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LAS Alumni Humanitarian Award Recipients
2000
Dr. Susan Nagele
BS '78, Biology
Dr. Nagele is a Maryknoll medical missionary in Africa, where she cares for thousands of the world's poorest citizens, often in the midst of civil war. She has rebuilt bombed medical outposts and, at one point, was the only doctor for more than 30,000 refugees. Read more about Susan Nagele.
1999
Molly Melching
AB '71, AM '79, French
Ms. Melching created TOSTAN, a nonprofit organization that teaches an 18-month long basic education program in Africa, which has educated thousands of Senegalese women and children to read and perform basic math. An outcome of TOSTAN was that lessons of hygiene prompted villagers to question and later challenge the practice of female genital mutilation. Read more about Molly Melching.
1998
Ruth Ann Baker Quinn
BS '52, Speech Therapy
Ms. Baker Quinn was instrumental in setting the direction for a $105 million campaign for the Symphony Center in Chicago.
1997
Paul J. Hletko
BS '68, Zoology
This pediatrician serves a community where 65 percent of the population is indigent and the closest hospital is 70 miles away. He is only pediatrician within a 50-mile radius. He is also a leading advocate of seatbelt and car-seat legislation, who was instrumental in the enactment of mandatory automobile child-restraint use laws. These accomplishments earned him awards from American Academy of Pediatrics and Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine.