Year for their vision, leadership and commitment to advance Arizona State University and the New American University. As catalysts for the acceleration of the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering and the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College along with numerous investments throughout the university from athletics to performing arts, the Fulton family invests in ASU to inspire students, alumni, and friends across campus and around the world.
See photos from the awards ceremony below.
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Sparky with three figures from ASU women's golf (from left): Head Coach Missy M. Farr-Kaye, honored with the Alumni Achievement Award; Linda Vollstedt, former head coach and current director of Sun Angel Fund Development; and Assistant Coach Michelle Estill. The trophies are the three NCAA titles from Farr-Kaye's ASU tenure: 1990 (student), 2009 (assistant coach) and 2017 (head coach).
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Master of ceremonies Ted Simons welcomes the crowd. Simons, host and managing editor of Arizona Horizon on Arizona PBS, is also an ASU alumnus.
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Neil Giuliano (center), former mayor of Tempe, and Gregg Brewster (left), ASU Alumni Association board member and vice president at Cardinal Health, listen to the Founders' Day presentations. Both Giuliano and Brewster are ASU alumni.
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Robert Page Jr. speaks as he accepts the James W. Creasman Award of Excellence. Page — university provost emeritus, Regents’ Professor and Foundation Chair of Life Sciences — focuses his current research on the evolution of complex social behavior using the honey bee as a model.
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Founders' Day trophies rest in a line at the March 21 ceremony.
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"if you have a great engineering school, you have a great community," Ira A. Fulton tells the crowd. The ASU engineering school's namesake encouraged others to become involved in Campaign ASU 2020, the campus-wide comprehensive campaign to raise at least $1.5 billion by 2020. That evening, the Fulton family was being honored as the 2018 Founder’s Day Philanthropists of the Year.
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President Michael M. Crow addresses the audience March 21 at the Arizona Biltmore in Phoenix.
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Members of the Fulton family (from left: Norm Nicholls, Lorie Nicholls, Doug Fulton, Jane Fulton and Ira A. Fulton) along with other honorees Missy M. Farr-Kaye, Nancy Gonzales, Robert Page Jr., Ariel D. Anbar, Sambo ‘Bo’ Dul and Gerald Heydt pose with Sparky and their awards.
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