The University of Utah will honor six alumni and community leaders Wednesday night at its annual Founders Day banquet.
Each year the Alumni Association honors alumni and non-alumni who have supported the U.
The 2002 honorees are:
Timothy S. Evans — Evans earned a bachelor's degree in 1974 from the U. and went on to receive a dentistry degree from the University of the Pacific in 1977. In 1982 he established the Andean Children's Foundation and has worked to provided aid to impoverished areas of the world. He has helped to establish charities and development programs such as the Center for Humanitarian Outreach and Intercultural Exchange, which encourages volunteer efforts in developing countries around the world.
Mark W. Fuller — Fuller graduated from the U. as the outstanding senior scholar in civil engineering in 1976 and received an award from the American Institute of Architects for his undergraduate honors thesis. He earned a master's degree in design from Stanford and then founded Water Entertainment Technologies Design, which focuses on "contextually motivated water features." He has designed more than 100 fountains for entertainment centers and hotels around the world and designed the caldron for the 2002 Winter Games.
Richard M. and Susan P. Jacobsen — The two met while working on projects at Highland High School and later married. They are the founders of the California Family Foundation, which mission is to resolve education, housing and employment problems in low-income communities near Palo Alto, Calif. In 1987 they proposed the establishment of the U. Lowell Bennion Community Service Center, which takes on hundreds of volunteer efforts each year. They also operate the Bennion Teton Ranch, a youth program for boys, which originally began in 1961.
Shirley Russon Ririe — Ririe is the artistic co-director of the Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company, which she co-founded in 1964 with Joan Woodbury. Ririe taught at Virginia Tanner's Conservatory of Creative Dance and at Brigham Young University before she came to the U. in 1955, where she remained until retirement in 1995. In 1985 Ririe received a Fulbright award to teach and perform at the first national dance workshop in New Zealand.
Carol M. Fay — Fay is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley. She and her husband, Richard, are major donors to the U. health sciences and established the Richard A. and Carol M. Fay Presidential Endowed Medical Informatics Center in the School of Medicine. Fay was honored in 2001 with the Distinguished Service Award from the School of Medicine's Alumni Association. She is also involved with the U.'s National Advisory Council and Women's Club. Fay was the first woman to serve as the director of the Internal Revenue Service and the first female district manager of the Social Security Administration in Arizona.
The 6:30 p.m. event at the Grand America Hotel is open to the public, and tickets are $70 each. Call 581-6997 with questions.