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Awards Honor Two Longtime
Alumni Volunteers
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The Ithaca College
Alumni Association Board of Directors has honored Mary Arlin ’61(left,
top) and Charlie Baker ’41, M.S. ’53, (below) with its first Volunteer
Service Awards. The Volunteer Service Award recognizes both alumni
and non-alumni who have made significant contributions to areas
such as admissions, career services, student affairs, clubs, fund-raising,
and athletics. The first awards were presented at a special ceremony
held during Reunion weekend in June. They will now be given on a
continuing basis throughout the year.
"Mary Arlin
and Charlie Baker were very appropriate choices to receive this
award," says director of alumni relations Graham Stewart ’81,
M.S. ’01. "As a longtime faculty member, Mary has made many
academic contributions to the College, but this honor recognizes
her 40 years of educating alumni about the College’s rich past and
building connections with those so important to its future. Charlie,
meanwhile, has provided faithful leadership to his class and has
been a key force in keeping the classes from the early ’40s together.
His cross-state tours of Florida to drum up Reunion attendance have
become legendary."
Currently a
professor of music theory, Arlin (subject of an ICQ cover
story, 1999/no. 4) has served on the College faculty for four decades.
She also continues to play a key role in keeping alumni connected
to the College. Baker, a coach and administrator at the scholastic
level in New Jersey for many years, now lives in Durham, New York.
The College’s first football all-American, he was inducted into
the Ithaca College Sports Hall of Fame in 1971.
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Since the June awards
ceremony, three other Volunteer Service Awards have been presented, to
Kenneth Mann ’61 and IC employees Susan Greene ’86 and Mark Darling ’97.
Mann, a traveling auditor for the General Accounting Office, acts as an
alumni admission volunteer representative in the Washington, D.C., area.
He became involved with the College when his son enrolled and has since
been a contact person for both prospective students and job-seeking graduates.
Greene, a biology lab technician, and Darling, her husband, recycling
and resource management program coordinator, founded the Ithaca College
Community Alumni group. It works to enhance community feeling among alumni
employees and to welcome students into the alumni "family."
Photo
of Mary Arlin by George Sapio
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